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• ASX set to open flat, after mixed day on Wall Street

  07-02-2022 22:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are set for a slow start on Tuesday, after stocks on Wall Street slip as US investors digest quarterly earnings results and await key US inflation data.
  
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• ASX higher, after mixed day on Wall Street

  07-02-2022 22:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are higher on Tuesday, as the nation's biggest companies report quarterly results. Meanwhile, Wall Street slipped on Monday.
  
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• ASX closes higher on miners, banks, travel

  07-02-2022 22:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares have climbed on Tuesday, as investors react to quarterly earnings reports and strong iron ore prices.
  
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• ASX climbs on miners and banks, business confidence up

  07-02-2022 22:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares have climbed on Tuesday, as investors react to quarterly earnings reports and strong iron ore prices.
  
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• Live: NSW now: Southern hemisphere's 'longest escalators' installed at Central Station

  07-02-2022 21:35 via abc.net.au
  
  MORNING BRIEFING: Escalators up to 46m long are part of the major redevelopment of Sydney's main transport interchange.
  
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• Calls to scrap the app: Checking in no longer mandatory for some as businesses welcome fewer restrictions

  07-02-2022 20:46 via abc.net.au
  
  The ritual of queuing or fumbling with a phone to check-in with the COVID-19 app is over for Queenslanders attending venues where vaccination proof is not mandatory.
  
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• Australian demand for solar goes through the roof, smashing records

  07-02-2022 20:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Border lockdowns and supply chain disruptions fail to slow the rampant uptake of rooftop solar in Australia where householders installed record amounts of new capacity last year.
  
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• 'We look at everything as equal': Jens and his wife split care for their kids, but they're still a small minority

  07-02-2022 17:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Ahead of the federal election, there are calls for the government to step in and offer 26 weeks paid parental leave so that more fathers share the role of primary carer during their child's life.
  
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• 'There's still a social stigma': Three-in-five employers offer paid parental leave but very few dads take up the offer

  07-02-2022 17:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Ahead of the federal election, there are calls for the government to step in and offer 26 weeks paid parental leave so that more fathers share the role of primary carer during their child's life.
  
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• Jens shares the care of his young children, but new figures show he's still the exception

  07-02-2022 17:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Ahead of the federal election, there are calls for the government to step in and offer 26 weeks paid parental leave so that more fathers share the role of primary carer during their child's life.
  
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• Cancelling Joe Rogan not 'the answer', Spotify CEO tells employees

  07-02-2022 09:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Joe Rogan's mouth has put Spotify in a tough spot. But the streaming giant is apparently not ready to part ways with the popular podcast host despite intense criticism over his anti-coronavirus vaccine comments and racial slurs.
  
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• BHP in LNG vessel first

  07-02-2022 09:18 via businessnews.com.au
  
  BHP has welcomed Mt. Tourmaline to its fleet, the world’s first LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carrier which will start transporting iron ore between Western Australia and Asia this year.
  
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• At Close of Business: Mark Beyer on QEII developments

  07-02-2022 09:18 via businessnews.com.au
  
  On today's episode of At Close of Business, senior editor Mark Beyer digs into a contentious privatised parking contract that is central to billions of dollars worth of developments flagged for QEII medical centre.
  
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• Insurance premiums could soon be halved in Australia's north, but key players say they're still in the dark

  07-02-2022 09:06 via abc.net.au
  
  The government's plan to reduce insurance premiums in cyclone-prone parts of the country by as much as 46 per cent is being welcomed by many, but there are still plenty of questions about the finer points of the legislation.
  
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• Everingham to leave CMEWA

  07-02-2022 09:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Paul Everingham will step down from his role as chief executive of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia at the end of his contract in May.
  
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• $1.4bn expansion for Greenbushes

  07-02-2022 09:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The joint owners of the giant Greenbushes lithium mine in WA’s South West are planning a $1.4 billion expansion, regulatory filings in Hong Kong have revealed.
  
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• Sunshine at last for tourism industry with international border set to reopen

  07-02-2022 08:51 via abc.net.au
  
  As Australia prepares to welcome double-vaccinated overseas visitors from February 21, Queensland venues dust off the deckchairs and buff the banisters in wary anticipation.
  
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• MinRes companies fined over tank failure

  07-02-2022 08:51 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Two Mineral Resources-owned companies have been hit with $51,000 in fines for failing to protect workers after a 600,000-litre water tank left uninspected at their mine site corroded and failed.
  
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• UGL for Hunter gas, hydrogen power

  07-02-2022 08:49 via businessnews.com.au
  
  UGL has been picked to build the Kurri Kurri gas power plant in New South Wales, in a $185 million contract.
  
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• Aust shares end lower amid cautious mood

  07-02-2022 08:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Financial shares were the worst performers on the ASX, while mining and energy stocks helped offset some of the losses.
  
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• Virgin signs deal with Broome Airport

  07-02-2022 08:43 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The deal extends the relationship between the two parties on one of the nation’s busiest flight paths.
  
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• Imdex defiant amid pandemic pressures

  07-02-2022 08:39 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Mining tech company Imdex reported solid revenue and profit increases during the last six months but has indicated that labour restrictions and delivery delays had frustrated its pace of growth.
  
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• 'It felt pretty hopeless': Young home buyers despair of Northern Rivers' prices

  07-02-2022 07:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Regional millennials facing uphill battle to own their own homes amid soaring property prices
  
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• WA records 26 local cases, Mettam demands modelling

  07-02-2022 07:25 via businessnews.com.au
  
  COVID WRAP: WA records 26 new local cases, state halves quarantine, opposition slams the government for withholding Omicron modelling and MinRes rolls out a new contact tracing app.
  
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• Omicron adds to processors’ pain

  07-02-2022 06:48 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The decision to keep WA’s border closed is likely welcomed by meat processors, given workforce constraints in the east due to Omicron.
  
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• Iluka fends off class action, Tutunup progresses

  07-02-2022 06:37 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Iluka Resources shares lifted after a class action brought against it before the Federal Court had been dismissed while its Tutunup mineral sands proposal progressed to public comment.
  
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• Record retail sales in December quarter

  07-02-2022 04:54 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Easing of lockdown restrictions and a splurge by festive season shoppers have helped retail sales jump by a record 8.2 per cent in the December quarter.
  
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• 'Everyone thought we were mad': How one man's cactus garden grew into a tourism sensation

  07-02-2022 04:50 via abc.net.au
  
  John Hall says his father's cactus garden was a bit unusual in northern Victoria in the 1980s. Now it's an award-winning visual treat and the biggest cactus farm in the country. 
  
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• Rio subsidiaries fined $90k

  07-02-2022 03:34 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Pilbara Iron Company and Hamersley Iron have been fined a total $90,000 after a worker suffered a fractured wrist, forearm and serious tissue injuries while working at a Dampier port facility in 2017.
  
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• Five new COVID-19 deaths in SA as new cases fall to lowest level since start of 2022

  07-02-2022 03:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Another five people with COVID-19 die in South Australia, taking the total number of deaths in the state since the start of the pandemic to 133.
  
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• ANZ margins shrink in December quarter

  07-02-2022 01:32 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has flagged softer revenue and lower margins in the December quarter amid tough competition in the home loans market.
  
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• Walsh navigates new role at Weir

  07-02-2022 01:17 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Kristen Walsh sat down with Business News to discuss her journey from Detroit to Perth, and what it takes to lead an engineering team across the Asia-Pacific.
  
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• Qantas challenging Rex in Broken Hill after 18-year run for regional carrier

  07-02-2022 00:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Regional Express Airlines' 18-year monopoly on flights to and from Broken Hill is over as QantasLink emerges as competition. 
  
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• Banks weigh on ASX 200 as ANZ outlook disappoints, travel stocks jump on border reopening news

  07-02-2022 00:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia shares fall on Monday, with ANZ's slump due to a hit to margins also dragging down stocks of other heavyweight lenders.
  
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• Banks weigh on ASX 200 as ANZ outlook disappoints

  07-02-2022 00:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Stock indexes around the globe traded mixed despite strong Amazon earnings and upbeat economic data on Friday.
  
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• ASX opens lower, following a downturn in global equities

  07-02-2022 00:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Stock indexes around the globe traded mixed despite strong Amazon earnings and upbeat economic data on Friday.
  
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