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• Cattle station looking for solutions to deadly rail track quandary

  25-04-2022 23:53 via abc.net.au
  
  A Central Australian cattle station claims it is losing more than 20 head of cattle a year to train collisions.
  
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• Australian dollar sinks to two-month low, as Wall Street stages 11th-hour rebound

  25-04-2022 23:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Plunging commodity prices are likely to drag the Australian share market lower on Tuesday morning, despite a stunning rebound on Wall Street as Twitter agreed to be taken over by billionaire Elon Musk.
  
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• ASX tumbles on China lockdown fears, Australian dollar sinks to two-month low

  25-04-2022 23:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Plunging commodity prices have dragged the Australian share market lower on Tuesday morning, despite a stunning rebound on Wall Street as Twitter agreed to be taken over by billionaire Elon Musk.
  
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• $60 billion wiped off Australian share market on China lockdown fears

  25-04-2022 23:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Plunging commodity prices have dragged the Australian share market lower on Tuesday morning, despite a stunning rebound on Wall Street as Twitter agreed to be taken over by billionaire Elon Musk.
  
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• $55 billion wiped off Australian share market on China lockdown fears

  25-04-2022 23:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Plunging commodity prices dragged the ASX lower, while the Australian dollar fell to a two-month low, despite a stunning rebound on Wall Street as Twitter agreed to be taken over by billionaire Elon Musk.
  
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• $50 billion wiped off Australian share market on China lockdown fears

  25-04-2022 23:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Plunging commodity prices have dragged the Australian share market lower on Tuesday afternoon, despite a stunning rebound on Wall Street as Twitter agreed to be taken over by billionaire Elon Musk.
  
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• You could be waiting for up to an hour to get a cab in this city. Could female drivers fill the shortage?

  25-04-2022 23:24 via abc.net.au
  
  There are only 132 cabbies in Townsville and over the weekend customers in the city of 200,000 found themselves waiting for as long as an hour to catch a ride. Meanwhile, data shows female drivers are in high demand — but they're not exactly common.
  
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• It can take up to an hour to get a cab in this city. Could female drivers fill the shortage?

  25-04-2022 23:24 via abc.net.au
  
  There are only 132 cabbies servicing a population of 200,000 in Townsville. Meanwhile, data shows female drivers are in high demand — but they're not exactly common.
  
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• Female taxi drivers are in demand, but safety concerns push them away from the industry

  25-04-2022 23:24 via abc.net.au
  
  There are only 132 cabbies servicing a population of 200,000 in Townsville, and some think the answer to the driver shortage could be women.
  
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• 'Voters are very annoyed': Candidates need to crack big issues to win battleground seats

  25-04-2022 23:01 via abc.net.au
  
  From marginal seats with diverse communities to blue-ribbon ones with climate-focused independents, voters are fed up with political spin and are seeking policy action on big issues like the cost-of-living and climate change.
  
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• Melbourne's east is a major election battleground, but many voters don't like what they're hearing

  25-04-2022 23:01 via abc.net.au
  
  From marginal seats with diverse communities to blue-ribbon ones with climate-focused independents, voters are fed up with political spin and are seeking policy action on big issues like the cost-of-living and climate change.
  
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• Luna was working as a stripper when her colleague was allegedly assaulted. She says it's all too common

  25-04-2022 22:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Luna had worked as a stripper in Adelaide for a number of years when she says a colleague was assaulted as she performed a private dance. Now she is taking a stand against a work culture she says let it happen.
  
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• 'A new girl turns 18 every day', but these strippers are pushing for a safer work environment

  25-04-2022 22:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Luna had worked as a stripper in Adelaide for a number of years when she says a colleague was assaulted as she performed a private dance. Now she is taking a stand against a work culture she says let it happen.
  
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• Queenslanders with disabilities left waiting as taxis fail to turn up to bookings

  25-04-2022 21:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Queenslanders with disabilities are waiting hours for transport as a lack of taxi drivers and rising fuel costs leaves a shortage of wheelchair-accessible taxis on the roads.
  
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• Mark nearly missed his father's funeral when a wheelchair-friendly taxi didn't arrive on time

  25-04-2022 21:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Queenslanders with disabilities are waiting hours for transport as a lack of taxi drivers and rising fuel costs leaves a shortage of wheelchair-accessible taxis on the roads.
  
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• It costs twice as much fuel to run a wheelchair-accessible taxi and now they're not turning up to bookings

  25-04-2022 21:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Queenslanders with disabilities are waiting hours for transport as a lack of taxi drivers and rising fuel costs leaves a shortage of wheelchair-accessible taxis on the roads.
  
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• Gordon and Gerard both needed elective surgery. One self-funded, the other's still waiting

  25-04-2022 21:40 via abc.net.au
  
  With wait times for elective surgeries in public hospital systems ballooning following lockdowns, some patients are self-funding their own procedures to try and skip the queue.
  
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• Gordon and Gerard both needed elective surgery. One found a way to skip the queue

  25-04-2022 21:40 via abc.net.au
  
  With wait times for elective surgeries in public hospital systems ballooning following lockdowns, some patients are self-funding their own procedures to try and skip the queue.
  
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• Inflation surge could see super-sized interest rate hike in June, economists warn

  25-04-2022 21:39 via abc.net.au
  
  The latest official inflation figures are expected to be the highest since the global financial crisis, and at least one leading economist warns it could trigger an extra large first interest rate hike from the Reserve Bank.
  
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• Elon Musk to buy Twitter for $61.4 billion

  25-04-2022 21:18 via abc.net.au
  
  US billionaire Elon Musk strikes a deal to buy the social media platform, ending its run as a public company. 
  
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• Warwick died working for JBS. But the corporate giant refuses to pay his ambulance bill

  25-04-2022 20:55 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest meat company has an appalling track record on safety, repeatedly failing to protect its workers from death or serious injuries. Employees and family members tell Four Corners their stories.
  
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• John's job at the abattoir was an accident waiting to happen. Then it did

  25-04-2022 20:55 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest meat company has an appalling track record on safety, repeatedly failing to protect its workers from death or serious injuries. Employees and family members tell Four Corners their stories.
  
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• Victorian farmers rail for major inland freight hub that could service dozens of industries

  25-04-2022 04:23 via abc.net.au
  
  Colleen Condliffe and Carly Noble say the $120m project could service dozens of industries and facilitate domestic and international trade.
  
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• Victorian farmers push for major inland freight hub that could service dozens of industries

  25-04-2022 04:23 via abc.net.au
  
  Colleen Condliffe and Carly Noble say the $120m project could service dozens of industries and facilitate domestic and international trade.
  
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• On the right track? Victorian farmers rail for major inland freight hub

  25-04-2022 04:23 via abc.net.au
  
  Colleen Condliffe and Carly Noble say the $120m project could service dozens of industries and facilitate domestic and international trade.
  
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• Pearl-to-bone project hopes to inspire northern Australia tech boom

  25-04-2022 02:33 via abc.net.au
  
  Not just for decoration, pearl shells have potential for use in orthopaedic devices and other health products, including as a synthetic bone substitute. 
  
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