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• House prices falling, but rents going up. Here's why renters can't catch a break

  01-08-2022 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Though house prices are falling at a historic rate, rents are tipped to keep going faster than ever. Here's why renters can't catch a break.
  
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• 'It's unimaginable': Beyoncé wears Brisbane designer's jumpsuit

  01-08-2022 21:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Brisbane designer Bethany Cordwell says she was contacted by the pop star's team earlier this year. When she saw Beyoncé wearing her design on her album art, she couldn't believe it.
  
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• 'It's unimaginable': Beyoncé wears Brisbane designer's bodysuit

  01-08-2022 21:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Brisbane designer Bethany Cordwell says she was contacted by the pop star's team earlier this year. When she saw Beyoncé wearing her design on her album art, she couldn't believe it.
  
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• 'It's unimaginable': Beyonce wears Brisbane designer's jumpsuit

  01-08-2022 21:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Brisbane designer Bethany Cordwell says she was contacted by the pop star's team earlier this year. When she saw Beyonce wearing her design on her album art, she couldn't believe it.
  
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• 'We're gutted, really': The Chamberlains just had their mortgage capacity slashed as interest rates rise

  01-08-2022 21:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The Reserve Bank is expected to raise the cash rate again today. It comes as banks pass on interest rate rises and cut back how much they'll loan to wannabe home owners.
  
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• Rate rises trigger a 'feedback loop' that will see property prices fall further as home loans shrink

  01-08-2022 21:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The Reserve Bank is expected to raise the cash rate again today. It comes as banks pass on interest rate rises and cut back how much they'll loan to wannabe home owners.
  
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• Petrol prices aren't returning to normal 'anytime soon'. Will the government extend its relief?

  01-08-2022 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The fuel excise relief is rapidly coming to an end and the government is about to face plenty of pressure to extend it so Australians can avoid pain at the pump.
  
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• Calls grow for fuel price relief to be extended beyond September

  01-08-2022 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The fuel excise relief is rapidly coming to an end and the government is about to face plenty of pressure to extend it so Australians can avoid pain at the pump.
  
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• Last-ditch attempt to derail Scarborough LNG

  01-08-2022 18:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state’s peak conservation body will front court this morning in an 11th-hour bid to halt a key component of Woodside’s $16.5 billion Scarborough gas project.
  
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• This woman decided to pull her Toyota Corolla apart. It changed her life

  01-08-2022 10:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Becoming a car owner inspired violinist Tarli Goss to pick up instruments of a different kind. Now she has a career in the automotive industry.
  
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• Data reveals double-digit rent increases, poor wage growth an anchor on Victoria's south-west

  01-08-2022 10:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Tenants in Victoria's south-west, taking in greater Geelong, Ballarat, and Warrnambool, have been the hardest hit in the state by rental increases at 11.1 per cent per year on average since 2019, new analysis reveals.
  
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• Big Un auditor fined over report

  01-08-2022 10:08 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The lead auditor of failed ASX-listed video marketing company Big Un has been convicted over a report about its financial health less than a year before its collapse.
  
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• Coal exit needs market rethink

  01-08-2022 10:05 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The exit of state-owned coal power by 2030 may mean WA’s electricity market needs to be sharpened up, according to the economic regulator.
  
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• First ship carrying Ukrainian grain leaves Odesa after UN, Turkish deal

  01-08-2022 10:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Carrying 26,000 tons of corn, the Razoni cargo ship has left the port of Odesa bound for Lebanon, according to Turkey's defence ministry.
  
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• Industry leader backs compensation calls for truckies left traumatised by pedestrian tragedies

  01-08-2022 09:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Truck drivers left traumatised after hitting pedestrians through no fault of their own deserve access to pain and suffering compensation, according to industry leaders, with two Victorian drivers saying they have been unable to return to work.
  
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• 'We are not fixing it': First priority area chosen for Queensland's flood buy-back scheme

  01-08-2022 09:41 via abc.net.au
  
  More than five months after the February flood disaster, more than 4,250 people across Queensland have registered their interest to have their homes raised, rebuilt or voluntary bought back.
  
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• At Close of Business 1 August 2022

  01-08-2022 09:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Political editor Gary Adshead explains why he wrote about a new Keystart program and why he thinks it goes against the loan agency's founding principles.
  
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• Finlayson keeps lid on Leonora plans

  01-08-2022 09:19 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Genesis boss Raleigh Finlayson could not be drawn to furnish details on a deal with St Barbara, but conceded the Leonora region was more open to consolidation than it once was.
  
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• ASX gains 0.7pct ahead of RBA meeting

  01-08-2022 09:19 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Australian share market has shaken off fears of a slowdown in China to finish higher for a fifth day in a row, ahead of the Reserve Bank's expected hike in the cash rate on Tuesday.
  
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• JJ owns a guesthouse in Robe but he can't find a place to live

  01-08-2022 09:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The latest census data showed 59 per cent of properties in this South Australian holiday town are vacant – the third-highest rate in the country.
  
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• Union backs plan to fix skills shortages

  01-08-2022 08:41 via businessnews.com.au
  
  One of the country's largest unions has called on employers to solve skill shortages by employing migrant workers, provided that Australians be trained to help fill similar roles.
  
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• Foot-and-mouth threat prompts Victoria to form new emergency task force

  01-08-2022 08:16 via abc.net.au
  
  The group will be co-chaired by Agriculture Victoria chief executive officer Matt Lowe and the Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp.
  
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• Diggers turnout highest in a decade

  01-08-2022 07:26 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Labour shortages are tipped to prove a key theme at Diggers and Dealers this year, amid heightened expectations on environmental, social and governance matters in the resources industry.
  
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• Synergy powers ahead with Wheatbelt wind farm

  01-08-2022 06:33 via businessnews.com.au
  
  State-owned utility Synergy has taken another step towards bringing its 150-megawatt Wheatbelt wind farm plan to fruition, lodging the plans with the state’s environmental watchdog.
  
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• Moyo sets sombre tone for Diggers

  01-08-2022 06:07 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Economist Dr Dambisa Moyo has augered a period of low and slow global economic growth in a sobering keynote address to the Diggers and Dealers mining forum in Kalgoorlie.
  
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• US expert joins Perth medtech company

  01-08-2022 06:02 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A Perth-based artificial intelligence healthcare company has appointed a US health technology expert to its board.
  
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• East Perth homeless facility delay

  01-08-2022 05:23 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Progress on a 112-unit facility to house people experiencing homelessness has hit a snag amid rising construction costs.
  
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• Watchdog to review Simcoa mine plan

  01-08-2022 05:22 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state’s environmental watchdog will scrutinise silicon producer Simcoa’s plans to establish a new mine in the Wheatbelt as reserves at its current deposit dwindle.
  
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• New chair for Western Power

  01-08-2022 04:32 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Denise Goldsworthy has been appointed to the position of Western Power chair, after a long and varied career in the resource and research sectors.
  
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• Gas producers warned to prove they have domestic supplies for next year, or face 'gas trigger' restrictions

  01-08-2022 03:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Gas producers are told to prove there will be enough supply for the domestic market next year, or face the threat of export restrictions.
  
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• European demand for Western Australian coral for aquariums drying up

  01-08-2022 03:32 via abc.net.au
  
  The war in Ukraine takes a toll on Midwest coral demand, but one coral farmer says the domestic market is improving.
  
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• Coral from Western Australia's pristine Abrolhos Islands was once in high demand for aquarium hobbyists, until COVID hit

  01-08-2022 03:32 via abc.net.au
  
  The war in Ukraine takes a toll on Midwest coral demand, but one coral farmer says the domestic market is improving.
  
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• FMD not the only concern for Australia

  01-08-2022 03:11 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Amid news of an increased threat of foot and mouth disease to Australia’s north, concerns are also growing about another biosecurity threat.
  
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• 'Considerable learning curve': Documents show unnamed candidate was ranked ahead of Barilaro for US role

  01-08-2022 02:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Two different versions of job panel reports appear to reveal different scores for John Barilaro, who went from being ranked second for a lucrative US trade role to becoming the recommended candidate.
  
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• Inflation forces WA to up worker pay offer

  01-08-2022 02:54 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Teachers, nurses, police officers, cleaners and public servants in Western Australia have been offered a revised pay deal but unions say it still amounts to a cut in real terms.
  
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• Skills shortage in auto industry sends some businesses broke

  01-08-2022 02:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Clinton Godde gets enough work at his garage for more than half a dozen staff, but a skills shortage means he cannot get enough staff to make a profit.
  
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• Rooftop solar panels cost Ricky Barone thousands, but never worked. Now he wants them taken off

  01-08-2022 00:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Ricky Barone installed a solar system on his roof in 2014. Since then, it has cost him thousands of dollars and years of sleepless nights. So, who's responsible?
  
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