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• Wall Street ends August with a whimper on US Fed worry, ASX to slump

  31-08-2022 23:46 via abc.net.au
  
  World stock markets struggle to recover after a three-day losing streak, as stubborn inflation that has central banks on both sides of the Atlantic preparing to raise borrowing costs again next month kept investors on edge.
  
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• ASX drops sharply, BHP dives on ex-dividend and Wall Street suffers worst August since 2015

  31-08-2022 23:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares have fallen sharply to touch their lowest level in five weeks, as mining stocks declined while major banks tracked a sell-off on Wall Street overnight.
  
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• ASX dives 2pc at open as Wall Street ends August with a whimper on US Fed worry

  31-08-2022 23:46 via abc.net.au
  
  World stock markets struggle to recover after a three-day losing streak, as stubborn inflation that has central banks on both sides of the Atlantic preparing to raise borrowing costs again next month kept investors on edge.
  
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• Kalbarri's spark is returning but national shortages are forcing businesses to sell up

  31-08-2022 23:43 via abc.net.au
  
  An influx of tourists is boosting the fortunes of a Midwest town that needs more workers to realise the recovery's full potential.
  
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• Will we see Oracle-style building company collapses in the regions?

  31-08-2022 23:39 via abc.net.au
  
  When Oracle Homes crashed into liquidation last week, people building homes across Queensland watched on and wondered if they too could be left with a dream home left in limbo.
  
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• Perth housing values drop

  31-08-2022 23:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Home values in Perth have decreased for the first time in 10 months, as CoreLogic’s home index dips by 0.2 per cent.
  
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• Perth home values drop

  31-08-2022 23:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Home values in Perth have decreased for the first time in 10 months, as CoreLogic’s home index dips by 0.2 per cent.
  
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• Live: NSW Now: Nurses and midwives to walk off the job for 24 hours

  31-08-2022 22:09 via abc.net.au
  
  MORNING BRIEFING: The union says it is striking over calls for safe working conditions. Meanwhile, convicted killer Chris Dawson returns to court today.
  
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• 'We don't need a babysitter': As Japan suffers its worst COVID-19 wave, strict rules are keeping tourists away

  31-08-2022 22:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Japan is experiencing its seventh and biggest wave of coronavirus cases of the pandemic. Slow moves to relax the country's border restrictions are impacting businesses reliant on foreign tourists and experts say it could impact the country's tourism destination reputation. 
  
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• How to make your home more energy efficient and save money

  31-08-2022 21:12 via abc.net.au
  
  Melbourne homes built since the 1990s rate just 3 out of 10 for energy efficiency, with residents finding that fixing efficiency issues comes with a hefty price tag.
  
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• Emma dreamed of fixing her energy inefficient home, but the prices have stopped her cold

  31-08-2022 21:12 via abc.net.au
  
  Emma Lynas was excited when she bought her home, but the price for environmental upgrades was sky high. What cost-effective changes can people make to make their homes more efficient?
  
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• This economist expects property prices to fall 15-20 per cent. He warns there's a big 'downside risk'

  31-08-2022 16:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's housing market decline spreads across all capital cities and most regional areas, with national prices falling by the most in any month since 1983.
  
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• House price plunge spreads with values declining most in 39 years

  31-08-2022 16:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's housing market decline spreads across all capital cities and most regional areas, with national prices falling by the most in any month since 1983.
  
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• House price plunge spreads with biggest monthly decline in 39 years

  31-08-2022 16:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's housing market decline spreads across all capital cities and most regional areas, with national prices falling by the most in any month since 1983.
  
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• 'Extraordinary' interest rate increases send property prices tumbling across the nation

  31-08-2022 16:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's housing market decline spreads across all capital cities and most regional areas, with national prices falling by the most in any month since 1983.
  
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• BHP awards $70m Pilbara contract

  31-08-2022 10:26 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A company set up by Banjima traditional owner Paula White has teamed up with ASX company Mineral Resources to win a major crushing contract with BHP.
  
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• Perth Airport sues Airservices Australia

  31-08-2022 10:19 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth Airport is taking government-owned corporation Airservices Australia to federal court over alleged chemical contamination ongoing since 1995.
  
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• Energy dips as ASX ends August up 0.6pc

  31-08-2022 09:57 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The local share market finished Wednesday down 0.16 per cent to close out the month with a 0.6 per cent gain.
  
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• Court to decide control of key Collie coal miner

  31-08-2022 09:39 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Griffin Coal has launched an eleventh-hour bid to stop power generator Bluewaters from appointing a controller, after a production shortfall of 400,000 tonnes.
  
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• COVID isolation reduced to five days

  31-08-2022 09:25 via businessnews.com.au
  
  National cabinet has agreed to reduce the mandatory isolation period for positive COVID-19 cases from seven to five days.
  
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• Goiran cleared of breach claim

  31-08-2022 09:20 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Liberal powerbroker and upper house MP Nick Goiran has been cleared of breaching his party's rules as the messy fallout from "the clan" revelations continues.
  Mr Goiran was part of a WhatsApp chat group called the clan, which actively worked against others in the Liberal Party.
  
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• At Close of Business 31 August 2022

  31-08-2022 09:11 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Senior journalist Matt Mckenzie talks about the challenges facing small business owners in WA, as well as how one restaurant owner is juggling competing demands amid recent tumult.
  
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• Barker appointed RFDS boss in WA

  31-08-2022 08:47 via businessnews.com.au
  
  One of the state's largest charities, the Royal Flying Doctor Service Western Operations, will be led by former St John NT boss Judith Barker.
  
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• Labour shortage to peak at 84,000

  31-08-2022 08:43 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The shortage of workers in the resources and infrastructure sectors will peak at 84,000 in two years’ time and would be worse if not for project cancellations, Pit Crew has found.
  
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• Centre studies mind science

  31-08-2022 08:39 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A research centre at Monash University is applying cutting-edge science and contemplative traditions.
  
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• Farmers spending millions on former FIFO camps to fight staff, housing shortages

  31-08-2022 08:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Farmers are investing millions to ensure workers have comfortable places to stay as WA continues to battle supply problems.
  
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• Farmers spend big on FIFO-style accommodation amid housing, labour shortages

  31-08-2022 08:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Farmers are investing millions to ensure workers have comfortable places to stay as WA continues to battle supply problems.
  
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• BGC halts sale plans, again

  31-08-2022 07:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  BGC’s board has hit pause on plans to sell the Buckeridge family’s $1 billion building products company as it grapples with supply chain challenges and industry-wide labour shortages.
  
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• Five super funds fail regulator's test, four of them for the second time

  31-08-2022 07:13 via abc.net.au
  
  The financial regulator tested 69 MySuper products against investment performance and fees and costs. Here's what they found.
  
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• Relief as controversial North Coast housing project knocked back, but some decry 'selfish' decision

  31-08-2022 06:36 via abc.net.au
  
  The developers behind a controversial housing project on the NSW north coast rejected by the Northern Regional Planning Panel have confirmed they will appeal the decision.
  
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• Leonora in play as St Barbara cops loss

  31-08-2022 06:34 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Keen to leave a rocky Fy22 behind, St Barbara is leveraging its Leonora gold assets as central to any consolidation play in the region, as negotiations with Genesis Minerals continue.
  
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• Want to live in a place like this? Shrinking population prompts push to attract residents

  31-08-2022 06:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The Riverland's population is lower than it was 20 years ago, but developers, the council and community advocates are doing their best to reverse the trend.
  
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• Power station seeks control of Indian-owned coal mine amid worsening crisis in WA

  31-08-2022 06:20 via abc.net.au
  
  The Japanese owners of a major West Australian coal-fired power station take court action over a loss-making mine that has failed to deliver promised coal supplies.
  
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• Court quashes Dalkeith home reno row

  31-08-2022 06:19 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Supreme Court has quashed a bitter row between two wealthy neighbours in the leafy green suburb of Dalkeith after declaring the instigators had chosen to live and die by the sword.
  
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• Varsity Group sold to national player

  31-08-2022 05:24 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A Melbourne-based hospitality outfit has acquired Varsity Group and its eight sports and burger bars, while committing to invest a further $20 million in WA over the next three years.
  
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• Australia's biggest landholders buy 730,000 hectare cattle station

  31-08-2022 05:22 via abc.net.au
  
  The sale takes the families' landholdings to more than 9.2 million hectares across three states.
  
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• City supports Humich’s CBD plan

  31-08-2022 05:09 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The City of Perth has backed a $160 million proposal to revamp a strip of shops along Barrack Street on condition the heritage elements be protected.
  
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• Pressure mounts for supermarkets

  31-08-2022 04:32 via businessnews.com.au
  
  While shoppers face inflationary pressures and a rising cost of living, the cost of doing business is also up.
  
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• Spacecubed wins in Western Sydney

  31-08-2022 04:18 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth-based Spacecubed has scored a win on the east coast today, announced as operator of a new Western Sydney Startup Hub.
  
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• Wages, workers among pressure points

  31-08-2022 04:05 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Skills shortages and cost pressures are among the headaches for small businesses.
  
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• Booming, empty, or needing staff

  31-08-2022 04:05 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A walk along Barrack Street provides a good insight on how Perth’s small businesses are faring.
  
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• Family favourite for banh mi gang

  31-08-2022 03:55 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The founder of a popular eatery discusses authenticity, his passion, and balancing small business with a young family.
  
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• Lockdowns may have lifted long ago, but COVID-era food relief services are busier than ever

  31-08-2022 03:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Three Aboriginal women are working with food relief agencies to provide groceries and meals to families and elders struggling due to the cost-of-living crisis.
  
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• Tighter noise restrictions close popular racing track in 'massive loss' for jobs and at-risk children

  31-08-2022 03:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Disengaged, abused and disabled children to lose work as a famous motor racing track prepares to shut its doors. 
  
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• More than just rev-heads, Wakefield Park Raceway closure a loss for an entire city

  31-08-2022 03:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Disengaged, abused and disabled children to lose work as a famous motor racing track prepares to shut its doors. 
  
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• Leaders meet to discuss isolation changes

  31-08-2022 02:48 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will host national cabinet with his state and territory counterparts to discuss shortening COVID-19 isolation time.
  
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• Push to ban older trucks from Melbourne, Sydney would 'create a major issue for farmers'

  31-08-2022 02:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Research that shows exhaust pollutants kill more than 400 Australians a year is driving a call to ban older vehicles from two capital cities. But farmers say they can't justify the replacement costs.
  
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• From boll to blouse, can we trace where our cotton comes from?

  31-08-2022 01:26 via abc.net.au
  
  If consumers care to find out where it comes from and how it is grown, technology will soon allow us to scan a QR code and trace it all the way from farm to cotton gin to store.
  
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• Energy 'gaps' to hit within three years as coal plants shut down

  31-08-2022 01:19 via abc.net.au
  
  The energy market operator warns supply will fall short of demand from 2025 unless new renewable energy capacity is urgently brought online.
  
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• AEMO warns of power 'gaps' in Australia's biggest grid within three years as coal exodus gathers pace

  31-08-2022 01:19 via abc.net.au
  
  The energy market operator warns supply will fall short of demand from 2025 unless new renewable energy capacity is urgently brought online.
  
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