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• Government facing 'nothing but unpleasant choices' as energy price pain increases

  26-10-2022 23:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Pressure mounts on the Commonwealth to fix the electricity system's woes, but observers warn there are no easy solutions and consumers are in for a rough ride.
  
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• Government faced with 'no good options' for tackling rising cost of energy

  26-10-2022 23:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Pressure mounts on the Commonwealth to fix the electricity system's woes, but observers warn there are no easy solutions and consumers are in for a rough ride.
  
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• Australia's 'longest shortcut' may finally be sealed

  26-10-2022 22:30 via abc.net.au
  
  It started as a pipedream 25 years ago, but now one of the nation's most iconic stretches of desert road — described as "Australia's longest shortcut" — may finally be sealed.
  
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• After 25 years, could this 2,700km stretch of outback road finally be sealed?

  26-10-2022 22:30 via abc.net.au
  
  It started as a pipedream 25 years ago, but now one of the nation's most iconic stretches of desert road — described as "Australia's longest shortcut" — may finally be sealed.
  
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• As fuel thefts rise in Queensland, service stations warn costs will be passed on to customers

  26-10-2022 21:11 via abc.net.au
  
  More people are driving off without paying for their petrol as the rising costs of living hit. The service station industry says the losses are added to their fuel prices.
  
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• Restaurant workers with six months' experience are asking for $100k. But in most places, wages are falling behind

  26-10-2022 20:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Restaurant workers with six months' experience are asking for $100,000. But, in most places, wages growth is still falling well short of inflation.
  
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• Inflation means your wages are worth less. Will they rise to catch up?

  26-10-2022 20:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Restaurant workers with six months experience are asking for $100,000. But, in most places, wages growth is still falling well short of inflation.
  
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• Labor's new workplace relations bill proposes new laws around work flexibility, targets gender pay gap

  26-10-2022 18:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke will introduce Labor's 'Secure Jobs, Better Pay" bill into Parliament, promising to "get wages moving".
  
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• Perth Festival plans a big 70th

  26-10-2022 17:09 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth Festival will return next year with a fill line-up of interstate and overseas acts, a free opening event at Joondalup and expectations for a big increase in income.
  
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• Labor's budget forecasts energy prices will rise 56 per cent in 18 months. It's a different story in WA

  26-10-2022 13:18 via abc.net.au
  
  West Australian Premier Mark McGowan says the federal government should look to his state and overseas to find a solution to surging electricity prices, which are forecast to rise 56 per cent in the next 18 months.
  
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• Rental market tightens, prices surge

  26-10-2022 09:54 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Rental stock is at the lowest level in almost two decades as strong demand drives a price surge, according to a recent property report from REA Group.
  
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• Rental market tightens, price surge

  26-10-2022 09:54 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Rental stock is at the lowest level in almost two decades as strong demand drives a price surge, according to a recent property report from REA Group.
  
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• ASX loses steam after inflation surprise

  26-10-2022 09:48 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The local share market has managed to stay in positive territory - just - after third-quarter inflation came in higher than expected.
  
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• At Close of Business 26 October 2022

  26-10-2022 09:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Gary Adshead and Matt Mckenzie react to Jim Chalmer's first budget as treasurer and today's inflation numbers
  
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• Industry in uncharted waters over subs

  26-10-2022 09:28 via businessnews.com.au
  
  More than a year after Australia committed to buying nuclear-powered submarines, industry is no closer to knowing how it will be involved in the project.
  
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• Iluka, Northern ink offtake deal

  26-10-2022 08:42 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Iluka Resources has inked the first offtake deal for its $1.2 billion Eneabba rare earths refinery, in a move which could allow it to up its stake in Northern Minerals to 19.9 per cent.
  
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• Prison operator denies inmates could be locked down for 48 hours as officers strike

  26-10-2022 08:18 via abc.net.au
  
  A union had said prisoners at Australia's largest jail faced being confined to the cells as prison officers walk off the job after rejecting an 11th-hour offer from private operator Serco.  
  
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• Inmates could be locked down for 48 hours at Australia's largest prison as officers strike

  26-10-2022 08:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Prisoners at Australia's largest jail face being confined to the cells as prison officers walk off the job after rejecting an 11th-hour offer from private operator Serco.  
  
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• Stirling disputes three-tower project

  26-10-2022 08:14 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A proposed apartment block in Scarborough has failed to garner support from the local government council after the developer proposed to increase the height of one tower from eight to 12.
  
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• Jarden underwrites FBR deal

  26-10-2022 08:09 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Robotic technology company FBR has announced a $20 million capital raising that marks the first major ECM deal for investment bank Jarden in Western Australia.
  
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• WA powers federal budget cash

  26-10-2022 07:59 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Premier says the federal budget's commodity revenue windfall down to WA.
  
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• Alinta, Downer in legal tussle over Chichester

  26-10-2022 07:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Alinta has lost its bid to grill a key witness in its stoush with contractor Downer EDI, as the energy giant fends off claims it interfered in the pair’s $165 million Chichester Solar Gas project deal.
  
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• ANZ to pay $25 million fine for misleading customers for more than 20 years

  26-10-2022 06:50 via abc.net.au
  
  ANZ was issued the fine in the Federal Court after the bank failed to provide benefits such as fee waivers and interest rate discounts to approximately 689,000 customer accounts.
  
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• ANZ to pay $236 million in compensation and penalties for misleading customers for more than 20 years

  26-10-2022 06:50 via abc.net.au
  
  A court finds the bank failed to provide benefits such as fee waivers and interest rate discounts to approximately 689,000 customer accounts since the mid-1990s.
  
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• Matthews makes move to PICA

  26-10-2022 06:46 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Victoria-based art curator Hannah Matthews is set to return to the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts after 14 years following her appointment as its new chief executive.
  
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• Mathews makes move to PICA

  26-10-2022 06:46 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Victoria-based art curator Hannah Mathews is set to return to the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts after 14 years, following her appointment as its new chief executive.
  
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• Jones confirms GR Engineering exit

  26-10-2022 06:32 via businessnews.com.au
  
  GR Engineering boss Geoff Jones has resigned after nearly nine years at helm of the company.
  
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• Arovella to shut Perth R&D facility

  26-10-2022 05:59 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Confidence in WA’s life sciences scene has been on the rise, boosted by the AusBiotech conference starting in Perth today, but running counter to that optimism was Arovella Therapeutics’s announcement to close its local R&D facility.
  
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• Perth council overruled over WACA rates

  26-10-2022 05:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A tiff between two levels of government continues after Minister John Carey overrides the council and exempted the Western Australian Cricket Association from paying rates.
  
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• Perth council overruled on WACA rates

  26-10-2022 05:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A disagreement between two levels of government continues after John Carey overrides the council and exempted the Western Australian Cricket Association from paying rates.
  
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• Australia's first 3D-printed holiday park among plans to boost NSW city's housing stock

  26-10-2022 04:57 via abc.net.au
  
  A company wants to print 100 honeycomb-shaped cabins across from a Dubbo tourist attraction as the council makes space for a housing development using the technology.
  
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• 3D-printed homes, holiday cabins to boost city amid housing crisis

  26-10-2022 04:57 via abc.net.au
  
  A company wants to print 100 honeycomb-shaped cabins across from a Dubbo tourist attraction as the council makes space for a housing development using the technology.
  
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• Local tech firm in Africa acquisition

  26-10-2022 04:37 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth-based acQuire Technology Solutions has expanded its suite of information management tools for the resources sector with the acquisiton of South African company MTS.
  
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• Leading the way for more diversity in tech

  26-10-2022 03:49 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The DDD Perth conference has made big strides by including as many voices and participants as possible.
  
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• Children's book tells extraordinary tale of town saving plane lost in electrical storm

  26-10-2022 03:43 via abc.net.au
  
  In the final leg of 1934 London to Melbourne Air Race, the Dutch aircraft Uiver lost its way near Albury Wodonga — but a massive effort from locals got it back on track.
  
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• Children's book recounts regional town saving plane lost in 1934 London to Melbourne Air Race

  26-10-2022 03:43 via abc.net.au
  
  It is an extraordinary tale of a community coming together to rescue a lost plane. Now a new book hopes to keep it alive for generations to come.
  
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• Handbrake applied to multi-billion-dollar Great Western Highway upgrade as funding falls short

  26-10-2022 03:42 via abc.net.au
  
  NSW had been banking on federal funding for the Great Western Highway upgrade, now the transport minister has claimed the project is "cut, cut, cut" from proceeding.
  
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• Brief respite on Perth inflation

  26-10-2022 03:35 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A one-off subsidy on power bills has helped Perth prices drop 0.5 per cent in the September quarter, while national inflation hit 1.8 per cent for the quarter.
  
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• Budget forecasts bleak outlook for Aussies

  26-10-2022 03:24 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australians are facing a tough couple of years after the Albanese government's first budget warned power bills will rise and real wages will fall.
  
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• Housing and gas lead inflation above 7 per cent, as fuel prices post rare fall

  26-10-2022 02:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Consumer prices surge 7.3 per cent over the past year, as the cost of housing construction and elevated fuel prices lead a huge jump in the cost of living.
  
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• 'Basically the same as households taking a pay cut': Annual inflation hits 32-year high

  26-10-2022 02:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Consumer prices surge 7.3 per cent over the past year, as the cost of housing construction and elevated fuel prices lead a huge jump in the cost of living.
  
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• Medibank says all customers' personal data compromised by cyber attack

  26-10-2022 01:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Medibank has confirmed the criminal entity behind the cyber attack on the company has access to the data of about 4 million current customers, and countless former ones too.
  
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• Medibank confirms criminals have access to wide range of personal and healthcare data

  26-10-2022 01:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Medibank has confirmed the criminal entity behind the cyber attack on the company has access to the data of about 4 million current customers, and countless former ones too.
  
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• Drone-delivered groceries make a debut, but a legal expert says danger of negligence lawsuits hovers

  26-10-2022 00:59 via abc.net.au
  
  These shoppers will soon be able to use a high-tech service, but an academic warns of the pitfalls without regulation.
  
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• Drone-delivered groceries make a debut, but a legal expert says danger of negligence lawsuits hover

  26-10-2022 00:59 via abc.net.au
  
  These shoppers will soon be able to use a high-tech service, but an academic warns of the pitfalls without regulation.
  
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• Saleyards upgrade in doubt after Labor cans regional funding program

  26-10-2022 00:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Upgrades to the Mount Gambier and District Saleyards could be delayed or ditched as the government announces its replacement to the Building Better Regions Fund.  
  
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