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• Westpac offers select mortgage prisoners a potential lifeline, ASX ends higher on bank gains — as it happened

  18-05-2023 23:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Bank stocks boost the ASX to a solid gain, while Westpac waives the mortgage serviceability buffer for some select borrowers who want to refinance their mortgage.
  
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• Off-the-plan buyers 'far better off getting your deposit back' as stop work order remains on Wollongong high-rise

  18-05-2023 23:33 via abc.net.au
  
  The New South Wales building commissioner says his stop work order on the construction of an Illawarra apartment complex will remain indefinitely, warning that parts of the building will require demolition due to structural issues.
  
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• What's behind the big jump in rental listings in Hobart?

  18-05-2023 23:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Hobart has seen a big jump in the number of properties on the rental market in the past year, but the reasons are unclear and many properties are still unaffordable.
   
  
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• 'Intergenerational' concrete scam travelling town-to-town across regional Australia

  18-05-2023 22:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Authorities say people who use the "business" are left with poor and incomplete work — and often a sizeable invoice — before the scammers disappear into the wind.
  
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• Ukraine says it is repelling Russian attacks in Bakhmut, as US says it over-valued weapons aid

  18-05-2023 22:23 via abc.net.au
  
  The Ukrainian military and Russia's Wagner private army report further Russian retreats around the city of Bakhmut, as Kyiv presses on with its biggest advance for six months ahead of a planned counter-offensive.
  
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• Would you live in a house made with recycled nappies? It could solve two problems at once

  18-05-2023 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Researchers are taking on the challenges of waste and housing affordability, by substituting sand for used nappies in concrete mortar. They've even built a house with the product.
  
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• House made from recycled nappies solves two problems at once, researchers say

  18-05-2023 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Researchers are taking on the challenges of waste and housing affordability, by substituting sand for used nappies in concrete mortar. They've even built a house with the product.
  
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• Unemployment has been around the lowest level in 50 years but Graham still can't find work

  18-05-2023 20:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Rising unemployment and falling job vacancies may be signalling a turning point in Australia's labour market, economists say.
  
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• Smith's cheese and onion and original chips recalled over plastic piece contamination fears

  18-05-2023 10:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Food Standards Australia issues an alert for Smith's cheese and onion and original flavours, warning that plastic pieces could cause injury or illness if consumed.
  
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• Rex blames 'underhanded' and 'devious' council for decision to axe flights from Whyalla to Adelaide

  18-05-2023 10:26 via abc.net.au
  
  The regional carrier says the council is trying to force it into paying a security charge it cannot afford. Whyalla City Council says the federal government must continue to subsidise that cost.
  
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• Zenith Energy forms Indigenous JV

  18-05-2023 08:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Belmont-based power producer Zenith Energy join Indigenous-owned Tijwarl Contracting Services to form joint venture Tijwarl Katu Power.
  
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• Limestone Coast wind farm approved in 2012 and yet to built granted third time extension

  18-05-2023 06:52 via abc.net.au
  
  More than a decade after it was first approved, the $700 million Woakwine Wind Farm project in regional SA has been granted another time extension — and will now start construction in 2026.
  
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• Opening farmgate milk price revealed, but will it be enough to stop dairy farmers leaving the land?

  18-05-2023 05:24 via abc.net.au
  
  The first farmgate milk price for the new dairy season is released, nine days before the deadline for processors to publish minimum prices.
  
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• How a meeting at a Chinese Starbucks raised alarm bells for an Australian popstar

  18-05-2023 05:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Overnight pop sensation Harry "Hazza" Harding held a prestigious job with China's state media. He now believes he was being groomed for espionage.
  
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• Major miners receive 'slap on wrist' after breaching environmental regulations in WA

  18-05-2023 03:47 via abc.net.au
  
  Big mining companies Rio Tinto and Fortescue are revealed in Western Australia's parliament as those noted in a recent auditor-general report for breaching environmental regulations, with a lack of penalties or enforcement by government departments.
  
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• 'A great outcome': Ambassador says Australia can resume exporting timber to China

  18-05-2023 03:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Industry representatives cautiously welcome the Chinese ambassador's announcement that China is set to resume the import of Australian timber immediately.
  
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• Australia's unemployment rate rises amid surprise jobs falloff

  18-05-2023 03:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's unemployment rate rises to 3.7 per cent as thousands of jobs were lost last month, defying economists' expectations of further employment gains.
  
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