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• 'Now I shop less than ever': A fashion photographer on becoming a more sustainable shopper

  12-04-2024 23:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Liz Sunshine spends more time thinking about the way we dress than most. But her shopping advice is simple: "Slow down."
  
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• Adelaide's rental market is tight. So why not convert vacant offices into apartments?

  12-04-2024 22:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The city's lord mayor pushes for Adelaide's aging and empty office spaces to be converted into homes, as the city overtakes Perth with the tightest rental property market. But experts say it is not always easy to re-purpose an office building for housing.
  
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• Australia will soon start importing gas, but finding someone to buy it is proving 'complicated'

  12-04-2024 22:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Squadron Energy describes its $300 million LNG import terminal at Port Kembla as the solution to a looming east coast gas shortage, but with construction almost complete energy companies have yet to show an interest in buying its product.
  
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• Chefs could be on the chopping block in migration shake-up

  12-04-2024 20:55 via abc.net.au
  
  Restaurant owners may soon have to look locally for chefs if the federal government follows through on its 'skill-first' migration shake-up.
  
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• Millions of tyres are illegally piling up across Australia, creating a future problem

  12-04-2024 20:53 via abc.net.au
  
  While some used tyres end up being recycled, a growing amount are ending up in landfill or being illegally dumped, like this huge stockpile that has been left in a field.
  
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• 'Last thing community wants to see': Fight to stop used tyres being illegally dumped

  12-04-2024 20:53 via abc.net.au
  
  While some used tyres end up being recycled, a growing amount are ending up in landfill or being illegally dumped, like this huge stockpile that has been left in a field.
  
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• Two Australian businessmen bought a casino in a tropical paradise — only to shut it down

  12-04-2024 20:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The Jewel casino once stood at the turquoise shores of Vanuatu's Iririki Island — until its new owners shut it down. Their reason? "The house always wins."
  
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• The new owners of this casino just shut it down — because 'the house always wins'

  12-04-2024 20:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The Jewel casino once stood at the turquoise shores of Vanuatu's Iririki Island — until its new owners shut it down. Their reason? "The house always wins."
  
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• With experts saying they've 'seen nothing like it before', is this the best steak in Australia?

  12-04-2024 09:57 via abc.net.au
  
  A Wagyu steak with "a satisfying silky mouthfeel" and 60 per cent marbling has been crowned Grand Champion at Australia's annual Wagyu Branded Beef Competition.
  
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• Audit shows unresolved IT issues in govt

  12-04-2024 09:14 via businessnews.com.au
  
  More than half of the IT issues identified in the previous financial year’s audit remain unresolved, the Office of the Auditor General reported.
  
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• Australian stocks dip as gold hits record high

  12-04-2024 09:13 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The ASX200 dropped 0.3 per cent, although gold miners continued to shine as the precious metal threatened to break past through the $US2,400 mark.
  
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• Australian stocks dip as gold hits another record high

  12-04-2024 09:13 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The ASX200 dropped 0.3 per cent, although gold miners continued to shine as the precious metal threatened to break past through the $US2,400 mark.
  
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• At Close of Business podcast April 12 2024

  12-04-2024 09:13 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Nadia Budihardjo and Jack McGinn discuss recent developments at a WA-based, nationally focused tertiary education organisation.
  
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• Australians are consuming less fruit, vegetables and milk — here's what that looks like

  12-04-2024 08:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are eating less of all major food groups, with fresh produce leading the decline, says a new report.  
  
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• Premier laments green industry fund critics

  12-04-2024 08:53 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Roger Cook has labelled critics of government support for decarbonisation as ‘losers’ while listing what he wants from the federal govt’s manufacturing act.
  
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• Civmec sued over Paraburdoo mine work

  12-04-2024 08:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A Pilbara engineering company has taken Civmec to court over an alleged failure to pay for the work done at Rio Tinto’s Paraburdoo Western Range mine.
  
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• Civmec sued over Paraburdoo mine deal

  12-04-2024 08:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A Pilbara engineering company has taken Civmec to court over an alleged failure to pay for the work done at Rio Tinto’s Paraburdoo Western Range mine.
  
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• Macmahon divests portion of equipment fleet

  12-04-2024 08:15 via businessnews.com.au
  
  ASX-listed contractor Macmahon Holdings has offloaded a substantial portion of its mobile equipment fleet for about $44 million from a project in Queensland.
  
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• Fortescue hungry for hydrogen results

  12-04-2024 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Pressure on profits amid a falling iron ore price have raised questions about Fortescue’s hydrogen investments.
  
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• Mark My Words April 12 2024

  12-04-2024 07:50 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Mark Pownall and Jack McGinn discuss Australia's IRA response; merger law reform; industrial development delays; commercial rents;Bree Fraser's new venture, and Yagan Square.
  
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• Govt aid to get WA wines back into China

  12-04-2024 07:47 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state government will pitch in to rebuild Western Australia’s $18 million wine trade with China following the removal of crippling tariffs.
  
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• Rio Tinto’s state spend nears $9bn

  12-04-2024 07:04 via businessnews.com.au
  
  WA’s largest iron ore miner boosted spend on Indigenous businesses by 35 per cent in 2023 as part of an $8.8 billion outlay across the state.
  
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• Sembehun critical for Sierra

  12-04-2024 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Sierra Rutile managing director and chief executive officer Theuns de Bruyn says the company's Sembehun project in Sierra Leone has the potential to provide long-term financial success.
  
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• WA film to premiere at international festival

  12-04-2024 06:54 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Western Australian film The Surfer starring Nicolas Cage has been selected to premiere at international film festival Festival de Cannes in May.
  
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• Boral backs in revised SGH takeover offer

  12-04-2024 06:39 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Boral’s board has backed major shareholder Seven Group Holdings’ sweetened takeover offer after the Stokes family-contolled bidder upped the value.
  
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• Acciona in East Rockingham project dispute

  12-04-2024 06:17 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Acciona and the owners of the $511 million East Rockingham Waste to Energy plant have returned to court over alleged unpaid bonds.
  
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• Argenica taps investors for $12m

  12-04-2024 05:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Shares in Argenica Therapeutics were down by 13 per cent on Friday morning, despite the biotechnology technology announcing it would raise $12 million in order to complete its second phase trial of its ARG 007 drug in ischaemic stroke patients.
  
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• Charges against Meta discontinued in WA after move by Andrew Forrest targeting false crypto ads

  12-04-2024 04:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Criminal charges against Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook, are discontinued in the WA District Court, after mining magnate Andrew Forrest targeted alleged scam advertisements used to defraud Australian investors.
  
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• Long-lost Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus to be restored to her former glory

  12-04-2024 04:40 via abc.net.au
  
  The History Trust of South Australia has launched a campaign to raise money to restore Priscilla, the bus at the centre of the iconic 1994 Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which was long thought lost before being found in a paddock in New South Wales in 2019.
  
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• Maali Group in $10m ATO debt, restructuring bid

  12-04-2024 04:10 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Contractor Maali Group has amassed a $10 million tax bill, with creditors advised to vote to enter a restructuring proposal from a Perth civil engineering company.
  
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• Auspost to halve the days it delivers letters from Monday

  12-04-2024 03:09 via abc.net.au
  
  An overhaul of Australia's postal service begins next week, as Australia Post shifts to only deliver ordinary letters every second business day, and with slower delivery time frames.
  
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• Cash injection secures Dolphin Centre future

  12-04-2024 02:59 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state government has stepped in to secure the future of Bunbury’s Dolphin Discovery Centre, putting up $1.5 million to pull the tourist attraction out of administration.
  
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• National student equity centre rebrand

  12-04-2024 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A WA-based national research body on student equity in universities has been overhauled.
  
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• Facebook-Forrest clickbait battle returns to court

  12-04-2024 01:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Andrew Forrest has accused Facebook's parent company of "blatantly" refusing to moderate fraudulent content as their legal battle returns to court.
  
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• Facebook-Forrest Australian clickbait battle dropped

  12-04-2024 01:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Andrew Forrest's attempt to hold Facebook to account has been dropped as prosecutors decline to file a criminal indictment against its parent company Meta.
  
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• CEOs give themselves 'substantial' pay rises helped by market dominance, researchers find

  12-04-2024 01:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Economists like John Quiggin believe executives are able to "cream money off the top" on the back of growing market power and wider profit margins.
  
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