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• Families switch cars for cargo bikes for daily commute as cost of living continues to bite

  03-10-2024 22:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Since getting a bike over a year ago, Alice Humble and her family have saved $800 in petrol. They're one of many households choosing cycling as car running costs increase.
  
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• Australian families going car-free as the cost of living continues to climb

  03-10-2024 22:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Since getting a bike over a year ago, Alice Humble and her family have saved $800 in petrol. They're one of many households choosing cycling as car running costs increase.
  
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• Australia is bankrolling a $1bn quantum computer in Brisbane. Big corporations will use it first

  03-10-2024 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia is making a billion-dollar bet on a "useful" quantum computer in the Queensland capital, but surprisingly few experts agree on what the nation will get in return for its investment.
  
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• Australia is bankrolling a $1b quantum computer in Brisbane. Big corporations will use it first

  03-10-2024 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia is making a billion-dollar bet on a "useful" quantum computer in the Queensland capital, but surprisingly few experts agree on what the nation will get in return for its investment.
  
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• Woman forced to sleep in wheelchair at night as number of accessible taxis dwindle

  03-10-2024 21:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Pauline David had to sleep in her wheelchair after an accessible taxi failed to arrive to take her home. She's one of many people with a disability struggling to maintain independence as the number of accessible cabs in NSW declines. 
  
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• Pauline was forced to sleep in her wheelchair when an accessible taxi failed to turn up

  03-10-2024 21:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Pauline David had to sleep in her wheelchair after an accessible taxi failed to arrive to take her home. She's one of many people with a disability struggling to maintain independence as the number of accessible cabs in NSW declines. 
  
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• 'I'm always late': Lack of accessible taxis in NSW leaving those who need them stranded

  03-10-2024 21:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Pauline David had to sleep in her wheelchair after an accessible taxi failed to arrive to take her home. She's one of many people with a disability struggling to maintain independence as the number of accessible cabs in NSW declines. 
  
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• The Greens say you could live in this 'beautiful' home, but the scheme would cost taxpayers $40b

  03-10-2024 21:16 via abc.net.au
  
  Artist renderings of public housing built by a proposed government-owned developer have been released by the Greens — as well as their $40 billion price tag.
  
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• 'This is illegal coal mining': Koala habitat cleared without federal approval, by company previously linked to fraudster

  03-10-2024 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  A coal mining group with former links to a US fraudster denies claims of illegal mining, and destroying koala habitat without federal approval. Environment groups are doubling down, and want immediate action.
  
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• State government to probe retirement village provider's close ties to real estate company

  03-10-2024 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland authorities are probing the fees residents are charged to sell retirement villas, following an ABC investigation into the multi-billion-dollar sector.
  
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• Retirement village residents say they have fallen victim to 'unethical' practices. One state government is going to probe the issue

  03-10-2024 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland authorities are probing the fees residents are charged to sell retirement villas, following an ABC investigation into the multi-billion-dollar sector.
  
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• We hacked a popular robot vacuum — and could watch live through its camera

  03-10-2024 20:47 via abc.net.au
  
  The largest home robotics company in the world fails to fix security issues with its Deebot robot vacuums despite being warned about them last year.
  
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• The world's largest home robotics company has a problem – its vacuum cleaners can be hacked from afar

  03-10-2024 20:47 via abc.net.au
  
  The largest home robotics company in the world fails to fix security issues with its Deebot robot vacuums despite being warned about them last year.
  
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• WorkSafe investigates Mitchell Freeway death

  03-10-2024 10:10 via businessnews.com.au
  
  WorkSafe has started an investigation into the death of a worker on an offramp of the Mitchell Freeway this afternoon.
  
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• At Close of Business podcast October 3 2024

  03-10-2024 10:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Isabel Vieira and Mark Beyer discuss a success story in WA's superyacht sector. Plus; Frontier Energy fallout; Mining executive retires and abattoir capacity issues.
  
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• Sierra delisted from ASX

  03-10-2024 09:52 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Outgoing Sierra Rutile finance director Martin Alciaturi has reflected on a whirlwind year for the company, which ceased Australian Securities Exchange trading on Thursday.
  
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• Aussie shares edge higher amid growing Mideast conflict

  03-10-2024 09:42 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The ASX200 has finished 0.1 per cent higher, with attention still focused on the escalating conflict in the Middle East.
  
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• West Erregulla gas plant approved

  03-10-2024 09:41 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state’s peak planning body has approved a $145 million gas plant at Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Energy and John Poynton-chaired Strike Energy’s West Erregulla project.
  
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• Hopes for green hydrogen fading as energy giant Origin walks away from flagship project

  03-10-2024 09:38 via abc.net.au
  
  A project held up as a flagship for Australia's fledgling green hydrogen industry loses its biggest backer as Origin Energy abandons plans for the fuel.
  
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• Citation Resources row continues

  03-10-2024 09:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A dispute relating to Citation Resources, formerly chaired by Peter Landau, has continued with administrators launching a new legal action in the state's highest court.
  
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• Dame Joan Sutherland and 'Little Pattie' Amphlett among the trailblazers recognised at Australian Women in Music Awards

  03-10-2024 09:20 via abc.net.au
  
  With an aim to advance equality in the music industry, winners at this year's Australian Women in Music Awards have been celebrated in Brisbane.
  
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• Perenti avoids second pay strike

  03-10-2024 09:13 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The board of mining services firm Perenti has avoided a second shareholder strike against its executive remuneration report, after tightening its payment policies relating to safety.
  
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• US resources giant looks to sell unfinished workers' camp as lithium price crawls 'along the bottom'

  03-10-2024 09:08 via abc.net.au
  
  A major lithium company is looking to sell a camp with the capacity to accommodate almost 400 workers after cutting jobs and scaling back expansion plans at its refinery south of Perth.
  
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• Gold price boosts Horizon forecast

  03-10-2024 08:41 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Horizon Minerals expects a booming gold price to help it generate $30 million over the next year and a half, after entering production at its Boorara goldmine near Kalgoorlie.
  
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• Processor problems threaten meat diversity

  03-10-2024 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  OPINION: Capacity constraints at South West abattoirs have left paddock-to-plate producers in the lurch.
  
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• Rodda appointed Antipa chair

  03-10-2024 07:53 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Antipa Minerals has appointed Mark Rodda as executive chair, effective immediately.
  
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• Telstra tells angry WA customers to buy more services after week-long mobile, internet outage

  03-10-2024 07:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents in WA's southern Wheatbelt have been left dismayed after Telstra told them to buy more communications services to avoid future blackouts.
  
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• South West abattoir delays service closure

  03-10-2024 06:58 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Paddock-to-plate producers have won a temporary reprieve from the closure of a key abattoir’s custom kill service, as owner Westpork considers a new niche operation.
  
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• Retiring Lee leaves golden legacy

  03-10-2024 06:32 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Goldmining executive Simon Lee will retire in November, after calling time on a prolific multi-decade career of success which has fingerprints across the sector in Australia and abroad.
  
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• WA ‘the place for space’: Dawson

  03-10-2024 06:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Science Minister Stephen Dawson has hailed WA the “place for space” as the State Government launched its six-year space strategy today
  
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• Lithium miner Liontown trims workforce

  03-10-2024 05:27 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Liontown Resources is trimming about 10 per cent of its workforce as the dust settles from construction of Kathleen Valley against a background of weak prices.
  
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• Decmil awarded $61m road contract

  03-10-2024 04:20 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Macmahon Holdings subsidiary told the market this morning it had been awarded the tender for the upgrade of approximately 23 kilometres of Marble Bar Road.
  
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• Maylands childcare attracts record price

  03-10-2024 04:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  HMC Capital sold the near new childcare centre to local investors for more than $7 million, as part its divestment program.
  
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• Analysts warn household gas prices likely to rise as WA encourages more drilling

  03-10-2024 03:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Far from shoring up the state's gas supplies, industry analysts say the WA government's approach incentivises more exports.
  
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• Frontier’s $23m placement collapses

  03-10-2024 03:14 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A Frontier Energy placement to raise more than $23 million has been scrapped, after the solar energy aspirant’s share price plummeted earlier this week.
  
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• Boat builder finds billionaire market

  03-10-2024 02:53 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth company Vikal International has quietly and successfully been building luxury vessels for a very select global market for 30 years.
  
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• Swede surrender a cautionary tale

  03-10-2024 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  OPINION: China’s low-cost manufacturing capacity is a threat to the dreams of battery production in Australia.
  
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• Wall St near flat amid data wait

  03-10-2024 01:52 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The S&P 500 have ended little changed, with technology shares gaining but investors nervous about Middle East tensions and more US labour data due this week.
  
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• Business owners bear brunt of insurance hikes in wake of repeat break-ins

  03-10-2024 01:51 via abc.net.au
  
  A central Queensland business targeted by thieves six times in 10 months is paying double its usual insurance premium despite installing extra security measures. 
  
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