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• Lithium-ion battery fires highest in these Sydney spots

  20-02-2025 23:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Fire and Rescue NSW has revealed an updated count of lithium-ion battery fires across the state so far this year. Here's which Sydney suburbs have the highest rates.
  
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• Fire authorities reveal battery fire hot spots across Sydney

  20-02-2025 23:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Fire and Rescue NSW has revealed an updated count of lithium-ion battery fires across the state so far this year. Here's which Sydney suburbs have the highest rates.
  
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• 'Cocoon' home to be built on site of demolished $45m Sydney house

  20-02-2025 21:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Sydney architect Luigi Rosselli, who will design the house at Tamarama Point, says it was a 'relief' to finally see approval for his design.
  
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• 'Cocoon' home to be built on site of demolished $45 million Sydney house

  20-02-2025 21:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Sydney architect Luigi Rosselli, who will design the house at Tamarama Point, says it was a "relief" to finally receive approval for his design.
  
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• Archaeological dig to take place at site of demolished $45m Sydney home

  20-02-2025 21:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Sydney architect Luigi Rosselli, who will design the house at Tamarama Point, says it was a 'relief' to finally see approval for his design.
  
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• Live: RBA governor says 'job isn't done' on inflation after rate cut

  20-02-2025 21:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market rises in the final session of the week, as Domain receives a $2.65b takeover bid. Reserve Bank officials including Michele Bullock face a parliamentary committee. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.  
  
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• Live: RBA governor Michele Bullock to face questions after rate cut

  20-02-2025 21:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market looks set to rise in the final session of the week, while Walmart weighs on Wall Street. Reserve Bank officials including Michele Bullock will face a parliamentary committee. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: RBA governor Michele Bullock faces questions after rate cut

  20-02-2025 21:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market looks set to rise in the final session of the week, while Walmart weighs on Wall Street. Reserve Bank officials including Michele Bullock faces a parliamentary committee. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: RBA didn't want to be late cutting interest rates, governor says

  20-02-2025 21:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market rises in the final session of the week, as Domain receives a $2.65b takeover bid. Reserve Bank officials including Michele Bullock face a parliamentary committee. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Bendigo Bank passes on rate cut to borrowers, ASX slips

  20-02-2025 21:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market is trading lower in the final session of the week, while Bendigo Bank has become the latest to pass on the RBA's rate cut to borrowers. Follow live.
  
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• Bendigo Bank passes on rate cut to borrowers, ASX slips - as it happened

  20-02-2025 21:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market lost ground on Friday, while Bendigo Bank became the latest to pass on the RBA's rate cut to borrowers. Catch up on the day's financial news and insights from our specialist business reporters on our live blog.
  
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• Underinsurance a 'significant challenge' as value of household items rise

  20-02-2025 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  As parts of Australia clean up from natural disasters, there are concerns more residents are finding themselves underinsured.
  
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• House fire victim warns to check insurance after falling $20,000 short

  20-02-2025 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  As parts of Australia clean up from natural disasters, there are concerns more residents are finding themselves underinsured.
  
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• Investors leaving Australia's 'most renter-friendly' city

  20-02-2025 20:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Canberra is widely considered 'the most renter-friendly' city, but amid constant legislative changes in favour of tenants, that title may be coming at a cost to landlords, with investors leaving the ACT. 
  
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• Canberra 'the most renter-friendly' city to live in — but it comes at a cost

  20-02-2025 20:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Canberra is widely considered 'the most renter-friendly' city, but amid constant legislative changes in favour of tenants, that title may be coming at a cost to landlords, with investors leaving the ACT. 
  
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• Supermarket push to scrap penalty rates opposed by federal government

  20-02-2025 20:23 via abc.net.au
  
  The government makes a rare intervention into a Fair Work case that could see penalty rates scrapped for supermarket and retail workers. 
  
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• Labor looks to take stake in Whyalla steel, with industry's backing

  20-02-2025 20:19 via abc.net.au
  
  The federal government is considering an ownership stake in the teetering Whyalla steelmaker as part of a $2.4 billion taxpayer-funded bailout.
  
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• Industry back's Labor plans for 'pseudo-nationalisation' of Whyalla

  20-02-2025 20:19 via abc.net.au
  
  The federal government is considering an ownership stake in the teetering Whyalla steelmaker as part of a $2.4 billion taxpayer-funded bailout.
  
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• Theatres under pressure as cost of living leads to dwindling audiences

  20-02-2025 20:06 via abc.net.au
  
  It's the busiest time of year for local theatres as Australia's largest arts festival begins. But when the Adelaide Fringe is over, filling seats isn't as easy for the independent arts industry. 
  
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• Fishers fear livelihoods and lives are in danger from bull sharks

  20-02-2025 19:47 via abc.net.au
  
  Many millions of dollars of prime-eating fish are being wasted as the number of bull sharks increase dramatically, an experienced Queensland fisherman says.
  
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• Recreational activity on country's biggest lake banned

  20-02-2025 09:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Visitors who make the trek to Australia's largest salt lake will no longer be able to walk on its dry bed as a new management plan comes into force. 
  But a local recreational sailing club has labelled the ban "a joke" and pledged to continue advocating for access. 
  
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• Aussie shares plunge to five-week low on weak earnings

  20-02-2025 08:16 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The ASX200 finished down 1.2 per cent on its biggest day of earnings season, with heavy losses for the big four banks, Fortescue and Goodman Group.
  
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• Independence play at APIL

  20-02-2025 08:05 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The major WA fund manager has revamped its board to boost its appeal in an increasingly competitive market.
  
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• At Close of Business podcast February 20 2025

  20-02-2025 08:01 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Sam Jones and Mark Beyer discuss the growth of Tattarang. Plus; Fortescue profits halved, IGO slumps on loss and state election coverage.
  
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• WA voters ready to seal PM's fate

  20-02-2025 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  OPINION: The latest poll sounds the alarm for Anthony Albanese, who is increasingly being seen as indecisive.
  
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• WA, QLD fuel Peet's earnings growth

  20-02-2025 07:29 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Peet welcomed price growth across Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland after reporting a 62 per cent jump in group earnings to $46.9 million.
  
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• Nationals pitch insurance relief

  20-02-2025 07:06 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The WA Nationals would offer a $500 rebate to insurance holders in the North West and create a standalone ministry and agency to oversee the region if they win next month’s state election.
  
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• Tattarang forges ahead with diverse plays

  20-02-2025 06:48 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Tattarang’s chief executive has opened up on wins and losses at Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s private company and outlined plans for continued rapid growth.Tattarang is one of the largest, most diverse and arguably least understood private companies in Australia.
  
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• Duratec net profit up 6.1pc

  20-02-2025 06:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Duratec says it is ideally placed to hit its revenue guidance for the 2025 financial year, courtesy of a healthy order book.
  
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• WA govt weighs in on Yindjibarndi fight

  20-02-2025 05:58 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Counsel for the state government claimed Fortescue’s mining would not extinguish the Yindjibarndi people’s native rights in the Pilbara, during a hearing in the Federal Court.
  
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• Sandfire targets injury-free copper mining

  20-02-2025 05:42 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Sandfire boss Brendan Harris says safety is key to the copper miner’s productivity as it targets an injury-free workplace.
  
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• 'Great to be back': Western tourists return to North Korea

  20-02-2025 05:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Tours of Western travellers are due to enter the North Korean border city of Rason today for the first time since borders were closed at the start of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.
  
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• First Western tourists to enter North Korea in five years

  20-02-2025 05:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Tours of Western travellers are due to enter the North Korean border city of Rason today for the first time since borders were closed at the start of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.
  
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• WA's Great Northern Highway set to reopen as flood recedes

  20-02-2025 05:24 via abc.net.au
  
  The key transport route through Western Australia's north will reopen to general traffic on Friday as flooding from severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia continues to drain away.
  
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• WA's Great Northern Highway could reopen by weekend as flood recedes

  20-02-2025 05:24 via abc.net.au
  
  The key transport route through Western Australia's north could reopen to general traffic by the weekend as flooding from severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia continues to drain away.
  
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• WA's Great Northern Highway could reopen by the weekend

  20-02-2025 05:24 via abc.net.au
  
  The key transport route through Western Australia's north could reopen to general traffic by the weekend as flooding from severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia continues to drain away.
  
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• CME praises Whyalla move, says WA needs more

  20-02-2025 05:20 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state’s peak resources lobby group has welcomed the federal governments new green iron funding package but urged more focus on WA as the “sensible” choice for green iron industries.
  
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• Labor plans Western Power factories

  20-02-2025 05:10 via businessnews.com.au
  
  WA Labor plans to spend $75 million establishing two Western Power factories to manufacture equipment such as power poles and power lines in tandem with private industry.
  
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• Floreat surf club build in limbo

  20-02-2025 04:19 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The multi-million-dollar upgrade of a western suburbs surf life saving club has been shelved after the contractor was placed in liquidation.
  
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• Court pushes for Fortescue tech row trial

  20-02-2025 03:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Fortescue and its former employees have been urged to progress a dispute over alleged misuse of the Andrew Forrest-led company’s green iron technology information.
  
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• Australians' telco complaints have surged. These are the key gripes

  20-02-2025 03:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The Telecommunications Ombudsman received more than 15,000 complaints from October to December, a 13 per cent increase on the previous quarter.
  
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• 3G shutdown drives surge in telco complaints

  20-02-2025 03:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The Telecommunications Ombudsman received more than 15,000 complaints from October to December, a 13 per cent increase on the previous quarter.
  
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• Rio tightens belt on Pilbara mines

  20-02-2025 03:46 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Rio Tinto has foreshadowed a tightening of the purse strings in the Pilbara to account for softening revenue out of its sprawling iron ore operations.
  
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• Record participation as unemployment rises

  20-02-2025 03:43 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Eleven MCGs – or 18 Optus Stadiums – worth of jobs have been created by the Albanese government, according to Murray Watt, as new statistics reveal a record high participation rate.
  
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• Billions to secure future for struggling steelworks

  20-02-2025 03:33 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A $2.4 billion government package will keep Whyalla's steelworks running and its debts paid while a new owner is found, after it was placed in administration.
  
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• Perth-Busselton flights announced

  20-02-2025 03:22 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Qantas has launched a new flight route between Perth and Busselton that will take off in June, with flights available three days per week.
  
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• Tasmanian salmon industry grapples with mass die-off

  20-02-2025 02:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Less than a week ago, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised to maintain salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour. Down the other end of the state, the industry is facing fights on multiple fronts.
  
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• Wesfarmers keeps faith in lithium

  20-02-2025 02:13 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Wesfarmers has reported a small rise in interim profit from its diverse retail and industrial operations while maintaining plans to invest heavily in the depressed lithium sector.
  
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• Wyloo to take Yangibana stake

  20-02-2025 02:08 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Wyloo Metals plans take a majority stake in the Yangibana rare earths project, in a move which would cancel out millions owed to it by Hastings Technology Metals.
  
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• PM says Whyalla's $2.4 billion package will ensure 'your kids will have a job'

  20-02-2025 01:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tells Whyalla steelworkers a $2.4 billion support package for the city will ensure "your kids will have a job in the future".
  
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