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• Live: Reserve Bank cuts interest rates to 3.85% from 4.1%

  19-05-2025 23:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Some relief is in sight for home loan borrowers with the Reserve Bank cutting interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point, to 3.85 per cent. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: RBA interest rate cut considered a near certainty

  19-05-2025 23:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Some relief is in sight for home loan borrowers, with the Reserve Bank to deliver its interest rates decision at 2:30pm AEST. Economist forecasts and financial markets are strongly pointing to a 0.25 percentage point cut. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: RBA cuts interest rates to 3.85%, lowest level since May 2023

  19-05-2025 23:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Some relief is in sight for home loan borrowers with the Reserve Bank cutting interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point, to 3.85 per cent. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• 'Door wide open' for more rate cuts, ASX rises as Aussie dollar falls

  19-05-2025 23:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Markets are betting on further cuts to the cash rate to come, after the Reserve Bank cut interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point, to 3.85 per cent.
  
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• Rules around building a second dwelling on a residential block in Canberra could be about to change

  19-05-2025 22:47 via abc.net.au
  
  The ACT government signals it's looking at zoning changes to enable construction of more "missing middle" housing — such as townhouses, duplexes, terrace houses, and small apartment buildings.
  
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• Rules around building a second dwelling on a residential block could be about to change

  19-05-2025 22:47 via abc.net.au
  
  The ACT government signals it's looking at zoning changes to enable construction of more "missing middle" housing — such as townhouses, duplexes, terrace houses, and small apartment buildings.
  
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• Building a second dwelling on a residential Canberra block could soon be easier

  19-05-2025 22:47 via abc.net.au
  
  The ACT government signals it's looking at zoning changes to enable construction of more "missing middle" housing — such as townhouses, duplexes, terrace houses, and small apartment buildings.
  
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• Locals fear for jobs after Liberty Bell Bay limits operations

  19-05-2025 22:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Liberty Bell Bay employs more than 250 full-time workers, mostly from the George Town area. Locals say they are worried about the impact of job losses as the smelter announces it's limiting operations.
  
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• 'George Town struggles as it is': Smelter work pause worries locals

  19-05-2025 22:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Liberty Bell Bay employs more than 250 full-time workers, mostly from the George Town area. Locals say they are worried about the impact of job losses as the smelter announces it's limiting operations.
  
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• Ombudsman warns telcos of 'life-threatening situations' after 3G shutdown

  19-05-2025 22:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Rural residents and small businesses are lodging complaints about their mobile phones dropping out and poor internet services, figures from the Telecommunications Ombudsman show. 
  
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• Ombudsman warns of 'life-threatening situations' after 3G shutdown

  19-05-2025 22:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Rural residents and small businesses are lodging complaints about their mobile phones dropping out and poor internet services, figures from the Telecommunications Ombudsman show. 
  
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• UK and EU announce first major economic and military deal since Brexit

  19-05-2025 21:25 via abc.net.au
  
  The deal will open up the UK to billions of euros in defence financing, but has been criticised by the British opposition as backtracking on Brexit. 
  
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• Experts urge govt to cut spending as budget includes $634m for hospitals

  19-05-2025 21:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Victoria's budget will see extra money funnelled into the state's troubled healthcare system in what the government is spruiking as a record spend. Despite promising an operating surplus, experts have warned years of rising debt is still a threat to the bottom line.
  
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• Inside the nondescript concrete cubes that keep the world online

  19-05-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Data centres whirr away, critical to so much of our daily lives, yet they don't often make the headlines. But that is starting to change.
  
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• Vale Andrew Buckeridge

  19-05-2025 10:02 via businessnews.com.au
  Andrew Buckeridge, an heir to part of the immense construction fortune generated by BGC Australia, has died at the age of 62.
  
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• At Close of Business podcast May 19 2025

  19-05-2025 09:46 via businessnews.com.au
  Koby Cooke and Mark Pownall discuss Graham Hardie’s hospitality and entertainment empire.
  
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• Six new AusPost distribution sites announced for regional NSW

  19-05-2025 09:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia Post will expand its distribution sites across regional and rural communities in NSW to meet the growing demand from online shopping.
  
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• Cook ready for Watt, talks EDO funds

  19-05-2025 09:18 via businessnews.com.au
  Roger Cook has labelled mooted duplication in state and federal environment laws as one of “the challenges of federation”, as he prepares to meet with Environment Minister Murray Watt.
  
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• US debt gloom looms as Aussie shares break winning run

  19-05-2025 09:17 via businessnews.com.au
  Australian shares have snapped an eight-session winning streak in the lead up to the Reserve Bank decision on interest rates.
  
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• Court settles costs dispute over Scaffidi’s property company administration

  19-05-2025 09:11 via businessnews.com.au
  The Supreme Court has settled a dispute relating to administration costs over the property company owned by former City of Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi and her husband.
  
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• AC Milan return to Perth in July

  19-05-2025 09:00 via businessnews.com.au
  The state government has continued its push in bringing major international events to Perth.
  
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• Woollahra founder Christopher Schmid breaks into new territory

  19-05-2025 08:30 via businessnews.com.au
  This year's First Amongst Equals winner has built a 100 per cent Aboriginal-owned business in a new sector.
  
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• Opinion: Houses don’t build themselves

  19-05-2025 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  OPINION: Our political leaders are looking in the wrong direction for solutions to the nation’s housing crisis.
  
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• Developer submits $20m Inglewood apartments proposal to WAPC

  19-05-2025 07:57 via businessnews.com.au
  A $20 million proposal to add dozens of apartments to Inglewood has been submitted to the state’s peak planning body.
  
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• Stricken ship dropped anchors to avoid 'catastrophic' oil spill: report

  19-05-2025 07:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Report identifies failings as bulk carrier MV Portland Bay, carrying 950 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, lost power in extreme weather and drifted towards Royal National Park cliffs, north of Sydney, in 2022.
  
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• White Cliff taps investors for $14.4m

  19-05-2025 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  White Cliff Minerals has announced plans to raise $14.4 million in a bid to fast-track drilling activities at its Rae copper project in Canada.
  
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• Opinion: Human dimension to automation push

  19-05-2025 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  OPINION: A framework detailed in 2017 is just as valid today in terms of automation in the workplace.
  
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• Iconic sailing ship Leeuwin embarks on journey for major repairs

  19-05-2025 06:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Nine months after being struck by a container ship at Fremantle Port and left extensively damaged, the STS Leeuwin II travels south to undergo its restoration.
  
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• Kidman honoured at Cannes for championing female directors

  19-05-2025 05:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Nicole Kidman has received an award at the Cannes Film Festival honouring groundbreaking women both on and off the screen.
  
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• Trump tariffs, ore price cited as Tasmanian smelter announces 'limited operations'

  19-05-2025 04:48 via abc.net.au
  
  One of the biggest industrial manufacturing employers in Tasmania's north says a lack of ore supply and US tariffs have played a part in a decision to pause smelter operations.
  
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• Energy giant apologises to customers in 'greenwashing' settlement

  19-05-2025 03:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy giant acknowledges "legitimate concerns" in apology over its program spruiking carbon offsetting to thousands of households.
  
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