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• At Close of Business podcast January 16 2025

  16-01-2025 08:46 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Senior figures exit Tattarang; Strike Energy boss resigns; WA's employment statistics; and rainfall, approvals impact Rio Tinto.
  
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• Rare photos found in attic shed light on Indigenous rights movement

  02-09-2026 00:01 via abc.net.au
  
  They waited in a Fremantle attic for decades. Now an anthropologist's snapshots of remote Australian history are about to see the light of day.
  
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• NSW premier 'serious' about Indian airline joining Western Sydney Airport

  01-09-2026 23:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Chris Minns met Air India representatives in New Delhi on Tuesday night, however no formal agreement has been reached.
  
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• Indian airline agreement with Western Sydney Airport still up in the air

  01-09-2026 23:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Chris Minns met Air India representatives in New Delhi on Tuesday night, however no formal agreement has been reached.
  
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• Element Zero awarded $26m federal govt grant to scale up green iron project

  01-09-2026 23:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Western Australian green iron hopeful Element Zero has won a $26 million federal government grant to expand its pilot production facility in Perth.
  
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• Midnight power raid by big batteries in regulator’s crosshairs

  01-09-2026 22:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Batteries have been hailed as an antidote to price pain but strange charging behaviour in WA has pushed the market higher. Now the regulator is preparing to intervene.
  
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• Big batteries' midnight power raid now in regulator's crosshairs

  01-09-2026 22:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Batteries have been hailed as an antidote to price pain but strange charging behaviour in WA has pushed the market higher. Now the regulator is preparing to intervene.
  
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• Big batteries’ midnight power raid now in regulator’s crosshairs

  01-09-2026 22:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Batteries have been hailed as an antidote to price pain but strange charging behaviour in WA has pushed the market higher. Now the regulator is preparing to intervene.
  
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• Bank of America vice president killed in Times Square stabbing

  01-09-2026 21:56 via smh.com.au
  
  Erin Piacenti died after an attack during afternoon peak hour in Manhattan that injured another victim and left the suspect dead.
  
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• AI boom could hit housing pipeline as worker shortage grows

  01-09-2026 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  A government-established jobs and skills commission is calling on urgent action to add thousands of skilled tradespeople to the workforce and address poaching across projects.
  
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• Former UTAS executive alleges 'smear campaign' after she reported her relationship

  01-09-2026 21:26 via abc.net.au
  
  A former senior HR executive at the University of Tasmania alleges the institution mishandled her conflict-of-interest disclosure about a relationship she had formed with another executive.
  
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• Former UTAS exec alleges 'smear campaign' after reporting relationship

  01-09-2026 21:26 via abc.net.au
  
  A former senior HR executive at the University of Tasmania alleges the institution mishandled her conflict-of-interest disclosure about a relationship she had formed with another executive.
  
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• ASX set to slump as Wall Street falls on higher oil prices, yields

  01-09-2026 21:18 via smh.com.au
  
  Stocks fell and oil prices continued to climb following another round of US military strikes on Iran, stoking worries about stubbornly high inflation.
  
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• Do our pollies really want a more ‘affordable’ housing market? We’re about to find out

  01-09-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  If you force them to choose, politicians will always go for rising rather than falling house prices. Why? Arithmetic.
  
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• ‘Absurd’: CBA slugged 13 years of fees for inactive card

  01-09-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Staff were unable to identify the bank as the merchant responsible for charging years of fees, including those for a card that had been returned to sender and destroyed.
  
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• Social media algorithm opt-in would curb 'manosphere', says advocate

  01-09-2026 20:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Consent advocate Chanel Contos wants Australians to be able to opt out of algorithm-driven content.
  
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• 76yo loses retirement savings as granny flat builder collapses

  01-09-2026 10:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Customers detail their "heartbreaking" financial losses after the collapse of Bella Modular, as a liquidator is appointed to see if any money can be clawed back for creditors.
  
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• Tests of an alternative market

  01-09-2026 09:57 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The risks and rewards of private credit in the property sector have been thrust into the spotlight.
  
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• Canva account at centre of legal fight over employee privacy

  01-09-2026 09:53 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia’s new privacy laws are already playing a major role in an array of disputes, including one about employment.
  
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• Aussie shares wobble as inflation fears loom large

  01-09-2026 09:51 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australian shares have ended the day slightly lower, after resurgent oil prices stoked concerns around inflation and interest rates.
  
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• WA risking $500b infrastructure bottleneck amid 'white tape' crisis, former planning chief warns

  01-09-2026 09:50 via businessnews.com.au
  
  WA risks squandering an economic boom unless industry and government dismantle internal bureaucracy, end adversarial habits and forge deeper delivery partnerships, former Infrastructure WA chair Nicole Lockwood has warned.
  
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• Consumer Protection warns of action against Bella Modular

  01-09-2026 09:49 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Consumer Protection is prepared to take enforcement action against now-collapsed Bella Modular if necessary after the modular home and granny flat builder collapsed.
  
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• At Close of Business podcast September 1 2026

  01-09-2026 09:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Claire Tyrrell speaks to Ella Loneragan about the risks and rewards of private credit within the property sector.
  
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• Inquiry slams years of government failure before rushed fishing ban

  01-09-2026 09:32 via abc.net.au
  
  A lower house committee has scrutinised the Tasmanian government's decision to ban people from fishing sand flathead across a large part of the state's south. It found the government failed to properly manage the species for years, before rushing through the ban without proper consultation.
  
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• Court rejects Allen Caratti’s bid to block inquiry over debt to Reliance

  01-09-2026 09:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A WA court has rejected Allen Caratti's bid to shelve an inquiry despite the property mogul's claims he has secured financing arrangements to pay off a judgment debt.
  
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• Perth Festival chair Ben Wyatt addresses workplace culture

  01-09-2026 09:29 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Ben Wyatt has addressed allegations of a ‘declining' workplace culture at Perth Festival, with the chair of the major arts organisation chalking the claims up to a restructure ruffling feathers.
  
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• Brisbane's ferry workers to go on strike during Riverfire

  01-09-2026 09:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Brisbane ferry workers have been undertaking intermittent industrial action since July 30, with pay negotiations between the Maritime Union of Australia and RiverCity Ferries stalling.
  
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• Crackdown on alleged misuse of housing contract sunset clauses in SA

  01-09-2026 09:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Legislation to stop homebuyers being left high and dry by developers misusing sunset clauses in contracts will soon be introduced to SA parliament, the state government says.
  
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• ASX falls as oil price fuels inflation and rate hike fears, bond yields spike

  01-09-2026 09:05 via smh.com.au
  
  The Australian sharemarket fell in its first session of spring, with investors alarmed by the rising price of oil after the US launched its first military action in a month against Iran.
  
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• We should all want to be YIMBYs. Shame the industry makes it so hard

  01-09-2026 09:04 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia has never needed property developers more urgently. Unfortunately, few have covered themselves in glory of late.
  
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