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• Critical adds golden string to Canadian lithium bow

  19-08-2026 04:13 via smh.com.au
  
  Critical Resources has added a gold target to its Mavis Lake lithium project in Canada, staking ground over a historic 9.17g/t gold drill hit.
  
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• DXN inks $4.1m Melbourne Airport edge data centre deal

  19-08-2026 06:32 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Modular data centre company DXN Limited has inked a $4.1 million deal to install an edge data centre at Melbourne Airport.
  
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• Telstra suspends Swans players from brand ambassador program

  19-08-2026 06:25 via smh.com.au
  
  The telco said it was “deeply concerned” by the allegations and would make final decisions on its sponsorships once the police investigation was complete.
  
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• Green light for $28m Cockburn shopping centre

  19-08-2026 06:20 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The rapidly growing suburb is set for another neighbourhood centre following approval of the project from planning authorities.
  
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• Wyatt deals with suggestion he 'sold out'

  19-08-2026 05:35 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Woodside, Rio Tinto, Crown and West Coast Eagles board member Ben Wyatt has told a business audience how he deals with accusations he had “sold out” his Aboriginal heritage by joining corporate Australia.
  
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• Viking lights up visual tungsten in drilling at historic Nevada mine

  19-08-2026 05:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Viking Mines has hit multiple wide zones of visual tungsten mineralisation in drilling from its Linka project in Nevada, the first drilling at the project in 40 years.
  
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• 'Liar loans' leave property market open to criminal exploitation

  19-08-2026 05:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property, largely in Sydney, has been bought by people who have submitted fake incomes statements and other fraudulent documents to support their borrowing.
  
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• Public sector leads wage growth for sixth consecutive quarter

  19-08-2026 04:57 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Public sector wage growth has outpaced the private sector for the sixth consecutive quarter.
  
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• Lycopodium posts $40.2m net profit

  19-08-2026 04:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Lycopodium shares rose by more than 10 per cent early on Wednesday to a new company high, following the release of their FY26 results.
  
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• ‘The office is primary’: Real estate boss defends end of hybrid work

  19-08-2026 04:25 via smh.com.au
  
  The global company with 1200 Australian staff will move from expecting office attendance three days a week to five days a week as a default.
  
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• Hotel chain Quest investigating customer data breach

  19-08-2026 04:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Quest says the compromised data includes customers' full names, email addresses and other contact details.
  
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• Consumer watchdog bares teeth at dodgy digital sellers

  19-08-2026 03:50 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The national consumer watchdog has vowed to take action against businesses that "optimise" false or manipulative practices through social media and online marketplaces.
  
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• China’s breakneck plan to safeguard its future

  19-08-2026 03:35 via smh.com.au
  
  China has radically reshaped the world of transport and energy. Now it is using the same playbook to try to take control of the world’s food supply.
  
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• ASX dips in early trade after slump in AI stocks sends down Wall Street

  19-08-2026 02:22 via smh.com.au
  
  The Australian sharemarket has opened lower amid a flurry of corporate results, as a selloff in chipmakers and growing anxiety about the stalemate in the Iran war sent stocks lower on Wall Street overnight.
  
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• Summit bullish on modular

  19-08-2026 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The home builder has spent about $17 million on the build method in recent years and doubled the capacity of its modular facility.
  
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• Rabobank finds strong case for WA canola crushing industry

  19-08-2026 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Western Australia would be the best place in the nation to build Australian canola processing capacity, according to fresh research from Rabobank.
  
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• Fortescue produces first hot metal from Pilbara green iron project

  19-08-2026 01:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Hot metal has been produced for the first time in two decades in the Pilbara at Fortescue's Christmas Creek site.
  
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• Tech sell off drags Wall St down as bond yields climb

  19-08-2026 01:13 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Wall Street's main indices have closed lower, with semiconductors ‌leading technology declines as Middle East uncertainty pushed bond yields to multiyear peaks, feeding concerns about borrowing costs and inflation.
  
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• ASX set to dip, Wall Street slumps as AI stocks fall

  18-08-2026 21:19 via smh.com.au
  
  Wall Street is pulling further from its all-time high as AI stocks get back to sinking.
  
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• Tasmania inquiry to weigh costs, benefits of new AI data centres

  18-08-2026 21:18 via abc.net.au
  
  With communities around the world grappling with the spread of AI data centres, the Tasmanian Greens have set up an inquiry to examine "what, if any, economic benefit" they will bring to the state.
  
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• Inquiry to examine 'what, if any' benefits data centres will bring

  18-08-2026 21:18 via abc.net.au
  
  With communities around the world grappling with the spread of AI data centres, the Tasmanian Greens have set up an inquiry to examine "what, if any, economic benefit" they will bring to the state.
  
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• It’s my job to raise a topic which neither side of politics will mention

  18-08-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  These days no one mentions the budget deficit. But they should.
  
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• It’s my job to raise a topic neither side of politics will mention

  18-08-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  These days no one mentions the budget deficit. But they should.
  
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• Insurers are using your race and religion to set prices. Is it discriminatory?

  18-08-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Legal experts warn insurers using data about the race, religion and grocery habits of suburbs where their customers live could breach discriminations laws.
  
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• 'It was devastating': Superannuation lost to dodgy switching schemes

  18-08-2026 16:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Unlicensed telemarketers who cold call and make unsolicited approaches to consumers to convince them to switch their super will be banned under long-awaited reforms.
  
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• Government to crack down on super switching schemes

  18-08-2026 16:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Unlicensed telemarketers that cold call and make unsolicited approaches to consumers to convince them to switch their super will be banned under long-awaited reforms.
  
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• Zenith wins Northern Endeavour decomissioning contract

  18-08-2026 15:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Scottish company Zenith Energy Group has been appointed lead contractor for phase 2 of the $1 billion-plus Northern Endeavour decommissioning program off WA's northern coast.
  
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• Sick of AI slop? So are the tech giants

  18-08-2026 11:29 via smh.com.au
  
  Silicon Valley wants to take out the trash: Swamped by low-quality content first made possible by their own AI tools, Google, Spotify, LinkedIn and others are trying to dig themselves out of their digital sewage pile.
  
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• Queensland Rail reaches deal with train controllers

  18-08-2026 11:05 via abc.net.au
  
  The Fair Work Commission has overseen bargaining negotiations since May, after six enterprise agreements between Queensland Rail and seven unions expired earlier this year.
  
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• Construction worker confronted by men linked to bikie gang, CFMEU inquiry hears

  18-08-2026 09:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland's CFMEU inquiry has heard three Melbourne men linked to the Comancheros bikie gang flew to Brisbane before one allegedly threatened a construction worker at a major government project.
  
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