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• Electoral commissioner resigns

  02-12-2025 14:13 via businessnews.com.au
  Western Australia's electoral commissioner Robert Kennedy has formally resigned, almost nine months since the controversial 2025 state election.
  
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• Bathla's books show company was $736m out

  18-09-2026 22:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The ABC understands the company's bank accounts had "not been reconciled for some time" and records may contain about $736 million in overstated inter-company receivables and payables.
   
  
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• The rice industry is the 'backbone' of this small town, but it's struggling

  18-09-2026 21:53 via abc.net.au
  
  It's just over a month since Australia's largest rice processor, SunRice, laid-off nearly 80 workers in southern NSW and already some people are struggling to pay rent.
  
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• EVs are taking over as Australians flee the bowser. What happens next?

  18-09-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  EVs now make up a quarter of new car sales in Australia as fuel prices soar. The rollout of public chargers, parts warehouses and technicians now must keep pace.
  
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• Warren Buffett, 96, steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman

  18-09-2026 12:54 via smh.com.au
  
  Buffett is stepping down after as the company’s chairman after 56 years and will be replaced by his son.
  
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• Adelaide workers expected to bear brunt of Bendigo Bank cuts

  18-09-2026 11:40 via abc.net.au
  
  A union says 137 workers at the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank are slated for redundancy as part of an ongoing restructure, but the company says its plans are "yet to be finalised". 
  
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• The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy

  18-09-2026 10:20 via smh.com.au
  
  A perfect storm has formed as four powerful threats escalate and feed on each other. We seem to be in no fit state to handle the challenge.
  
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• Alan Jones trial hears of 'sharp shift' in athlete's relationship with him

  18-09-2026 10:03 via abc.net.au
  
  A friend of prominent athlete 'Complainant M' told police he noticed a "sharp shift" in the athlete's relationship with broadcaster Alan Jones around the time of an alleged assault.
  
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• At Close of Business podcast September 18 2026

  18-09-2026 09:18 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Gary Adshead and Nadia Budihardjo discuss some ideas that came out of a recent local government convention.
  
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• Aussie shares limp across the line to end volatile week

  18-09-2026 09:11 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australian shares have had a flat final session to end the week slightly lower, as the Iran war and a tighter outlook for global interest rates kept investors subdued.
  
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• Parker Group to reclaim The Royal Hotel in Perth CBD

  18-09-2026 09:10 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Parties have executed a deed to return The Royal Hotel in Perth to Parker Group's hands, which includes a $850,000 fund from the John Parker-led hospitality business.
  
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• ASX Runners of the Week: Latrobe, Curvebeam, Arrow & Sultan

  18-09-2026 09:08 via smh.com.au
  
  The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is... Latrobe Magnesium, which soared after unveiling a US$15 million letter of support for its planned magnesium metal plant in South Carolina, USA.
  
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• Forrestania monster newsflow lands four WA gold project prefeasibility studies

  18-09-2026 08:36 via smh.com.au
  
  Forrestania Resources has unleashed four prefeasibility studies across its WA gold portfolio, including maiden ore reserves that will sharpen its path to production.
  
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• Bruce victims on their own as State seeks to drop prosecution

  18-09-2026 08:33 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Stephen Bruce victim claims may fall over as the state looks to abandon sentencing of the investment promoter who is believed to have died in a July car crash.
  
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• HBF profit slips despite membership record

  18-09-2026 08:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's second-largest not-for-profit health fund, HBF, has delivered a net profit after tax of $128.2 million for the year, supported by a growing national footprint.
  
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• GenOffGrid launches capital raise

  18-09-2026 08:28 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Privately-owned, Broome-founded microgrid firm GenOffGrid will seek to generate a figure understood to be around $10-15 million through an off-market capital raise.
  
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• Sandy Anghie’s PDW to return in 2027

  18-09-2026 08:26 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth Design Week will return for a fifth year in 2027, with an even bigger program to celebrate the industry in Western Australia.
  
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• UWA Mumbai opens its doors

  18-09-2026 08:25 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The University of Western Australia has launched its first international campus, opening in Mumbai in a move Roger Cook hailed as a step for WA-India relations.
  
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• Green light for $240m Kojonup battery

  18-09-2026 08:15 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A panel has approved a $240 million proposal to build a battery energy storage system in the Great Southern region.
  
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• Reserve Bank’s blunt warning just days before next interest rates decision

  18-09-2026 08:11 via smh.com.au
  
  Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock said inflation in Australia was “too high” as she prepares to consider lifting interest rates for the fourth time this year.
  
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• Queensland Rail network to return to normal after pay agreement reached

  18-09-2026 08:07 via abc.net.au
  
  A long-running pay dispute between Queensland Rail and seven unions has ended with an agreement, following months of delays for commuters.
  
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• Rate hike expectations firm on RBA warning of higher inflation risks

  18-09-2026 08:06 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The odds of a September rate hike have increased after the Reserve Bank of Australia warned that the inflation outlook had deteriorated amid soaring fuel prices from the Middle East conflict.
  
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• Forrestania told to pay Zenith shareholder legal costs

  18-09-2026 08:03 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Takeovers Panel has directed Forrestania Resources to pay $150,000 worth of legal costs of two shareholders in takeover target Zenith Minerals.
  
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• Anti-gambling register firm defends industry ties amid debt and tax woes

  18-09-2026 08:01 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia’s gambling self-exclusion register is clouded by controversy as its operator battles conflict of interest claims and severe financial woes.
  
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• ‘Sucking money out of WA’: Saffioti slams GST recommendations

  18-09-2026 07:43 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Treasurer Rita Saffioti says WA punches above its weight economically while other states view it as a ‘cash cow' in defending the current GST share in a Productivity Commission public hearing.
  
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• ‘Sucking money out of WA’: Saffioti defends GST share

  18-09-2026 07:43 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Treasurer Rita Saffioti says WA punches above its weight economically while other states view it as a ‘cash cow' in defending the GST share in a Productivity Commission public hearing.
  
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• Opinion: ‘Approved’ is not the same as ‘safe’

  18-09-2026 07:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  OPINION: Well-resourced complainants can make life difficult for hospo owners.
  
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• Stone the crows! Popular north shore watering hole to close

  18-09-2026 07:00 via smh.com.au
  
  One of the lower north shore’s best-known watering holes, the Stoned Crow, is closing its doors.
  
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• Late rain puts WA on course for another big crop

  18-09-2026 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Western Australian farmers are eyeing off another 20-million-tonne-plus crop despite low or patchy rain throughout parts of the grain belt this season.
  
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• Migration policy fails to ease concern for harvest workers, station stay staff

  18-09-2026 06:39 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Immigration officials have been urged to process harvest worker visas immediately to ensure farmers can staff their operations when they begin taking their crops off from next week.
  
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