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• Live: Budget surplus predicted to exceed $4.2 billion, Wall Street gains on strong economic data

  27-06-2023 23:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the budget surplus could exceed $4.2 billion, and inflation is tipped to cool ahead of RBA meeting. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• At Close of Business podcast June 18 2026

  18-06-2026 09:50 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Nadia Budihardjo and Ella Loneragan discuss the state government's aim to boost the connection between VET and university pathways in higher education.
  
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• BHP cops another cost blowout on Canadian potash project

  18-06-2026 09:44 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The cost of BHP's flagship potash project in Canada has blown out by another US$2 billion on the back of a two-year building delay.
  
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• Mint Renewables flags battery energy storage in Kojonup

  18-06-2026 09:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Victoria-based Mint Renewables has lodged a proposal in Western Australia, over a battery storage project in the Shire of Kojonup.
  
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• Aussie shares snap four-day win streak as miners weigh

  18-06-2026 09:12 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's share market has broken a four-session winning streak, after US interest rate worries hit risk sentiment, despite oil prices continuing their decline.
  
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• Migrant intake dips as anti-immigration voices swell

  18-06-2026 09:03 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Net overseas migration is slowly falling, but the figures remain above Labor's forecasts and the dramatic cuts demanded by the coalition and One Nation.
  
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• Ex-Lindian Resources chair sues for shares worth $10m

  18-06-2026 09:03 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A former chair of Lindian Resources has launched a new legal action suing the ASX-listed rare earths developer over shares worth around $10 million.
  
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• Mining industry boosts Indigenous contractors

  18-06-2026 08:50 via businessnews.com.au
  
  WA's big miners have substantially boosted their spending with Indigenous suppliers.
  
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• Universal Constructions wins $33m primary school contract

  18-06-2026 08:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Universal Constructions has booked a $33 million contract with the state government over a new primary school.
  
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• Federal government cuts grants to native title representative bodies

  18-06-2026 08:19 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Project proponents have been warned of approval delays after the federal government cut grants to native title representatives by as much as 40 per cent.
  
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• Zempilas not prepared to interpret Hanson 'monoculture' speech

  18-06-2026 07:51 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Liberal leader Basil Zempilas says it's not for him to interpret “what Pauline Hanson may, or may not, have meant” when she promised to turn Australia into a “monoculture” and abolish multiculturism at her National Press Club address on Wednesday.
  
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• Opinion: Trust still matters, PM, look at the polls

  18-06-2026 07:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  OPINION: If the One Nation factor is real, Labor and Liberal parties should be embarrassed.
  
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• Native title must be seen as a property right, heritage review author Glen Kelly tells miners

  18-06-2026 06:59 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The resources industry must view native title as a property right if it wants to remove barriers impeding project approvals, the author of a landmark heritage review says.
  
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• Report into V8 track splits down party lines

  18-06-2026 06:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A committee report has criticised the government over the Burswood race track plan. But not all of the committee agreed.
  
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• Brookfield to sell Multiplex in US$650m deal to Japanese construction major

  18-06-2026 06:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Canadian asset manager Brookfield has struck a deal to sell Perth-founded Multiplex Global to Japanese construction heavyweight Obayashi Corporation for US$650 million.
  
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• Resource exploration companies left out of capital gains tax exemptions

  18-06-2026 06:26 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The federal government has left resource exploration companies out of a carve-out from its controversial capital gains tax changes.
  
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• UWA holds spot in global university rankings

  18-06-2026 06:12 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state's oldest university has held on to its ranking on a top universities' list around the world, but others have slipped.
  
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• Warning sounded over Australia as global data centre hotspot

  18-06-2026 06:02 via abc.net.au
  
  As data centres rapidly come online to meet demand, governments are being urged to ensure that development does not outpace adequate planning.
  
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• Warning over Australia's ambitions to be global data centre hotspot

  18-06-2026 06:02 via abc.net.au
  
  As data centres rapidly come online to meet demand, governments are urged to ensure development does not outpace adequate planning.
  
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• Is Australia prepared for the data centre boom?

  18-06-2026 06:02 via abc.net.au
  
  As data centres rapidly come online to meet demand, governments are being urged to ensure that development does not outpace adequate planning.
  
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• Global analysis prompts data centre planning warning

  18-06-2026 06:02 via abc.net.au
  
  As data centres rapidly come online to meet demand, governments are being urged to ensure that development does not outpace adequate planning.
  
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• The White House is using anime as propaganda. Fans in Japan hate it

  18-06-2026 05:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Both fans and the Japanese government push back after a series of Trump administration posts using images from popular anime and manga.
  
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• Fans push back against Trump administration's anime posts

  18-06-2026 05:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Both fans and the Japanese government push back after a series of Trump administration posts using images from popular anime and manga.
  
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• Hope for hundreds of miners after colliery $434 million in debt sold

  18-06-2026 05:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Hundreds of former Tahmoor miners could soon return to jobs close to home after liquidators announced the sale of the mine to a consortium led by Golden Energy and Resources and M Resources.
  
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• Proposed data centre faces scrutiny over water and environmental risks

  18-06-2026 05:03 via abc.net.au
  
  A massive data centre proposed for SA faces scrutiny over water and environmental risks. 
  
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• Locals fear massive data centre will use water from 'stressed' River Murray

  18-06-2026 05:03 via abc.net.au
  
  A massive data centre proposed for SA faces scrutiny over water and environmental risks. 
  
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• United VET, uni system talks ongoing

  18-06-2026 04:46 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A stronger connection between vocational training and traditional tertiary pathways in education remains a focus.
  
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• Kyle Sandilands's $12m settlement won't deter Jackie O's legal battle

  18-06-2026 03:35 via abc.net.au
  
  A legal battle between Jackie "O" Henderson and ARN Media appears still headed for an October trial after her former co-host Kyle Sandilands settled his own court case against the company.
  
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• Jackie O and ARN Media legal battle continues after Sandilands's settlement

  18-06-2026 03:35 via abc.net.au
  
  A legal battle between Jackie "O" Henderson and ARN Media appears still headed for an October trial after her former co-host Kyle Sandilands settled his own court case against the company.
  
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• Breaking: Albanese, Chalmers unveil capital gains carve-outs for small businesses, startups

  18-06-2026 03:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The federal government has consulted with small businesses and startups over contentious elements of its budget tax proposal.
  
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