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• Pindari’s path to stronger communities

  16-12-2025 04:05 via businessnews.com.au
  Pilbara-founded contractor is expanding its cultural impact and service capability across the state.
  
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• Victorian government consults with administrators of collapsed security firm

  24-12-2025 08:19 via abc.net.au
  
  The Victorian government has confirmed it is consulting with the administrators of a collapsed Melbourne-based security firm as 1,700 jobs hang in the balance. 
  
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• Peeled or whole? How we buy prawns reveals a growing generational divide

  23-12-2025 23:28 via abc.net.au
  
  New research shows younger Aussies prefer to save time and mess by buying pre-peeled prawns over the festive season.
  
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• Peeled or whole? How the way Australians buy prawns is revealing a growing generational divide

  23-12-2025 23:28 via abc.net.au
  
  New research shows younger Aussies prefer to save time and mess by buying pre-peeled prawns over the festive season.
  
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• Regional communities pull together amid cost of living pressures

  23-12-2025 22:59 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA Council of Social Services has found single-parent families are falling short of covering the cost of basics by $90 a week, while the shortfall for renting pensioners is $70. 
  
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• 150-year-old newspaper with 95yo editor gets new owner

  23-12-2025 20:59 via abc.net.au
  
  The Buloke Times, the "heartbeat of the community", has a new owner after being in one family's hands for more than a century.
  
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• Australian businessman held without charge in Vietnamese jail

  23-12-2025 20:21 via abc.net.au
  
  A high-flying Australian financier accused of swindling a struggling Vietnamese petroleum trading company has been languishing in a Ho Chi Minh City cell for two months.
  
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• Australians tipped to spend record $1.6b on Boxing Day sales

  23-12-2025 20:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Boxing Day spending is expected to hit a record high, supported by revived household spending after three interest rate cuts.
  
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• 'She Trapped the Sun': Inside the world's first solar house

  23-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  On December 24, 1948, a family of Hungarian refugees moved into a small house in Dover, Massachusetts.  But there was a catch.
  
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• Pill version of injectable weight-loss drug Wegovy approved by US regulator

  23-12-2025 13:03 via abc.net.au
  
  A daily weight-loss pill will soon be available in the US, after the regulator gave approval to Danish drug company Novo Nordisk's oral version of the popular injectable, Wegovy. 
  
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• CommBank customers to receive $68m in refunds for incorrect bank fees

  23-12-2025 07:04 via abc.net.au
  
  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia will refund low-income earners receiving Centrelink payments approximately $68 million in unfair fees — just over a quarter of what was charged.
  
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• Up to 1,700 jobs axed as major security firm collapses

  23-12-2025 06:56 via abc.net.au
  
  A "significant number" of employees have been made immediately redundant as MA Security — which provides security and maintenance services to major retailers like Coles, Kmart and Amazon — enters administration.
  
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• Power company found guilty of environmental offence over 2022 fish kill

  23-12-2025 06:42 via abc.net.au
  
  A court rules a maintenance failure caused hundreds of fish to die near Delta Electricity's Vales Point coal-fired power station in September 2022, a month after another kill triggered by natural causes.
  
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• Mixed bag for NSW oyster growers as peak Christmas demand looms

  23-12-2025 05:42 via abc.net.au
  
  The Christmas oyster harvest is flourishing on the NSW south coast, but further north it is a very different story as growers face the fallout of this year's record-breaking floods.
  
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• Gold mine pays $330,000 after two dust incidents

  23-12-2025 01:39 via abc.net.au
  
  One of the country's largest gold mines in the NSW Central West will buy five new dust monitors after incidents at its tailings dam. 
  
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• Farmer beside South32's major bauxite mine reports growing water issues

  22-12-2025 22:06 via abc.net.au
  
  The owner of a farm neighbouring South32's major bauxite mine in WA claims the miner is responsible for rising salinity and reduced water availability at his property. His claims are now being probed by WA's regulator.
  
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• New-look electricity commission takes on Victoria's Delburn wind farm

  22-12-2025 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  The Victorian government says the wind farm's 33 turbines will generate enough electricity to power more than 130,000 homes.
  
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• New high-tech cameras making a difference to NSW fire fighting

  22-12-2025 20:59 via abc.net.au
  
  New cameras using AI have been installed in southern New South Wales forests and are spotting fires before they have a chance to spread.
  
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• New cameras help spotters focus on forest fires before they spread

  22-12-2025 20:59 via abc.net.au
  
  New cameras using AI have been installed in southern New South Wales forests and are spotting fires before they have a chance to spread.
  
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• 'True bubble-like mentality' as markets 'up-crash' into end of 2025

  22-12-2025 20:10 via abc.net.au
  
  AI. Market records. Tariffs. Penguins. TACO. It's been a big year of economic shocks and surges as the international framework of global trade was shredded. Here's how key players saw the year that was.
  
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• PR firm with 'fingers in many pies' to close

  22-12-2025 20:10 via abc.net.au
  
  It has helped keep the Liberals in power in Tasmania and lobbied on behalf of Airbnb, the salmon industry and the Catholic Church — but the PR firm, described as having "fingers in a lot of pies", is closing down.
  
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• Liberal-linked Tasmanian public relations firm Font PR closes its doors

  22-12-2025 20:10 via abc.net.au
  
  It has helped keep the Liberals in power in Tasmania and lobbied on behalf of Airbnb, the salmon industry and the Catholic Church — but the PR firm, described as having "fingers in a lot of pies", is closing down.
  
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• Liberal-linked PR firm with 'fingers in many pies' to close its doors

  22-12-2025 20:10 via abc.net.au
  
  It has helped keep the Liberals in power in Tasmania and lobbied on behalf of Airbnb, the salmon industry and the Catholic Church — but the PR firm, described as having "fingers in a lot of pies", is closing down.
  
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• A chaotic 'up-crash' for markets riding a turbulent 2025

  22-12-2025 20:10 via abc.net.au
  
  AI. Market records. Tariffs. Penguins. TACO. It's been a big year of economic shocks and surges as the international framework of global trade was shredded. Here's how key players saw the year that was.
  
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• Jetty Road reopens after businesses hit hard by roadworks

  22-12-2025 09:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Traders along one of Adelaide's most popular beachside dining and retail strips have welcomed the reopening of roads to traffic, but say recovery will take time.
  
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• Japan prepares to restart world's biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima

  22-12-2025 08:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Japan has taken the final step to allow the world's largest nuclear power plant to resume operations with a regional vote in Niigata prefecture.
  
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• City Beach fined $14m over 'pervasive' button battery safety failures

  22-12-2025 08:22 via abc.net.au
  
  The Federal Court orders the fashion retailer to pay $14 million in fines after it was taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. 
  
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• Should I pour leftover liquids or foods down the sink?

  22-12-2025 06:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Ever been about to pour rancid milk down the sink and thought, "Hmm, maybe I shouldn't…"? What about the tomato passata that's gone off? Or the water you washed the paint in? Or that pungent oil from a tuna can?
  
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• Vinyl's dirty secret: Why your records hurt the planet

  22-12-2025 05:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Artists like Stella Donnelly are searching for ways to cut waste and make production of their albums environmentally friendly.
  
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• Is buying vinyl records bad for the environment?

  22-12-2025 05:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Artists like Stella Donnelly are searching for ways to cut waste and make production of their albums environmentally friendly.
  
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