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• Rate cuts, Trump and China: Experts predict the economic year ahead

  02-01-2025 19:46 via abc.net.au
  
  2025 offers no quick fixes to the economic problems of the past year, according to experts, but expect an easing of interest rates and inflation that have made life more difficult for millions of people. 
  
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• AIC to acquire Mt Cuthbert for $120m

  23-09-2026 08:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Shares in Subiaco-based AIC Mines rose by more than 15 per cent on Wednesday, following news of a major copper project acquisition in North Queensland.
  
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• Katherine promised new $13.3m levee after town's worst flood in 28 years

  23-09-2026 08:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Months on from the worst flooding Katherine has seen in almost three decades, the regional Northern Territory town has welcomed a $13.3m government promise to establish a new levee.
  
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• Healthscope to hand over Mount Hospital to Bethesda Health Care

  23-09-2026 08:11 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The private healthcare provider is set to formally take over Healthscope's Mount Hospital on Thursday, after the state government and Bethesda struck a deal earlier this year to ensure the facility's viability.
  
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• Bethesda Health Care completes takeover of Healthscope's Mount Hospital

  23-09-2026 08:11 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The private healthcare provider is set to formally acquire Healthscope's Mount Hospital on Thursday, after the state government and Bethesda struck a deal earlier this year to ensure the facility's viability.
  
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• I gave my life over to Meta’s AI agent and was blown away

  23-09-2026 08:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Muse, Meta’s AI agent, helped handle my dental insurance, booked dinner reservations and created a podcast for me. It also required my most personal data, and trust.
  
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• Calls for tighter housing settings

  23-09-2026 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  WA is moving to regulate student housing projects through the planning system.
  
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• Breaking: NAB customers experiencing phone and internet banking outages

  23-09-2026 08:00 via abc.net.au
  
  NAB is experiencing a digital outage across multiple platforms including its mobile app, internet banking and phone services.
  
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• Former treasurer says economic reform in Australia will take 'financial crisis'

  23-09-2026 07:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Former treasurer Joe Hockey says meaningful fiscal reform is not possible in Australia as it often conflicts with voters' economic self-interest. He says it will take a "crisis" for governments to enact significant budget repair.
  
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• Residents near huge data centre demand financial compensation

  23-09-2026 07:51 via abc.net.au
  
  A Senate inquiry into artificial intelligence and data centres hears from residents and local councils about the impact of an influx of data centres in Melbourne's suburbs. 
  
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• Financial Review editor-in-chief James Chessell quits to join media start-up

  23-09-2026 07:32 via smh.com.au
  
  The paper’s editor Cosima Marriner has been appointed as editor-in-chief, becoming the first woman to hold the role.
  
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• Opinion: Productivity paradox for business

  23-09-2026 07:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  OPINION: If employees know the right question to ask, AI can help them do things that were previously impossible.
  
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• Critica product samples put WA Jupiter rare earths in offtake orbit

  23-09-2026 06:50 via smh.com.au
  
  Critica Ltd has produced a high-purity 98.2 per cent total rare earth oxide sample and a high-grade iron by-product from its Jupiter project in WA, ahead of product offtake discussions.
  
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• Committee approves Meadpoint’s $130m Scarborough build-to-rent project

  23-09-2026 06:50 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A build-to-rent apartment project in Scarborough has been revived after a planning committee approved the $130 million development proposal.
  
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• Australia’s top builders revealed

  23-09-2026 06:26 via businessnews.com.au
  
  WA builders featured prominently in the national list, as build starts in this state increase to more than 24,000.
  
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• Eve to lead PwC in WA

  23-09-2026 06:16 via businessnews.com.au
  
  PwC Australia has named auditor Justin Eve as its new Perth Markets Managing Partner, making it the second of the ‘big 4' firms to have a change of leadership this year.
  
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• Aurum rattles the tin for $52.5m

  23-09-2026 06:15 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Aurum Resources has undertaken its third major capital raise in the space of 14 months, as it eyes further growth at its flagship Boundiali gold project in Côte d'Ivoire.
  
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• Coalition vows to 'take a chainsaw' to climate laws, offshore wind

  23-09-2026 05:25 via abc.net.au
  
  The Coalition has promised a major slowdown of renewables if it wins power, including scrapping most offshore renewables sites, formalising its commitment to unpick Australia's key climate policies.
  
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• Critical Resources surges on first-mover Suriname gold grab

  23-09-2026 05:16 via smh.com.au
  
  Critical Resources has surged after making a first-mover play in Suriname, securing rights to acquire a 90% interest in the 164-square-kilometre Gonini gold project.
  
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• Wildly popular ex-premier tipped for Stokes-backed media giant board

  23-09-2026 04:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Former WA premier Mark McGowan is tipped for appointment to the board of Southern Cross Media Group, which owns Channel 7, newspapers, websites and radio services across Australia.
  
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• McGowan set to get director spot on Stokes-backed media giant

  23-09-2026 04:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Former WA premier Mark McGowan is tipped for appointment to the board of Southern Cross Media Group, which owns Channel 7, newspapers, websites and radio services across Australia.
  
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• CDC plans 192MW Hazelmere data centre

  23-09-2026 04:58 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Critical digital infrastructure operator CDC Data Centres has unveiled plans to construct a 192-megawatt data centre in Hazelmere, marking its second planned development in WA.
  
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• Watchdog again blocks sale of RAC WA insurance arm to east-coast giant

  23-09-2026 04:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's competition watchdog again blocks the sale of WA's largest insurer to an east-coast industry giant, reiterating the purchase would likely reduce competition in the state's insurance market.
  
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• Satterley’s Perth Hills plan ‘flawed’, tribunal rules

  23-09-2026 04:40 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A state tribunal has upheld a peak planning body's refusal of Satterley Property Group's plan for the Perth Hills, describing the proposal as “flawed”.
  
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• Daughter sues mum over former mining exec's $30 million farm inheritance

  23-09-2026 04:35 via abc.net.au
  
  The daughter of a mining executive who was killed in a plane crash 20 years ago, leaving behind a more-than-$30 million fortune, is taking her mother to the Supreme Court for part of an estate she says she was promised.
  
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• Aurum lands $52.5M war chest to fast-track West African gold build

  23-09-2026 04:27 via smh.com.au
  
  Aurum Resources has banked $52.5M to fast-track its 3.22Moz Boundiali gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, with funds earmarked for early development works and aggressive drilling.
  
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• Warren Buffett just took a big risk with the $1.5 trillion giant he built

  23-09-2026 03:59 via smh.com.au
  
  At face value, 71-year-old farmer Howard Buffett has no obvious qualifications to be appointed chairman of a prestigious company, other than that he is the founder’s son. He couldn’t have a more daunting act to follow.
  
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• Advanced Navigation to deploy system in Polish turrets

  23-09-2026 03:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth-founded unicorn Advanced Navigation will have its Boreas inertial navigation systems embedded on Polish anti-drone turrets, in a deal inked with Kongsberg worth $26 million.
  
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• Small business navigates testing times

  23-09-2026 03:54 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Issues outside their control have amplified pressures facing small business owners.
  
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• Minister wants inquiry into council CEO's sacking

  23-09-2026 03:39 via businessnews.com.au
  
  City of Perth chief executive Michelle Reynolds has been sacked after a confidential meeting of the council on Tuesday night to consider a report into claims levelled against her earlier this year.
  
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