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• 'Very pleasant surprise': inflation cools but remains above RBA target

  07-01-2026 01:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Inflation cooled in November, with the consumer price index rising 3.4 per cent over the year, down from 3.8 per cent a month earlier. Some economists continue to forecast a February rate hike, however.
  
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• Armed gang raids security cars of gold in one of PNG's biggest robberies

  02-09-2026 13:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Gold bars worth millions of dollars and thousands in cash have been stolen at gunpoint in a brazen heist in Papua New Guinea.
  
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• Apple’s value grew by $1b a day for 15 years under Tim Cook. But he had one big flaw

  02-09-2026 10:15 via smh.com.au
  
  Apple’s Tim Cook turned the company into one of Wall Street’s safest bets, but he didn’t get everything right.
  
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• Perth to experience ‘short, shallow’ house price dip: Reardon

  02-09-2026 10:08 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The HIA chief economist says home values in the WA capital could increase again as early as next year.
  
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• Aussie shares fall as uncertainty hangs over markets

  02-09-2026 10:03 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's share market has tumbled as escalation in the Middle East and worries about inflation, interest rates and bond markets weigh on investor confidence.
  
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• Gaines sells $3.7m of Greatland shares

  02-09-2026 10:02 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Greatland Resources deputy chair Elizabeth Gaines sold $3.7 million worth of shares in the goldminer across two transactions last week.
  
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• Equatorial subsidiary EEPL fails to block Clifford Chance in arbitration

  02-09-2026 10:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Supreme Court of WA has dismissed Equatorial Resources' urgent attempt to block its former legal advisers Clifford Chance from starting international arbitration.
  
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• Urban planner fined $4k for stalking offence

  02-09-2026 09:55 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Perth urban planner will have a criminal record after being found guilty of pursuing another to intimidate.
  
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• Perdaman incentivises local fertiliser sales

  02-09-2026 09:52 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perdaman has built incentives into its offtake deals in an attempt to ensure more than half of the urea from its $7 billion, taxpayer-backed Pilbara manufacturing plant stays on Australian soil.
  
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• WA government pushes merger of state's only two coal mines

  02-09-2026 09:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The state government throws its support behind a proposed merger between WA's last remaining coal miners as its self-imposed 2030 deadline to retire state-owned coal assets approaches.
  
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• Premier urges Chinese, Indian coal firms to merge before funding stops

  02-09-2026 09:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The state government throws its support behind a proposed merger between WA's last remaining coal miners as its self-imposed 2030 deadline to retire state-owned coal assets approaches.
  
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• Perth robotics group Nexxis acquire UK turbine inspection firm

  02-09-2026 09:27 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth robotics company Nexxis Group has acquired BladeBUG, a UK-based robotics company developing solutions for wind turbine inspection and maintenance.
  
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• Kyle Sandilands’ latest stunt makes a mockery of his former co-star

  02-09-2026 09:04 via smh.com.au
  
  Kyle Sandilands was “served” with a subpoena on-air this morning. Unsurprisingly, it was all a big stunt.
  
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• Some people won't drink the water in this state. Fixing the infrastructure could cost $5b

  02-09-2026 09:01 via abc.net.au
  
  In Australia's most decentralised state, water infrastructure is failing, leading residents in one town to rely on the bottled variety, but it comes at a cost.
  
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• Brown and foul tasting: This town's water may be the tipping point of a crisis

  02-09-2026 09:01 via abc.net.au
  
  In Australia's most decentralised state, water infrastructure is failing, leading residents in one town to rely on the bottled variety, but it comes at a cost.
  
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• Brown and foul tasting. This town's water may be the tipping point of a crisis

  02-09-2026 09:01 via abc.net.au
  
  In Australia's most decentralised state, water infrastructure is failing, leading residents in one town to rely on the bottled variety, but it comes at a cost.
  
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• Hesperia adds $13m warehouse to Hazelmere industrial precinct

  02-09-2026 09:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  An assessment panel has approved another multi-million-dollar warehouse in Hesperia's industrial centre in Hazelmere, to be occupied by a freight logistics and haulage service.
  
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• Analysis: Collie heading rapidly to one coal mine

  02-09-2026 08:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  ANALYSIS: Premier Roger Cook may have released his plan for the Collie Basin today but the industry itself is moving at a much faster pace than the government.
  
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• At Close of Business podcast September 2 2026

  02-09-2026 08:39 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Ella Loneragan speaks to Claire Tyrrell about why WA's state library is turning to philanthropy in order to broaden its funding base.
  
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• PCEC snub cost WA '$50m' global LNG event, document says

  02-09-2026 08:37 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Documents reveal the delayed redevelopment has cost the city an international LNG event which could have brought in $50 million in economic impact to the state, according to analysis by Business Events Perth.
  
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• More money and status for Collie transition

  02-09-2026 08:27 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Cook government has declared Collie a state development area as part of its response to a taskforce report into the transition of the Collie Basin away from coal.
  
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• SeaStock partners with Marubeni innovexis for Japan rollout

  02-09-2026 08:05 via businessnews.com.au
  
  SeaStock will bring its innovative methane-reducing feedstock to Japan after inking an agreement with Tokyo-based Marubeni Innovexis to develop commercial opportunities in the land of the rising sun.
  
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• True North expands Qld copper hunt with new 300m wide zone

  02-09-2026 07:44 via smh.com.au
  
  True North Copper has extended its Mt Oxide mineralised trend to 2.3km after drilling defining a 300m-wide mineralised system at the company’s new Chidna zone.
  
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• Synergy fined $1.2m over battery bungle

  02-09-2026 07:32 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Economic Regulation Authority has fined state-owned Synergy $1.2 million, after it found a software error inflated wholesale power prices from the Kwinana big battery.
  
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• Playing shooshies: The quiet grocery theft that’s going under the radar

  02-09-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Another online delivery order, another fail. How much food needs to be nicked before the major supermarkets make their online service more reliable?
  
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• Opinion: When honours turn to dishonour

  02-09-2026 07:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  OPINION: Honours should be awarded with care and with a willingness to review them when circumstances change.
  
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• PLC reloads drill rig to chase WA Murchison gold extension

  02-09-2026 07:29 via smh.com.au
  
  PLC Resources is set to conduct follow-up drilling at its WA Rochefort prospect, after the company says its first-pass drilling clipped the edges of a potential gold system.
  
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• Strickland announces executive transitions

  02-09-2026 07:28 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Shares in Perth-based Strickland Metals were sold off on Wednesday, after announcing it would undertake a board restructuring.
  
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• Fife Capital to build $30m warehouse in Doobarda

  02-09-2026 07:15 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Sydney-based Fife Capital has cleared a planning hurdle to expand its Western Australian footprint after an assessment panel approved its $30 million warehouse plan.
  
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• Telstra outage caused by failure to address well-known network issues

  02-09-2026 07:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Telstra failed to prioritise fixing known vulnerabilities in its systems despite being warned about them months before they triggered a major nationwide outage.
  
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