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• How did cyber criminals access accounts and steal superannuation funds?

  04-04-2025 08:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Last weekend hundreds of thousands of dollars quietly disappeared from Australians' super funds. Here's how the experts think it happened.
  
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• Labor and the Coalition are promising help for first-time buyers. What is missing from their offers?

  15-04-2025 20:17 via abc.net.au
  
  For the first time in generations of elections, the major parties are both promising policies to lift housing supply, and again handing out gifts to first homebuyers. But there's an elephant in the room neither Labor nor the Coalition will discuss.
  
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• China 'tearing down walls' as it looks to boost trade ties in Asia

  15-04-2025 17:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Chinese President Xi Jinping has landed in Malaysia after visiting Vietnam, as he tries to secure more support from South-East Asian neighbours amid the trade war with Donald Trump.
  
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• Most investment properties sold within two years of being rented, study finds

  15-04-2025 16:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Young renters are feeling the stress of an unstable rental market and are putting off significant life plans as new data reveals most investment properties are sold within two years of being rented out.
  
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• A missing former boss, a looming class action and forever chemicals in water

  15-04-2025 09:42 via abc.net.au
  
  A class action against Sydney Water over PFAS is looming as mystery surrounds the sudden departure of a former executive.
  
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• A missing former boss, a looming class action and forever chemicals in our drinking water

  15-04-2025 09:42 via abc.net.au
  
  A class action against Sydney Water over PFAS  is looming as mystery surrounds the sudden departure of a former executive.
  
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• Queensland Opposition accuses government of 'covering up' power plant explosion

  15-04-2025 09:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Treasurer and Energy Minister David Janetzki failed to mention the incident in a major address a week ago, despite being briefed about the incident the day it happened.
  
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• Opposition accuses government of 'covering up' power plant explosion

  15-04-2025 09:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Treasurer and Energy Minister David Janetzki failed to mention the incident in a major address a week ago, despite being briefed about the incident the day it happened.
  
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• Nationals hopeful pans Coalition rejection of Labor's mining tax sweetener

  15-04-2025 08:35 via abc.net.au
  
  One of the National Party's top hopes for an election pick-up in Western Australia has blasted the Coalition's opposition to Labor's resources production tax credits, saying "good policy deserves support". 
  
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• Star posts $300m loss as it attempts turnaround

  15-04-2025 07:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Casino firm Star Entertainment pulled back from the brink of collapse thanks to a deal with US giant Bally's and pub billionaire Bruce Mathieson. Now its shares are set to return to trade, after it posted a steeper-than-expected financial fall.
  
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• Is a home deposit now worth thousands in lost super at retirement?

  15-04-2025 06:58 via abc.net.au
  
  With home ownership more out of reach than ever for younger Australians, some are pondering whether their retirement fund would be better off used now, to buy a house. 
  
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• Experts divided on first home buyers using superannuation for housing

  15-04-2025 06:58 via abc.net.au
  
  With home ownership more out of reach than ever for younger Australians, some are pondering whether their retirement fund would be better off used now, to buy a house. 
  
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• Melbourne Market vendors sent eviction notices as rents rise

  15-04-2025 06:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Vendors have been given 30 days to pay higher rents before the state government-owned market authority says it will take legal action against them.
  
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• Live: Wall Street rises as tariff exemptions boost tech stocks

  14-04-2025 23:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are poised to follow Wall Street gains. Shares in Apple rose on the news of an iPhone tariff exemption, while Donald Trump signalled a shift on auto tariffs. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: Star Entertainment posts $300m loss, business remains 'very challenged'

  14-04-2025 23:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Star Entertainment has lodged its financial results after securing lifeline funding. Australian shares are up modestly after Wall Street gains. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.  
  
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• Live: Dollar recovers from last week's pummelling, ASX up modestly

  14-04-2025 23:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's dollar has recovered from last week's heavy losses, and the ASX200 is up modestly. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.  
  
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• Dollar recovers from pummelling, ASX closes higher — as it happened

  14-04-2025 23:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's dollar has recovered from last week's heavy losses, and the ASX200 has closed up modestly. Catch up on the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.  
  
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• Great Ocean Road campground to get a glow-up, but not everyone's happy

  14-04-2025 23:00 via abc.net.au
  
  A caravan park once known as a "sleepy hollow" will cut down the number of sites and introduce glamping, but some locals say it's not what the town and its visitors need.
  
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• In 2013, an Aussie journalist was arrested in Egypt. His story is now a movie

  14-04-2025 22:56 via abc.net.au
  
  After 400 days in prison in Egypt, Peter Greste was released in 2015. He turned the ordeal into a memoir about press freedom, and now a movie, starring Richard Roxburgh.
  
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• This town is a 'canary in the coal mine' as climate change threatens home ownership

  14-04-2025 21:14 via abc.net.au
  
  New data shows dozens of suburbs around the country are at risk of becoming uninsurable, triggering warnings of a "climate-induced credit crunch". 
  
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• 'Hurts me so much': How Trump caused chaos in the K-beauty world

  14-04-2025 20:36 via abc.net.au
  
  American beauty founders are warning prices are likely to go up as the global skincare and cosmetics industry comes to terms with Donald Trump's new tariff regime. 
  
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• Battle over windfalls in 'hold my beer' election that consigns fiscal rectitude to history books

  14-04-2025 19:54 via abc.net.au
  
  On Sunday alone, Labor and the Coalition unveiled almost $24 billion in spending. Neither side has detailed how the new promises will be funded, or where the offsetting savings or tax cuts will come from.
  
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• Battle over windfalls in 'hold my beer' election that consigns fiscal rectitude to history

  14-04-2025 19:54 via abc.net.au
  
  On Sunday alone, Labor and the Coalition unveiled almost $24 billion in spending. Neither side has detailed how the new promises will be funded, or where the offsetting savings or tax cuts will come from.
  
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• Australia's 'fat and unprepared' budget not helped by 'hold my beer' election

  14-04-2025 19:54 via abc.net.au
  
  On Sunday alone, Labor and the Coalition unveiled almost $24 billion in spending. Neither side has detailed how the new promises will be funded, or where the offsetting savings or tax cuts will come from.
  
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• Clorox fined $8.25m over misleading 'ocean plastic' claims on GLAD bags

  14-04-2025 11:11 via abc.net.au
  
  The manufacturer of GLAD waste disposal and food storage bags, hit with $8.25 million federal penalty for making incorrect product recycling claims.
  
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• Voters and economists united against major party housing policy promises

  14-04-2025 10:59 via abc.net.au
  
  New housing policies likely to increase house prices due to surging demand from first home buyers. 
  
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• 'Such a crisis': Housing debate erupts live on 7.30

  14-04-2025 08:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Jim Chalmers and Angus Taylor have clashed over housing policy during a heated debate about Australia's economy on 7.30.
  
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• 'Smart politics, dumb policy': Chalmers, Taylor to debate economic future

  14-04-2025 08:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Greens leader Adam Bandt has joined economists in criticising the housing policy pitches of both Labor and the Coalition, labelling them a "band-aid" solution.
  
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• Rival housing policies to dominate debate between Chalmers and Taylor

  14-04-2025 08:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Greens leader Adam Bandt has joined economists in criticising the housing policy pitches of both Labor and the Coalition, labelling them a "bandaid" solution.
  
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• Live: Rival housing policies to dominate debate between Chalmers and Taylor

  14-04-2025 08:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Jim Chalmers and Angus Taylor are set to debate the future of Australia's economy on 7.30, after both parties came under fire for their proposed housing policies.
  
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