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• 'Appalling' strata contract clauses sparks push for major overhaul to protect apartment owners

  14-11-2024 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  An ABC investigation has found strata contracts promoted by a key industry body disproportionately favour managers over apartment owners, sparking calls for an urgent review to reform the agreements.
  
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• Mark My Words November 15 2024

  15-11-2024 06:38 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss the latest on Westport; Perth Airport; the Women and Babies' hospital; MinRes and Chris Ellison; interest rates; Resolute mining; and a North-West preview.
  
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• Waste-to-energy plant owes $740m

  15-11-2024 06:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Creditor claims of more than $740 million have piled up against the taxpayer-backed East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant, including from Acciona and National Australia Bank.
  
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• Woman who raised alarm over missing prospectors says she's mystified how the experienced, 'pedantic' geologists died

  15-11-2024 06:07 via abc.net.au
  
  A caravan park owner called police when two geologists, who regularly stayed at her park, didn't return from a day out prospecting. She's described them as friendly, conscientious and dedicated to their work.
  
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• Independents choose Nedlands candidate

  15-11-2024 05:38 via businessnews.com.au
  
  An independent group has found its candidate for Nedlands in the upcoming state election, after being inspired by the 'teal' success with Kate Chaney.
  
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• BHP Nickel West's Jess Farrell in new role

  15-11-2024 05:05 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The head of BHP’s mothballed Nickel West division Jess Farrell has notched a new role as vice president innovation within the miner’s technical leadership team.
  
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• HIA predicts rise in WA home starts

  15-11-2024 04:35 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The number of housing starts in the state is expected to rise steadily in the coming years, with construction of homes to increase by nearly 7 per cent next year.
  
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• DWER audit costs blow out

  15-11-2024 04:03 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The average cost of environmental compliance audits by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation was more than double the state’s target last financial year.
  
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• Heili to step down as Peninsula boss

  15-11-2024 04:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Peninsula Energy shares were down 23 per cent to 6.4 cents early on Friday morning, as the uranium developer made a series of key announcements.
  
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• China's new $5.3 billion Peruvian megaport officially open for business

  15-11-2024 03:12 via abc.net.au
  
  The new megaport is 992 hectares in size and creates a direct link between Shanghai and Peru and will cut shipment times down by 20 days on some routes. 
  
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• High street success in the spotlight

  15-11-2024 01:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Business News hit the pavement to gauge the health of 20 of Perth's most prominent retail strips. This is what we found out.
  
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• Waste a premium product in ‘Bananarvon’

  15-11-2024 01:18 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Carnarvon’s banana co-operative has spent the past two decades finding creative ways to turn its growers’ discards into profit.
  
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• Albanese moves to capitalise on Trump's plan to slash green energy investment

  15-11-2024 00:55 via abc.net.au
  
  The prime minister will use a week-long trip to South America to pitch Australia as a safe and reliable country to invest in, especially if the incoming US president follows through on his climate threats.
  
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• Albanese hopes Australia could reap the rewards if Trump follows through on his climate plans

  15-11-2024 00:55 via abc.net.au
  
  The prime minister will use a week-long trip to South America to pitch Australia as a safe and reliable country to invest in, if the incoming US president follows through on his climate threats.
  
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• Wall Street falls on rate cut commentary

  15-11-2024 00:54 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Wall Street's main indexes closed lower overnight after federal reserve chair Jerome Powell dampened investors' hopes for another interest rate cut this year by saying the US central bank need not rush to ease monetary policy.
  
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• Outback mine operator and individual charged over deaths of two workers

  15-11-2024 00:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The Office of the Work Health and Safety Prosecutor will pursue charges over the deaths of Dylan Langridge and Trevor Davis at an underground zinc mine in Queensland.
  
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• Fears many older Australians will be without crucial meal service amid cost-of-living crisis

  14-11-2024 22:16 via abc.net.au
  
  Chorus Kitchen is a provider for Meals on Wheels WA, but its days could could be numbered, with its kitchen slated for demolition to make way for an aged care centre.
  
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• 'Am I just young and stupid?' Young Australians on being made redundant

  14-11-2024 22:05 via abc.net.au
  
  When your sense of your own identity gets attached to your job, how do you move on when you're let go? Studies suggest younger workers are more likely than older people to be sacked or made redundant. So what should you do if this happens to you?
  
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• Public transport users left waiting at bus stops after Canberra bus drivers stage snap strike

  14-11-2024 21:47 via abc.net.au
  
  The ACT government will ask the Fair Work Commission to order bus drivers back to work. The union says the strike is due to drivers being assaulted.  
  
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• International workers show visitors around Australia as tour guide shortage hits crisis point

  14-11-2024 21:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Tour guides have been added to the national Occupation Shortage List for the first time enabling foreign workers with specific skills to fill labour shortages.
  
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• From English barman to tour guide: Elliot is now showing Australians around their own backyard

  14-11-2024 21:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Tour guides have been added to the national Occupation Shortage List for the first time enabling foreign workers with specific skills to fill labour shortages.
  
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• The Onion buys conspiracy website Infowars after $1.5b ruling against founder Alex Jones

  14-11-2024 20:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Alex Jones owes $1.5 billion after defaming the families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, claiming it was a hoax staged by crisis actors.
  
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• 'Lost the plot': Housing approvals in NSW on the decline, lagging behind rest of the country

  14-11-2024 20:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Despite the government's commitment to deliver 377,000 new homes within five years from July, housing developments in NSW are declining. A design competition is trying to quicken the delivery of new homes across the state. But will it be effective?
  
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• Less than six months into its commitment for more housing, NSW is already trailing behind

  14-11-2024 20:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Despite the government's commitment to deliver 377,000 new homes within five years from July, the number of new housing developments in New South Wales has already begun to drop. Some industry figures point to high building costs and hesitant banks as reasons why. 
  
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• Dwindling numbers of new homes being approved in NSW, blame being levelled in different directions

  14-11-2024 20:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Despite the government's commitment to deliver 377,000 new homes within five years from July, housing developments in NSW are declining. A design competition is trying to quicken the delivery of new homes across the state. But will it be effective?
  
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• Councils to be stripped of power to block new residential developments in NSW

  14-11-2024 20:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Premier Chris Minns says a new Housing Development Authority will make it easier to "build the homes we need" as the state trails behind less than six months into a national race to deliver more homes.
  
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• Councils to be cut from NSW approval process for new residential developments

  14-11-2024 20:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Premier Chris Minns says a new Housing Development Authority will make it easier to "build the homes we need" as the state trails behind less than six months into a national race to deliver more homes.
  
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• As approved NSW housing developments fall, sector points to construction costs and the banks

  14-11-2024 20:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Despite the government's commitment to deliver 377,000 new homes within five years from July, the number of new housing developments in New South Wales has already begun to drop. Some industry figures point to high building costs and hesitant banks as reasons why. 
  
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• 'It's disgraceful': How apartment owners are unfairly disadvantaged by one-sided strata contracts

  14-11-2024 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  An ABC investigation has found strata contracts promoted by a key industry body disproportionately favour managers over apartment owners, sparking calls for an urgent review to reform the agreements.
  
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• How 'appalling' and 'disgraceful' strata contracts favour managers over apartment owners

  14-11-2024 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  An ABC investigation has found strata contracts promoted by a key industry body disproportionately favour managers over apartment owners, sparking calls for an urgent review to reform the agreements.
  
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