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• Tech tariff pivot helps Australian shares take a breath

  14-04-2025 09:21 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australian shares have started the week with a rally after the US softened limited tariffs on China.
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• Government confirms plans to reserve some gas for domestic use

  22-12-2025 01:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Chris Bowen makes a long-anticipated announcement about reserving a portion of gas on the east coast for domestic use after a cabinet meeting.
  
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• Government announces domestic gas reservation scheme in bid to lower costs

  22-12-2025 01:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Chris Bowen makes a long-anticipated announcement about reserving a portion of gas on the east coast for domestic use after a cabinet meeting.
  
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• Pickers 'living in squalor' claim their end-of-season bonus was unfairly withheld

  21-12-2025 23:04 via abc.net.au
  
  Ten pickers who worked at Hallmark Cherries' orchard in NSW complain about poorly maintained accommodation and failure to pay an end-of-season bonus.
  
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• Hopes new Darwin-to-China flights will bring down domestic airfares

  21-12-2025 21:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Direct flights between Darwin and China have resumed for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing optimism of a tourism boom for the two countries.
  
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• Direct Darwin to China flights take off for first time since pandemic

  21-12-2025 21:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Direct flights between Darwin and China have resumed for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing optimism of a tourism boom for the two countries.
  
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• Federal government announces 2027 gas reservation scheme, ASX rallies — as it happened

  21-12-2025 21:19 via abc.net.au
  
  The federal government announced its intention to start a gas reservation scheme from 2027. The ASX made a strong start to the shortened trading week. 
  
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• Childcare company's bid to more than double in size alarms safety experts

  21-12-2025 21:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Embark Education launches a takeover bid for rival early childcare company Mayfield Education, alarming experts who say providers that fail to meet baseline safety standards are being allowed to expand without oversight.
  
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• Businesses facing 'tighter margins' may skip Christmas bonuses

  21-12-2025 21:02 via abc.net.au
  
  From hams to vouchers and cash, festive bonuses vary — but do they still have a place in the Australian workforce?
  
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• Business facing 'tighter margins' may skip Christmas bonuses

  21-12-2025 21:02 via abc.net.au
  
  It could be a ham, or it could be a voucher and some are fortunate to receive some extra cash. But does the Christmas bonus have a place in the Australian workforce? 
  
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• US intercepting third Venezuelan oil tanker amid simmering tensions

  21-12-2025 20:31 via abc.net.au
  
  If successful, it would be the third oil tanker seized as Donald Trump continues his campaign on President Nicolas Maduro.
  
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• 'Legal phoenixing' wipes millions in business debt but leaves staff out of pocket

  21-12-2025 20:01 via abc.net.au
  
  A digital marketing agency run by a former AFL star has wiped its millions in debt through an insolvency process, only to open under a new ABN days later. Former staff were left without a job and almost $450,000 in unpaid entitlements, but it's within the bounds of the law and leaves taxpayers footing the bill.
  
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• Insolvent firm run by ex-AFL star wipes millions in debt via 'legal phoenixing'

  21-12-2025 20:01 via abc.net.au
  
  A digital marketing agency run by a former AFL star has wiped its millions in debt through an insolvency process, only to open under a new ABN days later. Former staff were left without a job and almost $450,000 in unpaid entitlements, but it's within the bounds of the law and leaves taxpayers footing the bill.
  
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• As a building firm collapses, clients want to know 'where the money went'

  21-12-2025 19:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Since 2017, Melbourne building boss Mike Harris has overseen four company collapses. Left behind are clients who have lost their life savings and staff who couldn't pay their mortgages.
  
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• As a building company collapses, clients want to know 'where the money went'

  21-12-2025 19:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Since 2017, Melbourne building boss Mike Harris has overseen four company collapses. Left behind are clients who have lost their life savings and staff who couldn't pay their mortgages.
  
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• Trawling companies launch legal action over WA demersal fishing ban

  21-12-2025 00:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Two seafood companies that conduct trawling in WA's Pilbara region launch legal action in the WA Supreme Court against the state government's new demersal fishing restrictions.
  
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• 'Lacks rationale': Trawling companies' fight over WA demersal fishing ban

  21-12-2025 00:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Two seafood companies that conduct trawling in the Pilbara region launch legal action in the WA Supreme Court against the state government's new demersal fishing restrictions.
  
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• 'Lacks rationale': Trawling companies begin fight over WA demersal fishing ban

  21-12-2025 00:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Two seafood companies that conduct trawling in WA's Pilbara region launch legal action in the WA Supreme Court against the state government's new demersal fishing restrictions.
  
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• Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space

  21-12-2025 00:16 via abc.net.au
  
  The flight was just 10 minutes but the capsule still managed to soar 105 kilometres up, skimming into space.
  
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• Residents on mining grids not afforded same discounts as rest of WA

  20-12-2025 23:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents in small Pilbara towns with power grids run by mining companies are excluded from home battery rebate schemes.
  
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• After a million kilometres, stock agent retires LandCruiser 4WD

  20-12-2025 22:32 via abc.net.au
  
  A Victorian stock agent's four-wheel drive LandCruiser has reached a rare milestone, as experts say Australians are keeping their cars longer than ever.
  
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• 'Dead zones' prompt tour operator to fund marine study

  20-12-2025 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  For more than two decades, Rob Pennicott has taken tourists to see the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. But what he describes as "dead zones" have him so worried that he is funding a study to find what is going wrong.
  
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• Retirement dreams shattered after paying $84k for a never-built house

  20-12-2025 22:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Multiple people are speaking out about their experience paying too much to a building company for work never delivered.
  
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