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4 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Samuel Yang |Emily Stewart |Adelaide Miller
The Australian share market has finished the day up 0.8% at 8,530 points with a lot of winners and not so many losers. Overall, the market had 60 stocks in the red, 6 unchanged and 134 stocks gaining. When looking at the sectors, Energy finished at the top; up 1.9%, followed by Industrials; up 1.3% and then Consumer Cyclicals; up 1.2%. Only two sectors finished in the red; Academic and Educational Services finished at the bottom; down -2.6%, followed by Consumer Non-Cyclicals, down -0.5%.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Michael Janda |Samuel Yang |Emilia Terzon |Nadia Daly |Adelaide Miller
The Australian share market has finished the day up 0.3% at 8,435 points with an almost even split of winners and losers. Overall, the market had 92 stocks in the red, 11 unchanged and 97 stocks gaining. When looking at the sectors, Utilities finished at the top; up 1.2%, followed by Consumer Non-Cyclicals; up 1%. The Energy sector finished at the bottom; down -1.4%, followed by Industrials; -0.8% and Technology; -0.77%.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Rhiana Whitson |Adelaide Miller
Despite living less than three kilometres from Sydney's CBD, Tony Kourahanis's Telstra mobile phone reception is barely usable. "I have to use WhatsApp to make phone calls and the phone cuts [out] … after a few minutes, it just cuts here with no warning, so I have to keep on calling people back."For service, he often walks onto his front lawn.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Adelaide Miller
One HESTA member came close to losing his home deposit after struggling to access funds from his super account during a seven-week disruption to services. Advocacy group Super Conusmers Australia has slammed regulator APRA for a lack of transparency about the approval of the outage at one of Australia's major super funds. According to HESTA's website, its regular income stream payments have resumed, but online accounts remain inaccessible until June.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Adelaide Miller
Members of the superannuation fund HESTA say they were given little warning the fund was about to go offline for seven weeks. The planned outage is part of a transition to a new administration provider, and it's affected more than one million Australians.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Adelaide Miller
Many who attended this year's Australian Fashion Week dressed in thrifted or second-hand clothing, saying they prefer to shop this way. Brands are also turning their attention to sustainable and recyclable choices when creating their pieces. Experts say sustainability is "fundamental" to the future of Australia's fashion industry. Molly isn't allowing herself to buy any new clothes this year. She says it's part of her plan to become more intentional with her clothing consumption.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Emilia Terzon |Adelaide Miller |Stephanie Chalmers
Is there any word on the street about Liontown Resources ? 6th straight day in a row with sizable jumps in share price and yet there is nothing from the company or in the media about it. - BrettThanks for the comment Brett. You're certainly right, Liontown has been making some significant moves recently.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Adelaide Miller
ANZ bank's net profit increased over the latest half year to $3.64 billion, up 7 per cent compared to the same time last year, with big bank bosses tipping further rises in home prices. ANZ's preferred cash profit measure was flat at $3.57 billion, and the company has announced an 83 cents per share interim dividend. The bank's outgoing chief executive officer Shayne Elliot said the result was boosted by its recent takeover of Suncorp's banking division.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Adelaide Miller
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to open both US and international waters to deep sea mining, ignoring a global treaty that controls the high seas. The aim of the order is to boost U-S production of critical minerals, an industry currently dominated by China. But scientists and legal experts have expressed concern. Featured:Duncan Currie, international environmental lawyerDr Patricia Esquire, University of Aveiro in PortugalPhil McCabe, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Adelaide Miller |Peter de Kruijff |Lucy Cooper
Lying at the bottom of the ocean, thousands of metres below the surface, are reserves of what are considered to be the world's most critical minerals. In the Pacific Ocean between North America and Hawaii lies a large area known as the Clarion-Clipperton zone — a particularly abundant area filled with copper, cobalt and nickel. Now, the race is on to start mining these minerals.
