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Australia’s Bold Move: Aiming to Eliminate Card Surcharges for Shoppers Everywhere
Retail News Asia
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August 18, 2025
Australia is currently in the throes of a significant debate regarding a proposal to ban surcharges on credit and debit card transactions. If enacted, this move could potentially save consumers a staggering 1.2 billion Australian dollars...
Australia To Push On With Plastics Pollution Measures
The National Tribune
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August 18, 2025
Dept of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Water Australia is disappointed that agreement was not secured on a global plastics pollution treaty in Geneva. The Albanese Government will continue to take action to tackle the growth in plastics...
Australia to develop national solar module reuse and recycling scheme
PV Tech
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August 18, 2025
New South Wales, which has earned praise across Australia’s renewables industry for developing a battery regulation legislation, will lead preliminary work on a regulatory impact statement with other jurisdictions. According to the New South Wales...
Australia’s Ambassador For Climate Change
The National Tribune
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August 18, 2025
Dept of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Water Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs The Hon Chris Bowen MP, Minister for Climate Change and Energy The Hon Pat Conroy MP, Minister for Pacific Island Affairs Source &...
Australia’s NAB flags $85 million cost increase as staff underpaid
Regional Media News - Iowa
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August 17, 2025
By Scott Murdoch (Reuters) -National Australia Bank warned its full-year expenses would be up to A$130 million ($84.7 million) higher after it discovered it had underpaid some of its staff, as it reported a slight increase in third-quarter...
Australia: Unions agree to facilitate sweeping job cuts at Western Sydney University
World Socialist Web Site
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August 18, 2025
The two main Australian campus trade unions have reached a deal with Western Sydney University (WSU) vice-chancellor George Williams to help impose widespread job destruction. The only proviso is that the management abide by the cosmetic “change...
Australia’s biggest gas advocates are quietly swapping out peaking gas plans for big batteries
Renew Economy
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August 18, 2025
Big batteries are rapidly displacing plans for gas peaking plants, as cost and commercial factors prompt a rethink on how much the owners of these sites want to spend. Two of the country’s biggest battery projects announced in the past weeks are...
Australia’s top environment groups call for greater input into Treasurer’s economic roundtable
The Laotian Times
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August 17, 2025
MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Leaders from Australia’s environment sector have delivered a set of recommendations to the government ahead of its three-day economic roundtable this week. The recommendations followed an...
Australian Children’s Content Summit confirms powerhouse storytellers for ‘In Conversation’ line-up
Mumbrella
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August 17, 2025
Leah Purcell AM, Karissa Valencia and Kevin Lerdwichagul will headline this year’s Australian Children’s Content Summit. Two powerhouse storytellers and a global creative force in digital animation are set to headline ‘In Conversation’ sessions at...
Australia: UNSW Pioneers Smart, Safer CRISPR Gene Tech
OpenGov Asia
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August 17, 2025
A new advance in CRISPR technology from UNSW Sydney is pushing innovation in Australia’s global biotechnology fields. Researchers have developed a third-generation form of the smart, gene-editing tool that avoids cutting DNA altogether, instead...
Perth Weather: Heavy rain and possible thunderstorm coming
PerthNow
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August 18, 2025
Today might be a good day to get your washing done — and bring it in off the clothes line before tomorrow. Perth is set for a drenching across the next couple of days with a very high chance of rain on Tuesday and the chance of a thunderstorm. The...
How common are earthquakes in Australia?
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 18, 2025
A magnitude-5.6 earthquake rattled parts of south-east Queensland near the Sunshine Coast on Saturday. People reported feeling tremors as far north as Rockhampton and as far south as Glen Innes in New South Wales. With Australia's most significant...
Man purchases 2-bedroom house after recycling nearly half a million cans in reverse vending machines — here's how he did it
Yahoo News
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Recycling cans and bottles in exchange for cash might be the most widely known example of a circular economy in action — and one motivated Australian man leveraged a local initiative to accumulate a down payment on a house. 36-year-old Damian...
Waiting them out. Australia’s Greater Sunrise Gas heist
Michael West Media
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August 17, 2025
It’s been a 60-year quest to take Timor’s oil and gas. An invasion didn’t get it. Spying didn’t get it. So now Australia is waiting them out. Former senator Rex Patrick reports from the streets of Dili. In 1969, Australia granted five exploration...
Medical support for MRF-D MAGTF from Australia to the First Island Chain
Asia Pacific Defence Reporter
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August 17, 2025
When Marines and Sailors deploy to the Indo-Pacific as part of the Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D) Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF), the mission isn’t just about combat readiness, deterrence, and multinational training. Sustaining...
Wild moment ABC host gives Albo's finance boss a brutal reality check about the dire state of Australia's housing market
Daily Mail
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August 18, 2025
An ABC host put the finance minister on the spot after questioning how Australians could ever have hope of owning a home as prices drastically outpace wages. ABC News Breakfast presenter James Glenday grilled Katy Gallagher on Monday over...
Soaring ocean temperatures: Australia’s iconic marine wonders are under attack
Greenpeace International
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August 18, 2025
Ningaloo Reef on Australia’s west coast is an iconic marine ecosystem, home to breathtaking coral reefs, vibrant fish, and threatened species like whale sharks, green sea turtles and pygmy blue whales. But in the middle of winter in the southern...
Hesitation nation: We have it in us, so let’s unleash Australian innovation
WAtoday
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August 18, 2025
The third is cognitive caution, our brain’s natural instinct to avoid risk, failure, uncertainty and embarrassment. Loading While I have seen this third form of innovation hesitation around the globe, it has become an especially normalised element...
One in three Australian e-scooter fatalities are children
Pursuit
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Recently, I’ve repeatedly come across tragic news reports of children killed in electric scooter, or e-scooter, crashes. In Australia, we don’t currently have a process of recording these deaths, unlike other modes of transport where death and...
Parents push for climate action
Ocean Grove Voice
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August 18, 2025
Concerned parents have gathered at Ocean Grove main beach to call on the federal government to adopt a bold, science-based 2035 climate target. The community action was part of a national month of mobilisation led by Parents for Climate in...