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Property expert Gavin Hegney said those taking advantage were often drawing on past experience.
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Nick Bruining

Boomers get ahead of cooling market for super tax breaks

Baby boomers keen to cash in before the cooling property market gathers pace are looking to maximise their options under a range of senior-friendly rules.

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Wesfarmers and SQM's Mt Holland lithium venture.

Wesfarmers green lights $1.4b WA lithium expansion

Business
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The supermarket giant is hiking the price of a household staple as its suppliers face ongoing fuel-related supply chain and operational cost pressures.

Coles to charge more for item bought by almost every shopper

Companies
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NAB is the latest bank to confirm it is joining the cull, after ANZ revealed it was slashing 3500 jobs and 1000 contractors.

NAB and ANZ job cuts are just the start of killing season

Companies
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Consumers are being urged to shop around for the best grocery deals, though Australia’s third-largest supermarket offers the greatest overall value.

Cheapest supermarket and average shop totals revealed

Australia
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Is the semiconductor industry headed for an almighty crash?

What happens when the AI chips are down?

Business
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Firmus Technologies has cancelled its float.
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The AI dream machine takes a hit with Firmus’s failed float

Business
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A Chinese mining group is fighting to seize control of Far East Gold, while the Australian founders battle to protect their stake in a potentially lucrative Indonesian gold project.
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Chinese miner wages war for control of ASX gold hopeful

Business
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Concerns over global supply chain disruptions continue to grow in China.

How China manages oil woes will have global repercussions

The Economist
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Wealth

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For savers unwilling to jump through monthly hoops, AMP offers 5.50 per cent on balances up to $50,000 without the usual strings attached.

Banks slug borrowers but savings rates crack a decade high

Wealth
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Australians are promised $1.6 billion in surcharge savings but rewards cardholders with the big four bank face higher rates, fewer perks and weaker insurance. Here’s everything you’re about to lose ...

Big banks gut credit card perks. Here’s what you’ll lose ...

Wealth
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The strong annual result concealed a sudden fall and recovery late in the financial year.

Is your super fund among this year’s best-performers list?

Business
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Housing prices falling in Melbourne and Sydney The Nightly

Australian homeowners brace for pain as prices set to plunge

Australia
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Mining

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Tanya Plibersek vetoed the site of a dam to store soil and rock from McPhillamys gold mine.
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This rejected gold mine shows what’s wrong with Australia

Politics
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The Albanese Government has suffered a major legal blow after the Federal Court overturned the then Environment Minister’s decision to block a billion-dollar gold mine over Aboriginal heritage concerns.

Court overturns Plibersek’s $1bn gold mine heritage block

NSW
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The High Court has ruled ‘Scope 3 emissions’ should have been taken into account when approving the extension of opertions at the Mount Pleasant coal mine.

Energy and mining sectors reeling after High Court decision

Business
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Australia’s biggest miners may now increase their exposure to copper as they look to diversify beyond the commodity that has long driven the sector.

Copper set to give Aussie mining stock rally a new engine

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Energy

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Europe has spent decades shutting down coal-fired plants to combat global warming. Now the ones still left are experiencing an unexpected windfall. 

Dwindling coal fleet in Europe reaps windfall from gas rally

World
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Madeleine King addresses the National Press Club in Canberra.

King vows gas reserve will ‘push down’ energy prices

Politics
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Inpex's Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

Gas carve-outs could leave factories paying top dollar

Energy
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Inpex's Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

Labor backtracks on fixed gas reservation demand

Business
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