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The updated ABC offer includes new provisions to ensure staff progress through pay bandings.  Source link

Junior West Australian iron ore miner Fenix Resources is forced to scale back non-essential activities to keep its operations running after coming within days of running out of fuel. Source link

A decision on whether to proceed with a planned quarry at Reedy Creek on the Gold Coast will rest with the state government, after community opposition.  Source link

The removal of surcharges on debit and credit cards is one of the sweeping reforms from the Reserve Bank. Source link

Consumer confidence across Australia has hit its worst low since tracking began in 1973, according to the latest ANZ-Roy Morgan survey, but the ASX 200 has bounced back to finish the last day of the month with modest gains. Follow the day’s events on the ABC News live markets blog. Source link

From pile-on comments on social media to roadside slurs, local businesses are reminding their communities to “be kind to the little guy” amid the fuel crisis.  Source link

Petrol stations in our biggest cities hiked prices ahead of global oil prices, but experts say their profit margins are now much slimmer. Source link

One in two Australians missed out on health care they needed last year mainly because they could not afford it, according to a new report by the peak healthcare consumers group.   Source link

Diesel stocks would last about six months if Australia’s imports dropped by 20 per cent, according to modelling compiled for the federal government early in the Middle East war. Source link

Global stock markets, which for the past month have been remarkably restrained as the Middle East crisis unfolded, have begun to wobble. Source link