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The watchdog's deputy chairwoman Karen Chester has told the financial services sector to 'get on with paying wronged customers' after a 'trifecta of failures'.
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Hindmarsh Island bridge expert debunks ‘blue-banded bee’ tale
The anthropologist whose research helped to debunk the ‘fabricated’ secret women’s business at the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission has cast serious doubt on claims of a dreaming story about the blue-banded bee at the proposed Blayney gold mine.
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Tanks for the fight to save a democracy: Australia answers Kyiv’s firepower plea
Australia will donate 49 of the army’s M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine in the nation’s most significant and lethal contribution to the country’s war against Russia.
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