Topic: Labour & Workers — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-17 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Livestock Farming
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[2026-03-17 06:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Construction and Real Estate Industry
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[2026-03-17 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A scholarship is considered a blessing for any student. Undergraduates are no exception. It is a custom among a considerable number of undergraduates to send their scholarship money to their ageing parents. These parents are either too old to work or have no reliable source of income. Many students also take up part-time jobs to support their families.
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[2026-03-17 05:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The WNBA logo is seen near a hoop before an WNBA basketball game at Mohegan Sun Arena, May 14, 2019, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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[2026-03-17 05:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Chicago Bears’ Nahshon Wright in action during an NFL football game, Nov. 28, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
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[2026-03-17 05:18 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Allan government is facing teacher strikes in the lead-up to November’s state election after the Australian Education Union on Monday rejected its offer of a 17 per cent pay increase over four years.
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[2026-03-17 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-03-17 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The builders of a flagship western Sydney tennis centre have been ordered to pay a council $835,000 after losing a long-running legal stoush over defects and cracking courts.
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[2026-03-17 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Allan government’s infrastructure tsar privately warned the premier of serious wrongdoing on Labor’s $100 billion Big Build and was a co-director on a high-level board that estimated CFMEU lawlessness and criminality had caused cost blowouts of up to 30 per cent on taxpayer-funded projects.
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[2026-03-17 04:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Tenants paying top dollar for modern New York City apartments are battling chronic maintenance issues.
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[2026-03-17 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A European Union border agency patrol boat carrying five people, including the Estonian ambassador to Greece, has sunk off Greece’s easternmost island, the Greek coast guard said Monday. Four injured people were airlifted to a hospital on the island of Rhodes.
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[2026-03-17 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Saks Global — owner of luxury stores including Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus — is cutting over 1,200 jobs as it shutters more than a dozen locations nationwide following its bankruptcy filing earlier this year.
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[2026-03-17 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The European Union is losing credibility because it is not pushing back against the US, former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said. He criticized the bloc’s passive stance on the Iran war and a trade deal with Washington, according to Politico.
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[2026-03-17 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: European leaders have rejected demands by United States President Donald Trump to help ensure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz as foreign ministers from the European Union gathered in Brussels to discuss skyrocketing oil prices during the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-03-17 01:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Dangerous storms and the TSA pay freeze have forced more than 2,000 flights to be canceled across the country as major airports were paralyzed by ground stops Monday morning.
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[2026-03-16 22:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Antoine Dupont of France holds the trophy aloft after clinching the title after winning the Six Nations rugby union match between France and England in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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[2026-03-16 21:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The European Union on Monday announced 458 million euros ($525 million) in humanitarian aid for the Middle East, in response to the conflicts in the region such as the US-Israeli war with Iran and Israel's war in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-16 21:10 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus, where we aim to deliver frank and fearless titbits – from the bowels of the state bureaucracy to the top of One William Street and beyond. This week: native title questions swirl, (Red) Union boss’ board gig, slow progress on police integrity, and more.
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[2026-03-16 20:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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[2026-03-16 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Antisemitism] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Poll of students of all faiths and none found almost a quarter had seen Jews targeted for their religion or ethnicity
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[2026-03-16 19:35 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A Somali support group which has helped refugees in Melbourne access jobs, legal advice, schools and housing for 35 years could itself become homeless this week despite pleading with Premier Jacinta Allan for new digs eight months ago.
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[2026-03-16 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A popular electric go-karting track at Sydney’s Entertainment Quarter is facing permanent closure after the City of Sydney rejected an application to extend its operating approval – a decision that could put more than 150 jobs at risk and strip the precinct of one of its busiest attractions.
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[2026-03-16 18:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: "A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." That was how Winston Churchill famously described Russia (the Soviet Union as it then was), back in 1939.
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[2026-03-16 18:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday said the bloc is discussing ways to keep the Strait of Hormuz open amid rising tensions affecting global energy supplies.
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[2026-03-16 18:07 UTC+10:00] [Six Nations 2026] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: France’s dramatic triumph was proof that Test rugby played at full throttle ranks among the most compelling spectacles
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[2026-03-16 17:20 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Afternoon Update here, and start your day with our Morning Mail newsletter.
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[2026-03-16 16:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Poland’s economy has been transformed dramatically since the fall of communism in 1989. Once struggling, it is now one of Europe’s most successful. Poland’s GDP has risen significantly, and the economy has grown steadily since joining the European Union in 2004. (AP Video by Pietro de Cristofaro)
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[2026-03-16 15:18 UTC+10:00] [Politics / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A felled blue tree intended to spark community conversations about depression has become the latest flashpoint in the fight over the Cook government’s planned Burswood racetrack, with the state vowing to replace it.
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[2026-03-16 14:43 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
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[2026-03-16 14:26 UTC+10:00] [Victorian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Class action settles after retailers argued state government should pay them for economic loss resulting from pandemic lockdown
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[2026-03-16 13:18 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: BRUSSELS (Reuters) -- European Union foreign ministers will discuss this week bolstering a small naval mission in the Middle East but are not expected to decide on extending its role to the choked-off Strait of Hormuz, diplomats and officials say.
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[2026-03-16 12:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Billy Crystal was joined by more than a dozen stars from Rob Reiner’s films to pay an emotional tribute to the late director during Sunday’s Oscars 2026.
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[2026-03-16 11:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Few misinformation efforts beat the “Democratic-media” complex’s work “to tag the Trump administration with a global energy crisis,” thunders The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel.
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[2026-03-16 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Podcast king Joe Rogan unleashed a profanity-laced tirade about what he called rampant government “waste and fraud” in California — blasting politicians and pundits who say wealthy taxpayers simply need to “pay their fair share.”
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[2026-03-16 10:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Major League Baseball Players Association Senior Director, Collective Bargaining & Legal, Bruce Meyer answers a question at a news conference in their offices in New York, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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[2026-03-16 10:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Dallas Goedert and the Eagles have agreed to terms on a one-year contract, helping Philadelphia avoid a dead cap hit of over $20 million, according to multiple reports.
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[2026-03-16 10:15 UTC+10:00] [delivery] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: I Deliver Parcels in Beijing author Hu Anyan and videographer Kong Yiu-wing talk about making art out of hard, blue-collar labour
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[2026-03-16 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El portero de Union Berlin, Matheo Raab, centro, celebra con sus compañeros después de la victoria de su equipo en la Bundesliga ante el SC Freiburg, el domingo 15 de marzo de 2026, en Freiburgo, Alemania. (Silas Stein/dpa via AP)
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[2026-03-16 09:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Union Berlin goalkeeper Matheo Raab, center, celebrates with his teammates after winning a German Bundesliga soccer match against SC Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany, Sunday, March 15, 2026. (Silas Stein/dpa via AP)
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[2026-03-16 08:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran has announced a sharp increase in the national minimum wage as the country grapples with inflation and economic strain.
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[2026-03-16 08:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The chief executive officers of major US airlines urged Congress on Sunday to move quickly to end a 29-day partial government shutdown that has forced 50,000 airport security officers to work without pay, warning it could further disrupt US air travel.
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[2026-03-16 07:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Marina Shafir couldn’t stop “howling” as best friend Ronda Rousey ripped into the UFC over the issue of fighter pay during her Netflix press conference last week.
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[2026-03-16 07:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The WNBA logo is seen near a hoop before an WNBA basketball game at Mohegan Sun Arena, May 14, 2019, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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[2026-03-16 07:21 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: New AAA data shows petrol vehicles fell to a record quarterly low of 66.3% of sales. Follow today’s news live
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[2026-03-16 06:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The killing of a Nepali security guard in Abu Dhabi highlights the growing risks faced by millions of migrant workers across the Gulf. (ABC News: Bhat Burhan)
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[2026-03-16 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: HNB PLC has enabled Google Wallet support for its Debit Card customers, allowing eligible cardholders to make contactless payments using Google Pay through Android smartphones and supported wearable devices.
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[2026-03-16 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Government yesterday activated a mandatory National Fuel Authorisation System, requiring a unique QR code for all fuel purchases at petrol pumps. A consumer shows his QR code to a worker at a fuel station in Kaduwela prior to obtaining petrol.
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[2026-03-16 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Hundreds of TSA officers have quit over the federal budget battle that left them working without pay –fueling hours-long flight delays and Department of Homeland Security videos blaming Dems for the travel nightmare.
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[2026-03-16 06:00 UTC+10:00] [England rugby union team] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Despite a huge upswing in performance against France, the head coach still has a case to answer for what went wrong in the Six Nations
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[2026-03-16 05:29 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Nearly month-long funding lapse has disrupted US air travel and caused long wait times amid security officers’ absences
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