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ABC News Top Stories delivers the biggest breaking news and headlines from Australia and around the world, updated throughout the day. Get fast, trusted coverage of politics, business, extreme weather, and major national events from the ABC's newsroom direct to your podcast feed. Whether you're catching up on the morning's top headlines or need a quick update between meetings, ABC News Top Stories gives you the essential news of the day. You can also hear the biggest stories of the day explained in-depth in just a few minutes.
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- Yesterday1 min
Teen fights for life after alleged Melbourne car arson | ABC News Top Stories
Friends of a Victorian teenager fighting for life after a botched arson earlier this week have told the ABC they're praying he survives. The boy remains in a critical condition with burns to 90 per cent of his body after he and three others allegedly set cars on fire in Melbourne's northwest on Monday.The New South Wales Supreme Court has released video footage allegedly showing Beau Lamarre-Condon making preparations to dispose of the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. The former police officer is accused of murdering the couple and has pleaded not guilty.The acting prime minister says the tax office will continue to work with small businesses affected by a ban on credit card payments for tax bills. The ATO announced last week that it will stop accepting credit card payments for tax bills from December.Press the 'Follow' or '+' button on this show page to add us to your playlist, so you never miss an episode.For more news, politics and current affairs podcasts go to ABC listen.
- Yesterday3 min
Will the ATO be forced to accept credit cards?
The Australian Taxation Office has announced it will stop accepting credit cards as payments from 1 December, in response to the Reserve Bank's reforms to ban surcharge fees on card payments.The ATO says absorbing the surcharge would effectively transfer the cost to all taxpayers, but the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants the decision reversed.So what does the change mean for small businesses that use credit cards to manage their cash flow?
- Yesterday3 min
Rents are flatlining, so why it's not such good news
There's some new data out that could sound like good news for renters: it shows that rents are flat lining in most capital cities.In fact, for the first time in two years, the price of rent in Sydney has even dropped!But rents aren't going up anymore because tenants are at breaking point after years of increases.
- Yesterday3 min
How consequential is the High Court ruling on Australian coal mining?
The High Court has found planning authorities must factor in the emissions from fossil fuels burned overseas when approving projects, such as mines. The judgement centres on a New South Wales mine expansion. While environmental groups are hailing the case as a win, law experts are sceptical it will set a broader legal precedent across the country.
- Yesterday2 min
Genetic testing legal protections begin. What's changing?
Life insurance companies are now legally banned from using genetic test results to deny people cover or charge them more.It ends a long and anxious wait for some Australians, who've been delaying the tests out of fear for their insurance.
- Yesterday3 min
The mystery illness at a Russian plague laboratory explained
A mystery illness linked to a plague laboratory in Russia is being watched around the world, after a 28-year-old woman died on October 2.Russian authorities say they have traced her contacts and the situation is stable.So what do we know and is there any reason to be alarmed about pneumonic plague?
- 2 days ago3 min
Christa Pike is speaking, can she be put to death again?
Lawyers for US death row inmate Christa Pike say she is awake and speaking six days after Tennessee's attempt to execute her by lethal injection failed.Tennessee's governor has halted executions for the rest of the year and ordered a review, and the state's prison chief is resigning.A legal expert says Pike may satisfy the legal test for cruel and unusual punishment, and her attorneys will ask the governor to commute her sentence to life in prison without parole.
- 2 days ago3 min
What the Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery merger means for Hollywood
Paramount Pictures has bought Warner Bros Discovery in a mega-merger that has created Skydance, one of the biggest media empires in the world.Skydance will control HBO, DC Comics, New Line Cinema, CBS, CNN and Channel 10 in Australia, and will be led by David Ellison, son of tech billionaire and Trump ally Larry Ellison.Entertainment journalist Kim Masters says large layoffs are widely expected, and a Deakin University professor says the merger could undermine American democracy.
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