Australia Business News API

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            "title": "Vitrinite employees owed $16 million as Vulcan mine bids come due",
            "description": "Federal Court documents show employees of the Vitrinite group of companies are collectively owed more than $16 million in entitlements. The mine near Dysart in Central Queensland has faced ongoing financial difficulties, exacerbated by lower coal prices.",
            "content": "Workers at the troubled Vulcan coal mine in Central Queensland are owed more than $16 million in entitlements, according to a winding up application in the Federal Court.\nThe mine's owner, the Brisbane-based Vitrinite group of companies, went into vo... [2994 chars]",
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            "title": "linked investors to offload shares in Australian rare earths mine",
            "description": "The federal treasurer orders another six companies to divest their holdings in Northern Minerals as concerns grow in Canberra that Chinese-backed investors are trying to seize control of the rare earths mining company.",
            "content": "Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has ordered another six companies to divest their holdings in Northern Minerals as concerns grow in Canberra that Chinese-backed investors are trying to seize control of the rare earths mining company.\nThe six investors... [3059 chars]",
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            "title": "WA mouse plague pushes regulator to approve stronger bait",
            "description": "Farm groups have welcomed the chemical regulator's long-awaited decision to approve double-strength mouse baits amid plague numbers in Western Australia and South Australia.",
            "content": "Australia's chemical regulator has approved an emergency permit for double-strength mouse baits for grain paddocks amid mouse plagues in Western Australia and South Australia's farming regions.\nAfter what farmers and rural community leaders have desc... [5142 chars]",
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