Australia news live: Brisbane school closed ‘with immediate effect’ amid play sand health warnings; ASX falls sharply after Wall Street sell-off

More than a dozen ACT primary and preschools closed after asbestos warning issued for range of colourful children’s products. Follow today’s news live

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Some ACT schools partially closed, with preschools also affected over asbestos warning for play sand

The list of schools closed in the ACT also includes partial closures affecting multiple classes and preschool closures.

What we’ve done is been very clear and said we’re going back to an approach where the market will determine the types of technologies and the pathways. And that is the traditional Liberal approach to addressing these types of issues. And that’s how business gets certainty because it enables the market to dictate.

I think people will understand that they don’t want us racing ahead of the rest of the world, costing us manufacturing jobs, costing us industry jobs and putting unrealistic and unreasonable pressure on households because of their electricity bills.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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