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ATO Credit Card Ban: Government Knew in July, Minister Admits
July. Canberra knew back then. The tax office wanted to ditch credit cards. Small businesses? They found out on 30 September. Two months’ notice, give…
Napoleon Perdis Data Breach: 340,000 Customers’ Details Exposed
Bought a lipstick or a palette from Napoleon Perdis a few years back? Your details might be floating around. Around 339,000 customer records got caught…
Egg ‘Cartel’ Case: ACCC Takes Australia’s Biggest Egg Supplier to Court
Australians eat more than 250 eggs each a year, on average. That’s a lot of omelettes. And according to the competition watchdog, some of the…
Santos-Sized Loopholes: Why Critics Say the Gas Reservation Plan Could Fall Flat
Australia digs up a mountain of gas. So why do east coast households and businesses keep paying through the nose for it? The federal government’s…
Renters Have Hit Their Limit, and the Rent Figures Finally Show It
Seven hundred dollars a week. That’s the going rate for a house in our capital cities. And for the first time in a long while,…
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ATO Credit Card Ban: Government Knew in July, Minister Admits
July. Canberra knew back then. The tax office wanted to ditch credit cards. Small businesses? They found out on 30 September. Two months’ notice, give…
Santos-Sized Loopholes: Why Critics Say the Gas Reservation Plan Could Fall Flat
Australia digs up a mountain of gas. So why do east coast households and businesses keep paying through the nose for it? The federal government’s…
ATO Credit Card Ban Delayed: Small Business Gets Some Breathing Space
Remember the 30 November cut-off for the ATO credit card ban? Scrap that. On Friday, Treasurer Jim Chalmers pushed it back to the end of…
Eight Months In, Australia’s Social Media Ban Still Isn’t Keeping Kids Offline
Australia’s social media ban set out to do something no other country had tried: keep children under 16 off the platforms entirely. Nearly a year…
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Cloudstreet Is Australia’s Favourite Book, 280,000 Votes Say So
Two families. One rambling old house in Perth. Twenty years of chaos. That’s Cloudstreet. And now it’s officially Australia’s favourite book. Tim Winton’s 1991 novel…
Napoleon Perdis Data Breach: 340,000 Customers’ Details Exposed
Bought a lipstick or a palette from Napoleon Perdis a few years back? Your details might be floating around. Around 339,000 customer records got caught…
Home Batteries Pocketed $2 Million in Two Hours When NSW’s Grid Got Caught Out
Sixty-nine bucks. That’s what the average Amber Electric customer made in about two hours last Monday arvo. They didn’t lift a finger. Their home batteries…
Powderfinger Tour 2027: Extra Shows Added After Presale Chaos
Thousands of fans. Long online queues. And plenty of people who missed out. That’s how Wednesday’s first Powderfinger presale went. Now the band has done…
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Did NASA Get Dark Energy Wrong? The Roman Space Telescope Aims to Find Out
The Hubble space telescope made some unique discoveries 30 years ago, which were mind boggling for scientists. They knew that the universe was expanding, but…
Wild at Heart: A Realistic Guide to Growing Australia’s Toughest Flora at Home
Every August, National Science Week turns the spotlight on something most of us walk past without a second look –the native plants growing wild along…
Planktons responsible for spectacular marine lightshow
It’s a common sight in Brisbane for people to see flares of electric blue around their feet when they are walking the ocean. It looks…
Australia’s ‘woody meadows’ raise biodiversity in cities
Every couple of years, someone rings Greater Dandenong Council convinced the woody meadow has been vandalized. Patrol staff explains, again, that nothing has died -the…
Stanford Scientists Use AI to Design Working Viruses, Raising Both Hope and Alarm
Why Is It Both: Alarming & Hopeful These viruses and bacteriopahge are not found in nature, and they are based off of genomes designed by…
High Definition pictures of sun’s surface by world’s largest telescope
This week, researchers published images of sun’s surface and plasma in the highest-resolution ever recorded, resolving structures down to a few tens of kilometers across…
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Home Batteries Pocketed $2 Million in Two Hours When NSW’s Grid Got Caught Out
Sixty-nine bucks. That’s what the average Amber Electric customer made in about two hours last Monday arvo. They didn’t lift a finger. Their home batteries…
Cat Curfews Coming? WA Councils Ready to Keep Pet Cats Indoors
Does your cat wander the neighbourhood at night? If you live in WA, that could soon land you in trouble. New WA cat laws are…
Fire Ants Found in Sydney’s Inner West, and They’ve Probably Spread
They’re tiny. Two to six millimetres long. But red imported fire ants are among the most feared pests on the planet, and a nest has…
A Small Hunter Valley Group Just Beat a Coal Giant in the High Court
Wendy Wales and her neighbours spent four years fighting a coal mine expansion near Muswellbrook. They took it through three levels of court. This week,…
Tassal Starts Injecting Salmon With Antibiotics as a Hot Summer
One fish at a time. That’s how Tassal is now treating its salmon in southern Tasmania. Each fish is caught, put under anaesthetic, injected with…
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How Aggressive Bupa Audits Are Pulling Patients’ Full Medical Records into View
Getting your claim processed by a health fund sounds like a straightforward transaction – you see a provider, they bill correctly, the fund pays out.…
5 Quick and Easy Chicken Recipes for Dinner
In busy weeknights, chicken dinner recipe still win Chicken is in a lot more dinners than almost anything else for a reason. It’s cheap, it…
Food safety Guide to Wild Mushroom Foraging in New South Wales
What Every Beginner Should Know Wild Mushroom hunting has grown in popularity throughout Australia, especially in the cooler months. Experts always remind locals to be…
According to a new study, there are common reasons for pregnancy loss.
Pregnancy Loss affects thousands of Australians every year, yet many people remain unaware of how common it is and what symptoms to look for. A…