International
Ticket sellers, Virgin flight credits and a 25-hour laundry cycle: meet Choice’s 2026 Shonky award winners
Australia’s worst products and services for the year have been named by Australian consumer advocacy group Choice
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Public service union refuses to back Labor at Victorian election, condemning job cuts and $1.2bn consultant spend
Exclusive: Community and Public Sector Union denounces ‘privatisation by stealth’, joining growing number of unions refusing to back Carroll government
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International
Has the tide finally turned on One Nation’s ‘crude and cruel’ political cartoons? – Full Story podcast
Matilda Boseley talks to marketing expert Toby Ralph about whether there’s a place for One Nation’s Please Explain cartoon in a political climate where politicians are begging to ‘turn the temperature down’.
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International
Snowy Hydro 2.0 executives awarded bonuses totalling $751,925 despite cost blowout
Annual reports show NSW renewable company’s CEO opted out of cash bonus, while CSIRO’s chief received an extra $200,000
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International
For Avelima’s family, every RBA rate hike means more shifts, a stretched budget – and less time together
Australian families feel like the goalposts are ‘constantly moving’ as they face the impact of a fifth rate rise
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International
‘I am deeply sorry’: Craig Silvey pens 9,000-word apology for child exploitation material offences
The children’s author claims he experienced trauma in childhood as he begins seven-month sentence for possessing depraved material
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‘I am deeply sorry’: Craig Silvey pens 9,000-word apology for child exploitation material offences
The children’s author claims he experienced trauma in childhood as he begins seven-month sentence for possessing depraved material
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Major Queensland hospital to close pathology labs amid potential formaldehyde exposure investigation
About 400 staff affected by closure at both Mater’s Brisbane and Springfield hospitals, with financial sustainability of pathology business a factor
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International
Voters were already frustrated before the RBA’s fifth rate hike. Labor will be hoping its luck hasn’t run out
Tuesday’s RBA decision will add more pain for households and Pauline Hanson and Angus Taylor stand to benefit if voters keep punishing Labor
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Finance
RBA interest rates: Bullock says ‘pain now’ will prevent worse later as Reserve Bank hikes rates for fifth time
Reserve Bank of Australia increases official cash rate to 4.85%, bringing it to highest level since 2008 RBA interest rates live updates: Reserve Bank cash rate decision Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast The Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has said that “some pain now will prevent even worse pain down the track”, after lifting official interest rates to an 18-year high of 4.85% in a bid to combat persistent inflation. The RBA’s decision to hit mortgage holders for a fifth time in 2026 will intensify pressure on indebted households, but there were signs that th
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International
Australia’s social media ban ‘ill-thought-out’, Reddit argues in high court challenge
Reddit challenges ban on grounds it impinges implied freedom of political communications for teens
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International
Bullock doesn’t see ‘economy cracking at this point’ – as it happened
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