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Alice Springs, Australia – For Ben Hall, the CEO of tour bus operator AAT Kings, business lately has been tough. He says visitors are not booking tours to Uluru, a huge sandstone monolith that is the most famous attraction in Australia’s vast Northern Territory, in the numbers they used to. “We’ve certainly seen the trips […]
Coles chair says cost-of-living issues have been ‘politicised’ Jonathan Barrett The Coles chair, James Graham, has opened the supermarket’s annual general meeting by defending the company’s profit levels and criticising “politicised” attacks. Graham told shareholders in Melbourne today that: In this context, it has been disappointing to see how cost-of-living issues have been politicised and […]
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If the second Trump Administration is as incompetent and corrupt as the first, Australia will win handsomely again, as Alan Austin reports. GLOBAL TRADE, when managed skillfully, benefits both buyers and sellers. But sometimes there are winners and losers. When Donald Trump imposed tariffs on imports from China in 2018, China retaliated, costing thousands of […]
Project Earth: Emperor penguins threatened by climate change Project Earth: Emperor penguins threatened by climate change 02:53 Melbourne, Australia — An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday. The adult male was found on Nov. 1 […]
Heading into the third international break of the 2024-25 football schedule, 18 member nations of the AFC are fighting it out for six automatic spots at the 2026 World Cup. Battling through the first and second rounds of qualifying, the remaining countries find themselves in three groups of six, with the top two in each […]
Since Donald Trump’s reelection as US president, Australian leaders have spent considerable airtime assuring voters there’s nothing to worry about. Headlines were dominated this morning by Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ speech to the Australian Institute of International Affairs, claiming Australia is well-placed to handle any potential economic consequences of the next Trump administration. Of course Trump […]
Australian gold miner Resolute has confirmed the company’s boss, along with two other executives, are being held by authorities in the military-ruled African state of Mali. Resolute said in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange its chief executive Terence Holohan and two other employees are being held in the Economic and Financial Centre of […]
Victoria Cross for Vietnam war veteran who ran into enemy fire to help comrades Kate Lyons The governor general and prime minister have announced the posthumous awarding of the Victoria Cross, Australia’s highest military honour, to Private Richard Norden, a veteran of the Vietnam war. Norden, then aged 19, ran into enemy fire after his […]