Written by Discount class action fresh headache for grocery giants Woolworths and Coles will fight class action lawsuits brought over claims they deceived customers with misleading promotions on everyday products, AAP reports. Law firm Gerard Malouf and Partners has lodged two class actions in the federal court against Australia’s largest supermarkets, alleging they breached Australian consumer law […]
Monique Ryan warns against putting billionaire like Gina Rinehart in Musk-style ‘government efficiency’ role Independent MP Monique Ryan has dismissed the idea Australia should appoint an Elon Musk-style billionaire into a “government efficiency” position. Musk has been appointed into the newly created position in the Trump administration, and Ryan was asked on the Today show […]
Senior Trump advisor replies to Rudd’s congratulations tweet with hourglass gif A senior Trump adviser has posted a gif of an hourglass in response to Kevin Rudd’s congratulation message to the incoming president. In a post to X on 7 November, Rudd – Australia’s ambassador to the US – shared a statement congratulation Donald Trump […]
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 […]
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 […]
Systems outage impacting international arrivals and departures Sydney airport has confirmed there are delays at immigration due to a national outage affecting Border Force processing systems. In a statement, the airport said passengers are being processed manually and that no flights have been affected – despite queues being longer than usual. Passengers travelling today are […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor says the country is off track, and asks why Australian families are paying the price for the government’s “reckless spending”. Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the Coalition gave Australia much higher public debt and student debt, while Labor […]
Good morning Well hello, Australia, and welcome to the third-last sitting week of the parliamentary year. I just learned that the word for that is “antepenultimate”. Prime minister Anthony Albanese joined South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas yesterday to kick off what some are referring to as the election campaign. When we’re all distracted by the […]
Unclaimed Myki credit sits at $115m Josh Taylor The Victorian government is holding $115m in unclaimed Myki funds in a trust, Guardian Australia can reveal. Last month, the NSW government announced it was holding $143m in unused Opal transport card funds from nearly 18m cards that hadn’t been tapped on for over a year, encouraging […]
ATO reveals almost a third of companies paid no income tax in 2022-23 Elias Visontay Australia’s largest corporations paid almost $100bn in income tax in a year, fresh statistics published by the government reveal. The latest data, released by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) on Friday, covers the 2022-23 financial year, and reveals the office […]