Dire warning for Aussies amid stunning shopping reality
With Aussies expected to splash out a staggering $10.5b at the end of financial year sales, experts are warning shoppers to be aware.
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One in three uni students drop out. These are the courses they’re bailing on
Victorian university students are spending thousands of dollars on degrees they never complete. These are the courses they’re most likely to bail out of.
How Celia Pacquola blew a role in the world’s biggest TV show
Comedian Celia Pacquola has mustered up the strength to tell her darkest story — how she lost out on a role in TV sensation Bluey.
How many Labor MPs does it take to dig out of a $200bn debt?
Backroom Baz: Have you got a $200bn debt? Follow the Labor example and spend a few hundred dollars on shovels to try and dig your way out of it.
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Alleged Prahran arsonist who set himself alight screams in distress
A passerby caught the moment a man was rolling around on Chapel Street moments after he allegedly set a dessert bar and tobacconist on fire
Boat owners’ lives at risk as marine safety inspections abandoned
The Victorian Fisheries Authority has ordered its officers to stop all marine safety inspections, putting boat owners’ lives at risk.
Shock move IVF parents making to ensure babies are their own
Parents who’ve had children through IVF are considering DNA tests to confirm they are actually their own, after baby-making giant Monash refused to rule out more bungles could occur.
‘15th in world’: Warning over Aussie military spending
Amid a push for Australia to increase military spending, new data shows we rank just 15th among global defence budgets – and are dwarfed by Saudi Arabia, Poland and India.
‘Funding Putin’s war machine’: Forrest calls for end to Russian fuel imports
Mining billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest has called on the Albanese government to shut the tap on massive fuel imports containing Russian oil, saying Australian mums and dads should not be funding Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Hospital’s alleged data fraud referred to auditor general
Victoria’s auditor general has been asked to investigate reporting and auditing processes across Victorian hospitals, after claims surfaced that staff at one facility had been falsifying records to meet workload targets.
Cop who fought to uncover predator priest honoured by Premier
A former detective who was forced out of the police force over his attempts to investigate child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has been remembered by Jacinta Allan as someone who “never wavered in his commitment to uncover the truth”.
‘Human error’: Bungled road work fix behind Princes Freeway chaos
A top Department of Transport official has blamed a bungled road works job at an expansion joint for Wednesday’s traffic meltdown on the Princes Freeway.
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