Minimum rage: Wage rise puts jobs at risk, prices up
Award wages will rise beyond inflation, intensifying pressure on businesses and increasing the risk that staff will lose hours – if not their jobs.
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Doctors slam government’s prescription medicine discount ban
Doctors have come out against the Albanese government’s new ban on prescription medicine discounts — which currently save pensioners $20 million a year and cost taxpayers nothing.
HMAS Lemon: $500m ship stuck at Garden Island for 14 months
Three-year-old HMAS Supply’s job is to replenish the Navy’s east-coast fleet so those vessels can stay on active duty. But a ‘very complex’ problem has seen it stuck in Sydney Harbour since March 2023.
Sydney company criminally charged over forklift driver’s death
Young father Tuaese Taufa was crushed to death while at work in Sydney’s west. Two years later, the company that employed him has been criminally charged.
Energy retailers attack regulator: ‘Customers who shop around will pay more’
After years of big increases, the regulated price for power will fall slightly from July, but energy retailers claim the decision will end up making most plans more expensive. Find out why.
Looming small biz red tape could kill economy’s ‘engine room’
Small business confidence levels have reached new depths as costs surge, customers refuse to spend and governments impose a “plethora” of new regulation, like country of origin labelling for anchovies on pizza.
Budget shows Albo’s Future Made in (Western) Australia
Perth-based billionaires are set to be biggest winners from the federal budget, as Anthony Albanese lavishes extraordinary amounts of taxpayer money on Western Australia – the state that delivered him the 2022 election.
‘Upwards pressure on inflation’: economists’ ominous forecast over interest rates
The federal budget has reduced the chances of an interest-rate cut this year and put “upwards pressure on inflation”, top economists have warned.
Want a passport in five days? That’ll be an extra $100, thanks
A regular passport takes up to six weeks and costs $346. Would you pay $100 more to get one in five days? The government is betting 50,000 people a year will.
$13m Covid rip-off: 120 fraudsters jailed over dodgy claims
About $13 million of dodgy claims for sole-trader financial support during Covid lockdowns has been clawed back, with more than 120 people convicted of fraud – including identity theft.
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