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Sophie ElsworthEurope Correspondent

Sophie is Europe correspondent for News Corporation Australia and began reporting from Europe in November 2024. Her role includes covering all the big issues in Europe reporting for titles including The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, daily and Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail and Brisbane’s Sunday Mail and Adelaide’s The Advertiser and Sunday Mail as well as regional and community brands. She has worked at numerous News Corp publications throughout her career and was media writer at The Australian, based in Melbourne, for four years before moving to the UK. She has also worked as a reporter at the Herald Sun in Melbourne, The Advertiser in Adelaide and The Courier-Mail in Brisbane and on the Sunshine Coast. Sophie regularly appears on TV and is a Sky News Australia contributor appearing on primetime programs including Credlin and The Kenny Report, a role she continues while in Europe. She graduated from university with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees and grew up on a sheep farm in central Victoria.

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Zoe Rumble, 20, and partner Noah Churches, 21, were booked to go to Europe for a month in June and are fighting with Flight Centre to get all their money back.Picture by Wayne Taylor 28th April 2020

Angry travel customers want refund fees ditched

Irate jetsetters who have been dudded on getting their travel booking money refunded have caused a 3000 per cent surge in complaints to the consumer watchdog.

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13/02/2016: Generic picture of Commonwealth Bank branch, Sydney. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Banks slammed over deceptive home loan rates

The nation’s biggest banks have come under fire for making it confusing for customers to compare home loan interest rate deals.

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A couple working out their finances and discussing their home loan. Picture: iStock.

Before taking super out, Aussies must know this

More than $4.4 billion has been released to Australians who have raced to access their superannuation early. And there’s one key thing you must check before applying for a withdrawal.

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Best ways to support Aussie businesses during COVID-19

Australians who are fortunate enough to have cash in their pockets are being encouraged to support local businesses. Here are the easiest ways to do it.

A woman with her computer and bank statements sitting at a desk. She is also analysing her superannuation statement. Picture: iStock.

The big mistakes people make accessing super early

Cash-strapped Australians tapping into their retirement savings early need to be very careful on how they spend their hard-earned money.

Melissa Roscoe, 25, recently got a home loan and said the bank was asking her to explain in explicit detail expenses she was spending on including at Bunnings as she is renovating her home. The story is about how now the banks can watch you more than ever because all transactions are being made via card. Picture: Tony Gough

Banks are watching what you spend during lockdown

Banks are drilling down into customer expenses more than ever before as it becomes much harder to hide transactions due to pressures to pay by card.

Melbourne-based tech start-up, HotDoc, is Australia's largest patient engagement platform and has partnered with the Federal Government to help them roll out COVID-19 testing. HotDoc has begun rolling out the software in more than 100 Federal Government GP clinics to help make booking appointments faster and more seamless. HotDoc founder Dr Ben Hurst is pictured at the Armadale Family Clinic. Picture : Ian Currie

Melbourne start-up fast-tracking COVID-19 testing

A Melbourne-based start-up is seeing a surge in business by helping fast-track Aussies’ COVID-19 test during the pandemic. Here’s how HotDoc’s helping ease the healthcare system’s load.

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Retiree David Evans, 69, had four international flights booked to Los Angeles in May and is annoyed about the process to get his money back. He said he will have to pay a 30 per cent charge on each ticket which cost $1000 each to get a refund, otherwise he can get a credit from Flight Centre which he doesn't want as he's worried about the future of the company.

Airline customers seething at refund policies

Angry airline customers still believe they are not getting a fair deal when it comes to obtaining refunds on flights they cannot take.

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Lawrence Walker, 51, owns Frankston Window and Cleaning Service and has applied to access his super early. He is withdrawing $10,000 now and another $6000 next financial year which is all of his retirement savings. He's using it to pay off a credit card debt. He said each day his super balance is dropping due to market falls and he can't get his money quick enough. Photos of him please working on the job. He is to look complacent because he can't access his money. Picture- Nicole Cleary

The trap leaving Aussies with less super to access early

Desperate Australians are rushing to access their superannuation to help cope during the COVID-19 but many are ending up with smaller balances as applications get processed.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 27, 2017 Britain's Prince Harry and his fiancée US actress Meghan Markle pose for a photograph in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace in west London following the announcement of their engagement. - The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have told the UK's tabloid press they are ending all co-operation with them on April 20, 2020. (Photo by Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

Meghan Markle has no class or sparkle

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are not taking on a fight that sets out to dispute that the actor has “immense wealth and privilege”.

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