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Women’s footwear icon Wittner has collapsed into administration after more than a century in business.

Aussie icon collapses into administration

Australia’s first mail-order shoe business has given a sad update after over a century surviving two world wars and the invention of the internet.

Retail

Major Australian retailer collapses

A 100-year-old company that survived two world wars has been taken down by the cost-of-living in 2025.

A China Eastern Airlines plane is seen at the international airport in Sydney on Monday, June 12, 2017. The aircraft was forced to abort a flight to Shanghai and turn back to Sydney when a massive hole was ripped in part of its left engine. (AAP Image/Paul Miller) NO ARCHIVING

Business

China clips Boeing’s wings to the tune of $40bn

Beijing’s instruction to Chinese airlines not to take further delivery of Boeing jets or parts could cost the US manufacturer as much as $40bn.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, October 29 2024. GENERIC. Stocks. Finance. Economy. People walk past the Australian Stock Exchange, ASX, on Bridge Street. Picture: NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

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Energy stocks weigh as ASX closes flat; Sigma’s $297m selloff

Sigma’s billionaire director cashes in. Star shares down after roller-coaster start. Zip top gainer. BOQ lifts on profit beat. Asian markets red as Nvidia-led falls loom. China warns of US tariff pressures.

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Federal Election

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER, 03, 2020: A worker unloads Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) products outside the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

‘Sickly’: Huge call for soft drink tax

Doctors battling Australia’s chronic disease scourge want both major parties to implement a tax on ‘sickly’ soft drinks in a major pre-election wishlist.

Travel

The vertical stabilisers of a Qantas Boeing B737-838 plane, registration VH-VZQ, and a Virgin Australia Boeing B737-8FE plane, registration VH-VUZ, waiting at the northern end of the main runway of Sydney Kingsford-Smith Airport in preparation for departure. The Qantas plane is heading to Adelaide as flight QF741 and the Virgin plane is heading to Adelaide as flight VA428. In the background is another Virgin B737-8FE plane. This image was taken from Nigel Love Bridge, Mascot on a sunny afternoon on 3 December 2023.

$99 flights: Qantas, Virgin drop huge sales

Qantas and Virgin are offering discounted seats on dozens of domestic and international routes, as Australia’s airline price wars take a new turn.

Business

An Ecopulse distributed electric propulsion aircraft is on display during the Airbus summit 2025 at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, southern France, on March 24, 2025. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)

Dick Smith’s challenge to electric plane developers

Frustrated by the lack of progress in emissions-free air travel, Dick Smith is offering a valuable prize to the first person to fly an electric aircraft from England to Australia.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA : NewsWire Photos - MARCH 26 2025;A general view of people in the Sydney CBD spending money during lunch time. Every Australian tax payer earning over $18,200 will get a new tax cut. For a worker earning an average of $79,000 a year the tax cut is $5.15 extra a week, which in some cafes may cover the cost of a coffee and $10.30 in 2027-2028. Picture: NewsWire/ Gaye Gerard

Dutton WFH backflip highlights divide

A controversial feature in the election campaign has highlighted how working from home tensions are still bubbling under the surface in Aussie workplaces.

Business

People walk through Times Square in New York City on April 9, 2025. US President Donald Trump brushed off global market panic Wednesday after China and the European Union announced retaliatory tariffs, telling Americans to stay

US falling out of favour with Aussie travellers

Latest travel figures show just how far America has slumped on the list of destinations Australians book for international trips.

Markets

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 10: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on April 10, 2025 in New York City. Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's declared 90-day tariff pause for many countries, uncertainty remains in global trade, with the Dow and other international markets falling steeply again. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

ASX 200 trims falls as Trump, Asian markets await China response

The ASX 200 trimmed a big intraday fall as US stock index futures and US Treasuries reversed early losses. Asian stocks are mixed with the Nikkei 225 down 3 per cent and the Hang Seng index turning up 1.3 per cent. Xi Jinping will visit Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia next week for a response to Trump’s 145 per cent tariff war.

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