The Editorial Team

Alexis Carey has been a reporter for more than 10 years, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communications from the University of Sydney in 2009 before landing a role at her local paper in Griffith, NSW. Alexis has since worked for NewsCorp Australia’s local news titles and at the Mamamia Women’s Network before taking a career break to travel. She joined news.com.au in 2017 as a finance reporter and then finance editor before joining the news team in 2020.

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Politics

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is seen during a visit to Gipsy Plains Station near Cloncurry, Friday, May 24, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Emotional ScoMo chokes back tears

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has made an emotional return to Queensland to visit cattle farmers devastated by floods earlier this year.

Election

Albo’s brutal Tony Abbott sledge

It was his first appearance as likely Labor leader – but Anthony Albanese couldn’t resist taking a swipe at our former PM at the same time.

At Work

Unemployed Tired or stressed businessman sitting on the walkway after work Stressed businessman concept

Man sacked after three days sick leave

Cancer patient Chanintorn Siri took three days off work. Soon after, his bosses made the “extraordinarily heartless” decision to dismiss him.

Retail

Photo showing a girl scanning her shopping (including fresh fruit / organic strawberries) at a self-service supermarket checkout till (also known as 'Self Checkouts' and 'Semi Attended Customer Activated Terminals' - SACAT. Self-service checkouts are quickly becoming commonplace in large supermarkets, reducing staff costs and replacing the need for cashiers.

‘Crazy’ checkout fee plan slammed

A group of UK politicians has come up with a bizarre idea to charge shoppers a tax for using supermarket self-checkout machines.

At Work

fingerprint and access control in a office building

Man sacked over epic fingerprint battle

Aussie worker Jeremy Lee was fired after refusing to hand over his fingerprints at work. After a 15-month legal fight, he finally won.

Wealth

ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY - FEE APPLIES FOR REUSE _ Photo from 2014 of Jordan Adlard Rogers, then aged 26, when he jumped off a fence onto a trampoline, missed and injured his back. Jordan has now inherited a stately home. See SWNS story SWPLestate. A man who inherited one of west Cornwall â€™s grandest estate homes has described the bizarre tale of how ended up moving in but said heâ€™d have traded it all for the chance to steer his father away from the drug abuse that claimed his life. Cornwall Live last week reported the inquest of Charles Rogers, who was found dead in his car in August last year aged 62. Charles was part of the Rogers family who have lived in the 1536-acre National Trust Penrose Estate between Helston and Porthleven for generations, gifting it to the National Trust in 1974 in exchange for a 1,000-year lease to continue living there. Charles had struggled with drug abuse for many years and his inquest Picture: SWNS/Mega

‘Secret son’ scores $92m estate

A down-and-out labourer has ditched his council home for a sprawling estate after a DNA test revealed he was the son of an aristocrat.

Australian Markets

ScoMo’s $33b surprise gift

He’s only just won the unwinnable election — but Prime Minister Scott Morrison has already caused a multibillion-dollar share market surge.

Election

Australian Labor leader Bill Shorten conceding defeat at the Federal Labor Reception at Hyatt Place Melbourne, Essendon Fields, in Melbourne, Saturday, 18 May, 2019. Approximately 16.5 million Australians have today voted in what is tipped to be a tight election contest between Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Australian Opposition leader Bill Shorten. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Defeated Labor’s impossible dilemma

The ALP is now at a “crossroads” after losing an unlosable election. Whether the party recovers — or not — depends on one key choice.

At Work

Police officers have released an E-Fit of a man they wish to speak to regarding a burglary. Picture: Facebook/Northamptonshire Police

World loses it over cops’ photo fail

It was supposed to help track down a burglar — but instead, this hilariously botched picture has been compared to a “Lego character”.

Retail

Adelaide, Australia - August 18, 2013: Browsing the ebay webpage on an ipad. eBay is one of the largest online auction and shopping websites in the world.

Shocking $600 iPhone eBay ‘scam’

Nobby Kleinman paid hundreds for a phone that never arrived. But the response from police and eBay was almost as bad as the original “con”.

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