‘Best mum-in-law’: Signal messages released
The Victorian Supreme Court has been shown exchanges within the Patterson family discussing Covid-19, maths tutoring and Mother’s Day.
Coronavirus
New Covid variant spreads rapidly in Aus
Australians are being urged to get vaccinated against Covid as another strain of the illness becomes dominant across the country as we head into winter.
Two top jobs, two Kiwis and a police scramble
New Zealand’s Covid-19 response leader will become Victoria’s top health official, as the Allan government scrambles to legalise the appointment of another Kiwi to head police.
New Covid strain rising in Australia
A new Covid-19 subvariant is being closely monitored by health authorities as infections begin to rise in parts of Australia.
Why this French Impressionism show deserves blockbuster status
Famed pieces from Monet, Renoir and Degas are going to become frequent fliers by making their second global crossing from Boston to Melbourne for this NGV exhibition.
Victoria is becoming the Greece of Oceania
Labor’s destructive borrowing binge, much of it brought about by insane Covid-19 policies and building dubiously beneficial infrastructure for ‘trains to nowhere’, was made possible by institutional lenders, local and foreign, who were happy to shovel billions to the renegade state.
Slow magic of the music abides
Big Lebowski star Jeff Bridges has survived cancer, Covid and bushfire disaster – and released an album.
Eye-watering sum Qantas saved after sackings
The airline was faced with a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to save millions each year after illegally sacking workers.
Eye-watering sum Qantas saved after sackings
The airline was faced with a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to save millions each year after illegally sacking workers.
Shocking rate of kids skipping school
Data has revealed a dramatic drop in children attending schools across Australia, but experts aren’t able to determine the exact reason.
Power shift: Crows officially retaking SA from stumbling Port
Ahead of a crucial Showdown in Port Adelaide’s last season under Ken Hinkley, Matt Turner examines whether the balance of power in Adelaide has shifted to the Crows for the first time since 2017.
Uighur artist refuses to be hemmed in by borders of politics
Aniwar Mamat’s work is inspired by traditional felt makers in China’s Xinjiang province as well as by the corrugated iron sheets outside his window during Beijing’s Covid lockdown.
Transport on the brink: Trucking companies collapse in record numbers
Once a covid pandemic success story, the transport and logistics sector has had a 180 per cent plus increase in insolvencies in less than three years and there’s more to come.
China’s export orders plunge in first major signs of tariffs damage
A gauge of new export orders has fallen to its lowest reading since Covid-19, while manufacturing activity in China is the weakest in more than a year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Warning to Aussies amid fears of Covid spike
Australians are being urged to protect themselves and their loved ones this winter amid reports a new Covid variant is on the rise.
WFH cuts weekly commute time
Australians who worked from home since the Covid pandemic have cut their commute times by 3.4 hours a week, a time saving worth an estimated $5308 a year.
Do our children deserve an apology for Covid lockdowns?
In this work of fiction, a Baby Boomer pens a heartfelt apology to her daughter and grandchildren. Should she – and her generation – have done more to curb Victoria’s lengthy lockdowns?
Amazon, YouTube, NFL: How DJ’s side hustle grew to $25m empire
A former NSW DJ has become a global sensation, growing his Covid-era side hustle into a $25m empire, counting giants like Amazon, NFL and Justin Bieber as clients.
Covid drama, big shock! Stars, standouts in 1st Colts rugby Rd 3
There was a big shock, a thriller and a win to cheer along with done Covid drama in Rd 3 of 1st Colts. Stars, standouts, result wrap and great photos.
Is covid rewriting the rules of ageing? Brain decline alarms doctors
Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties.
Jobs data shows post-Covid property market shift
We are passing through an era of record job growth, but it is the kind of jobs that are expanding and contracting and their respective impacts on property that is most telling.
‘Dwarfs Covid’: China act to tank Australia
The Australian economy is vulnerable to a recession larger than the global financial crisis on this simple act by China.
Brothers deliver on family furniture legacy
McPhails in Wangaratta has battled through the death of its family patriarch and the Covid lockdowns to become a thriving business.
Tariffs or not, value always wins in the end
We’ve seen markets behave similarly during Covid and the GFC, and good value stocks always retain their appeal — even if investors must be more discerning.
Wealthy mates are cashing in on the stockmarket roller-coaster
The immediate response from so many punters waking up to the latest tariff news was ‘damn I missed out on the biggest trading opportunity since Covid’.
ASX wipes $47bn on Trump tariffs
The ASX resumed its sell-off on Wednesday with investors selling off the major miners as commodity prices slump.
Mum and dad investors jumped into a falling market … now the wait
Everyday investors – pumped up by big returns from the Covid-19 crash – are now making big bets on the tariff war.
Labor lifts spending higher than Covid years
Labor’s spending trajectory will reach more than $30,000 per person within the next four years, eclipse government expenditure during the Covid-19 pandemic, and reach the highest levels per capita on record.
ASX defies US recession fears
The ASX 200 has bounced back after suffering its biggest one-day fall since the start of the Covid pandemic.
Making good time amid a challenging period
Hublot’s CEO says the luxury watch industry is still in a position of normalisation following its much fabled post-Covid era of boom. And that this is not necessarily a bad thing.
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