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Australia’s Debt 05/05/2023

Paying interest on Australia’s debt will cost $700 every second for the next five years as the federal government moves to target mega gas profits, high super balances, smokers and multinationals with tax hikes to raise budget revenue. 

A man who turned up to television star Sophie Monk’s house holding a single rose claims he was duped by an online scammer into believing he was in a relationship with the Love Island host. 

The Andrews government is set to hike the average WorkCover premium to 1.8 per cent and exclude stress and overwork from insurance claims in a major shake-up of the scheme. 

A woman has told of the horrors of driving from Rockhampton Hospital to her home in Gladstone with her dead baby on her lap in a box she bought from Spotlight. 

Glenelg footballer Brady Searle has failed in his bid to have a hefty six-match SANFL suspension reduced in an incident that has left his Norwood opponent with a fractured neck. 

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