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The head of one of Britain’s largest retailers has said self-serve check-outs are fuelling a surge in “middle class” shoplifting. The chairman of food and clothing giant Marks and Spencer Archie Norman said self-serve was encouraging theft…

Protesters who vandalised Starbucks and McDonald’s stores in Melbourne during a large pro-Palestine demonstration have been described as “homegrown extremists”.A Starbucks cafe on Swanston Street in the CBD was covered in stickers and…

Australian business tycoons Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest and his ex-wife Nicola have bought iconic hat brand Akubra in a bombshell multimillion-dollar deal. Few had any inkling about the shock takeover until earlier this week, after the Forrest…

UK-based youth publisher LADbible is restructuring its Australian business at the end of 2023, with 52 Australian staff at risk of redundancy across its Sydney and Melbourne offices.A source, who declined to be named, told news.com.au that…

Australia’s biggest bank has hit Australian homeowners with an interest rate increase, the last of the Big Four to follow the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Melbourne Cup hike on Tuesday. Commonwealth Bank will increase its variable home loan…

More mortgage pain has been passed onto Australian homeowners with three of the big four banks announcing they will increase interest rates just one day after the Reserve Bank delivered a Melbourne Cup hike. NAB was the first big bank to…

The daughter of the late Shane Warne, 26-year-old Brooke Warne, had a chaotic start to this year’s Melbourne Cup.After several wardrobe malfunctions in the morning, the influencer was then caught up in pro Palestine and anti Melbourne Cup…

Two popular Aussie banks have hiked interest rates days before the Reserve Bank of Australia is forecast to set another increase. ANZ, Australia’s fourth largest bank, increased its fixed rates by up to 0.35 percentage points for both…

Wine producers have praised the government’s decision to walk away from a European Union free trade deal, arguing EU negotiators tried to “change the rules of the game midway through the game” to undercut the country’s multimillion-dollar…

A surprising part of Australia has been named one of the world’s must-visit travel destinations for 2024.Lonely Planet lists Kangaroo Island off South Australia’s southern coast in its 50 must-visit spots, coming in at No.2 for the regions…