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Fresh data from property analyst firm PropTrack shows three Sydney suburbs were the most expensive to buy in across Australia in 2023.The Lower North Shore suburb of Longueville topped the list nationally for highest median home value,…

Just about everywhere you look, there are worsening signs that Australia is no longer the lucky country.From record-high rents to skyrocketing mortgages, a cost-of-living crisis to the alarming emergence of a ‘working poor’ population, the…

Yet another Australian F45 franchise has collapsed into liquidation, adding to the list of gyms in the popular fitness chain falling over in recent months.Yesterday a WA-based company called F45 Total Fitness Pty Ltd, which operates the F45…

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…

An aerial image of a new housing development on the fringe of a major city has sparked fierce debate about whether suburban life as we once knew it has died.A photo of the Sunshine Coast suburb of Nirimba, once bushland but now a bustling…

Prospective rental tenants across the country face even tougher conditions after the national vacancy rate dropped to its lowest level on record.The vacancy rate slumped to 1.02 per cent in October marking a 0.6 percentage point slide from…

Optus customers have slammed what the company calls a “token gesture” after a nationwide blackout left users without phone or internet access for more than 12 hours. Payment, transport, and health services were thrown into chaos on…

Australians are hoovering up cocaine and methylamphetamine at alarming levels, a new report has found, with consumption of the illicit drug classes now at their highest levels since 2020.An analysis of wastewater run by the Australian…

First-home buyers have defied odds with new figures showing more took out mortgages in September despite the cost of living crunch. Monthly new loan commitments for first-home owner-occupiers jumped 1.4 per cent over the month to $4.6bn,…

A Boost Juice store has been slammed for going “too far” with its Halloween decorations after “gory” images of severed limbs were strung across the Western Australian shop. Staff at the store, in Cockburn Gateway Shopping Centre, 23km south…