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A Sydney MP has called on the Reserve Bank (RBA) to nix surcharges on card transactions and tap-and-go phone payments, launching a petition to overhaul the pesky fee that costs Aussies $4bn a year. Jerome Laxale, who represents Bennelong, has launched a campaign to amend 20-year-old provisions that charge businesses to use card technology, with […]

New footage has captured the moment the husband of a woman found dead in an apparent ride-on mower incident was arrested. Upper Lockyer woman Frances Elizabeth Crawford was found dead on her property about 3.40am on July 30. Police arrested 47-year-old air force pilot Robert Crawford in connection with the investigation into her death on […]

An indoor play centre charged after a child suffered a fractured spine in a horror fall has admitted responsibility for failing to adequately maintain its safety equipment. Entertainment Velocity Pty Ltd, trading as Funtopia Maribyrnong, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, pleading guilty to two breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. […]

Former Qantas boss Alan Joyce can claim up to $2m in free first-class flights under a generous scheme given to former executives. Mr Joyce and a nominated beneficiary will be allowed to take four long-haul and 12 shorter domestic trips without being charged each year, with an estimated value of $100,000 per year. In total, […]

WARNING: Distressing content A baby boy was left to die by his mother from “severe neglect” after she and her then partner spent days consuming drugs while he was deprived of his most basic needs, a court has been told. In the week before her son Dexter was found dead in her Ipswich home south […]

China has agreed to lift all restrictions on Australia’s lobster trade “by the end of this year”, Anthony Albanese says. The announcement comes after the Prime Minister met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Laos on Thursday. “We have continued to stabilize the relationship without compromising on any […]

The rapid development and rollout of artificial intelligence technology is set to fundamentally reshape virtually all aspects of life – but workplaces could be among the first to see dramatic change. A leading expert in technology has offered a forecast on the professions that may soon no longer exist, at least in a way that […]

OPINION In Australia, we are all mates. Even if you’re not my mate, you’re mate. But some have missed out on the mate memo, apparently, and take great exception to such overt friendliness. As was widely reported this week, an Australian father posted on Reddit that his deli-worker daughter was upbraided by a customer for […]

A Sydney businessman accused of poisoning his wife’s tea with insecticide for 18 months in a bid to kill her was allegedly caught out by his own children. On Tuesday, police arrested 61-year-old Stephan Wagner at the home he shared with his wife Glenda, 66, following reports from their adult children, who raised the alarm […]