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It may be a sign of inflation or that Aussies love their jobs but one third of us say it would take at least $5 million to make them quit work, a survey found. Only one in five said a $1 million windfall would be enough to tell their boss where to go while a […]

Average rents across regional Australia have increased by $153 since June 2020, forcing tenants to scrape together an extra $677 a month or $8000 a year. The biggest increases were reported in Northern Western Australia where weekly rents had increased by $481. Vacancy rates slumped to 1 per cent in May this year, with 196 […]

A chance encounter on a cruise led a UK woman to pack up her life and move across the world, all because an Aussie mum helped her escape an allegedly abusive partner. Stacy Jane had been travelling with her ex-partner on a New Zealand cruise in 2019 when she came across the woman she now […]

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has announced a radical new “pill-testing” trial to try and reduce overdose deaths at festivals and events, while insisting the policy does not amount to the legalisation of drugs. In a video posted to social media on Monday night, Ms Allan, a mother to two young children, said she believed the […]

Minerals-rich WA is Australia’s proverbial boomtown, with a rich economy pulling in a growing swell of Australians and international migrants eager to “go west” and live the good life. Commonwealth Bank’s latest quarterly economic report on each state and territory and how they stack up against each other shows mining-heavy WA far ahead on key […]

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has responded after his son has found himself in a media storm when a photograph surfaced of him holding a clear bag containing a small amount of ‘white powder’. News.com.au is not suggesting that the substance is drugs. The image of 18-year-old Tom Dutton, reportedly taken at a Surfer’s Paradise […]

Australian Border Force (ABF) officers made a wild find inside the luggage of a US woman who arrived at Adelaide Airport from overseas. ABF officers selected her luggage for a check when the woman, 60, arrived on an international flight on Friday. Officers found two vacuum-sealed plastic bags of clothing inside one of her suitcases, […]

A teenage fight over a $285 jumper allegedly sparked Adelaide’s Westfield Marion shopping centre meltdown, according to court documents, after three boys charged over their involvement in the melee fronted court. The chaos kicked off about 3pm Sunday after the trio allegedly approached another group of boys at the centre’s food court armed with “expandable […]

Vapes will be made available at pharmacies without a prescription after the Albanese government struck a deal with the Greens that will soften a proposed retail ban on e-cigarettes. Health Minister Mark Butler on Monday secured support from the minor party for Labor’s contentious plan that originally would have limited vape access to prescription-only pharmacy […]

Aussie taxpayers are being warned about the hidden pitfalls of rushing to lodge their tax return and the risk of making costly mistakes. ATO assistant commissioner Rob Thomson on Monday reminded taxpayers ahead of July 1 that “tax time is not a race”. Mr Thompson said taxpayers had a “much higher chance” of making a […]