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Australian teen Tayla Green-Aldridge headed to King Charles's coronation alongside Julie Bishop

When Tayla Green-Aldridge received a phone call inviting her to one of the biggest events of the century, the 18-year-old thought it was a prank.

ABC News

RBA interest rates: Reserve Bank increases official cash rate to 3.85% in shock decision

In a decision reached at its meeting today, Australia’s reserve bank will lift interest rates, causing further strain to borrowers

The Guardian - AU

Australia to pay soldiers bonus to stay as strategic risks rise

Australia said on Tuesday it will pay military personnel A$50,000 ($33,165) to stay beyond an initial service period, days after a review found its defence posture was "not fit for purpose" amid rising competition between the United States and China.

Reuters

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Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth hit by Russian-linked ransomware attack

Cyberattack resulted in hacking of 4TB of data including IDs, finance reports, accounting data, client documents and credit card details

The Guardian - AU

From sheep duffing to cattle rustling, how big a problem is livestock theft in Australia?

A survey by the Centre for Rural Criminology aims to get accurate numbers for a crime that farmers rarely bother to report

The Guardian - AU

The legacy of this Australian classic spread and the remarkable tale of its Victorian creator

Salty, dark, rich and malty, Vegemite is an Australian icon recognised around the world. A century after its creation, a museum has re-opened to celebrate the man who invented it.

ABC News

Jim who? Chalmers may not have Keating’s cut-through but this budget is his chance to serenade Australia

The treasurer’s biggest challenge is not making the numbers add up, it’s making sure the words take voters with him

The Guardian - AU

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‘Is that satire?’: Outrage as Peter V’landys describes NRL as ‘wagering content’

Australian rugby league boss saying ‘quiet part out loud’ in quest to generate revenue from US betting market, anti-gambling advocate says

The Guardian - AU

From 'technicolour yawn' to 'draining the dragon': how Barry Humphries breathed new life into Australian slang

If slang is the people’s poetry, then Australia lost a poet last week.

The Conversation

Australia to ban recreational vaping in e-cigarette crackdown

Australia said on Tuesday it will ban recreational vaping and tighten other aspects of e-cigarette laws in the biggest crackdown on the tobacco industry in more than a decade to try to stop an alarming rise in teenage vaping.

Reuters

Toyota says it’s too early for electric car transition

Australia's top-selling car maker says it is too early for electric vehicles to replace all cars, arguing some motorists could be left behind in the move.

The New Daily

Welfare payment boost expected for people aged over 55

Older Australians are tipped to receive a modest boost to JobSeeker payments, with a commitment to considering broader increases to welfare payments expected.

The New Daily

Morning Mail: majority back jobseeker rise, vapes to be banned, plea for help from NT town

Our Essential poll says people think the unemployed should get more generous payments, while Mark Butler says vaping is a ‘menace’ and most imports will be banned

The Guardian - AU

‘Unforgettable life’: Shock and sadness after TV chef Jock Zonfrillo dies

MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo lived an "unforgettable" life, rising from addiction to become one of Australia's most successful chefs.

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The Conversation

Here's why pharmacists are angry at script changes – and why the government is making them anyway

Australians will soon be able to fill two months’ supply of medicines at their community pharmacy, rather than one, for 325 common medicines. This change is expected to halve the cost of prescriptions for six million Australians.

The Conversation

Journalists reporting on the Voice to Parliament do voters a disservice with 'he said, she said' approach

For much of the past two decades, polarisation and hyper-partisanship have weakened Western democracies, most notably in the United States and Britain. Australia has not escaped, although the consequences here have been nothing as compared with Brexit or the insurrection in Washington on January 6, 2021.

The Conversation

Picking up a King Charles III coronation commemorative plate? You're buying into a centuries-old tradition

Mugs and plates celebrating the coronations, marriages and deaths of British royalty are not unusual sights in the Australian home. With the forthcoming coronation of King Charles III on May 6, such memorabilia cluttering our cupboards are only likely to increase.

The Conversation

Wild-caught seafood is often untraceable – and some industry players don't want that to change. Here's why

The wild-caught fish you buy was landed far away from cameras or scrutiny. So how do you know it really is what the label says? How do you know it was caught in a sustainable fishery? Even in regulated fisheries like Australia’s, the answer is, broadly, you don’t.

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The New Daily

Paul Bongiorno: King Charles’ coronation is a last hurrah for Australian monarchy

Central to the coronation will be the out of sight anointing of the King as God’s chosen, a medieval remnant of the Divine Right of Kings.

ABC News

Crime analyst breaks down character traits of repeat child sex offenders

A former UK crime analyst was so stunned by the prevalence of child sexual abuse in Australia that he studied perpetrators' character traits in an effort to better educate authorities and parents.

ABC News

This man advises his clients that elections, rates and mortgages are invalid

He calls himself an advocate, charges for advice on fines and council rates and makes incredible claims about his success in courtrooms around Australia. But Derek Balogh has left a trail of failed cases in his wake.

ABC News

Fears cost-of-living crisis worsening child poverty as families make 'impossible decisions'

Nearly three-quarters of Australians expect child poverty to worsen this year and say cost-of-living pressures are having a greater impact than the pandemic, according to a long-running survey released exclusively to ABC News.

The Independent UK

Jamie Oliver shared selfie with late MasterChef Australia judge Jock Zonfrillo hours before his death

British chef has since paid tribute to Zonfrillo

Golf Monthly

Talor Gooch's LIV Golf Adelaide Earnings Reduced By Almost $2m

The Range Goats GC player won the event in Australia but had to be content with significantly less than his $4m earnings due to tax

The Times of India

KL Rahul, Jaydev Unadkat injuries give Team India a scare for WTC final

NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket team think tank has a lot to ponder after their two key players of the World Test Championship (WTC) final squad got injured in a span of two days, giving them a big scare ahead of the high-profile final against Australia slated to be held…

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