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Insolvencies up amid 'challenging' economy

Australians facing financial peril amid rising economic pressures have been encouraged to reach out for help after a slight uptick in insolvencies.

AAP

Energy supply sufficient for weekend: AEMO

Supply issues facing Australia's electricity market have improved, with the market operator saying demand will be able to be met this weekend.

AAP

'No argument' to keep some vax mandates

Australian epidemiologists have told an inquiry it is unclear why Victoria's double-dose COVID-19 vaccine mandates remain in some settings.

AAP

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Swimming Home by Judy Cotton review – a mosaic memoir of a creative life

The Australian artist and journalist has written her first book at 80 – and the result is a confident and lean autobiography, recalling a mother who was ‘determined to be unhappy’

The Guardian - AU

I was longing for beatnik freedom – so I took an overnight bus to Yamba

I had two weeks to get 3,500km up the east coast of Australia - but would I survive the first night?

The Guardian - AU

Australian border force searched more than 40,000 mobile devices in five years, data shows

Experts concerned authorities are coercing travellers to hand over passwords to phones and other devices or copying data unlawfully

The Guardian - AU

Socceroos centenary: how the Pacific pioneered numbered football shirts

An extract from a new book details how Australia and New Zealand wore numbers 28 years before Fifa insisted on them

The Guardian - AU

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Australia seek to rediscover post-Olympic momentum at world swim titles

The meet in Budapest provides the Dolphins with the opportunity to begin the next Olympic cycle in the best way possible

The Guardian - AU

Now is the perfect time to increase coal royalties to fund Australia’s energy transition

The usual trade-off between maximising revenue while protecting industry’s long-term future no longer applies

The Guardian - AU

Cost of Australia’s aged care system to taxpayers could double, experts warn

More government funding and better service delivery needed amid unsustainable financial losses and a workforce crisis, report says

The Guardian - AU

Tonight's rugby news as Super Rugby could collapse amid shock threat

The latest rugby headlines and news bulletins from Wales and beyond

Wales Online

Q+A panellists back Labor's grand plan on rewiring the energy grid but warn 'it won't be easy'

Thursday's Q+A panel was unanimous in its support for Labor's elaborate plan on re-wiring the energy grid and hoped the current crisis would create political will for a massive shift in how the country's energy market works.

ABC News

Nature Strip ruled out of Ascot double bid

World-beating Australian sprinter Nature Strip has been ruled out of a rare double attempt at the Royal Ascot meeting.

AAP

Grattan on Friday: Everything, it seems, is conspiring to test the Albanese government

On Thursday Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen formally updated Australia’s international commitment for its proposed climate change action. It’s now a 43% reduction in emissions by 2030, in line with the policy Labor took to the election.

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The Independent UK

Australians urged to turn off lights and appliances for two hours every evening

Main reason behind power scarcity said to be unscheduled blackouts at coal-fired power stations

The New Daily

‘Chomping at the bit’: Australians book overseas flights in droves

The rising cost of living is failing to dampen Australia's appetite for overseas travel, with Mastercard data showing flight bookings are surging.

Daily Mirror

Location, Location, Location viewers slam 'grumpy' Glasgow house-hunting couple

Viewers were furious at the couple, who had recently moved back to Scotland after living in Australia, as they seemed unimpressed with the properties being shown to them by co-host Kirstie Allsopp

ABC News

Russia sanctions 121 additional Australians, including journalists, experts and business people

Among the sanctioned individuals are journalists from ABC News, Sydney Morning Herald and Sky News, as well as various defence officials.

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‘Be loud and proud’: Linda Burney calls for support for referendum on First Nations voice to parliament

Minister for Indigenous Australians addresses packed forum in Sydney while expressing support for referendumGet our free news app; get our morning email briefing

ABC News

Tension mounts as relationship between Super Netball players and Netball Australia reaches boiling point

Super Netball players remain shut out of the boardroom with no say on the big decisions regarding Australia's elite domestic competition, as the sport faces financial collapse. They say now is the time to take their deserved seat at the table after a series of controversial moves from the sport's…

Newcastle Herald

Antivirals for COVID-19: What you need to know now

Up to 15,000 Australians are expected to die of COVID-19 this year.

ABC News

The ASX opened strong after the US interest rate rise buoyed Wall Street. But it hasn't cancelled out Tuesday's losses

It's been a dramatic few days on the Australian stock market, with steep losses followed by a brief rise on Thursday morning. But there are still more twists and turns to come.

AAP

Injury-hit Aust to bowl first in Sri Lanka

Australia have won the toss and elected to bowl in the second ODI clash with Sri Lanka in Kandy, with spinner Matt Kuhnemann set to make his ODI debut.

ABC News

Beef industry making progress on net zero, but is it moving fast enough for major export markets?

Emissions are coming down as farmers increase the amount of ground cover across their paddocks, land clearing has slowed, and abattoirs have built systems that trap waste and divert it from landfill.

Tribune News Service

CON: Mandatory voting is a bad, unconstitutional idea

A handful of countries, most notably Australia, impose mandatory voting, with citizens facing fines and punishments if they don’t appear at the polls. And every few years, somebody proposes bringing this practice to the United States as a good-government reform that would allegedly improve the health of our democracy.

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