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Sample the best of Australia on LazMall

Good news for lovers of Australian products! The best of Australia is now available at the "Australian Pavilion" on Lazada's platform, making it easy for shoppers to access their favourite items right at their fingertips.

Bangkok Post · Apr 4, 2022

Wages boom in northern Australia as businesses compete for staff ahead of tourist surge

As the clock ticks towards the start of the northern tourist season, desperate businesses are offering escalating wages and relocation payments as they jostle for staff.

ABC News · Apr 4, 2022

British father and nine-year-old son die in horror landslide while on holiday in Australia

The nine-year-old boy and his 49-year-old father died at the scene, at Wentworth Pass in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, New South Wales police said.

Manchester Evening News · Apr 4, 2022

Lack of access to MS nurses: report

A report by MS Australia has found almost one in three people living with multiple sclerosis don't have access to condition-specific nurses.

AAP · Apr 4, 2022

What will the fuel excise cut save you? Not as much as the Treasurer says

As an appeal to middle Australia, to the voters politicians routinely describe as working families or battlers, the Morrison government’s centrepiece budget move to halve the fuel excise for six months has obvious attractions.

The Conversation · Apr 4, 2022

COVID cases are rising but we probably won't need more restrictions unless a worse variant hits

COVID case numbers are tracking up in Australia, with an average of 57,000 new cases recorded each day.

The Conversation · Apr 4, 2022

'Kafkaesque' true stories of ordinary people: inside the first days of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

We have lived through two tumultuous years as the COVID-19 pandemic has swept through Australia. Our Prime Minister Scott Morrison took the lead, for domestic political purposes, in calling for an investigation into the origins of the virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The Conversation · Apr 4, 2022

Labor and Coalition ramp up pressure on multinational tax avoidance ahead of election

As part of its election pitch to fight multinational tax avoidance, Labor announces plans to tighten legal loopholes that allow big companies to shift profits offshore, as well as to introduce steps to increase transparency.

ABC News · Apr 4, 2022

The show must go on: How Australia’s performing arts sector has survived two years of COVID

After two years of cancellations and billions of dollars lost, we take stock of the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on Australia’s performing arts and the challenges ahead.

ABC News · Apr 4, 2022

A community battery 'like a corner store': Is this the future of home energy storage?

Quietly humming crate-sized batteries may become a familiar sight in suburbs, towns and and inner-city areas within the next five years. So what are community batteries, and are they better than home ones?

ABC News · Apr 4, 2022