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Since 1992, Australia's superannuation guarantee ran on a quarterly clock. Employers paid up to 28 days after each quarter-end, a rhythm that gave payroll teams predictable cash-flow windows. From 1 July 2026, that changed.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics does not ordinarily produce figures that prompt a double-take. Its latest business characteristics release is an exception. Almost one in eight Australian businesses, 12%, used artificial intelligence in 2024-25, up from just 1% in 2021-22.

Canberra sets the charge digital platforms must pay Australian publishers, and separately part-pays the wages of more than 2,000 journalists. Both programs are documented in the government's own papers. Neither has been examined as half of the same arrangement.

Ten days after Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned, the Cockroach Janta Party says it will stay a pressure group rather than become a party, and Modi's BJP has started courting the young voters who forced the concession.

Kath Pettingill, the woman police knew as Granny Evil and her family called Nanna Kath, died at a nursing home in Venus Bay, Victoria, aged 91. She had been living with dementia in her final years.

X banned an Australian outlet without publishing a reason. The regulatory machinery around that decision has moved further, and faster, than most people noticed.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei stepped in front of cameras on 3 August with a pointed message: the talks Tehran is holding over the Strait of Hormuz involve Oman, not Washington.

Money flowing through America's federal research grant system does not move like a bank transfer. It moves through layers of peer review, agency priority-setting and congressional appropriation, each designed to keep politics at arm's length from the science.

Walgreens now expects to close fewer than 100 US locations in 2026, a company spokesperson confirmed. That figure sits well below the approximately 700 closures expected during the current year as part of a broader restructuring push that has already reshaped the chain's national footprint.

If you want to know where a platform's real money comes from, look at advertising. The Albanese Government has now done exactly that.

Donald Trump used an Oval Office appearance to attack the prosecutor he installed in Washington, after her office dropped felony charges over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and blamed a contractor's flawed installation instead.

Eli Lilly confirmed on 3 August 2026 it will open a formal expanded access pathway for retatrutide, its investigational triple-agonist obesity drug.