Australia
Legal
Businesses will have to tell customers when software makes decisions about them
Three new subclauses of the Australian Privacy Principles will reshape how covered organisations write their privacy policies.
Business
Parent HAX wash cloth cleans kids in two minutes, no bath needed
Top N Tail™ is a rinse-free, self-foaming wash cloth designed to clean children from head to toe in around two minutes, requiring only a splash of water and a towel dry.
Property
Stirling sells McGraths Hill centre for $66.8m at a 21 per cent gain
Stirling Property Funds has sold the McGraths Hill Home large-format retail centre in Sydney's north-west to boutique fund manager Centennial for $66.8 million, locking in a 21 per cent gain on an 18-month hold.
Business
Workers comp premiums range from 0.84% to 2.09% of payroll
Workers compensation insurance is mandatory across Australia, and every employer's premium starts with the same basic mechanism: multiply your total payroll by your industry rate, then let your own claims history push that figure up or down. The rate itself is not a guess.
Business
Builders say poor design stalls infrastructure before work starts
In public infrastructure, the biggest drag on productivity is rarely wet concrete or broken equipment. It is paperwork, governance loops and design processes that grind projects to a halt months before a worker sets foot on site.
Opinion
Australia is being told to choose between the US and China on AI
Supply chain architecture is not glamorous policy. It is wiring diagrams, export licence schedules and standards bodies most ministers could not name at a press conference.
Legal
Franchising code lifts civil penalties and tightens disclosure
Australia's Franchising Code of Conduct has regulated the relationship between franchisors and franchisees since 1993, sitting beneath the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.
Finance
Australian explorer hits 33.5 metres of gold in Ecuador
Titan Minerals (ASX: TTM) has published results from diamond drill hole CVDD26-199 at the Brecha-Comanche target in its Cerro Verde prospect, southern Ecuador. The hole returned 33.5 metres at 6.6 grams per tonne gold and 55.5 grams per tonne silver from 236.7 metres downhole.
Banking
Home loan fees jump 17 per cent as banks collect $15 billion
Australian banks collected roughly $15 billion in fee revenue in the year to June 2025, a 3 per cent lift on the prior year, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia's latest annual survey of bank charges. On the big four's combined balance sheets, that number barely registers.
