Australia
Sport
Australia leads the Commonwealth Games medal table after five days
Australia leads the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games medal table with 12 gold, 5 silver and 6 bronze, 23 medals in total, five days in. The Games run from 23 July to 2 August in Glasgow, Scotland, with athletes from 74 nations and territories competing across 10 sports for 645 medals.
Markets
Australian shares rise as tech rallies and energy stocks slide
Tech stocks dragged the Australian sharemarket higher on Monday, with Xero and WiseTech surging while cheaper oil pulled Santos and Woodside to the bottom of the board.
Technology
Local businesses rank on Google Maps but vanish from AI answers
Your Google Business Profile ranking used to be the scoreboard that mattered. That scoreboard now has a rival, and it is winning by a wide margin.
Technology
Seven in ten retailers fail AI shopping agent data test
Agentic commerce works simply enough. A shopper asks an AI tool to find and buy a birthday gift within a budget, and the agent handles the rest: browsing, comparing, transacting. The appeal is obvious.
Finance
Australia adds 76,300 jobs in June, putting fourth RBA rise in play
Employment rose by 76,300 people, or 0.5 per cent, to 14,823,300 in seasonally adjusted terms in June, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says. The unemployment rate held at 4.4 per cent, unmoved from the prior month.
Technology
Only 18% of enterprises convert AI adoption into revenue gains
Only 18% of enterprises say AI is delivering significant revenue impact, according to HCLTech's global research report.
Politics
Albanese puts AI office inside PM&C to centralise policy
Every AI decision in the federal government now runs through a single office inside the Prime Minister's own department, replacing years of issue-by-issue, sector-by-sector policy.
Finance
Australian venture deals hit six-year low as record funds pile up
Australia's venture capital market produced $1.7 billion in announced startup funding across 64 venture rounds and five accelerator rounds in Q2 2026. That headline dollar figure looks healthy until the deal count lands on your screen.
Energy
Eraring gets third closure date in four years, now April 2029
Eraring Power Station was supposed to be a solved problem. Origin Energy submitted notice to the Australian Energy Market Operator on 17 February 2022 to retire the 2.88 GW Lake Macquarie facility as early as August 2025, a full seven years ahead of its original 2032 schedule.
15-year-old server knocked out Triple Zero for millions
Big cities fall, smaller capitals rise in June property split
Liberals vote Friday on dumping Deeming as candidate
Property investors face new negative gearing and CGT limits
Economists split on August RBA rate hike
Partnered Health cyberattack hits 21 GP clinics
Most Australians Now Want House Prices to Fall, Major Poll Finds
Top US Defence Official Dismisses 'Middle Powers' Alliance Australia Is Courting
Australian House Prices Fall at Fastest Pace Since 2022
Sydney LGBTQ+ Venue in Old Church Told to Shut After One Night
Central banks keep buying as gold slides below US$4,000
The CSIRO can't tell you what power will cost
Albanese's AI fast-track: new office to speed up datacentre approvals
Sam Neill dies at 78 after five decades on screen
Clearance rates hit seven-week high as auctions slide 8.7%
Fixed fees compress conveyancing margins and search habits
Derryn Hinch dies at 82 after five decades in media and politics
Best enterprise AI SEO tools and agencies 2026
Brisbane flightpaths shift to cut noise for 138,500 residents
Washington Reaches for Trade Weapons First, Evidence Later
