Australia

Your offset account might not be saving you a cent. The corporate regulator found banks quietly failed to link, open or activate them, and repaid more than $55 million to borrowers who never knew.

Ask how to compare loans and you will be pointed at a comparison site. Loan matching is the channel that actually reflects what you can qualify for, and no lender pays to influence the order.

Google says no special AI markup is required. So what is an AI SEO agency actually selling? Seven Australian agencies assessed on crawl and index hygiene, structured data accuracy, entity clarity and content architecture.

Cheaper petrol did nearly all the work in June's inflation figures. Strip it out and the measure the Reserve Bank actually sets rates by has not shifted in two months, and the fuel relief that flattered the number has already expired.

One Nation is polling well enough to unsettle the major parties. In the state where it was founded, it now has until 18 August to hand the regulator three years of audited accounts, or the body that carries the party's name can be struck off.

The line of defence has just moved. Authorities have confirmed H5 bird flu is passing from bird to bird inside Australia for the first time, which turns the job from keeping the virus out of the country to keeping it away from poultry sheds and egg farms.

1,820 former Qantas ground handlers, outsourced out of work in 2020, have still not received a cent of the $120 million compensation fund agreed in December 2024.

Editing one line on a Google listing can pull a business out of search for weeks. A survey of Google's own product experts found the real danger is not a ranking reset but being pushed back through verification.