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Sendle is getting a second life. McKenna Worldwide Services has bought the collapsed parcel brand from liquidators and wants the small-business shipping service running again by September.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Only 18% of enterprises say AI is delivering significant revenue impact, according to HCLTech's global research report.

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.