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Company profits rise 1.8 per cent, but mining did all the work
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Company profits rise 1.8 per cent, but mining did all the work

Mining profits rebounded 6.8 per cent and everyone else went backwards. Inventory prices added $3.7 billion to the headline. The GDP print has since landed at 0.4 per cent.
6 min read 6 days ago
Treasury warns slow AI uptake puts $116bn of growth at risk
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Treasury warns slow AI uptake puts $116bn of growth at risk

Treasury analysis estimates AI could boost Australia's labour productivity growth by 4.3 per cent over the next decade, adding approximately $116 billion to GDP and $4,300 to per capita incomes.
5 min read 7 days ago
Qantas ground crews vote 97 per cent for strike action
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Qantas ground crews vote 97 per cent for strike action

A ballot of 350 Qantas Ground Services workers returned a 97 per cent vote in favour of protected industrial action on 31 August 2026, authorising stoppages of between one and 24 hours.
5 min read 7 days ago
Your Woolworths shop now costs 8.5 per cent more than a year ago
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Your Woolworths shop now costs 8.5 per cent more than a year ago

Official inflation figures say grocery prices are cooling. The shopping trolley tells a different story. A tracked basket of 20 identical Woolworths items cost $232.02 in July 2026, up from $213.89 in March 2025, a rise of $18.13 or 8.5 per cent.
4 min read 8 days ago
Two private credit funds gate exits in a week after a developer's collapse
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Two private credit funds gate exits in a week after a developer's collapse

Australia's private credit squeeze is spreading: CVS Lane has suspended investor redemptions after a Sydney developer's collapse, the second fund to narrow the exit inside a week.
5 min read 11 days ago
An Australian private credit fund caps monthly withdrawals at 1 per cent
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An Australian private credit fund caps monthly withdrawals at 1 per cent

The MA Secured Loan Series introduced a temporary redemption cap of 1 per cent of funds under management per monthly redemption period on 25 August 2026.
5 min read 11 days ago
Woolworths and Coles bank a combined $2.24bn in annual profit
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Woolworths and Coles bank a combined $2.24bn in annual profit

Australia's two dominant supermarket chains filed their full-year results within a day of each other, and the combined arithmetic is the figure politicians will quote for the rest of the parliamentary term.
5 min read 12 days ago
Parent HAX wash cloth cleans kids in two minutes, no bath needed
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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.
7 min read 18 days ago
Workers comp premiums range from 0.84% to 2.09% of payroll
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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.
8 min read 18 days ago

Builders say poor design stalls infrastructure before work starts

6 min read18 days ago

Three ways to check if AI tools mention your business

8 min read20 days ago

One in three Australian businesses are gone by year four

8 min read21 days ago

Spider-Man: Brand New Day passes US$2 billion in three weeks

6 min read21 days ago

Sydney colour-cube maker CMY Cubes wins spot in Korea's state accelerator

6 min read22 days ago

Small businesses pay 6% to borrow, big companies pay 4%

8 min read22 days ago

Telstra lifts dividend 10.5% and launches $1bn buyback

6 min read24 days ago

What Meta's 12% ad price rise costs a small advertiser

8 min read25 days ago

Pixel Watch 5 tracks insulin resistance without a blood test

6 min read25 days ago

One company now controls every property settlement in Australia

7 min reada month ago

Entry-level jobs in AI-exposed roles fell 16% since 2022

7 min reada month ago

Mastercard and PEXA trial synchronised UK home settlements

8 min reada month ago

Delivery riders guaranteed at least $31.30 an hour from 17 August

7 min reada month ago

Stanley bets on a wisecracking toolbox to lift trade sales

7 min reada month ago

How China's cheap AI could crash the American AI market

8 min reada month ago

Power bills fall, but the price cap is not the cheapest deal

8 min reada month ago

Australia's 3.8% inflation figure is not your business's number

8 min reada month ago

Google auto-upgrades Search campaigns to AI Max from September

7 min reada month ago

Google's AI answers halve the clicks websites get

6 min reada month ago

Amazon blinds order emails and locks out AI shopping bots

7 min reada month ago

Nintendo profit up 53.5% on a US tariff refund it won't pass on

7 min reada month ago
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