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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.