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Business
Three unions back strike ballots at BHP's Port Hedland
The Electrical Trades Union WA, the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union WA and the Western Mine Workers' Alliance all authorised industrial action after more than six months of failed enterprise agreement negotiations with BHP.
News
Jetstar and Qatar Airways planes nearly collide at Sydney Airport
A Jetstar A320 operating flight JQ402 and a Qatar Airways Boeing 777 under tow nearly collided on a crossing taxiway at Sydney Airport on Sunday morning, injuring a cabin crew member as the airport strains under air traffic control staff shortages.
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Nobel winner Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO
Demis Hassabis is not retiring, being pushed sideways into an honorary role, or leaving Alphabet. He is exiting the operational command structure of Google DeepMind entirely and moving into a newly created position: Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet.
Marketing
1.5 seconds of attention is enough to make an ad stick
Before signing off on the next media buy, consider what you are actually purchasing. A served impression counts the moment an ad is delivered to a page, regardless of whether it ever renders where a human eye might land.
Business
What a small business really pays to accept card payments
Strip back any card transaction and you find three distinct charges stacked inside what the acquirer bills as a single merchant fee.
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PEXA grilled in NSW as competition deadline slips
Every time a property changes hands in Australia through a digital settlement, there is a very good chance one company processed it.
Marketing
AI search cites 4 sources per answer, 37% absent from Google
Traditional search engines crawl the web, index pages, and hand users a ranked list of links. LLM-based search engines work differently: an AI agent takes a query, breaks it into sub-queries, retrieves a small set of documents, and synthesises a natural-language answer with in-text citations.
Business
SpaceX revenue jumps 92% but $18.3bn spending drives a loss
SpaceX posted $7.8 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2026, a 92% increase on the same period a year earlier, the largest revenue figure of any company in a debut quarterly report as a public company.
Business
Walgreens cuts 2026 store closures to under 100
Walgreens now expects to close fewer than 100 US locations in 2026, a company spokesperson confirmed. That figure sits well below the approximately 700 closures expected during the current year as part of a broader restructuring push that has already reshaped the chain's national footprint.