A rising number of Australians are spending up to one-quarter of their income on groceries and people are skipping meals to feed their children, the consumer watchdog has been told. More than 13,000 Australians made submissions to the ACCC’s supermarkets inquiry into pricing practices, including many who detailed how theyContinue Reading
The NSW Families and Communities Minister Kate Washington has faced a grilling over the growing exodus of child protection case workers, who are reportedly leaving the industry due to poor pay and burn out. Numbers from the September 2023 quarter showed the vacancy rate had increased to 12 per cent,Continue Reading
Your car may be keeping tabs on your “sex drive”. Car makers Nissan and Kia can collect data on their drivers’ “sexual activity” and “sex lives” — and may sell the info to third-party advertisers, according to a shocking study by an internet privacy watchdog, the New York Post reports.Continue Reading
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has told an inquiry into veteran suicide that former servicemen and women are “second guessed” and not supported by government agencies amid calls for a nationwide statutory body. The revelation comes as hearings under the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide enters a second year,Continue Reading
Living in rural and remote Australia is bad for your health, with country Aussies 10 times more likely to die from ischaemic heart disease than their city cousins. The shocking health divide between the city and bush has been exposed in a new report by the Royal Flying Doctor Service,Continue Reading
Gaming and Racing Minister David Harris has moved quickly to assuage concerns over the state’s Liquor and Gaming body was ill-equipped to combat money laundering in NSW. This follows a tranche of documents released to parliament on Friday which suggested clubs had been forewarned of compliance checks by Liquor andContinue Reading
When Lyn Swinburne was diagnosed with breast cancer over the phone in 1993, she left the experience feeling like “I was a tumour on legs”. The disease didn’t have the profile it does today, Swinburne says. Quite the opposite. She would soon learn from speaking to other women that poorContinue Reading
Aliens? Spy drones? Trash blowing on the wind? Reflections? The takeaway message from NASA’s first Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) report is that it simply doesn’t always know. But there is something out there, says Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the US Department of Defence’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). KirkpatrickContinue Reading
Australia’s top spy agency has added to growing concerns about a popular social media app, and its collection of users’ personal data. State governments across the nation are issuing Tik Tok bans on official work devices as concerns about data safety increase worldwide. The app’s Australian general manager Lee HunterContinue Reading
A young woman with an unknown neurological condition died in her sleep after receiving two doses of a Covid vaccine, an inquiry into long Covid was told. On Friday, the standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport heard from Australians who have felt neglected or dismissed after they soughtContinue Reading