Australia’s favourite car has grown by more than 80 centimetres in just over a decade, and experts say our obsession with “super-sized” utes and SUVs is here to stay despite growing calls to tax and regulate them off the roads. A striking image comparing the size of the Mazda 3,Continue Reading
The first bosses of Australia’s biggest supermarkets are getting ready to be interrogated over rising grocery prices and price gouging before a final showdown that will see the heads of Woolworths and Coles front angry senators. On Thursday, the chief executive of the German-headquartered Aldi chain Anna McGrath and MetcashContinue Reading
Supermarket giants could be stripped of their chains and have them sold off to boost competition under powers being pushed by Nationals leader David Littleproud. The conduct of Woolworths and Coles has been put back into the spotlight after a Four Corners investigation into the supermarket sectors’ pricing tactics. BothContinue Reading
Furious debate is raging over an opinion piece calling for Australians to ditch their worsening addiction to big and fuel-rich, which some readers dubbed “Yank Tanks” and “beasts”. On Monday, Sydney Morning Herald business reporter Millie Muroi penned an opinion piece titled, “The costly car choice we need to rethink”,Continue Reading
Australians are on track to buy a record number of new cars this year. But some cars and brands are faring better than others. Here’s what’s hot and what’s not in the new-car market. WHAT’S HOT Utes and SUVs Australia has an insatiable appetite for high riding SUVs and four-wheelContinue Reading
Australia’s foreign-owned beer “duopoly” behind the likes of VB and Toohey’s has been accused of freezing out small local brewers from pub taps with “anti-competitive” contracts. Independent brewers have long complained about being unable to compete with lucrative deals offered to venues by deep-pocketed multinationals, including cash rebates and otherContinue Reading
Senior transport bureaucrats have repeatedly dodged “critical” questions about what role Qantas had in the government’s decision to block Qatar’s bid to double its flight offerings. Senators spent Thursday morning trying to determine whether Transport Minister Catherine King met with Qantas bosses earlier this year when she first received aContinue Reading
The country might be in the grip of a cost of living crisis, but Aussies are refusing to give up their favourite fast food treats. Earlier this year, Collins Foods – the largest operator of KFC franchises in Australia – posted a record $1 billion in full-year sales. Revenue grewContinue Reading
Australia has a long history of benefiting from ugly dictators via the commodities trade. We were one of the countries most adept at circumventing sanctions aimed at Saddam Hussein to provide Iraq with wheat and our farmers with cash. For decades we have tied national wealth to Chinese tyranny. We’veContinue Reading
The Sierra Nevada Pale Ale wasn’t the first craft beer to come out of America, but it’s certainly been one of the most popular and influential. Since its humble beginnings in 1980, the year after Ken Grossman founded the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, the delicious, full-bodied, citrusyContinue Reading