A leaked memo has revealed Coles staff are being prepared for the possibility of needing to convert registers to “card only” sales this Easter. The “cash process update” memo shared to social media comes amid “industry-wide challenges with cash movements” and could mean staff will experience shortages of change inContinue Reading
Support for federal Labor has plunged to its lowest levels on record since the last election, while Anthony Albanese retains his lead over Peter Dutton as the preferred Prime Minister. The latest Newspoll, published by the Australian, shows Labor’s primary vote fell a point to 32 per cent since February.Continue Reading
A Coles customer has spotted a brand new change to the self-serve check-outs at the supermarket. The shopper took to Reddit to reveal that a newly renovated Coles supermarket in Perth no longer had the weighted scales in the checkout section. Typically, these scales are used to detect if somethingContinue Reading
An Australian who was down on their luck has been left shocked at how they were able to wrangle four kilograms of meat, vegetables and a variety of staples for just $60. The shopper took to Reddit to share how far $62.59 cents took them at Victoria’s Preston Market andContinue Reading
Australia’s record immigration intake is largely being fuelled by an unprecedented influx of international students, which universities claim are Australia’s fourth-biggest “export” bringing in $40 billion a year. But some experts have long questioned that figure, produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), arguing it does not take intoContinue Reading
Pauline Hanson has called back to her now-infamous claims Australia is being “swamped” by Asian immigrants as she renewed calls to halt migration. On the day new figures revealed Australia’s migration intake had surged to a record high of 548,800 arrivals in the year to September, threatening the government’s ownContinue Reading
A war of words has erupted in a tiny outback town where locals claim they have been blindsided by plans to hand over “95 per cent” of their community to an Aboriginal corporation as freehold. Toobeah, a town of around 30 residents in the Darling Downs region on the borderContinue Reading
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is celebrating her 70th birthday a few months early by launching a collectors edition of her new gin and vodka range. At first glance, Ms Hanson appears on the commemorative bottle to be presenting herself in the fashion of a Roman senator but upon closerContinue Reading
A teenager has pleaded guilty to the murder of a Queensland mum after stabbing her in the chest during a violent home invasion north of Brisbane just after Christmas Day. North Lakes woman Emma Lovell was killed when two teenagers allegedly broke into her family home in the late hoursContinue Reading
Covid vaccine mandates for Queensland police and ambulance workers were “unlawful”, the state’s supreme court has found, with the bombshell ruling tipped to spark a wave of similar challenges. Judge Glenn Martin on Tuesday ruled that Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll’s December 2021 order was “unlawful” under the Human RightsContinue Reading