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  • MP speaks out against voice claims – as it happened

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  • Crackdown on buy now, pay later schemes announced as Labor warns of dangers of growing debt

  • Labor hails ‘strongest start for jobs growth’ of any Australian government

  • TikTok Australia expands trial of gambling advertising despite widespread criticism

  • Real estate agents push back against Australian privacy law changes designed to protect personal data

  • Westpac bans transfers to world’s largest crypto exchange Binance

  • Gina Rinehart tells summit to devote ‘15 minutes each day to spread the mining message’

  • Peter Dutton claims Labor wants ‘gas gone’ and urges sector to fight intervention

  • Doubts over whether federal anti-corruption body could investigate PwC scandal

  • ‘We are losing money’: companies in Apple’s repair program say they can’t compete with tech giant

Greg Jericho

  • Greg Jericho

    Wages are growing (good news!) but they’re still playing catch-up with inflation

    Greg Jericho

    • Instead of winning plaudits, why did Jim Chalmers’ budget surplus leave pundits nonplussed?

      Greg Jericho

    • Australia budget 2023: six graphs that explain this one-off surplus

      Greg Jericho

    • Sorry, what? The latest interest rates rise suggests the RBA board is completely lost to logic

      Greg Jericho
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In depth

  • The no-interest loans helping Australians get back on their feet

  • Extreme weather and rising premiums make parts of regional Australia ‘uninsurable’

    Insurance costs for some properties have tripled despite never having been directly affected by natural disaster

  • My $1,000 laptop died after two years. It had a one-year warranty. Is complaining a waste of time?

    Your basic consumer rights aren’t interchangeable for product warranties, says Australian consumer law and policy professional Kat George – even if the warranty has expired your rights still apply

  • Can Vanessa Hudson win back the flying public when she takes the Qantas controls from Alan Joyce?

  • Australia’s big four banks may be at peak profitability but fat margins aren’t over, analysts say

  • Priced out: how Australians are being hit by the soaring cost of food

  • Australia’s rising cost of living is pushing people to buy now, pay later – but debts are stacking up

  • Why is customer service so poor at some corporations – and when should I complain?

  • ‘Time to go back’: city business owners rail against Australia’s working from home shift

  • Slashed avocados: prices low but set to rise again as Shepard season ends in Australia

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Opinion

  • Why does Australia rely on consulting firms such as PwC and not on its own public servants?

    Clancy Moore

  • Australians are being bled dry. Banks must use their windfall profits to help tackle the scam crisis

    Stephanie Tonkin

  • Critics of the budget’s cost-of-living measures say they are inflationary – but is this true?

    Isaac Gross

  • Labor could and should have gone stronger on the petroleum resource rent tax

    Rod Sims
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World news

  • Facebook fined €1.2bn for mishandling user information

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    Micron shares drop after China bars its chips, as US tech clash escalates – business live

  • Postal desert island: Mull’s residents cut off from civilisation by Royal Mail

  • UK government sells £1.26bn of NatWest shares

  • Ryanair rebounds to near-record profit as summer bookings soar

  • University investment funds urge ‘bold action’ to stop new fossil fuel projects

  • Co-op members and board at odds over AGM vote on chicken welfare

  • Concerns over price rises for period products despite removal of tampon tax

  • Ladbrokes owner funded ‘dishonest’ lobbying against gambling reforms

  • Facebook to be fined £648m for mishandling user information

Global view

  • Larry Elliott

    The west’s tightening of Russian sanctions is a sign of failure

    Larry Elliott

  • Inflation is on the wane, but a longed-for sharp drop is far from in the bag

    Energy bills and a tight labour market continue to cloud predictions of a steep decline by the end of the year

    • Brexit has wrecked Britain’s car industry, but so have the Tories

      Phillip Inman
    • Nils Pratley

      With strikes behind them, get ready for Royal Mail’s next battles

      Nils Pratley
    • Nils Pratley

      Vauxhall owner probably isn’t blameless, but UK needs to switch on to the car crisis

      Nils Pratley
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