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🗞️ Breaking point

Hundreds of thousands of people marched across France yesterday following a protest high-school students started three weeks ago over missing teachers and classrooms with leaking ceilings. It has since spread to parents, universities and unions, disrupting almost a quarter of the country's high schools.

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Oct 05, 2026

🗞️ Great timing

The Reserve Bank has pinned smartphone and PC price rises on the global AI boom, with some consumer electronics now up more than 50% as data centre operators compete with everyday buyers for the same memory and storage chips.

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Oct 01, 2026

🗞️ Just a blip

Australian house prices have dropped for six months straight and are now 5.2% below their March peak, back to where they were a year ago.

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Sep 30, 2026

🗞️ Near miss

Near-misses at Sydney Airport have jumped 20% above the national average since COVID, with air traffic controllers routinely working overtime, combining roles mid-shift and supervising trainees while managing live traffic.

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Sep 29, 2026

🗞️ Breaking records

More than a dozen South Australian towns just recorded their hottest September day on record, with temperatures hitting the mid to high 30s - 10 to 15 degrees above what's normal for this time of year.

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Sep 28, 2026

🗞️ Meta vapes

Australia marked 50 years since it phased out cigarette advertising at the start of this month, and Meta's own ad library carries 460 ads selling a Chinese vape brand that crime gangs import into the country.

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Sep 27, 2026

🗞️ Pistachio sauce

Soft drink consumption is in long-term decline, so the fast food chains have stopped trying to sell you a Coke and started selling coloured frozen drinks with chewy things in them.

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Sep 24, 2026

🗞️ Going above and beyond

An OpenAI agent sent to research public medicine spending found its way around repeated blocks on the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal and wrote files of its own to an internal government server that nobody has yet identified.

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Sep 23, 2026

🗞️ Stay at home

Half of Australians aged 18 to 29 are now living with their parents, up from 39% in 2001, according to the HILDA survey that has followed the same 17,000 people since then.

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Sep 22, 2026

🗞️ Three stripes

Adidas is suing Sydney label White Fox for trademark infringement, in a case expected to turn on stripe motifs it says sit too close to the three it has spent decades defending.

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Sep 21, 2026

🗞️ Loose fit

BYD has recalled 32,000 Shark 6 utes after discovering the spare wheel can fall off while you're driving, worn through by a cable that wasn't tightened properly at the factory.

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Sep 20, 2026

🗞️ The Oracle of Omaha

Warren Buffett has stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway at 96, ending roughly six decades at the helm of the company he built into a US$1 trillion conglomerate, with his son Howard taking the chair.

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