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Australian Maccas workers earn 2.3 Big Macs per hour - unchanged since the early 2000s.
Australia is rolling out AusAlert, a new national emergency warning system built to reach every mobile phone via cell broadcast technology, replacing the old SMS-based alerts that failed so many people during the Black Summer bushfires.
A Newcastle postie of more than 30 years has lost his unfair dismissal case after taking an Australia Post van to KFC during work hours, then telling his supervisor to "make an appointment" when asked where he'd been.
A study of 218,000 people across nearly 150 countries found about 1 in 5 feel lonely on a typical day.
Spain are world champions after a 1-0 win over Argentina, with Ferran Torres coming off the bench to score the winner in extra time.
Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins is launching a Global Goals Platform that asks people a single question - what is one goal you'd like to see achieved in your lifetime?
OpenAI's first consumer device will be a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed as an AI companion for the home.
The founder of Hinge has raised $18 million for a new AI dating service called Overtone, funded in part by Match Group, which owns Hinge, Tinder and OkCupid.
Almost half of workers in a 20,000-person survey said their job made them feel depressed at least some of the time, and serious mental health compensation claims in Australia have risen 161% in a decade.
KFC is trialling a breakfast menu on the Gold Coast and pushing closing times to midnight, betting that Gen Z wants fried chicken at both ends of the day.
New data from Anthropic shows Australia now ranks first in the world for Claude usage per head, using it more than six times as much as our population would suggest.
Coles has merged two staples into a single $14 bag, launching a limited-edition butter chicken flavour for its iconic hot roast chook.
