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Australian 15-year-olds have come out of the latest global school test more than 2 years of learning behind the ones who sat it in 2003, dropping to 16th in maths out of 91 countries.
Nike has been dropped from the S&P 100 for the first time in 18 years, after losing 76% of its value and US$230 billion since its 2021 peak.
More than a million Australians are now working a second job, the highest number in the 32 years the Bureau of Statistics has been counting.
Electric cars have overtaken petrol cars in new vehicle sales across Australia for the first time, grabbing a record 24.9% share of the market.
Australia's economy grew a modest 0.4% in the three months to June, and much of what kept it moving was households buying electric cars, with vehicle purchases up 10.3% while spending on petrol and travel fell.
NSW has rolled out a $34 million drone surveillance program across dozens of Sydney beaches, flying dawn to dusk in the wake of a string of shark attacks.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell are taking Anthropic to court, accusing the AI lab of training its Claude chatbot on pirated copies of hit songs including Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and Marvin Gaye's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
Some of the gift cards hanging on supermarket racks have already been opened, the redemption codes scraped off and the packet resealed, so you pay full price and take home a piece of cardboard.
Brisbane is getting its first Costco, a 15,600 square metre warehouse on a 6.7-hectare site at the airport, 12km from the CBD.
At least 34 Australians are among hundreds of people unaccounted for after flash flooding on the Nepal-Tibet border killed at least 160.
Mortgage repayments are back near their 2024 peak, and the Reserve Bank has left the cash rate at 4.35% while refusing to rule out another rise.
Australia’s big banks have started raising credit card fees and cutting rewards points, two months before the RBA’s ban on card surcharges kicks in on October 1.
