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3.6 million Australian households went hungry in the past year, 100,000 more than the year before, with nearly seven in ten experiencing food insecurity for the first time.
Aldi has scrapped the compulsory bag checks at its self-serve checkouts after a survey found nearly 97% of its checkout staff had faced abuse or violence, most of it over the bag checks themselves.
Everything that happened in the last week, including NAB job cuts, Victoria's new auction laws, and Apple forced to open up the App Store.
Apple has been ordered to open iOS to third-party app stores and let Australians download apps directly from developers, after the Federal Court found it abused its market power to reduce competition.
Sydney's second airport takes its first commercial flight this Sunday, with seven airlines already signed up, including Singapore Airlines, Air New Zealand and Qatar Airways.
National Australia Bank is cutting 2,500 jobs - 6% of its workforce - by mid-2027, with half gone before Christmas and the rest following by June.
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is committing 5% of its shares to a fund for the "public good" ahead of its stock market listing, with another 2% added for every 50% rise in the company's value above an undisclosed baseline.
About 2,400 people were arrested across France over the weekend as cost-of-living protests over fuel prices and public services turned into riots, with protesters in Marseille breaking into the city hall using a metal fence as a battering ram.
NSW unemployment has hit 4.7%, the worst in 5 years, with 34,000 more people out of work in 3 months as higher rates, petrol prices and falling house prices pull demand down across the state.
An OpenAI engineer has been charged with hiding a recording device in an executive conference room at the ChatGPT maker's San Francisco office, wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into the back of a TV.
Commonwealth Bank's 35,000 staff have just secured pay rises of up to 13% over three years after a six-month stand-off that involved Matt Comyn's $9.1 million salary against the bank's original below-inflation offer.
Qantas has cancelled a Rome to Perth flight after passengers on the way over complained of being bitten by bed bugs, and the crew reportedly ran out of antihistamines before landing.
