Category: News

  • Optus indicators with Elon Musk’s Starlink

    Australia’s second largest telco will broaden its cellular protection to 100 per cent of the nation after signing a cope with Elon Musk’s SpaceX enterprise, Starlink. The deal, introduced on Wednesday, will see Optus use low-Earth orbit satellites to ship voice calls, knowledge and SMS messages in an Australian first when providers launch within the…

  • Drawback gamblers to ban themselves from betting

    Stay Drawback gamblers will quickly be capable of signal as much as a nationwide self-exclusion register, as a part of new betting reform measures. The register, often known as BetStop, will probably be rolled out by the federal authorities from August 21. The register, a free service, will enable individuals to voluntarily exclude themselves from…

  • Dozens of households lose out in collapse of residence builder Bentley Properties

    Dwell Dozens of households are in limbo or out of pocket after a Melbourne-based residence builder collapsed. Bentley Properties slid into liquidation on Friday, catapulting clients and collectors into an anxious anticipate information. Crouch Amirbeaggi Insolvency Providers liquidator Timothy Holden on Monday revealed the corporate owed an estimated $1.6 million to commerce and related-party collectors.…

  • The wins and losses of recent monetary 12 months adjustments

    Stay Households are going through a surge of as much as 25 per cent of their energy payments, as the brand new monetary 12 months brings a raft of recent adjustments. The Australian Vitality Regulator will enhance the price of electrical energy between 20 and 25 per cent, heaping extra strain on folks managing hovering…

  • July improve to childcare subsidy won’t be as large as you suppose

    Main adjustments are coming to childcare subsidies for Australian households inside days, because the Albanese authorities makes good on one in every of its key election pledges. However, forward of the most important shake-ups to the sector in years, many households is perhaps shocked to search out they gained’t save anyplace close to as a…

  • New CEO and authorities consultancy sale for PwC

    Reside A brand new CEO has been parachuted in to run the embattled consultancy agency PwC Australia, which is offloading its money-making authorities consultancy enterprise for $1. Performing CEO Kristin Stubbins has been turfed after seven weeks and will probably be changed by the dad or mum’s Singapore-based world shoppers and industries chief Kevin Burrowes. PwC…

  • The Stats Man: Massive Australia is coming — let’s not repeat previous errors

    Dwell At this time’s column is an invite to consider the longer term, to think about an Australia that’s habitable, inexpensive and truthful for all. We’re taking a look at predictable structural challenges that have to be tackled. In forecasting we should agree on a number of fundamentals. We might be assuming comparatively excessive inhabitants…

  • Report labels PwC tax scandal as ‘egregious breach of belief’

    Stay A Senate committee has labelled embattled consultancy agency PwC’s conduct within the tax recommendation scandal as an “egregious” breach of belief. An interim report by the committee into PricewaterhouseCoopers’ conduct within the scandal the place confidential data on tax avoidance was leaked and shared with different companions for monetary achieve with different consumer, urged…

  • Stench fuel protest targets oil and fuel large Woodside headquarters

    Dwell About 2000 workers have been pressured to depart Woodside’s headquarters after an activist allegedly used a foul-smelling substance to simulate a fuel leak. The constructing in Perth’s CBD was evacuated about 10am on Thursday after the most recent incident involving the Disrupt Burrup Hub protest group. A girl in her 40s was taken into…

  • Little one care waitlists delaying mother and father returning to work

    Reside Lengthy waits to entry daycare are hampering mother and father returning to work, the patron watchdog says. Forward of the discharge of an interim report into the state of the nation’s childcare sector, the Australian Competitors and Client Fee mentioned massive variety of households have struggled with costly charges for companies. The watchdog has…