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BEIJING / SHANGHAI – China saw a total of 106 million domestic tourist trips made during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, up 32.3 percent from the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Tourism revenue reached 37.31 billion yuan (about $5.2 billion) during the holiday which lasts from Thursday to Saturday, […]
Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters, the investigative journalists who reported allegations of Ben Roberts-Smith’s war crimes, have labelled a Federal Court Judge’s decision to throw out the former SAS soldier’s defamation case “justice”.
Emergency services were called to the office of Victorian Premier Dan Andrews after a suspicious item was found. It’s understood that part of the Princes Highway has been shut down as investigations continue. “Police have been called to an address on Princes Highway following reports of a suspect item at an office about 10.20am,” a […]
Pharmacies could lose more than $150,000 each annually over the coming years under Labor reforms that reduce the cost of many prescription medicines, the government’s own analysis shows. The government says allowing people to buy two months’ worth of medicine for the price of a one-month prescription will save patients up to $180 a year […]
On Saturday, when the Archbishop of Canterbury conducts the coronation of Charles III at Westminster Abbey, he will not just be crowning the King of England, but the King of Australia as well. For Australians, the notion that we now have a King sits oddly. We were accustomed to the idea of Elizabeth II as Queen of […]
Tens of thousands of peak-hour commuters were stranded on Wednesday because of a serious malfunction on Sydney’s problem-plagued rail network that threatens to undermine the Perrottet government’s infrastructure credentials as it enters the final fortnight of the NSW election campaign. The shutdown of the entire network for more than an hour during the evening peak […]
Australia’s economy grew at its weakest pace in a year last quarter as strength in trade was offset by rising interest rates and high inflation, and all the signs are a further slowdown lies ahead. Indeed, without the sizeable contribution from trade, the economy would actually have contracted in the December quarter as rising prices […]
Belinda has applied for more than 100 rental homes in the past year and been rejected every time. The 39-year-old Australian single mother of four now lives in a temporary shelter in Campbelltown, southwest of Sydney, and has six months to find a home that costs under 500 Australian dollars ($340) a week, or risk […]
