Price-conscious Aussies spend up on record Black Friday
Consumers are snapping up more bargains than ever before as increasing financial pressures send them hunting for better deals.
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The parent company for Facebook has hit out at a looming ban on under 16s for social media, labelling the process as rushed.
Two days after being convicted of manslaughter over the tasering of an elderly woman, the police officer who pulled the trigger has avoided custody.
Indigenous leader Geoff Clark and his son Jeremy have been sentenced after they were found guilty of stealing almost $1 million from Aboriginal organisations.
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Woolies denies bare shelves as strike enters new week
An ongoing strike by Woolworths warehouse workers has left supermarket shelves increasingly bare, unions say.
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Grandparents, mystery Melbournite split $100m Powerball
The hunt is on for a Melbourne Powerball player who is set to split the $100 million prize pot with Rockhampton grandparents.
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‘Extremely unlikely’: no doctors to respond to shooting
Lawyers for a police officer who shot a teen have urged caution as a coroner prepares her findings into a long running coronial inquest into the death.
An officer who fatally tasered an aged-care resident will spend another night waiting to learn if he will be taken into custody after his manslaughter verdict.
Webjet no longer advertises minimum flight prices without compulsory booking fees after the consumer watchdog dragged it to court over the practice.
Hundreds of thousands of Australians are being turned away from community legal centres, as the sector battles chronic underfunding.
One lucky Australian may become $100 million richer with the sixth-largest jackpot in lottery history up for grabs in the latest Powerball draw.
More men want to take action against domestic violence but almost half think they can't do anything to change it.
More than two years after it was launched, the inquest into the death of indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker is about to begin closing submissions.
The heartbroken parents of Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles have brought their bodies back to Australia after their deaths from methanol poisoning in Laos.
Supermarkets will face multimillion-dollar penalties for breaches of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct under a proposal being introduced to parliament.
Federal MPs are being lobbied to help pressure the US government to grant a presidential pardon for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Australia is on track to meet 2030 43 per cent emission’s reduction target, on latest figures.
Older Australians will be able to live at home for longer and receive better protections in aged care after a sector overhaul passed parliament.
The NT coroner has handed down findings into the killing of four Aboriginal women by their partners.
![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
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