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Australia’s card payments market to reach $1.4 trillion in 2029
RetailBiz
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September 12, 2025
Australia’s card payments market is projected to reach $1.4 trillion in 2029, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.2 per cent between 2025 and 2029, according to new forecasts from GlobalData. The growth will be led primarily by...
'March for Australia' shows how economic injustice fuels the far-right
Independent Australia
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September 12, 2025
Rising inequality is being exploited by right-wing populism, putting Australians at risk of becoming further disenfranchised, writes Carl Rhodes. WHEN THE LABOR PARTY won the federal election in May, many Australians saw it as a rejection of Peter...
Malaysia, Australia to ease student visa rules
The Malaysian Star
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September 12, 2025
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia and Australia have agreed on the need to increase scholarships and ease visa requirements for Malaysian students heading to Australia, according to the Foreign Ministry. Both countries have also agreed to expand cooperation...
Dementia revealed to be Australia’s deadliest illness
Sky News Australia
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September 12, 2025
Dementia has now claimed the grim title of Australia’s biggest killer, with new figures showing the disease is responsible for more deaths than any other condition. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reports dementia accounted...
Australia: NSW Championing Cultural Diversity in Digital Leadership
OpenGov Asia
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September 11, 2025
The New South Wales government has introduced a pilot programme aimed at addressing the underrepresentation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) staff in senior roles within its technology workforce. Although a third of the state’s...
‘Ngai si Hakka ngin’: Small but mighty, Penang’s Hakka community finding ways to keep their language and culture alive
Malay Mail
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September 13, 2025
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 13 — The Hakka community in Penang may be small, but its members are determined to keep their heritage alive. From online language classes to drama shows and even songs, the 1,300-member Penang Hakka Association has been finding...
Australian #MeToo saga continues with Liberal senator’s defamation action upheld
World Socialist Web Site
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September 12, 2025
The outcome of a defamation case earlier this month shed highly revealing light on the long-running saga sparked by the claims of former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins that her then work colleague Bruce Lehrmann raped her in the the...
Australia's best meat pie of 2025 has been crowned
Nine
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September 12, 2025
The Official Great Aussie Pie Competition has this week crowned the best meat pie and sausage roll in Australia. The winner for the Plain Meat Pie 2025 is Paradise Bakehouse in Bundaberg, Queensland and Banana Boogie in Belair, South Australia got...
Young Australians watched Charlie Kirk's assassination without warning
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 12, 2025
Young Australians say they are seeing graphic video of US commentator Charlie Kirk being shot dead pop up in their social media algorithms without warning, with some wishing they had not watched the disturbing vision. But an expert has cautioned...
Can Australia be both a gas giant and a climate leader?
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 12, 2025
The Australian government's move to extend the life of Woodside's North West Shelf gas project by 40-years has landed at a critical juncture for its climate credentials. Seven years after Woodside first applied to Western Australia's environmental...
‘Jimpa’ will have its Australian premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival
OUTinPerth
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September 12, 2025
Jimpa is set to have its Australian Premiere at the opening night film of the Adelaide Film Festival on October 15. It will be then released in cinemas across Australia on February 19, 2026. The film is from director Sophie Hyde who previously...
Australia’s long history of ‘sovereign citizens’ can be traced to outback WA
The Conversation
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September 12, 2025
Outback Western Australia, some time in the 1970s. Picture a huge farm about 500 kilometres north of Perth, with a seemingly endless dirt road to get there. It’s about as middle-of-nowhere as you can get. Leonard Casley is a wheat farmer and the...
Australia unites with Pacific leaders on regional priorities
The National Tribune
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September 12, 2025
Prime Minister Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended the 54th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders’ Meeting in Solomon Islands from 10 to 11 September. Prime Minister Albanese joined Pacific Leaders in signing the Pacific Resilience Facility...
Torrie Lewis was the face of Australian athletics before Gout. But she can’t imagine how he feels
Brisbane Times
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September 12, 2025
Born in England to an English mum and Jamaican-born dad, she migrated to Australia as a young girl. At the start of this year, she moved to Europe to live in the Netherlands and train with a group including Femke Bol, the Dutch Olympic gold...
Inside the dramatic transformation of Australia's most beautiful woman - so can you tell all the ways she's changed?
Daily Mail
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September 12, 2025
By MONIQUE FRIEDLANDER, ASSISTANT SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR, AUSTRALIA Published: 06:22 EDT, 12 September 2025 | Updated: 06:23 EDT, 12 September 2025 A Dubai-based Australian pageant queen has returned Down Under, looking almost unrecognisable...
The very surprising reason Top End Wedding star Miranda Tapsell returned to work just weeks after giving birth
Daily Mail
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September 14, 2025
By ANTHONY JAMES Published: 21:42 EDT, 13 September 2025 | Updated: 21:46 EDT, 13 September 2025 Veteran Aussie actress Miranda Tapsell has returned to work just weeks after welcoming her second child last month, and revealed her surprising reason...
Australian Prime Minister Radio interview – 4CA Cairns Breakfast
The National Tribune
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September 12, 2025
Prime Minister The Prime Minister joins me this morning. Anthony Albanese, good morning. ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Murray. It is wonderful to be back here in beautiful Cairns. JONES: You’ve got a good day for it. We’ve really...
Humane Society of Central Oregon at 200% capacity after 79 dog seizures from neglect cases
KTVZ - Oregon
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September 12, 2025
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Due to a massive influx of seized dogs, including 46 poodles and 33 Toy Australian Shepherds, the Humane Society of Central Oregon said they are currently not accepting new intakes. Currently, the shelter is running at a 200%...
Property expert reveals how millions of Australians are facing a retirement nightmare - and the only way to avoid it is to 'build two new cities'
Daily Mail
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September 12, 2025
Two new cities must be built in New South Wales to avoid a future rental crisis that will severely impact millions of Australians' retirement savings, a top finance broker has warned. Recent research reveals more retirees than ever before will be...
How indie darling film studio A24 stays on top … and what it can teach Australian filmmakers
The Sydney Morning Herald
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September 12, 2025
Like every studio, it has had flops, most recently with the strange COVID-19-era Western Eddington. But A24 has been in the news lately for more positive reasons. Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt have been tipped for Oscar nominations after The...