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E-cigarettes: Australia to ban recreational vaping in major public health move

Vapes will only be available in pharmacies as an aid to help quitting smokers

Evening Standard

How sustainable is your can of tuna? Australians want clear and reliable eco-labelling

Industry leaders urge tuna companies to help consumers "not feel guilty" about their choices by making their environmental credentials clearer.

ABC News

‘Whiplash’: Mortgage bills to rise again as Reserve Bank signals inflation battle isn’t over yet

The Reserve Bank has resumed heaping pain onto Australian home owners, raising interest rates in May for the eleventh time in a year.

The New Daily

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Kyrgios helps police catch man who allegedly stole his Tesla

Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios has helped police catch a man who allegedly stole his Tesla at gunpoint from a home in Australia’s capital city

The Independent UK

Australian central bank hikes interest rate to 3.85%

Australia’s central bank has surprised markets by increasing its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.85% despite pausing its climb last month and new evidence that inflation is slowing

The Independent UK

Presented with a JobSeeker finding too clear to ignore, he changed the subject: how Jim Chalmers is shaping the budget

What was Treasurer Jim Chalmers thinking?

The Conversation

What does vaping do to your body and why is it being banned in Australia?

Vapes with nicotine were first banned in 2021 but now the federal government is getting serious about border control laws allowing the import of devices.

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Normalising China-Australia trade will take more than a political fix

More than three years since China first blocked a range of Australian imports in a political dispute, restrictions are easing, but reviving trade is proving more challenging than stopping it in the first place.

Reuters

Australian teen Tayla Green-Aldridge headed to King Charles's coronation alongside Julie Bishop

When Tayla Green-Aldridge received a phone call inviting her to one of the biggest events of the century, the 18-year-old thought it was a prank.

ABC News

RBA interest rates: Reserve Bank increases official cash rate to 3.85% in shock decision

In a decision reached at its meeting today, Australia’s reserve bank will lift interest rates, causing further strain to borrowers

The Guardian - AU

Australia to pay soldiers bonus to stay as strategic risks rise

Australia said on Tuesday it will pay military personnel A$50,000 ($33,165) to stay beyond an initial service period, days after a review found its defence posture was "not fit for purpose" amid rising competition between the United States and China.

Reuters

Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth hit by Russian-linked ransomware attack

Cyberattack resulted in hacking of 4TB of data including IDs, finance reports, accounting data, client documents and credit card details

The Guardian - AU

From sheep duffing to cattle rustling, how big a problem is livestock theft in Australia?

A survey by the Centre for Rural Criminology aims to get accurate numbers for a crime that farmers rarely bother to report

The Guardian - AU

The legacy of this Australian classic spread and the remarkable tale of its Victorian creator

Salty, dark, rich and malty, Vegemite is an Australian icon recognised around the world. A century after its creation, a museum has re-opened to celebrate the man who invented it.

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The Guardian - AU

Jim who? Chalmers may not have Keating’s cut-through but this budget is his chance to serenade Australia

The treasurer’s biggest challenge is not making the numbers add up, it’s making sure the words take voters with him

The Guardian - AU

‘Is that satire?’: Outrage as Peter V’landys describes NRL as ‘wagering content’

Australian rugby league boss saying ‘quiet part out loud’ in quest to generate revenue from US betting market, anti-gambling advocate says

The Conversation

From 'technicolour yawn' to 'draining the dragon': how Barry Humphries breathed new life into Australian slang

If slang is the people’s poetry, then Australia lost a poet last week.

Reuters

Australia to ban recreational vaping in e-cigarette crackdown

Australia said on Tuesday it will ban recreational vaping and tighten other aspects of e-cigarette laws in the biggest crackdown on the tobacco industry in more than a decade to try to stop an alarming rise in teenage vaping.

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The New Daily

Toyota says it’s too early for electric car transition

Australia's top-selling car maker says it is too early for electric vehicles to replace all cars, arguing some motorists could be left behind in the move.

The New Daily

Welfare payment boost expected for people aged over 55

Older Australians are tipped to receive a modest boost to JobSeeker payments, with a commitment to considering broader increases to welfare payments expected.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: majority back jobseeker rise, vapes to be banned, plea for help from NT town

Our Essential poll says people think the unemployed should get more generous payments, while Mark Butler says vaping is a ‘menace’ and most imports will be banned

The New Daily

‘Unforgettable life’: Shock and sadness after TV chef Jock Zonfrillo dies

MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo lived an "unforgettable" life, rising from addiction to become one of Australia's most successful chefs.

The Conversation

Here's why pharmacists are angry at script changes – and why the government is making them anyway

Australians will soon be able to fill two months’ supply of medicines at their community pharmacy, rather than one, for 325 common medicines. This change is expected to halve the cost of prescriptions for six million Australians.

The Conversation

Journalists reporting on the Voice to Parliament do voters a disservice with 'he said, she said' approach

For much of the past two decades, polarisation and hyper-partisanship have weakened Western democracies, most notably in the United States and Britain. Australia has not escaped, although the consequences here have been nothing as compared with Brexit or the insurrection in Washington on January 6, 2021.

The Conversation

Picking up a King Charles III coronation commemorative plate? You're buying into a centuries-old tradition

Mugs and plates celebrating the coronations, marriages and deaths of British royalty are not unusual sights in the Australian home. With the forthcoming coronation of King Charles III on May 6, such memorabilia cluttering our cupboards are only likely to increase.

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