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Hundreds of thousands of workers across the public and private sectors will be given the option to work on Australia Day instead of celebrating the public holiday as the national debate intensifies about the appropriateness of celebrating the 1788 arrival of the first fleet. Woolworths, which employs 160,000 people across the country, has told its staff they can choose to ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has refused to consider a nationwide shake-up to the gambling sector and has insisted protections around poker machines are a matter for the states, as reforms to minimise problem gambling dominate the lead-up to the NSW election on March 25. NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet confirmed on Wednesday that a Coalition cashless gaming card plan would impose ...

There are fears a “financial earthquake” causing widespread distress is going to hit globally, with a warning issued by the world’s leading expert on debt crises. The rapid rate of interest rates rises across the globe, with eight consecutive hikes in Australia alone taking it from a record low of 0.1 per cent to 3.1 per cent in December, could ...

The news is full of new concessions from China to Australia. China appears to be reversing its shadow-ban on importing Aussie coal that wiped $1 billion off Australia’s balance sheet. This backflip is a revealing outrun of events given the past five years of China’s attempt to strangle Australia’s economy. The Chinese assault took a range of forms from trade ...

Brisbane Bullets big man Harry Froling says he’ll continue to call out online abuse from “cowards” after he exchanged words with an aggrieved fan. The majority of players ignore or block trolls, but Froling refused to cop the unwarranted attacks from an unidentified account on Monday. He also dared the faceless troll to attend a game in person and repeat ...

Eddie Jones has three NRL targets in mind to sign to the Wallabies. He hasn’t identified the three, but well placed sources indicate that some high-profile league stars who are all off contract this year are on a list of interest at Rugby Australia. Rising Roosters gun Joseph Sua’ali’i is the obvious No.1 target for rugby. But alongside him, Parramatta ...

A married father-of-four jailed over his involvement in a brutal gangland brawl at Ballina airport has engaged two prominent Sydney lawyers in a last-ditched bid to avoid prison. Alameddine crime clan associate John Ray Bayssari, 31, was handed a 12-month jail sentence in December last year after pleading guilty to a single count of affray over the February 2021 melee, ...

NSW Labor has described the Coalition’s promise to wipe minor fines for good drivers as the “world’s fastest U-turn”, a day after the government criticised Labor’s plan to reward safe motorists by returning their demerit points. Labor leader Chris Minns also wouldn’t rule out adopting Premier Dominic Perrottet’s policy alongside his party’s pledge to reimburse drivers a demerit point every ...