Most Australians are planning to save any extra money they receive from their stage 3 tax cut, new data from NAB Bank has revealed. Younger Australians, women and those earning between $100,000 and $150,000 are the most likely to save their boost when the stage 3 tax cuts kick in on July 1 rather than … Read more
Canada Post is continuing to bleed money amid fundamental shifts in mail delivery, pushing the Crown corporation to signal that something will have to change if it wants to right the ship. Canada Post reported a $748-million annual loss before taxes for 2023 on Friday, the postal service’s sixth consecutive year in the red. In … Read more
Lines of cars snaked from a petrol station in Sydney’s southwest on Tuesday as motorists headed to Metro Petroleum Punchbowl to fill up their cars with the cheapest petrol prices in a decade. The Punchbowl servo is offering petrol for 99c per litre on the first Tuesday of every month between 3pm and 5pm. The … Read more
Apprentices in the building and construction industry will receive payments of $1000 following training milestones, the WA government announced on Sunday. It’s hoped that the cash boost will encourage burgeoning tradies to complete their apprenticeships and bolster the workforce, and ramp up the construction of new housing builds across the state. The $1000 Apprenticeship Support … Read more
Indian weddings are notoriously elaborate affairs, requiring a multitude of outfit changes for multiple days of festivities. It used to be normal for a family visiting Brij Kishore Agarwal’s sari shop, near the narrow lanes of Chandni Chowk market in India’s Old Delhi, to depart with a big bundle of bright, embroidered garments and leave … Read more
A NSW man has sold a 5c coin for $2000 — a decade after finding it in his childhood money box. The coin, which was taken into Adelaide coin shop The Purple Penny earlier this year, features a double obverse — the late Queen Elizabeth II’s effigy on both sides. Minted in 2007, its two … Read more
A series of demographic forces reshaping Canada has left many adult Canadians “sandwiched” between unpaid caregiving responsibilities for the generations coming before and after them. Marci Gray, a Brampton, Ont. resident, feels that particular sandwich through more layers than most. The CEO and lead psychotherapist at Gray Matter Health has three growing children of her … Read more
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) service Afterpay has announced changes to its Terms of Service. Under the new terms, select customers will now have the option to delay their first payment. All customers will now be able to choose a day of the week to pay their instalment, rather than having the day of purchase … Read more
Trigger warning: This article contains descriptions of domestic violence Radio host Kyle Sandilands has opened up about being raised in a household where “horrific” domestic violence was a common occurrence. He has recounted some of the disturbing memories that remain with him “as if it just happened half an hour ago”. Stream the world’s best … Read more
As a test of their resulting AI tool, the researchers checked its outputs with one cryptocurrency exchange—which the paper doesn’t name—identifying 52 suspicious chains of transactions that had all ultimately flowed into that exchange. The exchange, it turned out, had already flagged 14 of the accounts that had received those funds for suspected illicit activity, … Read more
