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3 Interest Rate cuts spark biggest Home Loan rush since the Pandemic

Australia’s housing market is experiencing an unprecedented surge in home loan applications, driven by three consecutive interest rate cuts in 2025 that have significantly boosted buyers’ borrowing power. According to recent data from Commonwealth Bank and PRD Nationwide’s Time to Buy a…

22 August, 2025

AUSTRALIA·VICTORIA

Victorian Premier Dan Andrews resigns

Premier Andrews has resigned abruptly, stepping down from his role effective 5 pm Wednesday. Having recently surpassed John Cain Jr. as the longest-serving Labor Premier in Victoria’s history in April 2023, Andrews’ decision was celebrated by many in the state who viewed…

26 September, 2023

AUSTRALIA·WORLD

America’s “unique” relationship with Australia?

The enthusiasm of the members of Albanese’s staff seems to have run away with them. They declared that ‘the Australian-United States relationship is unique in scale, scope and significance reflecting more than 100 years of partnership between our nations’. They are very…

20 September, 2023

AUSTRALIA

A rethink of Australia’s national security

Sam Roggeveen’s basic storyline in The Echidna Strategy – that the China threat is grossly exaggerated, and that Australia should not, and need not, rely on America for our security protection – is causing predictable conniptions in our security, commentariat and political…

8 September, 2023

AUSTRALIA·VICTORIA·WEATHER

Are earthquakes becoming more common in Melbourne?

Approximately 7,000 Victorians were alarmed by tremors at about 1:32am this morning as a magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit 127km east of Melbourne, near Rawson. Victoria has been hit by several quakes recently, including three in the space of one week in May…

30 June, 2023

AUSTRALIA

This outrageously expensive subs deal simply caters to the US. Again

In one week the government’s justification for needing outrageously expensive nuclear submarines has shifted from defending the continent to the old 1960s forward defence policy in Asia which lured us into Vietnam – with all its heartbreak. In Thursday’s The Australian Financial…

24 March, 2023

AUSTRALIA·HEALTH

Regular cannabis use now more accepted by Australians than smoking tobacco, study finds

Source: The Guardian Regular cannabis use has become more accepted than smoking tobacco, the latest National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS) has found. The 2019 data, compiled by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and released on Friday, asked around 20,000…

15 July, 2022

AUSTRALIA·TECHNOLOGY

Telstra moves call centres back to Australia after customers made their preference ‘loud and clear’

Source: 9news Telstra has moved all its call centres that service Australian customers and small businesses back to Australian shores to appease its customers. Telstra CEO Andy Penn has announced the move today, saying it has come after the company heard from…

12 July, 2022

AUSTRALIA·TECHNOLOGY

Cybersafety expert’s alarm over Snapchat’s new precise location feature: ‘Literally shows where you sleep at night’

Source: 9news Sometimes it feels like a full-time job keeping our children safe from online predators. So the last thing we need is technology making the job even harder. But a new feature on the Snapchat app, which allows users to see…

7 July, 2022

AUSTRALIA·TECHNOLOGY·WORLD

NASA successfully launches its first rocket from newly created Arnhem Space Centre

Source: ABCnews NASA has successfully launched its first rocket from Australian soil in more than a quarter of a century. After rain and wind delayed the launch by more than an hour, the suborbital sounding rocket took off just after midnight on Monday morning from…

27 June, 2022

AUSTRALIA·GREECE·TRAVEL

16 hours from Australia to Greece may become a reality with Qantas

Source: Greekcitytimes Qantas has launched direct flights between Australia and Europe with non-stop routes becoming available between Perth to Rome. The new route will be the only direct flight between Australia and continental Europe offered by any airline and is estimated to…

27 June, 2022

AUSTRALIA·HEALTH

Australia’s bulk billing clinics are not covered by Medicare subsidies, doctors say

Doctors warn that regional areas will soon be left with few bulk-billing practices if Medicare subsidies for general practitioners are not increased. An increasing number of practices in Australia have stopped using bulk billing in favour of private billingof patients. Doctors say…

21 June, 2022

AUSTRALIA·TRAVEL

Travellers warned to expect more disruptions in coming months

Source: ABCnews Australian air travellers have been warned to expect more disruptions over the next 12 months, as the industry scrambles to fill critical worker shortages ahead of the July school holidays. It’s been a torrid few months for passengers, who have faced…