Imagine going to the supermarket for the weekly shop and discovering there is not a single price in sight. There is currently no specific legal requirement for smaller stores to display prices – a loophole consumer groups say is leaving shoppers "flying blind" and struggling to budget. "In recent trips to Arnhem Land we noticed it was mostly healthy food …
You can get it watering plants. Australians are having less social contact than ever before, fuelling what the Surgeon General of the United States has described as an "epidemic of loneliness and isolation". "Since 2001, we've seen a definite decline in the frequency of social contact, and the trend unsurprisingly worsened during the years of the COVID pandemic," Dr Botha …
Increased welfare payments will hit bank accounts in coming days, but it's too little, too late for Australians already packing their bags and moving across the continent in search of a cheaper lifestyle. Key points: Centrelink payments will increase by about 3.7 per cent on March 20 as part of routine indexation Some people are leaving remote and northern towns …
As the record-breaking floodwaters slowly recede in northern Western Australia, stories of kindness and strange scenes are emerging. Key points: Volunteers and businesses rally to support the victims of the record flooding in the Kimberley One local pub has decided to destroy all alcohol for health and community safety reasons A chicken named Mariah has miraculously managed to survive the …