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Australia’s biggest lender posts huge $10b year profit
Michael West Media
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August 12, 2025
Interest rate and tax cuts, combined with lower inflation, have given households more money to spend, a major bank says, after posting a huge annual profit on the back of better economic conditions. Commonwealth Bank of Australia on Wednesday...
Pizza Hut Australia celebrates its 55th birthday with a massive 12 week long giveaway
EFTM
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August 13, 2025
Believe it or not Pizza Hut is celebrating 55 years in Australia and haven’t they changed in that time? In the olden days it was always a special treat to visit those uniquely shaped stores with the red booths and red/white chequered table cloths...
Top 10 Crypto Exchanges in Australia
Fintech Review
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August 13, 2025
Australia’s crypto exchange ecosystem is one of the most regulated and diverse in the world. With AUSTRAC overseeing anti-money laundering compliance and an increasingly crypto-savvy population, local and global platforms offer Australians secure...
Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia
The Register
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Australia’s Federal Court has given Epic Games another win in its global fight against the way Apple and Google run their app stores. The Court yesterday delivered its oral decision in a long-running case that, like similar cases elsewhere,...
Resources Top 5: Critica confirms Jupiter as Australia’s largest magnet rare earth clay-hosted resource
Stockhead
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August 13, 2025
A large magnet rare earth resource adds significant value to CRI’s the Jupiter project Pic: Getty Images Multiple MREO zones at Jupiter contain neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium Testwork identifies potential to produce gallium as a...
Is Australia's worst-case housing scenario about to hit? Grim warning issued - despite Albanese's optimism
Daily Mail
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August 13, 2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has embraced the RBA's recent rate cut despite experts raising fears the decision will price more Aussies out of the property market. On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia decided to cut the cash rate for the...
Telstra is rocked by massive outage as customers are left in the dark
Daily Mail
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August 13, 2025
By NICHOLAS WILSON, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 01:12 EDT, 13 August 2025 | Updated: 01:49 EDT, 13 August 2025 Thousands of Telstra customers in southern New South Wales have been left without internet and phone coverage following a major...
New Study Highlights Western Australia's Lithium Leadership and Future Potential
Investing News Network
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August 12, 2025
Western Australia has a strong lithium history, and a recent study could help inform future exploration. Put together by researchers from the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA), Curtin University and the University of Western Australia,...
Happiness is the new brand currency: 8 in 10 Asia Pacific consumers rely on brands for unique, transformative experiences
The Laotian Times
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August 13, 2025
Younger generations in Asia Pacific — Millennials (89%) and Gen Z (86%) — are driving the shift towards experiential brand engagement in the transformation economy 60% of respondents in Asia Pacific prioritise rewards that strengthen ties with...
Docusign plans Australian data centre, answering national push for digital sovereignty and data security
The Laotian Times
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August 13, 2025
Local innovations include the launch of AI Contract Agents and a new integration with IDVerse SYDNEY, Aug. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Docusign (NASDAQ: DOCU), the Intelligent Agreement Management company, has today announced the upcoming plans for a...
Australia, Canada, UK Urge Belarus to End 'Campaign of Repression
ImpACT International
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Since the controversial presidential election in Belarus in 2020, the country has witnessed an intensified campaign of political repression under the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko, who secured a seventh term in January 2025. The...
Australia is a 'home owners' welfare state'. Taxing the family home may be the answer
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 12, 2025
Australia's income inequality is much worse than we think because official statistics ignore the income that home owners derive from their properties, leading economists say. New research finds Australia's extremely favourable tax treatment of...
Cost, complexity, confidence slow rooftop solar uptake in Australia
pv-magazine
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August 13, 2025
Cost, complexity and confidence gaps are the main barriers to the uptake of rooftop solar in Australia, according to new federal government research. August 13, 2025 David Carroll From pv magazine Australia A new survey shows that the upfront cost...
Australian Unity Rolls Out ‘Rewrite The Rules Of Living’ Throwing Out Outdated Stereotypes Of Aging
B&T
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August 12, 2025
Australian Unity’s has launched its first major campaign for its Home Health and Care business—‘Rewrite the rules of living’—demonstrating how active ageing throws out the outdated stereotypes of getting older. “Who said the rules of ageing can’t...
Australia: $100 million Powerball jackpot still unclaimed two months after draw
Yogonet International
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August 12, 2025
The mystery winner of a $100 million Powerball jackpot has yet to come forward nearly two months after the prize was drawn. The winning ticket for Powerball draw 1517 was purchased at Bondi Junction Newsagency and Internet Cafe in Sydney’s eastern...
Treasury Wine profit rises on strong Penfolds demand in China, shares jump
Yahoo Finance
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(Reuters) -Australia's Treasury Wine Estates reported 16% growth in its annual underlying profit on Wednesday, driven by robust demand for its flagship Penfolds business in China and strong contribution from its Treasury Americas portfolios....
ASX 200 futures rally as RBA easing supports Australia 200 record levels
Kalkine Media
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August 13, 2025
Highlights,Australia 200 reaches new all-time high following RBA interest rate reduction,Economic updates signal moderated inflation and steady labour market expectations,Financial and consumer-facing sectors advance while lithium sector...
Impressive Games beats Apple and Google in Australian court, Fortnite go back to iOS in another market
Web NewsWire
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August 13, 2025
Fortnite is one action more detailed to making its resurgence in Australia as Epic Games protected its newest court wins in 2 different cases versus Apple and Google. The Federal Court of Australia concluded that both Apple and Google broke the...
Rent4Keeps, franchisee penalised for overcharging vulnerable consumers
RetailBiz
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August 13, 2025
Rent4Keeps has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay a $4 million penalty, while its largest franchisee, Darranda Pty Ltd, was fined $3.4 million for overcharging consumers on essential household goods and failing to comply with obligations as...
Expert reveals the ‘blind spot’ undermining AI-driven customer data strategies for retailers
RetailBiz
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August 13, 2025
Every retail brand says they want a unified view of the customer. We’ve been talking about it for 20 years. But as I recently observed through new industry research, many still don’t understand what it actually takes to achieve one – especially...