2 h. ago Suburbs where a $400,000 household income isn’t enough to live

With rents rising much faster than wages, tenants here would need to have gained a 51 per cent pay rise since 2019, just to keep pace.

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8 d. ago Accused Australian drug smuggler likely to have avoided Bali death penalty

An Australian man has likely avoided the death penalty as Bali prosecutors drop the most serious drug charges against him.

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8 d. ago Australia in talks with US over Trump demands to pay more for medicine

A White House official said the general structure of the deal – under which other countries pay more for medicines or face punitive trade measures – was the model for talks with other nations.

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9 d. ago Trump forces UK to pay 25 per cent more for new drugs. Australia’s PBS could be next

A White House official said the general structure of the deal – under which other countries pay more for medicines or face punitive trade measures – was the model for talks with other nations.

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1 week ago ‘No passports, no visas’: Australians detained after mysterious South Papua flight

Indonesian officials said one of the Australians was supposedly linked to a drug case, while another was on parole. Searching the plane, authorities say they found a small amount of meth.

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2 w. ago Trump’s peace deal for Ukraine is easy to condemn. It is harder to reject

Donald Trump’s proposed peace deal forces Ukraine to weigh a lopsided settlement against the horrific cost of a war with no end in sight.

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2 w. ago How a Republican and a Democrat forced Trump’s hand on Epstein

Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna’s months-long campaign for the release of the Epstein files started with a single text. It ended with 218 signatures.

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4 w. ago Trump meeting over, Albanese government reboots plans to make tech giants pay for journalism

Tech companies will be forced to give a portion of their domestic revenue – about 1.5 per cent – to local media companies, or pay a higher amount in financial penalties.

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