Australia
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Tax is bursting the bubble of craft beer industry
While drinkers look forward to toasting International Beer Day next Friday, Australian craft brewers are drowning their sorrows over a tax regime they say is crippling their industry and is …
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Berejiklian loses bid to overturn corruption findings
Gladys Berejiklian has lost a high-stakes court bid to overturn findings she acted corruptly in a major blow to the former premier’s reputation and win for the NSW integrity watchdog. …
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Anthony Koutoufides considering running for Melbourne Lord Mayor
AFL great Anthony Koutoufides is hinting that he might run for Lord Mayor of Melbourne this October in the upcoming council elections. The Age reports that Koutoufides said a friend …
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CrowdStrike: quality-control bug led to global outage
CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off a global tech outage that …
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Malnourishment rife in Australian residential aged care
Malnourishment is rife in Australian aged care facilities, with nearly four in 10 residents found to have the serious health condition. A study of more than 700 residents at 10 …
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Government announces review findings of multiculturalism in Australia
In a landmark review since multiculturalism became policy some 50 years ago, the Australian government released a report today examining the state of multiculturalism across the nation. The Multicultural Framework …
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Australian team briefed on alleged Paris sexual assault
Olympic team officials have been briefed on the alleged sexual assault of an Australian woman in Paris. According to local media, French police are investigating the allegation that the tourist …
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Melbourne tech guru Mike Sentonas at centre of global tech failure, compensation talks expected
Melbourne multi-millionaire Mike Sentonas, President of CrowdStrike, has found himself at the centre of a global tech failure that crippled business and government operations worldwide. The outage caused by a …
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Nine Greek Australian students recognised in VCE Premier’s Awards
At least nine Greek Australians have been recognised for their achievements in the annual Premier’s VCE Awards. At the award presentation ceremony held on July 17, a total of 332 …
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‘Devoid of moral qualms’: fatal hit-run driver jailed
Less than three weeks after leaving a cyclist to die, Peter Koutsogiannakis caused another dangerous crash. Driving a stolen Mazda on January 23, 2022, he tried to skip through a …