Woolies goes to Fair Work to bust worker blockade
Supermarket giant Woolworths has filed an urgent application with the Fair Work Commission to ban workers from picketing their distribution warehouses.
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State and territory business regulation and tax settings have been ranked by a major employer group.
Australia's retail sales have risen 0.6 per cent as budget-conscious shoppers took advantage of discounting starting well before Black Friday sales.
Criminals, charlatans and dodgy providers attempting to defraud the National Disability Insurance Scheme will face a tougher fraud detection system.
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Price-conscious Aussies spend up on record Black Friday
Consumers are snapping up more bargains than ever before as increasing financial pressures send them hunting for better deals.
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Tech giant concern as social media ban passes
The parent company for Facebook has hit out at a looming ban on under 16s for social media, labelling the process as rushed.
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Taser cop home for Christmas as judge ponders sentence
Two days after being convicted of manslaughter over the tasering of an elderly woman, the police officer who pulled the trigger has avoided custody.
Indigenous leader Geoff Clark and his son Jeremy have been sentenced after they were found guilty of stealing almost $1 million from Aboriginal organisations.
An ongoing strike by Woolworths warehouse workers has left supermarket shelves increasingly bare, unions say.
The hunt is on for a Melbourne Powerball player who is set to split the $100 million prize pot with Rockhampton grandparents.
Lawyers for a police officer who shot a teen have urged caution as a coroner prepares her findings into a long running coronial inquest into the death.
An officer who fatally tasered an aged-care resident will spend another night waiting to learn if he will be taken into custody after his manslaughter verdict.
Webjet no longer advertises minimum flight prices without compulsory booking fees after the consumer watchdog dragged it to court over the practice.
Hundreds of thousands of Australians are being turned away from community legal centres, as the sector battles chronic underfunding.
One lucky Australian may become $100 million richer with the sixth-largest jackpot in lottery history up for grabs in the latest Powerball draw.
More men want to take action against domestic violence but almost half think they can't do anything to change it.
More than two years after it was launched, the inquest into the death of indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker is about to begin closing submissions.
The heartbroken parents of Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles have brought their bodies back to Australia after their deaths from methanol poisoning in Laos.
Supermarkets will face multimillion-dollar penalties for breaches of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct under a proposal being introduced to parliament.
