๐๏ธ Food for thought
3.6 million Australian households went hungry in the past year, 100,000 more than the year before, with nearly seven in ten experiencing food insec...
Pick & Scroll, the daily edition
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๐๏ธ Bag check
Aldi has scrapped the compulsory bag checks at its self-serve checkouts after a survey found nearly 97% of its checkout staff had faced abuse or vi...
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๐๏ธ What you missed this week, 19-23 Oct
Everything that happened in the last week, including NAB job cuts, Victoria's new auction laws, and Apple forced to open up the App Store.
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๐๏ธ Free market
Apple has been ordered to open iOS to third-party app stores and let Australians download apps directly from developers, after the Federal Court fo...
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๐๏ธ Taking off
Sydney's second airport takes its first commercial flight this Sunday, with seven airlines already signed up, including Singapore Airlines, Air New...
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๐๏ธ NAB job cuts
National Australia Bank is cutting 2,500 jobs - 6% of its workforce - by mid-2027, with half gone before Christmas and the rest following by June.
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๐๏ธ 'Public good'
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is committing 5% of its shares to a fund for the "public good" ahead of its stock market listing, with anothe...
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๐๏ธ Protesting like the French
About 2,400 people were arrested across France over the weekend as cost-of-living protests over fuel prices and public services turned into riots, ...
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๐๏ธ Job security
NSW unemployment has hit 4.7%, the worst in 5 years, with 34,000 more people out of work in 3 months as higher rates, petrol prices and falling hou...
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๐๏ธ Boardroom spy
An OpenAI engineer has been charged with hiding a recording device in an executive conference room at the ChatGPT maker's San Francisco office, wra...
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๐๏ธ CBA pay rises
Commonwealth Bank's 35,000 staff have just secured pay rises of up to 13% over three years after a six-month stand-off that involved Matt Comyn's $...
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๐๏ธ Qantas bed bugs
Qantas has cancelled a Rome to Perth flight after passengers on the way over complained of being bitten by bed bugs, and the crew reportedly ran ou...
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๐๏ธ Healthy competition
Costco and Aldi pulled in almost $20 billion in Australian sales last financial year, up from $17.5 billion the year before, with the pair now hold...
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๐๏ธ Splitting the bill
Sydney rents fell 0.4% in the September quarter - the first drop in almost two years - while nationally the 0.5% rise was less than half the pace o...
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๐๏ธ Poork communication
Guzman y Gomez has been importing hundreds of tonnes of Danish pork a year for its burritos and tacos, while advertising its use of Australian prod...
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๐๏ธ Breaking point
Hundreds of thousands of people marched across France yesterday following a protest high-school students started three weeks ago over missing teach...
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๐๏ธ Great timing
The Reserve Bank has pinned smartphone and PC price rises on the global AI boom, with some consumer electronics now up more than 50% as data centre...
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๐๏ธ Just a blip
Australian house prices have dropped for six months straight and are now 5.2% below their March peak, back to where they were a year ago.
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๐๏ธ Near miss
Near-misses at Sydney Airport have jumped 20% above the national average since COVID, with air traffic controllers routinely working overtime, comb...
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๐๏ธ Breaking records
More than a dozen South Australian towns just recorded their hottest September day on record, with temperatures hitting the mid to high 30s - 10 to...
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๐๏ธ Meta vapes
Australia marked 50 years since it phased out cigarette advertising at the start of this month, and Meta's own ad library carries 460 ads selling a...
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๐๏ธ Pistachio sauce
Soft drink consumption is in long-term decline, so the fast food chains have stopped trying to sell you a Coke and started selling coloured frozen ...
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๐๏ธ Going above and beyond
An OpenAI agent sent to research public medicine spending found its way around repeated blocks on the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal ...
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๐๏ธ Stay at home
Half of Australians aged 18 to 29 are now living with their parents, up from 39% in 2001, according to the HILDA survey that has followed the same ...
