🗞️ Breaking point
Hundreds of thousands of people marched across France yesterday following a protest high-school students started three weeks ago over missing teach...
Pick & Scroll, the daily edition
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🗞️ 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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🗞️ 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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🗞️ 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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🗞️ 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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🗞️ 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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🗞️ 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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🗞️ 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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🗞️ 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 ...
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🗞️ Three stripes
Adidas is suing Sydney label White Fox for trademark infringement, in a case expected to turn on stripe motifs it says sit too close to the three i...
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🗞️ Loose fit
BYD has recalled 32,000 Shark 6 utes after discovering the spare wheel can fall off while you're driving, worn through by a cable that wasn't tight...
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🗞️ The Oracle of Omaha
Warren Buffett has stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway at 96, ending roughly six decades at the helm of the company he built into a US$1...
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🗞️ Milking it
Coles added 20c to a litre of its own-brand milk in April to fund extra payments to dairy farmers, stopped those payments on 8 September, and has t...
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🗞️ Human resources
Meta has launched a paid subscription in Australia that lets businesses reach an actual human at Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp support.
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🗞️ Prove it
Australians now have to scan a passport or driver's licence into their iPhone before Apple will let them download an app rated 18 plus or turn off ...
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🗞️ Open house
There's a reason realestate.com.au seems to have every property in the country on its websites, and it's because agents were contractually required...
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🗞️ 76 minutes
Optus triple-0 calls stopped connecting for 76 minutes on Friday for about 190,000 customers across Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the Nor...
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🗞️ iPhone Duo
Apple’s first folding phone, the iPhone Duo, lands in Australia at $3,499, and $5,899 if you want the 2TB one.
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🗞️ Very behind
Australian 15-year-olds have come out of the latest global school test more than 2 years of learning behind the ones who sat it in 2003, dropping t...
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🗞️ Just do it
Nike has been dropped from the S&P 100 for the first time in 18 years, after losing 76% of its value and US$230 billion since its 2021 peak.
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🗞️ Second jobs
More than a million Australians are now working a second job, the highest number in the 32 years the Bureau of Statistics has been counting.
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🗞️ Electrification
Electric cars have overtaken petrol cars in new vehicle sales across Australia for the first time, grabbing a record 24.9% share of the market.
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🗞️ Running on empty
Australia's economy grew a modest 0.4% in the three months to June, and much of what kept it moving was households buying electric cars, with vehic...
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🗞️ Shark watch
NSW has rolled out a $34 million drone surveillance program across dozens of Sydney beaches, flying dawn to dusk in the wake of a string of shark a...
