Australia’s largest commercial bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), announced on Wednesday a “Green Home Offer” which would lower interest rates for customers with homes that meet sustainability and energy standards. Customers would have [Read More]
After global streaming giant Netflix reported its first-ever subscriber loss in the first quarter of 2022, Aussies have begun to turn away from the proliferating streaming market. Amid the losses, share prices dropping more than [Read More]
As inflation surges past 5 percent, analysts predict that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would need to take action to ease the pressures of rising living costs on citizens. The Australian Bureau of Statistics [Read More]
Tourism in Australia’s state of Queensland is on track to earn a few billion dollars throughout April, a dramatic change of fortune from recent years when the industry languished during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tourism [Read More]
The number of people living in Australia who were born overseas has fallen for the first time in more than 20 years. Data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Tuesday revealed that [Read More]
Using renewable energy sources instead of conventional coal-fired power stations could generate tens of thousands of construction jobs in Australia, according to calculations in a report released by a leading conservation group on Tuesday. The [Read More]
Australia’s cruise industry, which is just resuming business following a two-year hiatus caused by the pandemic, has hit a setback with a dozen COVID-19 cases on a ship docked in Western Australia (WA). WA health [Read More]
Global rideshare giant, Uber, has been issued with a 26 million Australian dollar (about 19 million U.S. dollars) fine after admitting that it breached Australian consumer law by making false or misleading statements. Federal consumer [Read More]
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