Shoppers have stopped snapping up certain products they were going nuts for last year and started spending their significant savings elsewhere. Australia’s pandemic-induced shopping spree was the biggest retail spending splurge in a decade, but sales are forecast to pull back dramatically in 2021-22, with...
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‘Overloaded and dysfunctional’: doctors reveal crisis in Australian emergency departments
An emergency department patient with a broken neck ended up slumping to the floor while waiting to be seen, and a patient requiring urgent surgery for a fractured pelvis and internal bleeding waited four hours just for an assessment. These are some of the recent...
Apple’s $150 Beats Studio Buds are now available to buy: Daily Mail reviewed the wireless earbuds
After months of speculation, Apple finally unveiled a true wireless pair of Beats earbuds, the Beats Studio Buds on Monday. The $149.99, lightweight earbuds come in three colors – black, red and white – and boasts cutting edge noise cancelling, up to a 24-hour battery...
Netanyahu blasts Biden in ‘scorched earth’ departure speech, says Iran will be ‘celebrating’ defeat
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted US President Joe Biden in a ‘scorched earth’ speech on his last day in office before handing over power on Monday, warning Iran will be ‘celebrating’ his defeat because Israel will be ‘weak’. In a scathing speech that...
Returnal Patch Fixes Busted Trophies
Screenshot: Housemarque / Kotaku Returnal, the PS5-exclusive roguelike about listening to a really popular ‘70s song, received another update this morning. It doesn’t do a thing about the maddening lack of of a save system, but it does purport to fix another notorious issue plaguing...
Workers eat from bins to survive
The disturbing extent of wage theft, exploitation and ‘outright abuse’ inflicted by farm managers across the country has been revealed. A Taiwanese foreign worker says she was exposed to such horrific rates of underpayment on an Australian farm she was forced to eat from public...
‘No evidence’ BBC rehired Martin Bashir to cover-up after Princess Diana interview
The BBC’s own review into the decision to appoint Martin Bashir as religious affairs correspondent following his Panorama interview with Princess Diana has found ‘no evidence’ the journalist was given the job to ‘cover up’ his dirty tricks in 1995. The inquiry was set up to...
‘I wasted my life’: Crown gambler’s sad fate
Problem gamblers have spoken of ‘losing everything’ in anonymous submissions to Victoria’s Crown royal commission. Problem gamblers have laid bare their struggles in submissions to the Victorian royal commission into Crown Resorts, detailing how they spent long hours sinking their fortunes into the casinos and...
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy release date, trailers, gameplay and news
The Square Enix showcase at E3 2021 might have felt a little light on games, but what it lacked in quantity it more than made up for in quality with the reveal of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. This narrative shooter from the team behind...
Chinese cartoon mocks ‘double-faced’ Aus
China has shown its disdain for the leaders of the G7 nations after the group joined together to demand transparency from Beijing and push for a fresh investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The Global Times, a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party,...