Is it legal for a shop to only accept cash as payment?
We've all seen the cash only signs, typically on the registers of small city-based stores. Here's your rights as a consumer....
Day : May 27, 2022
Stocks in US gun makers rise following horror Texas school shooting
The stock prices of a number of prominent US firearm manufacturers have risen in the days following the mass school shooting in Texas that has...
Wong extends olive branch to Pacific nations as China looms
Newly appointed foreign minister Penny Wong has told leaders in Fiji that Australia is an open and willing security partner as concerns grow over the...
Probe launched into ‘desperate’ election day announcement
The new federal government has launched an investigation into whether a Border Force statement about an asylum seeker boat was requested by the then-prime minister's...
Multiple injured in boating accident at iconic WA tourist attraction
Early reports from WA Police say that officers and other emergency services are responding to a boating incident at Horizontal Falls....
Magnitude 6.2 earthquake felt in Northern Territory
A strong, 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Timor Leste was felt by hundreds of people in Australia this afternoon....
New study on Tonga volcano eruption shocks scientists
The Tonga underwater volcano that produced a massive eruption remains intact, scientists said....
‘Dragon of death’ with nine-metre wingspan unearthed
A giant flying reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs has been uncovered from a rocky outcrop in Argentina....
Former ‘Hey Dad!’ star Robert Hughes makes bid for parole
Hughes has been behind bars since 2014 for sexually and indecently assaulting four girls over a period of 20 years in the 1980s and 1990s....
China holds snap 100,000-person ’emergency meeting’ over economy
More than 100,000 elected officials attended the meeting, called to urgently find a solution to China's COVID-induced economic woes....
Murugappan family allowed to return to Biloela on bridging visas
The Murugappan family has been allowed to return to the Queensland town of Biloela following intervention by interim Home Affairs Minister Jim Chalmers....