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I'm willing to pay a little more to ensure suppliers are treated fairly, but I don't want businesses to exploit my generosity to boost their own profits.

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The increase is due to lower-than-anticipated expenses and an increase in revenue

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The husband of an Australian woman shot dead in Kenya has been arrested in connection to her murder.

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The same snake is believed to have been hunting in the Brisbane backyard for several weeks, with the family dog also having a close encounter in recent weeks.

Almost 30 heritage homes have been urgently protected but opposition councillors fear there could be up the thousands more left vulnerable to demolition

Jakarta: The office of Indonesian military chief Gatot Nurmantyo was warned before he arrived at Jakarta's airport that he may be delayed due to "US security protocols", according to the US Department of Homeland Affairs.

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It is a tribute to the Treasurer Scott Morrison that he commissioned the report without knowing what would be in it.

Workers have described the "terrifying" moment they spotted the youths on top of the Woden buildings.

A 43-year-old disability pensioner from Melbourne's outer suburbs is suspected of funnelling cash to an American-born senior Islamic State fighter.

A Brisbane researcher is calling for a nation-wide monitoring program to help track pollution exposure levels.

The 2018 Commonwealth Games should be time for southeast Queensland to party, say the Gold Coast City Council and the state government.

Federal police are raiding the offices of Bill Shorten's old union, the Australian Workers Union, over donations made to activist group GetUp! a decade ago.

On Monday students around NSW sat the HSC maths exam. How would you perform? Here's a selection of the questions.

The search for four men missing after their fishing trawler capsized off the central Queensland coast could be scaled back by the end of the week.

Canberra has been ranked third in Lonely Planet's list of cities to go, the highest ever listing of an Australian city.

Myer's outgoing chairman says there would be no value in giving Solomon Lew seats on the department store's board, and has described the veteran retailer's meddling in the company as a "train wreck".

If Myer boss Richard Umbers fails to impress investors at a strategy day to be held on November 1, his days will be numbered.

Ruslan Kogan and his side-kick David Shafer offloaded a pallet-load of stock before Christmas. Again.

Office landlords are in the box seat, with office rental growth forecast to rise by 10 per cent in the coming year as demand outstrips supply.

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Liana Levin says she felt as if she was evicted from much of a suburb.

The Productivity Commission has thrown a spanner in the Turnbull government's attempts to settle Australia's intractable climate wars.

WA police say one person has died in a light plane crash in WA's Great Southern region.

The interim chief executive of the agency has not ruled out forced redundancies.

Alan Jones' return to rugby coaching has begun in the best possible fashion as his Barbarians team defeated a Classic Wallabies side 27-24 in Lismore on Tuesday.

"He looked identical," Jemma Lilley replied as she sat in the witness box being questioned in front of a packed court room on Tuesday. 

Ardent Leisure are refusing to admit liability for the suffering of families of two of the Canberra victims.

Investigators believe the man may be in Brisbane’s south or Logan and have warned people not to approach him.

An event to be held at the end of October will aim to lift the veil on death.

What does this mean, you think. Am I dying? Do I have the all clear?

Canberra Liberals' industrial affairs spokesman Andrew Wall sought to link Labor's non-attendance to a letter sent in July by Unions ACT head Alex White.

Melbourne chief executive Peter Jackson has defended the decision to pay some of discarded top pick Jack Watts' salary as part of his trade to Port Adelaide.

Automatic dispensaries would replace pharmacies, low-value health care procedures would be defunded and people with real-world skills would be made teachers under a series of bold proposals put forward by the Productivity Commission.

A woman who killed her 13-month-old daughter with a stab wound to the throat has pleaded guilty to infanticide, becoming the third Victorian mother this year to admit to the rare offence.

Those suffering from hearing loss say that a new Apple-Cochlear device has changed their lives.

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Premiership player Craig Bird and veteran Ben Howlett have been squeezed out of Essendon following the club's trade period recruiting drive, but there was better news for journeyman ruckman Shaun McKernan whose career is set to extend to a 10th season after he was offered another year on the club's rookie list.

Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath said the specialist court was not a "soft option" but would make the community safer.

The stolen ute fled through the carpark after the collision, hitting another vehicle as it went. Several people are 'assisting with inquiries'.

Johnathan Thurston wants the Kangaroos' long planned acknowledgement of country before the World Cup opener to "unite the country" as the injured Immortal-in-waiting leads a unique ceremony 50 years on since Australia's war cry.

A rotation out of tech stocks has pre-empted US earnings season, and while some analysts are lowering estimates, fund managers are still bullish.

Complaints about illegal brothels operating close to schools and within residential buildings are on the rise.

An American law firm based in Seattle has filed a class action lawsuit against Rio Tinto over the giant miner's failed investment in a Mozambique coal project which cost Rio billions of dollars.

Mitchell Moses is hoping his association with Brad Fittler extends beyond their time in Lebanon camp.

The $1 million sale of a coal-fired power station by the NSW government has been referred to the state's Auditor-General after it emerged the plant's new owners revalued it as being worth $730 million.

By opting for a compromised technological model in the name of short term savings the Abbott-Turnbull Government has limited the NBN's ability to end the tyranny of distance that has plagued this nation for centuries.

Boys at a Melbourne secondary school have been ordered to change clothes or leave after showing up wearing the traditional girls' uniform.

Memo suggested police operations were compromised by the need to protect Malcolm Turnbull's Point Piper mansion.

Beijing: They raised their hands in unison and the scrutineers called out that there was not one vote in dissent: "Mei you".

Turnbull government plans to claw back hundreds of millions through a crackdown on couriers and cleaners has come under criticism from some tax experts who say draft laws are inadequate in fighting the problem.

Clubs will have to contribute up to $100,000 extra per annum to pay for career-ending injuries after rugby league followed the AFL's lead in shifting to a self-insurance scheme.