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Supermarket prices under pressure in new grocery code
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the government would reform competition rules for supermarkets to drive down prices and address claims of market manipulation.
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Gas
Shares crash over building delays and cost blowout at troubled WA gas plant
Beach Energy shares plummeted in early trading on Monday, with its chief executive conceding extreme disappointment over quality issues in the late-stage WA project.
Opinion
Fremantle Dockers
Crucial moments sunk Freo, while Harley Reid activated beast mode
A perfect start to the season came to a shattering end for the Dockers on Saturday, while rising Eagle Harley Reid displayed power, poise and aggressiveness.
Paddy Sweeney
Nine Sports Presenter
Dockers footy boss backs in Clark amid dissent call fallout
Fremantle’s footy boss backed in young Docker Jordan Clark after a dissent call against him in the dying minutes of Saturday’s game all but sealed their loss.
Opinion
AFL 2024
Footy needs fewer video reviews, not more
Let’s not complicate footy with even more video reviews. Matthew Cottrell’s mark against Fremantle on Saturday might have been touched off the boot, but it needed to stand, and all Jordan Clark needed to do was shut up.
Michael Gleeson
Sports columnist
Exclusive
Disability
NDIS pays $1.4m to paedophile: How sex offenders access disability packages
As the disability scheme wrestles with blowouts, experts say funding is needed for criminals with disabilities.
Opinion
Housing crisis
Why a family home doesn’t need to be a house
Moving overseas highlighted that our national psyche is to see houses not as places merely to live, but an asset class that, for many, is a way to grow wealth.
Caroline Zielinski
Reporter
Opinion
Public transport
As much as I’d love it, free public transport is a bad idea
Public transport should never be a money train. But asking for a full fare-free system would be driving a hard bargain.
Millie Muroi
Business Reporter
Perth property prices predicted to boom by as much as 30 per cent
The Perth property price boom over the next three years looks firmly entrenched, with a key forecaster revising its growth predictions upwards.
Qantas unveils frequent flyer revamp
Qantas Airways boss Vanessa Hudson has unveiled a long-awaited revamp of its frequent flyer program as part of its push to restore its credibility with consumers.
Opinion
Inside China
The Chinese giants that have set off alarm bells in the US
A flood of small packages driven by companies like Shein and Temu is causing Washington big headaches.
Stephen Bartholomeusz
Senior business columnist
ABC and Triple J revive One Night Stand music festival
The ABC’s youth broadcaster is supporting an industry blighted by the cancellation of high-profile multi-day outings.
The Italian dish Australians love but get completely wrong
In Italy, there is no spaghetti bolognese. Instead, this dish is beloved by everyone from toddlers being tricked into eating vegetables to full-grown foodie adults.
Western Australia
Woodside, Pilbara fertiliser plant look at storing emissions underground
Woodside and Norway’s Yara are targeting injecting more than one million tonnes of carbon emissions a year under the seabed off the Pilbara coast.
Nine must-do highlights of Fremantle, Western Australia
It’s impossible not to be charmed by this eclectic port suburb, also known as the gateway to Rottnest Island.
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City life
Charm offensive: Chris Isaak conquers an adoring Kings Park crowd
For a singer celebrated for his heartbreaking romantic ballads Chris Isaak sure knows how to deliver a great gag.
Drug runner in WA cocaine mega-bust cops lengthy jail term
A New South Wales man embroiled in Australia’s largest ever drug sting will spend at least 12 years behind bars for transporting and hoarding 200 kilograms of plaster he believed to be $100 million worth of cocaine.
Youth wing in high-security prison ‘set up to fail’
The corrections worker who found Cleveland Dodd after he self-harmed says the prison unit where the incident happened “was set up to fail”.
Politics
All women go through menopause. So why is treatment so expensive?
Women are relying on menopause treatments that can cost $50 a month because many therapies aren’t subsidised in Australia.
Business
Exclusive
Cybersecurity
Compensation for Medibank hack victims could be fast-tracked
The privacy watchdog is proceeding with a complaint filed on behalf of millions of Medibank cyberattack victims, which could fast-track compensation claims.
World
How a New Yorker found a way to crack Britain’s premier quiz show
Brandon Blackwell took on a British cultural institution by training with a collection of 30,000 homemade flashcards the way weightlifters train with barbells.
Opinion
The government is finally awakening to the bleak nature of Israel’s fighting
Ben Saul
Challis Chair of International Law at Sydney University
Explore
Property
Perth property prices predicted to boom by 30 per cent
The Perth property price boom over the next three years looks firmly entrenched, with a key forecaster revising its growth predictions.
How a designer duo transformed a historic block from three homes to one
They needed a place that would house a family of seven comfortably. Finding few options, they created their own dream home.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Everything you need to know about the buzziest beauty word: Peptides
They can help to combat wrinkles, loss of firmness and lacklustre skin, but what exactly are peptides?
Culture
ABC and Triple J revive One Night Stand music festival
The ABC’s youth broadcaster is supporting an industry blighted by the cancellation of high-profile multi-day outings.
Opinion
WordPlay
When it comes to catchphrases, this film goes straight to the poolroom
David Astle
Crossword compiler and ABC Radio Melbourne presenter
Traveller
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Sport
Opinion
Fremantle Dockers
Crucial moments sunk Freo, while Harley Reid activated beast mode
A perfect start to the season came to a shattering end for the Dockers on Saturday, while rising Eagle Harley Reid displayed power, poise and aggressiveness.
Paddy Sweeney
Nine Sports Presenter
Dockers footy boss backs in Clark amid dissent call fallout
Fremantle’s footy boss backed in young Docker Jordan Clark after a dissent call against him in the dying minutes of Saturday’s game all but sealed their loss.
Updated
Horse racing
‘It’s the perfect story’: Winx’s part-owner buys her foal for record $10 million
Debbie Kepitis outbid American tycoon John Stewart to secure the only surviving foal from Australia’s champion racehorse, which will now be prepared for racing by Winx’s trainer Chris Waller.
Analysis
AFL 2024
Essendon the big losers, Blues’ Houdini strikes again: Key takeouts from round four
The round of football started slowly and built to a crescendo with controversy, comebacks, scandal and a celebration of a round now embedded in the football calendar.
Analysis
AFL 2024
Ginnivan and the small attack: How the Pies survived a Hawks comeback
The Magpies used all of their guile to survive Hawthorn’s stunningly unlikely and spirited surge, winning by just five points. Jack Ginnivan said there was plenty to be optimistic about, and explained how he would make himself a better player.
The circuit-breaker that helped Crisp; How Docker explained dissent free kick
Jack Crisp believes his stint as a Collingwood backbencher was the circuit-breaker he needed to rediscover his form, while Fremantle’s Jordan Clark claims he was admonishing himself rather than the umpire when he was penalised for dissent.
Analysis
Australian rugby
The moment Michael Hooper showed he was up to the challenge of sevens
The former Wallabies captain’s bid to represent Australia at the Paris Olympics is up and running after 19 minutes of rugby over the weekend in Hong Kong. Here’s how he went.
Have Your Say
Blues-print for success: Rugby Australia must look to Auckland to rescue Waratahs
NSW’s malaise would appear to be terminal. But the example of the Blues – for so long New Zealand rugby’s great underachievers – shows a turnaround is possible.
