Alex Turner-Cohen

2 months ago | news.com.au | Alex Turner-Cohen

US civil servants who have survived several brutal rounds of mass sackings now have to justify what they did last week — or risk joining the growing slush pile of unemployed workers. In the latest tactic to cut down on the government’s workforce, Elon Musk has demanded that federal staffers document in detail what they did last week to help him decide who should stay and who should go. And if they fail to report in, that will trigger an automatic resignation.

2 months ago | cairnspost.com.au | Alex Turner-Cohen

A business owner has blamed her company’s inability to pay back refunds on her messy divorce and legal troubles — leaving customers owed thousands of dollars. Western Australia-based Interplay Family Therapy Pty Ltd provides play therapy training courses to customers, a creative counselling method to help children with psychological issues, especially those with trauma. But at the beginning of last year, the company suddenly cancelled all its workshops.

2 months ago | news.com.au | Alex Turner-Cohen

A business owner has blamed her company’s inability to pay back refunds on her messy divorce and legal troubles — leaving customers owed thousands of dollars. Western Australia-based Interplay Family Therapy Pty Ltd provides play therapy training courses to customers, a creative counselling method to help children with psychological issues, especially those with trauma. But at the beginning of last year, the company suddenly cancelled all its workshops.

2 months ago | cairnspost.com.au | Alex Turner-Cohen

Another nearly 10,000 US government workers have been fired as Elon Musk ramps up the cost-cutting initiative from his newly-minted Department of Government Efficiency under President Donald Trump. On Friday local time, 9,500 civil servants got the chop, on top of the 75,000 who had already left after the take-it-or-leave-it buyout offers which expired on Wednesday, prompting the latest intense round of sackings.

2 months ago | cairnspost.com.au | Alex Turner-Cohen

A young Aussie tradie has issued a warning after losing $58,000 to a scam that anyone could fall for. Furkan Colak, from Melbourne, was in the process of trying to buy a house, while also saving up for his dad to have knee surgery when he got an alarming text message seemingly from his bank. “A scheduled payment of $472.62 to Jason Ling has been placed on a security hold,” it read. “If this was not you please call us on 03 7020 6213”.