Catie McLeod
Consumer Affairs Reporter at The Guardian Australia
New South Wales state reporter @GuardianAus Send tips or story ideas to [email protected]
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Catie McLeod
As the Trump administration’s tariff regime dominates headlines, Australia and Canada have become entangled in their own mini trade stand-off. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, on Tuesday threw his support behind a cafe owner in Toronto who was reportedly in a dispute with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) over importing Vegemite.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Catie McLeod
“With tears in our eyes, we must share the news with you,” the ads, which have been sponsored to appear on people’s social media feeds, begin. “After so many years of love and dedication to our Maison Canberra boutique, the time has come to say goodbye.”The world is changing, and the “boutique” can no longer keep up, the ad says. Its owners have become grandmothers, and want to spend more time with their families. To “close this chapter” they are holding a “big sale”.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Catie McLeod |Jonathan Barrett
Global share markets, including in Australia, have recorded large swings ever since Donald Trump released his “liberation day” tariff plans. Australia’s benchmark S&P/ASX 200 witnessed its steepest one-day fall on Monday in five years, before registering its biggest one-day rise in two years on Tuesday. It then fell sharply on Wednesday, before rebounding strongly on Thursday, to around last week’s levels.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Catie McLeod
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature New Liberal candidate for Whitlam defends 2019 claims about “Marxist ideologies” in schools The new Liberal candidate for Whitlam has defended claims he made in 2019 while he was a NSW MP that students were being “brainwashed” by Marxist and woke ideologies in schools Nathaniel Smith, who replaced Benjamin Britton as the opposition’s frontrunner in the long-held Labor seat, said in a statement on Tuesday evening he...
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Catie McLeod |Jonathan Barrett
Global share markets, including Australia, have fallen heavily in response to Donald Trump’s tariff regime, causing alarm among investors and eroding value from retirement account balances. Superannuation portfolios typically contain a sizeable allocation to international and domestic shares. So when conditions turn bad for global markets, like now, superannuation balances almost certainly drop.
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