Frances Howe

5 days ago | brisbanetimes.com.au | Mike Foley |Frances Howe

By Mike Foley and Frances Howe June 23, 2025 — 3.57pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian petrol, electricity and gas price spikes are inevitable if Iran closes its shipping channels to the world, blocking the conduit for Middle Eastern energy exports representing about 20 per cent of globally traded oil and gas.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Jessica Yun |Frances Howe

By Jessica Yun and Frances Howe June 18, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One thing you should know about George Peppou, the founder of the world’s leading lab-grown meat company, is that he loves eating meat. The real thing, not the plant-based imitations led by the rise of Impossible Foods years ago that he describes as “nonsensical”.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Jessica Yun |Frances Howe

By Jessica Yun and Frances Howe June 12, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes – and price rises. Australians have been warned to brace for heftier household bills due to begin next month – or, in some instances, have already begun.

1 month ago | theage.com.au | Frances Howe |Penry Buckley |Max Maddison

By Frances Howe, Penry Buckley and Max MaddisonUpdated May 23, 2025 — 5.31pmfirst published at 1.11pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Wild weather flooded tracks and closed railway stations in Sydney on Friday, creating widespread delays that stretched into the evening after heavy rains that brought devastating floods to northern NSW moved south and crossed the city.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Frances Howe |Penry Buckley |Max Maddison

By Frances Howe, Penry Buckley and Max Maddison May 23, 2025 — 1.11pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Wild weather and heavy rains have flooded tracks and closed Sydney railway stations, forcing drenched commuters onto replacement buses once again this week, after the system that has brought devastating floods to northern NSW crossed the city overnight.