Frank Chung
Senior Journalist at News.com.au
Senior journalist at @newscomauHQ. Email me at [email protected]
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2 days ago |
news.com.au | Frank Chung
Would you work as a cafe manager for $150,000? In the dusty Pilbara mining town of Port Hedland, business owners like Chris Bleach all face the same problem — there aren’t enough workers, and even fewer homes for them to live in. Even on wages more a third higher than those 1600 kilometres south in Perth, “a normal person who works in a cafe or as a hairdresser can’t afford the rental”.
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2 days ago |
news.com.au | Frank Chung
Whether you’re for it or against it, it’s undeniable that by virtually any metric, Australia is in the midst of an unprecedented experiment with mass immigration. The figures are striking. Between 2000 and 2023, Australia’s population grew by 40 per cent — the fastest rate of any developed nation. More than 30 per cent of Australia’s population in 2023 was born overseas, for the first time since 1893. For every one baby born in Australia now, four migrants arrive.
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1 week ago |
news.com.au | Frank Chung
A group of 13-year-old boys who were verbally abused and had their belongings thrown around by adults in a foul-mouthed tirade for fishing in an Adelaide lake have had the last laugh. Viral video of the incident last week sparked outrage online and an outpouring of support for Emilio Visentin and his friends, who were targeted by a group of locals accusing them of damaging the environment by fishing around Delfin Island in West Lakes.
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1 week ago |
news.com.au | Frank Chung
A struggling Melbourne business owner has blasted a digital marketing company for requesting he leave a “five-star Google review” even after alleged poor results led him to terminate his contract early.
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2 weeks ago |
news.com.au | Benedict Brook |Frank Chung |Chantelle Francis
China has levied huge 34 per cent tariffs on US goods as a trade war escalates. But Donald Trump has given his first hint of pulling back on his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs that have roiled global markets and wiped nearly $US3.1 trillion off Wall Street.
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