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Business conditions stumble to four‑year low, stoking talk of another RBA cut

2 days ago | startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Lana Hallowes

Australia’s corporate pulse fell again in April, handing the Reserve Bank another data point to mull over as it weighs its next move on interest rates. NAB’s widely watched Monthly Business Survey shows the headline business conditions index fell to its weakest reading since the first COVID‑19 lockdowns in 2020. Business confidence, meanwhile edged up slightly.
‘I just want to make it to my 40th birthday’

Apr 16, 2024 | news.com.au | Bek Day |Lana Hallowes

When Canberra woman Vanessa Counsel began to have numbness in her back in her late 20s, it was the start of a scary journey. “I underwent testing and they discovered I had a series of tumours in my spine,” says Vanessa. She has Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome (VHL). Her father died from the disease at just 42 and her brother also has it.
‘I just want to make it to my 40th birthday’

Apr 16, 2024 | couriermail.com.au | Bek Day |Lana Hallowes

When Canberra woman Vanessa Counsel began to have numbness in her back in her late 20s, it was the start of a scary journey. “I underwent testing and they discovered I had a series of tumours in my spine,” says Vanessa. She has Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome (VHL). Her father died from the disease at just 42 and her brother also has it.
‘He made me promise I wouldn’t hurt myself if I went blind’

Apr 11, 2024 | kidspot.com.au | Lana Hallowes |Bek Day

“Mummy, promise me you won’t kill yourself if you go blind,” my 10-year-old asked me. I swallowed, hard. He’d picked up on my innermost, darkest thought, despite me not having uttered a word. For more stories like this, visit news.com.au. “I won’t, my love,” I assured him. But in doing so, I also vowed to keep my promise to myself, no matter how hard my life gets. I live with Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. It’s a rare genetic cancer affecting only 1 in 36,000 individuals.
‘I could go blind waiting for the drug to save me’

Apr 11, 2024 | news.com.au | Lana Hallowes |Bek Day

“Mummy, promise me you won’t kill yourself if you go blind,” my 10-year-old asked me. I swallowed, hard. He’d picked up on my innermost, darkest thought, despite me not having uttered a word. “I won’t, my love,” I assured him. But in doing so, I also vowed to keep my promise to myself, no matter how hard my life gets. I live with Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. It’s a rare genetic cancer affecting only 1 in 36,000 individuals.
‘I could go blind waiting for the drug to save me’

Apr 11, 2024 | townsvillebulletin.com.au | Lana Hallowes |Bek Day

“Mummy, promise me you won’t kill yourself if you go blind,” my 10-year-old asked me. I swallowed, hard. He’d picked up on my innermost, darkest thought, despite me not having uttered a word. “I won’t, my love,” I assured him. But in doing so, I also vowed to keep my promise to myself, no matter how hard my life gets. I live with Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. It’s a rare genetic cancer affecting only 1 in 36,000 individuals.
Mum’s plea: ‘I’m dying but $7.70 could save my kids’

Apr 8, 2024 | news.com.au | Bek Day |Lana Hallowes

A Brisbane mum is pleading for a lifesaving drug to be made available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) so her kids have a chance of fighting the disease that is slowly killing her. “I’ve had nearly all the surgeries you can have,” says the mother-of-two, who averages about “two major ones per year” and was just eight when she had her first surgery.
Terrifying reason for groom’s ‘stress headache’

Apr 7, 2024 | news.com.au | Bek Day |Lana Hallowes

At 26, Simon Goodrich was recently married and celebrating his honeymoon, when life threw a golf ball-sized curve ball at him.
Struggle to stick to your resolutions? Try making the bed

Jan 2, 2024 | adelaidenow.com.au | Lana Hallowes

Considered a chore for most of us, the daily 20-second task has a surprisingly positive knock-on effect, writes Lana Hallowes. I’ll be the first to admit it. Up until recently, I rarely made my bed. I fell into the ‘Why bother, I’m just going to sleep in it again tonight’ camp. That is until I had coffee with a friend. “How can you leave your bed messy?! she asked, horrified when I told her I do most days. “Don’t you feel messy in your life, too?”“Um, yes, yes I do,” I confessed.
Struggle to stick to your resolutions? Try making the bed

Jan 2, 2024 | bodyandsoul.com.au | Lana Hallowes

Considered a chore for most of us, the daily 20-second task has a surprisingly positive knock-on effect, writes Lana Hallowes. I’ll be the first to admit it. Up until recently, I rarely made my bed. I fell into the ‘Why bother, I’m just going to sleep in it again tonight’ camp. That is until I had coffee with a friend. “How can you leave your bed messy?! she asked, horrified when I told her I do most days. “Don’t you feel messy in your life, too?”“Um, yes, yes I do,” I confessed.