Madeleine Heffernan

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Madeleine Heffernan

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Brett Mitchell was apprehensive before his recent trip to the United States, but the experience was seamless. Mitchell, who leads the Australian and New Zealand arm of global tour business Intrepid Travel, was familiar with complaints about overzealous immigration staff at American airports. “I thought maybe something might happen here. But no, there were no issues at all,” he said.

3 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Madeleine Heffernan

Victoria’s first petrol price app could increase prices, but still worthwhile: report, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An app displaying real-time fuel prices at Victorian petrol stations will cost about $2.4 million a year to run and may only save customers $5 or $10 a year – and could contribute to price increases – but will still be worthwhile, research has found.

4 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Madeleine Heffernan

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Some parents are spending more than $10,000 a year on their children’s sport, fuelled by young players joining expensive soccer and basketball academies to maximise their chances of getting into the A-League or National Basketball League.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Madeleine Heffernan

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Owners of hair salons, gyms and coffee carts are complaining of the relentless tactics used by “music mafia” chasing them for licensing fees to play music to their customers. The small businesses say they are receiving legal threats and pestering phone calls from OneMusic Australia demanding licensing fees for music they are already paying streaming services to access.

1 month ago | theage.com.au | Lachlan Abbott |Henrietta Cook |Madeleine Heffernan |Noel Towell

By Lachlan Abbott, Henrietta Cook, Madeleine Heffernan, Noel Towell, Tom Cowie and Nicole Precel May 20, 2025 — 6.23pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We asked five different Victorians what they thought of this year’s state budget. This is what they said.