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2 days ago | news.com.au | David Campbell

One of the biggest turn-offs for people interested in buying an electric vehicle is how fast it takes to charge and the impact that time might have on longer road trips. That concern is especially prevalent in Australia, where a small weekend roadtrip for an Aussie is the equivalent of crossing several countries in Europe.

2 days ago | news.com.au | Claudia Poposki

A video of a New Zealand couple using the self-serve checkout at the supermarket has divided social media. Ella Monnery and her boyfriend Kings have been together for a year. The pair recently shared a video of themselves using the self-service checkout at a New World supermarket. In the clip, the 27-year-old – who appeared on The Voice Australia in 2021, is in charge of scanning and bagging the groceries.

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.

3 days ago | news.com.au | Rhiannon Lewin |Steve Zemek

Some neighbours of Karl Stefanovic and his wife Jasmine are happy that the couple are now shrinking the size of their multimillion-dollar redevelopment of their Sydney North Shore home. The Land and Environment Court last Wednesday approved the couple’s amended plan for their Castlecrag home, which involved slicing a floor off the project.

3 days ago | news.com.au | Thomas Godfrey

Prosecutors have been accused of siding with a pedophile – who lured a six-year-old boy into the woods – by dropping an attempted kidnapping charge against him. Jayden Smith, 19, pleaded guilty to child sex offences but evaded a much longer prison sentence when Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lawyers abandoned the more serious case, The Sun reports. Smith was caught on doorbell cameras as he stalked his young victim near his home. He followed him into the woods, where he asked him to strip naked.