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Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates loses California distributor, downgrades full-year earnings

3 days ago | thenightly.com.au | Cheyanne Enciso

Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates will be scrambling to find a new path into the Californian market after its local distributor announced it will cease operations later this year. The sudden decision by Republic National Distributing Company to cease operations in California from September will be a serious blow for the wine maker, with the shuttered distributor responsible for about 25 per cent of TWE’s sales for its Americas division and 10 per cent of total group sales.
Mr 2.3 per cent: PM dismisses US defence spending demands

4 days ago | thenightly.com.au | Nicola Smith

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday continues to dismiss demands from the United States for Australia to hike defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP to counter the growing risk of conflict in the Indo-Pacific region. Pete Hegseth urged Defence Minister Richard Marles to make a significant boost to defence investment “as soon as possible” during a weekend Singapore security summit where the US Defence Secretary sounded the alarm over China’s expanding military ambitions.
Embattled Toys R Us posts modest sales lift amid recapitalisation plans

4 days ago | thenightly.com.au | Cheyanne Enciso

Toys R Us, once one of the nation’s biggest children’s toy and clothing stores, has posted a modest lift in quarterly sales amid plans to recapitalise the business. The retailer — which has become an online-only business after it collapsed in 2018 — reported revenues of $863,000 in the three months to the end of April, slightly up from the $779,000 recorded a year earlier.
Defence Minister Richard Marles talks defence spending with US counterpart Pete Hegseth

1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Ellen Ransley

Defence Minister Richard Marles has told his United States counterpart Australia is open to having conversations about increasing its defence spending if required to meet the “strategic moment”. Mr Marles and Pete Hegseth met on Friday ahead of the Shangri-La Dialogues in Singapore, where the pair reaffirmed their commitment to AUKUS, and the role the program plays in meeting the challenges of the Indo-Pacific.
Education Minister Jason Clare on Netflix series Adolescence, Andrew Tate and harsh lessons on schools

1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Nicola Smith

There’s a scene in the confronting Netflix drama Adolescence that Education Minister Jason Clare admits still haunts him. The harrowing four-part show depicts how an insidious and misogynist online subculture conditions baby-faced teenager Jamie before the murder of his classmate Katie in a hate crime.
ELLEN RANSLEY: Labor’s gas reservation policy puts industry on notice

1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Ellen Ransley

For a moment of the election campaign, Peter Dutton was on a unity ticket with the Greens, independents, and One Nation. His pitch to establish an east coast gas reservation policy was, at its core, popular with progressives and ultra-conservatives alike.
Australian retail sales flat in April amid Donald Trump’s tariff chaos

1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Cheyanne Enciso

Australian shoppers are in a holding pattern as they await the fallout from US President Donald Trump’s tariff chaos, fresh data suggests. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Friday showed retail turnover fell 0.1 per cent in April, following respective 0.3 per cent and 0.2 per cent growth readings in March and February. Market consensus was for 0.3 per cent growth. Sign up to The Nightly's newsletters.
Australian embassy closely monitoring US move to ban foreigners ‘censoring’ Americans

1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Nicola Smith

Australia’s foreign ministry is closely following a US government move to ban foreign nationals it deems to be censoring Americans – a new policy that could target officials regulating US tech companies. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the policy on Wednesday as a measure to protected America’s “cherished right” of free speech.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute head Justin Bassi responds to Anthony Albanese’s dismissal of report

1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Nicola Smith

The head of a leading security think tank has hit back after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed an alarming report warning Australia’s conflict-readiness would be at risk without a hike in defence spending.
You’ll have to wait for more of The White Lotus, creator Mike White is competing on Survivor first

1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Wenlei Ma

When The White Lotus wrapped up its third season in April, its creator Mike White gave an interview in which he talked about the pressure to start pre-production for a fourth season. “We were supposed to start scouting in April, and I was like, ‘You guys, I haven’t been home in three years’,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.