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Sportswear giant Adidas has filed a trademark infringement claim against Australian online fashion retailer White Fox Boutique in the Federal Court of Australia, alleging the Sydney company's four-stripe clothing designs are "deceptively similar" to its iconic three-stripe logo.
Critica Limited has reached a de-risking milestone at its Jupiter rare earths project in Western Australia, reporting a maiden indicated resource of 160 million tonnes grading 1700 parts per million total rare earth oxides, a step that builds confidence in what the company describes as Australia's largest clay-hosted rare earths deposit.
The price spike caused by the US-Israel war in Iran poses a major challenge for Chancellor John Healey as he prepares his first Budget, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned, with higher inflation threatening to eat into planned public service spending.
Sacha Baron Cohen will headline Quentin Tarantino's first stage play, The Popinjay Cavalier, when it premieres at the Phoenix Theatre in London's West End on 18 March 2027, with tickets going on sale Monday.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies warning that Chancellor John Healey must raise taxes or cut welfare by up to £35 billion has swept the UK front pages, little more than two weeks before the Chancellor's first Budget on October 28.
North Melbourne has completed a blockbuster trade to land Sydney Swans defender Nick Blakey, breaking a deadlock that had stalled negotiations through the final days of the AFL trade period.
Buru Energy has referred its proposed Rafael conventional gas project in Western Australia's Kimberley region to the state's Environmental Protection Authority for review, saying it could meet the region's power demands with locally produced energy for the first time.
Frustrated Labor MPs are urging the federal government to find a permanent way to keep the Tax Office accepting credit cards from business owners with cashflow problems, three days after Treasurer Jim Chalmers stepped in to delay the ban and as the fallout from the Reserve Bank's decision to end credit card surcharges continues to dominate parliament.
McKinsey & Co. has removed Australian-based senior partner Chris Bradley from his leadership role at the McKinsey Global Institute after he posted online comments questioning the 'glass cliff' phenomenon faced by women executives, the firm said. The decision follows an internal review sparked by a LinkedIn exchange last month about workplace barriers for women.
Elgin Community College in Illinois says Flock Safety refused to remove six license plate recognition cameras from campus after the school raised concerns that the company was sharing data with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, that camera feeds were not properly secured, and that law enforcement and company employees had abused access to the data. College President Peggy Heinrich stated that Flock rejected the removal request, asserting it had not violated its contract.
A new coach service has restored a direct link between Mildura in Victoria's north-west and Adelaide, ending a nearly six-year gap in public transport on the route. The Monty Express, a 36-seat bus named after the operator's family pet, will run the 142 kilometre stretch of the Sturt Highway via Renmark, with the first service taking passengers from October 12.
NRMA Insurance has been forced to repay hundreds of people injured in motor vehicle accidents after admitting it incorrectly calculated compulsory third party (CTP) benefits for years, an error that went undetected by both the insurer and the NSW regulator until a lawyer noticed a client's payments did not add up.
Victoria Racing Club chairman Neil Wilson will step down after the December annual general meeting, citing the club's return to profit after years of COVID-19 losses, while dismissing claims that a narrow board vote to appoint his successor had split the club.
Television shopping network TVSN is facing legal demands from furious suppliers who claim it is selling their goods without paying for them, after a last-ditch $40 million rescue bid involving some of Australia's wealthiest families fell through.
A former manager at an Ecuadorian mining company linked to Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart has written a public letter naming the local CEO as a threat to his life, as new details emerge of a culture of intimidation and exploitation at the remote exploration site.
The Albanese government's draft plan to force gas exporters to set aside up to 20 per cent of production for the domestic market contains loopholes that could allow the Gladstone LNG (GLNG) project, operated by Santos, to largely or totally escape the requirement, critics warn.
Sepsis kills roughly 3 million children under five every year, and a startup that emerged at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 says its child-specific blood purification device is already in intensive care units across 30 countries. Efferon's Efferon NEO, which received a CE mark in April, is the first multimodal blood purification device engineered specifically for pediatric sepsis.
Dawn Myers, founder of Richualist, has launched Mint, a hair tool that combines detangling, conditioning, gelling and styling into one step using refillable product pods and gentle warming technology. Myers says the tool reduces styling time for textured hair from around 80 minutes to seven to 10 minutes, and can cut shedding and breakage by up to 70%.
The boss of Volkswagen has backed EU proposals to boost domestic industry, arguing European carmakers need to be able to compete under comparable conditions with Chinese rivals. Oliver Blume said the bloc's Made in Europe rules must reward real value creation in Europe, speaking in Paris ahead of the motor show this week.
Amazon has said it will no longer use nondisclosure agreements when negotiating with local governments over data centers, following a similar move by Microsoft. The announcement came in a blog post arguing data centers benefit communities, and it has sparked debate over whether ending secrecy will actually calm the backlash against AI infrastructure.
U.S. software development job postings have risen nearly 15% since February 2025, the launch month of Anthropic's Claude Code, according to data from Indeed Hiring Lab, challenging forecasts that artificial intelligence would rapidly eliminate demand for human coders. The increase comes despite AI now involved in one in three pull requests on GitHub and overall U.S. job listings declining, suggesting the profession is evolving rather than vanishing.
Paramount has completed its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), finalizing the deal on October 6 after overcoming a last-minute legal challenge from 12 state attorneys general. The merger, approved by the U.S. Department of Justice in June and cleared by a federal judge in late September, combines WBD's studios, HBO, streaming platforms, games, and TV networks including CNN and HGTV into Paramount, which is run by David Ellison and backed by his father, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison.
A new report reveals how data centre companies, led by Amazon Web Services, have made substantial political donations and hired former political operatives as lobbyists to secure government contracts and fast-track developments in Australia, prompting renewed scrutiny of the industry's influence on policy.
Australian punters are being short-changed by the World Pool, a Hong Kong-based betting system merged with the TAB for major race days, as evidence mounts that dividends paid to winning bettors are significantly lower than those offered by fixed-odds bookmakers. The gap was highlighted over the weekend, with winning sprinter Point Barrow paying $2.60 through the World Pool TAB compared to $3.20 with fixed odds, and Caulfield winner Land Legend returning $44 versus a bookmaker price of 70-1.
Elon Musk has pledged to price his Starlink satellite internet service affordably in India to compete with Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio, sharpening a public feud with the Indian tycoon days before Jio’s parent company launches the country’s largest-ever initial public offering. Musk has taken to his social media platform X to accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and Ambani of deliberately slowing Starlink’s entry into the market. India’s government denies any bias, saying all three satellite ventures seeking to launch are awaiting final security clearance.
Golf legend Greg Norman, a former high-profile Qantas ambassador for decades, launched a public attack on the national carrier on Sunday after his Sydney-to-Dallas flight was delayed by about three hours, calling it the 'never on-time' airline and suggesting he would switch to Emirates.
A four-bedroom Art Deco home in Essendon sold for $2.655 million on Saturday, about $45,000 below its $2.7 million reserve, after passing in on a bid of $2.55 million and being negotiated in post-auction talks. The sale came at the last weekend before new Victorian laws require vendors to publish auction reserves, and as agents report growing buyer hesitancy following the September interest rate rise.
Sydney's preliminary auction clearance rate dropped to 46 per cent last week, its lowest level this year, as an investor outbid a first home buyer for a Pyrmont apartment and downsizers secured an Abbotsford waterfront home after vendors reduced their reserve.
Apple is preparing its biggest retail push in years for the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, with more than 150 demo units planned at its Fifth Avenue flagship store in New York ahead of the October 23 launch. The move comes as analysts question whether the $3499 device will attract enough buyers to lift Apple's stock.
A new advertising campaign backed by aggrieved business owners calls on the federal government to "stop putting a surcharge on running a small business" as Labor ministers publicly push the Reserve Bank to make banks, not businesses, bear the cost of card payments. The ban on card surcharging, which the RBA says benefits the public by improving transparency, has instead sparked a political firestorm, with small business owners and politicians trading blame over who will foot the bill for the country's payment system.
Fitness entrepreneur Tammy Hembrow, 32, has spoken about building her $50 million fitness empire from a social media account documenting her post-pregnancy recovery, and about tuning out years of public scrutiny as she prepares for the next stage of her career.
Petra Power, a startup founded in 2017, is developing solid oxide fuel cells that convert natural gas into electricity without combustion, aiming to provide efficient and lower-emission power for AI data centers and military vehicles. Founder Aaron Goodman said the technology offers significant fuel cost savings and a smaller physical footprint. The company is working with neoclouds and other infrastructure providers, with a target for first deployment in 2028 and full-scale production planned for 2029.
DistroKid has confirmed it is removing songs from streaming services in response to copyright claims from Universal Music Group, after musicians complained that their work was being deleted without warning. The takedowns follow a lawsuit UMG filed in September accusing the distribution service of running an "AI-slop pipeline."
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission moved Friday to assert regulatory authority over prediction markets, issuing a proposed rule that would formally define event contracts as swaps under federal law while carving out casino-style gambling products as outside its jurisdiction.
The cost of 13 years of independent education in Australia is projected to reach $800,000 by the end of the next decade, with The King's School in North Parramatta becoming the first high-fee school to release its 2027 fees, where year 12 tuition surpassed $50,000 before extra lunch fees and technology levies.
The federal government has extended a decades-old exemption that allows cruise ships to circumvent Australian labour law, pushing the deadline from the end of this year to 2028. While new conditions require operators to permit collective bargaining and report complaints to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, the Maritime Union of Australia warns that exploitation will become embedded in the industry.
A new documentary, ‘Jebediah: Are we OK?’, directed by Arlo Dean Cook and produced by Brooke Silcox, traces 30 years of Australian alternative rock through the eyes of Perth band Jebediah, offering both nostalgia for nineties kids and a window into an era for younger audiences.
Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun, a third-party broker charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw and sales manager Ruei-Tsang "Steven" Chang, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to unlawfully divert Nvidia AI chips to China, according to Bloomberg. Sun entered the plea as part of an agreement with prosecutors and is expected to be sentenced on Sept. 8, 2027.
After 31 years in New York City's emergency medical services, Oren Barzilay retired at a salary of $59,000 and now warns young New Yorkers away from the job: "Don't come here. You are only going to hurt yourself." His warning comes as the city's more than 4,500 EMS workers remain locked in a years-long fight over wages and pay parity that has become an early test of Mayor Mamdani's young administration.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a case concerning Intel's 401(k) plan that could shape how employers evaluate private investments in retirement plans. The key question is whether employees must provide a specific benchmark to prove a plan sponsor breached its fiduciary duty through underperformance.
Nvidia GPUs, the most sought-after processors in AI, are now available through a widening range of channels, from the big cloud providers to hundreds of so-called neoclouds, as demand pushes the chipmaker's market capitalisation close to $6 trillion and drives expectations of an 89% year-over-year jump in quarterly revenue.
Axel Springer, the German media company that bought the Telegraph for £575m earlier this year, is preparing to cut between 50 and 100 jobs in the newsroom, according to sources familiar with the plans, raising questions about its pledge to invest in the newspaper.
Opal Tower in Sydney's west has been officially declared defect-free at a ribbon-cutting ceremony, ending a saga of nearly eight years that began with cracks appearing on level 10 on Christmas Eve 2018 and forced thousands to evacuate.
Small business owners across Sydney are reintroducing minimum amounts for card payments and posting signs urging customers to pay cash, as they absorb thousands of dollars in electronic payment costs following the Reserve Bank of Australia's ban on card surcharges from October 1.
Microsoft is reducing the total OneDrive storage available to subscribers of its 365 Family, Premium, and Pro tiers, replacing the existing per-user 1TB limit with a single shared pool that slashes maximum capacity by as much as 4TB for the highest-tier plans. New subscribers are affected immediately; existing users will see the change upon renewal after May 2, 2027.
Tesla has renamed its driver assistance package in Europe, replacing "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" with "Assisted Driving" after German transport regulators said the FSD brand name was "somewhat misleading." The system keeps its American branding, where it is sold as a $99 per month subscription.
Tom Cruise's new film 'Digger', a climate-change satire from Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu, has opened to dismal box office numbers in Australia and the United States, putting it on track to become one of the biggest financial disasters in decades.
An investigation by Nine newspapers has detailed how hundreds of armed police and soldiers cleared Ecuadorian villagers who spent more than 100 days blocking access to gold and copper concessions held by Hanrine Ecuadorian Exploration and Mining, a subsidiary wholly owned by Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting.