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Nov 26, 2025 - World

Western Australian employers reported the biggest pay gap and Tasmanian employers the smallest, but all states reported an improvement, study finds Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s gender pay gap narrowed further in 2025, but women still earn on average about $28,000 a year less than men, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s latest equality scorecard has revealed.Women earn, on average, 78.9 cents for every $1 men earn, according to the analysis of 5.4 million Australian workers across more than 8,200 employers. Continue reading...

Nov 26, 2025 - World

Consumers advised to be sceptical about sales season discounts as AI makes it even harder to detect scamsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSo-called “ghost store” operators are taking advantage of Christmas and Black Friday to lure shoppers to their websites, as the consumer regulator warns Australians that artificial intelligence is making it even harder to identify deceptive retailers.The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) considers ghost stores – which falsely market themselves as local brands – to be “scam adjacent”, as some send imitation products from overseas and others fail to deliver anything at all. Continue reading...

Nov 26, 2025 - World

While greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% or 9.9m tonnes last financial year, new policies are needed to meet the 2035 targetSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereAustralia’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% last financial year, in what the Albanese government says is the largest annual drop due to reduced fossil fuel use outside the Covid-19 pandemic.About half of the 9.9m tonnes reduction was due to an increase in solar and wind generation pushing coal-fired power out of the system, according to new government data to be released on Thursday. Continue reading...

Nov 26, 2025 - World

A court in Peru has sentenced former President Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for corruption

Nov 26, 2025 - World

The Czech president has announced readiness to swear in billionaire Andrej Babiš as prime minister