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Ray Merlehan and his wife are thinking about moving to Malaysia, Spain or Greece when they retire. Financially, it may be a better option for the couple than staying in Australia. “I feel a little bit disappointed,” Mr Merlehan said. “I never believed that our country would become as expensive as it has.“ The 64-year-old…
Pauline Hanson’s openness to discuss a winding back of paid parental leave is concerning and harks back to an Australia that no longer exists, advocates say. The One Nation leader questioned “why should business pay [parents] if they’re not at work?” while challenging the pay gap between men and women in her speech at the…
Welcome to Cheat Sheet, where we give you all the intel you need about iconic franchises! In honour of its fifth instalment heading to cinemas, this month we’re looking at landmark animated film series Toy Story. Toy Story has led the way in computer-generated animation and modern storytelling for children since bursting onto screens more…
For many years it’s been claimed Australia has a severe shortage of public chargers for passenger electric vehicles (EVs). This gloomy evaluation can be found in the search summaries of AI chatbots, in media articles and parliamentary submissions, and even in public reports from regulators. But analysis of exclusive data obtained by the ABC broadly…
The matriarch of a prominent AFL family whose properties have been twice raided by police has detailed the long friendship she shared with police killer Dezi Freeman, which included organising travel for his wife to come to Australia and later storing his guns. In an exclusive interview with the ABC, Kay Reid, the mother of…
To its supporters, a $10 billion artificial intelligence factory proposed for South Australia will provide much-needed regional jobs, but in the nation’s driest state, critics say the draw on the River Murray to cool the machines could be too great. From the country to the city, AI data centre developments are accelerating. Industry figures show…
If your social media algorithms have been even slightly infiltrated by US politics, you may have heard chatter about “the primaries”. It’s a big year for stateside voters, and these races are just the beginning. Primary elections are the first step in electing who represents voters across the country in the House of Representatives and…
Today’s news quiz is heating up like El Niño. Will you strut like an internet-famous duck or get schooled like Prince George? Seven days, 10 questions, one result. Good luck. Loading Where to find all the ABC’s quizzes Want to test yourself even further? Take a squiz at the ABC’s New Quiz topic page and…
A global telco that failed to stop more than 1,000 scam text messages from reaching Australians has faced no consequences, the ABC can reveal. HSBC bank customers were defrauded out of tens of millions of dollars in a long-running bank impersonation scam after they were duped by fake SMS messages. The lack of action by…
Christian McGowan and Alison Baker fell in love with a building that was never intended to be a home. A 1930s brick industrial building in the NSW Hunter Valley’s Dungog served as the region’s water pumping station for about five decades. It was a stark, graffiti-covered, warehouse-like structure when they came across it in 2022;…