The Queensland Premier wrote to big supermarket chains in the last week amid escalating pressure from state and federal governments over pricing practices.
Farmers,meanwhile,said the government was failing to ensure primary producers and households were not being ripped off by the big supermarkets.
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt said the government was focused on reducing prices while the opposition leader is intent on inflaming culture wars.
On stage,Kate Miller-Heidke’s self-deprecating sense of humour is clear – the audience laughs at her jokes about the high register of her voice.
Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles has declared there will be an Australia Day event at Australia House next month.
The company faces backlash over its handling of a pro-Palestinian protest. So where is chairman Alan Joyce during all this?
The clumsy intervention by the High Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom,Stephen Smith,to close Australia House to the annual Australia Day fundraiser under the guise of protecting sensibilities is politically naive with potential to hurt those he purports to represent.
Australia’s high commissioner to the UK says sensitivities about marking Australia Day informed his decision to cancel an annual celebration that has over the years attracted some of Australia’s biggest names.
Oncologist Georgina Long and pathologist Richard Scolyer have improved outcomes for people with melanoma. They’re now working to save Scolyer from brain cancer.
The Indigenous Australians minister batted away a third day of opposition attacks,declaring she is not interested in culture wars. “I am interested in closing the gap.”
Anyone considering a career in the armed forces should learn an old school motto,Honor non Honores - seek honour above rewards.