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Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, right, has released the Coalition’s election costings.

Federal election 2025CommentsCoalition costings bank on savings after election spend

The Coalition intends to shave $40 billion off Australia’s long term debt if it wins the election on Saturday, announcing $14b in savings over the next four years.

Jackson Hewett

Woolworths has come under fire by angry shoppers who can no longer claim a discount from their Everyday Rewards memberships. NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

NEWSPremium‘Ridiculous’: Woolies axes Big W discount

Shoppers are furious as Woolies has suddenly axed a major saving point for families who pay for the Everyday Rewards discount program.

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Woolworths chief executive Amanda Bardwell.

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Struggling Big W a $70m weight for Woolworths

Woolworths has posted a modest improvement in group sales for the third quarter but revealed its long-struggling discount department store Big W was set to cop a $70 million loss in the second half.

Cheyanne Enciso

Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor is promising to get ‘our budget back into balance’. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Breaking‘Trillion-dollar’ warning for Aussie budget

With just two sleeps to go until the federal election, the Coalition has finally released its costings, with shadow treasurer Angus Taylor attaching a big warning.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

Households tipped to get less interest rate cuts in 2025. NewsWire / Flavio Brancaleone

EconomyPremiumWhy Aussies could spend more on mortgages

Struggling mortgage holders will get a rate cut in May, but are now tipped to get less over the rest of 2025, an industry expert warns.

Cameron Micallef

Meta has had a strong start to an important year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. (AP PHOTO)

BusinessPremiumMeta's quarterly earnings and revenue beat expectations

Meta has beat Wall Street estimates for its quarterly earnings as the Facebook owner enjoyed strong ad revenue boosted by its AI tools.

Barbara Ortutay

Drilling at the Doropo project.

MiningPremiumMiner still resolute on West Africa after extortion

A shakedown in Mali has seen gold miner Resolute Mining pay $US150 million ($234m) to significantly step up its presence in a neighbouring West African country.

Adrian Rauso

Venus Metals has launched a high-tech hyperspectral research project with the CSIRO at its Bellchambers gold project near Sandstone in WA.

Venus to unleash cutting-edge WA gold targeting project with CSIRO

Venus Metals has homed in its exploration focus at its Bellchambers gold project in WA, announcing a high-tech targeting collaboration with scientific research leaders the CSIRO, worth around $50,000.

Andrew Todd

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Elon Musk has said he'll cut back on the time he devotes to the Trump administration. (AP PHOTO)

BusinessTesla board looked for new CEO as Musk focused on Trump

As Elon Musk devoted more of his time to President Donald Trump, a worried Tesla board reportedly began looking to replace him as the company's boss.

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The authority in charge of the port at Albany also pulled submissions to make room for a brand new berth.

MiningCommentsPremiumGrange Resources scraps plans for $2.3b Albany iron ore mine

A Tasmanian iron ore pellet producer and the Southern Ports Authority have pulled plans for a $2.3 billion magnetite mine and a 110 kilometre-long slurry pipeline planned for WA’s Great Southern region.

Simone Grogan

Telehealth startup BlinkLab hopes to commercialise a smartphone app to help diagnose autism.

BiotechCommentsPremiumBlinkLab raises $7.7m to bankroll smartphone autism test

WA diagnostics startup BlinkLab has raised nearly $8 million to bankroll a clinical trial for its smartphone autism test ahead of a US Food And Drug Administration submission.

Cheyanne Enciso

Peter Dutton says Anthony Albanese cannot be trusted on tax during a campaign visit to AgFest near Launceston on Thursday. Adam Head / NewsWire

UPDATEDAlbo can’t rule out raising taxes

Anthony Albanese has been unable to rule out increasing taxes after the election, with the Opposition seizing on the admission before Saturday’s election.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

Peter Barber will take the helm at Atomos Limited as the company’s new chief executive officer after is co-founder Jeromy Young stepped back to take up a non-executive director role.

Atomos hits refresh with new CEO and broadened product strategy

Atomos Limited has hit the refresh button by shaking up its leadership with a new CEO and launching four new products including a recurring revenue cloud solutions platform to diversify its product base.

James Pearson

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Rio Tinto chair Dominic Barton speak’s at Thursday’s AGM in Perth.

MiningCommentsPremiumRio’s $20b pledge for Pilbara ‘heartland’ as UK vote looms

Rio Tinto chair Dominic Barton says the Pilbara is the ‘heartland’ of the mining goliath’s operations, as a crucial AGM vote gets under way on the miner’s Anglo-Australian status.

Simone Grogan

Woolworths has announced “solid” third-quarter sales. NewsWire / Monique Harmer

BUSINESSPremiumSales items Aussies are looking for

Australia’s largest supermarket chain announced a “solid” third-quarter update on the back of selling cheaper items.

Cameron Micallef

The Australian share market is hanging on to its recent streak of postive trading. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

MarketsPremiumAustralian shares edge higher for sixth day of gains

An early sell-off wasn't enough to derail a multi-day streak for Australian equities, which are in the green for a sixth session in a row.

Adrian Black

Nathan, Nat and Shaun from Nova.

MediaPremiumNova dominates breakfast radio, despite missing a host

Nova’s breakfast trio Nathan, Nat and Shaun has surged in radio ratings in the past month, securing more than a fifth of the lucrative morning market — despite missing a key team member.

Dylan Caporn

Washington, DC - April 7 : President Donald J Trump (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Washington Post

MiningPremiumUnderwater mining for rare earths still a pie in the sky

The Aussie-led company at the forefront of Donald Trump’s expedition to hoover up coveted minerals from the seabed has ruled out looking for rare earth elements.

Adrian Rauso

ADX Energy pockets $2.5M in oil sales from Austrian licences to expand the company’s Welchau and Sicilian exploration projects.

ADX pockets $2.5M from three months of Austrian oil production

ADX Energy looks to be firing on all cylinders having opened up the valves on its Austrian oil operations boosting production by 13 per cent to 246 barrels of oil per day and banking $2.5M in the process.

Andrew Todd

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The United States has signed an economic deal with Ukraine,

MiningCommentsUnited States signs economic deal with Ukraine

The United States and Ukraine have signed a historic economic deal that will give the United States access to Ukraine’s critical minerals, something Donald Trump thinks will bring peace in the region. 

Max Corstorphan

US President Donald Trump has blamed former President Joe Biden for GDP going down.

THE NIGHTLY‘Mess’: Trump fronts up to US economy shrinking

US President Donald Trump has addressed the latest figures which show GDP has shrunk for the first time in three years as chaos and confusion of tariffs continue.

Max Corstorphan

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp.

BusinessCommentsNvidia CEO issues China AI warning

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that China is ‘not behind’ in artificial intelligence, and that Huawei is ‘one of the most formidable technology companies in the world’.

Madeline Cove

US President Donald Trump has blamed former President Joe Biden for GDP going down.

EconomyComments‘Mess’: Trump fronts up to US economy shrinking

US President Donald Trump has addressed the latest figures which show GDP has shrunk for the first time in three years as chaos and confusion of tariffs continue.

Max Corstorphan

National median house prices hit all time high.

Housing marketPremiumRegional WA housing prices dip and new median prices set

Median housing prices in regional Western Australia have experienced a slight decrease in the month of April, new PropTrack data shows.

Sofia Fimognari

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