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Right to repair changes floated as frustrated farmers count cost of harvest delays

The right to repair their equipment may soon be on the table for farmers, who say machinery breakdowns cost them dearly as they wait for company-specific technicians to arrive.

ABC News

Market concentration ‘holding back worker wages’

The assistant minister for competition says highly concentrated markets, especially in the regions, are contributing to sluggish real wage growth.

The New Daily

One reason Australian wages are depressed? Formidable employer power

Dominant employers are preventing wages growing more quickly in Australia, according to a new Treasury paper.

ABC News

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Market concentration 'holding back worker wages'

The assistant minister for competition says highly concentrated markets, especially in the regions, are contributing to sluggish real wage growth.

AAP

Workplace Giving program launched by St Vincent de Paul to help Canberra's vulnerable

Can you give $2 a week? Or a little more?

The Canberra Times

Australia’s new $5 banknote will feature Indigenous history instead of King Charles

Government backs Reserve Bank decision to replace Queen Elizabeth II’s portrait with design ‘honouring culture and history of First Australians’

The Guardian - AU

Warning shot fired at hotel booking sites

Hotel booking websites are being placed on notice over their behaviour and other digital platforms have been warned they are are not exempt from Australian law.

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Protest over rent hike at 'Big Fat Gypsy Weddings' caravan site

Travellers in mobile homes face a 12.4pc increase while those in social housing properties will pay seven per cent more

Wales Online

Rent hike at 'Big Fat Gypsy Weddings' caravan site 'leaves bad taste in mouth'

There will be a 12.4pc increase for Travellers living in mobile homes

Manchester Evening News

Excessive market power and markups lead to economic problems

It’s not easy, but Australia has an opportunity to boost productivity — the key to increasing living standards, Andrew Leigh writes.

The New Daily

Hotel booking sites actually make it hard to get cheap deals, but there’s a way around it

Booking sites have the perverse effect of keeping prices high, especially when the fees they charge hotels are taken into account.

The New Daily

Hotel booking sites actually make it hard to get cheap deals, but there's a way around it

Booking a place to stay on holidays has become a reflex action.

The Conversation

COVID deaths highest among disadvantaged communities

Deaths due to COVID were also more prevalent in areas with greater socio-economic disadvantage such as in poorer areas and among migrant and Indigenous communities.

The Canberra Times

Australia could free a third of its prisoners with little risk to community, new research finds

Exclusive: Study says reduced incarceration of non-violent offenders can deliver savings to taxpayers and get more people into work

The Guardian - AU

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The Conversation

Power to the people: How Canada can build a more connected and responsive Parliament

Canadian citizens, like those in many other democratic countries, struggle with a lack of trust in their federal and provincial legislatures, their major political parties and members of Parliament.

ABC News

Federal government demands answers from Australia Post, NBN Co on salaries and bonuses

The federal government has sought an explanation from government-owned businesses about executive salaries and bonuses worth tens of millions of dollars.

The Guardian - AU

Reserve Bank ‘consulting’ with government on whether King Charles should be on $5 note

RBA governor Philip Lowe says ‘monarch has been on at least one banknote since 1923’ but decision won’t be made until talks with Labor are complete

The Canberra Times

'All pork': Chris Steel slams funding for roads

A transport funding row which erupted last week has continued, as the ACT government defends the plans.

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AAP

Numbers behind bars more than doubles

New figures have shown Australia's incarceration has more than doubled since 1985.

The Guardian - AU

Growing prison populations in Australia are costing $4.2bn a year despite falling crime rates, Labor says

‘If the incarceration rate had remained at its 1985 level, Australia would have saved $2.6bn,’ says assistant treasury minister Andrew Leigh

AAP

Surprise petrol price dip amid global fear

Motorists are seeing a mixed bag of petrol prices, with some retailers even charging less than the wholesale price, as global economic warnings abound.

AAP

Minister urges action on corporate tax

The assistant minister for competition has told a global forum that nations need to keep the pressure on multinationals dodging corporate tax.

AAP

Tougher penalties for cartel behaviour

Businesses will be getting more than a slap on the wrist for anti-competitive behaviour under new legislation, helping to keep prices low for consumers.

The New Daily

Big business facing steep fine increases in competition, cost-of-living crackdown

The government will raise the base maximum penalty, unchanged for decades, to stop companies from simply absorbing fines.

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton hits out at republicans seeking ‘political advantage’ from Queen’s death

Opposition leader accuses Labor minister of rewriting history over suggestion King Charles III might not appear on $5 note

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