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The new law would would help poorer families with food costs during school holidays.

The chief minister says connectivity and food storage were among his top government priorities.

Huang, who is now being investigated over an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, is far more important to the future of the world order than other tech bosses.

Amid job cuts at Qantas, Canva and Nab, the R-word is back in circulation. Is there anything the government can do? The acknowledgment last week by Michele Bullock, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, that the cumulative effect of this year’s five increases in interest rates “is going to make people feel like it’s a recession” has put the R-word back into circulation. It comes as Qantas becomes the third major Australian company in three weeks to announce large-scale job cuts, followi