Homeowners are warned to brace for more mortgage pain with further interest rate hikes imminent as “unacceptably high” inflation fuels a cost-of-living crisis. 

Body image advocate Taryn ­Brumfitt has been named Australian of the Year 2023. 

An elderly man charged with damaging Guy Sebastian’s fence claims he was merely trying to widen the access to his property so he could wheel in medical equipment for his terminally ill wife.

And in sport, the Sydney Swans have been given a multimillion-dollar weapon to help close what co-captain Dane Rampe calls a “clear” gap on their premiership rivals.

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