More Australians are addicted to retail therapy than ever, with regional towns taking out the top five spots making online purchases in QLD. Medical students abusing a scheme that sees taxpayers foot the bill in return for them practising in the bush. A “major step forward” for the plan to establish Australia’s first hi-tech missile factory. Opposition leader Anthony Albanese signals he’d borrow from Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s playbook should Federal Labor run the country.

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