When was the last time you paid cash?

It's becoming less common across Australia and globally, a trend that has accelerated in the wake of the Covid pandemic when cashless transactions boomed.

But not everyone's happy about it.

Federal Independent MPs Dai Le, Andrew Gee and Bob Katter are pushing a private members’ bill that would make it illegal for businesses not to accept cash.

His seven previous attempts at winning a seat in the House of Commons failed, will the eighth time be the charm? 

Sir John Monash's great-grandson shares some of his family's favourite stories of the Lieutenant General through some of his personal belongings. 

New data from political research organisation RedBridge Group has found 54 per cent of 18-34 year olds are delaying having kids, as a result of the current economic conditions. 

The proposed list of occupations that the government agency Jobs and Skills Australia says should be prioritised currently doesn't include key trades such as plumbers, bricklayers, painters and roof tilers with these professions instead being listed as 'requiring consultation’.  

Research out of Sweden suggests that there could be a link with having a tattoo and cancer, raising questions about what we really know the effects of getting inked.

It's set to be a big week on the economic front with the Reserve Bank meeting tomorrow to decide the next move on official interest rates.

The feeling is that the cash rate will remain unchanged at the current 4.35 per cent.

Ahead of that meeting, the Fair Work Commission has today delivered some good news for Australians on minimum wage and award rates.

The Commission has ruled the national minimum wage increase to $24.10 per hour, which means around two-point-six million workers on the minimum wage will see a pay increase of around 33 dollars a week. 

Without farms, most of us would go hungry.  But the way we grow food with fertilisers mean that farms also produce greenhouse gases like nitrous oxide.

Almost thirty years to the date when a then victorious Nelson Mandela claimed a landslide majority in the first mixed-race election in South Africa’s history the decades-long majority-rule of the African National Congress has come to an end.

Elon Musk's company Neuralink is in a race with China to dominate the next frontier of artificial intelligence - a brain-computer interface or BCI.