LVLY co-founder gains investors for hair colour startup Done

Serial entrepreneur Hannah Spilva has raised a pre-seed funding round, and already attracted interest from retail partners, for her new hair colour startup Done.  Spilva has spent the past two years researching... Read more »

NZ’s highest-ever interest rates – but were people worse off?

Photo: Stuff/Kathryn George If you thought the seven percent-ish interest rates of recent years were tough, spare a thought for 1980s borrowers who paid the country’s highest interest rate on record. Reserve... Read more »

Police focus on shed of interest as manhunt for Dezi Freeman enters ninth day

Police have descended on a shed a short distance from Porepunkah as the search for fugitive Dezi Freeman enters its ninth day. On Wednesday, a police helicopter circled the national park that... Read more »

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell charged over alleged Camp Sovereignty attack

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell has been charged with affray and other offences after being arrested outside court over an alleged attack on an Indigenous sacred site.Dozens of officers arrested Sewell outside Melbourne Magistrates’... Read more »

Google will not be forced to sell off Chrome or Android, US judge rules

A court will not force Google to sell off its Chrome browser or Android, a US federal judge has said in a court filing. The decision overnight serves as a significant win... Read more »

Wall Street dives as Nvidia, Amazon fall; Kraft Heinz splits; ASX set to retreat

The judge also rejected the US Justice Department’s effort to force Google to sell its popular Chrome browser, concluding the request was a bridge too far. But Mehta is ordering Google to... Read more »

Indonesia’s ‘TikTok generation’ is wielding flags, fireworks and toothpaste as an anti-police resistance

With the faint sting of tear gas adding to Jakarta’s already thick air, a densely packed crowd of young Indonesians is steadily multiplying. They’re carrying the tools of civilian resistance — flags,... Read more »

Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard to LA protests illegal, judge rules

The Trump administration violated federal law by deploying National Guard troops to southern California during immigration raids and accompanying protests, a US federal judge has ruled. The order comes after the state... Read more »

Federal Court hears details of Optus’s ‘unconscionable’ conduct

The Federal Court has heard how people across Australia who were homeless, unemployed or on a disability pension were sold products and services they could not afford or need by Optus staff.... Read more »

Labor MP questions Albanese on claim ‘good people’ went to anti-immigration rallies | Australian politics

A Labor backbencher has questioned Anthony Albanese’s suggestion that some “good people” attended Sunday’s anti-immigration rallies amid wider internal unease about the comments. The member for the Melbourne-based seat of Aston, Mary... Read more »