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Is just me or is shopping at coles just a fantastically shit experience. Too many people, isles too narrow, glitchy security gates, not enough places to get bags, staff stockings the shelves while you shop. Maybe it’s the stores I shop at but, I can say my experience hasn’t been great.

🤣 Write the headline before you do the investigation

Full interview on The Project: youtu.be/tZLQJTvxHfk

Image source: https://x.com/McBrideCampaign/status/1903679064658862109

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60635674

Good on 'em all, especially the newspaper salesmen. I'd love to know what the old cunt said behind the beep.

The Coalition has also walked away from plans to sack 41,000 public service employees, raising questions about how it will pay for major election policies

Benchmark S&P/ASX 200 sank 6% within minutes of market opening – sending it back to levels not seen since late 2023

Imagine Canada, Australia and New Zealand join the EU and adapt the Euro and become the global money currency. This would destroy the US economy and probably end Trumps second term immediately.

(Do not take it seriously)

I find this remarkable (and wonderfully recreshing) , in Australia we seemingly want to buy expensive housing to get on the grift.

As John Howard said, he was never approached by anyone about making housing more affordable, as well as Plibersek as Housing Minister in the Rudd government,.wbere before that election saying first home owners gramts where a bad idea as all they did was raise house prices, gets elected to government and increases the first home owners grant as her first task.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has indicated he would look to buy back the Port of Darwin from Chinese company Landbridge under a re-elected Labor government, the most significant move yet to bring the strategic asset once more under Australian ownership.

Mr Albanese said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp radio on April 4 the port needs to be “in Australian hands”, including the possibility that a private buyer would be sought to take control.

“We will enter into negotiations to do that,” Mr Albanese said. “That is what we’ve been doing informally through potential buyers up to this point already, and if it reaches a point where the Commonwealth needs to directly intervene, then we’d be prepared to do that.”

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Local man Don has told shopping centre security that he did not attack Coles by stealing an entire shopping cart full of groceries, claiming that he was simply balancing a trade deficit.

The thief announced a sweeping plan to steal 10% of all items from every store, which he claimed will help bring down the heavily inflated prices of groceries.