Australians (Australian people)

Mr Morrison said: “Wherever we can, the Turnbull Government will relieve the tax burden on Australians for one simple reason: It's their money.” Australian Taxation Office figures to be released today show an increase in the number of people in most tax brackets during 2015-2016. Almost a quarter of all ...

Citi has launched a product-focused campaign promoting its 'Personal Loan Plus' offering. Created by Archibald/Williams, the 45-second television campaign features a couple as they travel to different locations on a holiday made just for them.

As Pearson alludes, Indigenous people and allied Australians have, for some time, been pushing for recognition of those who fell in the Frontier Wars in official war remembrance activities. Ghillar, Michael Anderson is Convenor of the Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia. Since 2012 ...

Whilst we have better data capability than ever before, and there are notable successes like the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework, there are serious challenges we need to address in our data system if we are to better address the needs of Indigenous Australians in public ...

Australians define success in terms of being happy (77%) and healthy (71%) over earning a six-figure salary (18%). The LinkedIn research shows a majority of Australians (65%) consider themselves to be successful. However, they feel that society's view has a negative impact on their own potential for ...

Two Australians were among the 71 victims who died in the Grenfell Tower fire in London in June last year, the Foreign Affairs Department has confirmed. Alexandra Atala, 40, and her mother, Victoria King, 71, have been named in media reports as the two Australians found dead in their 20th-floor flat after ...

Villers-Bretonneux was full of Australians this week, just as it was 100 years ago, but this time they were reinforcing a friendship forged in battle, a century after diggers liberated the French town from the Germans in ferocious hand-to-hand combat. Prince Charles, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, ...

Australians gathered with descendants of former allies and enemies around the country, on a Turkish coast and in a French town Wednesday in dawn services to commemorate the moment when Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops waded ashore at the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey 103 years ...

Australians are becoming progressively more concerned about population growth and immigration rates, although a majority remains in favour of multiculturalism, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll. The latest fortnightly survey of 1,026 voters finds that 54% of the sample believe Australia's rate ...

The Blues and Jaguares get their first wins of the season, Akira Ioane goes beastmode and two of Australia's best are struggling in this week's Winners and Losers. Winner: Parity. Week four was full of upsets. The Hurricanes beat the rolling Crusaders, the Blues stole a last gasp victory against the Lions ...

From yoga to running, keeping fit is becoming an integral part of an Aussie's getaway plans. It's often thought that a holiday is meant to be a relaxing getaway from the day-to-day. It's a time where calories don't exist and movement is purely optional. But according to a survey by Hostelworld, Australians are ...

Edwards is one of many young Australians taking advantage of the J1 visa, issued under the Student Work and Holiday program introduced by the US Department of State a decade ago. The program enables Australian tertiary-level accredited students and students who have graduated from a Bachelor ...

Credits: Facebook/ Andrea Goften. Two brave Australians rescued an enormous spider from floodwaters in Queensland over the weekend. The whistling spider, also known as the Australian tarantula, was dangling from a branch as a flooded river raged beneath it in the town of Halifax.

Sheep enthusiasts Sarah (left) and Elizabeth Graham inspect the sheep yarding at the Wanaka A and P Show. Photos: Stephen Jaquiery. An aerial view of the Wanaka A&P Showgrounds during the Wanaka show grand parade on Saturday. Sheep enthusiasts Sarah (left) and Elizabeth Graham inspect the ...

Australians are taking advantage of Japan's cheaper property market in droves, with ski towns becoming increasingly popular for investment. Experts say the lower entry price for Japanese property compared with Sydney and Melbourne is an attractive proposition for young Australians priced out of ...

Australian households are putting more solar panels on their roofs, including this Melbourne house with 86 panels and 20 megawatts capacity. Nearmaps. Mark Ludlow AFR Woodcut. Share on twitter. by Mark Ludlow. Australian households are installing roof-top solar systems of up to 20 kilowatts capacity- ...

Almost 80,000 West Australians are waiting to see a public hospital specialist to find out if they need surgery, with an average waiting time of more than a year at Fiona Stanley Hospital. The latest surgical outpatient clinic figures — the “waiting to wait” patients who need to be assessed for surgery — show ...

"It's well known that the risk of developing cataracts increases as people get older, however this new data also suggests there's been a slight rise in the number of Australians affected," Medibank Clinical Director Dr Sue Abhary said. Cataracts is a clouding of the eye's natural lens and is the leading cause of ...

According to the latest numbers, Australians reported $11,033,635 lost to various types of fraudulent schemes in February 2018, with investment scams topping the list of illicit schemes in terms of losses caused. The data shows that nearly half of all losses were due to investment scams – $5,005,307.

Bitcoin Mining Puts Two Australians in Police Crosshairs. Australian police have questioned two IT employees at the Bureau of Meteorology for allegedly using the agency's computers to mine cryptocurrency. author by Komfie Manalo , 08 March. Subscribe. articleStartImage. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are ...

The largest container ship to make port in North America unloads its cargo from China in the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California, in 2015. AP. by. Donald Trump has united the world's economic policymakers in condemning the folly of his new tariffs. Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe's advice to ...

Australians are no better off per person than they were at this time last year as weakening offshore trade robbed the economy of momentum, the latest national accounts results reveal. In figures that are set to heighten the national debate over inequality, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' most accurate ...

About 140 Australian nursing-home residents took their own lives between 2000 and 2013, a new study shows. Published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the study is the first to examine the number and patterns of suicide in Australia's nursing homes, and the largest such investigation in ...

Like many Australians, Gwen had juggled a succession of jobs, eventually owning her modest home. Following a fall, hospitalisation and rehab, her prognosis was not good. Gwen wanted to die at home, or with her family. Should members of the family move into her house? Should she move into one of ...

Fellow Australians echoed Isansco's remarks, elaborating on why their country is more progressive. "A lot of this is due to NZ going neoliberal earlier, faster, and harder than Australia (and most other western countries)," wrote tmnvex. One user reasoned that New Zealand had a better feel about it than ...

A new dataset has shed fresh light on the changing socioeconomic status of Indigenous Australians. It shows that what appears to be slow progress or steady outcomes for the whole population may be masking worsening results. This stems from how the Indigenous population is counted in the census and ...