BOOTS is set to make big changes to its Advantage Card discounts in a huge shake-up – but shoppers will be divided. From May, the health and beauty retailer will offer customers on the loyalty scheme 10% off on over 6,000 own-brand products. The retailer said over 70% of Boots Advantage Card holders typically have […]
Hillsong accused of misusing church funds to pay for private jets, luxury retreats
Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie has used leaked documents to allege Hillsong Church broke financial laws in Australia and around the world, while accusing founder Brian Houston of spending lavishly on private jets, luxury retreats, designer goods and custom skateboards. Wilkie used parliamentary privilege on Thursday to make the allegations regarding the church’s finances, which […]
Advocates call for mature conversation around city injecting room
Almost 80 organisations have teamed up in an emotional plea for Premier Daniel Andrews to follow through with his promise to open a second safe-injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD. Concerned with delays in opening the facility, 78 chief executives and leaders from community health organisations, churches, the drug and alcohol sector, housing and legal services […]
Maria went to WorkCover for a mental health claim. She says the process made her sicker
A former high school teacher awarded a six-figure payout after years on workers’ compensation for a mental health injury says she felt constantly punished by the system and would have been happier to see the problem resolved so she could return to work. Maria, who did not want her surname used, spoke out this week […]
Raquel Leviss Called Out for 'Sweet Innocent Act' on Vanderpump Rules
Leviss was criticized for making a move on Tom Schwartz, before going after Garcelle Beauvais' possibly-married son Oliver. The ongoing season of “Vanderpump Rules” hits a little different now that the affair between Raquel Leviss and Tom Sandoval has been exposed. According to reports, the two started hooking up last summer, around the same time […]
Teals split as Coalition revives 2019 election franking credits debate
Teal MPs have split on a $600 million plan to tighten up rules around dividend imputation that the Coalition argues is a broken promise by the government, reviving the debate over franking credits that contributed to Labor’s 2019 election loss. The Senate’s economics committee will investigate proposed changes to limit franking credits linked to company […]
Miserable fate awaits flag that battled worst Canberra could deliver
Those suspicious about the trajectory of Australian democracy might need no convincing, but now the very symbol of the nation has begun to shred before our eyes. Oh, dear. How did the poor thing reach such a despondent state that it would barely be out of place on the yardarm of a ship emerging from […]
Paulina Porizkova claps back after being criticized for lingerie photo
Paulina Porizkova claps back at online trolls who told her she ‘didn’t age gracefully’ and is ‘obsessed with her looks’ after she posted a lingerie photo to show what ‘almost 58 looks like’ Porizkova shared a photo of herself modeling a knit sweater and lingerie Monday The post was a celebration of her age, but […]
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: BBC risks own goal over Lineker scandal
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: BBC risks own goal over Lineker scandal The arrangement is meant to be straightforward. The BBC receives £3.7billion a year from the licence fee and, in return, it is obliged by charter to be scrupulously neutral. However, the question of who calls the shots when it comes to the state broadcaster’s impartiality […]
HARDCASTLE: Why didn't Boris leave task of knighting father to Rishi?
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Why didn’t Boris Johnson leave the task of knighting his father Stanley to Rishi Sunak? With no confirmation that Boris has knighted his dad, constitutional boffins wonder why he didn’t leave the task to Rishi Sunak. Previous PMs have left it to their successors to look after the family. Johnson arranged Philip May’s […]

