The Flashwire
The flashwire is your rapid-response breaking news podcast — a stripped-down, adrenaline-paced bulletin that drops minutes after major stories break. It’s designed for listeners who want accuracy and speed, not noise.
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Burke unveils migration overhaul, targets 225,000 arrivals by 2028 (opens the original)
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This piece is freely available to read. Become a paid subscriber today and help keep Mencari News financially afloat so that we can continue to pay our writers for their insight and expertise. Immigration Minister Tony Burke used a National Press Club address in Canberra, delivered on Citizenship Day, to detail Labor’s overhaul of the migration system after a six-week delay. Burke said net overseas migration has dropped to 292,000, down from 300,000 and 47 per cent below its post-pandemic peak,
Whyalla steelworks blast furnace shuts for good, 500 jobs to go (opens the original)
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This piece is freely available to read. Become a paid subscriber today and help keep Mencari News financially afloat so that we can continue to pay our writers for their insight and expertise. Administrators have permanently closed the blast furnace at the Whyalla steelworks in South Australia, cutting the site’s workforce from 1,700 to around 1,200. KordaMentha partner Sebastian Hams told staff on Monday the furnace’s recovery had become unsustainable and its failure inevitable, with redundanci
Queensland credit rating downgraded to AA for first time since 2009 (opens the original)
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This piece is freely available to read. Become a paid subscriber today and help keep Mencari News financially afloat so that we can continue to pay our writers for their insight and expertise. S&P Global Ratings has downgraded Queensland’s long-term issuer credit rating from AA+ to AA, the state’s first downgrade in almost two decades. The agency cited weak budgetary performance and structurally higher debt as the state ramps up infrastructure spending ahead of the 2032 Olympics, though it kept
Albanese unveils Digital Duty of Care draft, offers social media users feed choice (opens the original)
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This piece is freely available to read. Become a paid subscriber today and help keep Mencari News financially afloat so that we can continue to pay our writers for their insight and expertise. The federal government released draft legislation Tuesday requiring social media platforms to give Australian users control over what their feeds show them, building on last year’s ban on social media accounts for children under 16. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Communications Minister Anika Wells un
Australian economy grows 0.4% in June quarter, ABS says (opens the original)
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This piece is freely available to read. Become a paid subscriber today and help keep Mencari News financially afloat so that we can continue to pay our writers for their insight and expertise. Australia’s gross domestic product grew 0.4% in the June quarter and 2.1% compared with a year earlier, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday, as households continued to spend cautiously and business investment fell for the quarter. Household consumption rose 0.4%, with spending subdued across
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