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Australia falls out of love with Qantas

Financial Times: Investors, unions, customers demand change, despite strong profits.

Pah Homestead cafe under new management, previous operator in liquidation

Pah Homestead housed the James Wallace Arts Trust collection.

Pushpay insider case results in six-month community detention

The individual was found guilty by a jury in August.

Luxury Auckland apartments go to mortgagee sale

Major sign of trouble: 33 units in one block up for distressed sale.

‘Kingmaker’s asset’: Disney moves to buy remaining Hulu stake

Financial Times: Offer of US$8.6b is expected to start heated valuation negotiations.

Toyota’s EV batteries: 1200km range, 10-minute charging - or just another promise?

Financial Times: 'A race is on worldwide to succeed in the solid-state battery space'.

Former mortgage broker pleads guilty to dishonesty offences

Mortgage broker obtained home loans through false documents.

Mortgage stress expected to double by early 2025, warns Reserve Bank

RBNZ warns times will get tougher for mortgage holders.

Sam Bankman-Fried says he was ‘surprised’ by FTX’s US$8b balance-sheet hole

Financial Times: Former billionaire denies intending to defraud customers.

‘The early adopters have adopted’: US carmakers slow their EV growth plans

Financial Times: Consumer appetite has fallen short of industry expectations.

Diana Clement: How to get off the mortgage hamster wheel

OPINION: Slowly paying the mortgage off has become a bit of a forgotten art.

Beijing takes aim at world’s biggest Apple supplier

Financial Times: Foxconn founder Terry Gou tests his long relationship with Beijing.

Consumer confidence ‘creeping’ back to life, says ANZ

Expectations for the housing market were the strongest in almost two years.

Fletcher's grim AGM: Perth leaky pipes and problems on housing

$1b losses had been a 'near-death experience', the company would never return to that.

US economic growth accelerated to 4.9% in third quarter

Financial Times: Strong consumer spending drove pace of GDP expansion to big rise.

New mortgage lending subdued pre-election, as interest rates kept rising

Will the change of Government see 'mum and dad' investors perk up?