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The unemployment rate was steady in June at 4.4 per cent but underemployment has risen. Source link

Shares in Origin Energy have given up ground after the company confirmed a customer data hack. Follow the day’s events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. Source link

As lawyers for actor Charlotte MacInnes plan to appeal a failed defamation case outcome against Hollywood star Rebel Wilson, a solicitor says the judge’s interpretations could be grounds for a retrial or a different verdict. Source link

This supported disabled employment agency is about to close, and a community has vowed to fight to keep it open, saying they paid for it. Source link

A Tasmanian farmer has urged a data centre builder to “be a good corporate citizen” after it accidentally revealed a plan to tap into a water source earmarked for agriculture for cooling purposes at one of its facilities.  Source link

Australia’s property market has entered a downturn after both house and unit prices fell for the first time in more than three years, bringing an end to the recent housing boom.  Source link

A Newcastle accountant is jailed for defrauding hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company that owns a network of supermarkets in the Hunter Valley. Source link

The Reserve Bank is concerned that too many Australians have little idea what the central bank is trying to achieve with interest rates, which it says could be making its job harder. Source link

Woolworths has been hit with a string of workplace safety charges after one of the supermarket giant’s forklift operators allegedly struck a motorcyclist on a public road, causing “serious injuries”, in 2025. Source link

Lactalis has announced it will close its dairy factory in Longwarry, in Gippsland, with a phased transition of production to other sites. Source link