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Afterpay enhances advertising network
AdNews
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Buy now, pay later service Afterpay has announced a partnership with data collaboration platform Narrative I/O to enhance its retail advertising network and keep sensitive financial data secure. Block, the owner of Afterpay, will integrate the...
Bastion appoints Anna Cherry to lead media division
AdNews
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Anna Cherry steps into the newly created role after the launch of Bastion Media. Independent agency Bastion has named Anna Cherry managing director of Bastion Media Australia. Cherry steps into the newly created role after the launch of Bastion...
Snowflake, Acxiom Partner To Power Secure AI Marketing For Brands
Benzinga
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Snowflake SNOW and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. IPG owned Acxiom on Monday announced a partnership to build and deliver a modern, AI-powered marketing data infrastructure that will fundamentally transform how brands leverage AI for...
Australia's Bega Cheese to seek regulator nod for potential Fonterra Oceania acquisition
Yahoo Finance
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(Reuters) -Dairy firm Bega Cheese said on Monday it plans to seek informal merger clearance from Australia's competition watchdog of a potential acquisition of its peer Fonterra's Oceania business. In November, New Zealand-based Fonterra announced...
Australian rail union conspires with state government, industrial courts, to force vote on sell-out deal
World Socialist Web Site
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June 16, 2025
The New South Wales (NSW) Labor government’s latest miserly pay offer for rail workers will be put to a formal vote early next month, despite token objections from one of the seven unions involved in negotiating the Sydney Trains and NSW Trains...
Australian police officer shot dead at rural property
BBC
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June 16, 2025
An Australian police officer has been shot dead on a rural property in Tasmania. The officer was undertaking "routine duties" at a house in North Motton, near the town of Ulverstone, on Monday morning when he was fired at by "a member of the...
Amazon to invest billions in Australian data centre ecosystem
TahawulTech
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June 16, 2025
Amazon aims to invest $12.97 billion over the next five years to expand, operate and maintain its data centre infrastructure in Australia. The investment is Amazon’s largest global technology commitment in Australia, with funding directed toward...
‘Passion for food’: Longford man is CEO of Australia’s largest ready meal manufacturer
Longford Leader
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June 16, 2025
It is seldom that we can acknowledge the outstanding success of a young entrepreneur from our community of Lanesboro and it is with a wonderful sense of pride that I learned of the momentous success of Ray Hanly. Ray, son of Maura and the late P....
Chery Motors Picks New PR Agency For Australia
MENAFN
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June 16, 2025
(MENAFN- PRovoke) SYDNEY – Global automative brand Chery Australia has appointed Zeno Australia as its retained public relations agency for Australia, following a pitch. Zeno will spearhead strategic communications to further elevate and amplify...
Japanese trade professionals welcomed to Australian wine regions
Winetitles Media
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June 16, 2025
The trade visitors at Soumah Wines (L-R): Rosemary MacDonald, Yoichiro Sakamoto, Sena Maegawa, Chiemi Kinouchi, Yusuke Yamamoto, Kenji Tsuji, Dmitri Lazariuc. Image courtesy Wine Australia Wine Australia recently hosted an inbound visit from five...
Amazon Bets Big On Australia With $13B Cloud Infrastructure Push To Support AI Boom
Asianet Newsable
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June 16, 2025
Amazon (AMZN) said on Saturday that it will invest AU$20 billion (nearly $13 billion) to expand its data center infrastructure in Australia, marking the largest investment by a foreign tech company in the country. In recent months, Amazon has...
Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown issues statement on dramatic Australian swimming trials
Seven News
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June 16, 2025
Kaylee McKeown has released a statement in the wake of her dramatic disqualification and then reinstatement at the Australian national swimming trials in Adelaide. The five-time Olympic gold medallist was initially rubbed out of a 50m backstroke...
Australia’s second largest oil and gas producer receives $30b bid from Abu Dhabi
Sky News Australia
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June 16, 2025
Australia’s second largest oil and gas producer has received an almost $30b takeover offer from a group led by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) as it looks to expand its global gas business. The $25b energy giant Santos told shareholders...
Explaining Australia’s enduring faith in democracy even as the world backslides
The Interpreter
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June 16, 2025
When it comes to Australia’s attitudes towards democracy, this year’s Lowy Institute Poll is a good news story amid a backdrop of global democratic decline. According to the 2025 poll, three-quarters of Australians (74%) say democracy is...
Footy legend Gorden Tallis calls NRL great turned media star Aaron Woods a COWARD over his one-word insult to Queensland Origin coach Billy Slater
Daily Mail
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June 16, 2025
Gorden Tallis slams Aaron Woods for remarks about Billy Slater Former NSW star kicked off war of words on his radio show By JAMES COONEY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 02:54 EDT, 16 June 2025 | Updated: 02:55 EDT, 16 June 2025 Queensland...
The Australian government has launched a new strategy to boost vaccination rates. Will it work?
The Conversation
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June 16, 2025
Last week, the Australian government announced a new National Immunisation Strategy for 2025–30. This strategy sets out the government’s priorities for improving vaccine uptake for children, adolescents and adults over the next five years. It...
65,000 Years: A short history of Australian art
Pursuit
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Ten years ago, work began on creating a testament to the duration, resilience and ingenuity of artists of the First Peoples. The vision was to showcase the significance and brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art created from time...
What Byron Sharp taught me about the future of marketing
Marketing Magazine
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June 16, 2025
By James Lawrence In April, I joined a packed room of Australian marketers at FWD Sydney to hear the legendary Professor Byron Sharp speak on ‘The Future of Marketing?’. For just under an hour, the room listened intently as Sharp shared his...
Prize-winning Australian author Michelle de Kretser condemns Israel’s war crimes
World Socialist Web Site
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June 16, 2025
Michelle de Kretser [Photo: Wheeler Centre]Addressing the Sydney Writers’ Festival last month, author Michelle de Kretser condemned Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and Australia’s complicity, along with an accompanying crackdown on democratic rights....
‘I don’t have a tap out button’: Alone Australia’s Corinne on her journey to motherhood
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 16, 2025
Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Corinne Ooms says she knows she is in a privileged position. The second runner up – and the...