The Latest Breaking News from Coles

Philip Lowe will chair his last meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia board today, and Anthony Albanese has declared he received ‘no lobbying’ from Qantas over blocking Qatar Airways from offering more flights to Australia.

It’s reprehensible during a cost-of-living crisis to dump binloads of groceries and enforce strict cosmetic standards on produce

Making this much money during a cost of living crisis honestly feels like chomping on a sour lemon.

Are supermarket profits helping fuel inflation? It’s a non-issue for Woolworths shareholders — their dividends soared much faster than CPI.

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A regional family, an urban family and a single man in the suburbs spend a week abstaining from Australia’s big two supermarkets, with widely divergent results

David Van, the Liberal senator booted from the party over allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women, will cause a seat shuffle if and when he returns to Parliament, and two mentions of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews were cut from his state’s anti-corruption body’s latest report.

Surging profits at Coles and Woolworths is bad news for everyone, except shareholders, of course. Here’s a list of happy faces in Parliament.

Coles and Woolworths are making a much larger profit than UK supermarkets during Australia’s cost-of-living crisis, and Woodside Energy has threatened to sue two individual climate activists after its headquarters in Perth was stink-bombed.