Topic: Labour & Workers — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-29 19:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The modest rise still lags regional averages and comes as firms try to retain staff amid aggressive recruitment, according to a new report
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[2026-07-29 19:01 UTC+10:00] [European Union] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Youth survey of 16 countries finds an overwhelming preference for the Asian power, with 95 per cent calling Beijing an ally
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[2026-07-29 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Rugby Union] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-07-29 19:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A royal commission into Victoria’s Big Build should examine how political motivations influenced multibillion-dollar commitments to major transport projects, and unpick the relationship between the CFMEU and state Labor government, integrity experts say.
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[2026-07-29 18:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Wed 29 Jul 2026 at 6:51pm
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[2026-07-29 18:44 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Victorian business chiefs are urging new Premier Ben Carroll to scrap Labor’s work-from-home laws to deliver on his pledge to partner more closely with the private sector.
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[2026-07-29 18:09 UTC+10:00] [Whales] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A drone pilot has captured what is believed to be only the fourth complete humpback whale birth ever recorded on film anywhere in the world, and the first ever documented by drone. While conducting aerial observations of migrating humpback whales off the NSW north coast for the Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (Orrca), Alexander Forrest witnessed an adult female give birth in calm sea conditions, capturing the newborn calf's first moments of life, including its
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[2026-07-29 17:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SAN FERNANDO CITY, LA UNION - Gov. Mario Eduardo Ortega underscored the importance of unity and collective effort in sustaining La Union's development as he delivered his 2026 State of the Province Address, anchored on the theme “La Union, Agkaysa (unity)” on Tuesday.
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[2026-07-29 17:50 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Rugby Union] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: He tipped the scales at a bulked-up 140kg for the Reds this year and says “bully-ball” is part of the enforcer package he brings to any footy side.
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[2026-07-29 17:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Joakim Book via TheDailyEconomy.org,
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[2026-07-29 17:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A rescue worker walks in front of AEON Mall, which was damaged by an explosion following an earthquake, is seen in Kashima, Kumamoto Prefecture, southern Japan, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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[2026-07-29 17:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Wed 29 Jul 2026 at 5:11pm
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[2026-07-29 16:57 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Still fitted with their blue and yellow interiors and iconic paint jobs, four retired CityCat ferries have sold at auction for a combined $184,250.
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[2026-07-29 14:40 UTC+10:00] [Comment & Analysis] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-07-29 14:22 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A Seoul court upheld a manager's one-month pay cut for telling a female worker that the "pretty one" should sit next to the company's president, finding that the remark amounted to workplace sexual harassment.
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[2026-07-29 14:14 UTC+10:00] [BASEBALL] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter initially told an ESPN reporter that the Los Angeles Dodgers star had agreed to pay off his huge gambling debts, according to a newly released audio recording.
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[2026-07-29 13:19 UTC+10:00] [Datacentres] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Federal-state stoush comes as rating agency warns that electricity bills could skyrocket
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[2026-07-29 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts say the European Union considers Manila ‘the most important’ partner for its Indo-Pacific strategy
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[2026-07-29 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts say the European Union considers Manila ‘the most important’ partner for its Indo-Pacific strategy
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[2026-07-29 12:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Wed 29 Jul 2026 at 12:58pm
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[2026-07-29 12:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Wed 29 Jul 2026 at 12:57pm
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[2026-07-29 12:02 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — Far-right leader Marine Le Pen isn’t the only candidate in France’s presidential election vowing to upend the status quo in the European Union.
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[2026-07-29 11:59 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: July 29, 2026 — 11:59am
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[2026-07-29 11:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: "Workers face new tax to fund social care" says the Daily Telegraph in its top story, as "health officials draw up plans" for a 1.8% levy on earnings to pay for Prime Minister Andy Burnham's reforms. Under the reported proposal, which the paper says is one of "several new models for social care" drawn up last month after Burnham said he would make it a priority, workers over the age of 34 would pay the extra levy that "could fund
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[2026-07-29 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Published 29 July 2026 11:24am
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[2026-07-29 09:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Watch: Adam, Daisy, Rachel and Shahida on the struggles they face with home ownership, employment and wage stagnation
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[2026-07-29 08:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice on Tuesday separately asked the Supreme Court to overturn a civil court verdict that ordered him to pay the writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her while denying her claim that he sexually assaulted her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
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[2026-07-29 08:14 UTC+10:00] [Business / Consumer affairs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Online giant eBay agreed to pay $US48.7million ($69.8 million) to a Massachusetts couple who said former employees of the company targeted them with threats and bizarre anonymous deliveries — including live insects, a funeral wreath and a bloody pig Halloween mask, according to settlement details.
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[2026-07-29 07:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Raheem Morris speaks at a news conference during the NFL football team’s training camp Monday, July 27, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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[2026-07-29 06:53 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Former PM says ousted Victorian premier was ‘courageous in combating misogyny’ and was a trailblazer for other women. Follow updates
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[2026-07-29 06:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BOSTON — eBay Inc. agreed to pay almost $50 million to a Massachusetts couple who said former employees of the company targeted them with threats and bizarre anonymous deliveries — including live insects, a funeral wreath and a bloody pig Halloween mask, according to settlement details released Tuesday.
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[2026-07-29 06:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Andrea Lucas, nominee to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, June 18, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
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[2026-07-29 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: While we’re waiting around for cold fusion, space mirrors, matrioshka brains or whatever other complicated world-savers the tech wizards are cooking up these days to address soaring energy demand, a simple, effective solution is already available. It would create trillions of dollars in economic value and millions of jobs while also eliminating billions of tons of climate pollution and hundreds of thousands of premature deaths.
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[2026-07-29 06:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Bobby Kuchinsky, general manager of Half Shell Raw Bar, poses for a portrait inside his restaurant, Saturday, July 25, 2026, in Key West, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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[2026-07-29 06:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-07-29 05:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-29 05:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-29 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Artificial intelligence disruption to white-collar jobs in the cities risks fuelling the same political upheaval as the decline of manufacturing and coal that contributed to One Nation’s rise.
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[2026-07-29 04:55 UTC+10:00] [eBay] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Bloggers David and Ina Steiner were stalked by eBay executives over their critical coverage of the company
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[2026-07-29 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Wed 29 Jul 2026 at 4:41am
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[2026-07-29 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The eBay app icon is seen on a smartphone, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
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[2026-07-29 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A portion of Panasonic's higher-end TVs for the Japanese market are made in Malaysia. (Photo by Kyoko Hariya)
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[2026-07-29 03:56 UTC+10:00] [Comment & Analysis] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-07-29 03:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: EBay and three former top executives have agreed to pay $55.7 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by a Massachusetts couple who were victims of a bizarre stalking and harassment campaign.
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[2026-07-29 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-07-29 01:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, Russia continues to maintain commercial ties with the European Union despite mounting pressure to close the remaining gaps in the bloc’s sanctions regime.
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[2026-07-29 01:08 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: DUBLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday the European Commission's original EU budget proposal of almost €2 trillion should be slashed by hundred of billions of euros and that it was "unacceptable" to add 2,500 new jobs at EU institutions.
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[2026-07-29 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Russia’s victory in the Ukraine conflict would serve the interests of “all peace-loving humanity” by checking NATO and EU encroachment on national sovereignty, Greek philosophy professor Dimitrios Patelis has told RT. Patelis, who teaches at the Technical University of Crete, made the remarks in an interview aired on Tuesday, saying that Greece’s NATO and EU commitments have pushed national security “into the background.” He argued that pan-European legislation is now taking precedence over national law and effectively negates sovereignty and
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[2026-07-29 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Victorian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Commission promised by new premier would be an ‘important signal’ for voters that the government was acting on alleged corruption
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[2026-07-29 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Ben Carroll] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Another female politician has fallen to opinion polls and factional leaders as the spectre of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation hovers over all
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