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From October 1, Australian businesses cannot add card surcharges and the interchange-fee cap is 0.3%; the RBA says consumers will save $1.6 billion annually. NSW businesses are absorbing fees or raising prices, while the ATO's November 30 credit-card cutoff has drawn backlash.
The surcharge ban is expected to save consumers annually.
Homes destroyed in New South Wales during the 2019–20 bushfires were located less than 100 metres from flammable vegetation.
The High Court ruled 3–2 that planners had to consider emissions from coal burned overseas when approving Mount Pleasant's expansion, invalidating the approval. The mine can operate until 2032 while MACH Energy pursues a new application, and officials dispute the ruling's wider significance.
High Court judges who found in favour of the residents' group
A Guardian investigation found that impoverished people, including war veterans and people who experienced homelessness, were buried in unmarked communal graves in New South Wales. NSW Health apologised, said it had changed its processes, and the NSW government committed to an urgent review.
The Guardian identified at least six cases in which authorities failed to contact people or inform them about unmarked or communal graves.
Age of the boy who was shot
Illegal fishing is estimated to cost legal fisheries up to $23 billion annually worldwide.
Three women died in separate domestic violence-related incidents across New South Wales within 24 hours. Police charged three men with murder in cases involving Bondi Beach, Mole River and Wagga Wagga.
Three men were charged with murder after three women died in separate incidents in New South Wales.