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Zac vanished without a trace near a train station in Australia - now a coroner has exposed what could have put a target on his back
Daily Mail
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July 30, 2025
A young tradie who is believed to have died after he mysteriously vanished without a trace paid off a drug debt three days before his disappearance, a coroner has found. Zac Barnes, 18, was last seen getting out of a friend's car and running into...
Scapegrace establishes Australian distribution team
Food & Drink Business
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Hailing from New Zealand’s Central Otago region, the company started out in 2014 under the name Rogue Society, before rebranding in 2018 as Scapegrace. The team has built up an award winning portfolio spanning single malt whisky, gin, vodka, and...
Israel Releases Two Australians After Intercepting Gaza Aid Vessel
MENAFN
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July 30, 2025
(MENAFN) Two Australian citizens detained by Israeli forces while aboard a humanitarian vessel en route to Gaza have been released, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition confirmed Wednesday. The vessel, named Handala, was intercepted by Israeli forces...
Swimming-Australia’s Short out of 800m freestyle final with food poisoning
SRN News
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July 30, 2025
Audio By Carbonatix (Reuters) -Australian swimmer Sam Short will skip the men’s 800 metres freestyle final at the world championships in Singapore later on Wednesday on medical advice after food poisoning. The 21-year-old was among the top medal...
Dozens of state laws take aim at food dyes, amid a wave support for MAHA
WEKU - Kentucky
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July 30, 2025
As policy counsel for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, it's Jensen Jose's job to track food policy law. But this year it's been very hard to keep up. Lawmakers of all political stripes offered up proposals targeting food additives...
Australia's second-quarter inflation drops to lowest since March 2021, supporting case for rate cut
CNBC
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July 30, 2025
Michele Bullock, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), speaks during a news conference at the bank's head office in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Australia's headline inflation rate in...
Access Unparalleled: Premier Hosted Buyers Converge on Global Beverage & Tea Trends 2025
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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SHANGHAI, July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 28th edition of FHC Shanghai Global Food Trade Show will return to the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) from November 12–14, 2025. As Asia's premier food and beverage trade platform, FHC...
Australia’s Inflation Cools, Bolstering RBA’s Rate-Cut Case
Yahoo Finance
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(Bloomberg) -- Australia’s core inflation cooled in the three months through June, strengthening the case for the Reserve Bank to ease monetary policy as early as August on signs of abating price pressures. Most Read from Bloomberg The...
Australian Made, Globally Renowned: Starward
The Shout
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July 29, 2025
With rising tariffs and growing demand for local spirits, Starward’s Two-Fold is winning over curious whisky drinkers—thanks to its bold flavour, local ingredients and competitive price point. With escalating tariffs as well as local spirits tax...
Asahi Beverages delivers $1 million in charity funding
Food & Beverage
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July 30, 2025
Asahi Beverages is partnering with two Australian charities, OzHarvest and Rural Aid, to support vulnerable members of the community. Providing more than $1 million in funding, the company aims to help both organisations build greater resilience...
Return of Fine Food Australia in Sydney
Food & Beverage
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July 30, 2025
Image: Ana/stock.adobe.com Fine Food Australia, the country’s ultimate trade event for the foodservice and hospitality industry, is returning to Sydney this September. The event will be held at the International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney in...
2025 Australian Wine Industry Awards winners
Food & Beverage
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July 30, 2025
The Maurice O’Shea Award and the McWilliam’s Excellence in Action Award were presented during the Australian Wine Industry Awards at Adelaide Town Hall. Andrew Caillard MW and Dylan Grigg were the winners of the awards this year. Both winners were...
Marchand stuns world with ‘crazy’ world record in semi-final as O’Callaghan wins more gold
The Age
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July 30, 2025
Breaking Michael Phelps’ ‘untouchable’ 400 individual medley world record two years ago. Winning two individual Olympic gold medals in 118 minutes at the La Defense Arena. But eclipsing Ryan Lochte’s 2011 world record in the 200m medley — and not...
Aussies & New Yorkers Reckon Fishbowl Is Serving Up Food Poisoning & Holy Shit
Pedestrian
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July 30, 2025
Look, we Aussies take a certain pride in exporting culinary hits – Tim Tams, flat whites, the classic Bunnings snag. But recently, Fishbowl, the go-to salad spot for corporate baddies on their lunch break, has been getting shoutouts for all the...
Australia market unlikely to see surge in US beef
China Daily
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Australia's decision to ease restrictions on US beef imports — by lifting some biosecurity controls — is unlikely to trigger a big surge in shipments from the United States, analysts say, noting that US exporters will find it difficult to compete...
Building a (h)empire: From a humble cabin to Australia’s first subtropical hempcrete and rammed-earth Passivhaus
ArchitectureAU
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July 30, 2025
“Why aren’t entire cities built from hemp?” was a question I found myself asking following a chat with Byron Bay-based architect and hempcrete advocate Michael Leung. As a building material, hemp is non-toxic, naturally insulative, hygroscopic...
Australia’s courts say climate change is a political problem. The ICJ just made it a legal issue
Crikey
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July 29, 2025
They were two decisions, from two separate courts, issued both a week and a world apart. One, a class action lawsuit filed in 2021 by a First Nations community in the Torres Strait, alleged the Australian government had failed to meaningfully...
"Almost impossible": An Australian aid worker's experience in Gaza
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 29, 2025
Jodie Clark is an Australian with first-hand experience attempting to get aid into Gaza from Egypt. She spent 21 years in the military but her most recent role is with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency Palestine Refugees in the Near East...
Bowen says Australia can't 'wish away fossil fuels' to reduce emissions — as it happened
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 29, 2025
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Air-dropping food Into Gaza Is A ‘smokescreen’ – This Is What Must Be Done
The Nigerian Voice
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The UN emergency relief chief, Tom Fletcher, has characterised the next few days as “make or break” for humanitarian agencies trying to reach more than two million Gazans facing “famine-like conditions”. A third of Gazans have gone without food...