News Hub
The latest breaking stories
Access up-to-date news and information on a wide range of press releases including business, finance, technology, healthcare, entertainment, and more.
Discover the most important & comprehensive stories delivered directly to you daily.
- Technology Innovation
- 20/08/2026
- 20:08
Packaging Redesigns See 4% Average Volume Lift, NIQ Finds
Liquid I.V., Hostess, Back to Nature, and five other brands named 2026 NIQ Design Impact Award winners CHICAGO–BUSINESS WIRE– NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ), a global…
- Contains:
- Technology Innovation
- 20/08/2026
- 20:07
NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks Sign Global Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Secure AI Transformation
First-of-its-kind global alliance combines AI-powered security innovation with enterprise-scale consulting and managed services Helps organizations navigate Frontier AI with integrated governance, threat intelligence and…
- Contains:
- Medical Health Aged Care
- 20/08/2026
- 19:27
Dementia Australia welcomes extension of Commonwealth Home Support Program
Dementia Australia welcomes the Federal Government’s decision to extend the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) until 30 June 2029. Dementia Australia Chief Executive Officer Professor Tanya Buchanan said she welcomes the much-needed certainty the extension will bring to people living with dementia, their families and carers. “With two in three people with dementia living in the community, it is vital we get care at home right,” Professor Buchanan said. “The Commonwealth Home Support Program provides important supports like cleaning, shopping, meals on wheels, transport, home maintenance, respite, social support and allied health. “I am pleased people living with dementia, their…
- Contains:
- Business Finance
- 20/08/2026
- 18:07
Omdia: Foldable smartphone shipments will double to 36 million units by 2028.
LONDON–BUSINESS WIRE– The foldable smartphone market is expected to grow by more than 20% annually through 2028, with shipments reaching 36 million units, as…
- Contains:
- Travel Tourism
- 20/08/2026
- 17:33
Fiji has got its Tourism Services Tax wrong
Key Facts: The Australian Travel Industry Association (ATIA) has criticised the Fijian Government's new Tourism Services Tax, arguing it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of…
- Contains:
- Business Finance
- 20/08/2026
- 17:08
BOCHK and Ant International Forge Strategic Partnership to Enhance Cross-border Payment Connectivity and Innovative Corporate Financial Service Solutions Through Fintech
HONG KONG–BUSINESS WIRE– Ant International and Bank of China (Hong Kong) (“BOCHK”) announced that the two parties have forged a strategic partnership. Leveraging BOCHK’s…
- Contains:
- Finance Investment, Government VIC
- 20/08/2026
- 16:51
Jobless rate highlights need for Working from Home bill rethink
Today’s unemployment data is further evidence of the need to reassess the WorkFromHome legislation,according to the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The billmaybedebatedand passed through the Victorian Parliament's Legislative Council as early as next week. Victoria's unemployment, at 5.1 per cent,remainsat the highest level nationally coupled with the highest levels of underemployment. Most concerningly Victoria's youth unemployment rate sits at an eye-watering 13.2 per cent in contrast with New South Wales's comparatively enviable 8.5 per cent. Now is not the time tosaddleVictorian employerswithlegislation that will make things even tougher. Employers have choices, about where they set up a business,…
- General News
- 20/08/2026
- 16:48
RETAILERS APPLAUD PUSH FROM NSW PARLIAMENT TO COMBAT ILLICIT TOBACCO WITH EXCISE CUT
The Australian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) has welcomed the NSW Legislative Council’s final report into the illegal tobacco trade, which calls for an immediate reduction to the excise rate to 2019 levels. The report found that the increasing tobacco excise has been a major factor in the “dramatic expansion” of Australia’s tobacco black market in Australia and calls on the NSW Government to ask its Commonwealth counterpart to act now. AACS CEO Theo Foukkare said the recommendations from the NSW Legislative Council should not go ignored. “Every day the chorus of calls for a real solution to the illicit…
- Contains:
- Culturally and linguistically diverse, Immigration
- 20/08/2026
- 16:33
Public hearings continue for inquiry into the value of skilled migration
The Joint Standing Committee on Migration will be holding public hearings in Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast in the coming days for its inquiry into the value of skilled migration to Australia. These build on public hearings already held in Canberra, Adelaide, and Sydney earlier this year. The committee will hear more perspectives from stakeholders involved in the migration system, including industry associations, migration agents and lawyers, academics, migrant support and community services, and vocational education providers. In Melbourne, the committee’s focus will be on the business and technology sectors, and migration agents, legal and settlement services. Moving to…
Media Outreach made fast, easy, simple.
Feature your press release on Medianet's News Hub every time you distribute with Medianet. Pay per release or save with a subscription.