Cobargo has a new location to return and earn with the opening of a Return and Earn machine at the Cobargo Hotel. Bega Valley Shire residents are already enthusiastic recyclers, having returned over 43 million bottles and cans for recycling since Return and Earn launched in December 2017. “The community is helping reduce litter and…
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DoorDash and Wing Announce Pilot Program
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DoorDash and Wing have developed the capability to make drone delivery available via the DoorDash app in Australia, delivering convenient access to food and essentials from local restaurants and retailers in 15 minutes or less. Launching this week the service will be tested via a pilot program in Logan, located within the booming South East…
Australia Post Spread the Merry campaign
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Australia Post is taking its annual Spread the Merry campaign to new heights this year with a continued focus on delivering joy and creating connection. The new campaign, created by The Monkeys, tells the story of an inflatable Santa who has been blown away from his home on a suburban lawn and is off on…
ACT Government Releases Best Start strategy
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The ACT Government is committed to working with service providers and community partners to ensure every child in Canberra can reach their full potential. The Best Start for Canberra’s Children: The First 1000 Days Strategy (Best Start), released recently, sets out the ACT Government’s vision for working with community and service partners to ensure early…
SBS Announces Anthology Series Erotic Stories for 2023
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SBS and Screen Australia have announced a new eight-part Australian drama anthology for 2023 – Erotic Stories. The anthology is a series of standalone contemporary tales about lust, desire, and longing, but with an SBS twist. Each story explores desire from a different character perspective and spotlights diverse experiences of sex and intimacy across age,…
Brownlow Medalist Peter Cripps Partners with Coles this Movember
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Coles is harnessing the power of the Mo this Movember, with a bristly range of limited-edition products that make it easy for customers to do good for men’s health. In Australia, three out of four of suicides are men, one in five men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, and testicular cancer…
Remember those Christmas Delivery Deadlines
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With Christmas approaching, Australia Post is encouraging people to get cracking on Christmas shopping, announcing the all-important last sending dates for delivery within Australia. Australia Post Executive General Manager, Customer and Commercial Gary Starr explained that for sending to and from most destinations within Australia via Parcel Post, parcels should be sent by Monday 12…
Six 1930s Australian Pennies Headed to Auction
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Six 1930s Australian pennies have come to auction following one being sold unreserved last month breaking an Australian record selling for $60,000 in an online auction. “Following the news of the penny breaking a record at Lloyds Auctions, people were flooding our phones in hopes they had one of these rare pennies, and from this…
Guide Dog Graduates
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Vision Australia will recognise eight handlers and Seeing Eye Dogs who have been successfully paired this year at its annual graduation on Wednesday, October 12. Held in the lead-up to World Sight Day, the Queensland Parliament event celebrates the life-changing bond of assistance animals and people who are blind or low vision. “Training can take…
Coles Product Price Lockdown
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With the cost-of-living pressures on the rise, Coles has launched ‘DROPPED&LOCKED’, working with suppliers to drop and lock in the price on products Aussies love the most by between 10 and 40%. Coles Chief Executive of Commercial and Express Leah Weckert said Coles is committed to helping customers find key staple products that will be…