Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that over the year to December, wages grew by 3.4 per cent. For households, however, the number that really matters is what happened to wages after inflation.
Over the same period, the consumer price index (CPI) rose by 3.8 per cent. This means real wages (wages after accounting for inflation) actually went backwards.
A neighbor who tried to stop a deranged son from stabbing his mother to death was chased to his door where the manic tried to break it down.
Aleksandr Aleksand Shablykin, 32, killed his mother Zoya, 52, then went on a rampage down her quiet street, where he murdered three of her neighbors.
The NHS is 'not working' for women and babies as it unforgivably makes the same maternity mistakes, a Government-ordered investigation has warned.
Families face a 'postcode lottery' of care with many tragically let down in pregnancy and labour by hospitals that have failed to learn from countless reviews, it adds.
Post Office branch closures will not go ahead after ministers backtracked on plans to scrap the minimum requirement.
The state-owned company will keep all of its 11,500 branches open in the UK after threats to close them by the Government.
Labour's Chagos surrender descended into farce as a minister admitted it was on hold before he was slapped down by his own department.
Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer twice assured the Commons that the Government was 'pausing' Parliament's consideration of its controversial deal to hand the British overseas territory to China ally Mauritius.
Anthony Albanese is under more heavy fire after he issued a terse one-word answer to a question about child sexual abuse survivor and former Australian of the Year Grace Tame.
Albanese took part in a rapid-fire Q and A at the Future Victoria summit on Wednesday night, where he was asked to reply with one-word answers.
A woman and a man have been arrested on suspicion of murder more than two decades after a 25-year-old 'vanished from a party' in Northern Ireland.
Lisa Dorrian disappeared on the night of February 27, 2005, from an event in Ballyhalbert Caravan Park in County Down and detectives believe she was murdered shortly afterwards.
Popular Australian retail chain Glue will be wound down and sold by footwear and fashion giant Accent Group, in shock news for devastated fans.
The company announced all 16 stores would be closed by the end of the 2026 financial year in a trading update on Thursday.
The woman accused of kidnapping an adorable two-year-old girl from her parents in Arizona offered a bizarre explanation for the abduction, police have said.
Marina Noriega, 23, allegedly took Kehlani Rogers from her home near 118th Avenue and Edgemont Street in Avondale - about 19 miles east of Phoenix - last Friday around 11:30pm.
Houston city officials are moving forward with plans to build a $16 million 'superhub' for the homeless population, but residents are skeptical.
The Houston City Council approved the initiative in October, despite pushback from residents who said the community was not involved in the decision-making process and that they were concerned about their safety.
Police have apologised to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle for revealing to Lord Mandelson that he was the source of a tip-off that triggered the peer's arrest.
Detectives were expected to meet the Speaker after he revealed to MPs that he had passed on a claim that the New Labour architect might flee to the British Virgin islands amid an investigation into his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
A 21-year-old tree surgeon and father has been left paralyzed after a falling tree branch crushed his neck in a devastating workplace accident.
Evan Parker was working on a tree in Lawrenceville, Georgia, on Friday when a dead limb suddenly snapped and struck him in the head, family members said.
