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Stallholders at Her Wardrobe Market at Mount Gravatt were moved on by police on Sunday, April 12.

Police called to second-hand market, showground accuses organiser of trespass

Officers told stallholders at the Her Wardrobe market at Mount Gravatt Showgrounds they had to move on or face “further actions” on Sunday.

  • Brittney Deguara and Julius Dennis

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Omer Tas, founder of Sydney laundromat chain Stacks Laundry, in the Harris Park store.

Gold coin rush: How TikTok spun the passive income dream of the luxe laundromat

The business of the humble spin-dry has caught the attention of entrepreneurs and private equity investors. Is it fool’s gold?

  • Jessica Yun
Krazy Dessert Hamilton has won the right to reopen.

Dessert and cocktail bar wins temporary injunction against eviction by developer

Works by the developer to prepare the site for demolition continued on Friday.

  • William Davis and Dominique Tassell
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in his formal address to the nation about the ongoing fallout from the conflict in Iran.

Albanese calls for calm as world sits on edge of grim economic future

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will on Thursday pledge $1 billion for interest-free loans for struggling businesses.

  • Paul Sakkal and James Massola
The Painted Teapot owner Kalpanie Fernando.

The everyday West Australians turning to craft to tune out

Everyday West Australians are ditching the doomscroll for arts and crafts in a bid to tune out from the online world.

  • Indigo Lemay Conway
Ben’s Restaurant has been an institution for many years.

Beloved decades-old karaoke restaurant closes suddenly

The inner-city restaurant closed unexpectedly, announcing the news online and taping a sign to its front door.

  • Dominique Tassell
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ACCC deputy chair Mick Keogh.

‘Like an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff’: ACCC cracks down on bad franchises

The competition watchdog is flexing its policing powers over the franchising sector – but has warned prospective franchisees to do their homework.

  • Jessica Yun
Hailey Bieber is now the proud owner of a Gold Coast diamond cleaning wand called Dr Diamond.

Layla gifted Hailey Bieber her diamond cleaning stick. Then she quit her job

A chance encounter with Bieber saw sales of this Gold Coast-made product soar 3000 per cent in a week – and the model hadn’t even endorsed it.

  • Brittney Deguara
James Estephan at his newly opened Char’d Lebanese chicken shop in Belfield, Sydney.

El Jannah’s cousin has entered Sydney’s chicken shop wars

James Estephan’s chicken shop chain Char’d will be compared to El Jannah either way – so he’s leaning into it.

  • Jessica Yun
Renee Woolnough left her job in corrections to open up Brisbane’s first romance bookshop.

Why Renee walked away from her job to open Brisbane’s first romance bookshop

“It was getting too much and I was burning out and I’m like, ‘my life is too short’.”

  • Dominique Tassell