Well this is a great way of showing how inflated Sydney's property market is.

You have to travel 24km from the city's CBD to find a suburb where the median house price is below $1 million.

That's according to the latest data from Domain's House Price Report, which identifies Girraween, west of Parramatta, as one that hasn't yet reached that significant milestone.

Last week Aldi said it was once again crowned Australia's best supermarket thanks to their ability to "fine-tune even the smallest of details".

But what are those smallest of details? Well the budget supermarket has revealed what three of those are.

An Aldi spokesperson told Yahoo Finance the following tricks meant it was able to keep its prices cheaper than its rivals.

1. Trolley system

“To grab a trolley, you pop in a gold coin or one of our famous trolley tokens,” the spokesperson said.

“This simple system encourages shoppers to return their trolleys so fewer replacements are needed and the team spend less time collecting them.”

2. Store layout

“Every store is designed around the same familiar layout – about half the size of other supermarkets. That means lower overheads and a smoother shopping experience,” the spokesperson said.

3. Streamlined checkout process

“You’ll also notice clever touches like digital price tags, oversized barcodes that make checkout faster, and packing benches so you can bag your groceries your way,” the spokesperson said.

Spanish authorities are desperately trying to contain 20 major wildfires across the country amid yet another heatwave for Europe's summer.

The country's military emergency unit has sent out 500 personnel to assist firefighters as blazes forced the closure of roads and rail services.

Southern Europe is experiencing one of its worst wildfire seasons in two decades, with Spain among the hardest-hit countries and has recorded three fatalities.

The country has more than doubled the number of wildfires it typically faces each year for 2025.

Temperatures again soared beyond 44C over the weekend.

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First it was Qantas and now Google.

The internet giant looks set to be the second major company to cop a huge fine in Australia today, after Qantas was fined $90 million for illegally sacking staff in the pandemic.

Google could pay a $55 million fine after signing anti-competitive deals with Australia's two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines on some smartphones.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched proceedings against the US technology firm in Federal Court on Monday over the behaviour, which Google has admitted.

The court will be asked to determine if the $55 million penalty agreed by both parties is appropriate.

The legal action follows court-enforceable undertakings from Telstra, Optus and TPG in 2024 to refrain from renewing or making similar deals with Google to limit search services.

The anti-competitive deals, in place between December 2019 and March 2021, required Telstra and Optus to pre-install Google's Search app on Android smartphones and to exclude competing search services from the devices.

In exchange, the telcos received a share of revenue from advertisements shown alongside Google's search results on the phones.

The deals struck by the technology companies unfairly restricted consumers' access to search engine options, commission chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said.

"Conduct that restricts competition is illegal in Australia because it usually means less choice, higher costs or worse service for consumers," she said.

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Well its set to be a pretty miserable week if you're in Sydney.

Millions in NSW's capital will receive at least 20mm a day until Thursday. It's part of a huge rain system on the east coast that will also bring up to 55mm for Brisbane later in the week. At the Queensland-NSW border, a two-day total from Wednesday could top 100mm.

And spare a thought for those in Thredbo, with the ski town recording NSW's coldest temperature in seven years overnight with -13.2C.

There were cold temperatures right across the country, with even the Northern Territory's Alice Springs dropping as low as 1.4C.

Weatherzone explains its all due to a very dry polar airmass sitting over southeastern Australia.

In news just in, Qantas has copped a $90 million fine for illegally sacking 1,800 workers during the Covid pandemic.

The Transport Workers Union had sought the maximum penalty of $121 million, while Qantas urged Justice Michael Lee to impose a "mid-range" penalty between $40 million and $80 million.

The Federal Court judge cited the "sheer scale of the contraventions, being the largest of their type" as a reason to impose a penalty that would deter other businesses from similar conduct.

He ordered Qantas to pay $90 million in penalties, $50 million of which is to be paid directly to the union that brought the proceedings and highlighted the illegal conduct.

"To deprive someone of work illegally is to deprive someone of an aspect of their human dignity, and this is not assuaged simply by expressions of regret," Justice Lee said.

He was scathing about the embattled airline's conduct after the outsourcing, pointing to efforts to place a "less than candid" picture of the outsourcing decision before the court.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is warning there is no quick fix for productivity as the government is set to commence its much-hyped round table.

"Productivity has been elusive over the last couple of decade, but it will be essential to the couple of decades ahead. That's what motivates and drives us in this economic reform round table," he told reporters on Monday.

"This productivity challenge has been bedevilling our economy for a couple of decades. The weakest decade for productivity growth in the last 60 years was the Coalition decade. That is the situation we inherited. It will take some time to turn around.

"We have a lot of work to do."

A self-described "boring guy" headed straight to Google after landing $1.6 million as one of four division one winners in the Saturday Lotto.

The Armidale father went through all the questions in his head via the search engine, admitting he was unable to sleep after the huge win.

“It’s all a bit surreal. When I checked my ticket on my online account, my first reaction was ‘Holy dooly!’. It was crazy to see right in front of me," he told lottery officials.

“A thousand thoughts started going through my mind. I was wondering whether it was real or not, and what I needed to do now."

European and NATO leaders announced they will join Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House to present a united front in talks with Donald Trump on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Leaders from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Finland are rallying around the Ukrainian president after his exclusion from Trump’s summit on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Their pledge to be at Zelensky’s side at the White House on Monday is an apparent effort to ensure the meeting goes better than the last one in February, when Trump berated Zelenskyy in a heated Oval Office encounter.

“The Europeans are very afraid of the Oval Office scene being repeated and so they want to support Mr Zelensky to the hilt,” said retired French Gen. Dominique Trinquand, a former head of France’s military mission at the United Nations.

“It’s a power struggle and a position of strength that might work with Trump,” he said.

Read more from Associated Press here.

Sydney has been plunged into traffic chaos after a five-vehicle crash on the Anzac Bridge, with cars backed all the way up to Leichhardt.

The crash happened in the eastbound lanes about 6.30am on Monday.

Live traffic cameras show three of the four eastbound lanes are blocked, and the gridlock stretches back almost 3km down the A44.

The right-hand westbound lane is also blocked by emergency response vehicles.

An Ambulance NSW spokesman said five vehicles were involved in the crash; three cars, a motorbike and a truck.

All people who needed to be checked by paramedics had minor injuries, the spokesman said.

The male motorbike rider was still however taken to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Images show at least four police vehicles and two road crews are on scene. A damaged dark-coloured sedan stopped sideways across two lanes was put onto a tow truck about 7am.

There is also a cement truck which appears to have been involved in the crash.

Live Traffic NSW are advising motorists to slow down to 40km/h and plan for their commute to take extra time.

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Australia's largest airline is staring down the barrel of another nine-figure fine for illegally sacking more than 1800 workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Federal Court will hand down a hefty penalty to Qantas on Monday in what will be the latest court blow for the airline after a scandal-plagued recent tenure.

Qantas outsourced its baggage handlers, cleaners and ground staff in 2020, in a move the court ruled was designed to curb union bargaining power in wage negotiations.

It appealed the ruling to the High Court but the decision was not overturned, paving the way for Monday's penalty.

The Transport Workers Union has sought the maximum penalty of $121 million, while Qantas has urged Justice Michael Lee to impose a "mid-range" penalty between $40 million and $80 million.

Qantas will cop the fine on top of a $120 million compensation payment it has made to the ground staff for their economic loss, pain and suffering since their jobs were outsourced during the pandemic.

It has argued the actions were a mistake, not a deliberate breach of the law.

Qantas also sold tickets to cancelled flights for several years, triggering more legal turmoil and a $100 million fine after it was sued by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

The carrier, which was under the control of Alan Joyce at the time of the illegal sacking, lost billions of dollars during the pandemic, which decimated the aviation sector.

But the former CEO did not address the scandal when he spoke at an aviation conference on Thursday, instead spruiking his ability to keep the airline afloat in unprecedented times.

"But here's the real insight: resilience isn't a reaction … it's a decision made years in advance, often when it's uncomfortable, even unpopular," he said.

"Qantas was the only major Australian airline not to go bankrupt during or after the pandemic … that wasn't luck. That was resilience."