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Old Australian $2 notes on a table

$1 and $2 notes worth big money

Australian $1 and $2 paper notes are popping up online for sale for more than 1000 times their old value. Discover the special feature that makes them worth a bundle today

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The Royal Australian Mint has released Bluey dollars.

Bluey $1 coins go gangbusters

Let’s hope the Heeler family put aside a set of commemorative coins for Bluey, as the Royal Australian Mint’s limited edition $1 coins sell out and buyers with big bucks go bonkers on eBay

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2/6/24. Three Adelaide Hills students invented a new card game, SWIPEE when they were in yr5, now in yr7 they have just signed a global distribution agreement for their game to be sold world wide with the Fantastic Factory - Ben Logan, Sam Hawkes and Jacob Brumby (all 12yrs old). 
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Aussie kids go global with card game

It was created in their classroom and now these three 12-year-old Australian friends can’t believe how successful their Swipee card game has become as it starts selling around the world

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 30: People react moments after news that former U.S. President Donald Trump was found guilty in his trial on hush-money payments in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. The former president was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial.   Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Guilty: Can Donald Trump still run?

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has been found guilty of falsifying business records and still faces other charges – so can he still run for re-election on Nov 5? The answer may surprise you

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The Lexus Melbourne Cup trophy with successful 2024 Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour representative and Hall of Fame basketball player Chris Anstey and jockey Will Price in Trentham. Picture: Jay Town

Melbourne Cup kicks off epic tour

The Melbourne Cup is on the move, taking in capital cities and country towns across the nation as well as eight overseas destinations, with $50,000 for an Australian charity up for grabs

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The galleon San Jose

Biggest treasure in human history

Mystery surrounds the final fate of the San José, as suspicions and rumours swirl around one nation amid multiple claims on the shipwreck, long rumoured to hold billions in sunken treasure

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Mark Knight cartoon for Herald Sun, May 14, 2024

Budget inspires cartoon bonanza

Treasurer Jim Chalmers had his work cut out delivering this week’s federal budget while attempting to win the hearts of voters and big business, as captured in Knight’s three-part series

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Mark Knight cartoon on increased HECS debt

HECS debt deadweight for grads

Burdened by HECS debt, today’s university graduates find their dreams of financial freedom chained to a huge debt ball right at the beginning of their adult careers, says cartoonist Mark Knight

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Keegan Payne with his million dollar barra. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Teen goes fishing, catches $1 mill

Fishermen young and old aren’t shy of exaggerating the size of their catch but NT teenager Keegan Payne has just won serious bragging rights after bagging a barramundi worth a million bucks

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DAILY TELEGRAPH MARCH 20, 2024. Young athletes from left James Mikan, U13s National Record Holder, Caitlin Probets  ALAC NSW Captain 2023 and National Champion for 80m Hurdles and Alexander Evans, MultiClass (wheelchair), National Champion 100m, 200m and State Medallist in Discus, at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Track. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Podium payday for Olympic gold

The Olympics has long been considered an amateur competition, where even pro-athletes do not get paid, but a new move from World Athletics could change that level playing field forever

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Ruby McLellan, pictured in 2024, is an 8-year-old property investor. Her dad Cam, pictured, helped set up a trust that allows her to purchase homes. Source: Supplied. NSW real estate.

Eight-year-old Aussie buys home

Meet Ruby McLellan, Australia’s pint-sized property investor, who along with her brother and sister turned pocket money into a house deposit – how did she do it?

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Mark Knight cartoon on new naval deal

Navy flying high after dizzying win

Cartoonist Mark Knight says Royal Australian Navy’s heart will go on after big spending promises from the Albanese Government bring the prospect of better defence capacity and brand new toys

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James Magnussen of Australia after swimming in the Mens 50m Freestyle Final on day six of swimming competition at the XXI Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast Aquatic Centre on the Gold Coast, Australia, Tuesday, April 10, 2018. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

James Magnussen signs up for Enhanced Games

James Magnussen is the first high-profile Australian athlete to accept an invitation to the ‘Enhanced Games’, an event designed to test performance enhancing drugs and help billionaires fight ageing

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Mark Knight for Herald Sun, December 14

No Christmas cheer for taxpayers

Christmas is meant to be a time of giving, but as cartoonist Mark Knight points out in his satirical depiction of the federal treasurer, the government seems to have other ideas