You don’t go into public service work for the money.

Matt Sembach and Malissa Williams worked as a public defender and a nurse, respectively — careers that require years of schooling.

They’re passionate about their jobs in the public sector, and the promise of student-loan forgiveness was an added bonus.

“I felt compelled to serve the public,” Sembach told Business Insider. “I worked long hours with a ton of stress to ensure that my clients received not only adequate representation, but superb representation, because I knew that their lives were on the line and it was important to them. So it was important to me.”

Both Sembach and Williams hold 6-figure student-loan balances from their educations. They’re…

“You saw signs with the Reserve Bank statement earlier this week around cutting interest rates again … It does help to sort of ease some of the cost-of-living pressures for households,” Kiernan said.

“But housing is still unaffordable, house prices are still relatively high, and rental yields don’t look great from an investor point of view. So it’s hard to see a lot of demand coming back into the housing market, and therefore the construction and residential construction industry, any time soon.

“But I think the key for me is, until you see the labour market starting to turn around, households are still going to be pretty cautious in terms of their spending – because that sort of job and income security isn’t in a…

Acropolis Greek Taverna in London Road, Headington is bustling with life and “committed” to entertaining its customers, the restaurant owner has said.

Owner Ammena Abdu said: “Acropolis Greek Taverna is open as usual and has no plans to close.

“We remain committed to serving our customers in Headington.”

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This is despite concerns raised about the business after it was subject to a winding up order and essentially closed by the courts. 

AF Oxford Limited, the company which formerly owned the restaurant, was wound up by the Business and Property Courts in Manchester and shut down in an order filed on May 13. 

The restaurant was closed…

This week’s TGIF examines the recent decision of the Federal Court in Reid, in the matter of Kununurra Panel Beating Works (Holdings) Pty Ltd Ltd (in liq) [2025] FCA 593 (Kununurra). In providing a helpful summary of the principles applicable to applications for pooling orders, the Court has also indicated that the traditionally broad scope of section 90-15 of the Insolvency Practice Schedule (Corporations) (IPSC) is not without its limitations.