Your kids can still meet Santa this Christmas - but it will cost you $200!

Relevant: Woman left shocked as Woolworths pays her entire shopping bill at the checkout! A 2019 Reserve Bank of Australia survey showed that close to 70 per cent of purchases across the country were cashless, as Australian shoppers become accustomed to the ease and speed of tap payments. According to Yahoo News, the three Woolworths stores impacted by the change will be Rosebery in Sydney and Caulfield North and Yarraville in Melbourne.

Relevant: Kmart Australia clearance sale: Containers slashed to $1 and more As a result, loyal local shoppers and members of staff are devastated by the sudden shut-down, set to take place in only four days. Speaking to 7News, Kmart expressed its disappointment: “We’ve been in discussion with the landlord for some time trying to renegotiate an extended lease and we’re sad to hear that the landlord had signed a new tenant to take over this space yesterday,” a Kmart spokesperson explained.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIain Canning and Emile Sherman’s See-Saw Films has teamed up with three-time Australian Writers Guild award-winner Samantha Strauss to set up a joint venture production company. Picking Scabs will be based in Australia and develop projects for Strauss to write and produce with See-Saw Films in both Australia and worldwide.See-Saw and Strauss recently worked together on dark comedy series “The End,” which Strauss created and wrote.

Middle East on drug charges, have raised more than £12,000 to support his family.We told how Lothian man Conor Howard, known to pals as 'Milky', had been arrested in Corfu when flying over to visit his mum in August.He had been arrested on an Interpol notice after Qatar authorities say they found drugs on the 27-year-old when passing through the Middle Eastern state last October on the way back from a work trip to Australia.His devastated friends and family say a clean cannabis grinder was found

Director Baz Luhrmann has announced several prominent Australian stars will join the cast of his Elvis Presley biopic.

Related: Are you drinking more in lockdown? 40 per cent of Australians are! Exercising makes nerve cells in the brain more active and increases dopamine levels – a ‘chemical messenger’ within the body that helps our brains to think and plan. The study, which was carried out in Jonkoping and Linkoping universities in Sweden, also found that the brain had increased levels of a protein called 'brain-derived neurotrophic factor' after a short burst of moderate exercise.

Audenshaw and now lives in Australia with her girlfriend, now makes between £10,000 and £15,000 a month via the site, which has over 13 million subscribers.She says she finds her work 'empowering' - and has made so much money on the site she has decided to travel the world, which is how she ended up in Australia.She told us: "I got the idea because my friend introduced me to it."As soon as she explained the job role it felt like second nature to me because I had previously done two seasons in

animals. Unlike a lot of young people, she shares it with one of the planet's most cuddly — koalas.“It’s hard to explain,” she says from her home in Australia.

The last two journalists working for Australian media in China have left the country after police demanded interviews with them and temporarily blocked their departures, the Australian government and their employers said Tuesday. Australian Broadcasting Corp.’s Bill Birtles and The Australian Financial Review’s Michael Smith landed in Sydney after flying from Shanghai on Monday night, both news outlets reported.