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Age diet piece leaves a bad taste, Comic relief in Woolies docs, and Seven learns a Nazi lesson

Dumpster diving: In case you missed it, there’s a court case going on involving Woolworths and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. As Guardian Australia reported on Tuesday, the trial’s second week heard evidence that “the supermarket broke its own rules intended to prevent pricing manipulation”, as the grocery giant’s commercial pricing manager acknowledged under cross-examination.

That hearing was marked by a mega-dump of documents from the case posted to the Federal Court’s website. Sensing there may be truffles in there, Cochon went digging.

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Another RBA rate rise won’t fix inflation – it will just smash households already hit by soaring fuel costs | Greg Jericho

The latest ABS consumer price index figures show just how pointless hiking interest rates would be at dealing with inflation. But raising rates is baked into the Reserve Bank’s DNA

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With the release of the March inflation figures on Tuesday showing a big jump, the likelihood of a rate rise next week has become all but certain. Admittedly it was all but certain before the release of the figures, because the Reserve Bank is determined to smash households even though the cause of inflation is overwhelmingly due to international events.

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