Woolworths boss Brad Banducci has defended the amount of food the supermarket giant rejects with a top executive saying no one wants a banana that is "too big", a South Australian parliamentary inquiry has heard.

Woolworths boss Brad Banducci has defended the amount of food the supermarket giant rejects with a top executive saying no one wants a banana that is "too big", a South Australian parliamentary inquiry has heard.

False documentation might be one of the oldest scams in the book but scammers are now able to fake being a company more easily — and Australians are falling for it.

Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick says cost-of-living relief is one of the reasons the state is forecast to fall billions of dollars into deficit. Economists say there could be three reasons for it.

The recovery from the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse reached a significant milestone as tugboats escorted the ill-fated container ship Dali back to port.