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Jim Chalmers takes on producers to ensure supply

Jim Chalmers takes on producers to ensure supply

The ACCC report warns of a significant domestic gas shortfall next year unless the LNG producers redirect some of the uncontracted gas to the local market.

(It marks a turnaround from the ACCC’s February assessment that the gas market would be in domestic surplus next year.)

The LNG producers say there is more than enough gas to supply the shortfall identified in the ACCC’s Monday report – effectively disputing there is a looming crisis.

The existing mechanism that outlines the way producers satisfy the government’s heads of agreement with producers to support domestic supply is referred to as a “gentleman’s agreement”.

However, it seems the government is skeptical of the gas industry’s willingness to honor it and can’t afford the risk to industry and consumers if it is not.

The ACCC’s report is clearly suggesting the behavior of some gas companies amounts to not playing cricket.

“There remain instances where some suppliers are not engaging with the domestic market in ways that are likely to result in supply agreements being reached and market conditions improving,” the ACCC wrote.

That includes offering uncontracted gas to domestic users at prices above the international market.

Invoking the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism, or even threatening to do so, enables the government to flex it muscles on gas supply, but it doesn’t address the issue of price, according to a large group of industrial customers who lobby under the banner of the Energy Users’ Association of Australia.

Presumably, there would be little argument from the LNG industry over selling more product into Australia if the price was comparable to that being paid in the booming international spot market.

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But domestic users don’t have the stomach to pay the elevated international spot prices that are running as high as $US40 ($57) per MMBtu.

In Australia, 90 per cent of domestic customers are contracted and currently paying a fraction of that.

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Flight attendant reveals why they won’t stow passengers’ carry-on bags

Flight attendant reveals why they won't stow passengers' carry-on bags

A flight attendant has revealed the “real” reason cabin crew won’t stow passengers’ carry-on bags for them – and it’s left many online users fired up.

If you have recently been on a plane and noticed flight attendants don’t offer to place your suitcase or backpack into the overhead locker, there’s a reason.

According to US flight attendant Cierra, none of the crew get paid while passengers are boarding.

“We actually don’t start to get paid until the moment that airplane door shuts and the handbrake gets lifted,” she said in a viral TikTok.

“On top of that, if it’s because you’re having trouble lifting it, you can easily get your packed [luggage] checked at the gate for free.”

Cierra’s clip, which has amassed almost one million views, has left hundreds shocked.

“Think it’s ridiculous that you don’t get paid until the door shuts. Should be as soon as you enter the airport,” one person wrote.

“It’s ridiculous that you don’t get paid until the doors close,” a second person agreed.

Some claimed that with the current global chaos surrounding airports, airlines and lost baggage, they would rather not have their bags checked in, while others didn’t take lightly to Cierra’s clip.

“OK asking for help to lift a bag shouldn’t ruin your day if someone is asking kindly. There’s plenty of people too short to reach the cabins up top,” one person commented.

“So you’re not gonna help someone with a simple thing like their bags because you’re not getting paid? Seems a little messed up – it’s not that big of a deal,” a second person wrote, while a third added: “Last time I went on a plane they announced if you need help putting luggage overhead just ask since it’s just common courtesy to help people.”

While the rules vary for different airlines, some can have policies preventing flight attendants from lifting passengers’ suitcases, according to the travel brand Matador Network.

Flight attendant Jamela Hardwick told Insider why she won’t help passengers with their luggage.

She explained that it not only comes down to pay, but if they get injured while performing the act, they’re not covered.

“We do not get paid until the boarding door is closed,” she said. “If we get hurt while putting that bag in the overhead bin, we do not get to write it off as an on-job injury.”

Kat Kamalani, a flight attendant for more than six years, said while it is “crazy” it is true that it’s not their job to lift luggage into the overhead lockers.

“A tonne of airlines tell (flight attendants) not to do this because there are so many injuries with it, so if we get injured it’s not even covered,” she said in a TikTok. But she said while the flight crew won’t stow the luggage for you, if you ask for help while you put your luggage in the overhead compartment, they will gladly give it.

“Ask the flight attendant to assist you and they will totally help you put it up there.”

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American woman living in Sydney reveals she NEVER uses handbrake when parking

The American driver known as Brit made the surprising claim in a now viral TikTok, and admitted she was shocked Sydney motorists relied on the brake so heavily

American woman living in Sydney is left baffled by the seemingly obvious action Aussies use to park a car – and she can’t believe we do it every time

  • US woman living in Sydney said she never puts on her car’s handbrake
  • She asked if other Americans did, noticing that most Aussies used the brake
  • TikTok commenters came out in force asking how she got her driver’s license
  • While others were amazed,’the car literally rolls away if we don’t use the brake’

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A US woman living in Australia has revealed she never puts the handbrake on when she parks her car.

The American driver known as Brit made the surprising claim in a now viral TikTok, and admitted she was shocked Sydney motorists relied on the brake so heavily.

‘If you’re American, do you use the parking brake when you drive? Or when you park, I suppose?’ she said in the video.

‘Because I’ve never used one in my entire life. But I think everyone uses them in Australia.

The American driver known as Brit made the surprising claim in a now viral TikTok, and admitted she was shocked Sydney motorists relied on the brake so heavily

The American driver known as Brit made the surprising claim in a now viral TikTok, and admitted she was shocked Sydney motorists relied on the brake so heavily

‘And my boyfriend asks me to drive and I have to look at it and say ”Is it on? I don’t know”.’

She captioned the video: ‘They’re so safe here I love it’ but copped an onslaught of criticism from fellow TikTokkers.

‘How did you get a license to drive here? Handbrake use is in the driving test, you either get ticked or failed on it,’ one commenter said.

‘The car literally rolls away if we don’t,’ said another.

‘Yeah if you want to find your car where you left it,’ someone added.

Another said they were ‘flabbergasted’ every time they heard an American person say they don’t use a handbrake.

Brit later clarified that cars ‘are not just rolling away’ in the US, and said the parking brake was only used if the driver stopped on a hill.

She added once the car is put in park, it didn’t need the handbrake on.

‘When you put it in park, you can lean on it, you can push it, it doesn’t roll anywhere,’ she said in another video.

‘We don’t need to put the parking brake on unless you’re on a really steep hill – that’s what we’re taught.’

But many were still unconvinced.

‘Using the park break not only is a failsafe it’s to take away stress and strain from your gearbox/transmission,’ one commented.

‘My sister literally got run over by her own car. It was parked without the hand brake on,’ said another.

'Using the park break not only is a failsafe it's to take away stress and strain from your gearbox/transmission,' the man wrote on her TikTok post

‘Using the park break not only is a failsafe it’s to take away stress and strain from your gearbox/transmission,’ the man wrote on her TikTok post

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Phil Ruthven, the business futurist Kerry Packer turned to, dies at 82

Phil Ruthven, the business futurist Kerry Packer turned to, dies at 82

“Phil Ruthven had a great vision for the future of Australian business based on facts and research,” he said. “We will miss his advice and counsel from him.”

Ruthven was ubiquitous in the 1980s, when for a time he was Australia’s highest-paid professional speaker, in part because he used his grasp of statistics and macroeconomic trends to customize every address.

When Packer had $805 million to play with after selling his television interests to Alan Bond in 1987, it was to Ruthven and IBISWorld that he went for advice.

The forecaster was instrumental in Packer’s decision to expand his pastoral holdings with an emphasis on cotton, cattle and wool, to the extent he became Australia’s second-largest landowner.

“Agriculture is going through a fascinating watershed which is going to see that industry be reborn,” Ruthven told The Australian Financial Review reporter Martin Peers at the time.

“It’s one of the most underrated industries in Australia.”

Asset sales from Packer’s Consolidated Pastoral ended up helping heir James survive the global credit crunch of 2009.

Born and raised in Sydney’s Baulkham Hills, Ruthven moved to Melbourne in the late 1960s.

The first decade of his career was spent in the food industry, but it was while running an Edgells’ factory in 1967 that Ruthven went on a Rotary study exchange to the US which inspired him to change course.

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He visited a “war room”, a concrete bunker beneath an airport tarmac in Oklahoma, and was amazed by the amount of nonsense information being sourced to aid the American cause in Vietnam.

“It was like something out of Dr Strangelove, it blew my mind,” Ruthven told The Age in 2014.

“I thought, one day, I want to start a company that is going to be the most information-intensive company ever seen.”

Ruthven went back to Edgells and tracked down the company’s entire production records back to 1926. Plotting out historical trends and cycles on graph paper, he was soon forecasting demand for Edgells’ 220 product lines better than the marketing department.

When Ruthven took his soothsaying ability and left Edgells to form IBISWorld, the concept of specialist market research companies was new.

But it grew in step with the professionalisation of corporate life in Australia, and overseas where IBISWorld would eventually have three satellite offices and source most of its revenue, which by 2020-21 was nearly $100 million a year.

Thousands of businesses came to trust Ruthven’s ability to pick trends early.

He often claimed his best call was one made in the mid-1980s, when he predicted that families would increasingly pay outsiders to do their childcare, cooking and lawnmowing for them.

“The business world was laughing at me,” he told The Sydney Morning Herald 20 years later, by which time Australia’s outsourced household services market was well on its way to being the $510 billion-a-year behemoth it is now.

Ruthven acted like the futurist he was. In 1987, the Financial Review reported he had organized one of Australia’s first satellite teleconferences, providing post-budget analysis to business in remote WA mining towns.

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Ruthven passed executive control of IBISWorld to his children in 2001, and stepped down as chairman in 2015.

In 2014 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia, in recognition of his service to business and the community. He never stopped speaking for free at Rotary events, in gratitude for that life-changing trip in 1967.

Ruthven devoted much of his later life to The Ruthven Institute, which helped clients refine their business strategy based on “12 rules for business success” which he patented.

“Phil had a deep understanding of what Australian businesses could do better. We scrutinized his ‘rules’ from him and found he had distilled down core strategy lessons fantastically well, ”said Andre Sammartino, an associate professor at University of Melbourne who helped established the institute.

“He wanted the next generation of business leaders to get wiser, and we hope we can achieve this legacy.”

Ruthven is survived by three sons from his former wife, Robyn (deceased) – Shane, Justin and Kerryn, their partners and eight grandchildren, as well as his long-term partner, Deborah Light, former editor of the Financial Review.

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WA pubs, brewers have no choice but to pass on beer tax hike to consumers with pint price increases

WA pubs, brewers have no choice but to pass on beer tax hike to consumers with pint price increases

Beer drinkers are being warned pubs could soon slug $15 for a pint after the biggest tax hike in more than 30 years, with the cost of a slab also going up.

Twice-yearly indexation happens on February 1 and August 1, and the latest was a record increase of about 4 per cent, Brewers Association of Australia chief executive John Preston said, making us the world’s fourth highest beer-taxing nation behind Japan, Norway and Finnish.

Mr Preston said $15 for a pint of regular, non-craft, full-strength beer was on its way, with prices in WA pubs already “up there”.

“That’s where we’re heading,” he told The West Australian.

The tax on a carton was about $18 and was set to rise by about 80 cents, he said.

“Whether you drink at home or whether you drink in the pub, you’re going to get slugged.”

Mr Preston said the industry had asked the Federal Government to consider cutting the rate for draft beer on tap in the March budget given the tough times pubs had endured throughout the pandemic.

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BTS: Coles now selling K-Pop band’s Hot Brew coffee

BTS: Coles now selling K-Pop band's Hot Brew coffee

K-Pop fans are excited over a new coffee range inspired by boy band BTS that has landed in Coles for half price.

One eagle-eyed shopper took to TikTok to share that they had spotted the range at their local supermarket in Melbourne last week.

A clip posted to TikTok that showed the two different beverage options stirred excitement among fans, with many claiming they would rush to the supermarket.

“Going to cabbages asap,” one social media user said.

Another added: “We’ve come such a long way. Growing up I would have screamed in excitement seeing someone looking like me represented on tv which was so rare!”

A third said: “Only time I’ll ever drink coffee.”

Another added: “OMG we need to get down to Coles right now.”

There are two beverages in the range – a ready-to-drink Vanilla Latte and a delicious cold brew Americano coffee in specially designed bottles featuring the band.

Coles Senior Category Manager Dave Evans said: “Coles is the first national Australian supermarket to offer our customers the popular Korean pop band, BTS’s Hot Brew Vanilla Latte 270mL and Cold Brew Americano 270mL coffee.

“BTS is one of the biggest Korean pop acts in the world including in Australia where their passionate fans love to engage with the group, and a key reason why we wanted to offer our customers – and fans of BTS – a unique and special BTS branded product.

“The ready-to-drink coffee range is aromatic and sweet with authentic espresso-based hot brew extract, flavored with vanilla to create the perfect balance.

“BTS Hot Brews and Cold Brews are available at around 220 selected Coles supermarkets, for a limited-time only and while stocks last.”

This week, the drinks are just half price at $2.75 each.

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Power prices rise but small actions in the home could save money

Power prices are hiking yet again in added blow to the cost of living pressures as Australia shivers through winter.

Adam Corrigan, an energy efficiency expert at Australian Energy Foundation, has a few tips for Australians looking to save some dollars on their next power bill.

The first problem going unnoticed is wall vents, according to Corrigan.

Spots in homes where electricity is being used unnecessarily
Wall vents can allow heat to escape. (9News)

“The wall vents, you don’t need them, close them off, it’s just another hole in your home,” he said.

“You can actually go to your hardware store and you can actually buy a little plate that just goes straight over the top of it.”

The next problem where valuable heat is escaping homes is in door seals.

“Put your draft stripping along there, external weather strip, internal weather strip and you’ve sealed the door off,” Corrigan said.

Corrigan said even the little two-millimetre gaps between the door and the fame is where heat is “diving straight out the door”.

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Gaps between the door and door frame could be costing you more on the power bill. (9News)

Many may not realize this is eating up the power but Corrigan pointed out electric devices like speakers, modems, DVD players and the Foxtel box functioning on stand-by power are still chewing up the bill.

“In the average home, about 15 to 20 per cent of your electricity spend is just appliances on stand-by,” he said.

Corrigan recommended investing in stand-by power remotes to solve the problem.

“Plug them in at the wall socket plug in your powerboard, get a remote and bang you’ve just turned it off at the wall,” he said.

“It will cost you $30 to $40. It pays for itself in the first couple of months.”

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Appliances are often on stand-by and still using power. (9News)

With all of the cold weather, if residents don’t have an air conditioning unit that can heat then they may have invested in a small electric floor heater but Corrigan said these are “money guzzlers”.

“They’re just really just energy hungry,” he said.

Comparatively, Corrigan said the electric heater uses about 1500 watts while a high-efficiency air conditioner is using 1300 watts at maximum power.

“That (air conditioner) will heat the room much much more effectively,” he said.

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Electric heaters use more power than air conditioning units, Corrigan says. (9News)

Hot water systems account for up to 40 per cent of household energy use but Corrigan says turning the top temperature down can save cash.

And the second fridge in the garage can often be another appliance sucking energy and adding it to the bill.

“Simple thing, if you want it for your Christmas parties, birthday parties, that sort of thing but turn it off the rest of the time,” Corrigan said.

“Turn it on the day before and away you go.”

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Woolworths supermarket confirms major trading hour changes to every store across Australia

Woolworths supermarket confirms major trading hour changes to every store across Australia

Woolworths has announced major changes to its national trading hours and the way it operates its deli, seafood and meat departments.

The supermarket giant has confirmed to 7NEWS.com.au that store opening and closing hours will be adjusted to make them more consistent across Australia.

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This means selected stores will open an hour later or close an hour earlier to align with stores in other states (see full details below).

In addition to this, Woolworths has shortened the trading hours of its fresh service counters.

From August 1, the supermarket’s deli, meat and seafood department will close at either 7pm or 8pm – regardless of the store’s trading hours (see full details below).

Woolworths has confirmed that opening and closing hours will be adjusted to make them more uniform across Australia. Credit: Getty

A Woolworths spokesperson said that changes were made after careful consideration.

“We’ve made a change to the trading hours of our fresh service counters nationwide, due to a shift in customer shopping behaviour. This includes our meat, seafood and deli counters,” the spokesperson told 7NEWS.com.au.

“Customers can still purchase similar products, such as chicken breast fillets and salmon, within our packed Fresh Convenience range located in-store.

“We’ve also moved to standardize our overall operating hours so we can offer a consistent customer experience across our store network.

“Select stores across the country will open one hour later or close one hour earlier to align with other stores and better match customer shopping patterns.

“We’ll closely monitor customer and team member feedback over the next few months.”

Woolworths seafood counters will now close at 7pm. Credit: Supplied

New fresh service trading hours

From August 1, Woolworths deli, seafood and meat counters will have the following trading hours:

  • The fresh service deli will trade from 7am to 8pm (7 days).
  • The seafood and meat counters will trade from 9:30am to 7pm (weekdays) and 9am to 7pm (weekends).
  • 7NEWS.com.au understands that only a handful of stores will operate longer fresh service counter hours as there’s still high customer demand in those stores.
  • In-store signage has been placed at the fresh service counters and at the front of stores to inform customers of the altered trading hours.
  • It’s understood the new initiative was trialled in a handful of NSW stores in May 2022.

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Woolworths has announced the following changes to trading hours.

  • Select stores across Australia will open one hour later or close one hour earlier to align with other stores across the Woolworths network.
  • 7NEWS.com.au understands that the change means that if your local store typically opens at 6am, it will now open at 7am. And instead of closing at 10pm, it will now close at 9pm.
  • The change means that if a customer travels from state to state, trading hours will be roughly the same across the country.
  • Customers are encouraged to head here to see how the trading hours of their local Woolworths store have been affected by the change.
  • At the front of each Woolworths, signage will notify customers of the store’s new trading hours.
Woolworths deli counters will now close at 7pm. Credit: Dallas Kilponen/Woolworths

News of the change to Woolworths deli, meat and seafood trading hours has already attracted mixed reviews on social media.

One Woolies customer criticized the decision, saying all of the supermarket’s services should be available during opening hours.

“If Woolworths proceeds to limit services within their stores from 7pm onwards, we will no longer be using their services,” said the Adelaide-based customer.

“Shoppers need to remember that Woolworths openly asked and endorsed extended grocery store trading hours for 9pm.

“Now that they have these they don’t want to provide you with that service.”

Mixed reviews

He added: “As someone who works irregular hours, I typically do my shopping after 8pm at night – and now I can no longer get access to the service deli.”

But many other Facebook users felt it was a good move for Woolworths employees.

“It makes absolutely no sense to keep the deli open until the store closes given how long it takes to clean,” said one.

Added suggested “they have made this decision because the sales in the last hour just aren’t there”.

“They are running a business not a public service.”

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TikTok: US woman makes surprising claim about Aussie driver

TikTok: US woman makes surprising claim about Aussie driver

An American woman living in Sydney has divided the internet after claiming that she did not use a handbrake on her car.

The woman, known as Brit, claimed in a now viral TikTok post that there was no need to use the handbrake except in certain circumstances because cars weren’t “rolling away”.

“If you’re American, do you use the parking brake when you drive?” she said in the video which has been viewed nearly 500,000 times and attracted over 2000 comments.

“Because I’ve never used one in my entire life but I think everyone uses them in Australia.

“And my boyfriend asks me to drive and I have to look at it and say ‘Is it on? I don’t know’.”

In a later video, Brit, who describes herself as a “Midwest girl living in Sydney”, clarified that there was only one circumstance in which she used the parking brake.

“I don’t know if the cars are built differently or something. A few people have commented and said that American cars have some sort of anti-roll s*** that Australian cars don’t,” she said.

“But the cars aren’t just f***ing rolling away guys. When you put it in park you can lean on it, you can push, it doesn’t just roll anywhere.

“We don’t need to put the parking brake on unless you’re on a really steep hill, that’s what we’re taught.”

Her post split the comments section in half, with some questioning how she was able to drive safely’.

“Que?!?! I’m American and I use them EVERYTIME! How did y’all pass your exam?,” one user said.

“This is why we see so many videos of parked cars rolling into traffic in the US,” another added.

Another user added: “Using the park break not only is a failsafe it’s to take away stress and strain from your gearbox/transmission.”

However some users from the US said that Brit was correct.

“These comments are killing me… we only use them on hills. IDK if our cars are different or what but I would never just use it,” one said.

Another added: “ONLY when i’m parked in an incline. idk why people just use them to use them. it’s not necessary.”

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2022 Mazda 3, CX-5 quietly drop tech amid semiconductor shortage – and price rises

2022 Mazda 3, CX-5 quietly drop tech amid semiconductor shortage – and price rises

Certain variants of the Mazda 3 small car and CX-5 family SUV are no longer fitted with particular tech features – but have been hit with price rises of up to $700.

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Mazda Australia has quietly cut two technology features from certain high-grade versions of the 2022 Mazda 3 and Mazda CX-5 – while increasing their prices by as much as $700.

The latest specification lists from Mazda Australia show high-grade GT SP and Akera versions of the CX-5 mid-size family SUV are no longer fitted with hands-free ‘kick’ functionality for their power tailgates, instead reverting to access only via the key fob, or a button on the tailgate.

Meanwhile, the second-from-range-topping Mazda 3 G25 GT is no longer fitted with a 12-speaker Bose sound system, switching back to lower models’ eight-speaker unbranded stereos. The flagship Astina grades retain the Bose system.

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It’s understood ongoing parts shortages – including the semiconductors (computer chips) needed for modern cars – are to blame, representing the first time Mazda has ‘de-specified’ its vehicles to help keep production lines flowing.

Most Japanese car makers – including Toyota, Nissan and Honda – have opted to pause production lines to navigate the ongoing shortages, unlike European brands including Volkswagen and Peugeot, which have instead opted to delete chip-heavy features.

“Global parts supply, factory closures and logistics issues continue to challenge automotive manufacturing, however we continue to work closely with our dealer partners to deliver customer orders as soon as possible,” a Mazda Australia spokesperson said in a statement.

“Customers are encouraged to speak directly with their dealer to confirm availability and delivery estimates for their model of choice.”

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But despite subtly removing features, Mazda Australia has increased prices across the affected variants by as much as $700.

Prices increased across Mazda’s model range by $200 in recent months, affecting the Mazda 3 and CX-5 – but industry guide Redbook (which displays data provided by carmakers) indicates the Mazda 3 G25 GT has risen by a further $500 alongside the feature deletion, from April production.

The 2022 Mazda CX-5 and 2022 Mazda 3 are in showrooms now.

2022 Mazda 3, CX-5 Australian pricing

  • Mazda 3 G20 Pure manual – $26,540
  • Mazda 3 G20 Pure car – $27,540
  • Mazda 3 G20 Evolve Manual – $28,090
  • Mazda 3 G20 Evolve car – $29,090
  • Mazda 3 G20e Evolve M Hybrid car – $32,840
  • Mazda 3 G20 Touring manual – $30,5900
  • Mazda 3 G20 Touring car – $31,590
  • Mazda 3 G25 Evolve SP manual – $31,490
  • Mazda 3 G25 Evolve SP auto – $32,490
  • Mazda 3 G25 GT manual – $35,690
  • Mazda 3 G25 GT car – $36,690
  • Mazda 3 G25 Astina manual – $38,690
  • Mazda 3 G25 Astina auto – $39,690
  • Mazda 3 X20 Astina auto – $42,690

  • CX-5 Maxx 2.0 petrol FWD manual – $32,390
  • CX-5 Maxx 2.0 petrol FWD auto – $34,390
  • CX-5 Maxx Sport petrol 2.5 FWD auto – $38,190
  • CX-5 Maxx Sport petrol 2.5 AWD auto – $40,690
  • CX-5 Touring 2.5 petrol AWD auto – $42,580
  • CX-5 Touring Active 2.5 petrol AWD auto – $42,880
  • CX-5 Touring Active 2.2 diesel AWD auto – $45,880
  • CX-5 GT SP 2.5 petrol AWD auto – $48,990
  • CX-5 GT SP 2.5 turbo petrol AWD auto – $51,490
  • CX-5 Akera 2.5 petrol AWD auto – $50,880
  • CX-5 Akera 2.5 turbo petrol AWD auto – $53,380
  • CX-5 Akera 2.2 diesel AWD auto – $53,880

Note: All prices exclude on-road costs. Hat tip to the Mazda CX-5 Club on Facebook for the news tip.

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Alex Misoyannis has been writing about cars since 2017, when he started his own website, Redline. He contributed for Drive in 2018, before joining CarAdvice in 2019, becoming a regular contributing journalist within the news team in 2020. Cars have played a central role throughout Alex’s life, from flicking through car magazines as a young age, to growing up around performance vehicles in a car-loving family.

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