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Cheap spirits, pricey condoms: how war in the Middle East is shifting the way Australians spend

restaurants grappling with rising costs and financially strained customers, many of whom are [cutting back on takeaway coffees and eating out](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/22/takeaway-coffee-sales-australian-economy-fuel-living-costs). 2. --- ## 2. Healthcare bypass The ASX was trading near record highs

Diners are staying home, so this restaurant lets patrons pay what they want

share the rosemary sourdough focaccia, fresh mozzarella, polpette, rigatoni alla n'duja and smoked olive carbonara spaghetti. The bill for all that food? It doesn't really matter, because tonight restaurantgoers can pay whatever they

Who Is Nayib Bukele? El Salvador’s ‘coolest dictator’

strategy that won him his earlier posting) and instead relied on friends and family like his brother Karim, who was seen whispering in his ear during commercial breaks in the 2015 mayoral debate

How the High Street became a window on our political instability

restaurants - anything that's cash-intensive has always been vulnerable to organised crime exploiting it," he says. Criminals like cash because unlike card transactions or bank transfers, it is largely untraceable, which makes it useful