In the article 'Boosting welfare would just go to ‘drug dealers, pubs’: Minister', Lucy Dean wrote "...called for the rate of Newstart payments to be increased by $75, up from $559 a week." This should be $559 a fortnight.

The articles linked to this one state the correct rate, but there is a big difference between $250 a week and $500. People should not need to go to other articles to find the correct information, especially when it is so contradictory as to possibly create confusion.

To effectively participate in political and social discourse, people need correct information. This article may reinforce to people with existing prejudices against the unemployed that Newstart recipients actually have more than enough to live on and are just whining about wanting more. News outlets are not responsible for people's meanness or narrowness of mind, but it is important to ensure critical, easily-verifiable statements are correct so as not to provide fodder to those trying to demonise people on society's margins.

Presumably this will disappear into the Yahoo black-hole to join all my (and others) previous comments?
But, who knows?
Maybe it will do some good?.....if not, c'est la vie!

I'm sorry to say that over recent years, Yahoo has slipped from being outstandingly the best source of stock market data presentation and stock price updating, to being only marginally OK.

This is the worst of your update failings:-

Before your recent bunch of website “improvements“ I had a few stock portfolios saved

eg:- <https://au.finance.yahoo.com/portfolio/pf_2/view>

and updating prices daily into my spreadsheet was a simple, efficient, 4 step procedure:-

select>copy>select>paste , per portfolio..

Because “copy” was a classic “wysiwyg” process (what you see is what you get”).

Nowadays, ”copy” is NOT a “wysiwyg” process.

A 1-line per stock listing copies as a 2-lines per stock listing, unusable without re-formatting.

So now I need a 14 step procedure per portfolio, for my daily update.

(even more steps the first time, when I needed to set-up the spreadsheet sort facility):-

select>copy>select>paste> [copy data into spreadsheet work area]
select>shift>select>range>sort>OK> [the re-formatting exercise]
select> paste> [finally paste data into spreadsheet]
select>delete [clean-up the re-formatting work area]

Why do you regard a “non-wysiwyg” copying to the clipboard as an “improvement” ?

The reasoning escapes me! I'm not impressed!

ozjon69