10 things you need to know this morning in Australia

[View in browser]( [Logo]( [Image]( [10 things you need to know this morning in Australia]( [10 things you need to know this morning in Australia]( [This is Business Insider Australia’s morning newsletter for Wednesday, March 16.]( [Australia’s housing market is now worth almost $10 trillion after notching up the biggest annual growth on record]( [Australia’s housing market is now worth almost $10 trillion after notching up the biggest annual growth on record]( [The nation’s housing stock is now worth a shade under $10 trillion after the largest annual surge in property values the Australian Bureau of Statistics has ever recorded.]( [Australian manufacturers are facing cost pressures they haven’t seen since the 1970s, a new report says]( [Australian manufacturers are facing cost pressures they haven’t seen since the 1970s, a new report says]( [Australian manufacturers welcomed rising orders through the early months of 2022, but the sector says its post-lockdown recovery could be hampered by the sharpest material and labour cost pressures in fifty years.]( [Despite rising costs of ingredients, plant-based meat company v2food is expanding into ‘chicken’]( [Despite rising costs of ingredients, plant-based meat company v2food is expanding into ‘chicken’]( [Plant-based ‘meat’ company v2food is expanding with a range of ‘chicken’ products, while absorbing the cost of rising ingredient prices.]( [Zelenskyy tells Russian soldiers if they surrender ‘we will treat you the way people are supposed to be treated — as people’]( [Zelenskyy tells Russian soldiers if they surrender ‘we will treat you the way people are supposed to be treated — as people’]( ["On behalf of the Ukrainian people, I give you a chance, a chance to survive," Zelenskyy said to Russian troops in a new address.]( [Chernobyl workers are blasting the Ukrainian national anthem every morning to defy their Russian captors, WSJ reported]( [Chernobyl workers are blasting the Ukrainian national anthem every morning to defy their Russian captors, WSJ reported]( [More than 200 staffers at the site of the world’s worst nuclear-power disaster have reportedly been held there since Russian forces took over.]( [Nasdaq jumps over 2% as oil falls further and investors await Fed decision]( [Nasdaq jumps over 2% as oil falls further and investors await Fed decision]( [Tech stocks pulled the Nasdaq higher and each of the major indexes finished Tuesday in the green. Meanwhile, oil hovered near $100 a barrel.]( [Cryptocurrency payments are accepted the most by the travel industry, adoption study shows]( [Cryptocurrency payments are accepted the most by the travel industry, adoption study shows]( [Expedia, Burger King and OkCupid are among big companies that have embraced crypto payments or trials, said a Traders of Crypto study.]( [How Volvo recreates real car crashes]( [How Volvo recreates real car crashes]( [Volvo’s Safety Center in Sweden is capable of replicating any type of vehicle crash, including rollovers, runoffs, and multi-vehicle accidents.]( [Telstra is launching a digital marketplace to help small businesses boost their exposure]( [Telstra is launching a digital marketplace to help small businesses boost their exposure]( [No matter how the pandemic has affected you over the last few years, there’s no denying that small businesses have been particularly hard hit. From growth stagnation to not being able to make ends meet, it’s no wonder the ‘buy local’ wave has taken off in Australia.]( [Image]( [Logo]( [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Policy](