Australia (Prime Minister)

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (799+ words) Australia’s new Digital Duty of Care bill proposes a significant shift in online safety. Rather than simply responding to harmful content after it appears, platforms would be required to identify “all reasonably foreseeable risks” of harm in their services and…...

3+ hour, 29+ min ago   (40+ words) Australian academic claims antisemitism debate a ‘distraction’ from Gaza bombs The Mercury To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser. To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below. Facebook App: Open links in External Browser...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago   (638+ words) Wednesday, 7 October 2026 One of Australia's key business lobby groups has looked at the migration plans of Labor, the Coalition and One Nation and said none of them work for business. Here's why. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI),…...

6+ hour, 53+ min ago   (506+ words) One tax lawyer has questioned whether the government knows what a trust really is, highlighting the unnecessary legislative fatigue and administrative burden advisers face. Editor’s note: This story was first published on Lawyers Weekly sister brand, Accountants Daily.Following the…...

3+ hour, 57+ min ago   (731+ words) Historians might grapple with the irony but the single-biggest change in Australia’s navy in a generation will be arriving under a Japanese flag. It is testament to how much Australia’s security has evolved since 1945 that the country’s new fleet of…...

6+ hour, 57+ min ago   (201+ words) PARIS, Oct 6 (AFP): Nations reeling from a year of climate devastation gather for COP31 next month but negotiations are not expected to deliver major progress in cutting the fossil fuels driving the crisis.The conference follows deadly heatwaves and fires in…...

3+ hour, 26+ min ago   (85+ words) 7NEWS Cyberattacks hitting Australians every six minutes Palestine vigil marks October 7 anniversary in Sydney Australia's first lunar rover headed to the Moon Queensland grocer sells produce for pennies ‘Day of misery’: Jewish leader condemns pro-Palestinian vigil NSW Premier Chris Minns has…...

54+ min ago   (493+ words) One Nation has pledged to make Victoria the “toughest state on crime in Australia” with a raft of new election policies. The conservative-leaning party said it would lower the age of criminal responsibility to 10, introduce mandatory minimum sentences for people…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (459+ words) Kalgoorlie-Boulder to lose 5000 backpackers following cuts Kalgoorlie Miner...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago   (224+ words) Vanuatu's government has hit back against comments by an MP from New Caledonia calling for Vanuatu to transfer sovereignty over some of its islands to France. The war of words comes as the International Court of Justice considers an application…...