Big tech companies that fail to strike deals with Australian media to face higher levy
Big tech companies that fail to strike commercial deals with Australian media organisations will face a 2.5 per…
Telstra, Optus and TPG forced to publish new mobile coverage maps
Despite living barely 10 minutes west of the largest inland city in New South Wales, Uranquinty residents have…
Federal government announces more than half a billion dollars in sports funding ahead of Brisbane 2032 Games
The federal government has announced more than half a billion dollars in funding to boost the sporting landscape…
Labor responds to Murphy report during budget lock-up
While the country’s political journalists were under lock and key at the budget lock-up all yesterday afternoon, the…
Sports Minister Anika Wells refuses to rule out ‘sideline meeting’ at birthday party on taxpayer-funded trip
Sports Minister Anika Wells has not ruled out the possibility that she held a “meeting” at a birthday…
Sports Minister Anika Wells repays $10,000 in travel costs after audit
A family flight home from an AFL grand final is among $10,000 in parliamentary travel costs repaid by…
Is Australia’s teen social media ban going off the rails?
Three months into Australia’s teen social media ban, the federal government wants to put a head on a…
Five social media platforms investigated over compliance with under-16 ban
Five social media platforms are being investigated by the government’s online safety watchdog for potentially failing to comply…
Attorney-general pays taxpayer back $8,000 for family flights
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has repaid about $8,000 in taxpayer-funded flights taken by her family to Perth, plus an…
FOI documents reveal how Anika Wells’ New York trip costs escalated
Business class flights to New York for Communications Minister Anika Wells and her staffer were already due to…
MPs can still take partners and children on work trips under new family travel rules
Politicians can still charge taxpayers for taking their partners and children on work-related trips outside Canberra under new…
More than 4.7m social media accounts closed in two days after ban began, data reveals
Millions of Australian social media accounts held by children have been culled since new age limits took effect…