{"id":741195,"date":"2026-06-16T23:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741195\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:58:13","slug":"australia-news-live-hanson-to-front-press-club-trump-criticises-israels-hezbollah-campaign-oil-price-continues-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741195\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Hanson to front Press Club; Trump criticises Israel\u2019s Hezbollah campaign; Oil price continues to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian police are joining counterparts from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance in a push for greater cooperation from technology companies to combat a surge in online crime, including violent extremism, child exploitation and \u201csextortion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At talks in London this week, law enforcement agencies from Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand are seeking commitments from major tech firms to deploy more advanced tools, including artificial intelligence, to identify suspicious behaviour and disrupt criminal networks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Krissy Barrett.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0e601da4f3e386eb0163e0baa413db06015474b9.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Krissy Barrett.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett said authorities were particularly concerned by a rise in online groups that encourage self-harm, violence and sadistic abuse, often targeting young women. In some cases, victims are manipulated or blackmailed into harming themselves or others.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett said police were also seeing more young people exposed to extremist material online, leading to rapid radicalisation. The Five Eyes agencies are pressing tech companies to improve detection systems as online offending grows in scale, sophistication and reach. <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/europe\/sadism-sextortion-and-terror-the-global-push-to-stop-the-rise-in-threats-targeting-young-victims-20260617-p607fn.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian police are joining counterparts from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance in a push for greater cooperation from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-741195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}