New laws will prohibit companies from targeting ads at children and selling their private data under the most sweeping reforms made to Australia’s privacy act in decades. The changes, which will be announced on Wednesday, will also require companies to obtain the “informed consent” of users when handling their personalContinue Reading
An Australian professor who has been talking to people about the Indigenous Voice to parliament has revealed a common theme he has noticed in the arguments from some No voters – and claims it makes absolutely no sense. West Australian man and vocal supporter of the Voice, Braden Hill, hasContinue Reading
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has sparked controversy after claiming British colonisation has had “no ongoing negative impacts” on Indigenous Australians. The Opposition Indigenous affairs spokeswoman and leading No campaigner made the claim during an address on the Voice to Parliament at the National Press Club on Thursday. “I’ll be honest:Continue Reading
The Victorian state government has been accused of deliberately undermining a federal inquiry into its decision to axe the 2026 Commonwealth Games. The claims were made by a Senate inquiry into Australia’s preparedness to host the Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games, which tabled its interim report to federal parliament onContinue Reading
The federal government will ban the use of credits cards in online gambling, with massive fines for betting companies that fail to implement the new restrictions. The Bill, set to be introduced to federal parliament on Wednesday, will illegalise the use of credit cards and digital currencies in online wageringContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has delivered a blistering character assessment of outgoing Liberal MP Stuart Robert as he launched the campaign of the woman who hopes to replace him in parliament. Letitia Del Fabbro will vie for the safe LNP seat of Fadden on Queensland’s Gold Coast at a by-election on JulyContinue Reading
An Aboriginal man has died while in custody at a rural prison, only a year after a separate prisoner was found dead in the same jail’s kitchen. The Indigenous man, 41, was found unresponsive inside his cell by staff at Albany Regional Prison shortly after 1pm on Thursday. Prison staffContinue Reading
The LNP are preparing to defend their seat of power for the second time in over a year as voters in the Fadden electorate head to the polls. The by-election for the seat of Fadden on Queensland’s northern Gold Coast was triggered after former Coalition minister Stuart Robert officially quitContinue Reading
From backyard barbecues across the country to the halls of federal parliament, the issue of the ongoing housing crisis is never far from conversation and debate. Despite Australia building the fourth highest number of new homes per capita in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) relative to overallContinue Reading
A man with no fixed address allegedly sent death threats and harassing emails to a member of federal parliament. Australian Federal Police swooped on the 39-year-old at Brisbane international airport on Tuesday before remanding him into custody. The man appeared before Brisbane Magistrates Court that same day charged with usingContinue Reading