Exiled Labor Senator Fatima Payman is poised to quit the Labor Party as early as this week as her links with a $1 million Islamic television studio that campaigns against “homosexuality” in Barbie movies and dangerous “feminist propaganda” emerge. The Labor Senator will be able to keep her $233,000-a-year salaryContinue Reading
Australia’s Hindu community has slammed what it claims is an “unfair” and “fearmongering” ABC expose about the extent of India’s spying in the country. Four Corners on Monday night revealed fresh details about the alleged “nest of spies” that were quietly booted from the country in 2020 after an investigationContinue Reading
Lisa Wilkinson has told the Federal Court that 10 Network CEO Beverley McGarvey checked her controversial Logies speech for “red flags” and declared it was “beautiful” just hours before it was delivered. Ms Wilkinson, who is locked in a dispute with 10 over her $700,000 plus legal costs for BruceContinue Reading
The ABC are offering TikTokers $100,000 a year to help the national broadcaster survive its “digital transition”. Starting from January 2024, social media stars will be pay-rolled to create “digital content that resonates with Gen Z and millennial audiences”. According to the job posting, four six-month contracts are up forContinue Reading
Americans are discovering buttered sandwiches for the first time and the reactions from across the world are hilarious. A US woman living in Paris, France shared a TikTok earlier this month of her making sandwiches, explaining the French do something “very weird” that she thought her followers would “find strange”.Continue Reading
Prince Harry’s pitch for his own podcast involved interviewing controversial guests like Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump about their childhoods, it’s been alleged. It was reported last week that Harry and wife Meghan Markle are cutting ties with Spotify just three years after agreeing to a deal believed to beContinue Reading
Photographs featuring Ben Roberts-Smith alongside US soldiers holding an artificial limb known as “Das Boot”, have come back to haunt the decorated war veteran amid his defamation lawsuit against Nine newspapers. In December 2020, TheAge and The Sydney Morning Herald obtained two photos of Mr Roberts-Smith amid investigations into theContinue Reading
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s news boss has urged media organisations to be kinder to each other in public as he doubled down on his regret for not defending presenter Stan Grant. ABC news director Justin Stevens said he regretted not publicly defending the Wiradjuri presenter for the criticism and racistContinue Reading
Vice Media filed for bankruptcy on Monday, closing out a years-long decline for the edgy “punk rock” news giant once valued at an incredible $US5.7 billion ($8.5 billion). The bankruptcy filing, which comes after weeks of rumours about the company’s future, sets up a group of Vice’s investors including FortressContinue Reading
Beijing insisted on Friday it does not ask companies to hand over data gathered overseas, as the Chinese-owned TikTok faces mounting calls for a ban in the United States. Pressure is building on the massively popular video-sharing app — owned by the Chinese firm Bytedance — to obtain new ownershipContinue Reading