- August 31st, 2026
Australian under-16s are increasing their use of social media apps such as Instagram and TikTok despite a world-leading ban, data provided by a parental control software company showed on Wednesday (Aug 26). Australia implemented legislation barring children from social media...
New Zealand's conservative coalition government will introduce a Bill in parliament on Monday (Aug 24) that seeks to ban children under 16 from using social media, and proposes fines of up to 10 per cent of a platform's global revenue...
For years, New South Wales police have closely guarded a crucial detail about roadside drug testing: how much cannabis in a driver's saliva is required to trigger a positive result. The figure has remained largely undisclosed despite repeated questions about...
Australia's first case of bird flu in a mammal has been confirmed following testing of a long-nosed fur seal found in South Australia. Federal Agriculture Minister Julie Collins has told reporters in Hobart the seal was found at Beachport, 300...
Australia's capital will join a gun buyback as part of a response to a shooting spree that killed 15 at a Jewish festival in Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday (Aug 22). Albanese's centre-left government enacted laws in...
An Australian court will on Wednesday (Aug 19) begin hearing the appeal of a woman convicted of murdering three of her estranged husband's relatives with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms. Erin Patterson, 51, was convicted last year of murdering...
Greens senator David Shoebridge has raised doubts over whether China would seek to shut key maritime trade routes with Australia, while warning against what he described as a strategic “warpath with Washington”, as debate intensifies over the future of the...
Australia’s political opposition has been thrown into fresh turmoil after Sussan Ley, the first woman to lead the Liberal Party, was removed from the party’s top position following a decisive leadership ballot that elevated her long-time rival Angus Taylor. The...
Australian opposition leader Sussan Ley is facing the most serious threat yet to her leadership after shadow defence minister Angus Taylor resigned from the Coalition’s frontbench, a move widely seen as the opening salvo in a long-anticipated challenge. Taylor’s departure...
New Zealand has decided not to join U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly launched Board of Peace, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon confirmed in a statement on Tuesday. The Board of Peace, unveiled last week, was initially intended to support the fragile...
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