Social media

Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s despite ban

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...
Ocean

Ocean temperatures hit ‘very troubling’ record high

The world's oceans have reached their highest temperatures on record and are likely to warm even further in the next few months, putting stress on life in the water and on land. Spurred by a still-growing but already supersized natural...
NSW Police

Australia roadside testing limit comes under scrutiny as medicinal cannabis driving reforms advance

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...
seal

Australia’s first bird flu case in a mammal confirmed in South Australia

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...
Bondi Beach shooting, Australia

Australia’s capital to join gun buyback in response to Bondi Beach attack

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...
Australia Poisonous Mushrooms

Australian mushroom murderer Erin Patterson begins appeal against sentence

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...
Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN)

Canada Chooses Australia’s JORN Over-the-Horizon Radar in Landmark A$2.5 Billion Defence Contract

Australia has signed its largest-ever defence export agreement, securing a landmark A$2.5 billion (US$1.8 billion) deal with Canada to supply advanced over-the-horizon radar technology derived from the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN), officials announced on Monday. The agreement marks a...
AUKUS submarine

Australia AUKUS deal faces backlash as Shoebridge criticises nuclear submarines urging balanced China relations amid Indo Pacific tensions

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...
China Coast Guard

China’s Long Game in Indo-Pacific Raises New Concerns Over Regional Security and Strategic Influence

China is increasingly being assessed not through the lens of sudden strategic rupture, but through a more incremental and deliberate process of regional repositioning. A growing body of analysis suggests that Beijing is pursuing a long-horizon campaign to reshape the...
Australia and Japan defence Indo-Pacific

Australia and Japan deepen defence ties with strategic depth concept linking industry, geography, and Indo-Pacific security cooperation expansion

A new conceptual layer has emerged in the evolving defence relationship between Australia and Japan: the idea of “strategic depth.” While the term has been formally introduced into bilateral statements, its operational meaning remains only partially articulated. Yet defence analysts...
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