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A prominent human rights lawyer says Australia’s “decades out of date” privacy laws need to be urgently reformed to protect against the AI industry’s rapid advancements while also calling for tough penalties on companies that do the wrong thing. Speaking at a parliamentary inquiry on adopting artificial intelligence, Digital Rights Watch founder Lizzie O’Shea said […]

The former vice-captain of a prestigious private school has received a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to helping his father cover up the alleged murder of a homeless man on their family property. Marco Yandle, appearing in South Australian Supreme Court on Tuesday, was sentenced to 20 months in prison but then immediately released from […]

The national secretary of an embattled construction union has remained defiant against a furious grilling by Today host Karl Stefanovic, who accused the union boss of “covering up” the organisation’s “alleged corruption”. In a fiery exchange on Tuesday morning, Stefanovic asked Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) boss Zach Smith: “How long have you […]

Savvy Australian shoppers can score deals of hundreds of thousands of products in this year’s Amazon Prime Day sale. Throughout the six-day sales event, which starts on Tuesday, July 16, there will be huge discounts for Amazon Prime members across a range of popular brands including Apple, Bose, Bonds, Dyson, Lego and Samsung – to […]

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says the best way for Australia to fight off threats to its national security and economy amid the threat of China is to “stick close to America”. In an interview for a Sky News documentary commemorating the 60th anniversary of The Australian, the newspaper he created, Mr Murdoch said it was […]

The families left devastated by the downing of MH17 have spoken up 10 years after the atrocity to reveal the heartbreaking moments they realised their lives had changed forever. Jon and Meryn O’Brien lost their son Jack in the attack that killed all 298 people, including 38 Australian citizens and residents, aboard the Malaysia Airlines […]

Australia is currently suffering through an “unprecedented” triple strain outbreak of bird flu, with government, agricultural authorities and industry bodies preparing for the potential arrival of the dangerous H5N1 strain devastating the Northern Hemisphere. As it stands, Australia is the only continent, including Antarctica, that has yet to detect the highly-pathogenic H5N1 strain, which has […]

Toddler killer Brendan Pallant has been sentenced to 32 years in prison. Pallant, 37, appeared in the Victorian Supreme Court on Monday, having been found guilty of murdering two-year-old Jaidyn Gomes-Sebastiao. In delivering her sentence, Justice Jane Dixon set a non-parole period of 25 years. Outside court, Jaidyn’s mother Stacie Saggers said her family was […]

The father of a murdered Melbourne teenager has made a call for the end of knife crime in an emotional statement in court. Four young men found guilty of murdering Declan Cutler appeared for a plea hearing in the Melbourne Supreme Court on Monday. The men cannot be named because they were youths at the […]

More than 56,000 pages of Brittany Higgins’ mobile phone records downloaded by the Australian Federal Police will form a vital part of the litigation brought against her by Senator Linda Reynolds. The documents were originally produced for the Bruce Lehrmann defamation proceedings against Network 10 and will be used in the defamation case against Ms […]