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Instagram has announced one of the most significant changes to its platform in years, restricting the content seen by young users and the ability for strangers to make contact with them. And despite the timing, the tech giant insists its major global rollout has nothing to do with Australia’s planned crackdown on social media platforms. […]

Aussies scammed out of millions of dollars have called for an overhaul on how major banks handle compensation and reimbursement, warning more are at risk of losing money if Labor’s scam prevention laws aren’t fast-tracked. ACT independent Senator David Pocock joined 14 scam victims outside the Senate as he called on the Federal Government to […]

Anthony Albanese has pushed back against accusations his government is strangling Australian businesses with red tape, telling a dinner with executives from some of the country’s biggest firms that Labor is “proudly pro-business and pro-worker.” The Prime Minister was welcomed like a fish in a sea of sharks at the Business Council of Australia’s (BCA) […]

An expert has revealed why it may be difficult to extradite a foreign national who allegedly poured hot coffee over a baby in a Brisbane park, after authorities confirmed he fled the country weeks ago. Nine-month-old Luka was injured on August 27 while having a picnic with his mother at a Brisbane park. Police allege […]

An Australian island which inspired scenes from the Chronicles of Narnia film franchise is back in Australian hands following a $5.6 million sale. Little Green Island, located off the Central Queensland coastline near Mackay, was snapped up during an auction on Monday for almost double the price it was first purchased for more than a […]

A few days after watching her two young sons gleefully tear open Christmas presents, enjoying the kind of childhood she could’ve only dreamt of, a reflective Alyssa James made a life-changing decision. On December 28, 2019, she sent a text message to the male relative who had sexually abused her from the age of six, […]

Defence Minister Richard Marles is under renewed pressure to publicly release an under-wraps review into the military justice system, with Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie “begging” the government to do right by veterans and Australia’s Defence community. The crossbench and Coalition sided with the firebrand senator on Tuesday after she passed a motion calling on Mr […]

Weatherman Sam Mac has launched his new book about fatherhood, revealing his life as a father-of-two was “hectic” and he was “aching” after his young family recently expanded. The Sunrise personality and his partner Rebecca James earlier this year welcomed their second daughter Mabel. But it was their eldest daughter, Margot, 2, who was the […]

Australia has inked a new free trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates. Trade Minister Don Farrell made the announcement in Canberra on Tuesday, saying the deal would eliminate tariffs on more than 99 per cent of all Australian products entering the UAE. “This is the first trade agreement with the Middle East,” he said. […]

The diabetic driver accused of killing five people through negligence in a beer garden crash has “no memory” of the fatal moment, his lawyer has told a court. William Swale, 66, returned before the Ballarat Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday for the second day of a committal hearing to decide if the case heads to trial. […]