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The Latest Breaking News from Anthony Albanese

Afternoon Update: Major aged care reforms announced; more anti-war rallies in Melbourne; and the VMAs black carpet

Anthony Albanese says the reforms are ‘once in a generation’ as he thanks Coalition for ‘constructive engagement’

The Guardian - AU

Busted bubblers, broken toilets: the cost of a school-funding 'fail'

Teachers demand the federal government fully fund Hunter public schools.

Newcastle Herald

New polling: half of Australians want gambling ads banned entirely; LNP has big Queensland lead

A national Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted September 3–7 from a sample of 1,614 people, gave Labor a 51–49% lead using 2022 election preference flows. However, respondent-allocated preferences favoured the Coalition by 51–49%.

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Mums and dads to get super on their parental leave

Superannuation payments will be paid on top of government-funded paid parental leave from July 2025 for an estimated 180,000 families.

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Key gambling harm advocate ‘saddened’ by Albanese’s statements on betting ads

Tim Costello says the prime minister has ‘mindlessly’ followed gambling industry’s attempts to present him as a prohibitionist

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s plan to ban children from social media might actually create more harm, charity says

Raising age limit ‘completely irrelevant’ to risks young people face online, child protection group cited by PM warns

The Guardian - AU

Clashes as antiwar protesters target Australian arms fair

Police use stun grenades and pepper spray and arrest 39 people as officers pelted with rocks, manure and tomatoes.

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Proud PM: Paralympians eye more gold after homecoming

Australia's Paralympic team have been lauded at a homecoming event, with a teenage gold medallist among those already dreaming of big things at Brisbane 2032.

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Protestors At The Huge Melbourne Protest Have Reportedly Thrown Horse Shit At Cops

Protesters at the controversial Land Forces Expo have clashed with police, with at least one protester allegedly throwing horse poo.

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Anti-war protesters clash with police outside Australian arms convention

Thousands of anti-war protesters have clashed with police outside a military arms convention in downtown Melbourne

The Independent UK

Children promised a say on social media age ban plans

Some young people will get around an age limit on social media but a ban is still needed to protect children, the prime minister says.

AAP

Australia set to ban social media and gaming platforms for young teens with checks on users’ ages

TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and Steam are among the platforms that could be hit by a ban for children and young teenagers in Australia

The Independent UK

View from The Hill: Social media age ban all to the good, but can Albanese deliver before election?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been late out of the blocks on a ban on children accessing social media. Now that he has promised to act, pledging to introduce legislation this year, the question is whether it will be passed before the election.

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Labor toasts vote that reshaped parliament for 30 years

Three decades ago women welcomed a historic vote at the Labor National Conference, which Anthony Albanese and his federal caucus team celebrate to this day.

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Australia says it will ban minors from using social media

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he wants children ‘off their phones and on the footy field’.

The Guardian - AU

Australia plans to ban children from social media. Is checking and enforcing an age block possible?

As the Albanese government pledges a ban, age verification trials in the UK and US show possible hurdles and privacy concerns

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Anthony Albanese Announces Plans To Ban Social Media For Young People, But How Will It Work?

This is a wild turn of events.

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Australia Plans Age Limit To Ban Children From Social Media

Australia will ban children from using social media with a minimum age limit as high as 16, the prime minister said Tuesday, vowing to get kids off their devices and "onto the footy fields".

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Social media ban poses barrier to mental health support

Mental health services and youth advocacy groups say they will find it harder to connect with young people if the government goes ahead with a social media ban.

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Australia a step closer to social media bans for kids

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is unveiling plans to introduce age limits for social media as new research highlights its negative impact on life satisfaction.

The Guardian - AU

Australian politics needs fewer ‘vaguely incompetent men’, Amanda Vanstone says, not gender quotas

Former Howard government minister’s comments come as Anthony Albanese celebrates 30 years of quotas in Labor, which is 52.4% female in federal caucus

The Conversation

Albanese promises to legislate minimum age for kids’ access to social media

The Albanese government will introduce legislation this term to enforce a minimum age for children to access social media.

AAP

Puppy love for pollies aims to lick standards dilemma

Seeing eye puppies descended on federal parliament as part of a push to nationalise assistance animal standards.

AAP

Miners lash PM as he plots future made in Australia

The "under siege" mining industry warns it can't afford to compete internationally under Australia's environmental, workplace and tax laws.

The Guardian - AU

‘We have listened’: gender identity question added to Australia’s 2026 census after federal government backflip

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says LGBTQ+ community ‘will count’ in survey with new topic covering sexual orientation and gender to be included

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