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Anthony Albanese pressing hard for a majority at the next election

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pushing through as much as he can in the last few sitting days as he strives for another electoral majority, and Jim Chalmers wants everyone to calm down about a Trump economy despite dire predictions.

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Australia’s teen social media ban loophole means kids can still use TikTok and YouTube Shorts

The federal government says it wants to stop kids from using apps like TikTok. But its legislation won’t protect children from the algorithm driving these platforms.

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Gambling advertising reform takes time and expertise. The social media ban? Not so much

The delay on gambling advertising reform is apparently in the service of ‘good policy design’. What does that tell us about the teen social media ban?

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Labor gave the public one day to weigh in on teen social media ban. It got 15,000 responses

Elon Musk helped boost interest in the inquiry by making a viral post on X. Then the submissions started flooding in.

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Which Australian media outlets are leaving X for Bluesky?

Australian media outlets have lagged behind the rest of the world in moving to Bluesky, as news organisations deal with an increasingly hostile environment on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

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Future Fund to focus on housing, climate

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund will have a mandate to consider national priorities under a new statement of expectations made by Labor, and UK-made missiles have been fired by Ukraine into Russia.

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The communications minister cited a study in support of a teen social media ban. Its co-author disagrees

University of Oxford professor Andrew Przybylski says the government has ‘misunderstood the purpose and findings of our research’.

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‘Rights are not handed on a platter’: You can now read 200 history-making speeches by Australian women

Some of the rousing speeches by women in the Madam Speaker archive hit just as hard in 2024 as they did in the 1800s.

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Documents reveal what the ABC spends on legal fees — but Aunty won’t say how much Lattouf fight has cost

One Sydney barrister estimates the national broadcaster has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting journalist Antoinette Lattouf in court.

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Who’s paying for our trillion-dollar climate transition, and why are there so many oil lobbyists at COP29?

In the shadow of Trump’s reelection, this year’s UN climate conference is all about money — and the sums are truly staggering.

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No, cricket is no longer the national sport, its window is getting smaller and smaller

The idea that cricket is the national sport is long gone. For all sorts of reasons, it no longer captivates the country.

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‘Like throwing your child to the lions’: Class action challenges detention of South Sudanese refugees

‘There is a lot of sanitisation of what immigration detention means, but the reality … has a devastating and generational impact on people and their families and communities.’

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Daily Tele sticks by Jamie Oliver, a Greens oopsie, and ‘problem children’ go rogue at tech summit

Plus: what on earth does A1 stand for?

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Matthew, James, Mark: Who are the mystery men funding a news startup targeting ‘disinformation’?

At a time when news media is rapidly contracting, Gazette News is promising a collection of hyperlocal mastheads. The question remains — who is funding it and why?

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Punters vs pollsters: Who should you trust with election predictions?

Billions were spent gambling on the US election, and betting markets appear to have been more accurate than most pollsters.

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Encrypted app Session’s exit amid police pressure proves Australia at risk of becoming ‘tech backwater’

‘If you think it’s important as a country for sovereignty reasons to have the option of using your own home-grown services, then you can’t drive them off shore with bad laws.’

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‘Jeff Bezos is chickens**t’: We ask striking Pittsburgh journalists if the unions can win it for Harris

‘Unions still know how to organise, how to knock on doors, how to get people out there.’

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News Corp’s The Australian pitches itself firmly in Trump tent at Madison Square Garden rally

Adam Creighton includes Rupert Murdoch’s broadsheet among 30,000 fans of former president. Plus: ABC’s top presenters reshuffle roles

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Why is Jacinta Nampijinpa Price being sued?

The senator has been ordered to pay $1,500 after her legal team failed to file a defence. Why is she in court to begin with?

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This American Carnage: Crikey heads to the US election

Starting in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, Crikey will be covering the situation on the ground as the US lurches towards this most consequential of elections.

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Labor promised local content quotas for digital platforms. So… where are they?

It is looking less and less likely the government will deliver ahead of the next federal election.

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Ex-Crikey columnist Guy Rundle apologises after saying ‘every grope is now a sexual assault’

In the statement, Rundle says the word grope was ‘wrongly chosen’, while leftwing publication Arena says it asked him to stand down temporarily

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Introducing the Bullshit O’Meter: A tool for you to see how AI slop is mutating news

Crikey’s Bullshit O’Meter is your sandbox (with a few guardrails) to see just how easy it is to turn news into bullshit.

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QLD: Miles catching, but Crisafulli still leads

The Queensland LNP’s lead is narrowing ahead of tomorrow’s ballot in the Sunshine State, and a star-studded lineup will grace the stage for the Harris campaign in Georgia.

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WIN launches probe into employee, Lehrmann spotted, and we remember Colin Chapman (because the Oz doesn’t)

Plus Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson is spotted among the plebs in economy.

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