Corporate giants such as News Corp, Nine Entertainment and the big four banks have invested so heavily in amassing and sharing lucrative personal data that consumer advocates fear they will campaign against anticipated reforms to privacy laws.
A New Year’s Eve riot at Western Australia’s Banksia Hill youth detention centre was the culmination of an escalating crisis in which vulnerable children are denied the basic rights of education, recreation and restorative justice.
As gambling reform becomes a key battleground in the NSW election, it is clear how powerful the clubs lobby has become in a country with more poker machines than anywhere else in the world.
George Pell spent decades cultivating the Murdoch press, duchessing editors and senior journalists. The impacts of that political manoeuvring are clear in the coverage since his death.
Cardinal George Pell died this week in Rome having been acquitted by the High Court on child sexual abuse charges but without ever facing court over multiple other allegations.
A submission from the Productivity Commission, based on unproven modelling, recommends the government does nothing to encourage the uptake of electric vehicles before 2035.
The entrepreneur and Tesla chief executive is now only the world’s second-richest man. His erratic behaviour has generated scandals and outrage among his investors, and yet his board sticks by him. How did it come to this and what’s next for Musk?
