The Greens have called for companies found guilty of price gouging to be hit with a $50m fine.
Jessica Wang
The Greens want supermarkets, power companies, banks and other big businesses that rip off customers to face $50 million fines under new anti-price gouging powers.
Katina Curtis
If successful, some of Australia’s lowest paid workers could receive a 15 per cent pay bump, totalling to $155 by December 2025.
Social media companies would face fines for allowing ‘harmful’ misinformation and disinformation under laws to be introduced to Parliament on Thursday.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
An association supporting the world’s biggest tech companies has warned the Government of ‘unintentionally pushing our kids’ into dangerous parts of the internet if Labor tries to ban teens from social media.
Caleb Runciman
The third-generation owner of a family-run Porongurup winery has said stronger nature laws would “remove red tape” for businesses as the Federal Parliament prepares to debate environmental law reforms.
Melissa Sheil
Six current or former MPs are under investigation by the national anti-corruption watchdog.
The national anti-corruption watchdog has revealed the number of cases it’s investigating that involve current or former parliamentarians.
A new ombudsman will be given stronger powers to investigate sexual assault and other complaints on uni campuses after startling figures.
The Albanese government’s push to pay super on paid parental leave is facing a roadblock, the latest in a series of knockbacks from the opposition.
Joanne Williamson
London is calling but ask nicely and bring cash because the UK has taken a leaf out of Australia’s book and adopted a new travel scheme.
Blair Jackson
King Charles and Queen Camilla will make their first visit to Australia since the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018.
King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit Sydney and Canberra over five days in October. Their program will include climate change, cancer research, and community meetings.
BHP says it contributed over $15 billion to Western Australia’s economy last financial year, as the mining giant holds its ground against attacks by Federal Labor.
Adrian Rauso
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has signed off and backed a $1.4 billion salt project, declaring the BCI Minerals plan for the Pilbara a green energy ‘game changer’.
Simone Grogan
Miners are being urged to lobby the Coalition to back a stripped-back Environment Protection Agency before Labor rushes off to cut a deal with the Greens.
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Katina Curtis
The federal government has been accused of “wilfully weakening” Australia’s economy through a key policy decision.
The proposed laws are aimed at stopping criminals from profiting off illegal activity and cleaning dirty money through real estate, luxury goods and dodgy accounting.
Age limit laws for social media won’t protect kids; they’re hard to enforce and just delay the issue according to a social media expert.
Caleb Runciman and Dylan Caporn
Another four illegal fishing boats have been intercepted off the Kimberley coast after it was revealed foreign fishers are at an 18-year high and Australia’s border patrols are struggling to keep up.
Phil Hickey
A federal minister has been slammed over a social media video in which she’s likened to a salesperson “selling a used car”.
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BCI Minerals has been granted environmental approvals for its $1.4 billion Mardie project near Karratha, paving the way for the production process to start at Australia’s first major salt project in 25 years.
Highly-anticipated aged care reforms, which will likely result some older Australians pay more, have hit another bump following a number of “surprise” provisions.
Anthony Albanese has conceded that the Federal Government was forced to commit to a social media ban in order to ensure a national response to online issues, as several States announced their own laws.
Dylan Caporn
