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Australia is about to find out if stopping under-16s accessing sites will protect against harmful content or stifle creativity and block opportunity

Claims of “judicial activism” are nothing new. Ever since the term was coined by US historian Arthur Schlesinger in 1947, it has been regularly invoked in the United States to describe judges perceived to be going beyond their constitutional role.

A settlement of about $7.5 million will be paid to survivors of alleged child sexual abuse at a hospital the focus of a damning inquiry.

Recently, a landmark coronial inquiry into the deaths of four Indigenous women from domestic and family violence in the Northern Territory released its findings after a year-long investigation.

Three men and a woman accused of murdering Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey have formally pleaded not guilty ahead of their trial starting in early 2025.

None of the efforts have so far been successful — but insiders say there are other reasons conservatives would keep pushing for the ex-PM to be kicked out of the party.

Why did it take the use of a guillotine motion in the final sitting week of Parliament to progress legislation that had stalled in the Senate for months?

The government is facing opposing calls to introduce and scrap environmental protection laws after a bid to pass it in parliament was abandoned last minute.

A national YouGov poll, conducted November 15–21 from a sample of 1,515, had a 50–50 tie, unchanged from the previous YouGov poll in September. Primary votes were 38% Coalition (down one), 30% Labor (steady), 13% Greens (down one), 9% One Nation (up two) and 10% for all Others (steady).