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PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has agreed to remove staff with links to the leak and use of confidential Australian tax plans from government work, a senior government official told an inquiry on Thursday.

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil says the Australian government will not hesitate to out the parties behind cyber attacks when it has the evidence to do so.

The home affairs minister says the federal government will not hesitate to out the parties behind cyber attacks, amid warnings China is beefing up its offence.

Australia has joined the United States and other Five Eyes cyber agencies to identify China as the culprit behind recent cyber attacks targeting "critical infrastructure" in the US.

The opposition claims the government’s immigration program overhaul will bring a massive influx of people. But that may not be the case.

Australia's migrant population is expected to have grown by more than 700,000 between the 2022 and 2024 financial years.

In areas such as migration and jobseeker the government’s rhetoric is timid, when it could boldly go bigger on both

Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has called for unity in the Liberal Party, saying ‘the time to sook and moan is done’, and there’s a push for councils in SA to change their bylaws so transgender, intersex and gender-diverse people can choose which public toilet they use.

Anthony Albanese’s first year as prime minister will, as it happens, be bookended by meetings of the Quad – the gathering of the leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia.

Australia will end a decade-old freeze on the minimum wage for skilled migrant workers as part of an overhaul of what the government describes as a broken migration system

Lifting the minimum pay rate for skilled workers, tightening rules for people seeking to study in Australia, and ending the permanent migration cap are all changes on the table for the federal government, as it seeks to rewrite the rules on immigration.