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Proposed laws would ban the use of digitally altered or AI-generated audio or visual content that depicts a person's face or voice without their consent.

Hundreds of thousands of Australian voters unknowingly hand their data to political parties each election, in a practice independents want gone.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be backed by a support crew at White House meeting, including Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron

Ads encouraging sport fans to ‘bet now’ do not breach any rules but gambling reform advocates say it shows industry attempts to self-regulate have failed

Australians who download apps that create nude images of people or generate child exploitation material could face 15 years in prison under proposed laws.

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The public wants the ads banned but the government keeps bowing to pressure. Now, with its whopping majority, what’s the excuse?

When the newspapers delivered their standard election-eve editorials, there were few surprises. Former Fairfax papers and smaller outlets offered qualified support for Labor, while the News Corp papers unashamedly championed the Coalition. In Adelaide, The Advertiser ran a curious line recommending a majority government of whatever persuasion, “lest our futures…

Major parties used to easily dismiss the rare politician who stood alone in parliament. These MPs could be written off as isolated idealists, and the press could condescend to them as noble, naïve and unlikely to succeed.