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‘Known each other for a long time’: Gambling ad ban consultant is Michelle Rowland’s former colleague

Exclusive: Prior to her career in politics, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland worked for 10 years with a consultant her department recently hired to do a project on gambling policy.

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Rowland’s betting rolodex, Leunig’s new gig, and who’s shelling out to have tea with BoJo?

Boris Johnson is compared to Nelson Mandela for surely the first time ever, and Michael Leunig finds religion.

Crikey

Albanese government forging ahead with social media age restrictions despite Meta’s new Instagram teen accounts

Communications minister Michelle Rowland welcomes Meta’s announcement but suggests it doesn’t strongly enforce its present age limit on Instagram

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Aussie teens face Insta curbs but enforcement queried

Social media platform Instagram will move to restrict the accounts of teenagers in Australia to improve their safety and reduce exposure to harmful content.

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Elon Musk dubs Australia’s gov’t ‘fascists’ over misinformation law

Tech billionaire’s comments prompt rebuke from Australian officials.

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Labor bills aim to clean up online discourse

The government will today introduce bills aimed at cracking down on online misinformation and privacy breaches, and Kamala Harris wins the latest presidential debate.

Crikey

Social media misinformation to be policed by watchdog

The communications watchdog will be given new powers to crack down on misinformation on digital platforms under proposed federal laws.

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Labor bill proposes up to seven years’ jail for doxing but drops promised new hate speech laws

Legislation will be introduced on Thursday along with a children’s online privacy code and misinformation laws

The Guardian - AU

View from The Hill: Social media age ban all to the good, but can Albanese deliver before election?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been late out of the blocks on a ban on children accessing social media. Now that he has promised to act, pledging to introduce legislation this year, the question is whether it will be passed before the election.

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Disruption looms for Sydney commuters as union plans action – as it happened

All the day’s news as it unfolded

The Guardian - AU

Telcos to dial-up customer communication during outages

Telcos will be given updated rules for communicating with their customers during network-wide outages.

AAP

Mehreen Faruqi writes to communications minister over ABC board’s lack of diversity

Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has taken aim at the makeup of the ABC board in a letter, seen by Crikey, to Communications Minister Michelle Rowland.

Crikey

Bridget Archer and Fatima Payman sign letter pushing for total ban on gambling ads as independent MPs urge free vote

More than 20 parliamentarians – including Jacqui Lambie and Lidia Thorpe – sign letter calling for blanket ban

The Guardian - AU

Gambling levy proposed to help wean Australian media companies off betting ad addiction

Australia Institute says 2% levy on gambling companies’ revenue would compensate for the loss of $240m in advertising spend

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Labor’s partial gambling ad ban ‘manifestly inadequate’, advocates warn after talks with government

Proposed bans on online ads and inducements would make a difference to problem gambling, campaigners concede

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Annastacia Palaszczuk appointed to $107,000 Australia Post board job by Labor government

Former Queensland premier will serve a three-year term, replacing a Coalition appointment – the former Liberal party federal director Tony Nutt

The Guardian - AU

Victorian Labor minister says it would be ‘disgraceful’ if Albanese government doesn’t enact total gambling ad ban

Victoria’s gaming minister Melissa Horne joins growing push within the party to beef up a proposed partial ban on gambling advertising

The Guardian - AU

Optus and Telstra delay 3G network shutdown until October

Telcos say majority of customers are now on compatible phones as government remains concerned about triple zero calls and medical devices

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Anti-gambling advocates refuse to sign ‘ridiculous’ NDAs for Labor briefing on betting ads

The government has invited anti-gambling groups to a briefing on proposed reforms to the sector on Friday – but there’s a special condition if they want to attend

Crikey

What do we know about Labor’s gambling advertising reform? Not much, thanks to obsessive secrecy

The federal government has reportedly made stakeholders sign NDAs, and has redacted swathes of information from documents released under FOI. Here are the details we can glean from under the blanket of secrecy.

The Guardian - AU

Labor criticised for meetings with betting companies ahead of decision on gambling ads

Crossbenchers are furious at reports the government will propose a cap on television ads instead of a total ban

The Guardian - AU

‘A total cop-out’ if Albanese government refuses blanket ban on gambling ads, Pocock says

Betting ads would remain on television but be banned on social media and other digital platforms under intended proposal

AAP

Telcos to proceed with 3G closure despite inquiry fears

Threats to safety from the 3G mobile network shutdown are "too great to ignore", an inquiry warns, but Telstra and Optus are pressing ahead with their plans.

The Guardian - AU

Why is Australia’s 3G being shut down – and could it spell chaos?

While not many phones will be affected, business groups worry ATMs, alarms, CCTV, medical alert systems and more could be

AAP

Golden days of regional television quickly losing shine

More than 60,000 rural Australians have lost access to a free-to-air channel as regional broadcasters struggle, and experts say it's a sign of things to come.

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