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Trust in big tech companies is eroding at every level — from platforms, policy and content — as new data shows serious concern in Australia about misinformation, AI and data misuse. 

SOCIAL MEDIACommentsNew research shows trust in big tech eroding at every level

Trust in big tech companies is eroding at every level — from platforms, policy, and content — as new data shows serious concern in Australia about misinformation, AI, and data misuse. 

Caitlyn Rintoul

THE ECONOMIST: China’s Artificial Intelligence juggernaut is barrelling ahead, despite a Trumpian ban on chips from the US.

AI dominance CommentsBeijing’s envoy says Australia’s AI resistance ‘great pity’

Beijing’s envoy to Canberra has described Australia’s resistance to artificial intelligence collaboration as a “great pity” and warned “to turn away from China, is to turn away from opportunities”.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Anthony Albanese is defending his government’s stand on returning the Port of Darwin to Australian ownership ahead of his meeting with China president Xi Jinping.

Federal PoliticsComments‘Turbulent world’: China’s threat to block Aussie exports

The Chinese ambassador has hinted at fresh economic sanctions against Australia if the Albanese Government proceeds with the forced buyback of Darwin Port from a Beijing-controlled company.

Andrew Greene and Caitlyn Rintoul

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivers his victory speech.

FEDERAL POLITICSPremiumLabor review warns of AI threat to future elections

A Labor review of the 2025 Federal election has flagged the threat of artificial intelligence in future campaigns after “emerging trend is for bad faith actors” spreading misleading information online. 

Caitlyn Rintoul

The NT Senator, Jacinta Nampijinpa wasn’t the only one to abstain from the vote despite the Liberals cutting a deal with Anthony Albanese to support the passage of the bill. 

Bondi response CommentsSenate system ‘working’ despite Senator missing for vote

Bureaucrats have insisted the parliamentary alert system functioned correctly this week – throwing doubt on excuses made by Opposition Senators for missing crucial votes.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Anthony Albanese revealed he will give Labor strategist Tim Picton’s daughter a touching letter after he was killed in an alleged one-punch attack.

FEDERAL POLITICSPremiumPM Albanese in Perth to pay respects at Picton memorial

Anthony Albanese has flown to Perth to attend the memorial service of the party’s former WA secretary Tim Picton after he was killed in an alleged one-punch attack in Northbridge. 

Caitlyn Rintoul

Liberal MP Melissa McIntosh has labelled ABC’s ‘Always Was Tonight program which aired on the taxpayer-funded broadcaster this week as ‘distasteful and divisive’.

Federal PoliticsCommentsABC should apologise for ‘disgraceful’ comedy show: McIntosh

Melissa McIntosh has called for ABC executives to apologise over a ‘disgraceful’ comedy show she claims is ‘further fuelling division’ and featured children in spit hoods with references to the Ku Klux Klan.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Chris Bowen at a press conference at the Synergy big battery in Naval Base.

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WA offshore wind projects secure final feasibility licences

Three offshore wind projects vying for a place in WA’s Geographe Bay have inched closer to development after the Federal Government offered them final feasibility licences.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Australia has left open the possibility of signing on to Donald Trump’s international ‘Board of Peace’ proposed for the second phase of the US President’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza.

Federal PoliticsCommentsAustralia leaves door open to Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

Australia has left open the possibility of signing on to Donald Trump’s international ‘Board of Peace’ proposed for the second phase of the US President’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Liberal senator Michaelia Cash abstained from voting on Labor’s hate speech laws, but has since said it was unintentional.

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Michaelia Cash says missing hate law vote was unintentional

Sussan Ley’s authority has again been tested with her most senior opposition senator, Michaelia Cash, last night abstaining from voting on hate crime laws.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Gun reforms and hate crimes laws in response to the Bondi Beach terror attack have exposed a rife in the Coalition.

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Three Nats resign from shadow ministry after hate laws split

Three National Party frontbenchers who split with the Liberals to vote against Labor’s hate crime laws have sensationally resigned from the shadow ministry, putting further pressure on Sussan Ley’s leadership.

Caitlyn Rintoul and Andrew Greene

Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.

Federal PoliticsCommentsMajor hate crime laws and gun reforms set to pass

Labor teams up with The Greens to pass gun control measures before clinching support for a watered-down suite of hate speech laws with the Liberals, despite internal Coalition tensions.

Caitlyn Rintoul and Andrew Greene