Digital platforms and banks could incur more than $100m of costs to comply with new requirements to crack down on scams, according to modelling by the Treasury. Treasury’s impact analysis found that banks – especially small and foreign-owned banks – […]
Climate 200 has reported a surge in first-time donors in November off the back of a donation-matching campaign comparing the Coalition and opposition leader Peter Dutton to the politics of Donald Trump. The funding aggregator claims to have raised $377,000
President Joe Biden has been urged to pardon Julian Assange by two US congressmen who warn they are “deeply concerned” the Wikileaks founder’s guilty plea deal sets a precedent for prosecuting journalists and whistleblowers with espionage offences. James McGovern, a
More than 80,000 people are susceptible to deportation from Australia to third countries paid to take them under Labor’s new bill likened to the UK’s failed Rwanda deportation plan. At a Senate inquiry hearing on Thursday, home affairs department officials
Labor has introduced a bill that would allow drugs and mobile phones to be confiscated from non-citizens in immigration detention, despite opposing a phone ban when attempted by Peter Dutton in 2020. The Albanese government is proposing greater safeguards than
The Coalition is set to help Labor pass a controversial migration bill allowing Australia to pay third countries to accept unlawful non-citizens, subject to a one-week inquiry that may recommend minor changes. On Tuesday the opposition immigration spokesperson, Dan Tehan,
The outgoing US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, has labelled her cousin Robert F Kennedy Jr’s views on vaccines “dangerous”. After a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia on Monday, Caroline Kennedy took aim at a number
Nationals leader David Littleproud, shadow transport minister Bridget McKenzie and Senate Liberal leader Simon Birmingham have all rejected a backbench push to use Donald Trump’s election in the US to abandon support for net zero by 2050. The opposition leader,
The Albanese government has claimed it can keep ankle bracelets and curfews in force against non-citizens released from indefinite immigration detention despite the high court ruling the visa conditions are unconstitutional. On Wednesday the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, responded
Anthony Albanese has all but declared victory over the inflation crisis in an upbeat campaign rally speech promising more free Tafe places and cost of living support. On Sunday the prime minister addressed a rally in Adelaide, declaring that Australia
