Criminal groups farm illicit tobacco as authorities confiscate imports
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Criminal groups farm illicit tobacco as authorities confiscate imports

In the most recent fiscal year until the end of May,the ABF has seized 512 million cigarettes,a 36 per cent increase from the same period the previous year.

  • byLaura Chung

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More explanation needed on Australia’s naming and shaming of cyber attackers

More explanation needed on Australia’s naming and shaming of cyber attackers

The average Australian should be confused about Australia’s policy in calling out countries behind malicious cyber attacks.

  • byAnthony Galloway
‘Illicit gain’:Australia accuses China of criminal cyber attacks

‘Illicit gain’:Australia accuses China of criminal cyber attacks

Australia and other countries - including the United States and all NATO members - have accused China’s Ministry of State Security of carrying out cyber attacks itself as well as paying for criminal large-scale hacks.

  • byAnthony Galloway
Katie Hopkins escorted to airport after federal government cancels visa

Katie Hopkins escorted to airport after federal government cancels visa

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says Katie Hopkins will be leaving Australia as soon as the government can possibly arrange it. “I’m hopeful that it will happen imminently.”

  • byBroede Carmody
‘Real and present danger’:Government considers making company directors personally liable for cyber attacks
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‘Real and present danger’:Government considers making company directors personally liable for cyber attacks

Government research shows cyber crime is costing the Australian economy about $3.5 billion every year.

  • byAnthony Galloway
Assistant minister for women supporting only man in five-way Liberal preselection contest
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Assistant minister for women supporting only man in five-way Liberal preselection contest

Queensland senator Amanda Stoker has thrown her support behind Henry Pike in the race to replace outgoing Liberal-National MP Andrew Laming for the seat of Bowman.

  • byRob Harris
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Bipartisan inquiry urges government to declare all of Hezbollah a terrorist group

Bipartisan inquiry urges government to declare all of Hezbollah a terrorist group

Liberal Senator James Paterson said Australia’s position to only list one arm of Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation was “increasingly isolated internationally”.

  • byAnthony Galloway
‘She is sick’:Lawyer for Murugappan family hits back at minister’s remarks on illness

‘She is sick’:Lawyer for Murugappan family hits back at minister’s remarks on illness

Tharnicaa Murugappan will likely remain in Perth hospital for at least another week while she recovers.

  • byZach Hope andKatina Curtis
Deliberate cruelty to punish parents:Former High Court chief justice slams Tamil treatment
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Deliberate cruelty to punish parents:Former High Court chief justice slams Tamil treatment

A former High Court chief justice has slammed the “deliberate cruelty” inflicted on the children of a Tamil family detained on Christmas Island.

  • byDavid Crowe
The government has another,simpler option to return this Tamil family to Biloela

The government has another,simpler option to return this Tamil family to Biloela

The Morrison government’s messaging on the plight of this family has been confused,but it still can act humanely.

  • byMichelle Grattan
Biloela family’s plight puts nation at the crossroads

Biloela family’s plight puts nation at the crossroads

The images of Tharnicaa on a hospital bed are ones that no one can or should look away from. But what is happening to Tharnicca is not an aberration but the intended outcome of our cruel approach to people seeking asylum.

  • byKon Karapanagiotidis andJana Favero