No compromise:Labor targets Greens in election on up to 20 bills

No compromise:Labor targets Greens in election on up to 20 bills

Labor has pulled its misinformation crackdown and won’t put forward gambling reform this week but is pushing the Greens to accept its agenda on up to 20 other bills unchanged.

  • byDavid Crowe

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‘Museum of political disasters’:Truth bill dies as Greens join Coalition to block it

‘Museum of political disasters’:Truth bill dies as Greens join Coalition to block it

The Coalition called the misinformation bill an Orwellian ministry of truth,but the Greens said it was too compromised to stamp out dangerous lies and conspiracies.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Chalmers challenges Musk complaints over social media ban

Chalmers challenges Musk complaints over social media ban

Billionaire Elon Musk doesn’t like the Albanese government’s proposed social media ban for children under 16.

  • byOlivia Ireland
Huge fines planned for tech giants that let kids on apps

Huge fines planned for tech giants that let kids on apps

As it moves to tamp down concerns about handing over IDs,the Albanese government will on Thursday put forward a world-first bill to block younger teens from social media.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Soccer club ditches Musk’s ‘hate machine’ X ahead of German election

Soccer club ditches Musk’s ‘hate machine’ X ahead of German election

St Pauli encouraged its 250,000 followers to switch to Bluesky,the rival social network championed by former Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey.

Billionaire battle:The king of luxury is set to face off with Elon Musk

Billionaire battle:The king of luxury is set to face off with Elon Musk

Bernard Arnault has traded places with Elon Musk as the world’s richest man numerous times in recent years. Now the pair are set for a clash of a different kind.

  • byChris Price
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United Australia senator Ralph Babet posts racist,homophobic slurs
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United Australia senator Ralph Babet posts racist,homophobic slurs

Greens leader Adam Bandt condemned Babet’s posts,arguing that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory had emboldened the hard right.

  • byOlivia Ireland
‘I love you Elon’:How Musk helped rocket Trump back into the White House

‘I love you Elon’:How Musk helped rocket Trump back into the White House

The world’s richest man lent his considerable weight to Donald Trump’s campaign. Elon Musk is now even richer – and he has all-areas access to the president-elect.

  • byJacqueline Maley
Shouty protesters,Elon Musk and our dumb attempts at democracy

Shouty protesters,Elon Musk and our dumb attempts at democracy

I was in the audience when Radiohead’s Thom Yorke called a heckler a coward. This episode got me thinking about freedom and protest – and how not to go about it.

  • byMalcolm Knox
Children under 16 to be banned from using social media

Children under 16 to be banned from using social media

“Social media is doing harm to our kids,and I’m calling time on it,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said as he announced the ban.

  • byPaul Sakkal andMichelle Griffin
Pauline Hanson racially vilified Mehreen Faruqi,court rules
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Pauline Hanson racially vilified Mehreen Faruqi,court rules

A Federal Court judge found a tweet by the One Nation leader was a variant of “go back to where you came from”,which was a “racist trope with a long history”.

  • byMichaela Whitbourn andSarah McPhee