Month: June 2024

Victorian supreme court justice delivers judgment scathing of Dutton’s failure as a minister to disclose a crucial report during case Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, may be investigated by
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Attorney general Mark Dreyfus is appealing an FOI court ruling that said the practice could be criminal and must stop Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The federal government is fighting for the right to
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Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta refused to attend court on charges of trespassing over an anti-forestry protest Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates• ‘I’m ready for everything and I don’t care’: the man refusing to turn up at an Australian ‘colonial’
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Immigration minister says he relied on information from home affairs department that has since been ‘clarified’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Andrew Giles has backed down
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Inflexible laws allow perpetrators to dispute ownership of belongings, leaving their partners to start from scratch Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Tessa scarcely had time to collect her belongings before escaping the home she
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Legal experts say a ‘carve-out’ clause in the law relating to extraditions could let the attorney general decline to enforce arrest warrants issued under international law Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast In 2002, a
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Attorney general Mark Dreyfus to introduce legislation on Wednesday targeting use of generative AI to create non-consensual deepfake porn Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Sharing digitally altered “deepfake” pornographic images will attract a penalty
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