The power to immediately suspend an individual’s working with children check during an investigation is among changes expected to pass parliament this week Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news
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Victoria is the latest jurisdiction to adopt laws that punish offenders who brag about their crimes on social media, as Western Australia considers a similar bill to increase the maximum prison sentence. Critics fear the legislation could stifle free speech and lead
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Lawyer’s lack of defamation experience leads to strange scenes in court as four-year legal battle comes to abrupt end Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Bruce Lehrmann’s appeal of Justice Michael Lee’s April 2024 defamation judgment wrapped
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Exclusive: Environment department document states that Burrup peninsula site near Woodside gas plant ‘under threat of injury or desecration’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The environment minister,
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Labor will seek to legislate national standards and federal EPA in one package rather than multiple stages, as it tried and failed to do last term Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for climate and environment editor
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Pair allege platform failed to provide them with procedural fairness, claiming it has ‘permanently removed’ their livelihood Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A Victorian couple is suing
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Earlier this month an Australian-based Uyghur group launched legal action against Kmart in the federal court. The case has put the retailer’s supply chain under scrutiny for potential links to forced labour in China’s Xinjiang province. Nour Haydar speaks with senior reporter
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Australia’s gun laws are often called the gold standard for community safety, but almost 30 years on from the Port Arthur massacre that led to decisive reforms, there are more legal firearms in the country than ever before. Nour Haydar speaks with
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Kmart supply chains under scrutiny for potential Uyghur forced labour links in Australian court case
Retailer insists it has no connection to forced labour and is ‘committed to respecting human rights’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The letter was effusively polite, the
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The former Liberal staffer is appealing against a ruling that he raped Brittany Higgins on the balance of probabilities Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Bruce Lehrmann’s appeal against the federal court ruling that he was not
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