Tanya Plibersek

The changes, including restrictions for 16- and 17-year-olds on websites that allow infinite scrolling and algorithmic content, which can push harmful material into feeds, as well as tighter age-verification checks, will come into effect in March.

Labor stuffed up tactically in early August when Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s speech announcing an immigration crackdown was canned at the last minute

No matter how Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce describe their policy as some sort of costless way to help people deal with their living expenses, there will be a measurable cost in the near and long term

Scots College has faced criticism for not taking similar action against three of its students, aged 13 and 14, who are accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a Bondi Junction alleyway

After she was allegedly strangled during consensual sex with her boyfriend, a 16-year-old girl from Sydney’s northern beaches died in hospital this week

But separate comments during that interview in which he joked about a gift from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during her visit to Australia in May drew furore this week from his political opponents

Australian PM angers Japan with crude joke about leader’s melons

Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek has batted away questions about whether money raised by the Labor Party at a controversial Point Piper dinner should be repaid

Failed auctions like this were once the exception in Sydney’s red-hot property market

For decades a fringe outfit led by provocateur Pauline Hanson, polling released over the weekend by the Australian Financial Review showed One Nation has overtaken the ruling Labor Party in support

About 80 per cent of trusts in Australia are discretionary, with around 840,000 currently in operation

It encourages motorists to drive less where possible, switch to public transport or active travel, maintain proper tyre pressure, remove unnecessary roof racks and avoid aggressive acceleration

A driver has vented his frustration after discovering he was given significantly less fuel than he paid for at the bowser twice in two weeks

In towns in my region, places like Manilla and Walgett, service stations are running out of fuel,' Joyce said

Plibersek urged parents not to let their children watch the “dangerous” reality TV juggernaut, which regularly attracts more than 2 million viewers on broadcast television alone