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Labor must extend consultation period on anti-vilification proposals
Asian groups call on Australia to stop new fossil gas projects
What happens when charities don’t spend their money on the things they are meant to?
Freedom Of Expression Crucial To Democracy
ACCC welcomes additional retail sector enforcement funding
Companies keep selling harmful products – but history shows consumers can win in the end
Optus Senate Report recommends greater telco accountability, network safeguards
UN experts warn of irreparable harm to Indigenous Peoples’ rights ahead of AIIB loan disbursement and MotoGP race: Indonesia
Costly defamation action looms large over Australian newsrooms. It’s diminishing press freedom
Associations And Co-operatives Bill Goes To Parliament
Fox Coal Mineral Development Licence Application
With all these defamation lawsuits, what ever happened to free speech?
Associations And Co-operatives Bill Goes To Parliament
Labor’s Brutal Kick In Guts For Norco
Labor Fails to Deliver on Election Promise for Independent ICAC Funding
Laws targeting the display of Nazi hate symbols pass Parliament
RBA and Treasury Joint Paper on Central Bank Digital Currency and the Future of Digital Money in Australia
Appointments To Australian Competition Tribunal
UN experts call for suspension of professional journalism charter: Cambodia
Long-overdue Australian privacy law reform is here – and it’s still not fit for the digital era
Alex Greenwich’s defamation win against Mark Latham shows political spite is not above the law
Opinion piece: Competition reform will ensure flourishing future
Government to introduce legislation to combat seriously harmful misinformation and disinformation
First study to reveal how, when and where non-invasive brain stimulation works
A train crash 150 years ago is helping to bring the forgotten deaths of rail workers into the spotlight
Safety concerns are at the heart of the railway dispute as the arbitration decision draws near
Covert police operations may exploit vulnerable suspects
NSW Government – Changes to Anzac Day trading hours
Why is it so hard to cancel subscriptions or end ‘free’ trials? Report shows how companies trap you into paying
Nicheliving’s building contractor registration and the State Administrative Tribunal review
“Simple Measures Can Prevent Suicide”
Labor Blocks Inquiry Into CFMEU/Cbus Cartel
FMA statement on Statutory Management for Du Val corporations
Journalist shield laws passed to include corruption proceedings
Court rules that restorative justice demands community participation in Forestry crimes
What is ‘model collapse’? An expert explains the rumours about an impending AI doom
2% Levy on Gambling Revenue Could Replace Free-To-Air Advertising Spend
Rural water pricing model is pricing farmers out of business
Gambling ad ban test for Labor in Senate as Greens slam “shifty” excuses
APRA imposes additional licence conditions on the trustees for Cbus and BUSSQ
UN experts seriously concerned about dissolution of main political party: Thailand
Queensland’s premier wants publicly owned petrol stations – is that a good idea?
Albanese government will introduce legislation next week to force an administrator into the CFMEU
Huge gas fields – under a coral reef. Will a rejection on environmental grounds stop Woodside’s Browse project?
ICAC warns against weaponising ahead of 2024 local government elections
Recycled Soils Crackdown 6 Months Overdue
Public outrage is not enough: NZ needs to develop a legal remedy for cultural misappropriation
AgForce calls for urgency in overdue Wind Farm Code Reform