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Pro-Palestine activist Zee Mazloum has issued The Australian and its NSW political reporter Alexi Demetriadi with a concerns notice alleging an article published on November 8 titled “Activist Zee Mazloum posted vile Jewish threats” is defamatory. The issuing of a concerns notice is the first step in defamation proceedings and generally provides the opportunity for […]
ABC chair Kim Williams, addressing the National Press Club on Wednesday, has called for greater investment in the national broadcaster as the best method of fighting misinformation. Williams said that “as our nation has become richer, our nation’s broadcaster has become much poorer”, noting the $150 million annual reduction in the ABC’s budget over the […]
A man says he was unable to contribute to the federal government’s snap teen social media ban inquiry because the parliamentary committee did not respond to his request for accommodations for his disability. Last Thursday, Labor referred its draft legislation to restrict children under the age of 16 from having social media accounts to the […]
If the greyhound abuse industry in NSW is a particularly sordid mess presided over by the gambling-addicted NSW Labor Party, things are even grubbier in Victoria. Greyhound Racing Victoria’s annual report emerged at the end of October and the outlook is bleak for citizens in Australia’s highest-taxed state. Despite the Victorian government handing $40 million […]
If Crikey readers — who generally skew older, like most people who continue to pay for news — want an insight into just how different Australia’s young people are from them, they can do worse than have a look at the data from the Scanlon Foundation’s social cohesion report. Some of the reported outcomes of the […]
One of Australia’s leading children’s online safety experts says the teen social media ban may backfire by putting more young Australians at risk and by letting tech companies off the hook. With the federal government poised to introduce a law this week that would ban Australians under the age of 16 from social media, opposition […]