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12.12 / 14:21

Digital Google Platform ByteDance TikTok Instagram reports Australia plans to tax digital platforms that don't pay for news

The Australian government says it will tax large digital platforms and search engines unless they agree to share revenue with Australian news media organizations

25.11 / 17:43

UPS Digital Platform Assurant TikTok Instagram social Social media sites call for Australia to delay its ban on children younger than 16

An advocate for major social media platforms has told Australia's Parliament that a plan to ban children younger than 16 from the sites should be delayed rather than being rushed to approval this week

25.11 / 07:01

UPS Digital Platform Bill social Australia withdraws a misinformation bill after critics compare it to censorship

Australia’s government has withdrawn a bill that would give a media watchdog power to monitor digital platforms and require them to keep records about misinformation and disinformation on their networks

21.11 / 03:37

UPS Digital Platform Bill social isolate prevention A social media ban for children younger than 16 is introduced in Australia's Parliament

Legislation to create a world-first law banning children under 16 from social media has been introduced in Australia's Parliament

20.11 / 13:27

Digital Platform TikTok Bill Instagram social information Australia won't force social media users to share their personal details when child ban takes effect

Australian communications minister says the government won’t force social media users to hand over personal information to tech companies, as children younger than 16 are set to be banned from the platforms

01.10 / 14:27

UPS Platform Research wellness Fishing show reports Australia's online dating industry adopts code of conduct to keep users safer

Australia’s government says a code of conduct will be enforced on the online dating industry to better protect Australian users after research found that three-in-four people suffer some form of sexual violence through the platforms

09.11 / 09:23

Action Mobile Deloitte Bill show information reports Optus crisis to shake up telco market

The Optus outage is forecast to hasten a shake-up of the telecommunications industry, threatening the Singaporean-owned group’s mobile market share as it scrambles to stop customers from fleeing after massive disruption to internet and phone services on Wednesday.

09.11 / 05:54

Digital Action country hospital reports compensation Customers Australia to investigate Optus outage as customers seek compensation

Optus that cut off internet and phone connections to nearly half of its population, causing widespread chaos and leading some small business customers to seek compensation. More than 10 million Australians, 40% of the population, were hit by the 12-hour network blackout at the nation's No. 2 telco firm for much of Wednesday, triggering fury and frustration among customers and raising concerns about the country's telecommunications infrastructure.

07.11 / 20:57

Art Platform Netflix film show reports Albo’s two ways to force Netflix and Amazon to make more Aussie shows

Netflix could be forced to spend 30 per cent of its budget on Australian films and shows, and Amazon Prime Video 25 per cent, in a new Albanese government proposal that introduces a sliding scale to make bigger players invest more.

05.11 / 20:05

Provident Digital Google CEO Platform Apple reports Media chiefs demand ‘urgent’ curb of big tech

Ten of Australia’s most powerful media executives and industry body chiefs have called on the Albanese government to establish new competition laws to stop big tech companies stifling rivals.

19.09 / 11:27

Provident FIVE Platform social Australia tells dating apps to improve safety standards to protect users from sexual violence

Australia’s government is telling the online dating industry to improve safety standards or be forced to make changes through legislation

12.09 / 13:05

UPS Digital social poker Country’s online gambling ministers to meet amid credit card crackdown

The government says it will convene a meeting with the state, territory and federal MPs responsible for online gambling before the end of the year, as it moves to ban the use of credit cards for online wagering.

22.08 / 05:37

FIVE Art Digital Williams Ita Buttrose to step down from ABC

Ita Buttrose has told the government she will not seek a second term as chairwoman of the influential ABC board, and plans to step down when her term expires in March next year.

20.08 / 06:41

MET Platform Pool country The Matildas effect: Albanese gives extra $200m for women’s sport

Women’s sport will get a $200 million funding injection from the federal government, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese moves to capitalise on Matildas fever stemming from the World Cup.

19.08 / 00:07

UPS Provident Amazon audience Matildas boom prompts crackdown on sports disappearing behind paywalls

The record 11-million-strong audience for the Matildas’ FIFA Women’s World Cup bid has helped put women’s sports on the table for an overhaul of games protected to appear on free-to-air television.

10.08 / 07:59

UPS Target Telstra show NBN Co won’t try to up average revenue this year

NBN Co will not seek more revenue per user this year despite increasing inflation, as it prepares its fourth attempt at setting new pricing for retailers including Telstra, TPG and Optus.

06.08 / 04:07

FIVE CEO Action film show Woodside files formal complaint with ABC over CEO protest

Woodside Energy has lodged an official complaint with the ABC after a TV crew from the broadcaster’s flagship investigative show Four Corners was present at a dawn protest by climate change activists at the home of chief executive Meg O’Neill.

20.07 / 21:03

Provident Aware show voice Inside audience Government urged to inject young blood into ABC board

The Albanese government has begun the slow process of remaking the ABC’s influential board – and chairman Ita Buttrose has advised it to consider young blood for at least one director’s seat, according to a person familiar with the matter.

26.06 / 01:27

business Facebook Government Social Media Google Media safe 'Keep Australia safe': Dystopian draft bill against 'misinformation' unveiled

A draft bill from the Australian government is warning tech and social media giants to remove misinformation from their platforms or be prepared to pay up big fines.

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