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Kids enjoy a break in the weather at Byron bay before the arrival of Cyclone Alfred.

As the weather bureau pumps out crucial cyclone information, millions look elsewhere

As millions wait for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall, not everyone is looking to the Bureau of Meteorology for their information.

  • Nick O'Malley and Bianca Hall

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Anthony Albanese, Abbie Chatfield, Peter Dutton and Sam Fricker.

Soft questions, angry comments: Albanese and Dutton hit the podcast campaign

Albanese and Dutton have embraced a strategy that helped return Trump to the White House: courting influencers who lob soft questions for audiences who don’t follow mainstream news.

  • Nick Bonyhady, Calum Jaspan, Olivia Ireland and Paul Sakkal
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants to make social media safer for children.

Meta says Labor taking secretive approach to social ban amid Trump threat

As Labor plots a restriction on teens using social media, Donald Trump is threatening tariffs against countries that target American tech firms.

  • Paul Sakkal
Students at Queenwood play on the monkeybars after their parents struck a deal with the school not to buy students a smartphone.

The principal who made a pact with parents about what happens after school

Bans and restrictions on use and type of mobile phones are gaining traction.

  • Christopher Harris
Composite of David Lindsay Davies outside court, a graphic from Earth 2’s Facebook page, and Earth 2 chief executive Shane Isaac.

Man’s charge over death threats to tech CEO dropped

A man has been cleared of making death threats to a tech chief executive on a chat forum but admitted refusing to give police his phone pass code while they were investigating the case.

  • Savannah Meacham
Jason Haines, the managing director of Canberra food relief charity St John’s Care, said it made him “physically sick” to know that scammers were “preying on people that are basically going without”.

‘I can’t buy food for my children’: Facebook profits from charity scams costing taxpayers

Facebook operator Meta has been repeatedly warned about a nasty genre of scam ads targeting Australians, but they continue to be published.

  • Aisha Dow
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Pete Evans in a post he shared on social media on the day Donald Trump was re-elected as US president.

He was banned from social media. So how come chef Pete Evans is back?

The election of Donald Trump and the installation of Robert F Kennedy Jr as his secretary of health has put fresh wind in the sails of the disgraced celebrity chef.

  • Karl Quinn
The odd couple? Elon Musk and Erin Molan have teamed up for a new current affairs show on X

Erin Molan and Elon Musk made a TV show for Twitter. It’s as weird as it sounds

After watching the first episode, I feel that news and current affairs have gone to the Doges.

  • Thomas Mitchell
US President Donald Trump and Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who is in the US for talks.

Trump aide’s fresh attack on tech taxes ahead of Australian trade summit

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is set to meet his US counterpart, Scott Bessent, along with the director of President Donald Trump’s National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, in Washington.

  • Michael Koziol
Elon Musk is reportedly father to a 13th child.

Elon Musk eyes an escape from the trap that has cost him billions

Elon Musk may be on the verge of a Houdini-like escape from the financial morass that was his $US44 billion acquisition of Twitter. He can thank Donald Trump.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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