Young criminals face being hit with harsher penalties for boasting about their crimes on social media and judges will have to consider the bail history of juveniles under a new youth crime crackdown. 

Australians could be nursing a new year hangover from frenetic Christmas spending, led by a big leap in department stores, cafes and restaurants, with some analysts viewing the big hike in retail spending as the ‘last hurrah’ before the reality of higher interest rates and spiking energy bills hits households. 

AUSTRALIA will stamp out bullying, abuse and misconduct in all levels of sport with world-class safety and integrity measures ready to support the next generation of athletes “from the playground to the podium”. 

Australia’s leading infectious disease expert has called on the federal government to introduce restrictions on Chinese travellers amid concerns deadly new Covid-19 variants could be released from the country. 

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