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Australia social media ban LIVE updates: PM lauds decision as children under 16 barred from social media in world-first; teens flock to TikTok to show Snapchat ban
Australia’s social media ban comes into effect today, with children under 16 barred from some of the most popular social media apps in the world. Follow our live coverage.
- Brittany Busch and Bronte Gossling
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The MPs who spent more than $100,000 – and the ministers who spent $0 – on family travel
Australian taxpayers have spent more than $4 million on travel for politicians’ families and spouses since the election of the Albanese government.
- Natassia Chrysanthos, Brittany Busch and Nigel Gladstone
‘Tech bros have stolen my family’: Sydney household debates social media ban
Things get real when Hamish, Cristina, Ariel and Elena De Souza-Bell chat about the social media ban and how it will impact all of them.
- Kayla Olaya
- Letters
- Letters
One Nation may be deplorable but its voters are not
Readers have strong opinions about Barnaby Joyce’s move to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.
- Opinion
- Political expenses
The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal
Ministerial survival depends on a single, unwavering principle: the prime minister refuses to give ground to his enemies. He’d sooner sandpaper his own shins.
- Rob Harris
- Analysis
- Anthony Albanese
Richo’s sins are washed as the Love Boat, Gold Coast and other scandals fade into the mist
The great and the good assembled to farewell Graham Richardson, honoured for his singular talent in wielding political influence.
- Harriet Alexander
- Opinion
- Social media
Social media ban shouldn’t be judged by its impact on day one
Regardless of workarounds and likely teething problems, the impact of the law will be measured not over days and weeks, but over the much longer term.
- Tim Biggs
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- Political expenses
Wells refers expenses to watchdog as flights to Labor event emerge
Wells charged taxpayers more than $2000 for flights to Sydney to attend a Labor Party fundraiser in August, while the minister referred her own use of entitlements to the independent watchdog on Tuesday.
- James Massola and Brittany Busch
- Political Sketch
- Liberal Party
They came to mourn Richo, but not all of his ‘mates’ were there
They came to mourn and farewell Graham Richardson. Some, you might venture, came to be sure he was finally gone.
- Tony Wright
Former Labor ministers grilled over delayed child protection scheme
As MPs returned to state parliament on Tuesday, the government went on the attack over a damning report into the state’s worst childcare paedophile.
- Matt Dennien
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