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Australians under 16 have woken up to a world-first social media ban this morning.

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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Communications and Sport Minister Anika Wells has defended her use of expenses and family reunion entitlements.

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
Cristina and her daughter Ariel.

‘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
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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.

Albanese says Wells operated entirely within the rules.

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
Inside St James’ Church ahead of the state funeral for Graham Richardson.

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
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The social media restrictions will be awkward and incomplete, but that doesn’t mean they won’t ultimately be worthwhile.

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
Communications and Sport Minister Anika Wells.

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
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Tony Abbott and Blanche D’Alpuget.

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
Queensland Attorney-General Deb Frecklington in parliament earlier this year.

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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