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Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson says he is concerned posts about the so-called COVID-19 “lab leak” theory could have been censored by government.

Tech giants warn new ‘fake news’ rules could limit free speech

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram says it has concerns new legislation designed to limit the spread of online misinformation could be abused.

  • Matthew Knott

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Former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden arrive at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania

Democrat senator slams Biden, as Obama and Trump make late push for votes

Influential Democratic Party senator Joe Manchin has accused the president of being “divorced from reality” and saying it was “time he learnt a lesson”.

  • Farrah Tomazin
Fires burn out of control near Landiras, south of Bordeaux.

As Europe burns, the world’s climate plan, such as it is, unravels

As Europe descends into a furnace, global action on climate change is being delayed by politics and war.

  • Nick O'Malley
Prospects for the billionaires tax appear to be dimming fast in Congress. The pivotal Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is signalling his opposition to the plan along with some others, including some of his fellow Democrats, who have described such a tax as logistically impractical.

One man’s change of heart has put a historic deal in jeopardy

After decades of effort, the OECD finally managed to persuade nearly 140 countries to agree to a global minimum tax deal late last year. Now, however, it appears that the transformative deal is under threat.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Andrew Forrest, the founder and chairman of Fortescue.

‘No one’s married to coal’: How Forrest is taking on the world to save the climate

Andrew Forrest wants to save the world with planes, trains and mining trucks. Some doubt the scale, but few question the ambition.

  • Nick O'Malley
Elon Musk. Musk, the richest person in the world, has pushed back against proposals to tax the assets of billionaires.

Joe Biden’s new ‘billionaire tax’ to target the likes of Elon Musk

The White House proposal says the new tax would ensure that “the wealthiest Americans no longer pay a tax rate lower than teachers and firefighters”.

  • Jeff Stein
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Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has helped torpedo a centrepiece of the Democratic Party’s economic agenda.

The coal man with the fate of the world in his hands

A single senator from the coal-rich, dirt poor American state of West Virginia is holding up Joe Biden’s climate agenda and potentially derailing global climate efforts.

  • Nick O'Malley

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