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• Minister’s New York dash to spruik social media ban cost more than $100,000

  02-12-2025 23:07 via smh.com.au
  
  Taxpayers footed the more than $100,000 travel bill for Communications Minister Anika Wells’ trip to New York in the wake of the Optus outage.
  
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• Minister’s New York dash to spruik social media ban cost $100,000

  02-12-2025 23:07 via smh.com.au
  
  Taxpayers footed the almost $100,000 travel bill for Communications Minister Anika Wells trip to New York in the wake of the Optus outage.
  
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• YouTube 'outright weird' for saying platform isn't safe, Anika Wells says — as it happened

  02-12-2025 21:32 via abc.net.au
  
  YouTube agrees to comply with Australia's under 16s social media ban but repeats its criticism of the law and says it "won't keep teens safer online".
  
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• Live: YouTube slams 'rushed' social media ban but will comply with laws

  02-12-2025 21:32 via abc.net.au
  
  YouTube agrees to comply with Australia's under 16s social media ban but repeats its criticism of the law and says it "won't keep teens safer online". Follow live.
  
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• Live: YouTube 'outright weird' for saying platform isn't safe, Anika Wells says

  02-12-2025 21:32 via abc.net.au
  
  YouTube agrees to comply with Australia's under 16s social media ban but repeats its criticism of the law and says it "won't keep teens safer online". Follow live.
  
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• Live: Housing minister defends approach as approvals for new homes lag

  02-12-2025 21:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Housing Minister Clare O'Neil is on the defensive this morning after fresh data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics casts doubt on the government's ability to reach its new homes target. Follow live.
  
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• ‘Offer on the table’: Australian army helicopters set to aid fight against Putin

  02-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The transfer would help make amends for the much-criticised decision to dispose of the army’s fleet of Taipan helicopters instead of sending them to Ukraine.
  
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• Labor or Coalition; It’s still the same old ‘jobs for mates’

  02-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Lynelle Briggs’ report found that cronyism in public appointments is real, entrenched, and corrosive to public trust.
  
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• 'Big Brother cannot watch us': Indian government phone app plan sparks outrage

  02-12-2025 17:26 via abc.net.au
  
  New Delhi wants a government app installed on all of the country's mobile phones, but opposition MPs and privacy advocates have voiced concerns about surveillance.
  
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• Lemon8 and Yope put on notice as social media age ban targets

  02-12-2025 12:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Social media platforms Lemon8 and Yope are put on notice about age limit laws as both apps surge in popularity ahead of a ban for under 16s.
  
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• As teens flee to new apps to avoid social media ban, Wells says she’ll ban those too

  02-12-2025 12:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Children have already started migrating to apps not yet caught up in the teen social media ban, but Communications Minister Anika Wells said she wouldn’t hesitate to add more platforms to the list.
  
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• Best of cartoons, December 3, 2025

  02-12-2025 11:41 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• WA electoral commissioner resigns months after problem-plagued election

  02-12-2025 10:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Robert Kennedy tends his resignation as WA electoral commissioner, nine months after a state election that was plagued by issues including long wait-times to vote, and polling booths running out of ballot papers.
  
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• Secret Liberal probe blames Trump for ruining Dutton’s election

  02-12-2025 08:49 via smh.com.au
  
  Leaked elements of the yet-to-be-released probe found the Donald Trump effect, poor decisions and failed communication fuelled the rapid unravelling of the Coalition’s election campaign.
  
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• Three deaths related to asbestos exposure at former ABC site

  02-12-2025 08:26 via abc.net.au
  
  Staff at the former ABC studios in Elsternwick were exposed to asbestos over an extended period.
  
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• Young detainee forced to wear makeshift spit hood, report finds

  02-12-2025 08:24 via abc.net.au
  
  An incident at a Tasmanian youth detention centre where a detainee had an improvised spit hood put over his head while being transported by a contracted security company, has been criticised for being "entirely incompatible" with human rights.
  
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• Optus reveals nearly half a million phones may be unable to dial Triple Zero

  02-12-2025 06:57 via abc.net.au
  
  The figure has been provided to a Senate estimates hearing, where the media regulator appeared on Tuesday.
  
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• Satellite images show scale of China's Philippine Sea flotilla

  02-12-2025 06:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Private firm Starboard Maritime Intelligence says it has used satellite technology to track down the People's Liberation Army Navy task group.
  
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• New satellite images show scale of China's Philippine Sea flotilla

  02-12-2025 06:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Private firm Starboard Maritime Intelligence says it has used satellite technology to track down the People's Liberation Army Navy task group.
  
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• The government is more than 70,000 homes behind schedule, and house values are surging

  02-12-2025 05:57 via smh.com.au
  
  The government is falling further behind on its 1.2 million home target. It’s not hurting the value of our real estate, which is now at $12 trillion.
  
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• There’s a loophole in telehealth – the industry ‘drove a Mack truck through it’

  02-12-2025 05:52 via smh.com.au
  
  Telehealth has turbocharged several Australian medical sectors – including cannabis. The regulator has warned it’s also enabling unchecked prescribing and unsafe care as oversight struggles to catch up.
  
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• New details of ADF sexual violence probe revealed

  02-12-2025 02:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Minister Matt Keogh is addressing the National Press Club a year after the government responded to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.
  
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• PNG proposes setting up 'no-man's land' on border with Indonesia

  02-12-2025 02:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have started holding annual defence ministers meetings to build trust and boost military cooperation, while PNG proposes building a 10km-wide demilitarised "buffer zone" along its border with Indonesia. 
  
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• PNG calls for 'buffer zone' with Indonesia amid concerns over West Papua conflict

  02-12-2025 02:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have started holding annual defence ministers meetings to build trust and boost military cooperation, while PNG proposes building a 10km-wide demilitarised "buffer zone" along its border with Indonesia. 
  
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• ‘Overpaid political hacks’: Public trust lost over jobs for mates

  02-12-2025 00:55 via smh.com.au
  
  The recommendations of a long-awaited review into political appointments have been set aside by the government.
  
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• ‘How not to do something really important’: BoM boss grilled over $96m website

  02-12-2025 00:10 via smh.com.au
  
  The BoM’s new chief said cost blow outs were within the normal range as senators grilled the agency over its near-billion-dollar security upgrade.
  
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