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Social media
Jail time and billions in fines under fast-tracked crackdown on social media giants
Scott Morrison says the dramatic crackdown is necessary to "defuse the threat their technologies can present to the safety of Australians".
- by Fergus Hunter and Jennifer Duke
Exclusive
Competition
Labor to bring in $50m fines for companies breaching competition laws
Labor will announce its plans to dramatically increase the penalties for breaches of Australian Consumer Law.
- by Shane Wright
Public service
ParentsNext would face overhaul under Labor
Senate committee says the ParentsNext program shouldn't continue in its current form.
- by Sally Whyte
Opinion
Australia votes
Why the cult of Pauline won't be enough for One Nation this time
Hanson made a mistake this week by appealing to her base while flanked by the men who are bringing her down, writes the author of the book on her 1998 campaign.
- by Margo Kingston
Opinion
Federal budget
Does the budget matter? It depends on who's asking
Evidently the government thinks the budget will matter: their re-election strategy clearly depends on it doing just that.
- by Simon Cowan
Opinion
Australia votes
Voters aren't coming to the party because they're in it for themselves
What has changed is not the performance of the major parties, but the life experience and motivation of voters.
- by Crispin Hull
Endgame
How the Liberals got stuck in a long, demented cycle of vengeance
It was August 2018, but the anger of the coup against Tony Abbott in September 2015 was still live and raw.
- by Peter Hartcher
Exclusive
Parliament House
Cocaine, escorts and unpaid workers: Parliament's security embarrassment
Nine months after crucial security upgrades to Parliament House were due to finish, the building is still wrapped in scaffolding.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Healthcare
Labor pledges $15 million for milk banks and breastfeeding support
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has promised to give thousands of premature babies access to donated breast milk if he is elected prime minister, as part of a $15.2 million breastfeeding package.
- by Dana McCauley