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Media bargaining code
Google pushing MPs to reject 'one-sided' code to have them pay for news
Google is targeting federal MPs with briefings aimed at convincing them not to vote for laws that would force digital giants to pay for news.
- by Lisa Visentin
Infrastructure
'Commonwealth may have been defrauded': Auditor-General sent police airport land brief
The Auditor-General sent police evidence about a $32.8 million land purchase because he believed the Commonwealth may have been defrauded.
- by Katina Curtis
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Cyber security
Telstra boss to lead industry advisory body on cyber security
Andy Penn will lead a new body advising the federal government as it looks to roll out the nation's $1.66 billion cyber security strategy.
- by Anthony Galloway
Federal budget
Employers will have a new $4 billion wage subsidy backdated to budget day
Employers will have a new $4 billion wage subsidy backdated to budget day to overcome a logjam in Parliament that will delay the new law until next month.
- by David Crowe
Political expenses
'Flabbergasted': Abbott's leftover knight and dame medals cost $135,000
The medals' values were only written off this year, despite Tony Abbott's reintroduction of knights and dames into the Australian honour system being reversed in 2015.
- by Nick Bonyhady
Federal budget
Payne defends budget measures as gender neutral
Minister for Women Marise Payne has defended tax cuts, wage subsidies and employment schemes as gender neutral amid criticism the federal budget is too focused on male-dominated industries and overlooks women.
- by Jennifer Duke
Coronavirus pandemic
'Unaware of objections': Border Force denies any Victorian complaints on bubble
Australian Border Force commissioner Michael Outram has countered a key Victorian government claim about travellers from New Zealand.
- by David Crowe and Anthony Galloway