Documents seen by Crikey show that senior staff at the National Disability Insurance Agency have warned that the policy design of the so-called New Framework Planning is in chaos. The
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New intimate deepfake criminal offences came into effect in New South Wales On 16 February 2026, which expand preexisting intimate adult images offences to encompass compromising audio content and create a new offence of altering images or audio or using a simulated person to create intimate image or audio material.
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Deepfakes ...
At the core of Eurovision is the simple truth that it is always 2004. This is why it remains so popular in Australia — and has always felt, impossibly, Australian.
Eva Hornung was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin for her last novel, The Last Garden. The one before that, Dog Boy, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and is now a Text Classic, introduced by Yann Martel. Her latest centres on The Minstrels: a place that carries significant
We're routinely lectured about the need to lift investment so we can boost productivity growth — but any link between the two is hard to find in the data. The
Australia condemns human rights abuses abroad but still won’t protect them at home. read now...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has highlighted a marked increase in Defence expenditure as a key element of public sector expenditure, leading to a slightly higher-than-anticipated national economic growth rate of 0.8% in the December quarter 2025 and 2.6% on an annualised basis. As the debate around how much the
A US submarine has sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka in the latest escalation of its war with Iran. The post US sinks Iranian warship
Laws have now passed to set up a parliamentary joint committee on defence, on the advice of an international armed conflict decision-making inquiry. Membership will soon be confirmed. The joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade had previously recommended that such a statutory committee be focused on defence
Pre-election proof points of the Minns government’s good deeds have continued thick and fast, with the announcement that at least some of the replacements for the state’s nearly half-century-old XPT regional and interstate rail fleet have landed in Australia for testing. But there’s yet to be a proper timetable for
Western Australia Treasurer Rita Saffioti has boasted about her state’s strong economic growth, which she says new Australian Bureau of Statistics national accounts data shows is outpacing the rest of the nation. National economic growth reached 2.5% last year, while WA’s economy grew by 3.3%. On Tuesday, Saffioti said the
The ancient fish _Megamastax amblyodus_. Brian Choo, CC BY-NC-NDRoughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of spiky teeth. Long extinct, this predatory fish (Megamastax amblyodus) was an ancient forerunner of all
Documents seen by Crikey show that senior staff at the National Disability Insurance Agency have warned that the policy design of the so-called New Framework Planning is in chaos. The
New intimate deepfake criminal offences came into effect in New South Wales On 16 February 2026, which expand preexisting intimate adult images offences to encompass compromising audio content and create a new offence of altering images or audio or using a simulated person to create intimate image or audio material.
What are deepfakes?
Deepfakes ...
At the core of Eurovision is the simple truth that it is always 2004. This is why it remains so popular in Australia — and has always felt, impossibly, Australian.
Eva Hornung was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin for her last novel, The Last Garden. The one before that, Dog Boy, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and is now a Text Classic, introduced by Yann Martel. Her latest centres on The Minstrels: a place that carries significant
We're routinely lectured about the need to lift investment so we can boost productivity growth — but any link between the two is hard to find in the data. The
Australia condemns human rights abuses abroad but still won’t protect them at home. read now...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has highlighted a marked increase in Defence expenditure as a key element of public sector expenditure, leading to a slightly higher-than-anticipated national economic growth rate of 0.8% in the December quarter 2025 and 2.6% on an annualised basis. As the debate around how much the
A US submarine has sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka in the latest escalation of its war with Iran. The post US sinks Iranian warship
Laws have now passed to set up a parliamentary joint committee on defence, on the advice of an international armed conflict decision-making inquiry. Membership will soon be confirmed. The joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade had previously recommended that such a statutory committee be focused on defence
Pre-election proof points of the Minns government’s good deeds have continued thick and fast, with the announcement that at least some of the replacements for the state’s nearly half-century-old XPT regional and interstate rail fleet have landed in Australia for testing. But there’s yet to be a proper timetable for
Western Australia Treasurer Rita Saffioti has boasted about her state’s strong economic growth, which she says new Australian Bureau of Statistics national accounts data shows is outpacing the rest of the nation. National economic growth reached 2.5% last year, while WA’s economy grew by 3.3%. On Tuesday, Saffioti said the
The ancient fish _Megamastax amblyodus_. Brian Choo, CC BY-NC-NDRoughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of spiky teeth. Long extinct, this predatory fish (Megamastax amblyodus) was an ancient forerunner of all