But Coalition members of a parliamentary inquiry labelled Labor “weak” for failing to force Meta,the owner of Facebook and Instagram,to renew deals with media businesses.
Labor will give its financial watchdog new powers to force companies to compensate customers who lose money and to punish operators who don’t police their sites.
About 2.8 million Australians are being shortchanged on their superannuation,costing them about $30,000 in savings by the time they retire.
Smaller outlets like The Daily Aus and Broadsheet worry Meta will follow through on a threat,first reported in this masthead,to block all news content from Facebook and Instagram.
State governments have reaped billions from stamp duty on insurance,and the industry’s peak body says it’s time for states to put that money back into mitigating natural disasters.
Buy now,pay later providers including Afterpay,Zip and Klarna will be brought under the Credit Act in changes that have been a long time coming.
Elon Musk’s company has launched a case in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to test the merits of the eSafety Commissioner’s order to remove church stabbing videos.
“Meta’s threat to pull news content from Australia should send a shudder down the spine,” says Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones.
Furious Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones will force social media companies to answer to government after the spread of misinformation had turned a “horrific week into something diabolical”.
Apple,Google,Facebook and Microsoft earn billions of dollars a year in Australia,and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has said he expects multinationals to “pay their fair share”.
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong’s winery wedding in the Adelaide Hills is the first of four ministerial weddings this year.