After four years, draft legislation to overhaul Australia's Privacy Act could ramp up class actions and increase scrutiny of companies' AI training efforts. And there's still more to come.
Australian politics
An analysis by the authority found Australia would no longer benefit from an economy-wide carbon price and cast doubt on the Coalition's nuclear plan.
The Albanese government wants a sweeping ban on kids using social media. But it faces difficulties in overcoming the complexities of such regulation, as it has with other recent reforms.
RBA insiders say the past week's public tensions over comments by Jim Chalmers have been 'frustrating'. And they may make the already tough job of reforming the central bank even harder.
Today's push by the opposition's transport spokeswoman to extend proposed divestiture powers to aviation is another example of the reshaping of the main parties’ stances toward big business.
After a busy week of economic data and debate, the focus shifts to RBA chief economist Sarah Hunter.
In the end, it wasn’t Anthony Albanese who was desperate to get his longtime leadership rival Bill Shorten out of parliament — it was factional rivals much closer to home, who now stand to lose out.
RBA governor Michele Bullock today refused to be drawn into the debate over Jim Chalmers' recent comments on interest rates, instead imploring people to focus on the real enemy: inflation.
An overhaul of the nation's critical infrastructure laws will allow the government to intervene in company networks in a much wider array of circumstances, including a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
Crossbenchers complain they’ve been cut out of talks over electoral reform, despite the government's promises they would be consulted.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has received draft cybersecurity laws, with the government likely to tweak proposed powers over critical infrastructure.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has faced a barrage of media criticism this week over his comments on the impact of high interest rates on the economy. Is it justified?
The expected sale of Australian data centre operator AirTrunk to Blackstone for a substantial $20 billion is recognition of the company's potential as AI continues to boom.
Emails obtained by Capital Brief show that Anthony Albanese declined to meet Meta’s president of global affairs following the tech giant’s decision to drop deals with news publishers.
The government is not at war with the Reserve Bank. Not yet, anyway.
News publishers and the gambling industry are holding their breath ahead of two major government decisions on media policy.
The nation's economic scorecard will be the most anticipated data of the week, with economists thinking we're in the worst spot since the early-1990s.
Voters will judge Anthony Albanese and Kamala Harris within nine months. They’re both clinging to the centre ground as politics around them fractures.
Anthony Albanese backflipped this morning on the decision to exclude gender and sexuality questions from the census — a story which had already reignited scrutiny of his political instincts ahead of the election.
The government is set for complex negotiations over its electoral reform package. Some crossbenchers want to see a ban on deepfake ads on the table.
