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The Bureau of Meteorology has updated its rain radar and weather map in a bid to make it easier for users to navigate after a backlash over its $96.5m new website spend.

BOM tinkers with website after massive backlash

The Bureau of Meteorology has updated its rain radar and weather map in a bid to make it easier for users to navigate after a backlash over its $96.5m new website spend. 

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Anthony Albanese and Nat Barr.

Nat Barr grills Albo over spending amid $100k admission

The PM was taken to task about taxpayers’ money being used to fund family and ski trips.

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Anika Wells and her travel spending have shone a light on a bigger problem.

Entitlement culture thrives among Canberra elite

EDITORIAL: The current system relies on MPs to employ some common sense and moral awareness. We can’t trust them to exercise either of these traits.

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The Prime Minister’s social media ban will take time to bed in, according to the eSafety Commissioner.

Bragging teens warned of social media ban ‘long game’

While millions of underage accounts across ten platforms were slated to be deactivated on Wednesday, younger users have flooded Anthony Albanese’s profiles to criticise the policy and saying it ‘didn’t work’. 

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Entitled MPs are spending your money unfairly.

How entitled MPs are fuelling a preventable public rage

JENI O’DOWD: Anika Wells is the latest in a long line of politicians having a grand old time at your expense. It really shouldn’t be that way.

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Two rate jumps are forecast next year.

Why homeowners could be facing TWO interest rate jumps

Financial markets are pricing in two rate hikes in 2026 that would increase monthly mortgage repayments more than $200.

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Anthony Albanese with families at Kirribilli House on Wednesday for the launch of his social media ban for under 16s.

Albo’s social media ban may steer kids to the unsafe fringe

AARON PATRICK: Despite overwhelming public support for banning children from some sites, the rule could drive teenagers to dark parts of the internet.

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NDIS costs are spiralling.

Why an economist is calling for US-style NDIS time limits

NDIS recipients who can work should have time limits placed on how long they can claim the welfare, with an economics professor modelling her idea on American laws capping welfare for life at five years.

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Anika Wells is continuing to attempt to justify her travel expenses.

Wells justifies travel for ‘countless’ requests for her time

Anika Wells insists she has not broken any rules with her travel spending, insistent that her three portfolios come with ‘countless’ requests for her time, which justifies her decisions.

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Barnaby Joyce defected to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation earlier this week.

One Nation’s stunning result after Barnaby defection, burqa stunt

One Nation has shocked Australia with staggering new polling off the back of Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt and Barnaby Joyce’s defection.

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Former Facebook CEO Stephen Scheeler speaks with Sunrise host Nat Barr on Wednesday.

Former Facebook boss makes shock admission about social media ban

The world-first restrictions for under-16s came into effect on Wednesday.

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Anika Wells announced her decision to self-report her travel expenses for an independent audit on Tuesday.

Jetsetter Wells’ birthday trip under watchdog scrutiny

Anika Wells flew to Sydney in August for a day of ministerial meetings - and to join friends, including the Prime Minister, to celebrate her 40th birthday at a nighttime function.

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Anthony Albanese has kicked kids off social media.

Albo’s social media post kicking off under 16s ban

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken to social media to kick off a world-first under 16s social media ban, as kids react to a new life offline.

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Grand jury documents are set to be unsealed.

US judge allows release of Epstein grand jury docs

Documents presented to the court in the trial against disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are set to be made public.

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FILE — President Donald Trump walks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine at the White House in Washington, on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. Trump said in an interview published on Dec. 9 that Europe was weak and its nations were Òdecaying,Ó days after his administration issued a strategy paper that indicated that the United States should no longer guarantee the continentÕs security. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Europe is ‘decaying’ and has ‘weak’ leaders: Trump

US President Donald Trump’s comments have widened the dispute with his European counterparts over Europe’s future and how to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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