Politics

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The economic disaster of Brexit offers a grim preview of what tomorrow may hold for the United States.

TOM RICHARDSON: Michele Bullock failed to push back at suggestions the cash rate could climb to 4 per cent in 2026 in a horror outcome for mortgage borrowers.

LORRAINE FINLAY: If you think handing over your identification is risk-free, think again.

AARON PATRICK: The sports minister’s referral to the politicians’ expenses agency will be pointless if voters decide her trips were for pleasure instead of work.

Labor minister Anika Wells has asked for an independent audit of her travel expenses after an outcry over her use of taxpayer money. SEE THE FULL LIST OF HER EXPENSES

AARON PATRICK: As the Labor Party moved to left, the right faction leader found himself embraced by conservatives, who came out in support for his funeral today.