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Disaster and EmergencyPremiumPerth boy fighting for life in Bali after quad bike horror

CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGERY: The young boy suffered a critical head injury after being thrown into a body of water and becoming pinned underneath the quad.

Caleb Runciman

ANIMALSPremiumMan’s escape from world’s deadliest fish

A young paramedic has recalled his suspected run-in with the world’s most venomous fish while holidaying in Australia.

Alexandra Feiam

NEWS‘Worried’: Biggest threat to Coles, Woolies

The chief executive of a supermarket giant has admitted she is “worried” about a US company as more and more Aussies hunt for better prices.

Duncan Evans

TechnologyComments‘Death by LLM’: AI leaves a trail of online destruction

The first casualties of generative AI offer lessons for other businesses. 

Federal politicsCommentsSocial media age limit laws unveiled in Parliament

Laws to ban under-16s from social media have been introduced to Parliament with the Government promising they will keep teens off TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, Instagram and X at a minimum.

Katina Curtis

NEWSAussie behind ‘suicide capsule’ speaks out

An Australian activist behind a new “suicide capsule” has spoken out after its first-ever user was allegedly strangled.

Nathan Schmidt

POLITICSPremiumMusk’s personal response to social media ban

The billionaire owner of X Elon Musk has called out the Albanese government’s new social media to stop young teenagers accessing social media.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

Federal PoliticsCommentsTech giants face huge fines for breaking social media ban

Social media companies would face fines of up $50 million for failing to stop children under-16s accessing their platforms

Dan Jervis-Bardy

NewsPremiumWorrying trend emerging in cybercrime

A new report has revealed a worrying increase in cybercriminal attacks on wealthy private schools, using sinister techniques to hack sensitive data.

Alexandra Feiam

TechnologyCommentsMobile-loving generation too scared to talk on the phone

Ever since Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone, generations have embraced the freedom to speak to virtually anyone in the world, until now.

Paul Vass

ParentingUrgent safety warning for kids’ medicine

Australia’s medicines watchdog says parents should immediately stop giving a popular medicine to kids under the age of six, warning of potential ‘psychiatric’ side effects.

Duncan Evans

newsAussie chef’s shock new Trump connection

Controversial chef Pete Evans has teamed up with fellow vaccine sceptic and Trump confidante Robert F Kennedy Jr on a new cookbook for kids.

Duncan Evans

SpaceCommentsTrump and Musk hug as SpaceX launch hits trouble

President-elect Donald Trump has joined SpaceX founder Elon Musk for the latest test launch of his Starship rocket, watching on as the vessel spectacularly launched into space before trouble broke out.

Max Corstorphan

RetailVideoCommentsPremiumWATCH: Shock CCTV reveals violent attacks on Bunnings staff

Bunnings has released a compilation of CCTV footage highlighting some of the violent attacks on its staff over several years as it defends the use of facial recognition technology. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.

Daniel Newell

RetailCommentsPremium ‘Most intrusive’: Bunnings cops facial recognition rebuke

The Privacy Commissioner found a trial collected individuals’ sensitive information without consent, failed to take reasonable steps to notify individuals that their personal information was being collected.

Sean Smith

WA NewsCommentsPremiumPerth’s future is so bright you have to wear VR goggles

Flying cars, four-day work weeks, 3D printed homes, school lessons in the metaverse and a shift away from WA’s mining-based economy. Welcome to Perth in 2050.

Kim Macdonald

StartupsCommentsPremiumMore funding, education needed to unlock WA startups

Strengthening WA’s entrepreneurial ecosystem could see 350 new startups and create as many as 3500 highly skilled jobs, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre has claimed in a new report.

Cheyanne Enciso

Federal PoliticsCommentsCall for more laws on social media giants

An inquiry into the effects of social media has found tech giants should be hit with tighter regulation, as the Coalition calls for tougher measures.

Jessica Wang

MYGOV OUTAGEThousands impacted by MyGov outage: ‘Access denied’

‘We need our money tomorrow, we have no food among other things.’

Hayley Taylor

Wave trialPremiumAustralia’s only wave energy project starts trial in Albany

The six-month data collection trial of Australia’s only wave energy project officially began this month, with the deployment of UWA’s M4 device into the King George Sound.

Melissa Sheil

MILITARYPartner’s fatal chopper crash heartbreak

The partner of one of the four soldiers killed in the Talisman Sabre disaster has slammed defence officials for giving her what she calls “false hope”.

Duncan Evans, Aisling Brennan

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Lanna Hill Comments
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Over-reliance on AI comes at a cost to human creativity

Call me old-fashioned, but maybe we all need to consider the value of what we’re outsourcing to a computer.

Lanna Hill

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Bill ShortenComments
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Making myGov even more secure

We need to protect ourselves as best we can because data is the new hot commodity. The black market works on stolen information.

Bill Shorten

DebtManCommentsWith Don in charge, is crypto now worth the gamble?

DEBTMAN: Crypto is riding a Trump wave of renewed optimism. But don’t forget, there have been plenty of people burned badly in the past. Here’s one way to test the waters without losing your shirt.

Bruce Brammall