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Comedian’s offensive mock Welcome to Country at far-right rally gets rerun in the Daily Mail | Weekly Beast

Daily Mail’s report on March for Australia rally quotes – in full – and embeds video of Lisa Jane Spencer’s disrespectful skit. Plus: AI takes us back to 1956Want to get this in yo...

Australia news live: AFL grand final breaks records; Marles defends army barracks sell-off amid controversy

Follow live updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDeaths in Queensland child protection system reach five-year highQueensland has recorded a five-year h...

Lured in by Albo ‘slur’, News24 misses the joke and mistakes comedy skit for real news report | Weekly Beast

Comedian says he didn’t expect Murdoch network to be ‘as gullible and digitally illiterate as their target audience’. Plus: Karl Stefanovic falls silentWant to get this in your inb...

WA Media Awards 2026: finalists

ABC, Seven, Nine, 10 and SBS are all up for WA journalism awards.

Another Australian found safe after Nepal-Tibet floods – as it happened

This blog is now closed‘Global reckoning for big tech’: Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithmsGet our breaking news email, free app or da...

In a debate about migration, the ABC had to present multiple views. But where to draw the line? | Weekly Beast

Panel guest Conrad Gillard thanks broadcaster for allowing him to normalise ‘the idea of net-negative immigration’. Plus: Today’s ‘content-to-commerce engine’Want to get this in yo...

More countries embrace Australia's social media ban

Australian sports giant completes $130m takeover of NZ media business

Sports Entertainment Group (SEG) says it has completed its acquisition of MediaWorks, bringing the Kiwi company into SEG’s Australian sports media network.

ACCS: “We got pretty much no support”

One of Australia's most successful Digital Content companies, which copped govt body rejections, now has 27 million subscribers and 12 billion views.

Media Watch: Sept 7

Guest host Raf Epstein could be looking at a Screen Queensland funding cut and the way it was spun.

Australia news LIVE: PM launches UN Security Council bid, calls for international safeguards on AI; US TV networks refus...

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Australia news live: Anika Wells named in Time’s ‘influential rising stars’; NSW seeks to join Queensland in ‘from the r...

Follow the day’s news live.Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland’s state government has missed a deadline to sign up to the federal government’s Thr...

Media Watch: Oct 12

Tonight, a superannuation expert fails to declare her financial links to the industry in her regular media outings.

Australia news LIVE: Australia to fund Pacific renewables projects ahead of COP31, Albanese arrives to guard of honour

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ADF member ‘person of interest’ after ‘despicable betrayal of trust’ on Navy ship where camera found in women’s shower –...

This blog is now closedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPrivate health insurance changes ‘recalibrating precious taxpayer dollars’, says WellsThe health m...

Australia news LIVE: International students forced to consider their futures after Labor’s migration overhaul; Universit...

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Gallery: Free TV heads to Canberra

Stars and execs from Seven, Nine, 10, WIN and Imparja mingled with politicians as Commercial TV unites as a 'shared civic space' contributing $2.4b to the economy.

Australia news live: Union leader says PM ‘vastly underpaid’; Shoebridge pledges members will ‘have a say’ in next leade...

Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Sydney man has been charged after allegedly restraining, choking and sexually assaulting a yo...

Australia news live: Liberal MP proposes using super to secure mortgages; ingredient in cold and flu supplements banned...

Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJim Chalmers was also asked earlier if the government would support a national royal commission...

Australian Story

A special extended episode from the Sydney Opera House celebrates three decades of stories. 8pm Monday on ABC. RAW Comedy SBS Colin from Accounts Binge Have You Been Paying Attenti...

Australia news LIVE: Vigils to mark October 7; High Court overturns NSW coal mine expansion; Andrew Denton’s message to...

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Axed: Stateline

Longer state-based news items make way for punchier news in an ABC overhaul.

ABC reporter wins 2026 Lowy Institute Media Award

Stephen Dziedzic wins 2026 Lowy Institute Media Award, for his in-depth coverage of global affairs.

Media Watch: Sept 21

Four Corners slapped by watchdog, tonight as Linton Besser returns.