The world’s largest search engine could hold Australians “ransom” as part of its ongoing battle with the government. Australians could lose their “gateway to the internet” this year after Google threatened to lock them out of its search engine in an unprecedented retaliation against laws...
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Google threatens to ban Australia in a challenge to news laws
Australians could lose their “gateway to the internet” this year after Google threatened to lock them out of its search engine in an unprecedented retaliation against laws to make it pay for the news it uses. The lockout, which was described as an attempt to...
‘Not the time’: Daniel Andrews warns against ‘Invasion Day’ protests
Daniel Andrews has issued a stern warning to Victorians not to attend any upcoming anti-Australia Day rallies. Thousands are expected to gather at the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne for an “Invasion Day” protest on January 26. But the Premier warned “now is not...
Confronting murals mock warring leaders
Australia’s political leaders have been hammered in a hilarious series of murals you will see touring around several major cities from today. A series of hilarious, tongue-in-cheek murals showing Australian political leaders intimately sharing a lamb chop together will be toured around cities and border...
Hilarious lamb murals target PM, state leaders
A series of hilarious, tongue-in-cheek murals showing Australian political leaders intimately sharing a lamb chop together will be toured around cities and border towns across the country from today. Meat and Livestock Australia – the organisation behind the wildly popular, annual lamb TV ads –...
US-China relationship ‘critical’ for Australia: Penny Wong
The rivalry between global superpowers China and the US under a Biden administration will be critical to Australia’s strained relationship with Beijing, opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong says. As President-elect Joe Biden prepares for Thursday’s inauguration ceremony, experts have turned their attention to how...
16 places you won’t believe are in Australia
It may look like Kauai, the Hawaiian island used as the location for the Jurassic Park film … but this is actually Capella Lodge on Lord Howe Island in New South Wales. Lord Howe Island is in the Tasman Sea east of Port Macquarie. It’s...
Sneaky change to Pauline Hanson’s website
One Nation’s Pauline Hanson is likely kicking herself after letting the domain name for her website expire after someone took the opportunity to turn the site into something completely different. The person in charge of the controversial senator’s website failed to notice the expiry date...