'It's insulting they think we can't handle it': The Australian teens banned from social media
Millions of Australian teens will no longer be allowed to use social media. Who wins and who loses out?
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Couple accused of cheating with spycam to win A$1.2m in Australian casino
NSW Police The couple are alleged to have used a hidden camera to read card games A husband and wife from Kazakhstan are alleged to have used a hidden camera and earpieces to fraudulently win nearly A$1.2m (£593,00; $784,000) in an Australian casino. The couple were caught after staff at the casino in the central…
Meta gives Australian kids 2-week warning to delete accounts as world-first social media age restrictions loom
Melbourne, Australia — Technology giant Meta on Thursday began sending thousands of young Australians a two-week warning to downland their digital histories and delete their accounts from Facebook, Instagram and Threads before a world-first social media ban on accounts of children younger than 16 takes effect. The Australian government announced two weeks ago that the three…
Australian prisoner sues for right to eat Vegemite
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Australian murderer sues for right to Vegemite behind bars
A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Australia is challenging a ban on prisoners consuming Vegemite – the polarising, salty spread that has become a national symbol. State authorities say inmates may use the strong-smelling condiment to disguise contraband substances or brew alcohol behind bars. But Andre McKechnie argues that the ban, in place…
Australian woman who killed 3 people with toxic mushrooms sentenced to life in prison
An Australian judge on Monday sentenced Erin Patterson to life in prison for killing three people with toxic mushrooms, following a weekslong trial that gripped the country. Patterson was convicted in July of triple murder for serving a poisonous meal to her estranged husband’s parents, aunt and uncle during a sumptuous beef Wellington lunch at…
Record payout for ‘illegal’ Australian welfare scheme victims
Hundreds of thousands of Australians forced to pay back welfare debts created by an illegal automated system have won the largest payout in the country’s history. Known as “Robodebt”, the scheme wrongly told welfare recipients they had been overpaid and demanded they repay these debts, which often never existed. In 2020, a successful class action…
New suspicions revealed about Australian mushroom triple murderer Erin Patterson
Melbourne, Australia — The estranged husband of a woman convicted of killing three people with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms suspected his wife had been poisoning him more than a year before the fatal meal, an Australian court has heard. A judge on Friday lifted a gag order on pretrial evidence that triple murderer…
U.S. Marines train with Australian and Japanese troops for potential war in Asia
Holly Williams reports on how U.S. Marines are training alongside their Australian and Japanese allies in an exercise that’s part of the U.S. military’s expansion in Asia, an effort to prevent war by deterring China from military aggression.
Australian woman found guilty of triple murder by mushrooms
After a ten-week trial, a jury found Erin Patterson guilty of murdering three relatives with poisonous mushrooms.