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ABC News Australia26 Aug 2026
Instagram chief tells children's addiction trial few teenagers knew of safety feature In short: Instagram's top executive admitted few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use, before...
ABC News Australiaby Kristian Silva26 Aug 2026
In short: A 16-year-old girl who held up a taxi driver at knife point before stealing the vehicle has been spared jail by a Melbourne court.
ABC News Australiaby Ciara Jones26 Aug 2026
In short: A former CFMEU administrator has been questioned about why the union entered an agreement with a Victorian company associated with organised crime last month.
ABC News Australiaby Laura Lavelle26 Aug 2026
In short: Police say the alleged sexual assault occurred at residence west of Brisbane and was reported to police a day later, on August 21.
ABC News Australiaby Hellena Souisa26 Aug 2026
Read the story in bahasa Indonesia Several of Jakarta's main roads were closed and hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets as Indonesia celebrated its 81st Independence Day.
ABC News Australiaby Jane Norman26 Aug 2026
In short: Favourable treatment under a 2023 fair trade deal has led to a steep increase in the number of UK backpackers in Australia.
ABC News Australiaby Malcolm Sutton26 Aug 2026
Bali's poverty-stricken families often sit quietly in the shadows of an Instagram-driven tourism boom that has seen the south explode with development in recent years.
ABC News Australiaby Joanna Prendergast and Chris Lewis26 Aug 2026
In short: Demersal fishers in WA are still waiting for compensation, nine months after the government shut down their industry along a 900-kilometre stretch of coast.
ABC News Australiaby Lauren Smith26 Aug 2026
A Perth butcher says he has seen a decline in his otherwise stable chicken sales in recent weeks which he attributed to unfounded public anxiety about the threat of bird flu.
ABC News Australiaby Kate Ainsworth26 Aug 2026
In short: Headline inflation rose to 3.5 per cent in the year to July, making it lower than before the Iran War in February.
ABC News Australiaby Madeleine Rojahn26 Aug 2026
In short: A Canberra teacher who was fired for bringing a 3D-printed handgun replica to school has lost her unfair dismissal claim.
ABC News Australiaby Courtney Fry26 Aug 2026
Longhaul Festival has cancelled its inaugural events, just a month after it was announced for early 2027.
ABC News Australiaby Josh Brine26 Aug 2026
In short: Danni Smith had been charged with aggravated assault, but the charges have been dropped. Ms Smith pleaded guilty to a single charge of disturbing the peace. What's next?
ABC News Australiaby Chris De Silva26 Aug 2026
When new Essendon coach Mark McVeigh was flanked by president Andrew Welsh and CEO Tim Roberts at his introductory press conference on Wednesday, there was a clear theme emanating from the day...
ABC News Australiaby Jessica Riga26 Aug 2026
Dolly Parton was never lost for words. Along with being one of the most decorated performers of all time, Parton had a remarkable ability to impart wisdom wrapped in her signature southern wit.
ABC News Australiaby Stephen Clarke and Ned Hammond26 Aug 2026
In short: The Lighting Council of Australia has released the results of testing of 131 lighting products available at popular online marketplaces.
ABC News Australiaby Bryn Wakefield26 Aug 2026
In short: The Queensland Land Court has ruled that an island resort owner can be stripped of its leases after it failed to use the land for tourism and allowed it to fall into disrepair.
ABC News Australiaby Justin Huntsdale and Stefan Posthuma-Grbic26 Aug 2026
In short: Bodyboarder and drone pilot Lilly Pollard has filmed a number of large sharks eating a dead whale off Bawley Point in NSW.
ABC News Australiaby Holly Richardson26 Aug 2026
In short: Environmental DNA shows the endangered waterfall frog (Litoria nannotis) and the endangered Australian lace-lid frog (L.
ABC News Australiaby Erin Handley26 Aug 2026
In short: WA Premier Roger Cook called the Productivity Commission "east coast clowns" over its interim findings on GST, with a senior federal minister casting doubt over the report's validity.
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