abc.net.auadded August 2026
ABC News Australiaby Paul Johnson27d ago
Former Labor leader Bill Shorten and former Coalition defence minister Christopher Pyne have joined the chorus for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence (AI).
ABC News Australiaby Tamsyn Buckle27d ago
In short: A new law that affects government land being transferred to Indigenous ownership is being described as a "regression" by a peak body.
ABC News Australiaby Alex Brewster27d ago
In short: The Queensland government is set to introduce a range of new and increased offences for domestic and family violence offenders.
ABC News Australiaby Jordanna Schriever27d ago
In short Dylan Nicolas Lloyd has been jailed for more than 12 years for a sexual assault and other sexual offences involving children.
ABC News Australiaby Lucy Murray and Natasha Clark27d ago
A crocodile handler who worked with a 400 kilogram crocodile that was allegedly attacked by teenagers at Perth Zoo has described the animal as highly unpredictable, and said the pair is lucky to be...
ABC News Australiaby Sandy Powell27d ago
In short A man was jailed for drink-driving in a Tasmanian campground on New Year's Eve almost five years ago.
ABC News Australiaby Coco Veldkamp, Eden Hynninen, and Charlotte Wilkes27d ago
In short: A Victorian hotel has cancelled a planned event featuring former AFL player Ben Cousins following backlash from the Ballarat community.
ABC News Australiaby Michael Janda27d ago
In short: Fund manager Cathie Wood tips economies to boom and prices to fall, but interest rates to surge as the AI revolution gathers pace. It could result in interest rates exceeding 7 per cent.
ABC News Australia27d ago
In short: Alex de Minaur says this weekend's Davis Cup tie against Poland is what he needs after a shock early exit from the US Open.
ABC News Australiaby Cam Wilson27d ago
Senior executives from OpenAI and Anthropic were meeting with federal ministers just as its proposals to rewrite copyright law for AI leaked to the public, sparking fury from creatives and critics...
ABC News Australiaby Exclusive by Evelyn Leckie27d ago
In short: Court documents showed a former director of Integrity Care SA was using drugs between 2019 and 2020, and withdrew money from a company debit card for gambling purposes.
ABC News Australia27d ago
In short: Victoria's royal commission into construction sector corruption will hold an opening hearing next Wednesday. It is expected that the hearing will determine the next steps for the inquiry.
ABC News Australiaby Christopher Testa27d ago
In short: Two men from the Mossman area have been questioned at a coronial inquest into the 1998 disappearance of Joanne Butterfield.
ABC News Australiaby Bec Pridham27d ago
In short: Three men are stuck in a hospital in Tasmania because they can't secure extra NDIS support, a support service says.
ABC News Australiaby Bryn Wakefield and Liam O'Connell27d ago
In short: The state government has introduced legislation to repeal a requirement for a nearby coal mine to house its workforce in Glenden.
ABC News Australiaby Liam Walsh27d ago
In short: Tom Tate has doubled down on recollections about dinner with US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
ABC News Australiaby Alex Brewster and Grace Nakamura27d ago
In short: AI company Anthropic has signed an agreement to use part of a $32 billion data centre proposed for a site on Queensland's Western Downs.
ABC News Australiaby Georgie Hewson27d ago
Ed Sheeran's upcoming shows look to have no support acts after the remaining openers, and a touring band he shares songs with, pulled out in solidarity with Macklemore after he was removed from...
ABC News Australiaby Callum Liddelow and Nadia Mitsopoulos27d ago
Reports more than a dozen children, including some as young as five, had been living unsupervised in squalid conditions have prompted WA's Children's Commissioner to declare the safety nets to...
ABC News Australiaby Jason Walls and Gemma Ferguson27d ago
In short: Bushfires Northern Territory has downgraded an emergency warning for a fire at Stockwell Road in Blackmore, south of Darwin, to an advice level.
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