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NP Digital Australia reports strongest half-year growth in 2025
Mumbrella
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August 1, 2025
NP Digital Australia has added eight new clients and expanded its services across key verticals, marking its most successful half-year to date. NP Digital Australia, part of the globally renowned performance marketing agency founded by Neil Patel,...
Australia to ban YouTube accounts for under-16s from December
Mint
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July 30, 2025
The Australian government has confirmed that YouTube will be subject to a new minimum age requirement for social media platforms, reversing a previous decision to exclude the video-sharing site from the restrictions. From 10 December, users under...
Impartiality concerns raised as LNP appoints former Liberal party member to lead Queensland CFMEU inquiry
The Guardian
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August 1, 2025
The lawyer leading a commission of inquiry into Queensland’s CFMEU was a former member of the Liberal party and acted for businesses, raising questions about his impartiality, according to the state’s union movement. Deputy premier and industrial...
Australia bans children under 16 from using YouTube
KFOX - Texas
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government announced YouTube will be among the social media platforms that must ensure account holders are at least 16 years old from December, reversing a position taken months ago on the popular...
Australia Adds YouTube to Social Media Ban Protecting Children Under 16
Mezha
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July 30, 2025
Australia has entered into a conflict with YouTube, the world’s largest video platform, by withdrawing its previous promise to exempt it from the social media ban for children under 16 years old. The Labor government announced that YouTube, owned...
Mollie O’Callaghan, Meg Harris, Harry Turner and Sam Short: The faces of Aussie swimming’s next generation
PerthNow
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August 4, 2025
Australia is cooking up another golden generation in the pool. And our new crop of swimming superstars have just had a coming-out party at the World Aquatics Championships, which has them primed to dominate next year’s Commonwealth Games. The...
Sydney: Farrell says debate over Australia as Lions destination 'insulting'
RTL Today
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August 1, 2025
British and Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell has dismissed talk that the Wallabies are not worthy opponents as "insulting" and said it would be "tragic" if Australia was axed as a tour host. The Lions are seeking a series whitewash when they clash...
Beijing denies threat as FBI opens new office in New Zealand to ‘counter China’
South China Morning Post
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August 1, 2025
China has accused the FBI chief of asserting “groundless” vilification and claims that Beijing is a threat after the American security agency opened its first permanent office in New Zealand. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on...
Australia announces YouTube account ban for children under 16
Global News
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July 30, 2025
The Australian government announced YouTube will be among the social media platforms that must ensure account holders are at least 16-years-old from December, reversing a position taken months ago on the popular video-sharing service. YouTube was...
Australia to include Youtube in world-first social ban for under-16
TVC News Nigeria
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July 30, 2025
The government of Australia has decided to include YouTube in its world-first social media ban for minors under the age of sixteen, renouncing its earlier exemption for the platform. The video-sharing service was intended to be spared from the...
Australia awards multiple contracts to support counter-drone technologies
Shephard Media
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The Australian Government has awarded contracts totalling A$16.9 million (US$11 million) to 11 companies, including five Australian companies, to develop CUAS capabilities and technologies. In a statement on the contracts, the government said that...
Australia bans YouTube accounts for children under 16 from December
United News of Bangladesh
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FILE -14-year-old Henry, right, and Angel, 15, use their phones to view social media in Sydney, on Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) In a major policy reversal, the Australian government has announced that YouTube will be included among...
Australia Pressures Signal to Weaken Encryption Amid Privacy Fears
WebProNews
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July 30, 2025
Government Moves Against Encryption In a move that has sent ripples through the global tech community, Australia’s Labor government under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is intensifying pressure on Signal, the popular encrypted messaging app. This...
Australia adds YouTube to social media banned list for under-16s
The Times
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Australia will add YouTube to the nation’s world-first social media ban for under-16s, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the video platform. Alphabet, the company that owns YouTube, previously warned it would consider legal action if it was...
Foreign Spies Targeting AUKUS Secrets, Warns Australian Spy Chief
The Epoch Times
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August 1, 2025
Director-General of ASIO, Mike Burgess appears before a Senate inquiry at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on April 29, 2021. AAP Image/Lukas Coch Foreign nations are actively attempting to recruit Australia’s elected officials, public...
NSW flood threat this weekend follows Sydney’s coldest July day in decades
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 31, 2025
A cold and wet week across New South Wales will culminate this weekend in heavy rain, strong winds and powerful surf along the coast. The stormy winter weather will result from a multi-centred coastal low developing in response to a broad polar...
Zoo welcomes Tasmanian devils in Animals of Australia exhibit
Beverly Press and Park Labrea News - California
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July 31, 2025
Two naturally curious and active Tasmanian devils are on view at the L.A. Zoo. (photo by Andrea Delegal/courtesy of L.A. Zoo) For the first time in five years, the Los Angeles Zoo is once again home to wildly popular Tasmanian devils. Working in...
Australia Anti-Venom Market Analysis Report 2025-2033 Featuring BSV, Boehringer Ingelheim, Boston Scientific, CSL, Merck, Pfizer, Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical
MENAFN
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July 30, 2025
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) The Australia Anti Venom Market is poised for significant growth, reaching an estimated US$ 39.27 million by 2033 from US$ 22.18 million in 2024, at a CAGR of 6.55% from 2025 to 2033. This expansion is driven by...
What Will It Take For Australia To Recognise Palestine As A State?
Pedestrian
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August 1, 2025
The crisis in Gaza has grown impossible to ignore: images of starving children and decimated neighbourhoods have shaken the world. Against this backdrop, pressure is piling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to make a historic shift — formally...
Nearly 300,000 people attend historic pro-Palestine march in Sydney
5Pillars
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August 4, 2025
A huge pro-Palestine protest at Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge drew an estimated 300,000 people calling for a ceasefire and an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The ‘March for Humanity’ protest went ahead on Sunday 3 August after it was authorised...