Rex Widerstrom

Transparency International has called for sweeping reforms to the commission’s public hearings powers and transparency settings.

Several parliamentarians said the processes around appointing new commissioners and reporting on the NACC’s proceedings are too opaque.

Jim Chalmers has said he’s confident the reforms introduced in his budget won’t be held against Labor at the next election.

‘Of course, there may well be legal challenges, but we’re open to working with the government on that,’ said the opposition.

A study in the British Medical Journal found little evidence of ‘immediate substantive reductions’ in social media use among under-16s.

‘I do worry that one day an Australian will be killed at the hands of a foreign government here in Australia,’ Mike Burgess said.

Peter Malinauskas said One Nation is winning support from both Labor and the Liberal parties.

One foreign official snuck into the country pretending to be a tourist to force a local to leave Australia.

The move comes after the discovery of the bird flu in seabirds, though Australian officials say the country remains free of the virus in poultry flocks.

The initiative has attracted criticism from a Greens senator and a privacy group.