Rex Widerstrom

Money is pouring into technology infrastructure, with spending on equipment jumping 96 percent on the March quarter.

The chiefs of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation faced a range of questions during an Estimates hearing.

The bank failed to respond to more than 200 online financial hardship requests within the required timeframe between 2017 and 2023.

‘We now have a commission in which staff are terrified of making any mistake of fact or law,’ Paul Brereton told the Committee.

‘We saw protest activity—which is a legitimate part of functioning democracy—turn into violent protests,’ said AFP Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt.

‘We were pivoting resources across because that’s where the leads took us and where we were required to put effort,’ said Director-General Mike Burgess.

‘We think [the United States has] a China problem here, they got a real China problem there,’ said the chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

Planned to align the 1980s vintage Collins-class submarines with their French replacements, the project failed to change strategy when the order was cancelled.

Matthew Wale has been critical of Beijing in the past, but will this stance continue?

The Minerals Council of Australia also said the treasurer was ‘optimistic’ in his ability to control inflation.