Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown
As a host of countries move to rein in social media use by children, could this be technology’s big tobacco moment? Continue...
Read Moreby The Guardian | Jun 27, 2026 | AI (artificial intelligence), Australia news, Chatbots, Children, Digital media, Internet safety, Media, Online abuse, Social media, Social media ban, Social media bans, Society, Technology, The Guardian, UK news, World News, Young people | 0 |
As a host of countries move to rein in social media use by children, could this be technology’s big tobacco moment? Continue...
Read Moreby The Guardian | May 17, 2026 | Australia news, Australian lifestyle, Life and style, Society, Sydney, The Guardian, Women | 0 |
I walked faster, sure that someone was lurking somewhere. Then a taxi pulled up next to me with an older businessman in the back seatRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesThe Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst was not a safe...
Read Moreby The Guardian | May 14, 2026 | Australia news, Culture, Family, Film, John Lithgow, LGBTQ+ rights, Life and style, Olivia Colman, Parents and parenting, The Guardian, Transgender | 0 |
John Lithgow plays the gay and often nude septuagenarian father of Colman’s character in this bombshell-laden story of intergenerational queerness. She explains why her own dad would have ‘sat and cried all the way...
Read Moreby The Guardian | Apr 25, 2026 | Australia news, Australian lifestyle, Life and style, Marriage, Relationships, Rural and regional Australia, The Guardian, Western Australia | 0 |
Gillian Kennedy met Wade Freeman while working in a remote desert community. She was impressed by his playlists, and his generous spiritFind more stories from the moment I knew seriesIn 2007 I’d been single for a few years...
Read Moreby The Guardian | Apr 18, 2026 | Australia news, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, Monarchy, Prince Harry, The Guardian, World News | 0 |
Along with a luxe wellness retreat and MasterChef appearance, the faux royal tour included time spent on causes the couple clearly care aboutPrince Harry and Meghan’s visit to Australia – in picturesIn Aussie...
Read Moreby The Guardian | Apr 17, 2026 | Australia news, Diana, Princess of Wales, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, Monarchy, Prince Harry, The Guardian, UK news | 0 |
The hatred the duchess inspires reveals hidden aspects of British character and tells us something about public anxietiesWhatever unhinged parasocial relationship the adoring public had with Diana, Princess of Wales, their...
Read Moreby The Guardian | Feb 19, 2026 | Australia news, Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme heat, The Guardian | 0 |
Graham Readfearn enters a simulation to investigate how heatwaves affect the human body Continue reading…
Read Moreby The Guardian | Feb 16, 2026 | Australia news, Autism, Carers, Children, Health, National disability insurance scheme, Parents and parenting, The Guardian | 0 |
Category describes people who have little or no language, an IQ of less than 50 and require 24-hour supervisionWhen it comes to autism, few questions spark as much debate as how best to support autistic people with the greatest...
Read Moreby The Guardian | Feb 4, 2026 | Australia news, The Guardian, Western Australia | 0 |
Saltwater, survival backstroke and sheer mind over matter may have helped the teenager save his family, experts sayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Australian 13-year-old who swam 4km (2.49 miles) to...
Read Moreby The Guardian | Feb 2, 2026 | Australia news, Australian politics, Jeffrey Epstein, Kevin Rudd, Labor party, Labour, Peter Mandelson, Politics, The Guardian | 0 |
Former UK Labour minister wrote ‘pressure needs to be maintained’ against Australian Labor’s proposed tax in email sent two weeks before Rudd was replaced as PMFollow our Australia news live blog for latest...
Read Moreby The Guardian | Dec 31, 2025 | Animals, Australia news, Dogs, Pets, The Guardian, Valerie the dachshund, World News | 0 |
We could learn a lot from the pampered sausage dog who became a canine Bear Grylls. Perhaps all of us are capable of more than we might expectWho among us hasn’t yearned, at least momentarily, to cast off the trappings of...
Read Moreby The Guardian | Dec 20, 2025 | Antisemitism, Australia news, Australian politics, Bondi, Bondi beach, Bondi beach terror attack, New South Wales, Sydney, The Guardian, World News | 0 |
Jewish voices say an attack of this kind was entirely predictable given the surge in antisemitic attacks in Australia since 2023The sun rises early at this time of year, hitting the south of the beach first before chasing the...
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