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Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC’s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to ‘feel so uncomfortable’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe south-Asia correspondent for Australia’s national broadcaster, Avani Dias, has been forced out of India after her reporting fell foul of the Indian government, in a...

Broken Hill’s only newspaper, The Barrier Truth, closes due to cashflow problems, with staffer saying loss is ‘really sad for the community’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBroken Hill’s only newspaper has closed after almost 130 years of operation in a major blow to the outback NSW community.The Barrier Truth’s board told staff the union-run bi-weekly paper would...

Media executive’s exit comes as broadcaster faces a number of controversiesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastJames Warburton, the chief executive and managing director of Seven West Media, left the company on Thursday, amid a tumultuous period for the broadcaster.The prominent media executive was due to step down before the end of the financial year, according to executive...

This blog is now closed.Seven CEO James Warburton departs networkAustralia needs a plan for war to ‘focus the national mind’, Michael Pezzullo saysGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMarles continues breakfast rounds to discuss defence spendingThe defence minister, Richard Marles, has been making the rounds this morning and has also spoken to ABC RN about yesterday’s defence announcement.The...

Former host of The Project hails verdict as Network Ten solicitor calls decision ‘unmitigated disaster’ for LehrmannGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLisa Wilkinson has said she hopes women will find strength in a judge’s finding that Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins on the balance of probabilities.“Today the federal court has found that I published a true story...

This blog is now closed.Full report: Bruce Lehrmann ‘hellbent on having sex’ with Brittany Higgins and raped her in Parliament House, defamation judge findsA ‘hapless’ Bumble date, Qing dynasty ceramics and the Algonquin round table: the best lines from the Bruce Lehrmann verdictBruce Lehrmann and Lisa Wilkinson have both arrived into courtroom one on the 21st level of the federal court building in central...

Justice Michael Lee adjourned the court after former Seven Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach spent two days on the standGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBruce Lehrmann discussed payment of about $200,000 for his participation in an exclusive interview with Seven’s Spotlight program and was reimbursed by the network for money spent on cocaine and sex workers, which were...

Integrity commission cites ‘exceptional circumstances’ to make announcement, which involves ‘no adverse findings of any kind’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe ACT’s anti-corruption watchdog has said it is “assessing corruption allegations” against Walter Sofronoff over his dealings with the media while he led an inquiry into the Bruce Lehrmann trial.In a rare public acknowledgment, the ACT Integrity...

High-profile defamation case reopened on Thursday with former Spotlight producer for Channel Seven giving evidenceGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Bruce Lehrmann defamation case reopened on Thursday, with television producer Taylor Auerbach giving evidence.Here are the key takeaways from his blockbuster afternoon in the witness box . Continue reading...

This blog is now closedBruce Lehrmann defamation trial: Channel Seven offered Taylor Auerbach promotion after rebuking him for charging Thai massages to corporate card, court toldGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAfter a number of comments about the state of famine in Gaza, which Hyman appears to be disputing – it’s quite difficult to keep up with his...

Justice Michael Lee will hear an urgent application from Network Ten at 5pm on TuesdayGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNetwork Ten will ask the federal court to reopen its defence on Tuesday at an emergency hearing scheduled less than two days before the judgement in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case is due to be handed down.Justice Michael...

Sydney Afternoons’ host told listeners he will need surgery to remove his entire oesophagus and is taking several months offFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBroadcaster and saxophonist James Valentine has revealed live on ABC radio that he has oesophageal cancer and is taking several months off to undergo surgery.The...

Opposition leader’s comments signal the Coalition may support new laws to safeguard electionsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPeter Dutton has said that truth in political advertising is “probably welcome”, signalling a shift that could see the opposition support a Labor push for new laws to safeguard elections.The special minister...

Judge overturns one finding against former ACT director of public prosecutions Shane DrumgoldFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastShane Drumgold, the former ACT director of public prosecutions, is “looking forward to moving on with his life” after a supreme court ruled Walter Sofronoff’s extensive communications with a columnist at The...

The National Anti-Scam Centre has warned people to beware after it had more than 400 reports of these investment scams in 2023Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government has warned consumers to beware of fake news articles and deepfake videos that endorse online investment trading platform scams, saying they cost Australians more than $8m last year.The...

Lehrmann’s lawyers also admit client’s evidence is ‘unsatisfactory’ but say it would be overstating it to say he is a ‘compulsive liar’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIf the court finds that sexual intercourse took place between Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins it will also have to find she was...

Publishers informed on Friday Meta would not enter new deals when current contracts expire and Facebook news tab would shut down in AprilFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFacebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has set itself on a collision course with the Albanese government after announcing it will stop...

Court documents reveal details of emotional call with Beverley McGarvey in which Wilkinson blamed network for failing to stop bad pressGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLisa Wilkinson told her boss at Ten she was afraid she would have to sell her Sydney harbourside property if the network did not pay her legal fees, according to documents filed...

Justice Michael Lee, ruling in journalist’s favour, accepts Lisa Wilkinson took legal advice about her Logies speech about Brittany HigginsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIt was reasonable for Lisa Wilkinson to retain separate lawyers to represent her in a defamation trial brought against Network Ten and its high-profile presenter, the federal court has ruled.“This is not a...

Court in former SAS soldier’s defamation appeal hears arguments supporting reports old man found in tunnel was unlawfully killedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIt is difficult to understand how an elderly Afghan man died during an SAS raid if not through unlawful execution, a judge overseeing Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation appeal says.During a second week of the Victoria...

Tributes flow for pioneer and ‘doyen’ of industry who has died at the age of 81Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastHarold Mitchell, the advertising industry figure known as Australia’s pioneering and most influential media buyer, has died, aged 81.The Melbourne businessman said in his autobiography that he and a few others “changed how advertising works” in Australia...

Roberts-Smith, 45, is seeking to overturn June defamation trial judgment that found he engaged in war crimes in AfghanistanFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNews companies defending a defamation appeal launched by Ben Roberts-Smith over reports he engaged in war crimes in Afghanistan have told a court the ex-SAS corporal’s...

New devices would need to provide easy access to free-to-air networks, pre-install their video-on-demand apps and present separate tilesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastManufacturers of new smart TVs will have to prominently display Australian TV channels to ensure local networks are not crowded out by streamers, under draft legislation released by the Labor government.The so-called prominence legislation...

Judge tells court assault was ‘violent and degrading’ as former TV host ordered to serve 18 months on community corrections orderFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe former TV host Andrew O’Keefe has avoided jail despite being found guilty of “violent and degrading” domestic attacks.The broadcaster was hit with three...