4+ hour, 58+ min ago   (338+ words) Labor has left the door open to changing its planned digital duty of care laws to overcome opposition to the contentious measures. Under the proposed bill, social media companies would be forced to identify and prevent potentially harmful content being…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (381+ words) A new drug said to be 100 times more potent than heroin has been linked to a woman's death in an ACT first. The woman, who The Canberra Times has chosen not to name, was 42 years old when she died in…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (713+ words) Do we all have fantasy jobs? The work we might have done if we'd had the right skills or talents? And if we had those jobs, would we then be universally applauded, loved even, for our sheer genius? Yeah, nah....

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (793+ words) An independent MLA says he will not pay back a $5000 donation that would be banned under his proposed law to block gambling industry money from ACT politics, arguing his push showed he had not been influenced by the cash. Thomas…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (288+ words) The Prime Minister's defence of a generous $6 million grant to the Marrickville Golf Club in his own electorate has stretched credulity. Anthony Albanese claims ignorance of an honorary membership to the club, insisting he is a tennis player rather than…...

3+ day, 19+ min ago   (538+ words) A blistering attack has been launched on the coalition over its claims plans to protect Australians from online harm amount to political censorship. Under a long-awaited digital duty of care bill, social media companies would have to identify and mitigate…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (632+ words) Cheap cigarettes could soon be used as proof to prosecute business owners selling illegal tobacco. An overhaul of customs rules introduced to federal parliament on Thursday will make it easier for law enforcement agencies to seize illegal tobacco. Under previous…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (505+ words) Plans to stop hate speech and dangerous content running rampant on social media will be opposed by the opposition, which says they amount to censorship. The coalition held a party room meeting on Thursday after it was divided on the…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (640+ words) A former Australian National University student found guilty of sexually assaulting two people has had the verdicts overturned. Richard Emory McGary took his case to the ACT Court of Appeal after being found to have committed the crimes by a…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (451+ words) A rift has opened up in the Greens after the federal party opted not to kill off Labor's controversial carbon accounting scheme, defying calls from party elders and a handful of senators. Tasmanian senators Nick McKim and Vanessa Bleyer, as…...