New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has intervened to get three Liberal Party women into the state’s upper house by dropping three male MPs to guarantee equal numbers of both gender on the ticket for the state election in March 2023. After what appears like a deal brokered between party factions on Dec. 22, sitting…

Silver Screen Dreams, the latest feature-length art film by New Century Films, premiered in Sydney on Nov. 6. Paul Fletcher MP, Shadow Minister for Science, Arts, Government Services, and the Digital Economy, met with the production team before the premiere, thanking them for coming to Australia and saying that the film illustrates a “timeless, universal message”…

Commentary Prime Minister Scott Morrison is right to say that Australians are “sick of walking on eggshells” over what the media has pre-emptively declared controversial topics. Morrison’s comments followed a malicious campaign to scour the social media history of Katherine Deves for evidence of what the overly sensitive regard as offensive comments. Deves was the…

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) may soon be granted greater regulatory powers against disinformation and misinformation online. The Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher announced the new powers following the release of an ACMA report on digital platforms’ current disinformation and news quality measures. The report found that four-in-five Australians have seen “misinformation about…

The Australian government has announced it will spend $480 million ($US358 million) to provide more than a million premises in regional and rural Australia with faster NBN (National Broadband Network) internet speeds. The upgrade project is expected to boost the speed of the NBN’s fixed wireless network and extend the data caps of the satellite…

The Australian government has ended its $84 million (US$59.4 million), three-year funding freeze of the country’s two public broadcasters in the run-up to the next federal election. Communications Minister Paul Fletcher made the surprise announcement on Feb. 7, which will unlock $4.2 billion (US$2.8 billion) of extra funding until 2025. Fletcher, however, cautioned the Australian…

Australia’s new defence in its battle against scammers has taken the form of new regulation that will give telecommunications companies the ability to block malicious text messages en masse. The scam industry has siphoned millions out of the coffers of Australians, and this year alone, the number of reported SMS and phone cons doubled that…

Australians will no longer need to carry around coins to use a public payphone after Telstra announced that they will now be available to use free-of-charge on Tuesday. People can now make standard national calls and SMS from Telstra’s 15,000 public payphones for free, but users will still be required to pay for international calls….