The federal government will include YouTube in its planned social media ban for young people, despite Google threatening the government with legal action if YouTube isn’t exempt. 

The video-sharing site was originally left out of the ban for under-16s due to its educational content. 

Following advice from the eSafety Commissioner, YouTube will now be subject to new minimum age obligations, along with other restricted platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.

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A Darwin CBD hotel being used as a makeshift immigration detention centre has been criticised by Australia's detention centre watchdog over its conditions.

The national ombudsman has raised concerns over a lack of access to fresh air and outdoor space and is calling for the Commonwealth to build a new facility. By Matt Garrick for ABC News Northern Territory.

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The local share market rose after new data showed headline and trimmed mean inflation had returned to the target range.

Overall inflation over the past four years remains high, around 20%.

Alan Kohler says that the latest inflation data has led the futures market to anticipate that the Reserve Bank of Australia will lower interest rates when they meet in two weeks.

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Union representatives say contracted teachers have lost their jobs because of ballooning public school budgets, despite the ACT government promising staff would not be cut.

Last week, the ACT government revealed that 77 of 92 public schools in the territory were either already over budget or would be by the end of the school year.

The projected overspend is $43 million.

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There were 26 prohibition orders issued by the ACT Health Directorate for food safety breaches during the 2024-25 financial year — up from seven the year before.

A business cannot serve food when subject to a prohibition order.

When an order is issued in the ACT, an A3-sized notice is displayed outside the business. There is no public register for breaches.

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NAPLAN results have again shown that roughly one-third of students are not meeting expectations in literacy and numeracy.

The results also show concerning trends with students in remote areas, Indigenous students, and those experiencing disadvantage.

Some academics warn that bad publicity around NAPLAN is contributing to the teacher shortage.

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A video of a large crocodile becoming stuck underneath a ute at a notorious river crossing in the Northern Territory has gone viral on social media.

A group of young men heading to the remote west Arnhem Land explain how they were able to capture the moment. By Samantha Dick for ABC News Northern Territory.

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Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar believes Australia can become one of the world's major data centre hubs, powered by renewable energy.

While his Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes struggles to advance his planned Suncable project to generate vast amounts of solar energy in the Northern Territory and send it via an underwater cable to Singapore, Mr Farquhar has proposed a different way for Australia to export its green energy.

"We should power the region," he said in a speech to the National Press Club.

"We should export megawatts as megabytes for potentially megabucks. This could be a $10 billion-plus opportunity."

Speaking to The Business, Mr Farquhar said he envisaged Australia becoming the data centre location of choice for South-East Asia, a region hungry for data as artificial intelligence takes off.

"There are more users of ChatGPT in the combined Indonesia and Vietnam than there are in the United States," he told the program.

"This region is growing, it's dynamic in Asia, so there's going to be a lot of demand for data centres going forward."

Mr Farquhar explained why Australia was uniquely well-placed to host the data centres necessary to store all this information.

"Abundant energy, clean energy, and the other one is a stable rule of law," he argued.

"In this increasing world of geopolitics, our access to cutting edge chips at the behest of the United States is an advantage for us."

Mr Farquhar also said that Australia is surprisingly cost-competitive when it comes to building and operating data centres.

"I found it surprising because, obviously, we have a relatively high cost of labour," he told The Business.

"But because we have a a deep talent pool here, because of the low cost of energy and clean energy that we have in Australia, and the ability to scale up with raw materials, all those things actually put us in a great and very competitive situation in the world stage.

But he said; "we just need improved planning approvals to move faster both on the energy and approving of data centres."

Responding to concerns that the growing number of data centres was already placing strains on Australia's energy grid, and potentially pushing up power prices, Mr Farquhar said he believed that the increasing and reliable demand for power could have the opposite effect.

"What happens is, as the grid gets larger, it becomes more stable," he told The Business.

Overall, Mr Farquhar used his speech to urge Australians and their political leaders to embrace AI, rather than fear it.

"History of technological change shows us something important, every major technological wave has created more jobs than it has displaced. Human capital has adapted and stayed relevant every time."

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Bedford doors opened on Monday and people returned to work.

The disability employment provider has avoided administration with the intervention of a $15 million state government support package that was announced yesterday.

It was welcome relief for the 14-hundred workers living with a disability who rely on the service for employment.

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