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Laws restricting social media use to Australians older than 16 will take effect next week... 

The Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says she has "no confidence" the ban will work amid what she's described as a "totally chaotic" rollout. 

Defence Minister Richard Marles says the government is "working through" the Pentagon's much-anticipated review into the AUKUS submarine pact.

It comes after Australia announced earlier this week it would reorganise its defence bureaucracy to improve defence spending and speed up delivery of projects.

AI boom or bust? Investors worldwide are hedging their bets, and Australia is in the race with the latest economic growth figures showing the expansion of data centres drove private investment in the September quarter. 

Australia was already the second-largest destination for investment in data centres last year, attracting $10 billion, with forecasts that the massive computing farms could make up 6 per cent of all electricity demand by the end of this decade. GIL LURIA ... who is the head of technology research at investment firm D.A. Davidson

A whopping 4,000-kilometre-long hot air mass is making its way across the country this weekend, with many parts of the country preparing to swelter through a heatwave.

Grubby, Vintage, Extreme, Rookie — those are just some of the categories that will be judged at the annual Mulletfest Grand Final in Kurri Kurri this Saturday.

Around 60 shaggy haired hopefuls will meet in the New South Wales town for what organisers call the most unique beauty contest in the world.

Started in 2018, the event raises money for a charity supporting people diagnosed with brain cancer, as well as promoting a focus on men's mental health.

It's a contest that either gets you belting out a ballad or leaving you curled up on the couch cringing. 

As the war continues in Sudan medical experts have warned the region could be facing its worst cholera outbreak in 25 years. 

A power struggle between the military and the Rapid Support Forces has left more than 40-thousand people dead.

Many areas have experienced famine and the demands on aid organisations have never been greater.

Coverage and analysis of national and international events.

A picture paints a thousand words but if you had to illustrate a day in Australian politics, what would it look like?

There was recently the image of Barnaby Joyce climbing out of an akubra UFO to meet One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson captioned 'TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER'.

That's how cartoonist Matt Golding portrayed Mr Joyce a couple of weeks ago in the Age Newspaper as the MP toyed with the idea of joining Senator Hanson's party.

For more than thirty years, Matt has been coming up with witty ways to draw the news and today he's being named the Museum of Australian Democracy 2025 -  Behind the Lines Cartoonist of the Year. 

In 2019, the ABC TV show Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds captured the imagination of the country.

It was a unique social experiment that brought elderly people in a retirement community together with a group of four year olds.

But even before that documentary aired, two sisters in Victoria were already working on creating their own intergenerational centre; a place where elders and young children could learn, laugh and play together under the one roof.  

In 2023, after years of hard work, the doors to their facility, housing both a childcare and residential aged care centre,  finally opened, changing the lives of everyone involved. 

Guest: Anna Glumac, co-founder and director of the Herd Intergenerational Learning Centre