John Rolfe
news.com.au
Australia
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PM’s plan to bring back 850,000 jobs — but NSW is still shut
While Australia is on the road to freedom with hopes even pubs will be open by July, NSW remains locked up with Gladys Berejiklian failing to outline any new exit strategy for the state. → Read More
Coronavirus: Scott Morrison’s update, Donald Trump suggests new ways of fighting virus
The US passed a dreaded new COVID-19 death tally of 50,000 as some states took small steps to re-open for business despite warnings of a “second wave” of the virus hitting America. → Read More
Tech giants like Google and Facebook will be forced to pay for news content in Australia
Australia’s competition watchdog says a world-first mandatory code forcing tech giants to pay for local journalism will end the “one sided” business model threatening the country’s “way of life”. → Read More
Coronavirus Melbourne: Scott Morrison to announce new restrictions for Australia
This coronavirus article is unlocked and free to read in the interest of community health and safety. For full access to the Herald Sun/Leader journalism, subscribe here. → Read More
Your Right to Know: Prime Minister pressured over media prosecution rules
The Prime Minister has declared Australians would not want to live in a country where politicians decide who gets prosecuted and who doesn’t — which Labor says is exactly what will happen to journalists under recent changes made by the Morrison government. → Read More
Right To Know campaign: Australians fear laws denying them information
There is widespread concern among Australians that increasing secrecy is denying them their right to know about assaults in nursing homes they may be considering for a family member or moves by the tax office to take money from their bank accounts without notice. → Read More
Federal Government urged to ban Facebook and Google from using news from Australian publishers
The federal government is being urged to ban Google and Facebook from using any Australian news publisher’s content unless deals are done for sharing of revenue and data. → Read More
Federal Budget 2019: How it will affect you and other Australians
From ScoMo to ScoMore. → Read More
How Google knows your ‘secret interests’
Google has been accused of spying on millions of Australians by building profiles containing intimate lifestyle details such as home and work addresses — plus secret interests. → Read More
Fees: Which extra charge does your head in?
They are the extra charges that do our heads in — from excess luggage fees to corkage and paying to print your own concert ticket — and we want to know which one you believe is the most outrageous. → Read More
Robert Thomson: News Corp global SEO slams Facebook, Google
News Corp’s global CEO predicts the world is on the cusp of a digital “reckoning” as politicians and regulators finally deal with the “potency of dominant algorithms and the anti-social potential of social media”. → Read More
Australian Taxation Office aiming for 98 per cent ‘tax compliance’ among Australia’s largest 2000 companies
Australia is reaping an extra $200 million a year in tax due to a crackdown on tech giants. → Read More
After Cambridge Analytica scandal ACCC’s Rod Sims warns of risks of political parties’ big data use
SECRET emails reveal the nation’s top consumer cop fears political parties’ use of big data is “harmful”. The emergence of the emails has triggered demands for an end to parties’ exemption from privacy and spamming laws — as well as the introduction of new rules covering psychological influencing on social media. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims’ concerns have… → Read More
More than 90 per cent of advice on setting up a self-managed super fund is non-compliant
IF you are considering joining the 600,000 Australians with a self managed super fund (SMSF), know this — nearly all advice on setting one up is dodgy, an audit shows. → Read More
How Facebook shifts Aussie cash offshore
WHEN Australian businesses seeking more local customers click “boost post” on Facebook, the money they pay — as much as $1 billion a year — goes to low-taxing Ireland or the US. → Read More
Cheaper power offer is twice as nice
WE said it could save households up to 1000 a year but that was wrong — the power offer weve unearthed could cut electricity bills by twice that amount. → Read More
This story could save you $1000 a year
THIS story could save your family $1000 a year. The Sunday Telegraph has found NSW’s cheapest power deal — and made it even cheaper. → Read More
Free Sky News will be shown on regional TV
SKY News is to be shown on free-to-air television in regional Australia for the first time. → Read More
Google data scandal: tech giant faces inquiry into ‘potential deceptive acts’
AS the Australian probe into Google’s cyberstalking widens, US lawmakers have demanded an investigation into “potential deceptive acts” by the tech titan while collecting users’ “sensitive location data” such as visits to IVF or abortion clinics. → Read More
Google can track where you shop, even without using Google Maps
GOOGLE is tracking you right into a store, even if you aren’t using its Maps app. → Read More