What exactly is the government proposing? Is there a risk in porn websites holding users’ ID? Has this worked elsewhere?Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government has announced a $6.5m pilot of age assurance technology to prevent children from...

Pledge comes after Victoria’s supreme court dismisses residents’ class action against government, saying it has ‘no real prospect of success’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVictoria’s supreme court has dismissed a class action that was attempting to stop the...

Three people have been questioned in Mexico in connection to the disappearance of two Perth brothers who went missing during a surfing trip to the Baja California region along with an American man who was travelling with them. Authorities said they had found an abandoned camping site that may have been used by the travellers, as well as a mobile phone...

The Illawarra, Sydney and Hunter coast regions are expected to see up to 100mm of rainfall, with Sunday ‘the very wet day’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales is expecting a wet weekend of heavy rain, with little hope for sunny and dry conditions in the coming week.“What we have seen as spotty, intermittent...

Measures to focus on boosting frontline services for women and children fleeing abuse, as well as preventionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales government is preparing a major package of reforms aimed at the crisis of violence against women...

Plans for Your Good is not written for Australians at all – but for American evangelical Christians more interested in scripture than statecraftFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast“How good is God?”Some might take that question as a philosophical inquiry about...