Excluding the ABC and SBS is a missed opportunity to derive value for money from taxpayer investment in news media production.
The SBS is empowered and encouraged to earn commercial revenues, but has been cut out of this remuneration opportunity.
Coronavirus Australia live update: Victoria records 13 deaths and 723 new Covid-19 cases as NSW reports 18 cases and Qld three | World news
What we know is that an outbreak, an infection in one place can very easily lead to more infections. We have to, as a nation, be prepared to do whatever is necessary to minimise the risk of infections.
And what
Coronavirus Australia live: Queensland school closed after staff member tests positive – latest updates | Australia news
Australia signed a 10-year agreement with the United States on defence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region and agreed to the potential expansion of the US Marine program in Darwin, at the Ausmin meeting in Washington DC overnight.
US Secretary of
Coronavirus Australia live update: Sydney Black Lives Matter protest appeal dismissed as Victoria reports six deaths and 532 Covid-19 cases | World news
The NSW court of appeal has effectively upheld an earlier ruling that the protest is a prohibited public assembly under current public health regulations.
Demonstrators will now risk arrest and fines if they breach coronavirus
Josh Frydenberg ‘favourably disposed’ to extending coronavirus payment for jobseekers | Australia news
Josh Frydenberg has defended the phased withdrawal of wage subsidies and lower rates of jobkeeper for part-time workers after Treasury cautioned against the move and the Greens released an analysis showing it will hit women hardest.
The treasurer told ABC’s
Victoria records 459 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths in Australia’s deadliest day in pandemic | Australia news
A national record of 10 Covid-19 deaths was reported in Victoria on Sunday, including a man aged in his 40s, with seven of those deaths linked to aged care.
The premier, Daniel Andrews, also announced that 459 more cases of
In the staggering dislocation of 2020, I think of the many gifts my parents gave me | Christos Tsiolkas | Australia news
As soon as my partner and I completed two weeks’ quarantine after returning from Europe in late March, I went around to visit my mother. We had talked on the phone every day throughout the lockdown, and twice during
Coronavirus Australia updates: Morrison to discuss Melbourne outbreak with state leaders in national cabinet – live
Prime minister will discuss the impact of the pandemic as fears grow over pressure on aged care sector. Follow the latest updates
…Coronavirus Australia live update: 16 new cases in NSW as Gladys Berejiklian and Victoria’s Daniel Andrews hold press conference on Covid-19 cases
Calls for low-risk prisoner release in Victoria; Port Stephens in NSW on high alert. Follow all the latest news and updates, live
…Six Victorian prisons in Covid-19 lockdown as lawyers call for low-risk inmates to be released | World news
Six Victorian prisons have been placed in lockdown after an officer working at a men’s jail in Melbourne tested positive for Covid-19, prompting calls from legal groups to release low-risk prisoners during the pandemic.
The officer, who the Guardian understands