Australia

Communications Minister Anika Wells will release draft legislation this week forcing social media platforms to offer algorithmic opt-outs and actively prevent illegal content reaching users.

Searchers have found a second Australian alive as officials remove several people from the unaccounted list who had never entered the disaster zone.

NAB, Deutsche Bank and UBS all tip a rise to 4.6 per cent at the Reserve Bank's next meeting, the dollar is back above 72 US cents, and the Treasurer will not say whether he thinks another rise is needed.

Bushletter audited 136 Australian agencies and their llms.txt files. Nearly nine in ten now sell AI search. Fewer than one in four say how they measure it.

Bond markets moved fast on Wednesday. The Australian 10-year government bond yield reached 5.19 per cent, its highest level since July 2011, after the ABS confirmed GDP rose 0.4 per cent in the June quarter. Rate-hike talk got louder almost immediately. It shouldn't have.

NSW Police did not release this body-worn camera footage. Someone leaked it. The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission opened Operation Makalu on 17 February 2026 to examine the police operation at Sydney Town Hall and surrounds on the evening of 9 February 2026.

Fixed-rate home loans, business credit lines and the federal government's own interest bill share one reference point: long-term borrowing costs. Australia's 10-year government bond yield has risen to about 5.19 per cent.

Nine Sydney agencies now sell AI search. We read all nine service pages on 1 September 2026 and ranked them on what they can prove in public: a method, a measurement, a price, a limit.