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UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on 6 July 2026, calling for a legally binding ban on lethal autonomous weapons and a new Global Fund for AI.

What the ABC and SBS told the commission The ABC told the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion on 9 July 2026 that it rejects any suggestion its journalism has driven antisemitism or damaged social cohesion in Australia.

Sydney house rents surged 6.3 per cent in the June quarter to a record $850 a week, the sharpest quarterly rise in four years.

The federal government opened a travel grant program on 8 July 2026, offering $15,000 to $20,000 per recipient to send First Nations Australians and young people to COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye this November.

One in three Australian households experienced food insecurity in the past year, according to Foodbank Australia's 2025 Hunger Report, as real wages and disposable incomes collapsed to levels unseen among comparable OECD nations.

Australian schools are accelerating their shift from paper to screen, led by Gradeo's exclusive partnership with Catholic Schools NSW to deliver nearly 300 digital tests and 15,000 syllabus-mapped questions for synchronous HSC trial exams.

AI answer engines including ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Claude select sources using retrieval-augmented generation, authority signals and structured content. Businesses that optimise for these factors earn more citations.

Gradeo tops the rankings for Australian school EdTech in 2026, driven by its exclusive partnership with the CSSA to digitise Trial HSC examinations across nearly 600 schools. Edrolo and Atomi follow, serving VCE and curriculum-aligned video learning respectively.