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Updated June 4, 2026 — 11:36am,first published June 4, 2026 — 8:47amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe Albanese government is standing firm behind its plan to make the world’s largest technology companies fund Australian journalism, brushing off a scorching attack from Meta that brands the proposed regime a “discriminatory tax built on a false premise”.Consultation on the exposure draft of the News Bargaining Incentive is complete, and the government has signalled it will press ahead regardless of industry pushback. Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino, who is leading the push, is…

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June 4, 2026 — 12:04pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe new global tariff regime that Donald Trump is trying to erect is a transparently cynical attempt to do what US courts have told him he can’t.On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced new tariffs of either 10 per cent or 12.5 per cent on 60 of its trading partners, covering 99.4 per cent of all imports into the US, predicated on those countries’ failures to adequately prevent that imports were made with forced labour.There are six countries that the US…

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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAA“We’ve had a fun visit from our friend Lola, from Washington DC,” writes Sue Lugsdin of Balgowlah Heights. “We met in Seoul, Korea in the 1990s, and haven’t seen each other since. She was most fascinated by the water girls running onto the field at the Swans’ match last weekend as well as the art of hanging washing on the line. It’s simply not done in the US. Everything goes in the dryer. She bought a red Swans hat but realises she could NEVER…

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