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With the law still yet to catch up with the advancements in technology, over a dozen ACT women who were targeted by deepfake images are calling for reform.

This year, for many Australians, it feels like summer never left. The sunny days and warm nights have continued well into autumn. Even now, in May, it’s still unusually warm.

Beatrice Faust was an iconoclastic public intellectual. I first encountered her through her columns in the Weekend Australian in the 1990s. She was by then a standard-bearer for second-wave feminism, at a time when public conversations about feminism were defined by inter-generational conflict.

A tariff deal between the US and UK has provided the first off-ramp for Donald Trump's trade crusade, but uncertainty continues to weigh on investor sentiment.

Another Australia election has come and gone in a flurry of maps and diagrams and we’ve collected the best of the lot

It is estimated only 50% of flowers sold in Australia are locally grown, but florists and growers say local is ‘a superior product’. Here they share tips for buying blooms that last

Google has announced it will roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to children under the age of 13.

Leo XIV is a fan of Tim Tams but not Vegemite, one church leader says, and is ‘humble’ and ‘gentle’

Melburnian Sione Tuipulotu believes divine intervention was at work after he earned the call to play back home in Australia for the British & Irish Lions.

Tom Craig has been recalled to the Kookaburras after serving a six-month Hockey Australia ban following his arrest in Paris after the side's Olympics exit.

Church leaders are confident they have a "foot in the door" to getting Pope Leo XIV to Australian shores after his sudden rise to the papacy.