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Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese have been out and about on the first full day of a nearly six-week election campaign.

Everything you need to know about the Australian federal election, all in one place for your convenience.

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) fired some employees and terminated partnerships concerning bribery allegations in its sales efforts in the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reports. A former Microsoft manager Yasser Elabd, who worked throughout the Middle East and Africa from 1998 to 2018, made the allegations public after being fired. Elabd alleged that Microsoft…

Republicans take a page from the Democrats’ book by crying “dark money” during Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing.

“[I]t undermines and stifles First Amendment privileges,” says a federal court, defining “cancel culture” as “the phenomenon of aggressively targeting individuals or groups, whose views aggressors deem unacceptable, in an effort to destroy them personally and/or professionally.”

Federal ammunition of Anoka is 100 years old this year, a hallmark achievement.

The federal court today unanimously decided Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley does not have a duty of care to protect young people from the harms of climate change.

It overturned a world-first duty of care won by a group of Aussie teens last year.

Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley successfully argues she does not have a duty of care to protect young people from climate change when assessing fossil fuel projects.

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas is pleading with the federal government to reconsider how GST is carved up in COVID-19 times and beyond.

The bill addresses treatment of women in federal prisons and sexual assault of people in police custody.