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12 June 2026, SUN EXTRA - Social media case study. Social media ban. Six months in, is it working? Lara is a high school student who was kicked off social media.  Photo: Ruby Alexander.

Australia banned under-16s from social media. The world is split on whether to follow

No platform has been fined and the rift between regulator and minister is in the open. How are our world-first social media laws faring?

  • David Swan and Bronte Gossling

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Parents are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in protracted family law fights.

‘I will work until the day I die’: The crippling cost of family law fights

Eloise was forced to flee a husband who subjected her and their children to a “daily regime of coercive control”. The legal bills were crushing.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Advertising legend Peter Clemenger.

At 98, Peter Clemenger is not too old for one life-affirming revelation

The advertising executive was an industry giant who once child-minded the young Lachlan and James Murdoch.

  • Stephen Brook
KPMG has been thrown into turmoil after whistleblower allegations.

The whistle that blew away KPMG’s aura as the guardians of financial credibility

The accounting and consulting giant became embroiled in scandal after whistleblower allegations of illicit sharing of data.

  • Colin Kruger
Pauline Hanson will address the National Press Club for the first time in her career on June 17.

How Hanson became the de facto leader of the opposition

Pauline Hanson’s decision to speak at the National Press Club this month shows the political landscape in Australia has changed. Has she changed with it?

  • James Massola
Over the past decade, the Chinese government has expanded its massive surveillance network.

The mysterious database that provides clues to China’s foreign surveillance

The discovery of an unsecured Chinese policing dashboard paints a picture of how authorities track foreign journalists and other people of interest.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Angus Taylor, Matt Canavan, Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce.

‘Climate denial on steroids’: How the global anti-climate movement is fracturing right-wing politics at home

Populists are waging a war against climate action around the world, but in Australia the fiercest battle is among the right-wing parties over policy “purity”.

  • Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley
Australian-made children’s content on TV has collapsed in recent years.

‘I give us 10 years’: The alarming collapse of Australian children’s TV

Industry insiders feared what the removal of commercial quotas on children’s content in 2020 would mean for local content. Six years later, their worst fears seem to have been realised.

  • Nell Geraets
Julie Inman Grant at lunch.

‘I was not really keen on it’: eSafety commissioner tells us what she really thinks of the social media ban

Julie Inman Grant talks about death threats, the dark corners of the internet and making an enemy of the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Steve Marks holds hope of re-entering the US one day.

Guzman y Gomez founder Steve Marks has not given up on his American dream

Investors are glad to see the Mexican fast food chain abandon the US. The irrepressible burrito salesman behind the company wants to have another crack.

  • Jessica Yun