The Point Weekend Quiz
How well have you kept up with the week's stories? Take the quiz and find out.
How well have you kept up with the week's stories? Take the quiz and find out.
Australia’s most senior bureaucrats have been put on notice by the Senate over a push to restrict how footage of public servants appearing before parliamentary committees can be used.
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Australia is set to ban non-compete clauses for workers earning under $190,100, with the government eager to do away with what it describes as “massive productivity and wage killers”.
Santos boss Kevin Gallagher has claimed it’s a 'myth' that Australia gets less from its oil and gas resources than countries such as Norway and Qatar, despite figures showing the two nations reap substantially more public revenue from comparable LNG exports.
When direct subsidies and indirect costs are taken into account, private health insurance rebates cost the taxpayer more than $12 billion a year, yet there is little evidence to prove they achieve their primary goal of taking pressure off the public health system.
Three Greens Senators have crossed the floor to support a disallowance motion which would stop a new method to increase the supply of carbon credits. It comes after Greens Leader Senator Larissa Waters said her party would vote with the government this afternoon to allow the method.
Half of Australians believe tech executives should face jail time if their companies facilitate the spread of illegal and dangerous content online, as the Albanese government moves to impose a new duty of care on digital platforms.
The long-serving CEO used his address to mount a broader case for Australia to increase gas development, saying conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East had shown how heavily the world still relies on fossil fuels.
Former defence minister Kim Beazley expects the United States to deliver its promised Virginia-class submarines to Australia, arguing the country cannot afford to go it alone and would be left “substantially deafened and blinded” without the alliance.
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