12+ hour, 23+ min ago   (562+ words) Vice President JD Vance wants to pay married parents to stay home with their children, and he wants to do it with money Congress appropriated to help low-income families afford day care. Whatever one thinks of the goal, which may…...

11+ hour, 17+ min ago   (339+ words) Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan’s pitch to make the process of obtaining Irish citizenship more lengthy – from five years to eight – and Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s strangely woolly reasoning for this is best viewed as part of what’s happening in the…...

11+ hour, 36+ min ago   (616+ words) By Will Nicholas and Noah Secomb in Canberra Australian prosperity faces a “significant detrimental impact” if a One Nation plan to cut three-quarters of a million migrants comes to fruition, a peak business body is warning. Pauline Hanson’s surging anti-immigration…...

13+ hour, 6+ min ago   (241+ words) Proposed digital duty-of-care laws have been labelled "Big Brother" political censorship by the coalition in a disagreement over social media reform. Labor is hoping to garner multi-party support for the contentious social media changes, which have been overshadowed in recent…...

19+ hour, 52+ min ago   (301+ words) Australia is moving to introduce legislation that would give social media users greater control over the algorithms that determine what content they see online. The proposed legislation comes amid growing concerns over the influence of recommendation systems on user behaviour…...