When Kirsty Clarke sits down at her desk each morning, in the bowels of the Australian Federal Police’s Canberra headquarters, she faces an excruciating dilemma: which child to rescue from horrific sexual exploitation first? The mother-of-two is a member of the AFP’s little-known Victim Identification Team, whose job it is to locate perpetrators and the children they abuse in sexual …

Year 12 student Noah Cameron has never seen Andrew Tate pop up in his endlessly whirring social media feeds. “But I can’t say that I have been able to avoid the thousands of videos that are put out there that are trying to emulate that style,” the 18-year-old said. Tate, the British-American kickboxer turned social media influencer, has become a …

The man who ultimately runs the ABC believes social cohesion is under attack in Australia and around the world and politicians carry some of the blame. Kim Williams, chair of the ABC, argues the breakdown of civilised disagreement is fuelled by social media and says the ABC has a role to try to help rebuild it. “I think we have …

Less than a month remains until we are greeted by Samsung’s next top flagship, the Galaxy S24 Ultra, which is officially getting announced January 17. The upcoming titanium monster has already leaked profusely, with pretty much everything known about the device already. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: Summary The largest and most feature-rich among Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S24 lineup will be the Galaxy S24 Ultra. The …

Billionaire Elon Musk has let fly with an expletive-laden spray at advertisers that have fled his social media platform X over antisemitic content. He told them to “Go f— yourself” in a fiery interview on Wednesday. His profanity-laced remarks followed a moment of contrition in a New York Times DealBook Summit interview, as he first said “I’m sorry” for a tweet that …

A major energy company has joined top women in wind power and a global contractor in a bid to build an offshore wind farm off the coast of Victoria’s Gippsland region. EnergyAustralia and Dutch offshore specialist Boskalis are part of a consortium led by Elanora Offshore that is seeking to be one of the first to build offshore wind in Australia. …

Australia’s banks have joined forces to unveil a new weapon to help save victims from transferring their money to scammers. The crucial tool means banks can communicate quickly to “freeze” the payments from one bank to another. The Australian Banking Association unveiled its Fraud Reporting Exchange (FRX) platform on Tuesday. “Given every minute can be crucial in disrupting scams, the …

An independent review of Australia’s carbon credit market has defended the scheme while making sweeping recommendations to improve transparency and confidence in the market. The review was carried out after the scheme’s integrity was called into question by a key architect of the framework, Andrew Macintosh, who described it as a “fraud on the environment”. A panel of four experts …

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged to the world to come together in solidarity — not a “Collective Suicide Pact” — in an alarming address to the COP27 summit. Setting an urgent tone for the climate talks in Egypt, Mr Guterres warned that humanity was on “a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator”. He told …

The world is headed for “economy-destroying levels of global heating” as signatory countries to the Paris Agreement fail to commit to more ambitious emissions reduction targets. That’s the message from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as the United Nations hands down its Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window. The “emissions gap” refers to the difference or “gap” between where emissions are projected …