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The federal budget delivers a $300 power bill rebate to every household in the country, along with the previously announced tax cuts.

The treasurer says it’s responsible cost of living relief that’ll force the inflation rate down faster than expected.

So, could that lead to earlier cuts to interest rates?

Today, the ABC’s Ian Verrender speaks with Sam Hawley from within the budget 'lock up' where reporters and expert...

A former Chinese spy has revealed the lengths taken by its security services to track down dissidents overseas, including in Australia, and get them back home.

Some expat Chinese who are critical of the communist party and leader Xi Jinping fear for their lives, despite being Australian residents. 

Today, Echo Hui on her exclusive interview for Four Corners with the spy who’s now in Australia and the national securi...

He shares one of the most famous names in US political history, but can he change the course of the next US election?

Robert F Kennedy Jr, a nephew of the former president John F Kennedy is running as an independent and while he won’t win, he could steal votes from both Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

Today, Eliza Collins from the Wall Street Journal on Kennedy’s campaign, his extreme views and how he could become a pro...

Don’t you get sick of the constant text messages warning that you haven’t paid a toll, or that you’ve missed a package delivery or have a refund owing?

In many cases they’re clearly fake but there are scams that aren’t so obvious, and Australians have lost billions of dollars to them. 

Today, consumer affairs reporter Michael Atkin on why more of us are falling for the traps set by criminals and what the big banks s...

When a porn star took the stand in a New York courtroom, her account of sex with Donald Trump was so detailed and at times graphic, the former US president’s lawyers called for a mistrial.

Trump often kept his eyes closed as Stormy Daniels spoke about an alleged sexual encounter in 2006. He denies they had sex at all. 

The criminal trial is all about a hush money payment she says she received before the 2016 electio...

There have been two knife attacks within just weeks of each other that are being linked to terrorism. 

One was a church in Sydney and the other outside a Bunnings in Perth on the weekend.

Both involved teenage boys. So, what’s going on? 

Today, investigative reporter Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop on the radicalisation of vulnerable young people and whether programs to stop it are working. 

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You have to be aged at least 13 to access social media like TikTok, Twitter and Instagram in Australia. 

But is that an appropriate age, given the disturbing content available and harm heavy social media use can cause? 

Could we just ban smartphones and social media for Australian kids altogether?

Today, we meet a father who has limited his daughter’s phone use and a psychiatrist who’ll explain the problems that smar...

Two deadly crashes and a mid-air door blowout have rocked the reputation of Boeing, with questions intensifying about the quality of its planes.

Concerns about the 737 MAX aircraft peaked when a hole opened up on the side of an Alaska Airlines flight in January this year. 

Today, Jerry Useem, who’s been investigating Boeing for more than two decades, charts the firm’s departure from in-house manufacturing. 

He’s been...

At Columbia University in the heart of New York City late one evening this week riot police stormed a university hall. 

They entered via a window to arrest students who’d for weeks been camping out at the campus to protest against the war in Gaza. 

Now, the pro-Palestinian movement that’s seen more than a thousand students arrested across the US has landed here. 

Today, we look at the encampments popping up on campus...

Most Australians had never flown it and now they may never get a chance. 

Bonza has followed so many other airlines and gone into administration, meaning yet again less competition in our aviation market. 

Today, the rise and rapid fall of the budget carrier and whether we will one day get a third major airline to drive down airfares across the country. 

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Inflation pressures were meant to be coming off a bit more by now, but a higher than expected reading has one prominent economist suggesting interest rates could go up three times this year.

So, why is inflation so sticky? And will the Reserve Bank feel compelled to lift rates to further dampen economic activity? 

Today, chief business correspondent Ian Verrender explains what’s going wrong. 

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In Australia, an increasing number of children are missing school and part of the problem is what has been called school avoidance or refusal. 

But families who are struggling say it’s more accurately called ‘school can’t’ because some students experience a stress response that prevents them from getting to the classroom. 

Today, Four Corners’ filmmaker Sascha Ettinger-Epstein shares her insights into the issue and ...

After the Bondi attack, like so many other women, journalist Louise Milligan found the horror of it hard to comprehend. 

Since then and with the death of yet another young woman allegedly at the hands of a former partner this week, discussion about violence against women in Australia has been reignited. 

Today, observations from years of reporting on this issue, Louise Milligan’s own encounters with threats of viole...

It must feel like a never-ending battle for Rupert Murdoch. 

His British newspaper group is continuing to face legal action more than a decade after the phone hacking scandal came to a head. 

Now he’s settled with the actor Hugh Grant who was accusing the Sun newspaper of everything from bugging his car to robbing his home to get stories. 

Today, ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry on how Murdoch has paid out many millio...

Australian political leaders are united in their condemnation of Elon Musk.

He’s been described as an arrogant billionaire and a cowboy with no social conscience. 

Now, Musk is ready for a legal fight over demands he remove videos of last week’s Sydney church stabbing from his social media platform X.  

He says the concepts of free speech and censorship are at the heart of the matter. 

Today, host of tech podcast Down...

Imagine opening your next electricity bill and it’s double what it usually is.  

More Australians are finding themselves in a position where their power bills are rising, not because they’ve changed how much electricity they use, but because they’ve been unwittingly switched to a time of use tariff. 

It means they pay more if they use power at peak times. 

Today, energy reporter Dan Mercer explains the tariffs and ho...

He’s on trial for falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal, but Donald Trump’s woes haven’t harmed him in the polls yet.

Instead, it’s abortion that’s become one of his most problematic issues as the former president works to get back to the White House. 

Some voters are turned off by his pro-life record and so he’s been trying to massage his message. But will it win him votes?

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As the events unfolded at Bondi Junction last Saturday afternoon, an unsuspecting university student was falsely accused on social media of being the killer. 

It spread on the X platform and by the morning Channel 7 was also wrongly telling its large audience that Benjamin Cohen was to blame.

How did the lie take off, who was originally behind it and how can we hold social media giants to account for misinformed and...