CANBERRA, ACT, July 23 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editors Note: Additional ClickFit materials can be downloaded via Hightail. Criminal networks are weaponising artificial intelligence (AI) to help steal millions of dollars from everyday Australians through sophisticated fake investment scams. According to the Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre (JPC3) - which has launched a national cybercrime awareness campaign called 'ClickFit: Investment Sca...
CANBERRA, ACT, July 23 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: Labor National Conference, paid prac, ALP draft platform Sally Sara: Jim Chalmers is the federal Treasurer and joins me now. Treasurer, welcome back to Breakfast. Jim Chalmers: Thanks for having me back on, Sally. Sara: How much do you get involved in these delicate discussions ahead of the conference? Chalmers: I get involved in the policies in my own area. I think every Cabinet minist...
CANBERRA, ACT, July 23 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: Thank you, Mali, for your warm South Australian welcome, your leadership of this great state and - at a personal level - your friendship. I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging. State and Territory Labor Leaders. My Federal team, led by the best Deputy Prime Minister anyone could ask for, Richard M...
CANBERRA, ACT, July 23 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: The Albanese Labor Government will create a new Fair Work Court to provide simpler, fairer and faster justice for working Australians. A fair workplace relations system relies on workers and employers being able to resolve disputes quickly and fairly. The current court system for workers and employers can be costly, complex to navigate, and slow to respond to the needs of modern workplaces. Currentl...
CANBERRA, ACT, July 23 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: The Albanese Labor Government is expanding the Commonwealth Prac Payment to people training in an additional ten key front line health professions. This will provide cost of living relief for students and support our future healthcare workforce. Unpaid practical placements are a big part of healthcare degrees. For some courses such as radiography, it is more than a year of the degree. For that commitm...
CANBERRA, ACT, July 23 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: MELISSA CLARKE, HOST:Prime Minister, thanks for speaking to AM. ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER:Good to be with you, Melissa. CLARKE: Now you're announcing the expansion of Paid Prac to include another 10 allied health degrees, things like physiotherapy and psychology. Why are allied health fields the focus of this additional support? PRIME MINISTER:Because these are areas where we do have skill sh...
CANBERRA, ACT, July 22 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force Editor's Note: Vision and images of the seized items are available via Hightail. A Sydney-based international student has been charged for allegedly exploiting the Tourist Refund Scheme at Australian airports by lodging more than $5 million in dishonest claims on luxury and counterfeit watches. The man, 25, is ...
CANBERRA, ACT, July 22 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint release between Australian Federal Police and Northern Territory Police Force A Darwin man has appeared in Darwin Local Court today (22 July, 2026) charged over the alleged possession of thousands of child sexual abuse images. The Northern Territory Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (NT JACET), comprised of investigators from AFP and Northern Territory Police Force, began an investigation ...
CANBERRA, ACT, July 22 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER:Ok, well thanks everyone for joining us here for this ministerial meeting in Adelaide. We've met, of course, right around the country, and here in South Australia, of course, there's nowhere better for us to meet where we have delivered, whether it's Urgent Care Clinics, the public school funding for each and every school, renewables including the Batteries Program, the...
CANBERRA, ACT, July 22 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: Labor National Conference, gas tax, cost‑of‑living relief Patricia Karvelas: Treasurer, welcome. Jim Chalmers: Thanks for having me back on your show, Patricia. Karvelas: You're in Adelaide for this conference and it sounds like the push for a gas export tax is going to be very much on the agenda. Do you support new language in the draft National Platform that says Labor will ...