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Yesterday — 30 June 2024Main stream

‘War zone stuff’: women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters

30 June 2024 at 00:09

Women should be at centre of climate policies as they face increased rates of violence and homelessness after disasters, researchers say

One woman lived in fear when her husband started drunkenly punching his car and throwing glass bottles at her.

Another recognised her partner’s worsening violence when her young son abruptly told a stranger: “My dad is really mean to my mum.”

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‘Arrogant’ tech companies must ‘fess up’ to harm done to children by social media, Albanese says

28 June 2024 at 22:54

Meta’s claims that social media doesn’t harm children ‘can’t be taken seriously’, inquiry told

Tech executives need to “fess up” to the damage their platforms have caused, the prime minister says, while taking aim at the “arrogant” and “out of touch” social media companies.

Anthony Albanese’s comments come after Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, told a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra it didn’t think social media had harmed children.

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