Won't somebody think of the children? This mantra is being used with great effect by the Australian government to increase its control over what Australians see, watch and do - all, ostensibly, in the ...

A spokeswoman for Communications Senator Helen Coonan said the result was pleasing because the the advertising campaign to accompany the program was not scheduled to launch for two weeks. Senator ...

If the name Clint Hill doesn't sound familiar, you might know him as the man on the back of the presidential limousine. He was a Secret Service agent, and moments after John F. Kennedy was shot back ...

On November 28, the Australian Parliament passed a law to ban the use of social media by teens and children under 16 years of age. The Social Media Minimum Age bill has probably set a global precedent ...

Sydney - The Australian government on Monday admitted no internet child safeguards were foolproof after a teenager claimed he was able to break through its multimillion-dollar pornography filter in ...

Lionel Messi approaches his second and likely last World Cup final, the stakes could hardly be higher. The same goes for Argentina after more than 30 years of disappointment since it last won football ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 59-year-old man who thought he was meeting up with a 14-year-old girl in Newcastle has been caught on camera by police who had ...

The 67-year-old man from Enmore had numerous computers and electronic storage devices seized from an office in the Sydney CBD and his home on Thursday. The man was arrested on Friday and taken to ...

An Australian Defence Force member is accused of grooming a teenage girl for sex. Acting after a tip-off, detectives posed as a 13-year-old girl on social media networking platforms in an attempt to ...

Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, said the Metropolitan broadband Blackspots Program (MBBP) would help ISPs, so that they could offer "affordable ...

The Government will create a National Filter Scheme to provide every Australian family with a free Internet filter as part of a $116.6 million comprehensive package of measures to crack down on the ...

Industry representatives today questioned the Labor Government's 2008 decision to axe a $84.8 million home internet content filtering program set up by the former Howard Government. Launched in August ...