Canberra mulls criminal charges over Medicare AI hack
Australia's current laws are ill-equipped to go after OpenAI for letting one of its agents go rogue and hack a Medicare website, a legal expert says.
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A 44-year-old O'Connor man has been charged with drug trafficking and other offences after police searched his home on Thursday.
Anthony Albanese has stressed the need for countries to put aside differences to collectively tackle global issues like AI during a national address to the UN.
A tender has opened to refurbish Woden Library ahead of Access Canberra's planned move into the building in 2027.
Police
Man charged with alleged abuse of daughter
A 32-year-old man has been charged with allegedly grooming his young daughter and taking explicit photos of her over several years.
Politics
Parliament reports still stacked in government in-tray
Dozens of parliamentary reports remain unanswered by government months after they were handed down, while others are brushed with stock responses.
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Why Roosters’ aura won’t faze the Raiders
Canberra players were told to speak up if they didn't think they could beat the Sydney Roosters during the NRLW season. Now they must beat them in a final.
Two Australia-first heavy tanker fire trucks have joined the ACT Rural Fire Service ahead of the 2026-27 bushfire season.
Passengers travelling between Canberra and Sydney could soon have access to free onboard Wi-Fi under a $1.5 million NSW TrainLink trial.
Police are seeking a driver who stopped after hitting a pedestrian in Ngunnawal in July but left before officers arrived.
Indigenous employees are losing billions of dollars a year because of a pay gap that a landmark study says is caused by systemic racism.
Almost 40,000 new jobs were added to the economy in August, but a spike in people out of work caused the unemployment rate to edge higher.
A 42-year-old man has been charged after an allegedly stolen car was driven at high speed and on the wrong side of the road during a police pursuit through Canberra early Thursday.
NRLW preliminary finalists Sydney Roosters and Canberra have taken different paths and approaches to 2026, but now face off for a spot in the grand final.
A 19-year-old man has been charged after allegedly seriously assaulting and choking a man he met through a dating app.
A government department has been fined more than $100,000 for second-degree burns a child received at Questacon after she touched a plasma globe.
The government insists Australians' private data is safe after an OpenAI agent broke into one of its websites, in a breach that took weeks to uncover.
The 2026-27 ACT Budget has passed the Legislative Assembly, with new spending on housing, health and community services alongside cost-of-living measures.
The ACT government will introduce legislation to strengthen hate crime and vilification laws, including expanding bans on Nazi symbols and requiring courts to consider hate motivation when sentencing offenders.
