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Sep 09Morning Mail: The Boris Johnson files, online watchdog slams big tech, French government collapses
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Morning everyone. Australia’s online safety watchdog says big tech companies are not doing enough to stop young people accessing “heinous” images as she announces new industry codes aimed at protecting children from inappropriate content.
Sussan Ley is struggling to contain the fallout from Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments about Indian migrants. And we look at Australians fixated on the soaring price of gold.
Crime ‘cancer’ | Victoria’s premier, Jacinta Allan, has promised to fight against the “cancer of youth gang crime” after the families of two South Sudanese children allegedly murdered in Melbourne’s outer west said they were “shattered” and the community “terrified”.
‘Heinous abuse’ | Australia’s eSafety commissioner says none of the big technology companies are doing enough to stop images of “the most heinous abuse to children” from being shared online. It comes as codes designed to prevent under-18s from accessing “lawful but awful” content have been announced.
Liberal strife | As Sussan Ley tries to contain the fallout from Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments about Indian migrants, our political reporter Dan Jervis-Bardy says the Liberal leader faces “a long and difficult task” to rebuild trust with the diaspora and perhaps an even harder job to prevent Price speaking out again.
Finn warning | China and Russia are increasingly working “in tandem” to disrupt and interfere in free societies, and undermine faith in governance, Finland’s political state secretary for foreign affairs and defence has told us as he begins a visit to Australia.
Lehrmann suit | The embattled former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has lodged legal action against the head of a corruption watchdog and a federal minister despite being on the brink of bankruptcy.
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