The US government may ask a judge to force the breakup of Google’s business as it attempts to challenge the tech corporation’s monopoly over the internet search market. The Department of Justice has filed court papers that say it is considering enforcing “structural remedies” that would prevent Google from using some of its products such…
Rio Tinto is to buy the US company Arcadium Lithium for $6.7bn (£5.1bn), in a huge bet on the energy transition despite global headwinds in the electric car market. The Anglo-Australian metals and mining company said it would pay $5.85 a share for the US-based lithium miner. That represents an almost 90% premium to Arcadium’s…
The head of the Department of Parliamentary Services has announced a sudden “period of leave”, leaving a former anti-corruption commissioner in charge of the department. The secretary, Rob Stefanic, announced to staff in an email on Wednesday morning he had made a decision to “take a period of leave”. Jaala Hinchcliffe, the department’s deputy secretary…
Australia’s coalmines and gasfields may be emitting twice as much methane as they currently declare, underscoring the need to introduce independent reporting of the potent greenhouse gas, an energy thinktank has warned. The Superpower Institute’s Open Methane tool used satellites and ground-based verification to identify 20 “sites of concern” – all involving coal and gas…
Two students have been arrested at Western Sydney University (WSU) after a pro-Palestine protest on campus. About 50 people attended the protest, NSW police estimated. Police said about 11.20am on Wednesday, the two protesters, aged 24 and 21, were arrested after allegedly assaulting campus security. They alleged that as police were arresting the pair, one…
An explosion of tobacco shop arson attacks in Victoria occurred after an underworld bid to control the price of illicit products failed, police believe. It has been a year since Victoria police established the Lunar taskforce to investigate a spate of arson attacks in the state. Police confirmed the number of attacks has surpassed 100,…
The way has been cleared for an Australian diplomat’s partner to face charges over an alleged post-Bledisloe Cup street fight after Australia removed his immunity from prosecution. In late September, New Zealand police arrested and detained a man in the hours after the Wallabies lost to the All Blacks, only to release him later. Video…
Boeing said on Tuesday that it had withdrawn its pay offer to about 33,000 US factory workers and no further negotiations were planned with their union representatives as a strike nears its fourth week. Boeing and the union held their latest round of negotiations with federal mediators on Monday and Tuesday, but talks collapsed and…
David McBride has been granted the chance to appeal against his jail sentence for his role in leaking secret defence documents about alleged war crimes in Afghanistan after launching a late court application. On Wednesday morning the former army lawyer appeared in the ACT supreme court in a bid to file an appeal outside the…
Mozambicans go to the polls on Wednesday in elections that the ruling Frelimo party is expected to win easily, even as an outsider candidate is shaking up the presidential race and winning over young voters in a country where the median age is just 17. Frelimo has ruled the southern African country since the end…
