Hello and welcome to our live coverage of national news for Monday, September 7. Here’s what is making headlines today.
- The government has vowed to crack down on social media giants, threatening fines of up to $100 million if they fail to do more to keep under-16s off their platforms, as parliament resumes in Canberra today and the government prepares to finalise its draft Digital Duty of Care legislation. The bill is set to go before the Senate tomorrow.
- Veterans will lay down their service medals outside Parliament House today in the newest escalation of their campaign against the Albanese government’s changes to veterans’ healthcare. It will mark two years since the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide delivered its final report, and veterans have accused the government of failing to honour commitments made after the inquiry.
- There are still 36 Australians unaccounted for in Nepal and Tibet after catastrophic flash floods devastated the Nepal-China border on August 26. Australia deployed an additional 15 personnel to Nepal t assist with ongoing search and rescue efforts in the flood-battered region.
- US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held talks in Kyiv in their first official visit to Ukraine, but made no breakthrough toward ending Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after the meeting. The visit marks the