Australian Government

An investigation by Four Corners has heard from more than 100 women who say they faced discrimination in Australian government departments after falling pregnant or having children, with allegations of demotion, refused flexible work and redundancy. The ABC program, The Pregnancy Penalty, features a former counterterrorism executive who took her case to the Fair Work Commission after the Department of Home Affairs refused to let her return to a four-day compressed week.

The Albanese government's proposed domestic gas reservation bill has sparked a backlash from major Asian energy investors, with Japan and South Korea warning that the failure to exempt contract extensions from the scheme undermines historical investment decisions and threatens long-standing trade relationships.

Artificial intelligence could become a new weapon in the fight against Australia's burgeoning fox population, as technology is developed to identify the invasive predators and deliver poison while sparing native wildlife. The push comes as a new federal strategy lays bare the scale of the threat from foxes, which occupy about 80 per cent of Australia and are estimated to kill more than 300 million native animals each year.