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Australian government agrees to record $548.5m Robodebt settlement, total payouts reach $2.4bAustralia's federal government settled the largest class action in national history with $475 million in additional robodebt compensation. ...04 Sep, 2025, 08.57 AM IST- Kathleen Folbigg to receive ex gratia payment after 20 years of wrongful conviction; here’s who else has been compensated in AustraliaKathleen Folbigg, exonerated after 20 years in jail, will receive compensation. The New South Wales government approved the payment. Folbig...07 Aug, 2025, 12.33 PM IST
- Australia plans new rules forcing Big Tech to continue paying news outletsAustralia in 2021 passed laws to make the US tech giants, such as Alphabet's Google and Meta, compensate media companies for the links that...12 Dec, 2024, 09.40 AM IST
- Microsoft offers to step in if rival Google quits AustraliaFacebook and Google have both threatened to block key services in Australia if the rules, now before parliament, become law in their curren...03 Feb, 2021, 10.24 AM IST
- Google and Facebook risk big fines under draft Australian news lawGoogle and Facebook would risk multimillion-dollar fines if they failed to comply with proposed legislation introduced into the Australian ...09 Dec, 2020, 12.21 PM IST
- Google warns Australians could lose access to free search servicesGoogle warned on Monday that the Australian government's plans to make digital giants pay for news content threatens users' free services i...17 Aug, 2020, 11.37 AM IST
- Australia making efforts to bring home bodies of MH17 victims: Tony Abbott"It's absolutely imperative that we bring them home, but in order to bring them home we've got to first get them out," he said.21 Jul, 2014, 02.54 PM IST
- Carbon tax repeal in Australia to help in coal supplies to IndiaIt further noted the positive impact this would have on the ability of the company to deliver cost-effective and high quality coal.18 Jul, 2014, 02.15 PM IST
- Australia's uniform-packaging law begins global cigarette-pack debateIndia's government has yet to consider a law on plain packaging, and the Australian ruling will add to pressure from citizens to do so.17 Aug, 2012, 06.40 AM IST
- Australia rights body terms Indian student detention as arbitrary; likely to get a compensation of 600,000 Australian dollarsPrashant Cherkupalli was detained in late 2004 for working at a bakery in Western Sydney without the correct visa.24 Oct, 2011, 02.50 PM IST
- Contractor blames Australian ministers for no action on 2010 Delhi CWG unpaid bills claimAndrew Howard, said that he had sent letters detailing his problems to the offices of Trade Minister Craig Emerson and Foreign Minister Kev...21 Jan, 2011, 03.36 PM IST
- Haneef to get $1 mn payout from Oz govt for false terror tagBoth the Australian government and Haneef agreed to keep the amount of compensation secret but sources described it as substantial, possibl...22 Dec, 2010, 02.07 AM IST
- Indian wrongly accused of terror by Australia seeks payoutMohamed Haneef was arrested in July 2007 and held for 12 days without charge after being incorrectly linked to failed car bombings in Londo...17 Dec, 2010, 09.52 AM IST
- Australia refuses to apologise to Haneef over wrong detentionAustralia's government and opposition on Wednesday refused to apologise to an Indian doctor wrongly charged over a British terrorist plot, ...24 Dec, 2008, 09.36 AM IST
- India Inc's salary benefits now lie in the fringesAn ETIG analysis reveals bigger rise in taxable perks than cash increments in FY08.06 Oct, 2008, 05.16 AM IST
- Australia to penalise foreign airlines for delayed flightsThe Australian Government has warned all foreign airlines that they risk attracting a penalty of up to 8000 Australian dollars per person f...24 Mar, 2008, 12.18 PM IST
- Oz PM rejects Haneef's demandAustralian Prime Minister John Howard today turned down Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef's request for an "honorary citizenship".06 Aug, 2007, 12.54 PM IST
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