The Australian government's "Intergenerational Report 2021" forecasts the budget will remain in deficit for at least another 40 years, a de...

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Facebook indicated a compromise had been reached on key aspects of a law that would force digital giants to p...

He had been in direct contact with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and, he thought, was making progress toward an accommodation over proposed ...

Facebook stripped the pages of domestic and foreign news outlets for Australians and blocked users of its platform from sharing any news co...

Australia is poised to adopt legislation that would force digital companies to pay for news content, something that would create a global p...

Australia is on course to become the first country to require Facebook and Google to pay for news content, legislation that is being closel...

Google on Friday said the proposed law intended to compensate local publishers for the value their stories generate for the company is “unw...

The S&P/ASX 200 index settled 1.2 per cent higher at 6,756.70, its highest close since Feb. 25, and marking a second straight session of ga...

Under laws to be introduced to parliament on Wednesday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Big Tech firms will have to negotiate how much t...

Despite the latest quarterly rise, the economy contracted at a 3.8% annual pace. That's after GDP fell by 0.3% in the first quarter and the...

The Australian government on Tuesday will reveal a big spending financial blueprint for the next few years that will drive business investm...

The latest national accounts showed the economy shrank 7% in the June, the biggest contraction since records began in 1959.

The Australian government said on Friday it plans to give Google and Facebook three months to negotiate with Australian media businesses fa...

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg revealed Australia's crumbling economic outlook based on increased government spending to stimulate to economy an...

The 0.3 percent contraction was the first quarterly drop since 2009 during the global financial crisis and came as the lockdown exacerbated...

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission would release in late July draft rules for the platforms ...

Australia announced a $38 billion spending plan to limit the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic, as citizens were told to cancel...