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A $1bn fund for crisis accommodation for women and children fleeing domestic violence will open this week, as Labor pledges more support for homelessness advocacy groups if it wins the federal election. We’ll have more on that soon.
One of our top stories this morning reveals that the top 16 tech companies are collectively making $26.7bn in revenue each year from Australians, prompting the Greens to call for a 3% tax on the biggest players. It comes as the online safety regulator announces that the top tech firms have not implemented technology to automatically detect when terror content is being livestreamed on their services, six years on from the Christchurch terror attacks. More coming up, plus Telstra has been fined $600,000 after spamming Australians with more than 10 million texts.