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The Finance Ministry is considering reviving a tax on international air departures more than four decades after the levy was first introduced in 1983.

Laws that ban any attempt to change, suppress or eradicate a person's sexual or gender identity are about to be debated in Tasmania. So, what is — and what isn't — so-called conversion therapy?

As per draft amendments, applicants should secure 75% to pass preliminary test; licence-seekers will have to disclose more health information; there will be no fee to change licensee’s name, address

A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law.

The draft of an artificial intelligence safety bill that Anthropic quietly pitched to lawmakers would allow the federal government to block AI tools only if they kill or injure at least 50 people, or cause at least $1 billion in damages. Nate Soares, executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, joins with analysis.

The billionaire told Meta’s board that he planned to list his Silicon Valley home for sale. The company remade its stock structure to help him pay the tax if voters pass it.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egypt’s proposed military effort was aimed at defending Saudi Arabian territory and did not include an attack on Yemen, adding that Egypt would also defend the territory of any other Arab state if asked to do so. Al-Sisi said the purpose was to defend Saudi Arabia’s […]

The National Board for Technology Incubation has unveiled a proposed $600m investment pipeline and a solar energy programme for one million small businesse Read More: https://punchng.com/nbti-unveils-600m-proposed-investment-solar-energy-pipeline/

More than 300 university students and staff march on Parliament House to protest a controversial plan to merge three of Western Australia's four public universities.

The plan would eliminate sewage spills into Windermere, blamed for turning the water green.

Brazilian butt lifts and other cosmetic procedures that inject filler into parts of the body will only be performed by doctors under new government rules to crackdown on "cosmetic cowboys".