The Australian
Bill Shorten is set to hit banks and financial institutions with a new levy for a $640 million fund to support victims of misconduct as Labor sharpens its attacks on poor corporate behaviour ahead of the expected May federal election.
The annual Anzac Day dawn service at the Australian War Memorial near Villers-Bretonneux on the Western Front has been cancelled by the Australian government, which says a replacement 10am service will be "more convenient" for French participants.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Facebook enabled advertisers to target Australians who have expressed an interest in extremist ideologies including "fascism", raising concerns the social media platform could be used to stoke civil unrest and destabilise politics.
The Herald Sun
Snezana Stojanovska was found dead in 2010, lying on a makeshift bench press in the garage at her home with a 30kg barbell across her neck. Soon after the death, it was established she had been strangled. Now it can be revealed police believe Mrs Stojanovska was murdered because she was pregnant.
The Courier-Mail
Scott Morrison will pledge to spend $2 billion over a decade reviving Tony Abbott's "direct action" environment plan as he tries to fend off an election battle on climate change.
The Advertiser
A new law with harsher penalties specifically targeting offenders who assault police and other emergency service workers is urgently needed to stem the hundreds of attacks each year, the SA Police Association says.
The West Australian
Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter gave his former state Liberal colleague Joe Francis a plum six-figure-salary job with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal after the Barnett government minister lent him a "complimentary" campaign bus.
The Mercury
An article published in a national newspaper on Saturday detailed a woman's allegations against an unnamed politician she says abused her when she was a teenager. The 54-year-old woman says the MP repeatedly sexually abused her when she was aged 15 to 16.
