CANBERRA, ACT, May 20 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A West Australian man is expected to face Perth Magistrates Court today (20 May, 2026) charged with six counts of possession of child abuse material.   The AFP arrested the man, 31, this morning after investigating information from authorities in the United Kingdom about an Australian user allegedly accessing a darknet forum where child abuse material wa...
CANBERRA, ACT, May 20 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note: An image and recording of today's press conference from the summit is available via Hightail. Fiji Police Force and the AFP have today launched a Pacific Transnational Crime Summit in Fiji to combat the growing threat of illicit drugs, as a new International Joint Investigations Team will be set up in Colombia to target traffickers. Fiji Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu, AFP Commissioner K...
CANBERRA, ACT, May 20 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: the Budget, tax changes, Australians activists detained Rafael Epstein: Jim Chalmers, thank you for coming in. Jim Chalmers: Nice to see you, Raf. Thanks for having me back. Epstein: I do want to give you time to talk about detail, but I want to ask about politics first. Have you lost control of the debate on the Budget? Chalmers: Of course not. Obviously from some quarters there will be...
CANBERRA, ACT, May 20 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Kumanjayi Little Baby was just five years old and should have had her whole life ahead of her. This wonderful young soul, who I got to speak to her mum, her grandfather, and her grandmother today. She was cherished and loved and they're going through the worst of devastation, and at this time they've asked that they be allowed to go through the Sorry Business with the p...
CANBERRA, ACT, May 19 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Vietnamese national tracked down in Sydney by the AFP's Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (FAST) has been extradited from Australia to face charges in Vietnam of appropriating property by swindling. Marking the first extradition from Australia to Vietnam, the AFP handed the woman, 67, over to the custody of officers from the Ministry of Public Security on Friday (15 May, 2026) for escort on a flight to Vie...
CANBERRA, ACT, May 19 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following media release: The Albanese Government is further reforming Australia's foreign investment framework to make it work better for investors, our economy, and our national interest. This second round of foreign investment reforms is all about making more improvements so the regime is much stronger where risks are high and much faster where risks are low. It builds on our first round of reforms in 2024. These reforms will i...
SYDNEY, May 19 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified the former chair of Xinja Bank Limited (Xinja), Lindley Edwards, from being an accountable person of any authorised deposit-taking institution1 under the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR). Ms Edwards is disqualified for a period of six years for failing to comply with her accountability obligations as an accountable person o...
SYDNEY, May 19 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released a consultation on a proposal to replace the non-confidentiality determination that supports publication of aggregated statistics from the National Claims and Policies Database (NCPD). The proposal also details a refreshed publication format. Written submissions regarding the proposals should be submitted by 16 June 2026. The consul...
CANBERRA, ACT, May 19 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: 2026 Budget, free access to mandatory standards for tradies, tax reform, alcohol excise Jim Chalmers: A really big thank you to James and his colleagues here at BM Sydney Materials for welcoming us here in Cabramatta. We're here with Anne Stanley and Tu Le, 2 wonderful Labor people and supporters of small business and the housing industry in this wonderful part of suburban Sydney. The Budget ...
CANBERRA, ACT, May 19 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: PATRICK GORMAN, ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER: It is wonderful to have the Prime Minister here in the electorate of Perth in the great state of Western Australia, and to be accompanied by Premier Roger Cook. We delivered our Budget one week ago, and one of the big focuses of that budget was housing, making sure more Australians have a place to call home. But it wasn't the first time our budge...