Blair Wise is the 2026 Caroline Jones cadet. The Newcastle University graduate was the 2025 Kennedy Foundation student journalist of the year. He’s a Dunghutti man from Kempsey and has had work featured in the Newcastle Herald, Vice, Crikey, National Indigenous Times, Indigenous X and the ABC.
ABC News Loop speaks to social media influencers being paid thousands of dollars to promote illegal peptides, and we take you inside the unregulated Chinese labs that make them.
New laws being debated in New South Wales would make it easier for police to access data stored on a person's phone using digital forensics technology.
Premier Chris Minns says crime syndicates are increasingly using encrypted technology and that the law needs to change to keep up. But critics argue the powers could come at the expense of privacy.
We went inside the world of cybersecurity to see how phone extraction technology works and just how much information can be extracted from a mobile phone.
"Clipping" is the latest online job for which people claim to earn up to six figures by editing other people's content.
Influencers and brands are employing people to cut and publish short-form clips across social media to game the algorithm and go viral.
Some researchers estimate clipping campaigns could account for as much as 40% of all social media content.
Clipper Emrah Bayraktar says he's made more than $130,000 from clipping. But experts say it's difficult to verify the true finances of this emerging industry and that it may be the latest in a long line of trendy online jobs promoted as a money-making opportunity.
What happens when the world's oldest continuous cultures come up against one of the newest technologies: artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence is involved in one in four cases of child online sexual abuse, according to new research from Adelaide University.
The study reveals how often teens are being targeted with AI-generated sexual imagery and found that some victims are turning to AI chatbots for support.
Researchers also found boys were more likely than girls to be victims of AI-assisted abuse.
Video by Blair Wise for ABC News Loop, further reporting by Cam Wilson for the ABC Specialist Reporting Team can be found on the ABC News website.
Kick has become home to some of the internet's most controversial creators — from celebrities and manosphere influencers to looksmaxxers. But what is Kick, and why has it become such a major player in livestreaming?
Video by Blair Wise for ABC News Loop.
Billionaire Judith Neilson's former secretary is accused of going on a $1.6m shopping spree using her employer's credit cards and bank information.
This is hooning. Police crackdowns, car seizures and fines are increasing. So why is dangerous driving still happening?
Reporting by Blair Wise and Joshua Langman for ABC News Loop.
A man who yelled antisemitic profanities while pretending to shoot at people from a pedestrian bridge used by the Bondi Beach terror attack gunmen has been sentenced.
A coroner will examine what authorities knew about 15-year-old gunman Farhad Jabar in the lead-up to the attack.
Ben Roberts-Smith was granted bail after spending a week in custody over alleged war crime of murder offences.
A BOSCAR report finds NSW Police disproportionately used "discretion" to reject eligible low-level drug offenders from a diversion program — especially Aboriginal people.
Aboriginal councils who have fought for decades to secure ancestral land are concerned proposed law reform puts rights at risk.
The NSW government on Tuesday unveiled plans to rezone the 113-hectare Burwood North precinct, positioning it as a residential hub between Sydney's CBD and Parramatta.
Topic: Urban Development and Planning
The Department of Home Affairs has doubled the price of a post-study work visa, leaving "tens of thousands" of graduates out of pocket.
New figures show there are 50 per cent more pokies in areas with an Indigenous population of at least 10 per cent. Gambling groups say it is "not surprising".
