Last Updated: 26 March 2025
These are our terms for use of this website (Site) or application (App) (together referred to as Media). These Terms & Conditions (terms) apply whenever you access the Site or the App, regardless of how you do so.
Terms of Use of Media
1. The Publisher, as set out at the end of these terms (News), is the owner and operator of the Media.
2. Each user of any of the Media (User or you) agrees to be bound by these terms. Your use of and access to any of the Media indicates your acceptance of and agreement with these terms, as they exist at the time of use.
3. News will include at the top of these terms the date on which these terms were last updated.
4. News may amend these terms at any time by posting changed terms on the relevant Media. If you use any of the Media (other than to review the amended terms) after a notice of change has been provided, you will be deemed to have accepted the new terms for that Media.
5. If any changes are material, we will endeavour to provide notice that changes have been made before, when or soon after you access the Media.
6. You agree that the Site and App require compatible devices and internet access, may require certain software, may require periodic updates; and may be affected by the performance of these factors. You agree that meeting these requirements, which may change from time to time, is your responsibility.
Content and functionality of the Media
7. News may alter, suspend or discontinue any of the Media and/or its functionality and/or the content made available through any of the Media (Content) at any time, with or without notice to Users, and, to the full extent permitted by law and subject to the remainder of these terms and any subscription terms which may be applicable if you are paying or have paid News for access to the Media, News will not be liable to any User or to any third party should it exercise such rights.
8. In some circumstances the Site or App allows Users to access and download certain Content onto your device(s). Some such Content may not be available at all times in the future for subsequent download and News will have no liability to you in such circumstances subject to the remainder of these terms.
9. News may require you to be a registered user or subscriber to access certain Content through any of the Media or to download any App. Where this occurs, the terms and conditions of your registration or subscription (as relevant) will govern that relationship between you and the relevant News related company and will prevail to the extent of any inconsistency with these terms.
10. If you pay News (or one of its related companies) for access to Content made available through the Media or to download an App, the subscription terms will prevail to the extent of any inconsistency between those terms and these.
11. We may use automated tools including artificial intelligence tools to assist in creating some Content of, and operating, the Media.
No advice
12. Content included in any Media is prepared as general information only. It is not advice and should not be substituted for personal advice which takes into account your individual health, financial or other circumstances.
Intellectual Property and permitted uses
13. All intellectual property rights in relation to Content on any of the Media belongs to News or its licensors, advertisers or affiliates. You obtain no interest in that intellectual property. All Content made available on any of the Media is protected by Australian and international copyright and other intellectual property laws. You may not do anything which interferes with or breaches those laws or the intellectual property rights in the Content.
14. You may only download and view Content or print a copy of material published on any of the Media for personal, non-commercial use provided you do not modify the Content in any way (including any copyright notice). All rights not expressly granted under these terms of use are reserved by News. Unless expressly stated otherwise, you are not permitted to copy, or republish anything you find on any of the Media without the copyright or trademark owners’ permission.
15. The logos of the Media are trademarks of News or its related bodies corporate or third party licensors. Other trademarks may be displayed on the Media from time to time. These may belong to third parties. Nothing displayed on the Media should be construed as granting any licence or right of use of any logo, trademark or masthead displayed on the Media, without the express written permission of the relevant owner.
16. You may not use any Media for any purpose or in any way which is unlawful.
17. You must not access any parts of the Media to which you are not authorised or otherwise attempt to circumvent any restrictions (through exclusionary protocols or otherwise) imposed on your use of or access to the Media.
18. Except as expressly authorized by News, you shall not, nor shall you allow any third party (whether or not for your benefit or otherwise) to frame, scrape, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, display, perform, publish, distribute, disseminate, broadcast or circulate to any third party (including, without limitation, on or via a third-party website or platform) any Content without the express, prior written consent of News. You shall not – nor shall you make it possible for others to – access, collect, text or data mine any Content from the Media by automated means or any other method, whether directly or through an intermediary, intended to circumvent the prohibitions set out in this clause 18 (e.g., robot, spider, script, service, software or any manual or automatic device, tool or process). For the avoidance of doubt, you shall not use any Content for any machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) purposes, including, but not limited to, developing, building, training, fine tuning, or grounding or otherwise utilizing Content in any large language models (LLMs), machine learning tools, or generative AI systems. You may not access parts of the Media to which you are not authorized, or attempt to circumvent any restrictions imposed on your use of or access to the Media. For clarity, your use of our Media and Content is only permitted as expressly set out in these terms and your rights are not expanded, nor are any prohibitions modified or limited, in any way by our use or configuration of exclusionary protocols (e.g., the Robots Exclusion Protocol as implemented through robots.txt files).
Liability & Indemnity
19. News does not exclude any rights and remedies in respect of goods or services under the Australian Consumer Law in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (ACL) or equivalent State or Territory legislation which cannot be excluded, restricted or modified. News otherwise excludes all rights, remedies, guarantees, conditions and warranties in respect of goods or services from your use of any of the Media whether based in statute, common law or otherwise to the extent permitted by law. To the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to News’ liabilities and obligations under the ACL, the following provisions apply:
a. News does not warrant the accuracy of the Content which you access through any of the Media. The Content is provided to you "as is" and on an "as available" basis and on the condition that you undertake all responsibility for assessing the accuracy of the Content and rely on it at your own risk. All Content which you access through any of the Media may be changed at News' sole discretion and without notice.
b. News will have no responsibility or liability in relation to any loss or damage that you incur, including damage to your software or hardware, arising from your use of or access to any of the Media that is not due to News’ negligence, willful misconduct and/or fraud.
c. News does not warrant that functions of the Media or which you access through any of the Media, such as hyperlinks, will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, that there will be no technical problems which prevent or unreasonably delay delivery of any of the Media or any content which ought to be accessible through any of the Media, or that News or the server that makes it available, are free of viruses or bugs.
20. Where permitted under local law, including the ACL, the liability of News for any breach of a term or condition implied by law is limited at News’ discretion, to the supply of any service again or the payment for the cost of having any service supplied again. However, News cannot limit its liability in this manner if you establish that it would not be fair or reasonable for News to do so.
Third Party Content & Links
21. Any Media may include third party content which is subject to that third party's terms and conditions of use. Nothing should be construed as granting any licence or right for you to use that content.
22. Any Media may include links to third party sites which are not related to News and in relation to which News has no control or interest. The appearance of those links on any Media does not indicate any relationship between News and that third party or any endorsement by News of that third party, its site or the products or services which it is advertising.
Contributing Content
23. When you submit content to News in any format, including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio, you grant News a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual licence to publish, transmit or otherwise use that content in our published materials and to provide and improve our services, now and in the future and, possibly, to attribute you using the details you have provided to us, as the author/provider of that content.
24. You warrant that you have all of the necessary rights, including copyright, in the content you contribute, that your content is not defamatory and that it does not infringe any law.
25. You indemnify News against any and all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by News as a result of a breach of the above warranty.
26. You waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and use by News in accordance with these terms.
General
27. These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of New South Wales. Your use of the Media and these terms and conditions are governed by the laws in force in New South Wales, Australia. You submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales, Australia and the courts of appeal from them.
28. News respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that any of the Content as published by News infringes your intellectual property rights, please contact us at legalenquiries@news.com.au with details of your claim including a link to the relevant content which we have published and evidence in support of your claim.
29. Responsibility for all election comment is taken by the Editor of the relevant Media, at the address listed below.
Media included is listed below.
Websites
| Site | Publisher | Jurisdiction | Address for Editor |
|---|---|---|---|
| theaustralian.com.au & cn.theaustralian.com.au | Nationwide News Pty Ltd | New South Wales | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 |
| news.com.au | News Life Media Pty Ltd | New South Wales | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 |
| dailytelegraph.com.au | Nationwide News Pty Ltd | New South Wales | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 |
| heraldsun.com.au | The Herald & Weekly Times Pty Ltd | Victoria | 40 City Rd, Southbank, Vic 3006 |
| couriermail.com.au | Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd | Queensland | Cnr Mayne Road & Campbell St, Bowen Hills, Qld 4006 |
| adelaidenow.com.au | Advertiser Newspapers Pty Limited | South Australia | 31 Waymouth St, Adelaide, SA 5000 |
| ntnews.com.au | Nationwide News Pty Ltd | Northern Territory | Printers Place, Darwin, NT 0800 |
| themercury.com.au | The Herald & Weekly Times Pty Ltd | Tasmania | Level 1, 2 Salamanca Square, Hobart, Tas 7000 |
| townsvillebulletin.com.au | Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd | Queensland | Cnr Flinders St & Finsbury Place, Townsville, QLD 4810 |
| cairnspost.com.au | Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd | Queensland | Suite 1.01, 111-115 Grafton St, Cairns, QLD 4870 |
| goldcoastbulletin.com.au | Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd | Queensland | 12-14 Marine Parade, Southport, QLD 4214 |
| geelongadvertiser.com.au | The Herald & Weekly Times Pty Ltd | Victoria | Ground Floor, 126-128 Market Square Mall, Little Mallop St, Geelong VIC 3220 |
| weeklytimesnow.com.au | The Herald & Weekly Times Pty Ltd | Victoria | 40 City Rd, Southbank, Vic 3006 |
| thechronicle.com.au | Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd | Queensland | 5 Keefe Street, Toowoomba City, QLD 4350 |
| codesports.com.au | Nationwide News Pty Ltd | New South Wales | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 |
| vogue.com.au | News Life Media Pty Ltd | New South Wales | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 |
| gq.com.au | News Life Media Pty Ltd | New South Wales | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 |
| kidspot.com.au | News Life Media Pty Ltd | New South Wales | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 |
| bodyandsoul.com.au | News Life Media Pty Ltd | New South Wales | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 |
Digital apps
| App | Publisher | Jurisdiction | Address for Editor |
|---|---|---|---|
| All apps | News Digital Media Pty Ltd | New South Wales | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 |