SULLIVAN: Yeah, especially when even the military's leader admits the election can't even be held in many contested or rebel-held areas. And by some estimates, that's about half the country. And then there's the junta's heavy-handed tactics to make sure their proxy party comes out on top. It's banned Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy from taking part. The NLD crushed the military-backed party in the last election in 2020. And by holding the election only in areas it controls,
On the lawns of the prime minister's Kirribilli residence in Sydney, overlooking the harbour, Anthony Albanese said he had never been prouder. This is a day in which my pride to be prime minister of Australia has never been greater. This is world-leading. This is Australia showing enough is enough, he said as the country's under-16s social media ban came into effect on Wednesday.