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It must feel like a never-ending battle for Rupert Murdoch. 

His British newspaper group is continuing to face legal action more than a decade after the phone hacking scandal came to a head. 

Now he’s settled with the actor Hugh Grant who was accusing the Sun newspaper of everything from bugging his car to robbing his home to get stories. 

Today, ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry on how Murdoch has paid out many millions of dollars to avoid trial and what it all means for his empire. 

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Paul Barry, Media Watch presenter

Australian political leaders are united in their condemnation of Elon Musk.

He’s been described as an arrogant billionaire and a cowboy with no social conscience. 

Now, Musk is ready for a legal fight over demands he remove videos of last week’s Sydney church stabbing from his social media platform X.  

He says the concepts of free speech and censorship are at the heart of the matter. 

Today, host of tech podcast Download this Show, Marc Fennell, on the fight between Australia’s eSafety Commissioner and Elon Musk. 

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Marc Fennell, host of Download this Show

Imagine opening your next electricity bill and it’s double what it usually is.  

More Australians are finding themselves in a position where their power bills are rising, not because they’ve changed how much electricity they use, but because they’ve been unwittingly switched to a time of use tariff. 

It means they pay more if they use power at peak times. 

Today, energy reporter Dan Mercer explains the tariffs and how they’re leading to a greater energy divide. 

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Dan Mercer, ABC energy reporter

He’s on trial for falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal, but Donald Trump’s woes haven’t harmed him in the polls yet.

Instead, it’s abortion that’s become one of his most problematic issues as the former president works to get back to the White House. 

Some voters are turned off by his pro-life record and so he’s been trying to massage his message. But will it win him votes?

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Prudence Flowers, senior lecturer in US history at Flinders University 

As the events unfolded at Bondi Junction last Saturday afternoon, an unsuspecting university student was falsely accused on social media of being the killer. 

It spread on the X platform and by the morning Channel 7 was also wrongly telling its large audience that Benjamin Cohen was to blame.

How did the lie take off, who was originally behind it and how can we hold social media giants to account for misinformed and dangerous content?

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Cam Wilson, Crikey associate editor

It’s hard to understand how a man could walk into a shopping centre on a Saturday afternoon and start stabbing people. 

It’s left so many people demanding answers. 

Today, we look at the offender Joel Cauchi’s mental health history and ask whether anything could have been done to stop the attack and save lives.   

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Professor Kimberlie Dean, Chair of Forensic Mental Health at UNSW