Facebook is under pressure in Australia to take down a page that insults Aborigines.

An inquiry into the Australian print media will examine increasing regulation but will not go as far as breaking up the nation’s largest newspaper empire owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, a government minister said today.

Australia’s government has promised a media inquiry amid complaints by MPs that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is biased and owns too many of the nation’s newspapers.

Australia announced a police investigation into Google today amid accusations the internet giant breached privacy laws, becoming at least the second country to investigate the company's Street View mapping services.