SENSITIVE STUFF
Folks residing in “oppressive regimes” and conflict zones “disappeared” after Julian Assange blended hacking with reporting, a barrister performing for the US has informed a London court docket whereas combating the last-ditch attraction in opposition to the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition order. The ABC reviews the silk, Clair Dobbin, mentioned some folks additionally needed to “flee their homelands”, together with in Ethiopia, China, Iran and Syria, after Assange “uncovered to the world the unredacted names of human sources” by publishing sure paperwork. The Guardian provides Dobbin additional alleged Assange had conspired with Chelsea Manning to steal info (Manning’s sentence was commuted by then president Barack Obama) and had tried to recruit hackers. Impartial MP Andrew Wilkie was in London in a single day, remarking that Assange’s extradition to the US to face 18 costs, 17 of them below the Espionage Act, could be a “dying sentence”. The judges have reserved their choice and can hand down their verdict quickly.
It comes because the alleged Medibank hacker Aleksandr Ermakov was reportedly detained in Russia, the SMH reviews, although the paper didn’t identify its supply and the AFP mentioned it was merely conscious of “reviews”. Perpetrators of the 2022 information breach demanded practically $10 million — which they didn’t get — and posted information figuring out individuals who had abortions, and therapy for HIV, drug dependancy and psychological well being points, The Australian ($) recollects. In the meantime, the Division of Finance by accident launched the delicate contract particulars of as much as 400 service suppliers final week, The Oz ($) reviews, through an embedded spreadsheet in an e mail about price updates. It included the provider names, service supplier names and worth scales at KPMG, Boston Consulting Group, Accenture, Deloitte, Proximity, Nous Group and Minter Ellison, and the e-mail addresses and cellphone numbers of workers and a few CEOs. Some 236 suppliers had been rapidly informed to verify they’d deleted the e-mail and attachment and signal hush statutory declarations.
WHO CARES?
There’ll be no election this yr, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed as Sky Information Australia reviews, after a memo from his chief of workers included the road “as we enter the election yr”. He mentioned the entire story was “a little bit of clickbait”, SMH provides, as a result of the memo was about somebody new beginning in his workplace within the coming months, and identified after Could’s finances it is a yr from the election, a la the monetary yr. It’s an unlimited election yr for different jurisdictions too — we have now state and territory elections in Tasmania, the NT, the ACT, and Queensland, in addition to common elections within the US, UK, and the EU. And that’s not all.
Talking of the Prime Finish — Chief Minister Eva Lawler condemned “scare campaigns” from “media folks” about proposed voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws, the NT Information says. Well being Professionals Say No’s Maria Cigolini mentioned VAD was not proper for the NT as a result of First Nations peoples already battle well being points they usually don’t want “one other approach for these folks to die”. Cripes. Palliative Care Australia’s Camilla Rowland mentioned end-of-life medical care was a “postcode lottery” and her organisation fearful that individuals would select voluntary dying in the event that they couldn’t entry it. VAD is authorized in Queensland, NSW, SA, Victoria, WA and Tasmania. In the meantime, WA’s Well being Minister Amber–Jade Sanderson is headed to India to recruit docs and nurses for her state, The West ($) reviews, because the nation is forecast to supply “a million healthcare staff yearly over the subsequent decade”.
CONFLICTING THOUGHTS
Division of House Affairs’ cybersecurity “guru” Peter Anstee has 100,395 shares in cyber safety firm CyberCX, the SMH reviews, which is a serious contractor to authorities businesses with 163 previous and current contracts. 4 of them have been with House Affairs, together with a $5.5 million contract in 2022. The cyber-policy adviser bought the shares when he was the chief director for CyberCX, and a supply informed the paper that Anstee informed the division concerning the six-figure shares per its inner coverage, however House Affairs is wanting into it anyway as a result of it takes “battle of curiosity” points critically.
From battle to consensus and Indigenous chief Marcia Langton informed AFR that former PM Paul Keating was proper when he informed her in 2016 that the Voice to Parliament pursuing constitutional reform was “a mistake from the beginning”. She added that the advisory physique ought to have been legislated earlier than the referendum. The paper says it’s “the primary time somebody from the Sure camp within the referendum has publicly declared their doubts about pursuing recognition”. In the meantime, 90% of Yilabara Options and Coaching Alliance Group’s caseload have had their Centrelink suspended, Guardian Australia says, double the typical fee (45%). Certainly three of the 5 who’re suspending probably the most funds are Indigenous suppliers. Mutual obligation legal guidelines require folks to look and put together for work to the satisfaction of job businesses, and in the event that they don’t, their Jobseeker funds are lower. Privatising our employment companies has failed, a parliamentary evaluate discovered final yr.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
Bendigo girl Carlie Davies by no means wished children. She’d identified since she was a child herself, and when she met somebody in her 20s, they’d fortunately agreed to lift cats as an alternative. However at some point when Davies was in her mid-30s, one thing modified for her. Watching her joyful nephews play, giggle, and develop, she’d felt a stir of maternalism deep inside. She knew these round her had accepted her child-free stance, however abruptly merely seeing a mum and bub in a restaurant would depart her in tears. Davies’ companion wished to stay to the deal — cats solely — they usually sadly parted methods. At 39, she felt extra misplaced than ever about her life till she struck up an harmless dialog together with her highschool crush, as ABC says.
They’d gone to their Yr 11 formal collectively however had change into mere acquaintances within the ensuing years, the kind whose Fb posts you may work together with. An icebreaker message turned two, then many, and she or he realised they’d by no means stopped loving one another. He was single with two children from a earlier relationship and hadn’t deliberate for extra, so Davies determined to be utterly upfront: it was what she wished, she informed him. Let’s go for it, he responded fortunately, and the pair moved in collectively in Melbourne. That was eight years in the past, and their pint-sized five-year-old daughter began college final week. “I’ve this wonderful, spirited, sort little five-year-old, and typically I believe, is that this actual?” she says. Many ladies don’t change their minds about having youngsters. But it surely’s additionally OK when you do, she says.
Hoping you go for it at present, no matter that appears like for you.
SAY WHAT?
Bob Katter’s workplace, in a press launch on supermarkets, has despatched out what I *assume* will be the first AI-generated media belongings despatched out by a sitting MP. His workplace confirms AI-generated — simply in case the gate working straight by the farmer’s torso wasn’t a giveaway.
Josh Butler
The Guardian Australia reporter notes our shouty impartial is evidently embracing the brand new synthetic intelligence period, even when it means sending press-generated pictures by a expertise in its infancy that don’t truly make sense.
CRIKEY RECAP
“As I thought of committing harakiri with a waffle cone, observing me from throughout the highway was a billboard promoting offshore mining jobs by means of one of many benevolent megacorps that rule over my honest state.
“Woodside, Rio Tinto, Twiggy Forrest: these innovators, entrepreneurs and encephalopods have spent the higher a part of 20 years blowing WA to kingdom come for untold billions, with the promise of a mortgage, continual fatigue and the most important flat-screen TV possible to anybody who’d assist them get the job executed.”
“The thought of what ‘on the document’ means is nebulous, and in lots of situations can imply various things to totally different journalists. The Media, Leisure and Arts Alliance is the height union physique for journalists, and its code of ethics states that journalists ought to “purpose to attribute info to its supply”.
“‘The place a supply seeks anonymity, don’t agree with out first contemplating the supply’s motives and any different attributable supply,’ the code states. ‘The place confidences are accepted, respect them in all circumstances’.”
“It comes because the partnership and the ABC have come below vital strain in latest months over accusations of bias following the Voice to Parliament referendum. In Could, RMIT FactLab revealed a reality examine of itself, refuting claims that the organisation was being ‘used’ by proponents of the Sure marketing campaign to ‘rig the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum’.
“The organisation’s participation in Meta’s fact-checking program was briefly suspended final yr after its accreditation with the Worldwide Reality-Checking Community lapsed.”
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Iran says Israel behind assaults on fuel pipelines (Al Jazeera)
China condemns US veto of name for fast ceasefire at UN (BBC)
Russia arrests US-Russian citizen for treason after she gave $51 to Ukraine, employer says (CNN)
Greater than 500 workers made redundant at Well being NZ – Te Whatu Ora, paid out $9 million (NZ Herald)
Uncontrolled European satellite tv for pc falls to Earth after 30 years in orbit (The Guardian)
Hundreds of farmers descend on Madrid for main tractor protest over EU insurance policies (euronews)
U.S. warns allies Russia might put a nuclear weapon into orbit this yr (The New York Instances) ($)
THE COMMENTARIAT
How ABC greed is killing Australian tales — Gary Newman (The SMH): “Daryl Dellora — director of the favored Seek for the Palace Letters doco not too long ago aired on the ABC — struggled for a few years to finance the movie. Dellora says he and producer Sue Maslin are considerably out of pocket after Display screen Australia handed on his movie. Ultimately, the ABC bought the movie for $20,000, a fraction of the $350,000 spent on the four-year venture. Dellora says he merely can’t afford to undergo that once more. He thinks his documentary profession is over. I’ve additionally been on the unsuitable finish of the ABC’s practices. After failing to draw funding from the ABC and Display screen Australia, I put my very own cash on the road for my function documentary The right way to Seize a Prime Minister – concerning the wild time in 1976 when then prime minister Malcolm Fraser was trapped in a basement by offended college students within the aftermath of the Whitlam authorities’s Dismissal.
“The ABC requested me to pay greater than $80,000 for the historic footage used within the doco, although I’m by no means going to completely get well the six-figure sum I’ve spent on my movie. That is for footage that has already been paid for by the Australian public. The nationwide broadcaster collects lots of of minutes of unedited information footage per day, starting from political speeches and interviews, to vignettes of metropolitan and rural life. Multiply that by a long time and also you get a way of how wealthy this audiovisual historical past of our nation actually is. However the ABC covets this historic materials like Tolkien’s Golem, worth gouging anybody who needs to make use of any of it. It’s telling that the enterprise unit accountable for footage licensing known as ABC Industrial.”
Neglect Labour and the Tories: The ‘carbon events’ is not going to save us. That’s why Simply Cease Oil needs your votes — Sarah Lunnon (The Guardian): “We’re constructing a well-liked, nonviolent marketing campaign that can attraction to the sense of anger and betrayal now felt by hundreds of thousands on this nation. If politics was working, we’d not be residing by a mass extinction occasion, have rising inequality and shitty rivers, and be heading for 2 levels of heating with no response. The system goes to fail. It can’t recognise, reply or mobilise to face the approaching disaster — so we have now to alter the system. It’s easy logic, however collectively we will defend our communities and households from the approaching storm. We are going to change at present’s failing politics, so motion can occur.
“The Rev Mark Coleman, a Simply Cease Oil supporter, is standing within the Rochdale byelection: the one candidate to be endorsed by local weather scientists. Within the coming common election, Simply Cease Oil will both stand candidates or assist independents who signal as much as a radical quick manifesto. A manifesto that centres on deliberative democracy for a brand new Folks’s Home. This can be a standing residents’ meeting tasked with discovering a response to the approaching extinction occasion and the price of residing disaster. Will probably be the fruit of leafleting, door knocking, public conferences — and a religion within the British public that social gathering politicians have lengthy deserted. The present political system has failed us, so we have to change it.”
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