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| Nov 2, 2025 | Chinese Premier Li Qiang to visit Australia in 2026: PM Anthony Albanese | SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday (Nov 2) that China's Premier Li Qiang would visit Australia next year on a trip that may include a stop at Uluru, the giant monolith in central Australia.
"Premier Li wi... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | The Great Tech Meltdown: CrowdStrike and Microsoft’s Catastrophic Outage**
** | ** On July 19, 2024, the digital world was rocked by a seismic outage that left millions grappling with the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The culprits? A faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and a coinciding issue with ... |
| Jul 22, 2024 | Zimbabwe: Air Travel, Media, Telecoms Hit By Global Cyber Failure | A global tech outage was disrupting operations in multiple industries on Friday, with airlines halting flights, some broadcasters off-air and everything from banking to healthcare hit by system problems.
Air passengers around the world face... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | IT outages reported worldwide – CrowdStrike to blame | Gremlins have hit websites and online services worldwide on Friday, with South Africa’s Capitec Bank experiencing an issue that may be related to the global problems.
Downdetector.co.za showed on Friday that thousands of users have complain... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Ассанж на свободе | 24 июня 2024 года Высокий суд Лондона освободил Джулиана Ассанжа под залог. После этого создатель Wikileaks сразу улетел в Австралию. Ассанж провёл в тюрьме строгого режима Белмарш в Великобритании 1901 день и теперь вышел на свободу. В Wik... |
| Jun 16, 2024 | Australian Businesses Face 'Irreversible Brand Damage' Due to Data Breaches | By Joseph Henry
Published Jun 16, 2024 11:35AM EDT
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Data breaches now pose a huge threat to Australian businesses, with the potential to ... |
| May 29, 2024 | Elon Musk’s Broken Clock Moment: Standing Up To Australia’s Censorship Overreach | Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed ‘free speech absolutist,’ rarely gets it right when it comes to actual free speech. But he deserves a rare round of applause in his fight against Australia’s global speech injunction.
We’ve had many posts deta... |
| May 16, 2024 | Unnamed Australian Healthcare Provider Hacked: National Cyber Security Coordinator Confirms | By Aldohn Domingo
Published May 16, 2024 2:25AM EDT
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Australia's National Cyber Security Coordinator, Michelle McGuinness, has confirmed ... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Can Australia go nuclear? Alan Finkel weighs in | Source: Unsplash/Viktor Kiryanov. article-article-body
Nuclear power is a credible source of abundant zero-emissions electricity, but it would take 20 years to commence operations from a standing start in Australia.
The battle lines have be... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Президент США заявил, что рассматривает просьбу властей Австралии закрыть дело против гражданина этой страны Ассанжа | 10 апреля 2024 года президент США Джо Байден заявил, что рассматривает просьбу властей Австралии закрыть дело против гражданина этой страны Джулиана Ассанжа. Примечательно, что 11 апреля исполнится 5 лет, как австралийский журналист Ассанж ... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Минюст США обсуждает с адвокатами Ассанжа возможность смягчения обвинений и даже свободу в обмен на «признание вины» | Министерство юстиции США «рассматривает возможность заключения сделки» с основателем Wikileaks Джулианом Ассанжем, что позволит ему выйти на свободу в обмен на «признание вины».
По данным источников СМИ, адвокаты Ассанжа, который ожидает эк... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Manasseh Sogavare – Master of Mayhem in the Solomon Islands | In the Solomon Islands, an election in April will decide whether a Chinese allied prime minister keeps his job. Manasseh Sogavare’s cunning and assertive political approach has served him well in the past, but can he bring a troublesome ele... |
| Jan 26, 2024 | How Woolworths, Peter Dutton, and January 26 combined for 2024’s first culture war | Source: Lukas Coch, AAP Image article-article-body
In the relative quiet of January 2023, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was able to seize the reins of the debate around that year’s coming vote on a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous adv... |
| Jan 3, 2024 | Uncertainty Is the Biggest Challenge to Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy | Just the highlights
Australia’s cyber security vision extends to 2030, with two federal elections occurring in that time frame.
A lack of bipartisan agreement means businesses don’t have certainty on the long-term vision.
A change in govern... |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Bin Laden’s “Letter to America”: TikTok and Information Warfare | Australians are increasingly at risk of disinformation campaigns, many of which have rapidly escalated on social media platforms like TikTok in recent years. A serious discussion needs to be had on the unfettered influences these platforms ... |
| Oct 4, 2023 | The Jupiter Effect: Climate Change Policy From On High | circa 1920: Jupiter, the Italian sky-god connected with rain, storms and thunder, who was ... [+] identified with the Olympian Father of the gods, Zeus. A Colossal statue found on the shores of Lake Alba Longa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Gett... |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Supermoon Australia 2023: How to Watch, Best Viewing Time, and More! | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 03 July 2023, 09:07 am
The first supermoon of the year is about to emerge on Monday, July 1. Australian viewers can enjoy watching this lunar activity from afar.
It's only of the four supermoons that are expected to... |
| Jun 13, 2023 | The Australian AI governance debate starts to heat up | Image: stnazkul/Adobe Stock
A lack of properly defined artificial intelligence governance and policy is causing bipartisan concern in Australian politics, with both major parties recently speaking out about the need to move urgently on the ... |
| Jun 11, 2023 | Ассанж подаёт новую апелляцию в Верховный суд Великобритании против экстрадиции в США | 8 июня 2023 года судья Высокого суда Великобритании отклонил ранее поданную апелляцию Ассанжа. Суд заявил, что ни одно из четырёх пояснений в документе не имеет под собой аргументированных оснований. В США основатель WikiLeaks может быть пр... |
| Jun 11, 2023 | Tesla fuels an EV charging standards war | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| Apr 11, 2023 | Sky News Leaves TikTok! Australian Broadcaster Claims App Is Too Risky for Serious News Companies | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 11 April 2023, 10:04 am
Sky News, an Australian broadcasting company, announced that it quit TikTok due to the app's posed risks.
(Photo: Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
In this photo illustration,... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Home Affairs sets up cyber 'consequence management' unit | Home Affairs has set up a new cyber security response coordination unit (CSRCU) to coordinate “consequence management activities for nationally significant cyber security incidents.”
The CSRCU sits under the Cyber and Infrastructure Securit... |
| Mar 22, 2023 | The risk and reward of ChatGPT in cybersecurity | Unless you’ve been on a retreat in some far-flung location with no internet access for the past few months, chances are you’re well aware of how much hype and fear there’s been around ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot develo... |
| Dec 17, 2022 | Soyuz Coolant Leak On the ISS May Prevent Three Astronauts From Going Home to Earth | April Fowell, Tech Times 17 December 2022, 07:12 am
Following a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station (ISS) that is potentially hit by a micrometeorite, there is now a call to study and analyz... |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Another public holiday? The way Australia’s World Cup campaign is going, businesses shouldn’t rule it out | Source: Rolex dela Pena / EPA / AAP Image
The Socceroos secured a historic World Cup victory over Denmark in the early hours of Thursday morning, causing a slow start to the working day for some of Australia’s most dedicated football fans.
... |
| Nov 16, 2022 | Poland says missile strike near Ukraine border was likely an accident caused by misfiring Ukrainian air defense | A view shows damages after an explosion in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine, in this image obtained from social media by Reuters released on November 15, 2022. REUTERS
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| Nov 14, 2022 | Lara Trump warns Ron DeSantis not to run against her father-in-law in 2024: 'Those primaries get very messy and very raw' | Lara Trump cautioned Ron DeSantis against contesting her father-in-law for the White House. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, Octavio Jones/Getty Images
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Lara Trump warned Ron DeSantis not to run in 2024, suggesting he would "fr... |
| Oct 8, 2022 | NASA Jupiter Moon Image Hints Europa as Habitable, Says Experts; Here's What They See | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 08 October 2022, 09:10 am
NASA's detailed image of Jupiter's moon, Europa, hints that the natural satellite can embrace life.
(Photo : Photo by Lynette Cook/NASA/Getty Images)
This artist's conceptual drawing rele... |
| Sep 23, 2022 | Австралийская телекоммуникационная компания Optus подтвердила взлом и утечку данных клиентов | Телекоммуникационная компания Optus подтвердила факт крупной кибератаки, в результате которой злоумышленники получили доступ к личным данным миллионов клиентов. Ранее об этом сообщил телеканал Nine News.
Optus заявила, что смогла остановить... |
| Aug 29, 2022 | “A monumental blunder”: EV Council CEO rolls eyes after Shadow Small Business Minister claims electric utes don’t exist | Source: Ethan James / AAP Image
Shadow Minister for Small Business Sussan Ley has been named and shamed by a fellow MP for incorrectly saying there are no electric utes on the market, something the EV Council’s CEO slammed as a “monumental ... |
| Aug 27, 2022 | Ассанж подал новую апелляцию в Верховный суд Великобритании против экстрадиции в США | 27 августа 2022 года Ассанж подал новую апелляцию в Верховный суд Великобритании против экстрадиции в США с приложенными к ней доказательствами нарушений по этому делу как со стороны США, так и госорганов Великобритании. Ответчиками в обращ... |
| Aug 10, 2022 | Why underpaying aged care workers is costing Australia dearly | Source: Pexels/Matthias Zomer.
The substantial increase in pay for aged care workers after the Fair Work Commission’s decision in its work value case for the sector won’t be $3.4 billion a year.
For a start, the FWC is unlikely to accept th... |
| Jul 1, 2022 | Ассанж подал апелляцию в Верховный суд Великобритании против экстрадиции в США | 30 июня 2022 года Джулиан Ассанж подал апелляцию в Верховный суд Великобритании против экстрадиции в США.
По словам защитника Ассанжа, суд будет рассмотреть две апелляции, а также решать, может ли быть заслушано его обжалование.
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| Jun 18, 2022 | NASA Artemis I All Set for Second 'Wet Dress Rehearsal' - Will It Be Successful This Time? | Joaquin Victor Tacla, Tech Times 18 June 2022, 07:06 am
Artemis is set for another "wet dress rehearsal."
According to ANU astronomer and cosmologist Dr. Brad Tucker in his statement with Sky News, NASA's Artemis 1 rocket is poise... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Власти Великобритании одобрили экстрадицию основателя WikiLeaks Джулиана Ассанжа в США, защита обжалует это решение | 17 июня глава МВД Великобритании Прити Пател одобрила экстрадицию основателя WikiLeaks Джулиана Ассанжа в США. Защита Ассанжа планирует обжаловать это решение.
«Глава МВД Великобритании одобрила экстрадицию основателя Wikileaks Джулиана Асс... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Why moving people and businesses away from the floodplains is the best solution for Lismore | Source: AAP.
More than three months after the monster floods wrecked much of Lismore, there is still no clarity for the town’s residents and businesses that urgently need to make investment decisions. Should they move to higher ground, make... |
| May 16, 2022 | ‘Overdue’: The ATO is cracking down on small business tax debts by issuing 40 director penalty notices a day | The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is cracking down on small businesses which are yet to negotiate their outstanding tax obligations, revealing it is sending up to 40 director penalty notices (DPNs) each day.
To account for the monumental... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Election 2022: Small business issues draw debate spotlight, but no new promises from Morrison or Albanese | Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison shake hands. Source: AAP/Jason Edwards.
A small business owner put Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese on the spot during the first election campaign debate, asking what b... |
| Apr 20, 2022 | Лондонский суд выдал ордер на выдачу Ассанжа США | 20 апреля 2022 года Лондонский суд принял решение экстрадировать Ассанжа в США. Хотя сегодня Вестминстерский магистратский суд Лондона и выдал ордер на экстрадицию Ассанжа в США, этот процесс еще не начался. Окончательное решение по выдаче ... |
| Mar 21, 2022 | What will it take to rebuild flood-stricken Lismore and bring businesses back to its CBD? | Lismore town centre no longer has any of the thriving businesses it once did. Source: Jason O'Brien/AAP.
The flood crisis in northern New South Wales has left lives shattered. Those worst affected are dazed and struggling to comprehend the ... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | China says “No One and No Force” can stop it from taking Taiwan, sends 13 fighter jets toward the island in a show of force | It’s now over two weeks since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. And just when you think it can’t get any worse, China says “No One & No Force” can stop it from taking Taiwan as it sends 13 fighter jets toward the island in a show o... |
| Jan 17, 2022 | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tweeted That She Tested Positive. Then The Haters Came Calling | WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 7: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) prepares to speak during a rally ... [+] for immigration provisions to be included in the Build Back Better Act outside the U.S. Capitol December 7, 2021 in Washington, DC. P... |
| Nov 1, 2021 | 10 things you need to know this morning in Australia | Good morning all.
The G20 summit wrapped up in Rome with few commitments on combatting climate change. In a joint statement, the member countries recognised, however, the importance of all countries taking action. Many member states, includ... |
| Aug 2, 2021 | 10 things you need to know this morning in Australia | Good morning everyone.
The big news, hot and fresh this morning: payments giant Square is buying Afterpay. Square will acquire all the shares in Afterpay under a scheme of arrangement with an implied value of $US29 billion ($39 billion). “W... |
| Aug 1, 2021 | YouTube suspends Sky News Australia for a week after an apparent breach of the platform's COVID content policies | YouTube removed videos and issued a strike to Sky News Australia's channel, the tech platform said.
A YouTube spokesperson confirmed the move, saying: "We apply our policies equally for everyone."
Media outlets said the suspension... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Australians are going to pay more tax post-COVID | Source: Australian Tax Office.
The biggest unstated message from the intergenerational report released during the lull between lockdowns is that we will need more tax.
Not now. At the moment it’s a matter of throwing everything we’ve got at... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | Australia is letting in celebs like Caitlyn Jenner while thousands of its own citizens are stuck overseas due to COVID-19 rules | Caitlyn Jenner. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images
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More than 30,000 Australians are stuck overseas due to the country's COVID-19 rules.
But Caitlyn Jenner and other celebrities have been allowed to visit for film and TV production... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | Australia is letting in celebs like Caitlyn Jenner while thousands of its own citizens are stuck overseas due to COVID-19 rules | Caitlyn Jenner. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images
More than 30,000 Australians are stuck overseas due to the country’s COVID-19 rules.
But Caitlyn Jenner and other celebrities have been allowed to visit for film and TV production.
British f... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | NSW says the rest of Australia needs to take on more international arrivals, with a new report showing the state has taken almost 50% of returning travellers | NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has challenged other states to take on more international arrivals, with the state bearing responsibility for almost 50% of all returned travellers.
However the Premier of Western Australia and the acting Prem... |
| Mar 16, 2021 | ‘No evidence of that causal link’: Josh Frydenberg dismisses claim Australia should suspend its AstraZeneca vaccine rollout over blood clot fears | Pedro Fiúza/NurPhoto/Getty Images
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan today called on Australia to suspend its AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine rollout, citing the decision of several European nations to pause their own.
Those precautionary measures... |
| Jan 25, 2021 | Australia Day is no longer an obvious and uncontroversial commercial winner for brands. Here’s how the conversation has changed. | Australia Day used to be an obvious and uncontroversial occasion for brands to endear themselves to Australian consumers. No longer.
There has been a decided shift over the past decade in commercial attitudes to January 26, acknowledging th... |
| Nov 30, 2020 | In Australia, The Future Of Telemedicine Is Here | getty |
| Oct 7, 2020 | Twitter said it had to temporarily lock Trump's account after he shared a columnist's email address, violating the company's policies | Twitter said it locked President Donald Trump's account after he shared the email address of a New York Post columnist on the social-media site Monday evening.
Trump praised a column by Miranda Devine in which she applauded the president, s... |
| Oct 5, 2020 | Budget 2020 assumes access to a COVID-19 vaccine by next year, Frydenberg says | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
Any measures announced in this week’s budget will be made on the assumption that Australians will have access to a COVID-19 vaccine by next year, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has sugges... |
| Jul 13, 2020 | Cormann: JobKeeper will end in September after all, with further support based on “assessed need” | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann. Source: AAP Image/Lukas Coch.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann is adamant JobKeeper won’t continue past September, saying whatever income support the federal government extends... |
| Jul 7, 2020 | Australia: New Coronavirus Lockdown Melbourne Amid Sex, Lies, Quarantine Hotel Scandal | Melbourne is set to again return to empty street scenes of April, as it re-enters a "hard lockdown" ... [+] under strict stay at home orders from around midnight on Wednesday. The Bourke St Mall is usually the bustling hub of the ... |
| Jun 6, 2020 | A homeowner yelled at the Australian prime minister to get off his lawn on live television | Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (right) at a press conference at the Western Sydney International Airport on June 1, 2020.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was stopped mid-sentence during a press co... |
| Dec 3, 2018 | Govt piles on encryption pressure in final week | The government’s encryption-busting bill will be debated in parliament on Wednesday, as the rush to ram it through before the end of the year reached new heights on Monday.
The bill has been re-listed for further debate this week, despite n... |
| May 14, 2018 | Family Planning NSW hit by ransomware attack | Family Planning NSW was hit by a ransomware attack late last month and the clinic operator is warning that its “online databases” may have been compromised.
The provider of reproductive and health services said the databases contained the d... |
| May 6, 2018 | Report: Crowdfunding Platform OurCrowd Reaffirms Expectation to Top $1 Billion this Year | OurCrowd is one of the largest crowdfunding platforms in the world and, perhaps, the largest early stage platform globally by now. The five year old firm has quickly gone from zero to nearly $1 billion in capital raised with the expectation... |
| Aug 8, 2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, Aug. 8 | THE 17-YEAR SLOW BURN
Term Sheet typically focuses on one very specific kind of entrepreneurial success study: The kind where startup founders raise giant piles of venture capital to fuel hypergrowth, and then ride said hypergrowth to an IP... |
| Jul 4, 2017 | Govt downplays sale of Medicare card data on dark web | The federal government minister in charge of Australia's Medicare program has sought to downplay security concerns around Medicare card data being stolen and sold online.
The Guardian this morning revealed that personal Medicare details wer... |
| Apr 26, 2017 | As the budget countdown approaches, what do voters want on housing reform? | While 2016’s federal budget was all about securing Australia’s innovative future, there’s little doubt this year’s national economic blueprint will focus on a framework to tackle the explosive issue of housing affordability.
This week has s... |
| Apr 24, 2017 | First Australian-built satellites launched in 15 years | PhD student Ben Southwell working on the loaf-sized UNSW-ECO satellite at AITC. Source: UNSW, author provided
By Andrew Dempster, UNSW
The first Australian-built satellites to be launched in 15 years recently took off from Cape Canaveral in... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | Small business calls for caution on changes to the minimum wage | Small business operators are asking the Fair Work Commission to keep any increase to the minimum wage below the rate of inflation, arguing that larger increases could have a direct impact on the profitability of their sectors going forward.... |
| Mar 28, 2017 | Airbnb contributes $1.6 billion to Australia’s economy and local SMEs are big winners: Report | Disruptive businesses like Airbnb are a boon for the Australian economy and can provide local businesses with more sales opportunities, according to research released this week by Deloitte.
According to the analysis from Deloitte, global ac... |
| Oct 17, 2016 | New Study Finds Nearly Three Million Australians Are Living in Poverty | Image via Flickr user Garry Knight
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has released their latest snapshot of national poverty and the results aren't good. During 2014-15, there were 2.99 million Australians (13.3 percent of the... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | ANZ and Amex the winners in Australia’s banks’ fight with Apple over payment apps | By David Glance, University of Western Australia
Australia’s banks have always enjoyed a lucrative income from credit card “interchange fees”, the charges that the banks levy on merchants’ sales. These fees amount to $2.5 billion a year whi... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | Zika in 30 Seconds: Archives (Feb – April) | Friday, April 29 The big news right now
The Senate left for recess without wrapping up a Zika funding deal (the Atlantic)
Quest Diagnostics says it has received emergency authorization from the FDA to sell its Zika virus test (Reuters)
Zika... |
| May 12, 2016 | Why Australia needs a prompt payment protocol | It is well known that cashflow is the fulcrum of small business. If cashflow is tight things are difficult. If cash flows in as planned, then things are good. Cashflow is important because a small business person rarely has a large cash res... |
| Apr 28, 2016 | Quickflix calls in the administrators: What it means for the streaming wars | By Marc C-Scott
Australia’s first video-on-demand (VoD) service, Quickflix, issued a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange on Tuesday this week saying it has appointed voluntary administrators.
Administrator Ferrier Hodgson is rep... |
| Mar 11, 2016 | The ugly story of Dick Smith, from float to failure | By Jeffrey Knapp, UNSW Australia
Early last month, the Senate announced an inquiry with terms of reference that cover the collapse of Dick Smith Electronics.
There is a lot for senators to pore over in the float and failure of Dick Smith.
I... |
| Feb 26, 2016 | Water Wars: Missile-Deployment Controversy Splashes on, as PRC Foreign Minister Visits Washington | Satellite imagery of Woody Island, the site of recent PRC military deployments (Photo: DigitalGlobe/Getty Images)
Picking up right where our last post left off, diplomatic sparring over China’s reported missile deployment to Woody Island co... |
| Feb 12, 2016 | Government considers scrapping increase to compulsory super guarantee after putting it on hold | The federal opposition has claimed the Turnbull government is looking at scrapping an increase in compulsory superannuation contributions altogether almost 18 months after freezing employer contributions at 9.5%.
The former Labor government... |
| Feb 3, 2016 | Two Zika Virus Cases Have Been Confirmed in Sydney | NSW health authorities have confirmed two cases of Zika virus in Sydney. Both were detected by NSW Health last Friday, affecting a male and a female who had recently travelled to the Caribbean. NSW Health director of communicable diseases V... |
| Jan 29, 2016 | Water Wars: American Angling Ahead of ASEAN Summit | U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spent much of this week in Laos, Cambodia, and China in an effort to pressure Beijing to change course in the South China Sea. Returning to Washington on Wednesday, Secretary Kerry could boast of, at best,... |
| Jan 25, 2016 | How the Internet of Things is helping to drive the next generational change in mobile | Some of the biggest carriers in Australia, Vodafone, Telstra and even Chinese manufacturer Huawei are preparing for the next generation of mobile phone network, 5G, even though 4G has only just been rolled out.
New mobile generations come a... |
| Jan 25, 2016 | Julie Bishop spruiks Australian startups in the US: “We are unleashing the full potential of our entrepreneurs” | Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has used a visit to the US to spruik Australian startups on the world stage and to encourage high-profile Americans to invest in Down Under innovation.
Speaking at the G’Day USA event in New York, Bishop discus... |
| Jan 17, 2016 | The ‘G’ in 5G: How mobile generations have evolved | Some of the biggest carriers in Australia – Vodafone, Telstra and even Chinese manufacturer Huawei – are preparing for the next generation of mobile phone network, 5G, even though 4G has only just been rolled out.
New mobile generations com... |
| Oct 21, 2015 | Labor and Coalition agree on China-Australia free trade deal; Former treasurer Joe Hockey farewells parliament: Midday Roundup | A China-Australia free trade deal looks set to go ahead with tariff cuts for business to begin by the end of the year, after an agreement was reached between Australia’s two main political parties today.
Labor leader Bill Shorten made the a... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | Government could review superannuation tax concessions; Telcos M2 Group and Vocus to merge: Midday Roundup | The federal government could review superannuation tax concessions after finance minister Mathias Cormann refused to rule out any changes for those saving for retirement.
Speaking on Sky News, Cormann said the Turnbull government is determi... |
| Apr 15, 2015 | The tax white paper – only good for fish and chips now? | Achieving tax reform is often a long process as the government of the day looks for consensus before presenting proposals to the Parliament. The process that the current government is following seems to be even longer and more tortuous than... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Hockey rules out lifting GST; Police investigate poisoned fruit at Rinehart mine: Midday Roundup | Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has ruled out lifting the goods and services tax, saying Australians can’t afford any increase, according to Sky News.
The comments come after the OECD this week released a report recommending the GST be lifted ... |
| Aug 6, 2014 | Australia's Attorney General Says Metadata Collection Won't Track Your Web Surfing, Just The Web Addresses You Visit (Huh?) | Australian Attorney General George Brandis seems to be working extra hard to demonstrate just how completely clueless he really is. On both copyright and surveillance, it’s pretty clear that he doesn’t even remotely understand the details, ... |
| Aug 1, 2014 | Minister: Sue Mums, Dads, Students To Send Anti-Piracy Message | When countries and major rightsholders have announced their new anti-piracy strategies in recent times, several approaches have become apparent.
Instead of pure head-on attacks against websites, their finances are being undermined through d... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Study: Digital reading gains popularity | Study: Digital reading gains popularity
A Pew study, released last week, showed that US book lovers are increasingly turning inkless pages, Khaleej Times Online reports.
Slightly more than a fifth of US adults reported having used an e-book... |
| Feb 19, 2009 | Top Secret HTC Touch Diamond With Windows 6.5 On It Gets Stolen | A prototype of an upcoming HTC Touch Diamond device, powered by the yet-to-be-released Windows Mobile 6.5, was stolen from a Telstra executive after the company’s CEO Sol Trujillo demoed the phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. ... |
| Aug 13, 2007 | School Ban of Mobile Phones Down Under | There is a new call for a banning of mobile phones at schools in Australia. Not because of fears of cheating or excessive gabbing, but rather because students are using the phones to film their own mini-versions of “Romper Stomper.” In New ... |
| Australia wouldn’t let Novak Djokovic in, but backpackers are accepted with open arms | Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday announced Australia will refund visa fees for vaccinated backpackers who arrive within the next three months.
The country — whose tight, pandemic border policies locked out its citizens, and more r... |
| Сервис знакомств Tinder введет платные функции | Приложение Tinder, по сообщению VentureBeat, введет платную услугу в следующем месяце. CEO & Co-founder сервиса Шон Рэд (Sean Rad) заявил, что компания запустит платный сервис в начале ноября.
Запущенный 2 года назад Tinder вышел из биз... |
| Robust or vulnerable? Experts are split on Australia’s economic outlook | Australia’s economists are tied on their judgement call concerning the outlook of the economy down under.
The Bank of Queensland is “quite bullish” about Australia’s “very robust economy,” while others are more cautious.
However, not everyo... |
| Littleproud says new super tax rules will hit “mum and dad” businesses. Is he right? | Source: AAP/Lukas Coch
Raising the tax rate on superannuation balances above $3 million will affect “many mum and dad businesses” which hoped to sell up for retirement, National Party leader David Littleproud says, as accountants warn of si... |
| Tesla director James Murdoch attacks family’s media over climate-crisis denial | Tesla independent director James Murdoch, the son of News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch, has publicly criticized his father’s media outlets, including Fox News and News Corp, for promoting climate-crisis denialism.
James Murdoch, who joined Tes... |
| Elon Musk slams Facebook for ‘manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth’ | More On: elon musk
Elon Musk’s Neuralink looking for volunteer to have piece of their skull cut open by robotic surgeon Joe Rogan holds all the cards as his Spotify podcasting deal is set to expire Tesla aiming to build electric car that co... |
| Megyn Kelly slams Prince Harry, Meghan Markle over charity’s $200 ‘lost check’ claim | Megyn Kelly isn’t persuaded “for one minute” that a check that was lost in the mail was the reason that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s charity was declared “delinquent” by California regulators.
“What they’re claiming is, ‘Oh the check wa... |
| Bill Gates: Once the omicron variant passes, Covid will be more like the seasonal flu | Covid’s omicron variant is currently tearing through the U.S. and the rest of the world at a record-breaking pace — but Bill Gates sees hope on the horizon.
Once the current surge abates, countries can expect to see “far fewer cases” throug... |
