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Musk v Australia heats up as church stabbing raids target network of allegedly radicalized teens
In one camp is a tech billionaire with more than 181 million followers on his own social network. In the other, political leaders representing a country of just 26 million people. Insults have been hurled for days by both sides in an increasingly bare-knuckled fight between X owner Elon Musk and the...
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‘Arrogant billionaire’: Australia, Musk in war of words over censorship
Australia and Elon Musk have escalated their war of words over censorship after an Australian court ordered social media platform X to remove footage of a church stabbing. An Australian judge on Monday ruled that X must block users worldwide from accessing videos of a knife attack on an Assyrian...
photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin
Elon Musk’s X a ‘factory for trolls and misinformation’, assistant treasurer says amid content removal clash
The assistant treasurer, Stephen Jones, has described Elon Musk’s X as a “factory for trolls and misinformation” as the Australian government has vowed to fight any legal challenges brought by the company over removal orders related to the video of a stabbing at a Sydney church last week. Related:...
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Faulty Assurances: The Judicial Torture of Assange Continues
Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request by Australia that the case against Julian Assange be concluded. The WikiLeaks founder has already spent five gruelling years in London’s Belmarsh prison,...
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Australia Plans $32 Billion Defense Boost to Face New Risks
Australia has pledged to increase spending on its military forces by A$50.3 billion over the next decade, with Defence Minister Richard Marles warning the country faces its “most complex strategic circumstances” since World War II. Australia Plans $32 Billion Defense Boost to Face New Risks...
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Former Australian gov’t staffer raped colleague in Parliament, judge finds
A former government staffer in Australia raped a colleague in the country’s Parliament, a judge has found, rejecting his defamation claim against a broadcaster that aired his accuser’s allegations. Justice Michael Lee ruled that Bruce Lehrmann, an adviser to the previous conservative government, was...
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Super-muscular 374-pound kangaroos once thumped around Australia and New Guinea
An artist’s impression of southeastern South Australia during the Pleistocene epoch showing various plants and animals that lived there alongside Protemnodon. The almost one-tonne Zygomaturus trilobus in the bottom right. None of the kangaroos shown is a Protemnodon, but there are two short-faced...
photo: Creative Commons / Nobu Tamura
Man fatally stabs 6 people at Sydney mall before being shot by police
A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said. Multiple people, including a small child, were also injured in the attack. The suspect stabbed nine people at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city's...
photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
Flicker of Hope: Biden’s Throwaway Lines on Assange
Walking stiffly, largely distracted, and struggling to focus on the bare essentials, US President Joe Biden was keeping company with his Japanese counterpart, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, when asked the question. It concerned what he was doing regarding Australia’s request that the WikiLeaks...
photo: AP / Frank Augstein
Climate Change Court Cases are on the rise. Here’s why.
Yesterday, a group of senior women from Switzerland won what is being called a “landmark” human rights case concerning “Climate Change”. At a hearing in Strasbourg, the European Court of Human Rights found the government of Switzerland had violated the women’s human...
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