Foreign interference in Australian democracy poses a growing risk to our national sovereignty. It refers to coercive, corrupt or deceptive activities by or on behalf of a foreign actor designed to undermine Australia’s democracy. It can involve foreign actors secretly cultivating and manipulating...
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Australia is preparing to join Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) bandwagon. The country's primary equity exchange, ASX Ltd, is anticipated to approve the launch of Bitcoin ETFs following similar approvals in the US and Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported. Australia Prepares for Crypto ETFs This year, US...
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It wasn’t another news story about the death of a woman at the hands of her partner that convinced Daniel McCormack he had to be part of the solution. It was Scottish comedian Daniel Sloss, who during a stand-up routine in 2019 revealed he hadn’t done enough to prevent a friend from raping a woman...
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Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed free speech absolutist and CEO of X, Tesla, and SpaceX, is once again at the centre of a heated debate about free speech and censorship. Since buying X, the platform formally known as Twitter, in 2022, Musk has sparred with governments and public figures around the...
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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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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...
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