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Australia wants to lead the big tech crackdown

It is more likely to be an example of how not to go about banning social media | Asia (2024)


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Professional services; PwC has disgraced itself down under

The firm’s employees helped multinationals dodge taxes in Australia | Business The professional services giant is in hot water over allegations ... (2023)


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Australia's Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked—Sort Of | WIRED

A year after Australia forced tech giants to pay news outlets for the content they display, other countries want to follow suit. (2022)


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Is Pandemic Australia Still a Liberal Democracy? - The Atlantic

How long can a democracy maintain emergency restrictions and still call itself a free country? … “ is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in ... (2021)


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What we can learn from the Facebook-Australia news debacle | MIT Technology Review

Democracies are right to look for creative ways to direct money from big tech to the news industry. (2021)



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EU ready to follow Australia’s lead on making Big Tech pay for news - Financial Times

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication (2021)


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Australia's newest coal-fired power station written down $1.2 billion as solar reigns supreme

Bluewaters coal-fired power station written off as worthless as renewables rise The owners of the Bluewaters coal-fired plant in Western Austral... (2020)


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World's 10 coolest neighborhoods in 2020, according to Time Out

According to Time Out, these are the world's 10 coolest neighbors for 2020 -- from Wedding in Berlin to Yarraville, Melbourne (2020)


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Tasmanian devils return to mainland Australia for first time in 3,000 years - National Geographic

Scientists hope the scrappy predators' reintroduction can balance ecosystems ravaged by invasive species. (2020)


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Sydney’s New Suburbs Are Too Hot for People to Live In - Bloomberg

Climate change is making things worse as Australia’s biggest city expands Out west of Sydney it gets hot. Really hot. Like 50 degrees Celsius (1... (2020)


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Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first - Reuters

Australia will force U.S. tech giants Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay Australian media outlets for news content in a landmark move to... (2020)


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Big Tech Has Crushed the News Business. That’s About to Change. - The New York Times

News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news. Now regulators abroad are moving to make that happen. (2020)


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Google and Facebook must pay media for content reuse, says Australia

The Australia government has said it will adopt a mandatory code to require tech giants such as Google and Facebook to pay local media for reusing ... (2020)


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Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-...) | Outside Online

Climate change and ocean acidification have killed off one of the most spectacular features on the planet. The Great Barrier Reef of Australia pas... (2016)


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UK to regulate social networks to curb the spread of harmful content

The UK is proposing a move to regulate social media platforms, and hold them accountable for the spread of like misinformation, and terrorist propa... (2019)


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Diversity helped Australia weather the resources bust - Beyond commodities - The Economist

TOWNSVILLE, A COASTAL city of 200,000 in the state of Queensland, owes its existence to commodities. The local agent for a Sydney merchant named Ro... (2018)


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Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead - National Geographic

See where coral in the world's largest coral reef system has been bleached to death. (2018)


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Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level - The New York Times

A new bill will help its intelligence agencies circumvent encryption. And what starts Down Under won’t necessarily stay there. (2018)


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Kayla Itsines’ Sweat app will rake in $77 million this year – TechCrunch

In earlier years, fitness gurus would market their programs for getting in shape on VHS tapes and, later, DVDs. These days, it’s an app business. A... (2018)


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Drones v sharks

The Economist explains: "Australia’s selachian battlefield goes digital. AUSTRALIA’S waters are some of the most dangerous in the world. Ignoring... (2017)


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Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry

New York Times, 2017: "On Friday, Holden employees bid farewell to Australia’s last car factory, wondering if the government could have done more t... (2017)


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The $23BN Plan to Power Singapore from Solar Energy in Australia

Someone came up with the idea to build the world’s largest solar array in the Australian outback and then connect it to Singapore with a 3,750-kilo... (2023)


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Where is the world's most liveable city? | The Economist

Where is the world's most liveable city? The Economist Intelligence Unit has ranked 140 cities based on their liveability. Melbourne, Australia, ha... (2019)


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The Battle to Control the Murdoch Media Empire - The New York Times

Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets have helped destabilize democracy on three continents. The power struggle among his children has world-changing cons... (2019)