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Today marks the release of the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy. Aiming to boost the 2.3 billion dollars already invested in cyber security strategies, this new policy provides a 589.6 million dollar bump in funding. This funding boost will be primarily used to provide support for small-to-medium businesses and individuals vulnerable to a cyber attack. …
Sean Turnell is an economist from Macquarie University advising the Myanmar government. In the aftermath of the 2021 coup d’état, Sean was imprisoned for almost two years under suspicion of being a foreign spy. Before his arrest, Sean tried to leave the country, but the COVID-19 pandemic prevented commercial passenger flights from leaving the country, …
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As the war in Ukraine grinds on, some hope rests in a peace process started by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This resulted in a meeting in Malta of 66 countries, with Belarus and Russia not present. China did not attend this meeting after attending a peace meeting in August in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This meeting …
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David D’Vash is a farmer on the Northern Rivers of NSW. Many years ago he was also a soldier in the Israeli Army as a 19 year old in the Yom Kippur War. This war was a surprise attack simultaneously by Egypt and Syria on Israel on the 6th of October 1973. The conflict lasted …
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After 3 long years, Beirut continues to grapple with the fallout from a devastating ammonium nitrate explosion that rocked the city. Since the explosion, the Lebanese people have suffered from economic downturn, amidst an increasingly dysfunctional government failing to find its way through the rubble of its economy. There has been some hope for the …
TikTok has been banned from Australian government devices. The decision was made on April 4, 2023 due to government concerns about the misuse of data collected from users. The United Kingdom, United States, Canada and New Zealand have made similar decisions. Currently TikTok is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, which reaffirms the possible risk …
Many students will have to start changing their lifestyles due to the new work-hour cap. During the pandemic, the restrictions for international students were relaxed and removed entirely in January 2022 in order to help meet workforce shortages. But from July 1st 2023, the number of work hours allowed will be 48 per fortnight, which …
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An historic U.S.-U.K.-Australia alliance military agreement, AUKUS, has recently taken a new turn. Two powerful U.S. lawmakers have proposed to the Joe Biden administration that selling nuclear submarines to Australia would help stretch the U.S. industrial base to “breaking point” and relieve pressure on the base. A strong alliance between the three countries would help …