Australia sets itself up as the laughing stock of COP26

Australia sets itself up as the laughing stock of COP26 Australia’s government has no intention of ending its love affair with coal Australia: The embarrassment of COP26 I’m going to tell you a bit about Australia, my country of birth. Australia is the world’sfourth-largest producer of coal. It’s also the world’s largest coal exporter and second-largest gas exporter, exporting 80% of its coal to other countries. But every year, Australia is subject to significant drought, rising temperatures, devastating bushfires, and floods....

4 min · 797 words · Stephanie Mclean

Australia sets itself up as the laughing stock of COP26

Australia sets itself up as the laughing stock of COP26 Australia’s government has no intention of ending its love affair with coal Australia: The embarrassment of COP26 I’m going to tell you a bit about Australia, my country of birth. Australia is the world’sfourth-largest producer of coal. It’s also the world’s largest coal exporter and second-largest gas exporter, exporting 80% of its coal to other countries. But every year, Australia is subject to significant drought, rising temperatures, devastating bushfires, and floods....

4 min · 797 words · Andre Wade

Australian publishers will be held liable for comments on their posts — how will that change social media?

Australian publishers will be held liable for comments on their posts — how will that change social media? Anyone who runs a social media page can theoretically be sued over disparaging comments posted under their posts Former Don Dale inmate Dylan Voller and the comments Today’s case centres on former Don Dale Youth Detention Centre inmate Dylan Voller, who you might remember as the young man wearing thespit hood in a Four Cornersreport on conditions in the Northern Territory juvenile justice system....

4 min · 812 words · Latoya Moon

Australian publishers will be held liable for comments on their posts — how will that change social media?

Australian publishers will be held liable for comments on their posts — how will that change social media? Anyone who runs a social media page can theoretically be sued over disparaging comments posted under their posts Former Don Dale inmate Dylan Voller and the comments Today’s case centres on former Don Dale Youth Detention Centre inmate Dylan Voller, who you might remember as the young man wearing thespit hood in a Four Cornersreport on conditions in the Northern Territory juvenile justice system....

4 min · 812 words · Theresa Walsh

Australia’s police linking DNA with ancestry could be a privacy nightmare

Australia’s police linking DNA with ancestry could be a privacy nightmare The tech could also raise a series of racism issues How does it work? The AFP plans to implement forensic DNA phenotyping based on an underlying technology called “massively parallel sequencing Our genetic information is encoded in our DNA as long strings of four different base molecules, and sequencing is the process of “reading” the sequence of these bases....

5 min · 949 words · Mark Wood
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