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A report from the Northern Territory Ombudsman has recommended a ban on spit hoods in police custody — currently in place for children — be extended to adults.

 

Anthony Albanese continues to reject calls to make even a sanitised version of the assessment public

 

Leo Hardiman has spoken at length to a Senate inquiry about how his complaints about a massive freedom of information backlog were ignored by OAIC leadershipFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast

 

In six months, the state’s parliament has voted to override its own Human Rights Act, not once but twice.

 

Mary Nigro had a feeling Victorian Labor's branch stacking probe would not track down the person responsible for forging her dead father's signature. She was right.

 

Can Pacific nations finally shame the government into taking stronger action on fossil fuels?

 

Queensland premier defends the government's decision to fast-track proposed law changes around police watch houses, saying it is "standard practice" and their job is "to keep the public safe".

 

Proposed law changes include allowing children to be detained in adult watch houses for the next three years

 

Body-worn-camera footage of former NT Police constable Zachary Rolfe has been shown to the coronial inquest into the death of a high-profile anti-violence campaigner.

 

Environmental groups are calling on VicForests to abandon logging plans in the state's alpine region after endangered native plants were found near the earmarked sites.

 

Environmental groups are calling on VicForests to abandon logging plans in the state's alpine region after endangered native plants were found near the earmarked sites.

 

The likes of Meta and Google are pushing back against moves in Australia and the UK to open up end-to-end messaging encryption

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 209 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The @ is also being dropped and all usernames are now in the format "xXusernameXx"

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Restricting the period but not the amount rents can be increased does very little but set in place the impression of limits before an election cycle.

Andrews says “Everything is on the table”. Perhaps he should consider a break with the entire history of his government and start investing in public housing at scale rather than the current social housing rort.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

At the meeting, Bowen also surprised state and territory counterparts with a plan for them to pay for the carbon offsets that will be required for the proposed Beetaloo and other new gas fields in the Northern Territory. The commonwealth would underwrite the pipeline to bring the gas south.

States, however, pushed back, with Western Australia and Queensland particularly opposed to the precedent of assigning offsets for the so-called scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions that would result, another official said.

“No one asked any of us” about the offsets plan, the first official said, adding the market for carbon credits would struggle to cope with existing demand without lumping in major new emissions sources such as Beetaloo. “It’s not our problem.”

This manages to be a reminder both of how inappropriate the Beetaloo gas field and its enthusiastic Federal and NT Labor support actually is, and of how terrified we remain of Scope 3 emissions gaining any foothold in the discussion because of what that will mean for states still addicted to carbon for local generation and export.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

For any question the number of incorrect answers is larger than the number of correct answers.

This is a fundamental problem, constrained by energy costs, and one that will only be exacerbated as training datasets becomes more and more tainted by generated content.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 35 points 2 years ago

Capitulation to fascists only emboldens them and perpetuates the problem. You protect your staff by pursuing those who threaten them by every means available to you.

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