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The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers
The Conversation
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August 6, 2025
In an interim report released overnight, Harnessing data and digital technology, the Productivity Commission has floated a text and data mining exception for the Australian Copyright Act. This would make it legal to train artificial intelligence...
Enhancing competition and innovation in Australia’s evolving capital markets
The National Tribune
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August 6, 2025
ASIC ASIC is taking significant steps to foster competition and innovation, creating more opportunities for companies and investors, and attracting more foreign capital to Australia. ASIC is in the final stages of considering a listing market...
Sector thanks Australia’s aged care workers
Community Care Review
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August 5, 2025
Aged Care Employee Day takes place this Thursday, which Ageing Australia chief executive officer Tom Symondson says has become an important date to celebrate the “personal, selfless and often unsung” work of employees. The initiative was...
Chinese woman in Australia charged for ‘interference’
Taipei Times
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August 5, 2025
A Chinese citizen on Monday was charged under Australia’s foreign interference laws with covertly collecting information about an Australian Buddhist association, police said. The woman, an Australian permanent resident based in the capital,...
Wine Australia responds to industry concerns about Strategic Plan
Winetitles Media
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August 5, 2025
Responding to concerns from a prominent industry group about perceived omissions from its Strategic Plan 2025-2030, Wine Australia has provided details on the priorities of its industry consultation. Yesterday, Winetitles published an open letter...
Traffic Drives Away With Farizon Australia Creative Account
B&T
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August 5, 2025
Independent brand and communications agency Traffic has been appointed lead creative agency for Farizon Australia, the next-generation electric commercial vehicle brand from global automotive giant Geely, locally distributed by Jameel Motors....
The L.A. Zoo Is The New Home Of Two Tasmanian Devils — Danny Zuko And Crush Just Arrived From Australia
Secret Los Angeles - California
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August 5, 2025
Credit: L.A. Zoo It’s been five years, but the wait is finally over: Tasmanian devils are back at the L.A. Zoo! These little creatures might be small, but they’ve got big personalities and even bigger appetites. Two males, named Danny Zuko and...
African rare earths to feed Australian taxpayer-backed refinery
Financial Review
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August 6, 2025
African rare earths will be shipped to a taxpayer-backed refinery in Western Australia, under a deal struck between the plant’s builder, Iluka Resources, and ASX-listed Lindian Resources that supports government efforts to loosen China’s grip on...
Father Chris Riley dies at 70: Australian priest founded youth homeless ministry
Catholic News Agency
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August 5, 2025
CNA Newsroom, Aug 5, 2025 / 10:50 am Australians are paying tribute to a prominent priest who passionately cared for vulnerable young people. For decades, Father Chris Riley transformed thousands of lives through his Youth Off The Streets project....
Social Media Is Boosting News Diversity Amid Traditional Media Decline, University Of South Australia Study Finds
B&T
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August 5, 2025
New research by the University of South Australia has found a silver lining to the struggling media landscape in the face of the digital age, revealing that social media is enhancing the diversity of news the community receives. The study found...
Indonesia Plans to Import Lithium from Australia for Electric Vehicle Batteries
Tempo.co
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August 6, 2025
The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Bahlil Lahadalia, stated that Indonesia plans to import lithium from Australia. The import of lithium is aimed at developing the electric vehicle (EV) battery ecosystem in the country. He...
'Don't put Australia first': International student's warning despite cap increase 2m ago
SBS
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Judy has started dreaming about her student visa being granted, only to wake to the stressful reality. The 28-year-old was initially excited when RMIT University in Melbourne confirmed her enrolment for a postgraduate program last December, having...
Outgoing Australian High Commissioner Bids Farewell to Prime Minister
Lanka News Web
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August 6, 2025
Outgoing Australian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Paul Stephens, paid a farewell call on Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya at the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday (August 4). Prime Minister Amarasuriya extended her appreciation for the High...
Pauline Hanson makes explosive claim about Anthony Albanese's election win - as she warns her prediction about Australia has come true
Daily Mail
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August 6, 2025
Pauline Hanson has launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, claiming Labor lacks a genuine mandate to pursue its net zero emissions agenda - because the majority of Australians didn’t give the party their first preference at...
How Australian towns could be wiped off the map after bombshell move from China
Daily Mail
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August 5, 2025
By SARAH BROOKES - SENIOR REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 19:27 EDT, 5 August 2025 | Updated: 19:45 EDT, 5 August 2025 Entire Australian towns could be 'hollowed out' and thousands left jobless as China's aggressive economic meddling drives local...
From the high school SRC to the Senate in just three years: Australia's youngest senator's jaw-dropping salary and perks are revealed - as her yearbook photo leaks
Daily Mail
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August 6, 2025
Fresh-faced and smiling in her garishly green school uniform, Charlotte Walker looks like any other Year 12 pupil with hopes and dreams for her future. But just three short years later she has been elected as a senator to represent the good people...
Greens: The Albanese government must end the hierarchy of racism and fund the implementation of the National Anti-Racism Framework immediately
The National Tribune
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August 6, 2025
Australian Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the Race Discrimination Commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman’s, press club speech, supporting his calls for the Albanese Labor Government to fully fund and implement the National Anti-Racism...
Chinese woman arrested in Australia on charge of “foreign interference”
World Socialist Web Site
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August 6, 2025
The Albanese Labor government quickly exploited, and claimed credit for, the arrest of a Chinese citizen in Canberra last Saturday, charged with one count of “reckless foreign interference.” Despite years of allegations of malign Chinese...
The real threat to American freedom is not big government but one too small to serve its people
The Milwaukee Independent
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August 5, 2025
As Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his March, 1933 inaugural address: “A necessitous man is not a free man.” If you or your children are sick but afraid to go to the hospital because you know the bills will leave you broke and homeless, you are not...
Mongolia Seeks Opportunities to Expand Teacher and Student Training in Australia
Montsame News Agency
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Ulaanbaatar, August 5, 2025 /MONTSAME/. Minister of Education and Science of Mongolia Naranbayar Purevsuren received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Commonwealth of Australia to Mongolia Leo Zeng on August 4, 2025, reported the...