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Scientists track Australia's waterbird migration amid climate challenges
Xinhua News Agency
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CANBERRA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Scientists have used tiny satellite "backpacks" to track the extraordinary migrations of nomadic Australian waterbirds across the continent's arid interior. Researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial...
Australia and Indonesia fostering closer ties on fisheries
The National Tribune
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July 31, 2025
The Hon Julie Collins MP Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry The Albanese Labor Government has today reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining and strengthening Australia’s fisheries trading relationship with Indonesia. Productive...
Australia’s role in the emerging geostrategic order
Geopolitical Intelligence Services
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July 31, 2025
Canberra faces fresh geopolitical challenges, and must balance alliances, economics and security in an era of new rising powers. March 8: A Royal Australian Navy flag flying aboard the HMAS Sydney during Navy Open Day in Sydney, Australia. The...
Australia to recognize Palestine
Mehr News Agency
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July 31, 2025
Australian Prime Minister Albanese said on Thursday that Canberra recognizing a Palestinian state was just a matter of time. Australia has taken another step towards recognizing Palestine and is committed to doing so after the United Kingdom...
‘Typical way of a cult’: Australians ‘sick’ of being forced to adopt net zero
Sky News Australia
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July 31, 2025
Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce discusses the City of Melbourne’s CEO jetting to Cairo despite the City of Melbourne website pushing for citizens to walk and ride to work. “It’s the typical way of a cult,” Mr Joyce told Sky News host...
Australia wipes $17 billion off student loans
RNZ
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July 31, 2025
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Photo: MIKE BOWERS / AFP Australia's parliament on Thursday passed a law to cut student loans by 20 percent, wiping more than AU$16 billion (NZ$17.4 billion) in debt for 3 million people, and fulfilling...
Australian Dollar Holds Ground Following Release Of Retail Sales, China’s PMI Data
myMotherLode - California
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025 11:50 PM EDT Image Source: Unsplash The Australian Dollar maintains its position as Retail Sales climbed 1.2% MoM in June, compared to the expected 0.4% increase. China’s NBS Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell...
A deep dive into Australia’s cybersecurity legislative framework highlights critical regulatory and litigation considerations
Global Investigations Review
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July 31, 2025
Key cybersecurity standards and requirements Australia’s cybersecurity legislative framework comprises federal, state and territory-based laws. The key legislative instruments are the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act) and the Security of...
Demolition work starts for Warrnambool Base Hospital revamp in Australia
Hospital Management
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July 31, 2025
Demolition work has begun at Warrnambool Base Hospital in Australia as part of an A$396.1m ($255.5m) redevelopment project, announced by Melissa Horne, Victoria’s minister for health infrastructure. The demolition will pave the way for a new...
China’s green steel push a reality check for Australia
Asia Times
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July 31, 2025
Australia has flourished as an export powerhouse for decades. Much of this prosperity has been driven by the nation’s natural endowment with two important raw products for producing steel the traditional way: iron ore and metallurgical coal. Worth...
Youth Deserve Space In Politics
The Rising Nepal
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More and more Nepali youths are showing interest in politics with a drive to reshape the destiny of the country. The vast majority of Nepal's population today belongs to the youth population category at 40.8 per cent of the total population. This...
Australian Vanadium drives forward with vertically integrated...
Proactive USA
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July 31, 2025
Graham Arvidson (CEO) showing Senator Varun Ghosh, Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher (Minister for Finance), The Hon Dr Jim Chalmers MP (Treasurer) and The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP around AVL’s electrolyte manufacturing plant. Australian Vanadium Ltd...
Espionage cost Australia $12.5 billion in 2023-24, ASIO boss Mike Burgess says
The Conversation
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July 31, 2025
Espionage cost Australia $12.5 billion in 2023-24, according to a study by ASIO and the Australian Institute of Criminology. The figure includes the direct costs of known espionage incidents, including state-sponsored theft of intellectual...
Regulatory and policy woes hold Australia’s cross-border CCS ambition at bay, ANGEA warns
Offshore Energy
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July 31, 2025
Given the rising trend toward pursuing transition to a low-carbon and emission-free future against the backdrop of growing climate change concerns, the Asia Natural Gas and Energy Association (ANGEA) has highlighted the key role Australia’s...
Home Affairs minister met with FBI director during secretive Australia visit
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 31, 2025
FBI Director Kash Patel paid a quiet visit Australia this week, with Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke later confirming he dined with the law enforcement chief while he was Sydney. Mr Patel, who is a loyalist of US President Donald Trump, stopped...
Australia is significantly falling behind in global AI race, warns billionaire Scott Farquhar
The Times of India
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Australia risks losing its competitive edge in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race unless urgent action is taken, warned Atlassian co-founder and billionaire tech entrepreneur Scott Farquhar. Speaking at the National Press Club, Farquhar...
Government pushes back on claims FBI's new office in Wellington to counter China
RNZ
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July 31, 2025
The government is batting away suggestions the FBI's new office in Wellington aims to counter China, despite that claim being made by the agency's director. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation director Kash Patel - a Trump appointee - on...
Australian court rejects X Corp.'s appeal in child safety case, orders legal costs
WSLS - Virginia
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July 31, 2025
MELBOURNE – An Australian appeals court on Thursday ruled against X Corp., rejecting a challenge to a safety watchdog's demands for details on how the Elon Musk -owned company was combating widespread child exploitation material on its platform....
Australia wipes $13 billion off student loans, targeting cost of living relief
The Straits Times
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July 31, 2025
SYDNEY – Australia’s Parliament on July 31 passed a law to cut student loans by 20 per cent, wiping more than A$16 billion (S$13.3 billion) in debt for three million people, and fulfilling a key election promise to help mitigate the rising cost of...
The disastrous dismantling of the humanities in Australia’s universities has begun
Crikey
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July 31, 2025
This week, Stephen Garton, president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, wrote to the vice-chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU), expressing “serious concerns” that proposed cuts will decimate key humanities research...