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AI is joining the workforce. Is your security strategy ready?
iTnews Australia
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We are living through a radical redefinition of the modern workforce. The promise of Agentic AI is already prompting leading enterprises to reshape their business operations, with announcements of job cuts making way for AI growth. As the shift...
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, India, Japan, US declare economic war on rare earth empire
Times of Oman
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Washington, DC : Foreign ministers from the Quad nations- Australia, India, Japan, and the United States- convened in Washington earlier this month and unveiled a robust strategy designed to counteract China's influence in the Indo-Pacific, as...
Queensland police union chief calls state government pay offer ‘grossly inadequate’ days after approving it
The Guardian
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July 31, 2025
Queensland’s police union chief has conceded a permanent pay increase he approved earlier this week is “grossly inadequate” and “insulting” as officers threaten industrial action and the Crisafulli government faces a protracted battle with key...
Kalu Rallies Support For Reserved Seats Bill, Urges National Unity At Australian Event
Daily Independent
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August 1, 2025
1 Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, CFR, has called on Nigerians, lawmakers, and the international community to support the Reserved Seats Bill aimed at increasing female representation in governance...
Proposed federal funding could improve Victoria’s aging airport terminal
The Victoria Advocate - Texas
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August 1, 2025
Proposed federal funding could improve Victoria’s aging airport terminal Published 6:15 am Friday, August 1, 2025 On Wednesday, (TX-27) Congressman Michael Cloud’s office announced that he had secured $5.5 million to modernize Victoria’s aging...
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...
Gas prices rise in Canada as oil gets boost from Trump's threat to buyers of Russia's crude
Yahoo Sports - Canada
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August 1, 2025
woman dressed in jeans and black sweatshirt standing next to her car filling it up at the gas station, on a sunny day · aire images via Getty Images Gas prices in Canada climbed an average of 5.2 cents per litre over the past week, according to...
Australia recognising Palestine would infuriate Netanyahu - but not the people of Israel
Brisbane Times
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July 31, 2025
Third, Albanese waited until France and Saudi Arabia had convened a large group of nations – including the EU and the Arab League - to try creating preconditions for negotiations towards a two-state outcome. US President Donald Trump is crucial to...
Logan Central: 10-year-old boy seriously injured after being hit by police car in Brisbane, Queensland
PerthNow
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August 1, 2025
A 10-year-old boy is in hospital with serious injuries with severe injuries to his face after being struck by a police vehicle outside a school south of Brisbane on Friday afternoon. Emergency services were called to the corner of Jacaranda Avenue...
Marinus Link deal is a good one for Tasmania, says Saul Eslake
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 1, 2025
Saul Eslake My understanding is that Marinus is a good thing for Tasmania and for Australia. In fact, I think the reason why the federal government's been prepared to take a 50 per cent equity position and the Victorian government to take a 33 per...
The social skinny: Spotify streams Stephen King; ‘Rock and Roll’ with NASA; Australia bans YouTube
PR Week
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August 1, 2025
Spotify presses play on 14-hour ‘banger’ from Stephen King Spotify unveiled its Read Like You Listen campaign Monday to turn Spotify’s music aficionados into fervent readers. Created with Burson, the campaign’s goal is to “encourage fans to...
World : Australia Congratulates Malaysia on Ambitious ASEAN Chairmanship Agenda
Bernama
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August 1, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1 (Bernama) -- Australia has commended Malaysia on setting an ambitious agenda for its ASEAN chairmanship this year, in particular, its emphasis on inclusivity and sustainability. In a video message posted Friday on the...
Australian Firms Unify Cybersecurity as Threats Increase
The AI Journal
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July 31, 2025
Enterprises build advanced, cloud-based security architectures as AI makes both attacks and defenses more effective and efficient, ISG Provider Lens® report says SYDNEY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$III #AI–A growing number of enterprises in Australia are...
Australian influencers threaten to 'go on strike' and stop posting content as they start a union
Daily Mail
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July 31, 2025
By KINTA WALSH-COTTON Published: 02:16 EDT, 31 July 2025 | Updated: 02:29 EDT, 31 July 2025 A group of Australian influencers have threatened to stop posting content online and 'go on strike' until the public starts to appreciate them more....
Australia adds YouTube to social media ban
China Daily Global
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SYDNEY — Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge. The...
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...
Queensland Productivity Commission argues construction industry ‘reset’ needed to fix housing crisis and deliver Olympics
The Guardian
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July 31, 2025
Queensland’s Productivity Commission has flagged a broad construction industry “reset” that could threaten existing enterprise bargaining agreements, arguing it may be required if the state is to build its way out of a housing crisis – and host...
Australia: Man Shot Dead by Police After Assaulting Woman in Melbourne
Latestly
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July 31, 2025
Melbourne, July 31: A man has been shot dead by police after assaulting a woman at a property east of Melbourne in Australia's state of Victoria. A police statement said on Wednesday night that officers were called to reports of the assault in the...
Victoria Beckham ready to show the world her fashion triumphs and tears in Netflix series
The Straits Times
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July 31, 2025
NEW YORK – For someone who has been famous since the late 1990s, Victoria Beckham is surprisingly busy in the 2020s. After many years in the red, the British pop star-turned-designer’s eponymous fashion company Victoria Beckham Holdings saw...