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Man Shot Dead By Police In Australia's Melbourne
MENAFN
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July 31, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Melbourne, July 31 (IANS) 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...
Russian blood oil evades Australia’s imposed sanctions
Azzet
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July 29, 2025
Believe it or not, you’re potentially refuelling your car with oil from Russia, which due to some fancy footwork in India, is slipping through a crack within Australia’s ban on importing oil from Putin’s dictatorship. Despite joining the EU in...
Westpac Gloves Cricket Australia’s Flagship Sponsorship
B&T
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July 31, 2025
Westpac is going all in with cricket, signing on as Cricket Australia’s (CA) principal partner for the men’s and women’s national teams. Through the partnership, Westpac and CA will join forces to support the growth of the much-loved game. It will...
Canada joins US with direct beef export access approval to Australia
Beef Central
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July 31, 2025
CANADA been granted approval to export chilled and frozen fresh beef to Australia, along similar lines to last week’s announcement about resumption of US exports. Canadian beef was banned from entry back in 2003, when the country detected BSE at...
Political storm threatens to sink undersea cable as Marinus Link backs “open public scrutiny”
Renew Economy
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July 31, 2025
The future of the $5 billion Marinus Link project is embroiled in a political storm of epic proportions, as Tasmania’s two major parties fight for support to form government in the wake of a snap election in which neither won a clear mandate. At...
Constrained, contained and capped conflict between Thailand and Cambodia — Phar Kim Beng and Jitkai Chin
Malay Mail
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July 31, 2025
JULY 31 — From co-ordinated drone attacks in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, to the explosion of walkie-talkies in the Middle East, the nature of modern warfare has changed dramatically. In the India-Pakistan conflict, Chinese-made weapons are...
Lower Demand Drives Fall In Export Prices: Australia
The National Tribune
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July 31, 2025
Prices for Australia’s natural resources drove this fall, with Non-rural exports down 7.2 per cent in the June quarter and 8.7 per cent since June 2024. The main drivers of the fall in non-rural export prices were iron ore (Metalliferous ores and...
‘Family hears’: Goodwin responds to social media threat; insists ‘incredible support’ after board meeting
Fox Sports
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Embattled Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin is adamant he feels “incredibly supported” by the club’s board in the wake of his team’s history-making loss to St Kilda and was unmoved by a social media threat. While admitting his players “got it wrong”...
Energy security in action Down Under
Upstream
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Asia bureau chief at Upstream Follow me Australian company taking over operatorship of Australian assets for Australian customers Woodside, headed by chief executive Meg O'Neill, has taken over from ExxonMobil as operator of assets in Australia's...
Hypocrisy of Australia’s rent-a-judges
The Conservative Woman
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July 31, 2025
LAST Friday the Hong Kong government offered HK$200,000 (£19k) bounties for the arrest of 15 of the 19 overseas activists involved in the ‘Hong Kong Parliament’, an offshore pro-democracy group designated a ‘subversive organisation’ under the...
Growing cyber threat reshapes property assessments: Howden
Insurance News
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Smart technologies have changed the way insurers view commercial property risk in Australia, according to Howden. Devices such as digital access controls, which are now common, were not designed with cybersecurity in mind, the intermediary group...
South African couple beg to stay in Australia amid fears of racial violence back home: 'Our death sentence'
Daily Mail
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July 31, 2025
A hard-working couple face an anxious wait to see if they will be kicked out of the country and forced to return to South Africa. Charné-Lee Gunning, 31, and her fiancé Ivan Strauss, 37, arrived in Australia on visitor visas in December 2018 after...
Datadog Appoints Roz Gregory to Drive Growth Across Australia and New Zealand
iTWire
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July 31, 2025
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Gregory to steer multi-year growth plans following strong local expansion and opening of Datadog’s first Australian data centre presence Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud...
EROAD and Geotab Expand Existing Partnership in Australia with NHVR-Compliant Heavy Vehicle Solutions
Autochannel
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The offering deepens the EROAD + Geotab collaboration and provides Australian fleets with a unified, single-vendor solution for heavy vehicle compliance. AUCKLAND, New Zealand, July 30, 2025 -- EROAD, a global leader in connected fleet management...
AI-Driven Cyber Attacks and Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Escalate Risk Landscape in Australia, Aon Report Finds
The Slovenia Times
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July 31, 2025
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Media OutReach Newswire - 31 July 2025 - Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, has released the Australia-specific findings from its 2025 Cyber Risk Report. The report highlights the growing impact...
IJM calls for more preventative action from Australian government on UN trafficking awareness day
Christian Daily International
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Jane Duke, Assistant Secretary of the Counter Modern Slavery, People Smuggling and Transnational Crime Branch at DFAT, speaking at an International Justice Mission event about the rapid growth of trafficking into cyberscamming centres in Southeast...
NZ & Australia await US tariff hikes
interest.co.nz
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As expected, the Fed kept policy on hold and there were only minor tweaks to the release. There was a nod to growth slowing, noting economic activity “moderated in the first half of the year”, previously characterised as expanding at a solid pace....
SEP (Australia) opposes demolition of Melbourne public housing towers
World Socialist Web Site
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July 31, 2025
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) held a public meeting on Sunday titled “Ban Labor’s demolition of Melbourne’s public housing towers! Fight for a socialist housing program!” The meeting outlined a perspective of how to take forward the struggle...
Canada to recognise Palestine, Chalmers says it's 'when, not if' Australia follows
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 30, 2025
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his country intends to recognise a Palestinian state. Mr Carney said the planned move was predicated on the Palestinian Authority's (PA) commitment to reforms, including commitments to fundamentally change...
Leaked Labor policy papers show Victoria looking at fresh taxes and permanent truth-telling commission
Sky News Australia
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July 30, 2025
Leaked policy papers from the imminent Victorian state Labor Party conference have provided an insight look into the Allan government’s future agenda which could include lobbing Victorians with fresh taxes and setting up a permanent Indigenous...