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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...
Sacked Sky News Australia host goes rogue with wild on-air rant: 'It's more evil than you can imagine'
Daily Mail
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July 31, 2025
By NICHOLAS COMINO Published: 04:23 EDT, 31 July 2025 | Updated: 05:54 EDT, 31 July 2025 A former Sky News Australia presenter has accused the network of being 'evil' and pushing pro-Israel 'propaganda' in a fiery spray in which she suggested she...
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...
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...
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...
China's Green Steel Push A Reality Check For Australia
MENAFN
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July 31, 2025
Latest stories America first, Europe last US tariff deal clears way for Korea's stablecoin dream Azerbaijan-Uzbekistan deal forges new Central Asia energy axis China's current 10% share of steel production from electric arc furnaces still remains...
Safe Security Mops Up $70 Mn To Build Cybersecurity AGI
Inc42
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July 31, 2025
SUMMARY The investment was led by Avataar Venture Partners, with participation from Susquehanna Asia Venture Capital, NextEquity Partners and Prosperity7 Ventures, among others The startup plans to use the fresh proceeds for product development...
Morning Coffee: Kind colleagues quadrupled banker’s bonus to $50k, yet he still complained. One of the best compensation schemes in the world is under threat
eFinancialCareers
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July 31, 2025
It’s surprisingly difficult to think back to the pandemic, even though it’s more recent than, for example, “Avengers: Endgame” or David Solomon taking over at Goldman Sachs. Most of us have moved on, thinking about it, if at all, as the reason why...
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...
Geoffrey Boycott: ‘England’s bowling attack for Oval Test does not look threatening’
The Indian Express
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July 31, 2025
With Jofra Archer rested and captain Ben Stokes, England’s leading wicket -taker in the series against India rested, former captain Geoffrey Boycott says he is not sure of the new-look bowling firm giving sleepless nights to India’s batsmen....
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...
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...
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...
'Tip of the iceberg': ASIO director reveals the espionage acts costing Australia billions
SBS
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Key Points ASIO director-general Mike Burgess has warned of the "real, present and costly danger" posed by foreign espionage. Australia's top spy chief outlined the impact of espionage on Australia's economy in a speech on Thursday night. Burgess...
Espionage costing Australia $13b a year: ASIO chief
Financial Review
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July 31, 2025
Espionage is costing the Australian economy almost $13 billion a year in stolen intellectual property and countermeasures, according to the nation’s spymaster, who warned that business is failing to take the risk of foreign infiltration seriously...
New research supports better disease management in Lake Victoria's cage fish industry
Business Ghana
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A newly published study has revealed key findings on fish health and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Lake Victoria. The cage aquaculture industry is growing rapidly to meet increasing demand for fish, but mass deaths of farmed tilapia have...
Australia Bans YouTube for Children Under 16
Breitbart
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July 30, 2025
The government of Australia has reversed its decision to grant YouTube an exemption from its sweeping ban on social media for children under 16. YouTube’s parent company, Google, is threatening legal action, but Australian officials vowed to push...
Top spy reveals what espionage is costing the Australian economy
The Courier
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July 31, 2025
He listed examples of spies recruiting a security clearance holder to hand over official documents on free trade negotiations, foreign actors seeking to buy access to sensitive personal data sets and land near sensitive military sites, and foreign...
Australia's First Boeing AH-64E Apache Helicopters Enter Final Assembly
Simple Flying
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July 31, 2025
The first four of 29 new Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters ordered by the Australian Army are drawing closer to delivery as they enter the final assembly phase at Boeing’s production facility on Mesa, Arizona. The incoming attack helicopters...
‘Spying at unprecedented levels’: ASIO boss sounds alarm on espionage threat
Brisbane Times
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July 31, 2025
“Foreign intelligence services are proactive, creative and opportunistic in their targeting of current and former defence employees: relentless cyber espionage, in-person targeting and technical collection. “In recent years, for example, defence...