News update for Fri 23 Feb 2024
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Rightwing political group Advance mounts ‘unprecedented’ campaign against Labor in Dunkley - The Guardian
The rightwing political group Advance is running a third-party campaign “unprecedented” for an Australian electoral contest, outspending the Liberal party on social media ads in an effort to wrestle the seat of Dunkley from Labor.
Read more from Josh Butler for The Guardian
More here from The Klaxon: The bankrollers behind Advance
Working from home is producing economic benefits return-to-office rules would quash - Women's Agenda
More of us have been in paid work this past year than ever before. A big part of that is because more of us have been able to work from home than ever before.
The proportion of Australians in paid work climbed above 64% in May last year, and has stayed there since. At the same time, unemployment has hovered around a half-century low of 4%.
In April last year, female unemployment fell to what is almost certainly an all-time low of 3.3%.
It’s working from home – actually, working from anywhere – that has been the game-changer, as the most enduring change to the way we work to have come out of the pandemic.
The two days that could decide Julian Assange's freedom - 7am Podcast
Julian Assange has spent years fighting to prevent his extradition to the United States and this week, the battle has come down to just two days in court, when his lawyers made what could be their final stand. The British High Court now holds his fate in its hands, as it considers his request for an appeal. So, while supporters anxiously await the judges’ ruling, what lies ahead for Julian Assange?
National Anti-Corruption Commission to warn of ‘corruption vulnerabilities’ ahead of federal election - The Conversation
The National Anti-Corruption Commission will provide guidance on “corruption vulnerabilities” ahead of next year’s federal election, NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton said on Thursday.
“The commission will produce guidance concerning corruption risks and vulnerabilities associated with issues such as grants, political donations and fundraising, foreign interference, government advertising and appointments,”
Read more from Michelle Grattan for The Conversation
How’s he (Anthony Albanese) travelling? - Inside Story
As 2023 came to an end commentators’ knives came out for Anthony Albanese. Almost to a person, the scribblers declared him and his government adrift, tired and out of touch — you only had to look at October’s Voice referendum, the response to the High Court’s detainee decision and the ever-present cost-of-living crisis. There were even murmurs of a “one-term government.”
Read more from Peter Brent for Inside Story
Cartoon by Cathy Wilcox for SMH/Age
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Should we be concerned about the future of artificial intelligence? - ABC 7.30 Report
The launch of ChatGPT in November of 2022 marked a huge leap forward in artificial intelligence, but should we be concerned about the future of artificial intelligence?
Australian Helen Toner is an expert on AI safety and a researcher at Georgetown University's Centre for Security and Emerging Technology and she speaks with 7.30’s Sarah Ferguson.
Watch 7.30 Report on ABC's iView
People seeking asylum in Australia shouldn’t have to trade danger for degradation - The Guardian
It would be easy, reading the political reaction to the news that more than 40 people seeking asylum have been taken to offshore detention in Nauru after arriving in Western Australia, to forget that we are talking about real people who have faced unimaginable circumstances.
Here we go again: Coalition adds rooftop solar to its “disrupt and delay” handbook - Renew Economy
Here we go again – the latest salvo from the climate luddites of the National Party designed to disrupt and delay Australia’s accelerating clean energy revolution.
This time, it is couched in the tactically crafty but cynical and flawed proposition that distributed renewables – minus utility-scale projects – are the solution to decarbonisation.
Has the IDF slaughtered enough children to make Israel safe from terrorism yet? - The Shot
Homes, hospitals, schools, Mosques and cemeteries across the length of what was once the Gaza strip have been flattened, cleansed, preemptively erased from future memory. As all settler colonies discover, to control the future you need to erase the past. It is easier to seize land if you destroy evidence of the cultural links between a pesky population and their former home. We will remember, but will our children? And their children? These acts of desecration are to ensure the memory dies with us.
Read more from Dave Milner for The Shot
Small Dutton energy attempting to quash fuel efficiency standards - The Politics
Peter Dutton has never seen a scare campaign he hasn’t liked. Nor does he walk past an opportunity to create one. It’s an easy political strategy for someone largely bereft of imagination or any semblance of policy ambition. So, we find ourselves at the dawn of a new anxiety-inducing political battle in the guise of fuel efficiency standards and what they’re likely to mean for all those driving around in the inefficient monoliths crowding our roads.
Read more from Daniel James for The Politics
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