News update for Wed 24 April 2024
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Elon Musk vs Australia: global content take-down orders can harm the internet if adopted widely - The Conversation
Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform?Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask themselves whether they are equally happy for courts in China, Russia and Iran to determine what Australians can see and post online in Australia.
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Elon Musk vs the Australian Government - The Daily Aus
The stabbing of a TikTok bishop - 7am Podcast
Why is Elon Musk at war with Australia? - The News Agents
Also read >
Free speech has limits and the stabbing video sits far outside them - Crikey
Elon Musk’s battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech. It’s to titillate his followers - The Guardian
Negative gearing to change – it’s ‘the vibe’ - The New Daily
The tide – or maybe call it “the vibe” – is running in the direction of the Albanese government being pushed into changing its timid stance on negative gearing.Just as the eventual change to the stage-three tax cuts arrived on a rising tide of advice/calls/recommendations/studies that helped push the government to make the no-brainer adjustments to the cuts’ targeting, there is a similar surge under way to alter our treatment of negative gearing.
Read more from Michael Pascoe for The New Daily
World’s biggest democracy expels ABC journalist but little noise in Australia - Pearls and Irritations
One wonders how the Australian mainstream media will react to the news that India, the so-called biggest democracy in the world, has thrown out ABC correspondent Avani Dias from the country.Dias was denied a visa after her program Sikhs, Spies and Murder: Investigating India’s alleged hit on foreign soil was aired on the ABC ‘s weekly Foreign Correspondent slot.
Read more in Pearls & Irritations
Dutton’s plan to save Australia with nuclear comes undone when you look between the brushstrokes - The Guardian
The Coalition leader, Peter Dutton, has been trying to paint a picture of what life in Australia will be like if it tries to power itself mostly with renewable energy and without his technology of choice: nuclear.Dutton’s dystopian image, with more brushstrokes added in an interview on the ABC’s flagship Insiders program, is a picture of inconsistencies, partial truths and misinformation.
Read more from Graham Readfearn for The Guardian
Be alarmed not alert! ASPI, a Seven ‘exclusive’ and a think tank gravy train - Michael West Media
Peter Dutton, Coalition media and the security apparatus ramp up efforts to censor the internet.Self-described as “Australia’s top security research institute” ASPI has managed to eke out one report on Gaza since the Hamas attacks of October 7 while churning out 50 reports on China. On that metric alone, ASPI’s raison d’etre is clear but that has not stopped the think tank from parading itself as “Australia’s top security research institute”.
Michael West checks in on anti-China think tank, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Cartoon by Cathy Wilcox for The SMH/Age
TODAY’S BREAKING NEWS: See all the breaking news of the day through The Guardian here - and through 6 News here
Many Australians face losing their homes right now. Here’s how the government should help - The Conversation
An important principle was invoked by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week in defence of the government’s Future Made in Australia industry policy announcement.“There is a role for government sometimes in just providing […] support to get over the hump”, Albanese said, for otherwise sustainable companies facing rough patches in the quest to diversify Australia’s manufacturing base.That same principle underpins the HomeKeeper program I proposed in The Conversation last year. The idea is to help mortgage-stressed owner-occupiers avoid losing their home.
Read more from Professor Chris Wallace for The Conversation
Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts as nuclear misinformation swings polls - Renew Economy
National leader David Littleproud has reportedly threatened to tear up contracts for wind and solar farm developments, in the latest broadside against large scale renewable energy from the federal Coalition.The remarks – reported by the Newcastle Herald – were made in a press conference last week in Newcastle, when Littleproud was campaigning against offshore wind projects and outlining the Coalition’s hope that it could build a nuclear power plant in the upper Hunter Valley.
We are not safe. 25 women killed by violence so far this year - Women’s Agenda
Women are not safe in their own homes, whether that home is an apartment, house or farm. And regardless of whether that home is in Forbes in regional NSW, or Bribbaree in rural NSW, or Glenorchy in Tasmania, or in or just outside of Ballarat in Victoria, or suburban Perth, or Morayfield near Brisbane or Kununurra near Darwin, or in any major city.
Women are unsafe in their own homes even after a former violent partner has been charged with violent crimes against them.
But then women are not safe outside of their home either.Women are not safe going for a Sunday morning run, or while visiting shopping mall on a Saturday afternoon, or when taking a child to their regular martial arts studio, or in the car park of their local shopping village after picking up groceries.
Read more from Angela Priestley for Women's Agenda
Also read > Don’t let Molly Ticehurst die in vain. I don’t care if we restrict civil liberties - Geoffrey Watson SC for The SMH
Like many Aboriginal kids we’ve lost too soon, this child was loved by his family, not by the state - Crikey
Tragic. Harrowing. Unforgivable. These are some of the strongest words to describe the devastating suicide of a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy in Western Australia last week. But despite their potency, they still fall short. The parents of this little boy have spoken of a grief that cannot be described. They have spoken about the eight-month wait to hold their miracle. How his Christmas presents patiently await his return. They have reflected on his intelligence and infectious presence. And how, despite their best efforts, their reunification was at a morgue.
Why buying cocaine and sex workers for Australia’s highest profile rapist wasn’t a brilliant idea - The Shot
If we are talking about how sickness spreads into society from the information it absorbs, let’s not forget about the damage these entirely accepted and mainstream institutions do to our souls and communities, too.
Let’s not pretend this sort of shit, times a million, endlessly, over and over again, doesn’t have any impact on the type of society we live in and just how filled with hate, privilege, supremacy and violence certain people are.
Focusing on social media – and “computer games”, Peter Dutton unhelpfully threw into the pile on Insiders, neglecting to mention Elvis’ hips, jazz swing dancing, Dungeons & Dragons and paperback novels – at this precise moment is to ignore and excuse too much else. It is to seek a scapegoat, not a solution to systemic injustices and normalised violence.
Read more from Dave Milner for The Shot
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IEA says global EV demand 'motoring along' as sales tipped to be one-in-five in 2024 - ABC
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