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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/30/australia-corruption-ranking-whistleblowers-transparency-international
#AusPol #AusLaw #AusGov
Thousands gather at Invasion Day rallies, calling for rethink of Australia Day
Thousands of people gather at Invasion Day rallies across the country, backing Indigenous calls for a change or abolishment of Australia Day.ABC News
Claims at the beginning of article need substantiating. Its pure speculation that workers lives will be better or that pay packets will be larger.
Bringing wealth into our economy is no comfort when only the top 5% are getting a share of it.
#Australia #auspol
Properties acquired for 'axed' Mooloolah River Interchange despite scrapped federal funding
When the federal government withdrew its support and the cost more than doubled for a major road project on the Sunshine Coast many believed it wouldn't happen. Were they wrong?Jessica Ross (ABC News)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-28/storms-south-east-gold-coast-brisbane-christmas/103268056
Not reported here, but there’s been astoundingly pervasive campaign to spread claims of ‘Chemtrails’ and ‘Geoengineering’ conspiracy as the reason for why the South-East Queensland was affected.
Gold Coast locals that follow LNP MP social media seem most subscriptive of the conspiracy, using the conspiracy theory to deflect and distract climate change awareness.
#ClimateCrisis #QldPol #AusPol
More storms and a heatwave are on the way for Queensland after wild weather wreaks havoc over Christmas
More intense storms are forecast to hit south-east Queensland on the weekend, just days after the region endured several deadly weather systems, including a "mini cyclone".Mackenzie Colahan (ABC News)
'They also hold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of investments in companies that make money from gambling, alcohol, uranium and defence.'
#greenwashing #super #auslaw #auspol
ExxonMobil, Woodside, Santos: Investigation finds sustainable super funds littered with $1 billion fossil fuel investment
An ABC investigation into the financial disclosures of sustainable or ethical-labelled super options finds extensive investment in shares of companies in the fossil fuel, gambling, alcohol and weapons manufacturing industries.Pat McGrath (ABC News)
Claimants of NT Stolen Generations class action settlement frustrated by payment delay
Eight months after their $50 million class action settlement was finalised with the Commonwealth, descendants of the Northern Territory's Stolen Generations are still waiting to receive compensation.Jane Bardon (ABC News)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-27/anu-survey-referendum-first-nations-voice-to-parliament/103154902
#AusPol #VoiceToParliament
Overwhelming majority of Australians support a First Nations voice despite referendum defeat, finds ANU survey
Almost 90 per cent of Yes voters think First Nations Australians should have a say in matters affecting them. This did not surprise researchers — until they learned 76 per cent of No voters agreed.Tahlia Roy (ABC News)
'Both brothers were both fined $250,000 each and received a suspended 15-month sentence, after being charged under the Customs Act by the Australian Border Force (ABF) with importing tobacco with the intention of defrauding revenue.
The charges came from an investigation in 2020 when the ABF-led Illicit Tobacco Taskforce (ITTF) searched a shipping container in Adelaide and located more than 660kg of illicit tobacco products.
As a result, ABF Regional Investigations in South Australia executed a warrant under the Customs Act on a number of homes and businesses in Adelaide, where officers seized a further 300kg of illicit tobacco and $547,510 in cash.' #smoking #auslaw #auspol
"A Submission on the Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023 (Cth) and Accompanying Regulations: Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs - Legislation Committee" by Matthew Rimmer
The Albanese Government’s leadership on tobacco control and e-cigarette regulation is to be welcomed. This submission supports the Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023 (Cth) as a praiseworthy effort to defragment, consolidate, and mod…works.bepress.com
Dr Matthew Rimmer is a Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Faculty of Business and Law, at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He has published widely on copyright law and information technology, patent law and biotechnology, access to medicines, plain packaging of tobacco products, intellectual property and climate change, Indigenous Intellectual Property, and intellectual property and trade. He is undertaking research on intellectual property and 3D printing; the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence; and intellectual property and public health (particularly looking at the coronavirus COVID-19). His work is archived at QUT ePrints, SSRN Abstracts, Bepress Selected Works, and Open Science Framework.
https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/matthew.rimmer
https://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmatthewrimmer/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=358042
https://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/
#auslaw #auspol #IP #copyright #trademark #plainpacks #patent #PBR #access2meds #tradesecrets #SDGs #climate #IndigenousIP #trade #TPP #3dprinting #robotics #innovation
Posts will also feature #books #music #film #TV #photography - some sport #AFL #football #socceroos #LFC #YNWA #basketball. There will also be the odd post about #dogs #labradors and #swimming
Australia enters 'endgame' free trade talks with European Union for a deal five years in the making
Australia's trade minister is set to resume talks with his European Union counterpart, vowing he won't sign a deal for the sake of it.Jane Norman (ABC News)
Illicit tobacco shop raids across Victoria snares millions of dollars worth of illegal vapes, tobacco
Accompanied by Australian Border Force officers and tax officials, Taskforce Viper police have raided outlets in Shepparton, Seymour, Yarrawonga, and Ballarat, seizing more than $2 million worth of vapes, cigarettes, loose tobacco, and cash.Laura Mayers (ABC News)
#AusPol #climate #climateChange
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-24/odyssey-climate-scientists-suppress-truth-or-risk-funds-careers/102968970
Gagged and grief-stricken, but not without hope
The beauty and wonder of the natural world is what keeps scientists like Dana Bergstrom fighting to protect it. She's one of many who say speaking out comes at a cost but not speaking up can take an even greater personal toll.Jess Davis (ABC News)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/18/visiting-professor-used-phd-students-to-gather-intelligence-for-china-asio-boss-alleges #auspol #auslaw #tradesecrets Australia introduced some new criminal offences for trade secrets theft directed by a foreign entity a few years ago. https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Intelligence_and_Security/EspionageFInterference/Report/section?id=committees%2Freportjnt%2F024152%2F25711#:~:text=Overview%20of%20the%20offence&text=Proposed%20Division%2092A%20is%20intended,to%20a%20foreign%20government%20principal It is not clear whether these new provisions will be deployed by the Australian Government.
https://nit.com.au/19-09-2023/7746/acclaimed-author-tim-winton-throws-his-support-behind-the-indigenous-voice-to-parliament
"But it's also a compelling plea for our First Peoples to be seen and properly listened to. It's an opportunity for all of us – Indigenous, native-born and immigrant – to go forward together in a new spirit of respect, honesty and hope.
"For something better. To do better. To be better. And to produce better outcomes for those in our midst whose lives are so often constrained, deformed, devalued and cut short because of trauma, exclusion and the ignorance of others."
"And to their offer of unity, and their plea for a Voice that reflects their expertise, their experience and their ideas, I say yes. From the head and from the heart. Yes!"
#auspol #IndigenousIP #voicetreatytruth #ulurustatement
The Australian gay marriage plebiscite was touted as a loser beforehand, then was overwhelmingly in favour. Joy !!! All bc a huge majority of Aussies KNEW it was the right and just thing to do.
I have been hoping for a similar scenario for #Voice . However, the increasing meaness, apathy and stone-heartedness that Australians with settler heritage have shown towards #Australias1StNationPeople demonstrate that Australia is a deeply divided and by+large racist country.
Either that or the #Indigenouspeople who make up 3% of this nation are so invisible and misunderstood, that the other 97% just do not care what happens to them bc they're not even on their radar..
Either way it's heartbreakingly sad.
How the hell are #aboriginal communities supposed to feel if #Notovoice succeeds and they know that over half of #Australia has just written them off as unworthy of a #voice
How are they supposed to be "well" with that ?
#auspol #YesToTheVoice #VoicetoParliament #VoteYES23Australia