Former foreign affairs minister Bob Carr is threatening defamation proceedings against New Zealand's deputy PM for calling him a “Chinese puppet”. It’s a bad look for New Zealand’s new government, writes Rebekah Holt. crikey.com.au/2024/05/03/win…

They found a 23-year-old Eagle Farm man with critical head injuries who had allegedly been partially buried alive. #9News nine.social/Gkc

Two QLDers Charged With Attempted Murder After 23 Y.O. Man Allegedly Buried Alive

The duo — a 23-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman — are facing a total of 19 charges in court today. buff.ly/44xLIwr

When it comes to legal action against global tech companies, just how long is the arm of the law?

That’s the question facing legal teams on both sides of the eSafety Commissioner’s legal battle against X.
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.Lucia Osborne-Crowley | The brilliant career of human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson, legal adviser to Julian #Assange
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Getting the absolute runaround from the state government about the only access lift to the top level of the Salamanca arts centre and I can now entirely understand how the state has gone to hell after ten years of those clowns. We desperately need the crossbench to burn it down.

MEDIA RELEASE: Right-wing pro-Israel agitators threaten free speech on campus

'We call on university leaders to speak up against vigilantism on our campuses from pro-Israel groups aiming to intimidate protesters and instigate conflict. Students in the Gaza solidarity camps are…

Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data. wired.trib.al/IVQpnDD

“The Outabox hack gives the lie to the dubious claim that third-party services nullify the privacy risks that are inherent to age and identity verification.”

-Me, on the latest in cybersecurity news, the Outabox hack:

App Security Project Reacts to Outabox Hack

Washington, D.C. – The App Security Project of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation (TPAF) is responding to yesterday’s news that third-party IT vendor Outabox, which provided identity-verification services to Australian…

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We must declare a moratorium on LinkeIn until we fully understand what's happening.

“Climate change could render parts of northern Australia almost unliveable, throwing into doubt the feasibility of crucial military bases, a group of leading Defence figures has warned”

& yet Australian Labor & Liberal Party still support new fossil fuels! smh.com.au/politics/feder…

Democracy is not a goal you cross and done. It’s a set of conditions. A state about to elect a fascist, that recently survived a coup, where police kills minorities and where student protests are violently suppressed does not get to boast about supposed democratic values

Asher Wolf I notified them of my son’s death using the appropriate form. It was not actioned and 3 extra payments were paid until I rang them. They couldn’t tell me what would happen about it. If they come at me I will be ignoring it.

Thinking about how much money the university spent on trying to make sure this image didn't exist in public so when you share it you're continuing a time honored tradition of not letting people make you forget

Chief complaint: Abdominal pain that feels like “bad menstrual cramps.”

Medicine is very hard. Stay humble.

Every time I read about assisted suicide in Canada, I'm more shocked. This is one issue I definitely got wrong (and disability rights activists were right about). jacobin.com/2024/05/canada…

Hey, journalists! Are you covering protests?

Check out Committee to Protect Journalists’s resources for covering protests and civil unrest: cpj.org/resources-for-…

voter ID is going well, very nearly got turned away with my own ID and ended up with a bunch of women huddled around my driving licence debating whether or not i ‘have the same nose’