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>>163168 Elon Musk criticises fact checkers and accuses them of ‘tyranny’ after Dick Smith complains about ABC RMIT fact check - Billionaire Elon Musk has condemned the work of fact checkers and accused them of “tyranny” after businessman Dick Smith claimed the RMIT ABC Fact Check unit published a report that is “full of lies” about nuclear energy. On Monday, Mr Musk responded to a Sky News Australia article shared on the social media platform he owns, X, formerly Twitter, that explained Mr Smith's disgust over a fact check about the Australian businessman’s comments relating to nuclear power. Mr Musk replied to a post by US columnist Michael Shellenberger that said, “one of the government’s main fact-checker groups has been caught spreading misinformation about renewables and nuclear. Mr Musk replied, “Having government ‘fact-checkers’ is a giant leap in the direction of tyranny.”
>>163169 Australian intelligence chiefs want law to stop former spies taking skills overseas - Australia’s intelligence chiefs have asked the government for new laws to stop former spies marketing their skills abroad, fearing current provisions are allowing foreign adversaries to gain invaluable knowledge of Australian tradecraft. ASIO is seeking specific consolidated legislation requiring that former spies gain explicit permission before they offer themselves as trainers, in light of what it says is the serious and growing threat of espionage and foreign interference.
>>163172 ASIO boss tells inquiry into Australian secrecy laws foreign intelligence operatives are posing as journalists - The head of ASIO has warned some foreign intelligence services may be using journalism as a cover as journalists themselves become a target for foreign intelligence services. Mike Burgess has addressed an inquiry by the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor into secrecy offences in the Criminal Code. The inquiry comes amid concerns about the lack of protection for whistleblowers and the press. Mr Burgess told the inquiry journalists were a target of foreign intelligence services, and some operatives pretended to be a journalist to do their job. He warned any alterations to the law needed to be carefully assessed. "ASIO does not investigate journalists for their journalism. I'm not saying that we are, but if we do, we investigate them for potential threats to security," Mr Burgess said.
>>163173 Jewish leaders file vilification complaints to AHRC against Sydney clerics - The country’s peak Jewish body has formally lodged vilification complaints with Australia’s human rights body against two Sydney Muslim clerics, after they gave sermons that described Jews as “monsters”, “rats”, “bloodthirsty” and “vile”. The sermons also included parables about killing Jews and how if people “spat” on Israel “the Jews would drown”, among anti-Semitic tropes about them having “hands everywhere in business” and “owning the majority of banks”. The Australian can reveal the Executive Council of Australian Jewry has lodged vilification complaints to the Australian Human Rights Commission against cleric Abu Ousayd, also known as Wissam Haddad, and sheik Ahmed Zoud, for a December sermon at southwest Sydney’s As-Sunnah Mosque.
>>163174 U.S. Naval Institute Tweet: Video: Mar 26, 2024 - #OTD in 1941, U.S. Navy ships made a goodwill visit to Australia. The Americans were mobbed by Aussie women who broke through the crowds to give beer and sweets to the sailors. One sailor boasted of getting a date within 3 minutes of stepping ashore.
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>>163175 Dick Smith receives an apology over ABC RMIT Fact Check unit’s report on renewable energy - The ABC has issued an apology to businessman Dick Smith just hours after he wrote to managing director David Anderson demanding corrections to an RMIT ABC Fact Check report on renewable energy that he claimed was “full of lies”. Just one day after the fact checking unit repeatedly told The Australian it stood by its work, in an embarrassing backdown the ABC published an online apology at 8.03pm on Tuesday and made changes to the report, conceding it was riddled with errors. Furious with his treatment by the ABC, Mr Smith wrote a letter to Mr Anderson and said the fact check was published to “discredit me and my comments so people will not trust me”.
>>163176 Video: ‘Emergency situation’: Youth curfew declared in Alice Springs - An “emergency situation” has been declared in Alice Springs, with the government implementing a curfew in the CBD for anyone under the age of 18, effective tonight, for 14 days. Fifty-eight additional police will be sent to the area “as soon as possible”, Chief Minister Eva Lawler has announced. “I know youth curfews have been called on before, I’m the Chief Minister now, and my government is determined to get on top of the issues, the youth issues in particular in Alice Springs,” she said. The emergency declaration comes after The Australian revealed a violent riot through the streets of Alice Springs on Tuesday had escalated calls for a total federal government takeover of the town, with the mayor asking the territory’s government to temporarily step aside so that order can be restored to the “lawless” town.
VIDEO https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=Wq_fRsWdLpo - Violent mob rips through Alice Springs (Watch) [Channel: The Australian]
>>163177 Video: Jacinta Price suggests riot squad be brought into Northern Territory - Shadow Indigenous Australians Minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has suggested a riot squad be brought in to restore law and order in Alice Springs. Hundreds of people were involved in a riot yesterday as people marched through the Alice Springs CBD bearing weapons. Ms Price called for the Northern Territory government to take “drastic measures” to address the violence. “I would like to see our authorities, the Territory government, do whatever it takes, whether they need to bring in a riot squad,” Ms Price told Sky News Australia. “There needs to be calm, there needs to be peace … we can’t see it get any worse than it already is.”
VIDEO https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=YsECuCXgFxc - Jacinta Price suggests riot squad be brought into Northern Territory [Channel: Sky News Australia]
>>163178 Video: Politicians respond to ‘out of control’ violence in Alice Springs as pressure grows for federal intervention - Jacinta Price has called for the Defence force to descend on Alice Springs after a violent riot through the town on Tuesday, as discussions of federal intervention ramp up on both sides of the political aisle. The Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians said she was “deeply disturbed” by the crisis in Alice Springs, which has so far led to five arrests, thousands of dollars in property damage, and terrified local residents. “Violence is escalating, and to say it is out of control is an understatement - I think it’s the absolute worst I have seen the violence in my home town,” Senator Price said. “The people of Alice Springs are beside themselves, businesses are petrified to stay open, nowhere else in Australia would this be accepted, so why is it being tolerated in Alice Springs?”
VIDEO https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=3Dt1vnkNuWY - Northern Territory government needs to decide if ADF is needed in Alice Springs [Channel: Sky News Australia]
>>163179 Video: Two-week youth curfew in place for Alice Springs CBD - A youth curfew will be imposed in Alice Springs from tonight after violent unrest in the town. The unrest came to a head when a large group of people armed with knives and weapons attacked a pub and walked menacingly through the streets last night. The curfew will include the CBD of Alice Springs and apply to everyone under 18 years of age. It will run from 6pm to 6am for the next 14 days. There will be no criminal penalties imposed on anyone breaking curfew. Instead, NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler said anyone under 18 found in the town centre after curfew "will be taken home or taken to a safe place". More than 50 extra police officers will also be deployed.
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>>163180 South Korea's ambassador to Australia resigns after less than a month in the job - South Korea's new ambassador to Australia has resigned after less than a month in the job, as he faces a corruption probe at home. On March 4, Lee Jong-sup was named by President Yoon Suk Yeol's conservative administration to replace Kim Wan-joong in Canberra. The former defence minister then flew to Australia on March 12 to take up the position as top envoy after South Korea's justice ministry lifted a travel ban on him to allow him to leave. But he was forced home 10 days later amid an investigation by the country's Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials over allegations he interfered with a probe into the drowning of a South Korean soldier. Mr Lee has denied any wrongdoing. Opposition MPs accused the government of sending Mr Lee to Australia to shield him from facing justice.
>>163181 Twelve-year-old boy found hiding in a container at ‘secure’ Fremantle Port - The Australian Border Force and WA Police are investigating how a 12-year-old boy was found in a container being moved around a secure area at Fremantle Port. The boy was only found after the container had been lifted, put on a truck, moved, and then offloaded onto the ground with a forklift on Tuesday evening, according to a source not authorised to speak to the media. He was spotted by the forklift driver at Patrick Terminals’ container facility after he came out of the open machinery space at the end of the refrigerated container. Workers who detected the boy immediately stopped work and escorted him to security personnel, a spokeswoman for Patrick Terminals said. She said the appropriate authorities were notified, and the company was fully cooperating with their investigation. Police were called to the port at 10pm after the dangerous incident. The boy was uninjured and after inquiries was identified
>>163182 ‘I apologise’: ADF chief General Angus Campbell’s admission of failure - Australian Defence Force chief General Angus Campbell has vowed to push for enduring reform in Australia’s military and defence culture to address the suicide crisis that has taken the lives of 1600 servicemen and women between 1997 and 2020 - 20 times the number of service personnel killed on active duty. General Campbell, appearing as the final witness before the Royal Commission Into Defence and Veteran Suicide on Thursday, closed his remarks with a call for everyone in Defence to “stand up” and build and protect a culture of moral excellence. “My comment to everybody would be to know and do what is right and when you see that is not what is happening, just stand up and you will be supported.” In his opening statement before the commission, General Campbell apologised “unreservedly” for what he called organisational “deficiencies” that let down ADF members during their service and post-service life. “Our p
>>163183 Australian military news: Marine Rotational Force - Darwin arrives - Military activity in the Northern Territory is set to soar, with more than one thousand Marines arriving in the Top End for the 13th rotation of Marine Rotational Force - Darwin. On Friday, Marines got a taste for the Top End’s conditions as they stepped onto the airstrip tarmac. The new rotation’s Commanding Officer Colonel Brian Mulvihill said his troops were “excited” to get started. “The marines and sailors of MRF-D are honoured and excited to continue the legacy of cooperation and interoperability with our Australian Defence Force brothers and sisters,” he said. “Our strong alliance contributes to stability in the region and makes all our forces more ready to respond to any crisis or contingency that arises.”
>>163184 Marines back in Australia during six months of training across South Pacific - U.S. Marines have returned to northern Australia to train as an air-ground task force for six months across the continent and in the Philippines and Indonesia, a Marine Corps spokesman said Thursday. This year’s 2,000-strong Marine Rotational Force-Darwin is the 13th contingent to arrive in the Northern Territory since 2012, according to a Marine Corps statement that day. “The Marines and Sailors of Marine Rotational Force-Darwin are honored and excited to continue the legacy of cooperation,” force commander Col. Brian Mulvihill said in the statement. “Our strong Alliance contributes to stability in the region and enables the readiness of our forces to respond to any crisis or contingency that arises.” Led by an infantry regiment from Camp Pendleton, Calif., for the third year in a row, the Marines are scheduled to train until October with Australian troops and counterparts throughout the region.
>>163185 Marines, Sailors Arrive in Australia for 6 Months of Training, Exercises - "Over the next six months, MRF-Darwin will conduct a series of exercises and training events with the Australian Defense Force and other regional allies and partners to establish a forward-postured crisis response force, enhance interoperability between our forces, and contribute to a more stable and secure Indo-Pacific," Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told the media during a briefing today. Led for the third year in a row by a California-based Marine infantry regiment, this will be the 13th annual iteration of MRF-Darwin, according to a news release sent out by MRF-Darwin's media team today. MRF-Darwin dates back to 2011, when former President Barack Obama and then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced an agreement on force posture initiatives designed to significantly enhance defense cooperation between the U.S. and Australia. While the initial iteration consisted of only a small
>>163186 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Tweet: Video: We are happy to be back in Darwin - MRF-D 24.3 is part of an annual six-month rotational deployment to enhance interoperability with the Australian Defence Force and Allies and partners and provide a forward-postured crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific.
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>>163187 Video: South Australia government dubs state Voice election ‘strong first result’ despite low voter turnout - The South Australian First Nations Voice to Parliament election has been declared a success by the Malinauskas government despite a disappointing voter turnout. Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders were asked to elect the 46 members of the state’s Voice to Parliament in a non-compulsory election on March 16. Only 2619 votes of an approximate 30,000 eligible voters were counted across the state according to the Electoral Commission of South Australia. The Malinauskas government described the election as “successful” despite the turnout and was upbeat it set the platform for the Voice to grow in the state.
VIDEO https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=uFjwyvunNqQ - More than 90 per cent of eligible First Nations voters refrain from SA Voice vote [Channel: Sky News Australia]
>>163188 Government and creators slam Meta’s political posts move amid disengagement fears - Tech giant Meta is “turning the tap off” on some political content across its Instagram and Threads platforms, threatening to leave affected Australians uninformed, the government has warned. The change, where both platforms let users decide what political content they are recommended to see but at the risk of blocking valuable information, went through with little fanfare and many users not realising the ramifications.
>>163189 ABC ombudsman hands down scathing review of ABC RMIT Fact Check report on Dick Smith - The ABC ombudsman has delivered a scathing assessment of the RMIT ABC Fact Check unit in the wake of its botched report about businessman Dick Smith’s on-air comments on nuclear and renewable energy. The ABC received 11 complaints about the fact check titled, “Can a country run entirely on renewable energy?”, published on March 22, that delved into Mr Smith’s public statements on energy including renewables and nuclear. In the report, RMIT ABC Fact Check rejected Mr Smith’s comment that “no country has ever been able to run entirely on renewables”, prompting the well-known businessman to write an urgent letter to managing director David Anderson demanding corrections. But in a two-page finding published late last week, ABC ombudsman Fiona Cameron determined that the fact checkers “had inaccurately asserted that Mr Smith’s support for nuclear-generated power meant that he rejected renewable-led e
>>163190 BEAT THE PHONE TRACKERS - MITIGATING EMF & TRACKING - cairnsnews.org
>>163191 Video: 'Selfless, outstanding' Australian aid worker killed in airstrike in central Gaza - The family of an Australian citizen killed in an airstrike in Gaza has described the humanitarian aid worker as "an outstanding human being" driven by kindness and selflessness. Melbourne-born Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom, along with three other international aid workers and a Palestinian driver, was killed in Central Gaza while working with the World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity. Video footage posted to social media showed the bodies of the five dead at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah. Staff showed the British, Australian and Polish passports of three of the dead. All of the workers killed were wearing protective gear with the charity's logo on it.
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>>163192 Australian World Central Kitchen aid worker Zomi Frankcom killed by apparent Israeli air strike in Gaza - Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom has been killed in what Palestinian officials say was an Israeli air strike on central Gaza. Charity organisation World Central Kitchen (WCK) said seven of its international aid workers were killed by the strike while helping to deliver food and other supplies to northern Gaza. The charity said the team were travelling in a "deconflicted zone" in two armoured cars branded with the WCK logo despite coordinating movements with the Israeli Defense Forces. WCK said the seven killed were from Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom, a dual United States-Canadian citizen and Palestine. The organisation said it had ordered an immediate pause on its operations, as Israeli forces carry out an "in-depth examination to understand the circumstances of this tragic incident".
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>>163193 Radical preacher Abu Ousayd’s ‘Dawah Van’ charity takes to Sydney streets - A high-profile Sydney preacher who urged people to spit on Israel so “Jews would drown” and gave a series of anti-Semitic sermons runs a registered charity called the Dawah Van that he and other leaders from his centre use as a vehicle to convert young Australians and tourists to Islam. Abu Ousayd, also known as Wissam Haddad, is one of five board members of The Dawah Van Incorporated, the charitable arm of his Al Madina Dawah Centre. The Dawah Van’s social media pages, including Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, which has come under fire for not doing enough to clamp down on hate speech – show Mr Ousayd, Mr Ye, and other volunteers outside Sydney’s Town Hall preaching predominantly to young men, or tourists and expats.
>>163194 World of warcraft: Australians in England teach Ukrainians how to defeat Russia - In a military camp in the east of England, Australian Defence Force personnel are barking orders. Cries of “get down”, “quick, quick” echo along a smoke-filled street with a realistic looking medical centre and pub. The team of Ukrainian soldiers has just breached the door of a mock house, quaintly called “door appreciation”, and under the protective cover of their compatriots they check for booby traps, and storm inside to capture “the enemy”. Rounds of gunfire are heard as the team expertly clears the area. It takes less than a minute and then the team prepares for an assault on the property next door. Watching with a keen eye is Major Michael Jack from the 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment: the only soldier here given permission to speak and to show his face. This is Operation Interflex, the British-led mission to train members of the AFU (Force Ukraine) that has been in operation since Ju
>>163195 Video: PM Albanese demanding explanation from Israel PM after aid work’s death - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is demanding an explanation from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israel Defence Forces took responsibility for an airstrike that killed seven people, including Australian aid worker "Zomi" Frankcom. - 9 News Australia
VIDEO https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=k0AFwpP32ZY - PM Albanese demanding explanation from Israel PM after aid work’s death | 9 News Australia [Channel: 9 News Australia]
>>163196 No action against Sydney hate preacher Abu Ousayd after latest ‘met by death’ sermon - Police have said it is unable to lay charges against a radical Sydney cleric who warned of violence and “men who love death” if Islam was attacked, saying legal advice had determined that the threats didn’t constitute a criminal offence. On Wednesday, NSW Police confirmed that a Friday sermon by Bankstown-based cleric Abu Ousayd, also known as Wissam Haddad, that promised “humiliation” and “men who love death” if Allah was attacked did not breach state hate-speech provisions.
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>>163197 ‘A leader who represents the best of modern Australia’: PM - Anthony Albanese has announced that businesswoman and gender equality advocate Sam Mostyn AO will be Australia’s next governor-geneMs Mostyn, 59, is currently the chair of Women’s Economic Opportunities Review, and chair of Aware Super fund. She was previously the president of Chief Executive Women (CEW). A Canberran who grew up as the daughter of an Australian Army officer, Ms Mostyn was the first female Australian Football League commissioner, and served for over a decade until 2017. She has also held senior roles with Reconciliation Australia, the Australia Council for the Arts, and the National Mental Health Commission.
>>163198 Sam Mostyn: Read Australia's next Governor-General's controversial deleted tweets: 'Invasion Day' - Australia's next Governor-General referred to Australia Day as 'invasion day' and urged the country not to 'waste' the opportunity offered by the Uluru Statement from the Heart in now-deleted comments posted to X. Sam Mostyn wiped her social media presence before Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the businesswoman, gender and climate activist as General David Hurley's replacement on Wednesday morning. The once prolific tweeter who boasted 22,000 followers on X, wiped clean her X, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts just prior to her appointment to the vice-regal role. But posts Ms Mostyn made over the years - obtained by Daily Mail Australia - offer an insight into the politics of the woman now tasked with representing King Charles in Australia.
>>163199 Elon Musk’s X threatens to sue Australian government over anti-transgender post - Elon Musk’s social media platform X has threatened to sue the Australian government as it faces a fine of up to $800,000 over a post that made disparaging comments about transgender activist Teddy Cook, declaring it will “protect its user’s right to free speech”. X, formerly known as Twitter, has removed the post written by Canadian Chris Elston, who is known as ‘Billboard Chris’ and says he has “decided to take a stand against gender ideology”, which he has described as “pseudo-religious movement”. But the post targeting Mr Cook - who was part of a panel that advised the World Health Organisation on developing guidelines for the health of trans and gender diverse people - was reshared thousands of times. This prompted the Australian eSafety Commissioner to take action, which X said it would challenge.
>>163200 Anthony Albanese’s fury at Israel raises Jewish concern - Australia’s position on Israel’s conduct in Gaza has shifted to outright condemnation following the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, prompting a warning from the nation’s Jewish community that a premature end to the conflict will leave Hamas in control of the Palestinian enclave. Anthony Albanese confronted Benjamin Netanyahu over the strike on an aid convoy that killed Frankcom and six colleagues, expressing the nation’s fury over the attack, as Foreign Minister Penny Wong warned Israel to “change course” or face international isolation. The Australia-Israel and Jewish Affairs Council said the demand by the Prime Minister for Israeli accountability was “perfectly reasonable and proper” but argued that responsibility for all deaths in the conflict lay with Hamas. It questioned whether the government still believed there was no role for the terrorist organisation in Gaza’s future.
>>163201 Navy chief Mark Hammond full steam ahead in bid to lead Australian Defence Force - Chief of Navy Mark Hammond is the frontrunner to replace Angus Campbell as the nation’s next Defence chief, as Anthony Albanese prepares to stamp his authority on the force’s biggest transformation since World War II. The former submarine commander, who is close to the Prime Minister, would be the first naval officer in 22 years to hold the post if he is selected to succeed General Campbell, whose term expires at the end of June. But Vice Admiral Hammond faces tough competition from the army’s Lieutenant-General Greg Bilton, who has served as the ADF’s current Chief of Joint Operations for the past five years. Admiral Hammond is an astute political player who shares Mr Albanese’s love of the South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL team, and was tapped to join the Prime Minister in the US for last year’s AUKUS announcement.
>>163202 Video: Meta accused of encouraging and reinforcing NT youth crime crisis - Meta Australia boss William Easton must step up and do more to remove content on his platform that is putting Indigenous children at risk amid a violent crime wave that has plagued Alice Springs for months, child protection experts and the Coalition have warned. A spokeswoman for Meta on Friday said the company had contacted Northern Territory Chief Minister Eva Lawler directly after she accused the tech giant of “encouraging and reinforcing” youth crime among Indigenous children seeking social media infamy. “At Meta, we have rules that outline what is and isn’t allowed on Facebook and Instagram. We have reached out to the Chief Minister’s office for their letter and will be following up to engage directly,” the spokeswoman said.
VIDEO https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=muYuzuB3spQ - Meta accused of encouraging and reinforcing NT youth crime crisis [Channel: Sky News Australia]
>>163203 Tech titan Meta guilty in Northern Territory youth crime crisis, says Chief Minister Eva Lawler - Northern Territory Chief Minister Eva Lawler has accused tech titan Meta of “encouraging and reinforcing” youth crime among some of the country’s most vulnerable children seeking social media fame. Ms Lawler has demanded an urgent meeting with Meta, saying her government is considering following other states in launching “post and boast” legislation that could lead to jail time for anyone sharing videos of committing a crime via social media, following a rise in crime that has seen a two-week youth curfew imposed on the Alice Springs CBD. It comes just over a week after children under 18 in Alice Springs were forced off the streets in a move aimed at stopping the riots and violence that have plagued the red centre for months, with police and sources on the ground noticing a significant drop in illegal behaviour such as parading stolen cars in town.
>>163204 U.S. Embassy Australia Tweet: Video: Ambassador Kennedy will soon drive a 2004 Ford Falcon into the outback to raise funds for the Cancer Council as part of the Shitbox Rally. This Sunday, she speaks to @60Mins about the (Australia / United States) cancer research that gives her hope and takes us for a spin in her shitbox.
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