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>>>/qnotables23/126025 Video: Fearless Aussies put lives on Ukraine frontline - Josh Norman is in daily pain from a shoulder injury he sustained during his time in the Australian Army. Fellow former soldier Damien Solomon was medically discharged after losing much of the hearing in his right ear. Yet both men are on their way to the frontline in Ukraine, determined to help in the fight against Russia, despite the fear they could be punished by Australian authorities for choosing to make what they believe is the only ethical decision. “I’d like to think that if Australia were invaded we’d have a lot of foreigners come over and help us, guys just like us just like us from a different country,” Mr Norman told The Australian, before travelling to serve in a Ukrainian unit with other foreigners. (* Names are pseudonyms)
VIDEO https://onion.tube/watch?v=RsDokn8ala8 - Australian soldiers face Ukraine-Russia frontline: "War can happen to anyone" (Watch) [Channel: The Australian]
>>>/qnotables23/126026 Donald J. Trump Truth: Thank you to Senator Ralph Babet of Australia!
>>>/qnotables23/126027 How Australian cardboard drones became a critical innovation in the Ukraine war - Innovative design choices can have a massive impact in the theatre of war, so it is important to understand the principles behind their development. Recent use of low-cost cardboard drones by Ukraine, supplied by Australia, to attack targets in Russia is a good example of how this can work. Australia has been supplying Ukraine with 100 of the drones per month from March this year as part of an aid package deal worth an estimated $30 million, following an agreement struck in July 2021, according to the Australian Army Defence Innovation Hub. The Australian firm Sypaq, an engineering and solutions company founded in 1992, created the Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System (PPDS) for use in military, law enforcement, border security and emergency services, as well as food security, asset inspection and search and rescue. Ukrainian forces reportedly used the PDDS cardboard drones in an attack on an airfield i
>>>/qnotables23/126028 Video: Zelensky’s frontline Aussie raining hell on Russia - Just over a week ago, Ethan McNamara was running through a field in a desperate attempt to avoid Russian artillery fire. It’s become a common occurrence for the 24-year-old from Brisbane, who in late September last year travelled to Ukraine to join the fight on the frontline. Now he is a member of the Ukrainian military; second-in-command of a drone reconnaissance and attack unit, part of GUR - a secretive Ukrainian military intelligence service combat unit. Before this, McNamara had never worked with drones, which he says have completely changed the structure of modern warfare. The former Australian Army soldier is the first Australian to speak in-depth without the cloak of anonymity about his experience on the frontline in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
VIDEO https://onion.tube/watch?v=R-svm3Xaiiw - 'It's Gruesome': Meet the Australian soldier raining hell on Russia-Ukraine's front line (Watch) [Channel: The Australian]
>>>/qnotables23/126029 Chevron Pulls Contract Crew From Australia LNG Project As Strikes Begin - Chevron Corp started withdrawing contractor workers from its Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on Saturday, shortly after staff went on strike at two major projects in Australia. Workers at Chevron’s LNG projects started strike action on Friday after talks broke down, potentially disrupting output from facilities that account for over 5% of global supply. No further talks were scheduled between the unions and the U.S. energy major, according to the website of the Fair Work Commission, Australia’s industrial umpire, which had mediated five days of negotiations. Australia is the world’s biggest LNG exporter and its main buyers are in Asia. The dispute over wages and conditions at Chevron’s Gorgon and Wheatstone operations has supported British and European gas prices, as traders anticipate lower Australian supplies would intensify competition from other sources.
>>>/qnotables23/126030 Extremists, Neo Nazi plot to infiltrate ADF, ASIO and Defence revealed - Extremists including neo-Nazis are attempting to join the military and or recruit some already within Australian Defence Force ranks in an alarming plot to push their destabilising agenda. ASIO in concert with Defence has identified a rising number of individuals with “ideologically motivated extremism” either actively being groomed in their ranks or trying to join. According to Defence sources, the move is to attain military training to boost their skill set “capabilities” although for what is not clear. The extremism rise in Australia has been linked to conspiracies borne from the Covid-19 pandemic and the emergence of anti-authority sovereign citizens, ultra right-wing nationalists and supremacists and their inciting anti-lockdown violence. Defence has confirmed it was working closely with national security agencies.
>>>/qnotables23/126031 Opposition Indigenous Affairs spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says ‘women are under attack’ - Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says pushing back against the transgender movement and its impact on children will be among her next priorities after the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum. Speaking at an event hosted by Liberal senator Alex Antic that featured speakers including Katherine Deves and Moira Deeming, Senator Price said the parliamentary inquiry into gender-affirming care - which refers to medical treatments used to transition people to the gender of their choosing - proposed by One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson should not have been left to “a conscience vote”. “In the Senate, we had an opportunity to vote for an inquiry into gender-affirming treatments for children. It should never have been a conscience vote because this issue speaks to the human rights of our most vulnerable, and that is our children,” Senator Price told the smal
>>>/qnotables23/126032 Mind-boggling lethal Aussie weapons to be deployed by Ukraine, UK and possibly AUKUS - An Australian company’s “spy in the sky” drone that can wipe out entire military squads with its electronically fired bullets, tear gas and rubber baton rounds is to be deployed in Ukraine. The new silent but deadly tactical fire support Cerberus GHL drone will be deployed to shore up munitions stockpiles in Ukraine’s fight with Russia. “It’s spy in the sky technology that infantry under fire on the front line can use to hit back - it can wipe out entire squads,” Michael Creagh, chief executive of the Brisbane-based aerospace company behind the drone, Skybourne Technologies, said.
>>>/qnotables23/126033 Librarians to be trained in dealing with abuse after extremist threats - Librarians are dealing with death threats, trolling and intimidation at increasing levels, as protesters try to block drag-themed story time events and ban certain books on shelves. This escalation in abuse - which has sparked a string of drag-themed children’s events being cancelled across Victoria – has prompted a new wave of training for librarians, aimed at teaching them how to protect themselves and the public and defuse potentially dangerous situations. The endgame, says State Library Victoria chief executive Paul Duldig, is never having to cancel a rainbow story time at the library again. “There’s been a lot of anger directed towards librarians, who by their nature are absolutely there for the public good,” Duldig said.
>>>/qnotables23/126034 Peter Dutton seeks to overturn ACT legislation decriminalising hard drugs - Canberra is set to become a “boom market” for drug dealers and crime gangs, according to Peter Dutton, as the federal Coalition proposes using commonwealth powers to override the ACT government’s decision to decriminalise the possession of ice, heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. The ACT government’s drug reforms, due to come into effect on October 28, would make Canberra the first city in Australia to decriminalise the possession of small quantities of illicit substances in a bid to divert people away from the justice system and towards treatment services. But the Coalition announced it would move a private member’s Bill in the upper house on Thursday to use commonwealth powers to reverse the laws. The Opposition Leader said the Coalition would take a stand against the “crazy government legislation” that would result in the Labor-Greens government “rolling out the red carpet for drug use and more cri
>>>/qnotables23/126035 AFP denies our guns fuel PNG tribal wars - The Australian Federal Police says there is “no credible evidence” that large numbers of smuggled guns from Australia are being used to wage tribal wars in Papua New Guinea, after the country’s police commissioner said Australia-sourced weapons were fuelling the deadly conflicts. PNG Police Commissioner David Manning this week said illegal guns were flowing in from Australia for use in tribal wars that have killed more than 150 people this year alone. “Some of these firearms are brought in from Australia, eventually finding (their) way into the tribal fight areas,” he told the Post Courier newspaper. An AFP spokeswoman said Australia, which has some of the world’s strongest gun laws, was not a significant source of illegal weapons. “There is no credible intelligence to suggest large-scale importation of illicit firearms to PNG from Australia, as reported in recent media,” she said.
>>>/qnotables23/126036 Military ‘not a disaster relief force’, committee warns - A Labor-led committee says states and territories can no longer treat the Australian Defence Force as “some sort of shadow workforce” to respond to domestic crises, warning that the practice is “unsustainable” and risks degrading ADF warfighting capabilities. In its latest examination of Defence’s annual report, the joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade expressed alarm that more than half of all ADF members had been assigned to domestic disaster relief tasks in recent years. It said diversion of ADF personnel to such tasks carried “genuine and profound” risks that would grow as the climate warmed.
>>>/qnotables23/126037 The polite message from Melbourne’s drug dealers to keep customers - A sophisticated drug dealing network operating in Melbourne has encouraged its customers to migrate away from using the soon-to-be defunct encrypted messaging app Wickr to rival platform Signal. Melbourne residents signed up to a Wickr-based drug delivery service have been instructed to stop using the Amazon-owned app before its shutdown on December 31. The app has been widely used by drug dealers, hackers and paedophiles in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. A Melbourne group - advertising more than 15 types of drugs including cocaine, ketamine and MDMA - has instructed Wickr users to maintain the same alias when switching apps to enable them to keep the business running efficiently.
>>>/qnotables23/126038 Meet the gurus hanging out on the dark web - The dark web is often characterised as a mythical place, an out of reach portion of the internet where only the most elite criminals frequent to trade stolen credentials, sell illegal weapons and share fraud tactics. But the reality is far more unremarkable than that. Some would even describe the dark web as having a better resemblance to the early days of the internet rather than any kind of high-tech experience. That’s according to Brenton Cooper, an Adelaide man who has for the past six years made a business out of selling access to its content. Cooper is the founder and chief executive of Fivecast, the marketplace for dark web marketplaces, which provides a window into the world of criminal activity. The company is one of several in Australia that operates in a portion of the internet inaccessible to most. While the average Australian won’t ever access the dark web, nor will most leaders at major companies, many are desperate to know if t
>>>/qnotables23/126039 Video: Ukraine’s soldiers plead for Anthony Albanese to give them Hawkei vehicles despite faults - Ukrainian soldiers fighting on the frontline have pleaded for Australia to supply them with faulty Hawkei light armoured patrol vehicles after repeated requests have been stonewalled by the Albanese government. At a secret training base in the Donetsk Oblast region in Ukraine’s east, near the site of some of the fiercest fighting of the war, The Weekend Australian shared the back of an Australian-made Bushmaster with soldiers keen to see more help in the “fight for democracy”. While the Bushmasters have been warmly welcomed, Anthony Albanese has rejected desperate calls from Kyiv to supply Ukraine with Australian-built Hawkei vehicles, citing “a range of reasons”.
VIDEO https://onion.tube/watch?v=IY14xbHJgMY - Inside Australia's Bushmasters defending Ukraine's frontline (Watch) [Channel: The Australian]
>>>/qnotables23/126040 ‘Threat-to-life messages’: 39 men charged as part of global police sting appear in court - Almost 40 Victorian men charged as part of a global police sting that cracked open an encrypted app have faced court as fresh details of Operation Ironside were aired in a courtroom for the first time. Accused men and their lawyers filled six rows on Monday in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, where the police case against the men was tested for the first time. Australian Federal Police digital forensic examiner Keith Fell said he was tasked with examining phones that had the encrypted AN0M application installed. Officers had infiltrated the app over about three years. Fell said while the devices looked like mobile phones, the AN0M part of the device could only be accessed through a password-controlled calculator app. Two codes could be used, he said, one that would allow a user to access the encrypted service and another that would wipe the phone. He said one setting also allowed the user to set
>>>/qnotables23/126041 Potent $1.5 billion upgrade to Australia's maritime surveillance with manned and unmanned aircraft - Australia will purchase a fourth long-range Triton drone for maritime surveillance, despite the US Navy recently halting production of the expensive unmanned platform which critics warn is vulnerable to enemy attack. The contentious American acquisition is part of a $1.5 billion boost to the RAAF being unveiled on Tuesday that includes upgrades to the existing P-8A Poseidon fleet, allowing the patrol aircraft to eventually fire anti-ship missiles up to 1,000km. Under the Poseidon upgrade program, the Department of Defence expects the first of its 14 Boeing-made aircraft to receive enhancements to anti-submarine warfare, maritime strike and intelligence collection capabilities from 2026. The entire fleet is expected to be completed by 2030.
>>>/qnotables23/126042 Climate scientists and Pacific activists call on Australia to ramp up ambitions ahead of UN summit - Movers and shakers in the fight against climate change are gathering for the United Nation's Climate Ambition Summit in New York, while climate scientists and Pacific activists call on Australia to ramp up its own ambitions. The summit comes as the Australia Institute has published a full-page ad in the New York Times calling on the Australian government to halt "over 100 new coal and gas projects" in the pipeline. The open letter, signed by over 200 scientists and experts, called on Australia to accelerate climate action, "not climate annihilation". The institute's director, Dr Richard Denniss, is attending the UN climate summit and said Australia "wants to have it both ways" when it came to climate leadership and fossil fuels. "On the one hand, we want the world to support our bid to host a COP," he said, referring to the UN Climate Change Conference. "But at the same time, we're ignor
>>>/qnotables23/126043 Australia to support Ukraine at UN's highest court - Australian officials will take a stand in support of Ukraine at the United Nations' highest court as the Balkan country challenges Russia's claims its invasion was carried out to prevent genocide. Days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Kyiv filed a case to the International Court of Justice alleging Russian leaders were abusing international law by using false claims of genocide in eastern Ukraine to justify its invasion. Russian representatives have continued to accuse Ukraine of committing genocide. Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Russia is in breach of the UN charter, which protects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of every nation. Officials from 32 countries are expected to deliver interventions in support of Ukraine at The Hague's Peace Palace. Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue will deliver Australia's intervention on Wednesday night (AEST) where he will argue the court has jurisdiction to hear the
>>>/qnotables23/126044 Rupert Murdoch to step down as executive chair of News Corp, co-chair of Fox - Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born businessman who went from running a small Adelaide newspaper to creating a multi-billion-dollar global media empire spanning news, entertainment and cinema, has announced he is stepping down as chairman of his companies at the age of 92. Mr Murdoch’s eldest son Lachlan, 52, will take over as the sole chair of News Corp and continue as executive chair and chief executive officer of Fox Corporation. “On behalf of the Fox and News Corp boards of directors, leadership teams, and all the shareholders who have benefited from his hard work, I congratulate my father on his remarkable 70-year career,” said Lachlan Murdoch. “We thank him for his vision, his pioneering spirit, his steadfast determination, and the enduring legacy he leaves to the companies he founded and countless people he has impacted.”
>>>/qnotables23/126045 Penny Wong to remind UN that Australia wants a Security Council seat by 2029 - Australia will ramp up its push for a seat on the UN Security Council while calling for Russia’s veto powers on the global body to be constrained as a consequence of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. In a major speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Foreign Minister Penny Wong was also set to highlight the existential threat of climate change and the need to ensure the world remains free from nuclear weapons. She will warn that tensions over the South China Sea and military build-up in the Indo-Pacific had given rise to “the most confronting circumstances in decades” and would require a greater collective effort to prevent an unwanted war.
>>>/qnotables23/126046 US marine stationed in Australia is charged with rape as base is ordered into lockdown - A US marine stationed in Australia has been charged with aggravated assault and sexual intercourse without consent. The 20-year-old marine was arrested in Palmerston, south of Darwin, on Monday in relation to the incident that allegedly occurred there earlier that day. The American has been been granted bail to appear in Darwin Local Court at a later date. Since 2012, The Marine Rotational Force has stationed personnel in the Top End of Australia at several military bases. Starting with just 250 marines in the first year, there is now an air-ground task force of 2,500 personnel. A US Defence spokesperson said the marines were assisting NT Police with the investigation.
>>>/qnotables23/126047 Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo stood aside as alleged texts to Liberal powerbroker investigated - The secretary of the Home Affairs Department, Mike Pezzullo, has been asked to step aside as an investigation is conducted into text messages he is alleged to have sent to a Liberal Party powerbroker. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have published the texts said to have been sent over a number of years between Mr Pezzullo and Scott Briggs, an influential figure within the Liberal Party. Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil on Monday morning asked Mr Pezzullo to stand aside while the messages are investigated by the Australian public service commissioner. Many of the published messages refer to ministerial appointments under former Coalition governments, including appointments for those with responsibility for Mr Pezzullo's Home Affairs Department. Some of the conversations also appear to show disdain for parliamentary processes like Senate estimates, where senators are given the o
>>>/qnotables23/126048 Video: An unprecedented glimpse into politics and power - Running Australia is a big job. But if you think it’s the government of the day in Canberra that’s calling all the shots, after seeing this story you might think again. Tonight, in a joint investigation with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, we expose the highly inappropriate actions of one of our most senior public servants. Michael Pezzullo is the boss of Home Affairs, the department responsible for Australia’s national security. He’s supposed to be independent and apolitical but as you’ll see, that’s not the way he operates. Pezzullo has been wielding extraordinary power from the shadows, interfering in government and doing all he can to build an impenetrable empire. - 60 Minutes Australia
VIDEO https://onion.tube/watch?v=cnzmvJRN_nM - An unprecedented glimpse into politics and power | 60 Minutes Australia [Channel: 60 Minutes Australia]
>>>/qnotables23/126049 ‘Scheduling conflicts’: Donald Trump Jr’s Aussie tour pushed back to December - A controversial speaking tour hosted by the son of twice-impeached ex-US president Donald Trump has been delayed for the second time, with organisers saying “scheduling conflicts” are to blame this time. Donald Trump Jr was due to host talks in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney this month as part of his contentious live tour, organised by the Australian arm of conservative not-for-profit organisation Turning Point. It had already been delayed from its initial date in July following a visa stoush. In an email seen by NCA NewsWire, the tour’s organisers Turning Point Australia said Mr Trump Jr had been forced to postpone the week’s events due to “last-minute scheduling conflicts”. “We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause,” the email states. New tour dates in Sydney (December 10), the Gold Coast (December 11) and Melbourne (December 13) have since been organised.
>>>/qnotables23/126050 Video: Daniel Andrews resigns as premier of Victoria after three elections, nine years - Daniel Andrews has resigned as the premier of Victoria after nine years in the role. Mr Andrews announced today that he would formally step down at 5pm tomorrow. He said leading the state had been "the honour and privilege" of his life. "It's not an easy job being the premier of our state - that's not a complaint, that's just a fact," he said. "It requires 100 per cent from you and your family. That is, of course, time limited and now is the time to step away." The MP for Mulgrave, who has led Labor to three consecutive election victories since first forming government at the 2014 election, is among the state's longest-serving premiers.
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>>>/qnotables23/126051 Dan Andrews was reviled by the right but enough voters kept backing him - ''"Dan Andrews’ ruthless divisiveness was unmatched. He leaves a legacy as contested as the political battlefield that he ruled over, a strategy that was built on winning and holding office at any cost. Andrews was fuelled by a precocious, instinctive talent that, in the end, could not mask the deep flaws that delivered an imperfect pandemic response and a smashed budget. Victoria’s finances are in terrible shape, but don’t expect Andrews to be apologetic. “I am not a regretful person, I don’t look back,’’ he said at Melbourne’s Parliament House. Andrews was Australia’s first truly modern political leader, marketing himself shamelessly at younger, digital era voters while wedging the Greens in the inner city. He wedged everyone, sometimes - in the case of the pandemic - he wedged himself. Andrews was a creature of party headquarters who saw life principally through the prism of numbers - 50 per cent plus one. Revi
>>>/qnotables23/126052 Video: ‘Honour and privilege’: Jacinta Allan will become Victoria’s next premier - Jacinta Allan is set to become Victoria’s next premier after a messy morning of party-room negotiations finally resulted in a deal that will install Public Transport Minister Ben Carroll as deputy. After a bruising 24 hours, a deal was struck between Labor caucus members on Wednesday afternoon that will ensure no other candidate challenges Allan for the leadership. In return, Labor’s Right faction secured Carroll as its candidate for deputy premier despite a push from Allan’s Socialist Left faction to control both roles. The move has prevented an all-out war within Victorian Labor that would have resulted in party members being asked to vote on who should be the next leader. Allan got emotional as she talked about becoming just the second woman to lead the state, after former premier Joan Kirner. “I also hope it says to young women, older women, women from across different backgrounds … that leadership ta
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>>>/qnotables23/126053 ‘Aussie Cossack’ gets Russian citizenship - Simeon Boikov, a Sydney-born activist and videoblogger dubbed the ‘Aussie Cossack’ in his country for his unabashedly pro-Moscow stance, has been granted Russian citizenship. His name was listed in a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, which granted Russian nationality to 41 foreign-born applicants. Boikov has been drawing the ire of Australian media for years, with critics blasting him as a “propagandist” who is abusing the country’s supposedly relaxed free speech. In January, Ukrainian ambassador to Canberra Vasily Miroshnichenko accused Boikov of exposing him to “a major telephone harassment campaign” by sharing his private phone number in a YouTube video. The diplomat filed a complaint with the Australian federal police over the incident.
>>>/qnotables23/126054 Aussie Cossack Simeon Boikov ‘honoured by Putin citizenship gift’ - Self-styled “Aussie Cossack” Simeon Boikov says he is “honoured” to have been granted Russian citizenship by Vladimir Putin, and declared his commitment to serving “the motherland”. Speaking from the Russian consulate in Sydney where he is seeking refuge from NSW police warrants, the pro-Kremlin, anti-voice activist said he did not intend to renounce his Australian citizenship. Russian law prevents its nationals holding dual citizenship with any country except Turkmenistan and Tajikistan but Mr Boikov said an exception had been made in his case because of his “special services to the Russian Federation”. He said he was “extremely thankful” to Mr Putin, and renewed his call to be allowed to leave Australia for Moscow in prisoner swap for a Western hostage. “I’m happy to be swapped for anyone. (Journalist Evan) Gershkovich from the Wall Street Journal, for example,” Boikov said.
>>>/qnotables23/126055 Rock band Kiss stuns MCG crowd ahead of AFL grand final between Lions and Magpies - Kiss has stunned crowds at the MCG with a massive performance, shaking off criticisms the rock band is too old to perform at an AFL grand final in 2023. Performing in front of a full house at the MCG ahead of the grand final between Collingwood and Brisbane, the American rockers took to the stage clad in their signature heavy make-up and glam-rock outfits. The band opened with I Was Made for Lovin' You, as columns of flame burst from the ground around the stage. After that came Shout It Out Loud, before the band wowed the crowd with a lively performance of Rock and Roll All Nite, featuring hundreds of dancers forming the word "Kiss" on the MCG turf. Young kids dressed as mini-Kiss band members were the highlight of the show, vigorously strumming imaginary guitars and drums and rocking to a song that came out in 1975.
VIDEO https://onion.tube/watch?v=5ksZ2j8NSqI - KISS rocks the 2023 Toyota AFL Grand Final! 🤘 | Telstra Pre-Game Entertainment [Channel: AFL]
>>>/qnotables23/126056 Shout it out loud: Proud parents watch kids rock with Kiss at the MCG - It’s not every day that your seven-year-old son dances on stage with rock band Kiss in front of 100,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Cuban Casem, 7, wearing the make-up and costume of the band’s Spaceman character, was cool about it and had a ball, rocking out to Rock and Roll All Nite at the MCG before the AFL grand final on Saturday. Cuban’s mum, Carla Casem, said she was the emotional one, looking on from the sidelines. “It was overwhelming. I was in tears most of the time,” she said. Cuban, of Fraser Rise in Melbourne’s west, was one of four kids chosen to dance on stage with the famous American band as the crowd roared during the pre-game entertainment. He said the best part was doing an air-guitar solo while standing “back-to-back” with lead guitarist Tommy Thayer. Three of Cuban’s classmates from hip-hop dance school Kstar Studios in Ravenhall danced next to singer and bass player Gene Simmon