SYDNEY — An Australian court ruled on Friday (Aug 23) that removing a transgender woman from female-only social networking platform Giggle for Girls constituted discrimination, in a landmark decision on gender identity for the country. Roxanne Tickle in 2022 sued the Australian app and founder Sally Grover for unlawful gender identity discrimination in its services, saying...
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Google to help build cyber protection for Australian infrastructure
SYDNEY — Google and Australia’s national science agency said they will work together to develop software that automatically detects and fixes network vulnerabilities for operators of critical infrastructure, seeking to contend with a surge in cyberattacks. The software for organisations such as hospitals, defence bodies and energy suppliers will be customised to be in line with Australia’s regulatory...
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Australia raises terror threat level to ‘probable’ from ‘possible’
SYDNEY — Australia on Aug 5 raised its terror threat level to “probable” from “possible”, citing an increase in extremist views in the country leading to a more than 50 per cent chance of the planning of an onshore attack in the next 12 months. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had raised the country’s threat...
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Bird flu spreads to tenth Australian poultry farm
CANBERRA — A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has spread to an eighth poultry farm near Melbourne, the government of Australia’s Victoria state said on June 25, taking the total number of infected facilities in the country to 10. Australia is dealing with three parallel outbreaks of bird flu, two near Melbourne and one near...
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Bird flu hits Australian duck farm
CANBERRA — Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been found on a duck farm near Melbourne close to five poultry farms where the virus had already spread, the government of Australia’s Victoria state said. The duck farm was within a quarantine zone set up around other affected facilities and the government said its infection was not a...
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Australian woman faces first hearing ahead of mushroom deaths trial
SYDNEY — An Australian woman, accused of murdering three elderly people after they allegedly consumed poisonous mushrooms at a lunch hosted by her, faced her first hearing in court on May 23, media reported. Erin Patterson, 49, appeared via video link for the brief directions hearing ahead of her murder trial, the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC)...
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Australian PM Albanese says China military air incident unacceptable
SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday (May 7) it was unacceptable for Australian defence personnel to be put at risk in international airspace by the Chinese military as they took part in an operation to enforce United Nations sanctions on North Korea. A Chinese fighter jet endangered an Australian military helicopter during an...