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☆ Australia tables bill to limit under-16s from using social media with tech companies facing huge fines
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —The Australian government is threatening multimillion dollar fines for social media companies that breach a proposed ban on children under 16 from using their service. “The legislation places the onus on social media platforms, not parents or children, to ensure protections are in place,” Rowland said. Many parents and pro-ban campaigners have lauded the bill as a long overdue measure to impose accountability on tech companies for tools Australian children use online. Both sides agree about the risks of children spending too much time online, and the need for tech companies to do more to safeguard their products. The Australia government’s also commissioned the UK consortium Age Check Certification Scheme to trial age verification technology, to aid efforts to keep children off social media platforms.

Persons: Michelle Rowland, ” “, ” Rowland, we’ve, ”, “, Australia government’s, it’s Organizations: Australia CNN, Communications, Albanese Government Locations: Brisbane, Australia

☆ Afghan girl who encouraged others to sing wins children’s peace prize
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Nila Ibrahimi won the International Children’s Peace Prize on Tuesday, an award that has recognized luminaries including climate activist Greta Thunberg and girls’ education campaigner Malala Yousafzai. Afghan women prepare almonds at a factory on the outskirts of Aybak in Samangan Province on September 9, 2024. She co-founded “Her Story,” which encourages Afghan girls to share their stories, spotlighting the voices of those still in Afghanistan. Teenage girls and women are not allowed to study or work and can only leave the house with a male relative. “Human rights are protected in Afghanistan and no one is discriminated,” said spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat Fitrat.

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☆ Lovisa Sjoberg survives snake bite during days lost in Australia’s Snowy Mountains
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Lovisa Sjoberg, 48, was spotted by rescuers as she walked along a bush trail in Kosciuszko National Park, southwest of the capital Canberra, on Sunday afternoon. New South Wales Police Superintendent Toby Lindsay said Monday she was “fortunate to be alive” after being bitten by a snake, potentially a copperhead. The northern part of Kosciuszko National Park recently reopened to visitors after an annual closure during winter. Wild horses in the Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales, Australia. SL/iStockphoto/Getty ImagesPlans by the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to shoot brumbies from helicopters led to a failed legal bid to stop the cull this year.

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☆ Australia woman rescued after being wedged upside down between rocks for 7 hours
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —A woman who tried to retrieve her lost phone from between boulders in Australia’s Hunter Valley became stuck upside down for seven hours before she was rescued earlier this month. Just the bare soles of the woman’s feet can be seen in photos of the incident posted on social media Monday by the New South Wales (NSW) Ambulance service. NSW AmbulanceHer friends tried for an hour to free her, according to the NSW Ambulance service, but eventually gave up and called for help. For the next seven hours, police, ambulance, fire and volunteer rescue crews tried to free her, police said in a statement. Peter Watts, NSW Ambulance specialist rescue paramedic, said he’d never seen anything like it.

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☆ Australian lawmaker Lidia Thorpe confronts King Charles: ‘You are not my king’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The interjection came as King Charles and Queen Camilla visited the Australian capital Canberra to meet the nation’s leaders, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe stages a protest as Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla attend a Parliamentary reception in Canberra, Australia on October 21, 2024. “Throughout my life, Australia’s First Nations people have done me the great honor of sharing so generously their stories and cultures,” King Charles said. Before she yelled at the King, Thorpe turned her back during a recital of “God Save the King,” Australian media reported. King Charles III and Queen Camilla take part in a tree planting at Government House in Yarralumla on October 21, 2024 in Canberra, Australia.

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☆ King Charles visits Australia as the country puts its republic debate on hold
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | Lauren Said-Moorhouse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Lesley Kerl met King Charles in Sydney during his last trip to Australia in April 2018. Pool via Nine NewsAfter Australia, King Charles will head to Samoa to join world leaders at the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), his first as head of the organization. “We’d love to wave goodbye to royal reign,” Nathan Hansford, co-chair of the Australian Republic Movement, told Reuters. The Australian Republic Movement launched a "farewell Oz tour" for King Charles ahead of his visit. He seems to have put that on hold to come out to Australia, as part of the Commonwealth,” McArthur said.

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☆ Tom Phillips: Fugitive father on the run with 3 children in one of the world’s wildest regions
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

A teenage hunter filmed four people believed to be Thomas Phillips and his children on October 3. Instead, his grandson filmed them on his phone, providing the first proof of life of the missing Phillips children that their mother Cat has seen since they left. Police released video purportedly of Thomas Phillips shopping at a hardware store in August, 2023. “We’re talking very, very deep bush and rugged countryside.”Police suspect Thomas Phillips and a child of breaking a shop window in November 2023. This is the first apparent sighting of Thomas Phillips with his children since they vanished in December 2021.

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☆ Helicopter pilot who crashed into a hotel had drunk a ‘significant amount of alcohol,’ report finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —A pilot who died when he crashed a helicopter into a hotel in Australia had “significant blood alcohol content” during the unauthorized flight, according to an official report into the incident. The pilot had been out with friends at various venues around Cairns and was seen consuming alcohol, according to witnesses and security camera footage, the report said. Cameras also caught the moment he positioned one of Nautilus Aviation’s Robinson R44 Raven II helicopters onto a helipad at Cairns Airport at around 1:30 a.m. local time. The report found they wouldn’t have seen a helicopter that was operating at night with no lights. It found the helicopter wasn’t upright when it hit the hotel, but there was also no sign of mechanical failure.

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☆ Australian national broadcaster finds ‘systemic’ racism in workplace
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —Australia’s national broadcaster has released an internal review that found “systemic” racism within its ranks, prompting an apology from the managing director to all current and former staff. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) review was announced last year after high profile Indigenous anchor Stan Grant stepped away from anchoring duties, accusing the network of failing to publicly defend him from racist attacks. The report released Tuesday, titled “Listen Loudly, Act Strongly,” found that “systemic” racism exists within the ABC and that staff members also experience racism from external sources. Of 120 staff members interviewed by external consultants, only one said they hadn’t personally experienced racism. However, that person said they were “aware of racism occurring at the ABC.”“This response overwhelmingly indicates that racism exists within the ABC workplace, and that ABC staff are subjected to racism from external individuals and organisations in connection with their work,” the report found.

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☆ Koalas are up power poles, on roads, in schools. Why the outlook for Australia’s listed icons remains ‘poor’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

In 2022, a 10-year national recovery plan was launched to stop the decline in numbers and improve the size, quality and connectivity of koala habitat in the listed areas. “I often think, ‘Am I sitting here, seeing the last of Queensland koalas filtering through, as I work with them?’”One of three subspecies, Queensland koalas are smaller and grayer than their southern cousins, and are the kind often seen in photos with celebrities and foreign dignitaries. “Aussies would be horrified to know that we are bulldozing koala habitat at the rate that we are,” she said. Koala habitat squeezed in citiesWith a human population of 2.5 million, Brisbane is one of Australia’s fastest-growing capital cities. Declining numbersMost of the ambition for vast tracts of new koala habitat in Queensland lies outside Brisbane’s established inner-city suburbs.

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☆ Meryl Streep takes on the Taliban with a story about cats, squirrels and birds
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —When award-winning actress Meryl Streep spoke on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly about cats, squirrels and birds, she wasn’t making a point about hunters and prey. She was comparing all three with women and girls in Afghanistan – and pointing out that the animals have more rights. Wail Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images/FileTightening restrictionsSince taking power, the Taliban has gradually tightened restrictions on women and girls. The Taliban’s latest edicts last month, referred to by Streep, include the demand for women and girls to remain silent in public. After the Taliban banned women’s voices in public, some posted videos of themselves to social media, singing in defiance.

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☆ Hunt widens for suspect who allegedly threw scalding coffee on baby in Australia
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —A man wanted for allegedly throwing scalding coffee on a baby in an unprovoked attack at a park in the northern Australian state of Queensland is now the subject of an international manhunt. Closed circuit television video released by police shows the man running from the scene, wearing a blue plaid shirt, black hat and glasses. This picture released by Queensland Police shows a man they claim poured hot coffee on a baby in a Brisbane park. But that’s not always the case.”Police say the man fled Australia a few days after the attack. I’m very confident that if you’re looking at that footage and you know that person in there, you’re going to know who it is,” Dalton told media on August 28.

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☆ Cairns, Australia: Helicopter pilot in fatal DoubleTree hotel crash was ground crew who’d attended a party the night before
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Police tape near the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel after a helicopter crashed into its roof, in Cairns, on August 12, 2024. It disappeared from her sight for a few minutes, and she started walking home before spotting the helicopter flying back. She said the helicopter had passed over trees and another taller building before hitting the roof of the hotel. In a statement to CNN, DoubleTree by Hilton Cairns said all of its guests – 421 adults and 50 children, plus two staff – were safely evacuated. The bureau asked witnesses with any photos or videos of the helicopter to contact authorities through its website.

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☆ Cairns, Australia: Helicopter crashes onto roof of DoubleTree Hilton Hotel, killing pilot
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —A helicopter crashed onto the roof of a seaside hotel in Cairns, Australia, in the early hours of Monday, killing the pilot, authorities said, as video showed flames and smoke billowing into the night sky. Police tape around an area in Cairns, Australia, after a helicopter crash on August 12, 2024. As she pulled out her phone to film it, the helicopter veered and headed straight towards the nearby well-lit buildings. Witness Veronica Knight heard two explosions when the helicopter hit the hotel – the first on impact followed by a smaller explosion a short time later. Knight said the helicopter had passed over trees and another taller building before hitting the roof of the seven-story hotel.

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☆ Forced marriage: She wanted ‘the world’ for her daughter. Instead, she got a landmark prison sentence
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Jan is the first person in Australia to be convicted of forced marriage since it was criminalized in 2013. Sakina Muhammad Jan was the first person convicted under Australia's forced marriage laws. Some of the measures borrow from forced-marriage laws in Britain, where hundreds of people take out protection orders each year to thwart an impending forced marriage. Other countries such as France, Canada and Germany also have specific laws against forced marriage. A month before Jan’s sentencing, the immigration minister circulated a directive specifically naming the crime of forced marriage as serious enough to warrant the removal of a visa.

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☆ Russian-born couple charged with spying offense in Australia
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —Australia has charged two Russian-born Australian citizens with preparing for an espionage offense after allegedly obtaining information from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) that they were intending to hand to Russian authorities. Her Russian-born husband, 62, obtained Australian citizenship in 2020, they added. The couple were not named by authorities in Friday’s announcement, but both are expected to appear in court later that day. Australian Federal Police will allege the woman went to Russia without notifying Australian authorities while she was on long-term leave from the ADF. “We allege her husband would access requested material and would send to his wife in Russia.

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☆ Australia appoints special envoys as antisemitism, Islamophobia rise over Gaza war
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —The Australian government is appointing the country’s first envoys to fight antisemitism and Islamophobia in an attempt to prevent further fraying of social cohesion over the war in Gaza. “I have spoken with members of the Jewish community here, in Melbourne, right around Australia, who have not felt safe, members of the Jewish community whose children are worried about wearing their school uniform in our capital cities. David Gray/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), which represents the Jewish community, recorded a spike in antisemitic incidents from October to November 2023. The group said Tuesday reports of antisemitic incidents in Australia are still running 400-500% higher than before the conflict. Protests against Israel’s actions in Gaza are continuing in Australia with four people arrested for climbing onto the roof of Parliament House last week.

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☆ Australia restricts vape sales to pharmacies in ‘world-leading’ move to cut nicotine use
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —Buying a vape just got harder in Australia with the introduction of some of the world’s toughest anti-vaping laws that limit the sale of vapes with nicotine to pharmacies. From Monday, users will need to present a doctor’s prescription to a pharmacist to buy vapes, and the choice will be limited to three flavors: mint, menthol and tobacco. Dozens of countries have banned disposable vapes, but with the ban on vape sales in shops, service stations and other small retailers, Australia has introduced “world leading” laws, according to the government. Adults will be able to buy vapes in pharmacies, without a prescription – but the devices may be hard to find after some leading pharmacy chains declared they would refuse to stock them. Despite the rising cost of cigarettes, some fear that young vapers – having been locked out of the vape market – will turn to cigarettes to get their nicotine fix.

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Rights groups are furious the Taliban meeting is going ahead without Afghan women, and say it legitimizes Afghanistan’s leaders and fails to hold them to account for grave injustices. Whatever we had, we spent it,” Arzo’s brother Ahamad, a 27-year-old journalist under threat from the Taliban due to his occupation, told CNN in November. Arzo told CNN what drove her suicide attempt. Pakistan’s policy on “illegal foreigners” is no different to that of other nations, Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told CNN. CNNArzo doesn’t want a life like that for herself, her sister, or the women and girls still in Afghanistan.

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☆ What’s next for the stock market? Here’s one thing you could do if shares start sinking
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The market has been on a tear in 2024, driven higher by robust corporate earnings and the artificial intelligence boom. Traders expect the Fed to begin easing rates in September at the earliest, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. If inflation is cooling down but the Fed is still expected to keep its key lending rate higher for longer, what does that mean for the stock market? The data will tell us that, but I think the big takeaway for us is [inflation] going in the right direction. Do you expect some of the cash that’s on the sidelines to enter the stock market?

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☆ Buying a house? These US cities now among the world’s most ‘impossibly unaffordable’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Australia is the only other country besides the US to dominate the “impossibly unaffordable” list, led by Sydney and the southern cities of Melbourne in Victoria and Adelaide in South Australia. But it also blames soaring house prices on land use policies, including “urban containment,” a kind of planning designed to stop urban sprawl. “Toronto and Vancouver show that the cost of taming expansion is unacceptably high: inflated house prices, higher rents and, for increasing numbers of people, poverty,” Cox wrote. The report was compiled by researchers from the Center for Demographics and Policy at Chapman University in California and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an independent public policy think tank in Canada. Top 10 “impossibly unaffordable” cities

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☆ Teenager questioned after explicit AI deepfakes of dozens of schoolgirls shared online
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Sydney CNN —Australian authorities are investigating the distribution of deepfake pornographic images of around 50 schoolgirls, allegedly created by a teenager using artificial intelligence. Victoria Police confirmed they had arrested and released a teenager “in relation to explicit images being circulated online” pending further inquiries. Victoria is the only Australian state where sharing deepfake pornography is a criminal offense. This month, the Australian government introduced legislation to criminalize the distribution of deepfake pornography nationwide. Under the proposed law, offenders could face up to six years in prison for sharing non-consensual sexually explicit deepfake material.

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☆ Australian billionaire proposes secure gate system to supply aid to Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —An Australian billionaire is offering to build a secure gate system on the Israel-Gaza border that he says could allow 10,000 metric tons of food aid to be delivered each day to starving Palestinians. He’s also committed $5 million to improve the Jordanian humanitarian land corridor by building storage warehouses to allow more aid to pass to Gaza. Cargo trucks carrying humanitarian aid move through security inspections before crossing into the Gaza Strip, in Kerem Shalom, Israel on March 14. The IDF has repeatedly said hundreds of trucks carrying humanitarian aid have been entering the Gaza Strip, but aid organizations say the supplies are not reaching civilians in need. The passage of aid into Gaza has become gridlocked by Israeli inspections, and in some cases the temporary closure of access points.

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☆ ‘Baby Reindeer:’ Netflix to fight Fiona Harvey’s $170 million damages claim
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“Baby Reindeer” has topped most-watched lists worldwide since its debut in April, generating headlines and speculation about the characters and who inspired them. Her complaint lists Netflix and Netflix Worldwide Entertainment as defendants. The document alleges that the defendants and Gadd told the “biggest lie in television history” by claiming the story is true. In an essay for Netflix, he said the situation was “messy” and “complicated,” but he believed the story needed to be told. In the complaint, Harvey said within a few days of the show airing she began to receive messages, including death threats, identifying her as Gadd’s alleged stalker.

Persons: ” Fiona Harvey, Richard Gadd, Harvey, sleuths, Martha Scott, ”, Piers Morgan, Gadd, Donny Dunn, “, …, Richard Gadd’s, ” Gadd, Jessica Gunning, Ed Miller, Scott, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, Netflix, Court, Central, Central District of, YouTube, Entertainment, Edinburgh Fringe, Guardian Locations: Scottish, Central District, Central District of California, London

☆ Australia drops legal fight against X over church stabbing video
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —Australia’s eSafety commissioner has dropped her legal bid to force Elon Musk’s social media site X to hide a violent video of a church stabbing in Sydney from global users. The eSafety commissioner had wanted X to hide the video for users beyond Australian borders. The incident set off a riot outside the church that authorities said was stoked by the rapid distribution of the video online. “The Video is, and at all material times has been, widely accessible to persons in Australia other than on the X platform, including in its full form on other social media services and various websites,” court documents said. The Assyrian Orthodox cleric was quoted in court filings as supporting the distribution of the video as an exercise in free speech.

Persons: Australia CNN — Australia’s, Elon, Julie Inman Grant, X, Inman Grant, ”, Musk, ’, Joanne Gray, ” Gray, it’s, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, eSafety, she’d Organizations: Australia CNN, University of Sydney, Good Shepherd, Australian Jewish Association, Australia’s, ABC Locations: Brisbane, Australia, Sydney

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