Pandemic Closures, Unpatrolled Beach Visits Blamed for Spike in Drownings
The number of drownings nationwide last summer exceeded the 10-year average by 44 percent, while New South Wales is presently having “one of our worst summers on record.”
Australia
Australians Able To Opt Out of Targeted Ads, Erase Their Data Under Proposed Privacy Reforms
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Australians would gain greater control of their personal information, including the ability to opt out of targeted ads, erase their data and sue for serious breaches of privacy, under a proposal to…
The Australians in the Super Bowl
How Jordan Mailata and Arryn Siposs made it to the N.F.L.
Australia Orders Checks On Chinese-Made Cameras In Defense Offices
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Australian government will examine surveillance technology used in offices of the defense department, Defense Minister Richard Marles said on Thursday, amid reports that Chinese-made cameras install…
Not Just Balloons: Chinese-Made Surveillance Cameras Increasingly Seen as Security Concern
The U.S. and U.K. have similarly previously banned surveillance technology created by Chinese firms amid national security concerns.
He Set Off Across Australia on a Toy Scooter. Then Australia Got on Board.
An improbable journey by a Japanese visitor chronicling his adventures on social media has captured the country’s imagination.
Grieving Turkish Diaspora Rallies to Support Turkey Earthquake Victims
In Melbourne, Australia, dozens of volunteers in the parking lot behind a halal butcher shop packed three shipping containers with cardboard boxes full of new tents, blankets and sleeping bags.
Mukarram Jah, Heir to an Opulent Throne He Abandoned, Dies at 89
He descended from famed Islamic royalty in India and Turkey, but later fled to Australia and became a sheep farmer.
16-year-old girl killed in shark attack in Australia, parents ‘devastated’
Before the fatal shark attack, Stella Berry, 16, had been riding jet skis with her friends in the Swan River, outside Perth.
A New Approach to Funding for the Arts
A new government policy, called Revive, will prioritize Indigenous arts and culture, and also provide funding for commercial arts forms, like popular music.