Lawyers against Assange combat hero narrative

SENSITIVE STUFF

Individuals residing in “oppressive regimes” and battle zones “disappeared” after Julian Assange blended hacking with reporting, a barrister performing for the US has instructed a London courtroom whereas combating the last-ditch enchantment towards the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition order. The ABC experiences the silk, Clair Dobbin, mentioned some individuals additionally needed to “flee their homelands”, together with in Ethiopia, China, Iran and Syria, after Assange “uncovered to the world the unredacted names of human sources” by publishing sure paperwork. The Guardian provides Dobbin additional alleged Assange had conspired with Chelsea Manning to steal data (Manning’s sentence was commuted by then president Barack Obama) and had tried to recruit hackers. Unbiased MP Andrew Wilkie was in London in a single day, remarking that Assange’s extradition to the US to face 18 costs, 17 of them below the Espionage Act, could be a “demise sentence”. The judges have reserved their choice and can hand down their verdict quickly.

It comes because the alleged Medibank hacker Aleksandr Ermakov was reportedly detained in Russia, the SMH experiences, although the paper didn’t title its supply and the AFP mentioned it was merely conscious of “experiences”. Perpetrators of the 2022 information breach demanded almost $10 million — which they didn’t get — and posted information figuring out individuals who had abortions, and therapy for HIV, drug dependancy and psychological well being points, The Australian ($) recollects. In the meantime, the Division of Finance unintentionally launched the delicate contract particulars of as much as 400 service suppliers final week, The Oz ($) experiences, through an embedded spreadsheet in an electronic mail about price updates. It included the provider names, service supplier names and worth scales at KPMG, Boston Consulting Group, Accenture, Deloitte, Proximity, Nous Group and Minter Ellison, and the e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of workers and a few CEOs. Some 236 suppliers have been shortly instructed to verify they’d deleted the e-mail and attachment and signal hush statutory declarations.

WHO CARES?

There’ll be no election this yr, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed as Sky Information Australia experiences, after a memo from his chief of workers included the road “as we enter the election yr”. He mentioned the entire story was “a little bit of clickbait”, SMH provides, as a result of the memo was about somebody new beginning in his workplace within the coming months, and identified after Could’s funds it is a yr from the election, a la the monetary yr. It’s an unlimited election yr for different jurisdictions too — we have now state and territory elections in Tasmania, the NT, the ACT, and Queensland, in addition to normal elections within the US, UK, and the EU. And that’s not all.

Talking of the Prime Finish — Chief Minister Eva Lawler condemned “scare campaigns” from “media individuals” about proposed voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws, the NT Information says. Well being Professionals Say No’s Maria Cigolini mentioned VAD was not proper for the NT as a result of First Nations peoples already battle well being points and so they don’t want “one other approach for these individuals to die”. Cripes. Palliative Care Australia’s Camilla Rowland mentioned end-of-life medical care was a “postcode lottery” and her organisation fearful that folks would select voluntary dying in the event that they couldn’t entry it. VAD is authorized in Queensland, NSW, SA, Victoria, WA and Tasmania. In the meantime, WA’s Well being Minister Amber–Jade Sanderson is headed to India to recruit medical doctors and nurses for her state, The West ($) experiences, because the nation is forecast to supply “a million healthcare employees yearly over the following decade”.

CONFLICTING THOUGHTS

Division of House Affairs’ cybersecurity “guru” Peter Anstee has 100,395 shares in cyber safety firm CyberCX, the SMH experiences, which is a significant contractor to authorities companies with 163 previous and current contracts. 4 of them have been with House Affairs, together with a $5.5 million contract in 2022. The cyber-policy adviser bought the shares when he was the manager director for CyberCX, and a supply instructed the paper that Anstee instructed the division in regards to the six-figure shares per its inner coverage, however House Affairs is wanting into it anyway as a result of it takes “battle of curiosity” points critically.

From battle to consensus and Indigenous chief Marcia Langton instructed AFR that former PM Paul Keating was proper when he instructed her in 2016 that the Voice to Parliament pursuing constitutional reform was “a mistake from the beginning”. She added that the advisory physique ought to have been legislated earlier than the referendum. The paper says it’s “the primary time somebody from the Sure camp within the referendum has publicly declared their doubts about pursuing recognition”. In the meantime, 90% of Yilabara Options and Coaching Alliance Group’s caseload have had their Centrelink suspended, Guardian Australia says, double the common fee (45%). Certainly three of the 5 who’re suspending probably the most funds are Indigenous suppliers. Mutual obligation legal guidelines require individuals to look and put together for work to the satisfaction of job companies, and in the event that they don’t, their Jobseeker funds are reduce. Privatising our employment companies has failed, a parliamentary assessment discovered final yr.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE

Bendigo lady Carlie Davies by no means wished children. She’d recognized since she was a child herself, and when she met somebody in her 20s, they’d fortunately agreed to lift cats as a substitute. However at some point when Davies was in her mid-30s, one thing modified for her. Watching her joyful nephews play, giggle, and develop, she’d felt a stir of maternalism deep inside. She knew these round her had accepted her child-free stance, however immediately merely seeing a mum and bub in a restaurant would go away her in tears. Davies’ associate wished to stay to the deal — cats solely — and so they sadly parted methods. At 39, she felt extra misplaced than ever about her life till she struck up an harmless dialog together with her highschool crush, as ABC says.

They’d gone to their Yr 11 formal collectively however had turn out to be mere acquaintances within the ensuing years, the sort whose Fb posts you may work together with. An icebreaker message grew to become two, then many, and she or he realised they’d by no means stopped loving one another. He was single with two children from a earlier relationship and hadn’t deliberate for extra, so Davies determined to be fully upfront: it was what she wished, she instructed him. Let’s go for it, he responded fortunately, and the pair moved in collectively in Melbourne. That was eight years in the past, and their pint-sized five-year-old daughter began faculty final week. “I’ve this superb, spirited, sort little five-year-old, and generally I believe, is that this actual?” she says. Many ladies don’t change their minds about having youngsters. Nevertheless it’s additionally OK should you do, she says.

Hoping you go for it at this time, no matter that appears like for you.

SAY WHAT?

Bob Katter’s workplace, in a press launch on supermarkets, has despatched out what I *suppose* often is the first AI-generated media property despatched out by a sitting MP. His workplace confirms AI-generated — simply in case the gate operating instantly by the farmer’s torso wasn’t a giveaway.

Josh Butler

The Guardian Australia reporter notes our shouty impartial is evidently embracing the brand new synthetic intelligence period, even when it means sending press-generated pictures by a expertise in its infancy that don’t really make sense.

CRIKEY RECAP

In Western Australia, it’s too rattling sizzling, I tellsya! I’m going troppo!

“As I thought of committing harakiri with a waffle cone, looking at me from throughout the highway was a billboard promoting offshore mining jobs by means of one of many benevolent megacorps that rule over my truthful state.

“Woodside, Rio Tinto, Twiggy Forrest: these innovators, entrepreneurs and encephalopods have spent the higher a part of twenty years blowing WA to kingdom come for untold billions, with the promise of a mortgage, persistent fatigue and the largest flat-screen TV possible to anybody who’d assist them get the job accomplished.”

READ ALL ABOUT IT

Iran says Israel behind assaults on gasoline pipelines (Al Jazeera)

China condemns US veto of name for rapid ceasefire at UN (BBC)

Russia arrests US-Russian citizen for treason after she gave $51 to Ukraine, employer says (CNN)

Greater than 500 workers made redundant at Well being NZ – Te Whatu Ora, paid out $9 million (NZ Herald)

Uncontrolled European satellite tv for pc falls to Earth after 30 years in orbit (The Guardian)

[Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre] Poilievre says ‘organic males’ must be banned from ladies’s sports activities, change rooms and loos (CBC)

1000’s of farmers descend on Madrid for main tractor protest over EU insurance policies (euronews)

U.S. warns allies Russia might put a nuclear weapon into orbit this yr (The New York Instances) ($)

THE COMMENTARIAT

How ABC greed is killing Australian tales — Gary Newman (The SMH): “Daryl Dellora — director of the favored Seek for the Palace Letters doco not too long ago aired on the ABC — struggled for a few years to finance the movie. Dellora says he and producer Sue Maslin are considerably out of pocket after Display Australia handed on his movie. Ultimately, the ABC bought the movie for $20,000, a fraction of the $350,000 spent on the four-year undertaking. Dellora says he merely can’t afford to undergo that once more. He thinks his documentary profession is over. I’ve additionally been on the fallacious finish of the ABC’s practices. After failing to draw funding from the ABC and Display Australia, I put my very own cash on the road for my function documentary Methods to Seize a Prime Minister – in regards to the wild time in 1976 when then prime minister Malcolm Fraser was trapped in a basement by indignant college students within the aftermath of the Whitlam authorities’s Dismissal.

“The ABC requested me to pay greater than $80,000 for the historic footage used within the doco, although I’m by no means going to totally get well the six-figure sum I’ve spent on my movie. That is for footage that has already been paid for by the Australian public. The nationwide broadcaster collects a whole bunch of minutes of unedited information footage per day, starting from political speeches and interviews, to vignettes of metropolitan and rural life. Multiply that by many years and also you get a way of how wealthy this audiovisual historical past of our nation actually is. However the ABC covets this historic materials like Tolkien’s Golem, worth gouging anybody who desires to make use of any of it. It’s telling that the enterprise unit liable for footage licensing is named ABC Business.”

Overlook Labour and the Tories: The ‘carbon events’ is not going to save us. That’s why Simply Cease Oil desires your votes — Sarah Lunnon (The Guardian): “We’re constructing a well-liked, nonviolent marketing campaign that may enchantment to the sense of anger and betrayal now felt by thousands and thousands on this nation. If politics was working, we’d not be residing by a mass extinction occasion, have rising inequality and shitty rivers, and be heading for 2 levels of heating with no response. The system goes to fail. It can not recognise, reply or mobilise to face the approaching disaster — so we have now to vary the system. It’s easy logic, however collectively we will shield our communities and households from the approaching storm. We are going to exchange at this time’s failing politics, so motion can occur.

“The Rev Mark Coleman, a Simply Cease Oil supporter, is standing within the Rochdale byelection: the one candidate to be endorsed by local weather scientists. Within the coming normal election, Simply Cease Oil will both stand candidates or assist independents who signal as much as a radical quick manifesto. A manifesto that centres on deliberative democracy for a brand new Individuals’s Home. This shall be a standing residents’ meeting tasked with discovering a response to the approaching extinction occasion and the price of residing disaster. It will likely be the fruit of leafleting, door knocking, public conferences — and a religion within the British public that celebration politicians have lengthy deserted. The present political system has failed us, so we have to exchange it.”

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