The UK High Court will deliver its decision on Monday morning on the Assange case - Don't Extradite Assange

The UK High Court will deliver its decision on Monday morning at 10.45am about whether to permit Julian Assange to appeal the US extradition decision to UK Supreme Court on points of law of general public importance. Julian Assange’s fiancee...

Australia's privacy laws: recommendations for legal changes

What is the future of Australia's privacy laws? The country's privacy hangs in the balance as the government reviews the Privacy Act 1988.

Anachronistic Frivolity: Australia’s Recent Tank Purchase

The operating doctrine of many a defence ministry is premised on fatuity.  There is the industry prerogative and need for employment.  There are the

Australian Government Reviews Its Encryption-Breaking Law, Says It's Cool And Good

The Australian government gave itself encryption-breaking powers at the end of 2018. The law went into effect January 2019. The beneficiaries of the law immediately swept in to reap the rewards. Demands for "exceptional access" required tech...

Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw

Julian Assange suffered a mini-stroke in October during the hearing for the US appeal of a UK court’s ruling on his extradition case. “The WikiLeaks publisher, 50, who is being held on remand in th…

Meet the Mining Billionaires Ransacking Australia

The super-profitable mining industry in Australia has produced a new class of ruthless billionaires. Their fortunes tower above those of the nation’s other business elites, and they’ve used this wealth to shape the political landscape in their...

New Research Study from IP Australia Confirms IP Rights Ownership as a Signal to Identify Successful SMEs

IP Australia breaks down the role of registered IP rights in the growth of SMEs.

Sutherland man arrested on Christmas Eve over alleged terror attack plans

Police raided Daniel Greenfield’s home on the Kingsway on Friday morning, arresting him as he left his house.

iTWire - Nokia Oceania official satisfied with 5G take-up in Australia

A Nokia official in the Oceania region says he is satisfied with the uptake of 5G in Australia, pointing out that about 80% of the smartphones sold in the country are now 5G-capable. Robert Joyce, chief technology officer for Nokia Oceania, told...

Top Trends of 2021: Will Australian ruling on artificial intelligence as inventor be a trigger for others to follow suit?

PERTH, Australia – Australia attracted international attention in July when a Federal Court ruled that artificial intelligence can be named as the inventor of a patent. In Thaler v. Commissioner of Patents, Federal Court Justice Jonathan Beach...

John Pilger: The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange

Julian Assange: What's at stake is a courageous man’s life and, if we remain silent, our sense of right and wrong: indeed our very humanity.

Chris Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange

Julian Assange committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise, and empires always kill those who inflict serious wounds.

Australia’s planned anti-trolling law may silence political critics

A law intended to tackle anonymous trolls on social media is unlikely to stop online bullying, but it could allow Australian government ministers to continue a trend of suing their critics

Assange Christmas Card - Don't Extradite Assange

Print and send Christmas cards – let people know about Julian’s case and the fight for a free press. PDF: https://dontextraditeassange.com/xmas-card.pdf

Backing Horses: Australia’s Solomon Islands Intervention

The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the very object powers claim

“Astonishment and Stupefaction” at $90-Billion Industrial Double-Cross for Australian Submarines

President Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian PM Scott Morrison declared Sept. 15 that they would rebrand their military alliance

Raising the Bar Has Not Reduced the Patent Acceptance Rate in Australia

Reforms that raised Australian patentability standards in 2013 have had little measurable effect on examination outcomes.

Lying in Public Life: The Scott Morrison Formula

He has some gall.  Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a person who finds the truth a creature best beaten, shunned and ignored, is now moving into