33 — Krathryn Crambrell

We discuss Wikipedia edits, encryption laws, corona detention and McLean's trip to the Labor party's town hall on climate change.

 

 

News updates

• Did Department of Social Services secretary Kathryn Campbell edit her own Wikipedia page?
• The Australian Financial Review suggests a guaranteed income and a strong social safety net would help Australia come out of the Covid Depression.
• Sydney Bus drivers called off a strike after their demands for PPE were met before the strike began.

Corona detention

• A Four Corners investigation has shown that doctors warned infection dangers in Victoria’s hotel quarantine, but were ignored by DHHS until the outbreak.
• The Federal government is reopening the Cristmas Island detention center, at a cost of $55m over 6 months.
• The Biloela asylum seeker family are still in immigration detention, even after the government has been forced to pay $200,000 in legal fees for breaking procedural fairness.

Climate news

• BHP is selling off it’s thermal coal mines over the next two years.
• It’s free real estate!
• As far as I can tell, Dan Andrews has not weighed in on Juukan Gorge — Ed.
• Tom McLean’s open letter to the Terri Butler, Mark Butler and Ged Kearney explaining his question, and why climate change action needs to be personal.

Computer nerd stuff

• Despite claims it was urgently needed, neither ASIO or the AFP is yet to use the anti-encryption laws passed in 2018.
• Peter Dutton wants additional powers to spy on Australian citizens though.
• Victoria Police are using precog algorithms to detect possible predict youth offenders.
• Monash University research has shown that these systems are used for racial profiling, to great negative effect.

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