"Top Australian soldier loses war crimes defamation case."

Australia - This guy Streisanded the fuck out of himself, right?

#AusNews

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65773942?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Superannuation and compound interest are not the most accessible of concepts, so we've made a feature that explains the structural inequalities, issues and fixes in the system using ... LATTES! https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2023/apr/04/these-coffees-show-why-men-have-more-cash-in-superannuation-than-women #ausnews #australia #dataviz #data

Early career essential workers unable to afford house prices anywhere in Sydney and Melbourne

#ausnews #australia #auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/24/early-career-essential-workers-unable-to-afford-house-prices-anywhere-in-sydney-and-melbourne?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

AI can fool voice recognition used to verify identity by Centrelink and Australian tax office - voiceprint program used by millions of Australians to access data held by government agencies shown to have a serious security flaw

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/voice-system-used-to-verify-identity-by-centrelink-can-be-fooled-by-ai

#ausnews #news #australia #auspol

Australian boy, 13, spent six weeks in solitary confinement

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-64960479

#Australia #AusNews #News

made a quick chart of how the #AUKUS submarine spending compares with various other things the government is spending money on, or could spend money on, all over ten years https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/14/penny-wong-hits-back-at-chinas-claim-aukus-nuclear-submarines-will-fuel-an-arms-race #news #submarines #ausnews

From the headline of this very lengthy #abc #ausnews article you’d would expect somethung substantial. Why Harry, Meghan and Oprah were caught up in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. This is the entireity of what’s printed ‘Every says deposits in SVB were largely made by tech startups and "rich Californians and Democratic party donors, reportedly including Harry and Meghan, and Oprah’.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-14/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-us-recession-ripple-effects-world/102089926

Robodebt: five years of lies, mistakes and failures that caused a $1.8bn scandal

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/11/robodebt-five-years-of-lies-mistakes-and-failures-that-caused-a-18bn-scandal?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #ausnews #auspol #australia

NSW plan for population growth outside Sydney to fail without high speed rail, says expert behind strategy https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/07/nsw-plan-for-population-growth-outside-sydney-to-fail-without-high-speed-rail-says-expert-behind-strategy #auspol #ausnews #news

@nickevershed

@Josh

Rockets and feathers...

#auspol #australia #ausnews #dataviz

imo this shows how the banks are screwing their customers on interest rate changes, in one handy graphic - when the cash rate is cut, they rarely pass on the full change. but when it increases, they always do. v neat bubble chart from @Josh

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2023/feb/25/australias-big-banks-are-passing-on-all-the-interest-rates-hikes-but-not-the-cuts #auspol #australia #ausnews #dataviz

Australia’s gender pay gap falls to narrowest on record but women still earn less in every industry - this chart breaks it down for men and women in each industry group #ausnews #news #dataviz #auspol #australia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/23/australias-gender-pay-falls-to-narrowest-on-record-but-women-still-earn-less-in-every-industry

An economic fairytale’: Australia’s inflation being driven by company profits and not wages, analysis finds

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/an-economic-fairytale-australias-inflation-being-driven-by-company-profits-and-not-wages-analysis-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #ausnews #news #auspol

Latest wage price index figures show real wages going backwards - December quarter wage index rose from 3.1% to 3.3%, but 7.8% inflation indicates a 4.5% decrease in real wages

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/22/australia-wage-price-index-wpi-wages-grow-december-quarter-inflation-gap-widens

#ausnews #auspol #news

Revealed: the areas where Australians are struggling to access free GP care - you can search the full bulk-billing dataset at the link.

Tasmania has some of the lowest bulk-billing rates in the country, and they’re getting worse

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/feb/17/revealed-the-areas-where-australians-are-struggling-to-access-free-gp-care

#australia #ausnews #news #auspol

The number of Australians who are fully bulk billed by their GP has dropped significantly in just three years, with one electorate experiencing a decline of 18% #news #ausnews #auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2023/feb/15/revealed-more-australians-than-ever-are-paying-to-see-a-doctor-as-new-data-shows-worst-hit-areas

A new model which aims to predict gentrification suggests the Ring of Gentrification in Sydney may have expanded as much as 20km out from the city center - click the link for the interactive map and table aggregating the data to large regions #sydney #news #ausnews #housing

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/feb/12/can-you-predict-which-parts-of-sydney-will-be-next-to-gentrify

Cyclone Gabrielle: New Zealand braces for storm after record floods

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64608532

#NewZealand #Cyclone #CycloneGabrielle #Weather #Meteorology #Floods #Flooding #AustralianBureauOfMeteorology #AusNews

Email reveals top bureaucrat pressed ombudsman to delete comments questioning robodebt’s legality https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/09/email-reveals-top-bureaucrat-pressed-ombudsman-to-delete-comments-questioning-robodebts-legality #news #ausnews #auspol

Gina Rinehart's company, Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd, was behind a $150,000 payment to the Liberal Party, transferred via a third party

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-10/hancock-prospecing-to-liberal-party-sydney-mining-club/101915486 #ausnews #news #auspol