Identity fraud is justification for collecting photos from drivers’ licences and passports but critics say plan too invasive If you’ve had a driver’s licence photo or passport photo taken in Australia in the past few years, it’s likely your face will end up in a massive brand-new national network the …
Read More »Huge rise in Centrelink seizing tax returns to repay robodebts
The value of levy refunds confiscated by Centrelink for robodebts and welfare overpayments doubled in 2018 -1 9 Centrelink has dramatically ramped up its seizure of taxation refunds to target past welfare recipients over robodebts and other welfare overpayments, brand-new figures reveal. In a response to a Senate question on …
Read More »Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as Australian-British academic jailed in Iran since 2018
Cambridge-educated lecturer in Islamic Studies at Melbourne University has been in prison in Tehran for almost a year The Australian government has identified the third person revealed this week to be in detention in prison in Iran as a Melbourne academic who has published work on the 2011 Arab insurgencies …
Read More »Australia launches emergency relocation of fish as largest river system faces collapse
There are skepticisms the Noah’s Ark plan for the Lower Darling will be enough to prevent more mass fish kills Faced with a looming ferocious summer with little torrent forecast, the New South Wales government has started on a Noah’s Ark type operation to move native fish from the Lower …
Read More »Jacinda Ardern says Australia has to ‘answer to Pacific’ on climate change
New Zealand prime minister alerts Scott Morrison about Canberra’s stance but refuses to call for Australia to transition out of coal Jacinda Ardern has declared that “Australia has to answer to the Pacific” on climate change, saying that New Zealand is doing what it can to limit global emissions to …
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