All Your Daily Needs on Offer in the Kathmandu Streets: In Photos
With a population of just over 29 million, Nepal is a country of extensive diversity: it’s multiethnic, multicultural, multireligious and multilinguistic. Nepal contains eight of the highest mountains in the world, including the highest point on Earth, Mount Everest, as...
Facial Recognition Technology: Coming to a Pokie Room Near You
The Australian Hotels Association NSW and ClubsNSW have announced the development of ‘state of the art’ facial recognition technology which they intend to install in the gambling areas of all pubs and clubs across the state. The justification for the...
Australia Under Attack from Cyber Criminals
In the third major reported data breach in the past month, hackers have threatened to release the personal data of Medibank customers unless their ransom demands are met. The extortion demand has the potential to expose up to 3.9 million...
What Happens if I Am Late to Lodge My Income Tax Return?
It’s probably fair to say the Australian Taxation Office isn’t seen as the fairest or most beloved organisation out there - taking a huge chunk of the hard-earned funds of residents every year and often meritlessly allocating much of it...
Perrottet Has Passed a Swag of Police State Laws, Just Prior to Likely Election Loss
“The Coalition’s reckless arbitrary intervention and law and order agenda is burning bright” commented Greens MLC Sue Higginson, as the NSW Liberal Nationals rammed through what must have been a record number of police empowering bills in just two sitting...
Dr Alison Broinowski on the War Powers Inquiry Succeeding Despite Marles’ Intervention
For people born over recent decades, global wars and the use of nuclear weapons are aspects of a fading black and white past, despite their having become very real prospects for the near future. Right now, world leaders have been...
Pollies’ Reputation Excuse for Closed Door NACC Proceedings Is Bollocks
The major gripe when ex-attorney general Christian Porter released his national integrity commission legislation in November 2020, almost two years after Scott Morrison promised it, was that when it came to politicians, the proceedings were going to be closed door. The...
Australia: Easy Pickings for Cyber-Criminals
The latest national cyber attack, which has affected the data of more than 2 million Woolworths customers proves what cyber experts have been warning for years: Australia is easy pickings for cyber criminals. A shortage of specialist technical experts, who...
The Law, Penalties and Defences for the Offence of Sexual Act in New South Wales
A New South Wales man is facing court over allegations he performed a sexual act in front of a mother and her young daughter inside Kmart store in St Marys on 23 September 2022. The mother immediately reported the matter...
As Street Dog Care in Kathmandu Grows, Community Attitude to Strays Is Shifting
If you ever find yourself in the forecourt of the Boudhanath Stupa, a revered Buddhist monument located on the northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu city at about noon on a Saturday, you’re likely to come across a rainbow-coloured beach umbrella, with...
