US condemns Rudd

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8 December 2010
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The US regards the Foreign Affairs Minister, Kevin Rudd, as an abrasive, impulsive ”control freak” who presided over a series of foreign policy blunders during his time as prime minister, according to a series of secret diplomatic cables.

The scathing assessment, detailed in messages sent by the US embassy in Canberra to the secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton over several years, are among hundreds of US State Department cables relating to Australia obtained by WikiLeaks and made available exclusively to the Herald. — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Media Alliance warns of muzzling of Australian media over Wikileaks

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3 December 2010
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Journalists union The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance has come to the defence of anonymous disclosure site WikiLeaks.

In a statement this afternoon, the union accused Amazon, which withdrew hosting services from WikiLeaks, of caving in to hysteria.

It follows the release by Wikileaks – which is led by the Australian Julian Assange – of a huge amount of diplomatic exchanges involving the US.

Federal secretary Chris Warren said: Amazon’s decision is extremely disappointing. We need to take a step back from the hysteria. It is not known whether WikiLeaks has broken any law. It has – via a free media – upheld the public’s right to know — via redwolf.newsvine.com

US ‘cannot rely on cluster bomb deal’ with Britain

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3 December 2010
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A former foreign office minister has said the US should not rely on any apparent secret deal to store banned cluster munitions on British territory.

Chris Bryant was responding to a leak on the Wikileaks website suggesting the US could be exempted from the ban. The Labour MP said: If the Americans are relying on that then they were being led up the garden path — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com

Government gives thumbs down to PDF format

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1 December 2010
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The central IT office of Australia’s Federal Government has requested that agencies consider the use of alternative file formats to Adobe’s PDF.

The advice follows a study which found that while accessibility of the Portable Document Format (PDF) has improved over time and remains a popular format for many organisations, it was less accessible to visually-impaired users — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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