Australia’s chances of securing a multibillion-dollar microprocessor manufacturing plant have strengthened, with Intel chief Craig Barrett preparing to meet the Federal Government. This has since been rejected due to Australia being too economically mature
Environmentalists denounced a proposal to bridge a North-South rift on the eve of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg on the weekend as a sell-out to rich nations seeking freer trade and corporate globalisation. While South African police guarding the Earth Summit on the weekend accused demonstrators of involving children in a banned street protest that stole attention from talks on the future of the planet
The United States is a nation of laws. The police arrest suspects they reasonably believe to have broken the law, not citizens who happen to disagree with the government’s politics. Cops don’t go after people pre-emptively because they might commit a crime someday. In America, people are considered innocent until they’re proven guilty in a court of law
Hundreds of girls as young as 12 are being raped or forcibly kept as concubines in rural Zimbabwe by President Robert Mugabe’s youth militia as part of a campaign that human-rights lawyers have branded systematic political cleansing
of the population
The secretive federal court that approves spying on terror suspects in the United States has refused to give the Justice Department broad new powers, saying the government had misused the law and misled the court dozens of times, according to an extraordinary legal ruling
In contrast to a declaration by Telstra, the nation’s biggest broadband provider, just weeks ago that it was comfortable with current pricing for fast internet services, a forum held by the Government’s Broadband Advisory Group saw a consensus that price was the key determinant, according to a report from the National Office for the Information Economy
The Federal Government has released a report about its online content co-regulatory scheme. But some industry commentators, including the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, have asked whether it’s the Government’s place to control what we look at
A new report shows that Australia is a laggard and renegade state when it comes to protecting the environment and is going backwards on every indicator of environmental health, from pollution to land clearing. The report, commissioned by a plethora of green groups, contradicted recent assertions by the conservative government of John Howard that it had made great strides in controlling pollution and promoting sustainable land use
The NSW Government has advanced with plans to make use of state-owned electricity infrastructure for broadband connectivity, with the New England area to be the first testing ground
The sabre-rattling by the United States over Iraq — and the Howard Government’s eagerness to join in — takes war mongering to a new level. This would be neither a territorial nor religious war, nor even part of the retarded monkey boy‘s war against terrorism. Some US officials are euphemistically describing the proposed war on Iraq as pre-emptive self-defence
, designed to bring about regime change
The Bulldogs, already in strife for breaching the salary cap for rugby league players, now face scrutiny over a $900 million stadium and unit project with the corrupt Liverpool Council
BBC has investigated allegations that Downing Street illegally hacked into its computer system in order to influence critical news items before they were broadcast
US lawmakers have asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to go after Internet users who download unauthorised songs and other copyrighted material, raising the possibility of jail time for digital-music fans
The FCC issued a record fine of nearly US$5.4 million against a company for sending junk faxes to businesses and consumers
American movie, recording and software executives could be arrested if they travel to Australia, could be prohibited from entering Australia, or could be extradited to face criminal charges if Californian Democrat congressman Howard Berman’s copyright protection bill, which allows cracking of computers, passes into law
New York has abruptly yanked an official web site after discovering that personal data from nearly 2,000 online job applicants — including home addresses and Social Security numbers — could be viewed by anyone
Senator Mike DeWine is crusading to hand the FBI new powers to eavesdrop on immigrants and other non-citizens living in America
Civil liberties groups in the United States are celebrating a court ruling which orders the United States Justice Department release all the names of those it has detained since the 11 September attacks
Nevada voters could make their state the first to legalise marijuana and derive taxes from a regulated sales system this year
A large number of lawsuits have been filed against companies that have not complied with the anti-spam statute in Utah. And the governor of Ohio has signed into law a bill that allows internet subscribers to sue for up to US$50,000 and ISPs for up to US$500,000. It allows you to sue for $100 per email plus court and lawyer fees incurred. Looks like the cost of spamming is going up
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