#australia

In no part of Europe are the mass of the people, and especially of the middle-classes, more utterly ignorant of the foreign policy of their own country than in England ...

via ▻https://diasp.eu/p/17846187

... an ignorance springing from two great sources. On the one hand, since the glorious Revolution of 1688, the aristocracy has always monopolized the direction of foreign affairs in England. Karl Marx in the New-York Tribune 1861
▻https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1861/10/21.htm

#kc3 #windsor #gb #canada #australia #5eyes #marx

Pro-Russian influence operation targeting Australia in lead-up to election with attempt to ’poison’ AI chatbots - ABC News
▻https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-03/pro-russian-push-to-poison-ai-chatbots-in-australia/105239644

A pro-Russian influence operation has been targeting Australia in the lead-up to this weekend’s federal election, the ABC can reveal, attempting to “poison” AI chatbots with propaganda.

Pravda Australia presents itself as a news site, but analysts allege it’s part of an ongoing plan to retrain Western chatbots such as ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot on “the Russian perspective” and increase division amongst Australians in the long-term.

It’s one of roughly 180 largely automated websites in the global Pravda Network allegedly designed to “launder” disinformation and pro-Kremlin propaganda for AI models to consume and repeat back to Western users.

Un chatbot pro-russe que personne connait a provoqué la victoire des travaillistes d’extrême-droite pro-russe.

Coronavirus: Fiji to reopen for tourism | South China Morning Post
▻https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3151754/coronavirus-sydney-nears-freedom-day-30-million-fully

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Coronavirus: Fiji to reopen for tourism Fiji will ease Covid-19 restrictions and announce its reopening for international travel after the country hit a vaccination milestone. Changes to the country’s virus restrictions would be announced on Sunday afternoon after 80 per cent of the adult population received both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said. Last month officials said once the target was reached, Fiji would reopen travel for “green list” locations, including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Singapore and parts of the United States.Visitors must be fully vaccinated and test negative for Covid-19 before departure under the previously announced plan. Once in Fiji, they would stay in designated zones where all contacts, from hospitality staff to tour operators, would be fully vaccinated.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#fidji#sante#frontiere#pandemie#tourisme#Australianouvellezelande#japon#canada#coreedusud#singapour#etatsunis#vaccination

#Metalist #mental_health and #international migration

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Metalist cover picture : ’I’m like a mouse in a trap’ : trauma of Europe’s refugees – in pictures (source below)

Et vidéo d’introduction :

Ouvrir sa porte à l’inconnu. Récit d’une solidarité ordinaire | Julia Montfort | TEDxParis

►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNC4C4OqomI&feature=emb_logo

Incendies : en Australie, le « monstre » est hors de contrôle
3 janvier 2020 / Gaspard d’Allens (Reporterre)
▻https://reporterre.net/Incendies-en-Australie-le-monstre-est-hors-de-controle
▻https://reporterre.net/local/cache-gd2/51/6af75698ac99bfa03efb268f50c79d.jpg?1577986307

Depuis quatre mois, l’Australie lutte contre les pires incendies de son histoire, accentués par le dérèglement climatique. Près de 55.000 kilomètres carrés de terres ont brûlé. Les dommages humains et écologiques sont colossaux. Pourtant, le Premier ministre n’envisage nullement de renoncer au charbon, dont le pays est un gros producteur.
(...)
Interrogé par la chaîne australienne ABC, Rob Rogers, le commissionnaire adjoint au Rural Fire Service (RFS), a reconnu une forme d’impuissance : « Même 10.000 pompiers sur le terrain ne pourraient pas éteindre ces feux. Nous ne sommes plus capables de les contenir. Nous devons juste nous assurer qu’il n’y ait plus personne sur leur chemin. »
(...)
Alors que le mécontentement grandit dans l’opinion publique, Scott Morisson a dû écourter ses vacances de Noël à Honolulu, à Hawaï. Son inaction climatique est vilipendée. Le 19 décembre, à Sydney, des milliers de manifestants ont défilé sous les nuages de l’incendie pour réclamer l’arrêt de l’utilisation du charbon. En septembre, dans tout le pays, ils étaient plus de 250.000 à manifester.

La fronde monte mais Scott Morisson ne bouge pas d’un iota. Si cet évangéliste bénit l’action des pompiers, à majorité volontaire, il continue de favoriser l’implantation d’industries minières, très polluantes et émettrices de CO2, près de la barrière de corail. « Nous n’allons pas nous engager dans des objectifs irresponsables, destructeurs d’emploi et nuisibles pour l’économie », a-t-il répété sur les chaînes d’info nationales. « Je ne vais pas rayer de la carte l’emploi de milliers d’Australiens en m’éloignant des secteurs traditionnels. »(...)

#Australie

#australia seems to have become worst of the worst when it comes to...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9240656

#australia seems to have become worst of the worst when it comes to #privacy protection — even worse than #china in some regards ▻https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190618/10172242421/australian-home-affairs-minister-says-government-still-considering-spying-

La technologie acheuléenne et l’utilisation de l’environnement à Dawadmi, Arabie centrale pendant le Paléolithique inférieur.
27 juillet 2018

Bien qu’occupant une position géographique centrale, les enquêtes sur les populations d’hominidés dans la péninsule arabique au cours du Paléolithique inférieur sont rares.

[L’article décrit] de nouvelles investigations sur le terrain dans la localité de Saffaqah (206-76) près de Dawadmi, en Arabie centrale, qui visent à établir comment les hominidés se sont adaptés à cette région. Le site est situé à l’intérieur de l’Arabie, à plus de 500 km de la mer Rouge et du golfe, et à la source de deux importants systèmes fluviaux disparus, probablement utilisés par les hominidés acheuléens pour traverser la péninsule.

▻http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0200497.g001

La Saffaqah est l’un des plus grands sites acheuléens en Arabie avec près d’un million d’artefacts estimés en surface, et elle est également la première à produire des dépôts stratifiés contenant des artefacts abondants. Il est situé dans le cadre inhabituel d’un paysage dense et bien préservé de localités Acheuléennes, avec des sites et des objets isolés se produisant régulièrement sur des dizaines de kilomètres dans toutes les directions.

(...)

Les hominiens acheuléens à Dawadmi étaient forts et habiles, avec leur adaptation évidemment réussie pendant quelque temps. Cependant, ces fabricants de bifaces étaient également conservateurs sur le plan technologique et utilisaient des stratégies de moindre effort pour l’approvisionnement en ressources et le transport d’outils.

▻http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0200497.g014

En fin de compte, l’Arabie centrale a été dépeuplée, probablement en raison de la détérioration de l’environnement sous la forme d’aridité croissante.

▻http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0200497.g006

Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia
▻http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200497
▻http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200497.g021&size=inline

#Préhistoire
#Ceri_Shipton #Australian_National_University #University_of_Cambridge
#James_Blinkhorn #University_of_London #Max_Planck_Institute
#Paléolithique_inférieur
#Industrie_lithique
▻https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200497

Meet the Women of Australian #tech: 5 Game-changers Share Their Stories
▻https://hackernoon.com/meet-the-women-of-australian-tech-5-game-changers-share-their-stories-70

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According to the McKell Institute, In #australia women constitute 50.6% of the population.Despite making up nearly half the total workforce, most senior roles in organisations in Australia are heavily male-dominated. Men hold 74.9 % of ASX200 board positions, and there are still 16 ASX200 boards with no female members.At the top levels of organisations, women hold just 16.3% of CEO positions and 28.5% of key management personnel positions within companies reporting to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. Among ASX100 companies, 5% of CEOs, 10% of COOs/Deputy CEOs and 6% of CFOs were women in 2015.And pay, the full-time gender pay gap is trending down, but men still take home $26,527 a year more than women on average.Beyond the numbers, figures, statistics and horror stories, there’s no (...)

#women-in-tech #tech-leaders #australian-tech

Australian government unveils brutal refugee deal with the US - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/11/14/refu-n14.html

Australian government unveils brutal refugee deal with the US
By Max Newman
14 November 2016

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday announced a one-off “resettlement” deal with the United States that will forcibly remove to the US some of the 2,200 refugees who have rotted since 2013 in Australia’s prison camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.

At a media conference in the government’s Maritime Border Command headquarters, Turnbull declared that Australia’s naval “Operation Sovereign Borders,” which organises the interception and turn back of refugee boats, would be boosted to its highest-ever level.

#australie #états-unis #réfugiés #asile #migrations

Great Barrier Reef and the Amazon Rainforest Among Outstanding Natural Sites Under Threat from French Multinationals
▻http://multinationales.org/Great-Barrier-Reef-and-the-Amazon-Rainforest-Among-Outstanding-Natu

Half of World Heritage sites are currently threatened by industrial development, and the oil and mining sectors pose a particular threat. So many invaluable sites and #biodiversity sanctuaries face being wiped off the map just because we are unable to do anything about our voracious model of development. Several French transnational corporations are among those involved in projects that could herald the end of these exceptional sites. Some of the sites facing destruction include national (...)

#Investigations

/ A la une, #Extractive_Industries, #Australia, #Brazil, #Canada, #Guatemala, #Guinea, #Indonesia, #Malaysia, #Netherlands, #Peru, #DR_Congo, São Tomé, #ArcelorMittal, #Areva, Bolloré, #EDF, Engie (ex GDF Suez), #Eramet, #Lafarge, #Maurel_et_Prom, #Perenco, #Total, #Socfin, (...)

#São_Tomé #Bolloré #Engie_ex_GDF_Suez_ #Energy #Extractive_Industries #environmental_impact #resource_overexploitation #extractive_industries
“►https://www.bastamag.net/De-la-Grande-barriere-de-corail-a-l-Amazonie-ces-sites-naturels-d-exceptio”
“►http://www.wwf.fr/vous_informer/actualites/?7841/La-moitie-des-sites-du-Patrimoine-mondial-sont-menaces-par-des-activites-industr”
“►http://whc.unesco.org/fr/peril”
“►http://www.socfin.com/Files/media/News/2016-03-04---Menaces-sur-forets-africaines.pdf”
“►http://www.perenco.com”
“►http://e360.yale.edu/feature/how_nations_are_chipping_away_their_protected_lands/2989”
“►http://www.padddtracker.org”
“►http://marketforces.org.au/banks/map”
“►http://www.societegenerale.com/sites/default/files/documents/Document%20RSE/Finance%20responsable/Principes%20Generaux%20Environnementaux%20et%20Sociaux%20de%20nos%2”
“►https://www.societegenerale.com/sites/default/files/documents/Document%20RSE/Finance%20responsable/Politique%20Transversale%20Biodiversit%C3%A9.pdf”
“►http://blog.greenpeace.fr/bollore-zero-deforestation”
“►http://forets.greenpeace.fr/la-socfin-menace-toujours-les-forets-africaines”

Welcome to Australia where we greet refugees with open arms. Oh wait, that’s Austria | First Dog on the Moon | Comment is free | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/sep/07/welcome-to-australia-where-we-greet-refugees-with-open-arms-and-hot-dri

In #Austria, #╔refugee children are given toys and shelter. In #Australia, they are sent to indefinite detention on tropical islands

#Australian_immigration #asylum #Migration #Europe

#Australia–the Face of Monoculturalism
▻http://africasacountry.com/tony-abbott-is-the-face-of-monoculturalism-in-australia

The first thing that strikes you when you arrive in Australia is how racist this place is, and yet how committed many Australians are to not talking about race. As a.....

#POLITICS #Aboriginal_People #racism #Tony_Abbot

#Unit #tests fail when run in #Australia
▻https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/5017

Australian immigration museum - small but it captures the Australian spirit really well.

http://i.imgur.com/vPpkBg3.jpg

The man who posted himself to #Australia in a crate - ▻http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31700049 #air #shipping #smuggling

Australian pig steals 18 beers from campers, gets drunk and starts fight with cow
▻http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/9358/20141003/beer-thieving-pig-gets-drunk-starts-fight-cow.htm
#pig #cochon #gruik #bière #beer #Australia #cow

Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country
Photographs and text by
Fabian Muir

https://dd978y4vwod92.cloudfront.net/uploads/photos/images/287108/e8e4be2c65af879943545e58c8a3a880-large.jpg

▻https://www.lensculture.com/articles/fabian-muir-blue-burqa-in-a-sunburnt-country#slide-1

For Westerners, the burqa is a garment pregnant with symbolism. This series, shot in 2014 during a 10,000 kilometre journey in Australia, seeks to take the symbolism beyond the typical connotations of #sexism and #repression, and into a more #metaphorical_landscape that raises questions of migration, assimilation and belonging. Along the way, the burqa also reveals a luminous, ethereal #beauty one might not normally have expected.

Marrying the burqa with Australia’s severe environment would not seem an obvious choice at first. However, it makes sense for those who are aware of the current Australian government’s strict #anti-immigration policies and handling of #refugees, and indeed the ongoing discussion of a ’burqa ban’ in the country. These faceless, ‘anonymous’ people, who come to Australian shores in search of a new beginning, are either turned away as they arrive or thrust into a harsh, suburnt country. They quickly feel displaced, leading to predictable tensions.

However, despite the sense of isolation in the images, the aesthetic symbiosis between the #burqa and the challenging landscapes hints at a potential for the two worlds to co-exist and even complement each other in ways not imagined. Perhaps #Australia and these ’new Australians’ are not as mismatched as the government and some members of the public seem to think.

The burqa’s journey in this series – whose title is borrowed from Australia’s best-known poem, My Country – surely offers more questions than answers, but ultimately it is intended as a series of hope.

— Fabian Muir
#photo #

#Australia joins #US in military campaign against #ISIS
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/australia-joins-us-military-campaign-against-isis

Australia became the first country to detail troop numbers and aircraft for a US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in #Iraq and #syria (ISIS) militants in Iraq, as Washington drums up support for global action to counter the “terrorist” threat. Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday a 600-strong force comprising some 400 airforce personnel and 200 special forces soldiers would be deployed to a US military base in the United Arab Emirates. read more

Australian teen behind #Iraq suicide blast
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/australian-teen-behind-iraq-suicide-blast

An 18-year-old Australian man was behind a deadly suicide bomb attack in Iraq last week, authorities said Monday, with Attorney-General George Brandis calling it a “disturbing development.” The blast last Thursday near a mosque in #Baghdad left several dead, including the teenager, who left Melbourne for the region last year. Reports said the Islamic State militant group named him as Abu Bakr al-Australi on an affiliated Twitter feed, with Brandis’ office confirming he was Australian. read more

#Australia #suicide_attack

Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret”
▻http://easycount.mjec.net #software #democracy #Australia #transparency

« If #Société_générale was genuine about its own social and environmental principles, there’s no way they would remain involved in the Alpha Coal project »
▻http://multinationales.org/If-Societe-Generale-was-genuine

Alpha Coal: it is the name of a megaproject in Queensland, #Australia. Alpha Coal would involve extracting millions of tonnes of coal, transporting them by rail over hundreds of kilometers and then exporting them to Asia through a new giant terminal at Abbot Point - in the middle of the Great Barrier Marine Park. Société Générale, one of France’s largest banks, is among the last backers of this project within the international financial community. Julien Vincent and Tony Brown, as representatives (...)

#Investigations

/ #Extractive_Industries, #Fossil_fuels, Société générale, Australia, #Finance_and_Banking, #Extractive_Industries, #biodiversity, #local_communities, #greenhouse_gas, #social_impact, #environmental_impact, #extractive_industries, #climate_change, socially responsible (...)

#socially_responsible_investment #commodities
“►http://www.marketforces.org.au”
“►http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/business/2014/04/26/the-end-coal/1398434400”
“►http://www.ieefa.org/press-release-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-imported-coal-in-india-report-expos”

Arab countries threaten sanctions against #Australia in East #jerusalem row
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/arab-countries-threaten-sanctions-against-australia-over-east-jer

Australia’s foreign minister will meet ambassadors angered by the country’s decision to stop referring to East Jerusalem as “occupied,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Sunday as he stressed there was “no change in policy.” Australia has been warned of possible Arab trade sanctions after last week’s move, which Attorney-General George Brandis said was made because the term “occupied” carried pejorative implications and was seen by the Australian government as neither appropriate or useful. read more

#Israel #Palestine

Opposition slams #Australia government for refusal to call #East_Jerusalem ’occupied’
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/australian-opposition-blasts-government-refusal-call-east-jerusal

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An Israeli policeman aims his gun at Palestinian protesters during a rally marking “Naksa Day,” the 47th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War, at Damascus Gate in Arab east #jerusalem on June 5, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad Gharabli)

Australia has decided to remove the term “occupied” when referring to East Jerusalem in a move blasted by an opposition party leader Friday as “inflammatory” and “at odds with the peace process.” The issue flared in the upper house Senate this week with Attorney-General George Brandis issuing a statement to clarify Canberra’s stance on the controversial question of the legality of settler homes. "The description of areas which are the subject of negotiations in the course of the peace process by reference to historical events is (...)

#Israel #Palestine

Want to burn less oil for transportation ? Plan your cities correctly:
▻https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Revised_petrol_use_urban_density.JPG

Source: ▻http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944368908975398 via ▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Revised_petrol_use_urban_density.JPG via ▻http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/planningphotographycom/241696/urban-density-and-sustainability via ▻https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/457244087762948097/photo/1/large
#energy #urban #planning #transportation #car #USA #Europe #Australia #oil

The trouble with #WhiteHistoryMonth is that it is not history
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-trouble-with-whitehistorymonth-is-that-it-is-not-history

Today, the theft of Aboriginal children – including babies taken from the birth table – is now more widespread than at any time during the last century. As of June last year, almost 14,000 Aboriginal children had been “removed”. This is five times the number when Bringing Them Home was written. More than a third of all removed children are Aboriginal – from 3% of the population. At the present rate, this mass removal of Aboriginal children will result in a #Stolen_Generation of more than 3,300 children in the Northern Territory alone.

#JOURNALISM #MEDIA #Aborigines #Australia #John_Pilger