33 — Krathryn Crambrell

We discuss Wikipedia edits, encryption laws, corona detention and McLean's trip to the Labor party's town hall on climate change.
 
 

News updates
Did Department of Social Services secretary Kathryn Campbell edit her own Wikipedia page?
The Australian Financial Review suggests a guaranteed income and a strong social safety net would help Australia come out of the Covid Depression.
Sydney Bus drivers called off a strike after their demands for PPE were met before the strike began.

Corona detention
A Four Corners investigation has shown that doctors warned infection dangers in Victoria’s hotel quarantine, but were ignored by DHHS until the outbreak.
The Federal government is reopening the Cristmas Island detention center, at a cost of $55m over 6 months.
The Biloela asylum seeker family are still in immigration detention, even after the government has been forced to pay $200,000 in legal fees for breaking procedural fairness.

Climate news
BHP is selling off it’s thermal coal mines over the next two years.
It’s free real estate!
As far as I can tell, Dan Andrews has not weighed in on Juukan Gorge — Ed.
Tom McLean’s open letter to the Terri Butler, Mark Butler and Ged Kearney explaining his question, and why climate change action needs to be personal.

Computer nerd stuff
Despite claims it was urgently needed, neither ASIO or the AFP is yet to use the anti-encryption laws passed in 2018.
Peter Dutton wants additional powers to spy on Australian citizens though.
Victoria Police are using precog algorithms to detect possible predict youth offenders.
Monash University research has shown that these systems are used for racial profiling, to great negative effect.

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