FACEBOOK WANTS NEGOTIATION WITH PUBLISHERS BEFORE THE MEDIA CODE GOES ON FLOOR

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• Facebook has requested that the Australian government consider giving computerized stages six months to make deals with media sources to pay for content before hitting organizations with the huge news media code

Before appearing on F...

WWW INVENTOR TIM BERNERS-LEE IS AGAINST AUSTRALIA’S NEWS PAYMENT POLICY

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• Berners-Lee said that he is concerned that the code risks breaching a fundamental principle of the web by requiring payment for linking between certain content online.

• On Tuesday, the President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Australi...

ASTRAZENECA COVID-19 VACCINE GETS BACKING FROM AUSTRALIAN HEALTH OFFICIALS

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• Australia's prime medical officer Prof Paul Kelly, and infections specialists have protected about 54m portions of a Covid-19 immunization made by Oxford University and the drug organization AstraZeneca, amid concerns the antibody won't be ade...

KIWIS PLAN TO STICK BY TRAVEL PLANS WITH AUSSIES DESPITE NEWLY DIAGNOSED LOCAL CASES

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• The New Zealand government is sticking by its arrangement to build up a trans-Tasman travel bubble by April, notwithstanding local transmission of Covid in a few Australian states

In mid-December, the PM Jacinda Ardern reported ...

AUSSIES' HAPPY OVER GOVERNMENTS' WAYS IN TACKLING THE PANDEMIC

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• A survey by annual survey of social attitudes described that in the year of doubts and huge economic downfall which pandemic has brought, people of Australia developed the trust about the government like never before

Introductory discoveries from the...

CHINA BANS IMPORTS OF COAL FROM AUSTRALIA OVER SHIPMENTS BEING OF INFERIOR QUALITY

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• China bans imports of coal from Australia over shipments being of inferior quality.
• China has bought $10.5 billion worth of Australian coal last year.
• Australian Trade Minister is calling on China to uphold its trading ob...

AUSTRALIA- KIWIS TO START TRAVEL EXCHANGES FROM 2021, SAYS JACINDA ARDERN

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• New Zealand's legislation committee has consented to set up an isolation free travel bubble with Australia in the primary quarter of 2021, the PM, Jacinda Ardern has said

The Australian clergyman Greg Hunt excitedly welcomed the ...

JAPAN’S HAYABUSA2 LEFT ASTEROID RYUGU AND NEARING EARTH TO DROP SAMPLES

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• Japan’s Hayabusa2 left Asteroid Ryugu and nearing earth to drop samples.
• The space probe is nearing earth after a year-long journey with the asteroids soil samples.
• The data could provide clues to the origin of the ...

MOORE GILBERT DETAINED IN IRAN BECAUSE OF ISRAELI BOYFRIEND, SOURCES REVEALED

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• Iranian specialists kept British-Australian, Kylie Moore-Gilbert after finding she was involved with an Israeli, which fuelled unmerited doubts that she was a covert agent, the Sydney Morning Herald provided details, referring to different conciliator...

CHINA IN HOSTILE MOVE ENFORCES ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES ON AUSTRALIAN WINE

• China on Friday said it would enforce anti-dumping measures on Australian wine, in a further escalating of tensions between Beijing and Canberra.
• China — Australia’s biggest trade partner — has threatened economic strike-back since Canberra called for a probe ...

SINGAPORE AUSTRALIA WALKING THE TRADE PATH THROUGH LEVERAGING BLOCK CHAIN TECHNOLOGY

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• As the cutting-edge technology changing the businesses nature, Australia and Singapore too ventured into BlockChain for keeping track of their trade

The goods tracking will be done with an application on blockchain technology and for...

CHINESE REALTY SEEKERS OPT FOR PORTUGAL AND SINGAPORE SHUNNING US AND AUSTRALIAN MARKETS

• Property investors from mainland China are shifting their gaze on Portugal and Singapore as alternative investment locations, while offloading more money out of traditional markets like the US and Australia and Britain amid concerns about difficult trade relations.
• While the Co...

CHINA JOTS DOWN LIST OF ACTIVITIES DONE BY AUSTRALIA TO WORSEN BILATERAL TIES INCLUDING INTERFERENCE IN HONG KONG

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• China has documented Australian post covid rivalry worsening already loosened threads of connections between the two countries

A document that was put out from the Chinese embassy listed 14 charges against Australia. These moves come...

AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN LEADERS REACH ON A BASIC AGREEMENT OVER BILATERAL DEFENSE PACT

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• Australia and Japan leaders reach a basic agreement over bilateral defense pact.
• On Tuesday, the leaders from the above countries held in-person talks.
• Japan considers Australia to be a semi-ally and signed a defense coop...

JAPAN SIGNED RCEP TRADE DEAL ALONG WITH 14 AISA-PACIFIC PARTNERS

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• Japan signed RCEP trade deal along with 14 Asia-Pacific partners.
• Several Japanese business leaders welcomed the signing of the world’s largest trade deal.
• RCEP covers 46% of Japan’s total trade.
• Ja...

AUSTRALIA THAILAND TO STRENGTHEN TIES ON SEVERAL FRONTS

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• Australia and Thailand have consented to strengthen ties, venturing up collaboration on safeguard and battling wrongdoing, and hoping to expand exchange, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday

Mr. Morrison and Prime ...

SCIENTISTS SAY ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS ARE CAUSING ANOTHER POLLUTION WAVE

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• Research shows that artificial light has an effect on the atmosphere on a fundamental basis and hence considered a form of pollution

A group of researchers from the University of Exeter says human illumination is increasing by 2% per...

JAPAN TO COORDINATE WITH AUSTRALIA IN THE PROTECTION OF MILITARY ASSETS

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• Japan to coordinate with Australia in the protection of military assets.
• Japan Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi met with Australia’s Linda Reynolds.
• Japan and Australia plan to strengthen vigilance and surveillance acti...

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND TRAVEL BUBBLE FACING PROBLEM AFTER PASSENGERS BREACH QUARANTINE RULES

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• The travel bubble between New Zealand and Australia have hit an obstacle after 17 passengers who arrived in Sydney caught a flight to Melbourne by breaking the rules
• The acting immigration minister of Australia said that, anyone who is arr...

AUSTRALIAN PM FINDS SOLUTION TO STRANDED AUSTRALIANS ABROAD ON QUARANTINE FACILITIES

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• Australians abandoned abroad will approach the Northern Territory Howard Springs office for isolation, until March, increasing to 5,000 individuals to get back home

Scott Morrison reported the federation deal with the NT government f...