Dr Kerry Schott appointed to Optus assessment into triple zero outage
Josh Taylor
Dr Kerry Schott, former Deutsche Financial institution managing director and member of a lot of boards over time together with the NBN, has been appointed by the Optus board to conduct an unbiased assessment into final week’s triple zero outage that has been linked to the deaths of three folks.
The assessment will have a look at the causes, relevant processes, protocols and operations that surrounded the incident final Thursday, and study the operational administration of triple zero calls within the Optus community.
Dr Kerry Schott, beforehand on the board of the NBN, will assessment Optus’s triple zero outage. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAP
It’ll additionally have a look at monitoring and operational effectiveness, and the actions taken by Optus in response to the incident.
Optus chair, John Arthur, stated the incident was “clearly unacceptable” and apologised to the general public for “this failure in our accountability to all those that relied on our triple zero providers”.
He added:
I notably specific my deep condolences to the households and associates of the 4 individuals who handed away.
The board is working with Optus chief govt Stephen Rue and the manager staff to grasp what went flawed and why, and what must be finished to stop it occurring in future.
The assessment is predicted to be accomplished earlier than the tip of this yr. The Optus board has dedicated to creating the report public.
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SA algal bloom ‘far too intensive’ to eradicate, senate inquiry hears
Tory Shepherd
The most important dangerous algal bloom ever handled was roughly 100 sq km, a world professional advised an inquiry this morning, which is a fraction of the scale of South Australia’s bloom.
“Your bloom is many, many, many occasions larger than that already,” Dr Donald Anderson, senior scientist from Woods Gap Oceanographic Institute. The SA bloom covers about 4,500 sq km.
Anderson advised the senate inquiry into the bloom:
If you happen to tried to do one thing [to eradicate it] you’ll be doing one thing nobody else on the earth has ever finished. It’s far too intensive, too large.
South Australians dwelling with respiratory sickness have been warned of a “potential danger” posed by a poisonous algal bloom dominating the state’s shoreline. {Photograph}: Hollie Adams/Reuters
One of the best factor to do, he stated, was to have a look at monitoring and forecasting talents, present data on and handle the results of the bloom, and develop sources to deal with future, smaller blooms, and to guard sources similar to aquaculture.
You may learn extra from Anderson right here.
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Dr Kerry Schott appointed to Optus assessment into triple zero outage
Josh Taylor
Dr Kerry Schott, former Deutsche Financial institution managing director and member of a lot of boards over time together with the NBN, has been appointed by the Optus board to conduct an unbiased assessment into final week’s triple zero outage that has been linked to the deaths of three folks.
The assessment will have a look at the causes, relevant processes, protocols and operations that surrounded the incident final Thursday, and study the operational administration of triple zero calls within the Optus community.
Dr Kerry Schott, beforehand on the board of the NBN, will assessment Optus’s triple zero outage. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAP
It’ll additionally have a look at monitoring and operational effectiveness, and the actions taken by Optus in response to the incident.
Optus chair, John Arthur, stated the incident was “clearly unacceptable” and apologised to the general public for “this failure in our accountability to all those that relied on our triple zero providers”.
He added:
I notably specific my deep condolences to the households and associates of the 4 individuals who handed away.
The board is working with Optus chief govt Stephen Rue and the manager staff to grasp what went flawed and why, and what must be finished to stop it occurring in future.
The assessment is predicted to be accomplished earlier than the tip of this yr. The Optus board has dedicated to creating the report public.
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Adam Morton
Prime local weather researchers write to PM with frustrations over emissions targets: ‘we worry for what’s to come back’
Dozens of Australian scientists, together with among the nation’s prime local weather researchers, have written to Anthony Albanese expressing dismay on the authorities’s 2035 emissions discount goal.
The federal government final week introduced it had accepted the recommendation of the Local weather Change Authority to set a goal vary of a 62-70% minimize in greenhouse gasoline emissions in contrast with 2005 ranges.
Scientists worry the harmful climate patterns that may develop if steep cuts to emissions aren’t made. {Photograph}: Australian Related Press/Alamy
Sixty-one scientists and researchers have signed a letter imploring the federal government “to go additional”. The signatories embody the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change authors David Karoly, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Gretta Pecl and Nathan Bindoff.
They stated they’d “spent our careers constructing the proof base that helps better mitigation ambition than what you, prime minister, have chosen” and that a number of research had proven a minimize of 75% or extra by 2035 was “not solely attainable, however would create a big total profit for Australia”.
The letter stated assembly targets above the federal government’s vary “doesn’t come with out its challenges”, however there’s a full decade to ship them:
We worry for what’s to come back if international locations like Australia – with among the many highest potential to right away, drastically and completely scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions of every other on the earth – fail to reside as much as the dedication to ship emissions discount targets that symbolize the best attainable ambition as required by the Paris Settlement.
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Josh Taylor
Logged-out searchers received’t must confirm age, business group says
The lead writer of codes that may require serps and different providers to examine the age of customers and filter out grownup and violent content material for these deemed to be beneath the age of 18 has stated folks will nonetheless be capable of search the web while not having to be age checked.
Guardian Australia has reported beforehand on the age examine codes, to function from December.
Talking earlier than a parliamentary inquiry on the codes, Dr Jennifer Duxbury, director of regulatory affairs at tech business group Digi, was requested by Liberal senator Sarah Henderson, how it will work.
Dr Jennifer Duxbury is showing earlier than an web search engine providers on-line security code public inquiry at Parliament Home in Canberra. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Henderson requested:
If I’m a younger girl desirous to do a Google search, how will I do know that my privateness is being protected with out having to undergo age assurance, show who I’m and supply my ID?
Duxbury replied:
The way in which that the search engine code works, it doesn’t stop you from doing a search on-line with out being required to be age assured, proper?
It’s provided that you’re in a logged-in state whenever you’re utilizing your Google account or your Microsoft account to conduct your search on-line that web page assurance necessities will kick in.
You will be nameless, you may search in an nameless and logged-out state.
When requested why anybody would log in, Duxbury stated the benefit can be it is possible for you to to entry imagery similar to pornography in search outcomes that received’t seem in secure search ends in a logged-out state.
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Jordyn Beazley
Lanyon says he’s made ‘errors up to now’
Circling again to the announcement that Mal Lanyon would be the subsequent NSW police commissioner, there was quite a lot of consideration on the press convention on two incidents which have raised questions on Lanyon’s suitability for the function.
This features a 2021 incident wherein he was discovered collapsed close to Goulburn’s “Huge Merino” sculpture, and his admission to taking his spouse and one other couple on an operational police boat for New Yr’s Eve in 2023.
Lanyon stated:
I’ve made errors up to now, and I’ve all the time sought to study from these experiences and imagine in honesty, accountability and integrity.
Mal Lanyon. {Photograph}: Bianca de Marchi/AAP
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, stated:
I wish to be frank about it: this determination was not made primarily based on who had the mistake-free, excellent file. I wish to make it clear that for me, it was primarily based on who I imagine must be within the commissioner chair on New South Wales’ worst day, and when the general public’s at risk, and the New South Wales police drive wants distinctive management.
He’s led the Reconstruction Authority. He’s had probably the most tough command within the New South Wales police, not only for one yr or two years, however for over a decade.
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New NSW police commissioner says he takes on function with ‘deep sense of obligation’
Jordyn Beazley
Mal Lanyon appeared earlier than the media a short while in the past after it was introduced, after weeks of hypothesis, that he can be subsequent New South Wales police commissioner.
Standing alongside the NSW premier, Chris Minns, and the state police minister, Yasmin Catley, Lanyon stated:
This is without doubt one of the best duties within the public service, and I take it on with humility and a deep sense of obligation.
I acknowledge Commissioner Karen Webb for her distinguished 38-year profession within the police drive. She leaves a legacy of feat as the primary girl to guide the New South Wales Police forces and as a commissioner who delivered enduring reforms.
Mal Lanyon and NSW premier Chris Minns. {Photograph}: Bianca de Marchi/AAP
Lanyon stated he might be concentrate on tackling organised crime, youth crime and “strengthening neighborhood security in our areas, and supporting victims of home and household violence”.
I additionally wish to strengthen the tradition of the New South Wales police drive, [and] domesticate a tradition of respect, professionalism and equity.
I need each officer, each member of the manager [to be] a part of one staff, united behind the drive’s targets, motivated by objective and neighborhood.
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Nino Bucci
Victorian police say household violence will increase throughout AFL grand ultimate weekends
Household violence stories improve on the AFL grand ultimate weekend, however there was no improve on the day of the sport itself.
Household Violence Command performing assistant commissioner Sharon McKinnon stated there was a 9% improve in household violence incidents over the grand ultimate lengthy weekend in September final yr in contrast with 2023.
There have been 796 household violence incidents through the three-day lengthy weekend, up from 729 incidents the yr earlier than.
However the variety of household violence incidents on the precise day of the sport for the previous 5 years has remained constant, with no obvious improve. McKinnon stated:
The Christmas, New Yr and Easter intervals stay probably the most prevalent occasions for household violence offending.
Our key message is that police will take all stories of household violence crime critically and can all the time reply to preserve victims secure and maintain perpetrators to account.
Police will all the time proceed to work via peak vacation intervals to offer security to the neighborhood.
There’s by no means an excuse for household violence and police will be certain that every crime is investigated and that each one offenders are held to account.
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Appearing NSW police commissioner says Mal Lanyon a ‘extremely achieved and revered chief’
As reported earlier, Mal Lanyon has been named the brand new commissioner of the NSW police drive, succeeding Karen Webb.
Peter Thurtell, the performing commissioner of the drive, stated in a press release this morning:
Commissioner-elect Lanyon is a extremely achieved and revered chief, bringing greater than 37 years of policing expertise to the function. His dedication to public service and his deep understanding of the challenges going through fashionable policing make him exceptionally well-suited to guide the NSW police drive into its subsequent chapter.
The NSW police drive is in secure fingers. Below Commissioner-elect Lanyon’s management, we will transfer ahead with confidence to satisfy the challenges forward and proceed delivering for the folks of New South Wales.
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Playing evolution making it tougher to watch how many individuals gamble
Liz Neville, the director of the Australian Institute of Household Research, stated the examine reveals the playing business is quickly evolving, making it tougher to watch how many individuals are taking part and going through playing hurt.
Neville spoke to RN Breakfast this morning:
I feel it tells us that the playing business in all its types – and taking into consideration that the survey coated issues starting from lotteries, bingo, scratchies, pokies, race betting, sports activities betting, the total gamut of playing actions – I feel what it tells us is that this can be a quickly evolving business.
And there’s many types and forms of actions which might be rising that we’re having bother, I feel, maintaining with from a purely standard strategy to monitoring of playing participation and hurt.
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Extra Australians playing each month, analysis says
Henry Belot
The variety of Australians playing and the prevalence of hurt has elevated, with almost one-third of adults betting every month, in accordance with new analysis from the Australian Institute of Household Research.
The survey of three,881 folks in 2024 has prompted the institute’s director, Liz Neville, to name for “a extra sturdy strategy” to stopping playing hurt, together with a cautious examination of present insurance policies.
The federal government is but to answer a landmark parliamentary inquiry in June 2023, which really helpful a number of coverage adjustments together with a complete ban on promoting and the creation of a extra highly effective nationwide regulator.
Extra Australians are playing and playing hurt is rising, new analysis reveals. {Photograph}: Bloomberg/Getty Photos
The examine discovered 65% of adults gambled no less than annually, which was an 8 share level improve on the info recorded in 2019. It discovered 15% skilled guilt or stress about their playing and offered possessions to assist chase their losses.
The Australian Playing Analysis Centre’s analysis fellow, Dr Gabriel Tillman, stated the findings confirmed the more and more destructive affect of wagering.
The truth that greater than 3 million Australian adults are experiencing harms from their playing, and these numbers have elevated lately regardless of harm-reduction measures ought to concern Australians.
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Tom McIlroy
Australia’s bid to host the COP31 local weather talks in Adelaide this yr nonetheless a piece in progress
Anthony Albanese and the local weather change and power minister, Chris Bowen, are searching for to press the case to host the COP31 local weather talks with Turkey throughout their go to to New York this week.
Bowen met his counterpart, Murat Kurum, on the sidelines of the UN summit and the prime minister is searching for a gathering with Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in coming days.
Albanese stated he wished to make the case for the Pacific to host the talks together with Australia. Turkey additionally desires to host, so until a compromise will be reached, the summit will default to Bonn in Germany.
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty Photos
“The Pacific is necessary,” Albanese stated on Wednesday morning, Australian time.
One of many issues that’s difficult is it’s a joint bid by Australia and the Pacific, so any preparations we are going to focus on with our Pacific neighbours, as we now have been.
I’ve already had discussions with a spread of Pacific leaders who’re right here as properly. I might be having discussions with President Erdogan as properly.
The prime minister didn’t say when he would converse to the Turkish chief however he nonetheless has a lot of bilateral conferences earlier than leaving the US.
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