Josh Butler
@JoshButler
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Political reporter & COS @GuardianAus - send memes & tips: DMs open • [email protected] • secure: [email protected] •
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Joined July 2009
New: trade minister Don Farrell charged taxpayers $9000 over three years for his family’s travel costs around Australia after being invited to football games, tennis matches, a sunset dinner at Uluru and a wine event, parliamentary records show https://t.co/qdL9b4ZzkN
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Minister says family travel expenses, including those claimed around the time of AFL grand final and a sunset dinner at Uluru, are ‘in line with relevant rules’
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The federal Nationals’ youth wing has called to dump the under-16s social media ban, amid growing Coalition push against the world-leading laws Numerous Coalition MPs wavering on the laws - which they backed in parliament & were championed by Peter Dutton https://t.co/QPRfCMFc95
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Exclusive: President of National party’s youth branch says many children in regional and remote areas rely on social media to stay connected
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Pauline Hanson announces Barnaby Joyce has joined One Nation will sit as a One Nation MP in lower house til next election, then will run for a Senate seat in NSW will be ON's sole rep in the lower house for now
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Social media app Lemon8 is expected to restrict users to 16+ from December 10 It experienced a recent surge in interest as it isn't included in the under-16 ban eSafety Commission warned it was closely monitoring the app for possible inclusion in the ban https://t.co/vD0Qe2EA4P
theguardian.com
Australia’s under-16s social media ban might take weeks to work but all platforms are on notice, government says
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Google has savaged the federal government’s under-16s social media ban, claiming the law “won’t keep teens safer online” and “fundamentally misunderstands” how children use the internet Youtube will sign out under-16s from December 10 https://t.co/qAaJkgDBNr
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The federal government could force AI companies to boost Australia’s power grid and build new wind and solar projects to help supply their energy-intensive data centres, amid concerns the booming industry could suck up vast amounts of electricity and water
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Australian government wants artificial intelligence industry to help expand power grid to supply their energy-intensive data centres
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🎂 ChatGPT turned 3 years old. Here's where we are now: - It still hallucinates - Children can still access it freely - 'Companionship' use is on the rise - It has weak guardrails against mental health harm - It amplified dozens of mental health crises, a few of which led to
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🇦🇺 Labor Rejects Standalone AI Legislation With Plan That Offers To Help 'Unlock' Public And Private Data ▫Roadmap focuses on technology’s ‘economic benefits’ ▫@JoshButler ▫ https://t.co/VKX5ksKjgo
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only story I care about today is Trump's mystery MRI Via AP: Trump added Sunday that he has “no idea” on what part of his body he got the MRI. “What part of the body? It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.”
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PM Albanese and Jodie Haydon married today at the Lodge in Canberra (to pre-empt an obvious question, we're told they paid for it all themselves)
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Oh FFS, this is the lead story on the AFR homepage. One anonymous source "indicated" an unknown number of Chinese ships presently in an unknown location "could reach Australia by the end of the year" - which means they could be anywhere going anywhere... https://t.co/VwfcJXkFgq
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The vessels may be heading towards Australia, less than a year after a naval task group sparked alarm when it unexpectedly circumnavigated the country.
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this ai shit is also like… i actually don’t want to be having to pore over every picture and video using every skill in my toolbox trying to figure out if it’s a completely fake non existent machine hallucination. what a stupid use of being ALIVE. too far even for me
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hello I am a real estate agent specialising in rentals. I demand you have a full time job so as to pay the rent. Unrelated, can you be at home between 1-3:30pm on Tuesday for a 5 minute house inspection?
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breaking: Barnaby Joyce confirms he's quitting the Nationals and going to the crossbench - but NO confirmation of One Nation switch yet "I apologise for all the hurt this will cause other people"
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Barnaby Joyce has taken his normal seat on the Coalition benches Monique Ryan and Sophie Scamps called over to him, tapping the benches behind them and motioning for him to join them on the crossbench "It's lovely over here," Ryan said, laughing https://t.co/72NaJYKWOh
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This blog is now closed
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Malcolm Turnbull in Parliament House, official portrait unveiling. With Sussan Ley in audience, says: "7 years since I stopped being PM, there's still reality denial, physics denial is still alive" "Energy policy should be made by engineering & economics, not ideology & idiocy"
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The government’s refusal to release its own translation and then putting a suppression order on the translation of an interview that is on a public Facebook page raises serious questions about transparency. We need more transparency around offshore arrangements while people are
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In newly translated excerpts of a February interview, David Adeang wrongly stated the people Australia has begun deporting to his country are not refugees
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breaking: Pauline Hanson suspended from the Senate for 7 days after refusing to apologise for burqa stunt yesterday (as compelled by Senate order and censure motion)
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the Senate has overwhelmingly voted to censure Pauline Hanson for her burqa stunt Motion passed 55 to 5 - only One Nation and Ralph Babet voted against Hanson will be barred from overseas parliamentary delegations
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Pauline Hanson - not wearing the burqa today - is about to be censured by the Senate over her stunt yesterday Labor, crossbench and Coalition supporting the motion being moved now by Penny Wong
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