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Dow Jones Newswires: Australia’s economic growth slows even as consumers keep spending
Dow Jones Newswires: Peabody, Australia’s Coronado end talks over potential merger
Dow Jones Newswires: Australia’s consumer confidence drops as inflation expectations jump
Dow Jones Newswires: Casino regulator hits Australia’s Star with A$100 million fine, suspends license
China’s Nio joins the race for lithium, buys 12% of Australia’s Greenwing Resources
China’s electric vehicle upstart Nio has joined Tesla in sourcing raw materials directly from mines rather than its own battery suppliers as soaring prices of lithium, a critical component of EV batteries, hurt manufacturers’ supply chain stability and bottom lines. Lithium carbonate prices in China hit a record 501,500 yuan/tonne in September, tripling the number […]
China’s Nio joins the race for lithium, buys 12% of Australia’s Greenwing Resources by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Optus, Australia’s second largest telco, says customer data exposed in data breach
Australia telecoms giant Optus said current and former customer data was accessed following a cyberattack on its systems. Optus said in a press release on Thursday that an unspecified number of customer names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and addresses and identity document numbers, such as driver’s license or passport numbers, were taken […]
Optus, Australia’s second largest telco, says customer data exposed in data breach by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch
Australia’s top court rules Google isn’t a publisher
Google has prevailed in its long-running battle over potentially defamatory web links. Australia’s High Court has ruled Google wasn’t the publisher of a link to a 2004 story in The Age that allegedly tarnished state lawyer George Defteros, who represented people implicated in the Melbourne gangland killings and briefly faced charges himself. As The Guardianreports, five of seven court justices found that the search result link “merely facilitated access” to the story — Google didn’t play a part in writing or distributing the content.
The High Court also rebuffed Defteros’ claim that search results encouraged users to visit a story. Someone who found that link was already searching for relevant content, the justices said. Some of the justices said the case might have been different if it had been a sponsored link, but that Google’s appeal didn’t require an answer on the subject.
Defteros sued Google in 2016, accusing the company of defaming him. Google pulled the link in December that year, and lost its initial court fight, but tried to overturn the ruling by arguing that it could have been held liable for the content of any page it linked to — it was worried it would have to “act as censor” for the internet at large. The company didn’t succeed with that first appeal, and in 2020 a Victorian supreme court ordered that Defteros receive $40,000 in damages. Google asked the High Court to intervene in January.
The decision could a wide-ranging impact on internet firms operating in Australia. They might not have to worry that search queries or other automatically-generated links could get them into legal trouble. A complainant would have to show there was a deliberate attempt to promote an unflattering piece.
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Australia’s Central Bank Rolls Out a Pilot to Analyze CBDC Application Cases
Australia’s central bank is launching a research project to analyze the central bank’s digital currency (CBDC) application methods.