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Australia misses out on cheap PS4 pricing
Sure PS4 has been priced at $100 USD less than the xBONE, coming in at US$399. But for all this fanfare and literal standing ovation, there’s a problem for Australian gamers. The PS4 is set to retail at a tooth-grindingly expensive A$549 because of… reasons? That’s too much. I’ve checked. …
Is the government using the Opal system to track people?
Imagine a world in which your every move could be monitored by the government. You might board the train in the morning, switch to the bus to get to the office, later take a ferry to a client meeting. Across all modes of public transport, every one of your journeys …
Australian Government setting up our own version of Prism
The Australian government has been building a state-of-the art, secret data storage facility just outside Canberra to enable intelligence agencies to deal with a ”data deluge” siphoned from the internet and global telecommunications networks. The high-security facility nearing completion at the HMAS Harman communications base will support the operations of …
Australia wins at downloading Game of Thrones again
At its height the Istole tracker reported that 171,572 people where active on a single torrent, 128,686 sharing a complete copy while 42,886 were still downloading. Data gathered by TorrentFreak shows that, within 24 hours, the season finale has been downloaded a million times. This could increase to more than …
Superman Sequel announced
Will you like Man of Steel? Warner Bros are so confident you will, that even before it had its world premiere on Monday they were already fast-tracking the sequel. In the process they have locked in Zack Snyder to direct again, Christopher Nolan to return as producer and David Goyer …
Feminazis try to get Tyler the Creator kicked out of Australia
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship and the police have received complaints from an Australian woman who says she was verbally abused by US rapper Tyler the Creator at a Sydney show. Police are investigating claims that Tyler unleashed an expletive-laden tirade on 24-year-old feminist campaigner Talitha Stone at Newtown’s …
The Australian election 2013: A choice between a turd and shit sandwich
So it seems lolabor is going to lose massively at the up-coming election. I won’t be sad to see them go. They are dysfunctional, moronic bunch of idiots who managed to fuck up a boom-time in Australia along with a long list of stupid things. Such as getting rid of …
Australia’s data retention plan “trivially easy” to defeat
In a major admission, the Attorney-General’s Department has revealed Australia’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies are seeking the legal power to break into internet routing encryption services such as Tor, after admitting the centerpiece of its proposed national security reforms, data retention, will be “trivially easy” to defeat. Source A …
Despite needing to raise taxes to pay for their economic fuck ups, the government is giving themselves more money
A SECRETLY negotiated deal between Labor and the Liberals to get as much as $40 million in party funding today is causing unprecedented outrage among backbenchers and independents. Anger over the agreement for taxpayers to provide political parties with a $1-a-vote bonus was further fuelled by the revelation it would …
Hollywood visits Australia with mass lawsuits
A Sydney-based law firm has issued a series of letters to major Australian ISPs requesting they hand over the details of users who have allegedly used peer to peer Internet file sharing platforms to pirate content owned by the firm’s clients, in a move which appears set to reopen the …
Ford Australia to shut Broadmeadows car factory, Geelong engine plant
FORD will close its manufacturing operations in Australia and 1200 workers will lose their jobs in October 2016, despite receiving $1.1 billion in taxpayer funding over the past decade. Ford Australia president and CEO Bob Graziano told the media that the company would shut the Geelong engine factory, costing 510 …
History isn’t boring!
Five ancient copper coins and a map with an “X” might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia’s history. Australian soldier, Maurie Isenberg was stationed on one of the Wessel Islands in WW2 to man a radar station and spent his spare time fishing on the idyllic beaches. While …
Australian government start web filtering in secret
The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for other government agencies to unilaterally block sites they deem questionable in their own portfolios. The …
Aussie man cured of death
39-year old Colin Fielder from Victoria, Australia was clinically dead for 40 minutes—that is until a new resuscitation technique from The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne brought him back to life, according to Herald Sun. The new technique is one of two being performed by the hospital. They have already resuscitated …
Happy mothers day Australia
Many Australians celebrate Mother’s Day by showing their appreciation for the achievements and efforts of mothers and mother figures. It is annually observed in Australia on the second Sunday of May. What do people do? Many people appreciate their mothers or mother figures, which include stepmothers, relatives, guardians (eg. foster …
It’s Australian BACON week
Australian Bacon Week (12–19 May) is the celebration of true, blue Aussie bacon. And with it comes the announcement of the winners of the National Bacon Awards for Excellence – and Australia’s most expensive bacon and egg roll. It is often said that bacon is the meat that will tempt …
Coming to a sky (maybe) near you
For the second time in six months, Australia will be treated to a solar eclipse on 10 May when a ring of fire will appear across a narrow band of locations in northern Australia. From there it passes over Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Gilbert Islands before reaching …
Australia’s top hackers uncovered in tournament
Bunkered down in rooms across the nation, 43 teams of students spent 24 busy hours hacking IT systems non-stop this week. Their challenge? To uncover flaws in a fictitious company’s IT systems Telstra, along with other government agencies, held their “2013 Cyber Security Challenge” on Tuesday and Wednesday to try …
Jeffrey Bleich, Hollywood shill
THE US ambassador to Australia, who reprimanded Australians for pirating Game of Thrones, was a partner at the Hollywood law firm which counts Time Warner, the parent company of the popular fantasy TV series, as a regular client. Jeff Bleich, who said on Facebook that he found it “troubling” Australia …