Peter Gearin
@petergearin.bsky.social
Editor in Chief @ The Mandarin, Australia’s trusted source for public service news and information. Published by Private Media.
The Australian government has introduced legislation today to enforce a minimum age of 16 years for social media. Columnist Zoë Rose says such a ban is impossible. But building a digital ID infrastructure giving security and power to people and businesses IS possible, if you know where to look.
Digital ID policy fails you, your kids, and the country
Radically secure digital identity infrastructure is up and running in Europe right now. But not here, in Australia.
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November 21, 2024 at 2:59 AM
The Australian government has introduced legislation today to enforce a minimum age of 16 years for social media. Columnist Zoë Rose says such a ban is impossible. But building a digital ID infrastructure giving security and power to people and businesses IS possible, if you know where to look.
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"[QUT] Professor and summit attendee Axel Bruns said the emails were a 'low point in the rich history of ill-informed Australian policy-making on Internet technologies'."
EXCLUSIVE | Many experts were suspicious about how explicitly a recent summit platformed people who supported Labor’s teen social media ban. Today @cameronwilson.bsky.social reveals emails that prove the event was set up to create “momentum” for the ban.
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Emails reveal how Labor engineered event to support its own teen social media ban
Exclusive: A senior advisor to the SA premier emailed Jonathan Haidt saying that the state's social media summit was being run 'with the intent of building momentum' for a social media ban.
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November 21, 2024 at 1:32 AM
"[QUT] Professor and summit attendee Axel Bruns said the emails were a 'low point in the rich history of ill-informed Australian policy-making on Internet technologies'."
ASIS is seeking to recruit suitable Australians for a range of mission-critical roles. Leave your Aston Martin at home. www.themandarin.com.au/280496-asis-...
Pssst: Want a job at Australia’s most secretive agency?
ASIS is seeking to recruit suitable Australians for a range of mission-critical roles. Leave your Aston Martin at home.
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November 12, 2024 at 6:02 AM
ASIS is seeking to recruit suitable Australians for a range of mission-critical roles. Leave your Aston Martin at home. www.themandarin.com.au/280496-asis-...
The Mandarin has launched its defence special report today … 12 articles on the multiple challenges facing the Department of Defence and the ADF www.themandarin.com.au/special-repo...
2024 Defence Special Report Archives
Australia's defence leaders must prepared for action in an increasingly turbulent regional and global environment.
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November 12, 2024 at 5:58 AM
The Mandarin has launched its defence special report today … 12 articles on the multiple challenges facing the Department of Defence and the ADF www.themandarin.com.au/special-repo...