Washington: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that Facebook's refusal to take down an altered video of her shows that the company's leaders were active contributors to online disinforrmation and "willing enablers" of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Pelosi's comments to KQED News, her first public response to the video since it began…
Race 1 – 12:00PM REWARDS HOSPITALITY PLATE (1200 METRES) 2. Magic Town did enough first-up for a year at Kembla to suggest there’s improvement and if that’s the case he’s struck a winnable race. Closed off okay at 1000m fresh, goes to 1200m from a soft gate and should run well. Dangers: 6. Rubikat tackled…
Tim Clipsham wasn't prepared for a phone call from Atlassian inquiring about buying his start-up. Click Here: "I was really surprised, it wasn't something I had considered," the founder of analytics company Good Software says. "I had a 10-year vision ahead of what I wanted to achieve." The 31-year-old software developer launched Good Software just…
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has told an Australian audience it was “speculation” and “absolutely untrue” that Hong Kong would lose its distinct identity as the Chinese Communist Party pushes ahead with an economic plan to link the former British colony with nearby mainland cities. Lam will travel to Australia to promote…
Alan Jones has re-signed with Macquarie Media after protracted contract negotiations that have dragged on for months. On Tuesday, Macquarie Media announced the Sydney shock jock had been given a two-year contract. Formal contract negotiations kicked-off in late February. Macquarie Media chairman Russell Tate said in a statement he was pleased that Jones would be…
Wellington: New Zealand's political opposition has denied hacking the Treasury department to obtain highly secure state budget documents and says the Ardern government is conducting a "witch-hunt". The country's centre-right National Party on Tuesday released what it said were details from the Labour-led administration's much-anticipated national budget, but refused to say how it got the…
I was in a café with a friend, and a well-dressed businessman approached. He told me he was a fan of my writing, and that he’d love to meet up some time. Later, he called me, and we chatted for half an hour. He said he was divorced with a child, and that he was…
Australia's greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 rose for a fourth year in a row, an increase at odds with the country's Paris climate pledge, according to a government submission to the United Nations. The National Inventory Report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change showed emissions last year were 537 million tonnes of carbon…
Controversial tech group GetSwift has landed in hot water with the stock exchange after an undisclosed 'strategic partnership' in Kuwait appears to have sent its shares soaring by 20 per cent on Tuesday. The last mile logistics operator faces a shareholder class action and is being sued by ASIC after allegedly misleading the market by…
Namchne, Nepal: Scaling Mount Everest was a dream few realised before Nepal opened its side of the mountain to commercial climbing a half-century ago. This year the government issued a record number of permits, leading to traffic jams on the world's highest peak that likely contributed to the greatest death toll in four years. As…