Australia has approved at least 14 permits for the export of military goods to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates over the last year and a half, despite their involvement in the Yemen conflict which has created a humanitarian crisis. Department of Defence has also revealed it has approved permits for $580,000 of military goods to Turkey since late 2019, even though the defence minister, Linda Reynolds, announced a “pause” of such exports at.
US intervenes to defend tech giants
The Trump administration has called on Australia to abandon plans to force Google and Facebook to pay news organisations for sharing their content. The call came in a letter submitted to an Australian parliamentary inquiry by US trade representatives, according to
The Guardian. The letter described the plan as “vaguely drafted and confusing” and called instead for a voluntary code of conduct. “The United States respectfully requests Australia suspend plans to finalise this legislative proposal,” the letter read. In a statement Treasurer Josh Frydenberg committed to proceeding with a mandatory code, which he noted “is the culmination of an 18-month review by the ACCC”. Submissions to the senate committee closed on Monday. Ahead of the first hearings on Friday, independent senator Rex Patrick criticised threats by Google to exit the Australian market and its experiments in burying links to news outlets in search results.
The Australian government is to be challenged over the country’s lack of progress in reducing rates of Indigenous incarceration at a UN hearing this week. Sweden and Uruguay have submitted questions in advance about the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian prisons, while Germany wants to know why Australia has delayed a push to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years. Countries.
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