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Agriculture · GlebeMolecular geneticist Dr Marion Healy has been appointed as NSW’s biosecurity commissioner as the government steps up efforts to combat pests, diseases, weeds and contaminants in the agriculture sector.
Dr Marion Healy The government has also announced the appointment of Rachel Connell as the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and Biosecurity in the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development; while Kate Lorimer-Ward will serve as CEO…See the Story
NSW announces biosecurity appointments
Glebe · GlebeA South Australian Council says data stolen from its servers has appeared on the dark web. Wattle Range Council said in a statement last Friday it was investigating a cyber incident involving access to some of its file drives by an unauthorised third party. “Our ongoing investigation has confirmed that some Wattle Range Council data has been accessed and taken from our IT environment,” it said in a statement on Friday. “We are also aware that Wa…See the Story
Stolen council data appears on dark web
Maryland · MarylandWA’s Public Transport Authority (PTA) has awarded global transport company Alstom a ten-year, $1.6 billion contract to upgrade signalling and train control systems in Perth.
Rita Saffoti Alstom will design, build, test and maintain new high-capacity signalling technology across the suburban rail network in what it says is the world’s largest signalling project by route length. Once completed, the project will increase Perth’s network capacity b…See the Story
WA awards $1.6b contract for major train control systems upgrade
Racism · GlebeLocal government has come under criticism for not doing enough to combat racism in a new report from the Human Rights Commission.
Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay “While there are excellent individual examples of local government work, generally local government does not see anti-racism work as a consideration, either at local council or their state/national peak body levels,” the report, titled Mapping government anti-racisim programs…See the Story
Human Rights Commission criticises councils' inaction on racism
Glebe · GlebeVictoria has announced library upgrades across the state with 19 projects to receive a share of $2.2 million in funding.
Vanessa Schernickau The state government has invested more than $48.2 million in Victoria’s 283 public libraries this year as part of its Living Libraries Infrastructure Program, which was established to help councils and regional library corporations fund infrastructure and minor works. The Middle Park Library Activation …See the Story
Victoria invests in public libraries
CrowdStrike · GlebeThe federal government has praised swift action and cooperation among all levels of government during the Microsoft crash, saying the impact of the outage was far less than initially feared.
CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz: apology The global outage, caused by an error in an update by cyber security software company CrowdStrike, is estimated to have disabled some 8.5 million computers around the world, according to Microsoft. The outag…See the Story
CrowdStrike outage could have been much worse: PM
Glebe · GlebeFormer NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is resigning from parliament to join global mining giant BHP in the US.
Dominic Perrottet In a statement issued on social media on Friday Mr Perrottet said he plans to formally announce on August 11 resignation after 13 years of public service. He said it had been the greatest privilege of his life to serve as Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Industrial Relations, and finance minister. “I got into politic…See the Story