Australia News: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on May 21, 2025.
MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: MOFA urges international community to jointly condemn China for once again provoking and undermining regional security and stability
Source: Republic of China Taiwan MOFA urges international community to jointly condemn China for once again provoking and undermining regional security and stability Date：2025-02-27Data Source：Department of Policy Planning February 27, 2025 No. 051 China announced without prior warning on February 26 that it had designated a military exercise zone off the coast of Taiwan for […]
MIL-Evening Report: NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Gaston, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Shutterstock/Olivier Le Queinec A lack of strategy and research funding – by both the current and previous governments – has been well documented, most comprehensively in the first report […]
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: expert reaction to study of the cold sore virus herpes simplex 1 and risk of Alzheimer’s
Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments May 20, 2025 A study published in BMJ Open looks at the association between herpes simplex virus type 1 and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr Sheona Scales, Director of Research at Alzheimer’s Research UK: “There’s an increasing amount of evidence that suggests our body’s response to certain viruses […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Gaza – Aid instrumentalised, health system under fire: Gaza is being deliberately asphyxiated by Israeli forces – MSF
Source: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Jerusalem, 21 May 2025 – An insufficient amount of aid is being allowed into the Strip, merely a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over. Meanwhile, at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged, or forced partially or completely out of service in the past week […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Australia Banking Sector – CBA announces interest rate reductions
Source: Commonwealth Bank of Australia The Commonwealth Bank has responded to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s cash rate decision. Following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) decision to decrease the official cash rate by 0.25% per annum (p.a.), CBA will decrease home loan variable interest rates by 0.25% p.a. All home loan variable rate changes […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Australia Banking Sector – CBA cuts interest rates for business bank customers
Source: Commonwealth Bank of Australia The Commonwealth Bank has responded to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s cash rate decision, reducing rates on eligible business banking products. Commonwealth Bank will reduce interest rates by 25 basis points per annum (p.a.) on eligible business lending products, following the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decision to decrease the […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Serious crash Lonsdale Road, Hallett Cove
Source: New South Wales – News Emergency services are at the scene of a serious crash on Lonsdale Road, Hallett Cove. The collision occurred about 2.20pm on Tuesday 20 May on Lonsdale Road, near The Cove Road. There are serious injuries reported, and the road is expected to remain closed for several hours. Northbound traffic […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Reserve Bank cuts interest rates again
Source: Australian Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry Today the independent Reserve Bank of Australia Monetary Policy Board decided to lower the cash rate again for the second time in three months. This quarter of a percentage point cut brings the cash rate to 3.85 per cent. This is very welcome relief for millions of Australians. We […]
MIL-Evening Report: Can Murray Watt fix Australia’s broken nature laws? First stop, Western Australia
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Bell-James, Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland New federal Environment Minister Murray Watt is in Western Australia this week to reboot nature law reform. Reform stalled in the Senate last term, following stiff opposition from the state’s Labor government and mining sector. […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: University Research – ‘Natural’ pacemaker successfully tried in humans – UoA
Source: University of Auckland (UoA) A pacemaker with a ‘beat’ that responds to breathing is showing good results in studies and is now being trialled in Kiwi heart patients. A pacemaker that mimics the heart’s naturally variable rhythm is being trialled in humans for the first time with no adverse effects reported and the promise […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Get your deferral request right the first time
Source: New places to play in Gungahlin We are seeing an increasing number of lodgment deferral requests that fail to provide enough information or only provide generic information that doesn’t support the reason for your request. To ensure we can consider your request, you need to include detailed information that supports the reason for your […]
MIL-Evening Report: Follow the money: the organisations that spent the most on social media during the election
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Riboldi, Lecturer in Social Impact and Social Change, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney The Conversation , CC BY Social media advertising is an increasingly important frontier in election campaigns. Political parties, candidates and third-party groups – such as trade unions, industry bodies and interest […]
MIL-Evening Report: There’s no country more important to Australia than Indonesia. Trouble is, the feeling isn’t mutual
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Lindsey, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne Making Jakarta their first overseas visit has become a set piece for newly elected Australian prime ministers dating back to John Howard in 1996. […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Enhanced Proactive Policing in Katherine
Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services Due to an increase in police demand, Katherine police have increased proactive measures in order to drive down crime and antisocial behaviour. Alcohol remains a primary catalyst for crime and anti-social behaviour across the region, and in response, police have significantly increased Banned Drinkers Orders (BDO) for problem […]
MIL-Evening Report: AI may be exposing jobseekers to discrimination. Here’s how we could better protect them
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natalie Sheard, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne Studio Romantic/Shutterstock Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly transforming the world of work – not least, the process of hiring, managing and promoting employees. According to the most recent Responsible AI Index, 62% of Australian organisations used AI […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Readiness strengthened through Wallington multiagency exercise
Source: Credit: Mike Dugdale Volunteers from across the Bellarine Peninsula and surrounding areas successfully came together over the weekend on Sunday 18 May, to participate in a large-scale multiagency operation – Exercise Mabon – in Wallington. Coordinated by the VICSES Bellarine Unit, the exercise held on Sunday, 18 May, simulated a major traffic incident involving […]
MIL-Evening Report: Labor’s second-term defence priorities – could they include a pact with Europe?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Layton, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University 1000 Words/Shutterstock An apt metaphor for the Department of Defence in Labor’s second term might be the Titanic. The good ship “defence” has hit an iceberg: the senior officers are reassuring all is fine, the band is playing and […]
MIL-Evening Report: Why Netflix’s The Eternaut is one of the most important shows to come out of Argentina in recent years
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claudia Sandberg, Senior Lecturer, Technology in Culture and Society, The University of Melbourne Netflix It all starts when a group of old friends in Buenos Aires meet for a round of the card game truco on a hot summer night. Suddenly – a power outage. As darkness […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Crime series – Northern Suburbs
Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services Eleven youths and two adults have been arrested in relation to multiple separate stolen motor vehicle incidents early this morning. Between 12:30am and 12:45am, the Joint Emergency Services Communication Centre received reports of a white Toyota Landcruiser utility and grey Nissan Navara dual cab driving dangerously through Stuart […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Science and Nature in Full Bloom at Floriade 2025
Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services As part of ACT Government’s ‘One Government, One Voice’ program, we are transitioning this website across to our . You can access everything you need through this website while it’s happening. Released 20/05/2025 Australia’s biggest celebration of spring returns to Commonwealth Park from Saturday 13 September to Sunday […]