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Guardian Australia political editor Karen Middleton has spoken to Anthony Albanese about the Coalition’s decision to ditch the 2030 emissions target. Albanese said:
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It is just not a serious policy and if you don’t have a serious policy on energy and climate then you can’t be taken seriously as the alternative prime minister of Australia.
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The point of having a target was to have ambition and try to meet it.
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He also talked about pro-Palestine protests outside electorate offices, and the Indigenous voice eight months on.
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Listen to the Full Story podcast here:
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Deepfake apps with the ability to impose women’s heads on naked bodies are being pushed on social media as experts warn more advanced software could be on the horizon, Australian Associated Press reports.
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Monash University associate professor Asher Flynn, who specialises in technology-facilitated violence, said tech giants should be responsible for hosting promotion of the apps.
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“You can have these advertised on an Instagram feed and just it’ll be an app or a different website that you can go to where you can actually upload an image of any female,” she told AAP.
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“Usually they’re just for women, so it will remove the clothing and replace it with female genitalia, breasts, and you’ve got a realistic, fake, sexualised image available.”
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It comes after manipulated images were allegedly shared of girls in years 9 to 12 at Bacchus Marsh Grammar, northwest of Melbourne.
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Dr Flynn said not enough was being done to stamp out access to the software.
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“This type of technology is new in the sense that we’re seeing escalation of it and the quality of the images that are being created,” she said.
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“And it’s just becoming more accessible. Three years ago, you’d have to search for it and go to kind of the underground platforms to find it, now it’s readily available.”
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Laws cracking down on the sharing of sexually explicit AI-generated images and deepfakes without consent were recently introduced to federal parliament.
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Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be bringing you the best of the overnight stories before my colleague Emily Wind comes along to grab the controls.
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Our exclusive top story this morning reveals that Peter Dutton claimed $23,000 in travel expenses to fly to Tamworth to make a speech at a News Corp event where he spoke about the cost-of-living crisis. The opposition leader had a prior engagement in Canberra and couldn’t take a scheduled flight to speak at the News Corp event so he took a private jet.
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In an exclusive Guardian Australia interview, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, tells us that Dutton has forfeited his claim to the top job because refusing to name a short-term emissions reduction target shows he is not serious about addressing climate change. Albanese also talks about Palestine protests and the voice referendum and is the subject of our Full Story podcast today.
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The alleged distribution of fake nude images of girls at a school in Victoria has intensified the debate about children’s access to social media. Victoria’s premier, Jacinta Allan, called out the “disgraceful” conduct yesterday and an academic at Monash University who specialises in technology-facilitated violence said tech giants should be responsible for hosting promotion of the apps. More coming up.
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Australians on income support are “structurally unable to afford the basics of life”, according to a report today by Anglicare, with the average jobseeker recipient having a $135 a week on just the basic weekly cost of food, housing and transport. It underlines the parlous state of many Australians’ finances and there will be another pointer about the state of the economy this morning when the ABS releases employment figures for May.
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And a new report argues that governments should partner with private landlords to help low-income families find housing, as rental assistance struggles to keep up with the market – more on that soon.
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Emily Wind
And happy Thursday – thanks to Martin for kicking things off for us. I’m Emily Wind, and I’ll take you through our rolling coverage today. As always, you can get in touch via X, @emilywindwrites, or you can send me an email: emily.wind@theguardian.com.
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Albanese on Dutton, Palestine protests and the voice
Guardian Australia political editor Karen Middleton has spoken to Anthony Albanese about the Coalition’s decision to ditch the 2030 emissions target. Albanese said:
It is just not a serious policy and if you don’t have a serious policy on energy and climate then you can’t be taken seriously as the alternative prime minister of Australia.
The point of having a target was to have ambition and try to meet it.
He also talked about pro-Palestine protests outside electorate offices, and the Indigenous voice eight months on.
Listen to the Full Story podcast here:
Stephanie Convery
State and territory governments should investigate partnerships with private landlords to secure tenancies for low-income families who receive rent assistance, the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute has argued in a new report.
The research, out today, looked at private rental assistance schemes, such as commonwealth rent assistance and state and territory bond loans programs, and their interplay with the social housing system.
It found that more than 50% of survey respondents had not been able to sustain their rental tenancy, even with assistance.
There was also no guarantee that households who were eligible for private rental assistance would be able to access a suitable private rental property, particularly when there were affordability cut-offs – limiting the amount of rent people could sign up to pay and still receive help – included in the eligibility criteria.
Bond loans were one of the most common forms of assistance offered, but respondents often did not take it up as they believed they would be unable to repay it, or they were afraid it could affect their reputation with real estate agents.
The report also found the effectiveness of rent assistance to keep people in the private rental market was highly dependent on market conditions.
Lead researcher, Dr Fatemeh Aminpour from the University of New South Wales, said:
Private rental assistance recipients are finding it increasingly difficult to secure private rental properties that conform to the eligible affordability cut-offs.
We saw that sometimes assistance products aren’t being taken up, not because they’re not needed but because of rents being too high to meet the eligibility requirements.
This raises serious questions as to the viability of private rental assistance as an alternative to social housing in jurisdictions like Australia, where the private rental sector is relatively under-regulated and volatile.
Expert says tech giants should be accountable over AI images
Deepfake apps with the ability to impose women’s heads on naked bodies are being pushed on social media as experts warn more advanced software could be on the horizon, Australian Associated Press reports.
Monash University associate professor Asher Flynn, who specialises in technology-facilitated violence, said tech giants should be responsible for hosting promotion of the apps.
“You can have these advertised on an Instagram feed and just it’ll be an app or a different website that you can go to where you can actually upload an image of any female,” she told AAP.
“Usually they’re just for women, so it will remove the clothing and replace it with female genitalia, breasts, and you’ve got a realistic, fake, sexualised image available.”
It comes after manipulated images were allegedly shared of girls in years 9 to 12 at Bacchus Marsh Grammar, northwest of Melbourne.
Dr Flynn said not enough was being done to stamp out access to the software.
“This type of technology is new in the sense that we’re seeing escalation of it and the quality of the images that are being created,” she said.
“And it’s just becoming more accessible. Three years ago, you’d have to search for it and go to kind of the underground platforms to find it, now it’s readily available.”
Laws cracking down on the sharing of sexually explicit AI-generated images and deepfakes without consent were recently introduced to federal parliament.
Welcome
Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be bringing you the best of the overnight stories before my colleague Emily Wind comes along to grab the controls.
Our exclusive top story this morning reveals that Peter Dutton claimed $23,000 in travel expenses to fly to Tamworth to make a speech at a News Corp event where he spoke about the cost-of-living crisis. The opposition leader had a prior engagement in Canberra and couldn’t take a scheduled flight to speak at the News Corp event so he took a private jet.
In an exclusive Guardian Australia interview, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, tells us that Dutton has forfeited his claim to the top job because refusing to name a short-term emissions reduction target shows he is not serious about addressing climate change. Albanese also talks about Palestine protests and the voice referendum and is the subject of our Full Story podcast today.
The alleged distribution of fake nude images of girls at a school in Victoria has intensified the debate about children’s access to social media. Victoria’s premier, Jacinta Allan, called out the “disgraceful” conduct yesterday and an academic at Monash University who specialises in technology-facilitated violence said tech giants should be responsible for hosting promotion of the apps. More coming up.
Australians on income support are “structurally unable to afford the basics of life”, according to a report today by Anglicare, with the average jobseeker recipient having a $135 a week on just the basic weekly cost of food, housing and transport. It underlines the parlous state of many Australians’ finances and there will be another pointer about the state of the economy this morning when the ABS releases employment figures for May.
And a new report argues that governments should partner with private landlords to help low-income families find housing, as rental assistance struggles to keep up with the market – more on that soon.
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