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AAPMI is a group of Asia Pacific media experts, including former diplomats & executives, journalists & technologists with decades of experience in the region.

Melbourne, Victoria
Joined June 2018
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Albanese's proposal to water down Australian copyright to appease AI companies is a "terrible betrayal", writes Richard Flanagan in a blistering piece. "The government’s secret proposals on AI copyright effectively amount to handing over our culture to a handful of anti-democratic oligarchs and raising the spectre of Australia becoming a vassal state." "A government that doesn’t understand its nation’s culture is a government incapable of leading the nation." deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-…
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Anthropic & Open AI want Aust govt to weaken copyright law so they can shift model training to Aust. What they dont say is an Aust opt-in/out system would let them copy global material without paying, as long as it’s copied in Aust. My piece here: insidestory.org.au/will-aust…
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Congratulations to Emmanuel Nyipiengo Kouriane, the first Kanak to gain a PhD in Public Law at the University of New Caledonia, after completing his doctoral thesis on decolonisation and transitional justice in New Caledonia. youtube.com/watch?app=deskto…
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Interesting. South Pacific Defence Ministers Meeting- with Australia, Chile, Fiji, France, NZ, PNG and Tonga- signals it will slow down push to expand Pacific Response Group's mandate- taking a detailed look at immunity issues + a "phased approach" re stabilisation missions
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BREAKING: Trump administration has been ordered to restore White House access to CNN, MS Now and Politico.
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Labor has effectively abolished the third-year backpacker visa: an 84% cut, down to just 5,000 spots via lottery. Combined with second-year cuts, total visas fall 44%. Stephen Howes says this could mean 18,300 fewer backpackers on farms. devpolicy.org/labor-comes-cl…
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Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara, the Tui Nayau in Fiji, has called on Parliament not to approve the Fiji-Australia Vuvale Union or the Ocean of Peace Alliance (Veitacini Treaty) without “a full, fearless, and independent account” of how the treaties impact the nation's sovereignty.
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Kiribati - the only nation in all global hemispheres and on the Dateline and the Equator - thinking of changing its name to Tungaru. facebook.com/groups/Pacificn…
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Priceless. From Albanese and Wale meeting in New York on UNGA sidelines. The last time they met, in Solomon Islands, Albanese (like everyone!) sat through a rather marathon Wale speech at Independence Day celebrations. Wale: "I gave you a Fidel"
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For a long time, Sky News was easy to dismiss as a broom closet operation. The WIN deal has changed that. There is a growing recognition that News24’s free-to-air broadcasts in regional areas are shifting voters towards One Nation. trib.al/VyzVpEI
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After the Trump administration refuses visas for the Palestinian delegation to attend the UN General Assembly session, UNGA votes 152-3-4 to allow Palestinian Authority to speak by video. Notable that only one Forum island state (Vanuatu) actually participates in the vote.
Une majorité écrasante face à la décision américaine d’empêcher l’entrée du président palestinien Mahmoud Abbas et de plusieurs responsables palestiniens afin de participer aux travaux de l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies. Avec 152 voix pour, 3 contre, l’Assemblée générale a permis au président Abbas de s’adresser à l’Assemblée à distance. Au-delà de son aspect procédural, ce vote revêt une portée politique forte : une très large majorité des États membres a refusé que la décision du pays hôte puisse priver la Palestine de sa voix au sein des Nations Unies. Dans un contexte où la question palestinienne occupe une place centrale dans le débat international, ce vote souligne également l’importance accordée par une large majorité des États à la participation palestinienne dans les enceintes multilatérales. Empêcher une présence physique n’a pas empêché une présence politique. Le multilatéralisme n’a de sens que lorsque chacun peut y faire entendre sa voix. Merci à la France 🇫🇷 d’avoir coparrainé cette résolution et d’avoir contribué, avec de nombreux autres États, à défendre ce principe.
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Interesting criticism that too much international media coverage of the 55th Pacific Islands Forum focussed on China/Taiwan, rather than what Forum members are doing to address regional concerns - especially because it comes from the US State Department! state.gov/virtual-press-brie…
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Nothing startling, but for those tracking closely - Tonga's PM says Tonga and Australia have a "mutual aspiration" to sign the Kaume'a Ofi agreement by the end of this year. No decision yet (unsurprisingly) on joining the Ocean of Peace alliance with Australia, Fiji
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Australia’s privacy laws around social media, AI and smart glasses are soon to be overhauled — including the addition of a right to erasure. bit.ly/4gE6l0x
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NBC News correspondent Matt Bradley, three members of his team and a Palestinian woman were attacked and injured by masked Israeli settlers while reporting in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. nbcnews.com/world/middle-eas…
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Stars and Stripes journalists sue US Defence Department over firing bit.ly/4gmEbbo
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