Sure, it's short for "national conference". But CPAC Australia would be well aware it's also the name of another very prominent European conference for national conservatism.

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<article data-history-node-id="448473" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/labour-conference-blocks-motion-cancel-palantir-contract-over-israeli" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/labour-conference-blocks-motion-cancel-palantir-contract-over-israeli" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Labour conference blocks motion to cancel Palantir contract over Israeli army links</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><meta charset="UTF-8"></p> <p>The Labour Party’s Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC) has blocked an emergency motion brought by party delegates on cancelling&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-palantir-becoming-embedded-major-newsroom-operations" target="_blank">Palantir’s&nbsp;</a>NHS contract over the company’s links to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli&nbsp;</a>military.</p> <p>The motion, put forward at the party’s conference in Liverpool by the Labour-affiliated Socialist Health Association and at least three constituency parties, urged the government to cancel the £330m ($437m) contract to process NHS data with the controversial tech giant.</p> <p>It said Palantir was “facing numerous allegations of involvement in serious breaches of human rights, including due to it developing technology for Israel's military to use in its unlawful occupation of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian&nbsp;</a>land and genocide in Gaza".</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/labour-conference-blocks-motion-cancel-palantir-contract-over-israeli-army-links">Labour conference blocks motion to cancel Palantir contract over Israeli army links</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham walks onto the stage on the first day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool on 27 September (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2f09d21b-d767-467c-bb39-58e676beb2fe" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/000_C9GQ7PH%20%281%29.jpg" width="1024" height="576" alt="Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham walks onto the stage on the first day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool on 27 September (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham walks onto the stage on the first day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool on 27 September (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background:rgba(220,220,220,0.5);background-image:url(https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png);display:none;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

“We want to change the whole model of housing in Spain,” says Sabina Carrau of the Madrid Tenants’ Union.

<article data-history-node-id="448437" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-police-guard-1500-jewish-settlers-storming-al-aqsa-mosque" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-police-guard-1500-jewish-settlers-storming-al-aqsa-mosque" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli police guard 1,500 Jewish settlers storming Al-Aqsa mosque as Palestinians face restrictions</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Israeli police imposed tight restrictions on Palestinians while helping around 1,500 Jewish settlers storm into Jerusalem’s occupied Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard on Sunday, according to the Jerusalem Governorate.</p> <p>The settlers entered in waves through the Mughrabi Gate on the second day of the Jewish “Feast of Tabernacles”. Israeli authorities shut the gate after the incursions.</p> <p>Inside the compound, settlers held prayers and Talmudic rituals, particularly near the Cotton Merchants’ Gate, and brought in “plant offerings”, the governorate said.</p> <p>Others prayed outside Bab Hutta, another entrance to Al-Aqsa, as Israeli forces maintained restrictions around the mosque and across occupied Jerusalem’s Old City.</p> <p>The governorate recorded about 40,661 Jewish settler incursions into the mosaue between January and the end of August.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Federal cabinet will discuss the OpenAI breach on Monday as the AI giant pauses testing of latest models amid fallout

<article data-history-node-id="448420" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/supreme-court-says-israeli-government-must-allow-red-cross-visit" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/supreme-court-says-israeli-government-must-allow-red-cross-visit" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli court says government violates ruling on Red Cross visits to Palestinian prisoners</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p dir="auto">Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that the government is violating its order to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit Palestinian prisoners, Haaretz reported.</p> <p dir="auto">The judges said the government must permit visits to detention facilities “with the required speed”, noting that more than three months had passed since the original ruling.</p> <p dir="auto">They gave the government until 11 October to say whether it had completed arrangements to resume the visits.</p> </div> </div> </article>

A University of Melbourne survey of Australians as young as 13 found misogyny can predict extremist violence more strongly than ideology, religion or time online.