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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 5h

Mountains trains are reliable as always

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Watching Bathurst and cracking myself up remembering this classic

An image posted on Facebook that shows Peter Brock as the driver across the River Styx, picking up Elizabeth II after she died. He asks her “need a lift?” She replies “take me to my husband please”. The poster adds “remembering both on this fateful day 8/9”

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

latest on the OAIC's Kmart pervert glasses investigation "Today, we have announced we have opened a formal investigation into Shenzhen Qingcheng, provider of the HeyCyan app." www.oaic.gov.au/news/blog/sm...

oaic.gov.au

Smart glasses under the microscope

The OAIC is increasing scrutiny of smart glasses, including an investigation into HeyCyan app provider Shenzhen Qingcheng. The blog explains how current and proposed privacy laws could strengthen prot...

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's all extremely depressing!

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mozilla is intent on making Firefox shittier for users

Setting showing that Firefox has automatically set itself to open when a computer boots up

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 29/09/2026

I am also pledging funding to fight my own posts

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 26/09/2026

Can people try using their very own intelligence for just one minute PLEASE

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cheers! Yeah it is intriguing. When I wrote my original story, a Home Affairs guy phoned up and was very friendly but also quite keen to know where I had heard about it. I was like "it was in your annual report"...

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

little spook-y telco piece by me in this morning's CommsDay

Telco fails to overturn national security ban
A undisclosed carriage service provider has suffered a setback in cases brought
against the Home Affairs minister and ASIO over a secret government decision to bar
them from offering telco services.
CommsDay in 2024 revealed that the Home Affairs minister had for the ϐirst time
employed a power in the Telco Act to direct a carrier or CSP to cease using or supply-
ing carriage services in Australia. The government refused to elaborate to CommsDay
on the circumstances under which it was employed.
However, a new judgement issued by the Full Court of the Federal Court has re-
vealed details of a lengthy legal ϐight the unnamed telco has waged to challenge both
the direction issued under Section 315a of the Telco Act and the adverse security as-
sessment by ASIO, which is a precondition for the minister employing the power.
The judgement, which covers two separate cases brought by the telco, conϐirms
that it was a carriage service provider and that the Director-General of Security, Mike
Burgess, provided the Home Affairs minister with the adverse security assessment in
June 2021.
“The ASA recommended that the minister give a direction under s 315A of the Tel-
ecommunications Act requiring the applicant to cease supplying carriage services in
Australia,” the judgement notes.
The telco, which has been designated MJZP and had its real name suppressed by
the court, successfully applied to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in August 2021
to have the ASA stayed until the AAT had completed a review of it. ASIO did not op-
pose that stay being granted as long as the application for review was heard within

four to six months, the judgement noted.
Because of secrecy provisions, the tribunal proceeding was partly conducted in a
closed session, with neither MJZP nor its representatives present or able to access
certain materials. Those materials were suppressed after the Home Affairs minister,
originally Karen Andrews then later Clare O’Neil, issued a series of certiϐicates direct-
ing they should not be disclosed to anyone other than the relevant AAT members.
In August 2023, “the Tribunal afϐirmed the decision under review and gave both
open reasons and conϐidential reasons for doing so,” the new judgement notes. “The
conϐidential reasons refer in some detail to the certiϐicated materials and have not
been made available to the applicant or its legal representatives.”
That decision kicked off the two Federal Court appeals as well as a High Court chal-
lenge to the constitutional validity of a section of the AAT Act. The High Court ruled
against MJZP in August 2025.
The Federal Court appeals focused largely on whether the CSP had been denied
procedural fairness, which was rejected. However the judgement leaves open the pos-
sibility that MJZP can pursue additional grounds of appeal from the tribunal.
Home Affairs has previously declined to comment to CommsDay on the use of the
power, use of which requires the minister responsible for ASIO to consult with the
prime minister and communications minister. A direction can be issued when the
Home Affairs minister considers that the proposed use or supply of carriage services
is prejudicial to security.
The deϐinition of security is drawn from the ASIO Act and can include protection
from espionage, sabotage, politically motivated violence, promotion of communal vio-
lence, attacks on Australia’s defence system or acts of foreign interference.
An explanatory memorandum accompanying the 2017 Telecommunications Sector
Security Reforms legislation described s315A, originally established in 2004, as an
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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To be fair I have to go through every NBN statement I get and upper case NBN because I will not stand for nbn™

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nice. I usually just refer to them as the Department of Communications unless there's a really good reason not too (which unfortunately happens semi-regularly)

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

should just leave it as the more ominous "you've reached THE DEPARTMENT"

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

wearing out keyboards by typing The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts in full

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I realise I shouldn't really make light of it, but this ad spot is just funny as hell

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"pubic inquiry" and "conslutation" are definitely two typos I should make less

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 21/09/2026

Pouring none out for Rams Trucks Australia

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"A new report ... has found that more than 6,500 First Nations people living in remote communities across the country were supplied with water that did not meet the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines at least once over the past two years" www.wsaa.asn.au/Web/News%20i...

wsaa.asn.au

New report calls out the gap in safe drinking water standards in First Nations communities

A new report from the Water Services Association of Australia has found that more than 6,500 First Nations people living in remote communities across the country were supplied with water that did not ...

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

CBD smells like cigarettes and weed

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

there is at least one major problem tho

Headline: I'd pay $3500 for an iPhone. So should you

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 10/09/2026

You can fold any phone in half if you just put some effort into it.

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't want to offend the Welsh but every time I get an email in your language I feel like I'm having a stroke

Heddiw, mae Ofcom wedi nodi ei benderfyniad ar y camau nesaf o’i ddadreoleiddio graddol o seilwaith band eang copr yn y DU. Mae hyn er mwyn cefnogi Openreach i ymddeol yr hen rwydwaith copr, wrth i gwsmeriaid symud i wasanaethau fforddiadwy o ansawdd uwch.

Mae cwmnïau telathrebu yn cyflwyno band eang ffibr llawn - sy'n darparu gwasanaeth cyflymach, mwy dibynadwy na chysylltiadau sy'n defnyddio llinellau copr - ac mae bellach yn cyrraedd mwy nag wyth o bob 10 aelwyd ledled y DU.

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Um sure "Each one of these digital fingerprints helps them identify users, potentially opening them up to an influx of unsolicited emails, texts and robocalls."

Marcus Vermey, Government Whip

Labor claimed information could be submitted ‘completely anonymously’.

This could not be more wrong.

Just by opening the website, Tasmanians are sending their data to Labor Party Headquarters.

This happens completely without asking for consent, with that data capable of being used to identify individuals.

Further analysis shows the website automatically captures IP addresses, device details and even the screen size of those visiting the site.

All without asking for consent.

Why would the Labor Party need to know how big someone’s phone screen is to operate this site?

Why would they need to know their internet provider, their location or the technical details of the device they’re using?

Each one of these digital fingerprints helps them identify users, potentially opening them up to an influx of unsolicited emails, texts and robocalls.

Today, Josh Willie needs to remove the website or commit to this non-consensual data harvesting to never be stored on Labor Party systems, or used for political campaigning.

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 09/09/2026

The phishers know it’s tax return time.

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"I just put the dingo trap outside the dunny door and you just walked right into it"

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Katter getting worked up about Sukarno

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 31/08/2026

wow more than 5 years ago now, what a time

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Major privacy law changes proposed by the federal government consultations.ag.gov.au/rights-and-p...

a fair and reasonable test, so companies can no longer justify collecting more information than they need or using it for purposes Australians would never expect.
a right to erasure, allowing individuals to request destroying personal information from large digital platforms like social media and search platforms.
stronger, more meaningful standards for consent, to ensure Australians are making an informed choice about the information they share, without hidden terms, or take-it-or-leave-it conditions.
measures to stop businesses from trading in personal information without clear permission, meaning shopping habits, online interests or location data cannot be bought and sold behind Australians’ backs.

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am often asking myself this

Editorial: Where have all the UFOs gone?

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

kind of guy who'd piss in a glass

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Trump to declare Palestine Action a global terror group "The UK group would face the same sanctions as Hamas and Islamic State in a move that would see supporters banned from US." www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Services Australia has launched a data-matching program covering people affected by the Origin Energy breach

NOTICE OF A DATA MATCHING PROGRAM – SERVICES AUSTRALIA AND ORIGIN ENERGY CUSTOMERS AFFECTED BY JULY 2026 DATA BREACH

This notice refers to the commencement of a data matching program by Services Australia using information provided by ORIGIN ENERGY about its customers affected by the JULY 2026 data breach (Data Breach).

The purpose of this data-matching program is to prevent, detect and address fraud relating to customer’s Centrelink or Medicare details.

The matching agency is Services Australia. The source entity is ORIGIN ENERGY.

Where a government related identifier e.g. Medicare number or Centrelink Reference Number (CRN) was disclosed, or reasonably expected to have been, as part of the Data Breach, the following data, to the extent captured by and available has been disclosed by ORIGIN ENERGY to Services Australia:

government related identifier
customer name
customer date of birth
customer address

Services Australia will compare the data provided by ORIGIN ENERGY to Medicare program and/or Centrelink program customer records. This will assist Services Australia identify affected customers deemed compromised and apply proactive security measures to detect and address fraud.

The initial analysis provided by this organisation indicates that there may be approximately 14,100 impacted customers.

A protocol document describing this program is published here:

Data matching activities for third party organisation data breaches - Services Australia

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