More than 2000 Aussies request help leaving Iran
More than 2000 Australians have registered for assistance from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in leaving Iran.
Health Minister Mark Butler says Australian officials will be redeployed to the Azerbaijan border to assist people depart.
“It’s a difficult hard situation, the air space is still closed. We’ll be exploring every opportunity we can to support people getting out in other ways,” he says.
Team testing Australia’s social media ban says it can be done
An organisation tasked with testing the technology behind the federal government’s social media ban says a preliminary report has found age verification is ready to deploy in Australia.
Under the social media ban, more than 20 million Australians will be required to demonstrate that they are 16 or older to log in to most major social media platforms.
It is due to take effect in December, but the government is yet to decide how it will be implemented, amid ongoing questions as to whether age-checking technology is up to the job.
But according to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the Age Check Certification Scheme and KJR say the trial’s preliminary results found it to be “private, robust and effective”.
The full results of the age assurance technology trial are not expected to be handed back to Communications Minister Anika Wells until the end of July.
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