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That and most of the pay phone booths are now free public WiFi hotspots.

A Victorian lawyer has become the first in Australia to face professional sanctions for using artificial intelligence in a court case, being stripped of his ability to practise as a principal lawyer after AI generated false citations that he had failed to verify.

Company tax could be slashed to 20 per cent for firms with revenue below $1 billion, but businesses would be hit with a world-first “cashflow tax” to encourage them to invest in Australia and capture a share of the enormous earnings of tech giants such as Netflix and Apple.

The commission estimates its plan would deliver an estimated $15 billion boost to the economy.

While cashflow taxes have won support among academics, no country has introduced one to replace traditional company tax.

Proponents argue they are more difficult for large companies to avoid, particularly multinationals that may sell intellectual property or move debt between their international subsidiaries to reduce their overall tax burden.

Tech giants such as Apple, which in 2022-23 paid $141 million in tax on $481 million of taxable income despite reporting $12.6 billion of total income, and Amazon which reported $6.5 billion in income across four entities and paid $125 million in tax, meet their legal tax requirements in Australia.

So code that was untested (the code path that failed was never exercised), perhaps there is no test environment, and not even peer reviewed ( it did not have appropriate error handling nor was it feature flag protected.) was pushed to production, what a surprise !!

After five years of pursuing a class action lawsuit against Uber on behalf of 8000 taxi operators, Andrianakis stood on the steps of the Supreme Court of Victoria on Monday morning following a historic settlement of $272 million – the fifth-largest class action settlement in Australia’s history. ... The class action, brought by Maurice Blackburn Lawyers in 2019, was filed on behalf of more than 8000 taxi and hire car owners and drivers who said they lost income when Uber entered the Australian market.

All Australian companies with greater than 100 employees had their gender pay gap data released for the first time. Previously only aggregated data was released.