Curtin University’s Optus Chair of Artificial Intelligence, Brad Yu, who has received large amounts of Australian and US government funding, has been working at China’s Hangzhou Dianzi University. Warning - there was an unexpected script error. …. They continue to apply for Australian Research Council grants, with no checks about where the research will end up. The utter hypocrisy of Nine newspapers dedicating resources of two senior journalists over at least two days to try expose my confidential sources while going to court to protect their own. NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay says Premier Gladys Berejiklian has breached the standard of conduct proper to the premier of New South Wales in a number of ways. Share this by Email. They are offered a lucrative second-salary, upwards of $150,000 a year, with generous research funding. The Daily Telegraph claimed the report was inaccurate because it said the ABC lost $148.8m over eight years for an Australia Network contract “that was never awarded in the first place”. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Former staff told The Spinoff the local copy had been filed weeks ago before they were given their marching orders by Bauer. ... where he receives a 60 per cent loading on a professor’s salary and his research institute has been funded to the tune of $4m, The Australian understands he has spent most of the year in China. It has two major defence laboratories, five designated defence research areas and holds secret security credentials, “allowing it to undertake classified weapons and defence technology projects”. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. China exploits Australia’s lax laws to sign up researchers for secret program, by Sharri Markson. SNEAK PEEK: Karl Stefanovic stars on the cover of this Sunday's Stellar, inside The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Herald Sun.Photography: @stevenchee Styling: @kellyahume Interview: @angelamollard Editor-in-chief: @SarrahLeM pic.twitter.com/eMPn2cgAqx. Sky News host Sharri Markson says Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese is now 17 months into the job and "the polls are diabolical for him" largely because the public is content with how the Morrison government is handling this pandemic. DR MARTIN HIRST’S RESPONSE TO SHARRI MARKSON QUESTIONS. All rights reserved. "Sharri Markson named new media editor for The Australian, vows to bring more 'attitude ' ". Please enable JavaScript in your browser to view this page. Available for everyone, funded by readers. On Thursday the Nine newspapers cast doubt on her story, saying the dossier is unlikely to be an intelligence document and more likely just a research report, based on publicly available information including news reports. The Daily Telegraph has published a 250-word apology to former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns, who sued the Sunday Telegraph in the supreme court of Victoria for publishing a front-page story which alleged that the notorious Sydney brothel The Kastle had become his second home. Former chief strategist of President Donald Trump Steve Bannon says if Biden is declared winner of the 2020 presidential election, President Trump will announce he is running for re-election in 2024, more populist and nationalistic. …, “Professor Yu has spent some time in Western Australia this year, but is currently in China.” …, Chen Yonglin, a Chinese diplomat who defected to Australia sparking diplomatic tensions in 2005, said the Thousand Talents Plan was “totally a theft” and warned that the Australian government and universities should take it more seriously. More recently she interviewed Peter Dutton’s wife so she could tell the world he wasn’t a monster. Western academics have been recruited through their colleagues, superiors or even via LinkedIn. Thorburn had been “spotted in public for the first time” since the baby was born, readers were told, alongside three paparazzi shots of the 49-year-old “dressed casually in leggings, a lightweight jacket and trendy sunglasses while grabbing coffee in Sydney on Monday”. Curtin declined to answer specific questions about him, despite issuing a press release with great fanfare when it appointed him to the role of Optus Chair of Artificial Intelligence in May last year. "Yeah, like it's so cool, and I was like, you know, it's completely awesome! Despite being on full-time pay at Curtin [in Western Australia], where he receives a 60 per cent loading on a professor’s salary and his research institute has been funded to the tune of $4m, The Australian understands he has spent most of the year in China. China exploits Australia’s lax laws to sign up researchers for secret program. Under Xi Jinping’s civil-military fusion, the Thousand Talents Plan helps China achieve technological and innovation advances. “Mr Johns was in the area because he had been visiting a friend who lived in the vicinity of The Kastle. Application may not work as expected. Labor Senator Kimberly Kitching says there is a high level of anxiety amongst Melbournians as the strict lockdown in the state continues. The Courier-Mail’s national political editor, Renee Viellaris, is known for her hardline stance on asylum seekers and has written several memorable anti-refugee stories including the 2017 one in which Manus Island detainees were portrayed as having “holidays at an idyllic island”. …, They then have a “clone” team in China — often unbeknownst to their Australian employer. Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, has revealed Joe Biden's son emailed a shop owner who had his hard drive in an effort to get it back.

Christine Holgate clearly intends to fight calls that she steps down from her position as CEO but it’s hard to imagine her efforts will be successful given the Prime Minister’s comments, according to the Australian’s Business Reporter Jared Lynch. 1 2 Ward, Miranda (23 September 2016). Markson responded by accusing the journalists of trying to expose her confidential sources. Former Queensland premier and Sky News contributor Campbell Newman says Queensland LNP should have a leadership spill. Which is why Sharri2000 is so funny - a teenage female airhead tweeting. A regular on the Bolt Report, who has joined the ABC’s Insiders panel with David Speers this year too, Viellaris told Sky News earlier this year she agreed with Dutton that “activist doctors” use the medevac legislation as a backdoor into Australia. Many are proud of their Thousand Talents link and participate with consent of their universities. Cyber security analyst Robert Potter says when it comes to their private information, Australians should be more concerned about connecting their mobile phones back into the telecommunications and application norms of China. The figures in the Per Capita report align with academic research by Michael Ward published by The Conversation last year .

Another Australian reporter, Ebony Bowden, also made a splash in the United States this week, with an interview she conducted, along with colleague Steven Nelson, with Donald Trump for the New York Post. Following in the footsteps of her colleague Miranda Devine, who also made it onto Fox News, Markson told Tucker Carlson Tonight the “bombshell dossier” she had uncovered showed some of the world’s foremost intelligence agencies were investigating whether the virus was linked to a lab in Wuhan. Dear Sharri, Two police officers have been suspended over the leaked photos and are expected to be charged with criminal offences. Trump's (64-Day) Post-Election Endgame: Can A Criminal Be Inaugurated President? Thanks for having me on tonight @TuckerCarlson to speak about The Daily Telegraph’s reporting on China’s cover-up, disinformation and lies over the Coronavirus. It’s perhaps no surprise then that Viellaris has resigned to join the Australian Federal Police’s media unit, where Dutton is the responsible minister. The political editor-at-large did not take criticism of her stories lying down, responding to Media Watch’s critique of the Wuhan lab theory with a mocking tweet: “ABC media reporter, Paul Barry, thinks he knows more than the Five Eyes intelligence agencies which are currently investigating the origins of the Coronavirus, along with Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo!! Sharri Markson seems to think it's cool to have her twitter icon resemble a profile page for an on-line dating site. The Age in Melbourne, and Guardian Australia, chose not to run the pictures.

The Steal Is On. Despite the outcry over the invasion of privacy, and condemnation from the Victorian police commissioner, the pictures appeared in the Australian, Fox Sports and other News Corp papers throughout the week. Obama: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”. Mr Johns was not leaving the brothel and we accept he has never been there at any other time.https://t.co/A64YzUH9Fm. Chinese-language reports state he is part of Chinese government recruitment programs including the Qianjiang Scholar of Zhejiang Provincial Talents program and the Taishan Scholars Project, Shandong Province. “It’s weird seeing our work from five weeks ago suddenly appear like that in a magazine we didn’t know was happening,” one staffer said.