The Port of Melbourne is seeking feedback on their recentl
y released Port Development Strategy 2050 – a roadmap for the development of the Port for the next 30 years. To find details about the strategy, to access a copy of it, as well as details of how to provide feedback on the strategy, visit here. Feedback is open until 6th December 2019.
In Gippsland, Victoria, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) got to test one of its newest assets, the Pilatus PC-21, in a race trail with a motorbike ridden by Wayne Gardner.
Recently, while dabbling on my personal laptop at home, I decided it was time to delete my spam folder. I clicked on the folder and waited for the emails to flood in. As well as just clearing for the sake of clearing it, I was looking for a specific email that I hadn’t yet received, despite the sender assuring me it had been sent.
And then I found something that made my heart leap outta my chest and my eyes pop wide.
It seems commonplace to read about a cyberattack, or at least the threat of one, on our systems, products and services. With the increase in big data held by governments and businesses, and the upsurge in the internet of things, it would appear that the threat environment evolves too quickly for protection methods to keep up.
Don’t despair though. Keeping Australia safe and maintaining confidence from the wider community is high on the federal government’s agenda.
Today, as I write this article, it is the 11th November; a day where we commemorate the end of four years of continuous warfare in WWI.
As the young men went off to war, everyone believed it would be only a matter of weeks, perhaps months, before they all returned home. How misguided they all were. The horrors those men saw, the horrors they performed, were all in the name of freedom, to keep our country safe. And they did it with a sense of patriotism and upholding the right. The First World War brought together over 70 million people, and ended the lives of between 9 and 13 million, many of them buried in unknown graves1.
Parks Victoria manages more than 28,000 assets, including facilities such as toilet blocks, parks and gardens, recreational spaces, playgrounds, piers and sporting grounds1.
Lately, there’s been a squabble over how one of Parks Victoria’s assets is being managed. What happens when there’s a dispute over managing assets? Who tells who what to do?