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The use of automated facial recognition technology (FRT) is becoming more commonplace globally, in particular in China, the UK and now Australia.
FRT means we can identify individuals based on an analysis of their geometric facial features, drawing a comparison between an algorithm created from the captured image and one already stored, such as a driving licence, custody image or social media...

Ask coastal research scientist Ruth Reef why wetlands are important, and she looks disappointed by the question – as a parent might look if asked to explain why they value their children.
“Wetlands are a unique habitat,” she says. “I always hesitate to put a value on a habitat. I think the beauty of it should be enough to protect it....

The Victorian election for both the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council has been held, and enough of the vote has been counted to declare Daniel Andrews and his colleagues in the Australian Labor Party the winners.
The Andrews government has been returned with what appears to be a significantly enhanced lower house majority. The situation is not so clear in the complicated upper house election, but projections have Labor on 19 out of 40 seats....

The Victorian election result played out as expected. Successive opinion polls showed that the Labor government would be returned and Premier Daniel Andrews would start a second term. This duly occurred.
What was not expected, however, was the extent to which the Liberal Party’s vote collapsed....