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Silicon Valley's problems with sexism prompted the Victorian Government to pull out of a AU$2.9 Million deal with a US company to promote tech start-ups in the state.
Government - Labor To Campaign For 'Yes' On Gay Marriage Postal Plebiscite
Labor plans ignore the naysayers and to go all out to support the "yes" vote on the postal plebiscite on Gay Marriage.
World AM News Briefs For Thursday, 10 August 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - If you're reading this it means that two flabby blowhards with access to nuclear weapons didn't manage to blow up the world with their immature tough guy talk - Feds raid the home of a close friend of Trump - Canada is preparing for refugees from America - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
HR, ICT - Google Women Consider Lawsuit
A civil rights attorney is researching a possibility of a gender bias lawsuit against Google - on top of one already being pursued by the US Labor Department, and against the background of turmoil caused by a male engineer's ill-conceived memo railing against women in tech.
Green, Government - Trump Administration Bans Climate Change
The Trump Administration came into office in part by denying climate change, and now it wants to deny the words themselves.
World AM News Briefs For Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Good (?) Morning Australia! - North Korea has reportedly shrunk a nuclear warhead to fit onto a missile - Country legend Glen Campbell has died - Zuma survives again - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
ICT, HR - Google Reportedly Sacks Author Of Horrible Memo
Google has reportedly sacked a software engineer who wrote a lengthy, divisive, and insulting memo that claimed that women had biological issues that prevented them from being as successful as men in tech.
World AM News Briefs For Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - Are you getting rich off of crypto-currency? Bitcoin reaches new highs - Oz joins its allies to try and calm the churning South China Sea - Chaos is a ladder and the FBI wants to know who has been climbing it - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Health, Research - Disagreement Over What Chewed Up Melbourne Teen
Australia could probably add one more entry to the list of animals that want to kill us, if we could just agree on what chewed up the ankles of a Melbourne teen over the weekend.
ICT, HR - Google Employee Writes Anti-Diversity Memo
With Silicon Valley struggles with accusations of rampant sexism, Google finds itself at the fiery epicenter of the controversy after a male senior software engineer pressed "send" on a ten-page screed against diversity in the workplace.
World AM News Briefs For Monday, 7 August 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - Freedom of the press is under threat in two countries claiming to represent democracy - Venezuelan right-wingers attempt a revolution - China lays down the law to North Korea - What NOT to do in Berlin - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
World News Briefs For Sunday, 6 August 2017
Hello Australia!! - The UN agrees to sanctions on North Korea - Three Americans are missing in an Osprey crash off QLD - Shirtless Putin is BACK! - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
World News Briefs For Saturday, 5 August 2017
Hello Australia!! - The Pharma Bro faces possible prison time - America's top law enforcer threatens reporters for doing their jobs - An upscale high rise has a second major fire, maybe it's the name? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Finance - Commonwealth Bank In Damage-Control Mode
Commonwealth Bank is reportedly looking at ways to repair the damage done to its reputation after the Australian Transactions Reports and Analysis Center (AUSTRAC) accused it of "serious and systemic" breaches of anti-money laundering and terrorism financing laws.
Finance, ICT, HR - Amazon's Arrival Could Bankrupt Retailers
While some are welcoming Amazon's new warehouse facility coming to Dandenong South, VIC, others are sounding the alarm about impending doom to retailers who won't be able to compete.
World AM News Briefs For Friday, 4 August 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - Malcolm's first phone call with Trump was even "worse" than thought - Breaking News about the investigation into Russian influence over Trump's campaign - Fire races near a Tokyo landmark - Chicago cops probe a very strange murder - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Government - White House Throws Lady Liberty Under The Bus
The White House trashed the Statue of Liberty while trying to defend its new proposal to slash legal immigration to 50 percent of its current level by limiting entrance to the United States to English speakers and highly skilled workers.
Government - Trump Factions 'Gone To The Mattresses'
The era of retired Marine Corps four-star General John Kelly as White House chief of staff has either failed to stop infighting between factions, or accelerated it because he is backing one side.
World AM News Briefs For Thursday, 3 August 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - Venezuela's election is blasted by the guy who ran the voting machines - Trump bends over backwards to Russia while signing off on sanctions - Kiwi journos caught asking the wrong questions of lady leading the opposition - And more in your Career Spot Global News Briefs:
Government - Ireland Wants EU Agencies That The UK Rejected
The Republican of Ireland is formally bidding for two key European Union agencies that will have to relocate out of London once the UK completes its Brexit from the continental union.
Green - Earth Unlikely To Avoid 2C Temperature Rise
The odds are getting worse that current efforts will succeed in preventing man-made global warming from raising the Earth's average by an average of 2 C degrees.