Go on, Skippy, spill yer guts: 10.5 million+ Australians' data was breached in past 3 months The Office of the Australian Data Information Commissioner's quarterly report has revealed that more than 10.5 million Ozzies – about 40 per cent of the lot of them – had their personal data slurped in one single incident in the first three months of 2019. One specific incident affected "10 000 001 or more" individuals, while …
A colleague of mine on a business trip to Oz made a joke about his criminal record (fictional) being an adequate visa shurely? to immigration at Sydney. Needless to say they kept him in for a long, long time before ejecting him 9 hours later into a Sydney at 2am. How we laffed.
I notified a government agency of a breach it had made earlier this year, and said they need to file a report. However there appears to be no mechanism for verifying whether or not such a report has been made. The published report lists five sectors without defining what all the sectors it considers might be. It would be edifying to always have the stats on government agencies.
Some of the language you find in legislation is hilarious.
In NZ tax regulations, "the Commissioner must be satisfied" very frequently (with the methods by which certain processes are administered). I had a job as a copy-holder once reading this stuff out loud for proofing, and we had to pause reasonably frequently to get the giggles out with some of the more egregious methods of satisfaction that were required for the Commissioner.
Having spent some teenage years two minutes walk from where Skippy was made, it seems someone stole all the kangaroos – never saw a single one in Ku-ring-gai National Park (the real park).
However, the other suburb we lived in was Kew Gardens (yes the world's two most famous parks, but Kew Gardens isn't fictional), I never saw a lava tree there either!
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