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Politics live: Australia considering more sanctions against Iran, Wong reveals; unemployment jumps to 3.7%

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Follow the day’s news Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Where the parties stand So the Greens are pushing hard against new coal and gas but have not indicated they are willing to kill off the legislation. Jobless rate increase higher than economists expected.

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Australia to consider European-style right to be forgotten privacy laws

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Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. Mark Dreyfus made the comments on Monday, promising to consider European-style privacy reforms after his bill increasing penalties for companies that fail to protect customer data passed in 2022.

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My Health Record: almost $2bn spent but half the 23m records created are empty

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The former Labor government first proposed the e-health record system in 2009 as a means for patients, doctors and specialists to share patient history, X-rays, prescriptions and other medical information with ease.

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Greg Hunt refuses to give My Health Record update as MPs push to extend opt-out period

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Reports of lengthy phone waits and hotline systems crash suggest many people opting out in final weeks The health minister, Greg Hunt, and the Australian Digital Health Agency have refused to give an update on how many Australians have opted out of the My Health Record system.

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Parliamentary library deletes post confirming police can access My Health Record

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A spokesman for the library told Guardian Australia the parliamentary librarian, Dianne Heriot, “decided to temporarily take down the post”, which contradicted the health minister’s advice, while it is reviewed after concerns were raised by the health department.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2021 – 2.3 billion records breached

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It’s not the news we were expecting having recently reported that organisations had turned the tide on ransomware attackers – but clearly fraudsters are doubling down on their efforts. In other news…. In other news…. Dozens of organisations that used the software reported incidents in one of the worst months we’ve ever recorded.

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Australia news live: Coalition’s Jane Hume defends Reserve Bank governor, saying ‘poor old Philip Lowe is doing his job’

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Follow live Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Patricia Karvelas challenges Littleproud ’s Covid reasoning behind the Murray-Darling Basin delays on ABC RN this morning.