Rex Widerstrom
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Rex Widerstrom is a New Zealand-based reporter with over 40 years of experience in media, including radio and print. He is currently a presenter for Hutt Radio.
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Spyware on Wheels: Is Your Car Sharing—and Maybe Even Selling—Your Personal Data?
A new report on Australia’s 15 most popular car brands reveals extensive privacy concerns, including unauthorised sharing with third parties.
Woolworths Says Strike by 1,500 Workers Won’t Disrupt Christmas
Around 1,500 distribution centre workers have walked off the job indefinitely, seeking a single agreement covering all the supermarket’s workers in Australia.
‘Colesworth’: Supermarket Duopoly Creates New Word of the Year
Distrust of Australia’s two largest supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, has created the National Dictionary Centre’s new ‘word of the year.’
40,000 Complete Long March to Parliament Against Bill Limiting Unique Maori Rights
The Treaty Principles Bill is aimed at ending perceived ‘race-based’ laws and rights that have fathered Maori-specific institutions and positions.
ASX-Listed Miner Bets WA Government Will Drop Its Uranium Mining Ban
Aurora Energy Metals has entered into an option to take over a number of uranium exploration licenses and applications in Western Australia.
Bunnings Found to Breach Customer Privacy With Widespread Use of Facial Recognition Tech
Hundreds of thousands of customers of Bunnings, Australia’s dominant hardware retailer, were scanned without their knowledge.
AUKUS Partners to Accelerate Hypersonic Missile Development
Other nations have, or claim to have, the technology and to have conducted successful tests so Australia, the UK, and US are racing to catch up.
CCP Leader Says Australia-China Ties Have ‘Turned Around’
The two leaders met on the sidelines of the G20 to discuss trade as Beijing braces for impending tariffs from the incoming Trump administration.
Study Reveals Post-GST Income Tax Surge: Aussie Workers to Pay $500 Billion Extra
Governments can choose not to act on bracket creep because it brings them extra revenue without having to announce unpopular tax increases.
CEO of Victorian Exam Authority Quits After Test Questions Leaked Online
Some students were able to work out how to access questions, supposedly hidden, in sample papers uploaded by the body in charge of exams.
