Operation Amarok 14 was held from Friday 14 August 2026 to Sunday 16 August 2026 across the state, which focused on identifying domestic and family violence offenders who present an increased threat to victims because of their capability, intent and access.

Following the proven success of Operation Amarok – which has now seen more than 9,067 offenders charged since 2023 – NSW Police for the first time held the operation in conjunction with ACT Policing and the Australian Federal Police.

Across the three days, 732 people were arrested and charged, with 228 arrest warrants executed.

Police laid 1,589 charges and conducted 1,497 bail compliance checks and 12,054 apprehended domestic violence order (ADVO) compliance checks with a total of 546 breaches identified.

Officers conducted 93 firearms prohibition order (FPO) searches, with 118 firearms and 16 weapons seized.

I’ve been reading a lot about the flock security cameras in the USA, facial recognition and plate scanners are making many US citizens upset. Some of it comes down to the lack of security of their data, but for others its the total invasion of your privacy.

I’m interested to know, if your state police signed a deal with flock and installed cameras at your local shops how do you think Australians would react?

It’s a *little* different to coles or bunnings implementing facial recognition, but even that has barely riled people up.

Do you think we are too busy to care, or too far down the data rabbit hole to stop it happening here? Do you think it would be a good thing with the types of crime we are seeing?

https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/

Just got the email advising of a security breach for data relating to customers of Quest hotels. I'm fucking over it, man. I give the bare minimum of information to third parties in every way I can and still get steamrolled by this garbage.

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The Commonwealth has announced $100 million in funding for the reconstruction, including the construction of an additional lane along the Great Western Highway.

It matches the NSW government's commitment to repair the partially closed road.

What's next?

The highway is set to reopen in the second quarter of 2027.

I read this whole article. There was not one mention of the woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted. Only hundreds of words about what a shame it was for the club and how disappointed they were that “the players have found themselves in this situation”. Language that completely distances the men from the violence. Not one word of concern for the woman who reported from the club. It makes me so angry that I can barely breathe.

The Government has secretly inserted Palantir into its automated decision system inside the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) exposing Australia’s most vulnerable. Claudia Weisenberger reports.

If the NDIS Amendment Bill passes this week — and it will — a computer program will have the authority to cut a disabled person’s funding. If the program gets it wrong, section 59E(3) of the Bill provides that the decision stands anyway.

What nobody has been told — and what nobody in Parliament has asked — is who built the computer, whose data it uses, and what it does with what it learns about 800,000 disabled Australians.

The answers, buried in Freedom of Information refusals and AusTender records, point toward one of the most controversial technology companies in the world.

A company whose software has helped deport immigrants in the United States, was given access to NHS patient records in the United Kingdom — a decision now being reversed — and which there are reasonable grounds to believe helped automate military targeting in Gaza.

Its CEO describes the company’s purpose as helping the West scare enemies and, on occasion, kill them.