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Trump White House wants Iran war to end: Marles
The defence minister, Richard Marles, is on News 24 this morning and has been asked about the ongoing economic and geopolitical damage being caused by Donald Trump’s war in Iran.
Clearly, the United States wants to see an end to the conflict. That’s to state the obvious, but they are seeking to to manage that through
What is clear is that the global fuel supply chain is disrupted, and that is having an impact on the global economy … and that’s what we are seeking to manage in terms of the way we manage the economy and the budget at home.
This is the first time this has happened in in the context of Australia, and so we’re not shying away from that. In fact, the information that it obtained, was minor in its nature, in as much as that information we’ve now made public anyway, it wasn’t anyone’s personal data.
But in a sense, the seriousness doesn’t lie in the information that was obtained. It was the fact that we’ve got an unintended action of an AI agent gaining unauthorised access into an Australian government website.
