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Protecting Children Online in Australia: A Practical Plan

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An Australian View: If You Cannot Prove You Are an Adult, You Should Not Access Adult Content By Anthony Hamilton I grew up in an Australia where some rules were straightforward. You could not drive legally without a licence. You could not walk into a pub, order alcohol and expect the publican to accept your word that you were old enough. If there was doubt, you produced identification. If you could not prove your age, you did not get access. It was not a perfect system, but everybody understood the principle. Adult activities carried adult responsibilities, and the person supplying the restricted product had a duty to check. That is why I find Australia’s present debate about children, mobile phones, social media and online pornography so frustrating. We have turned a basic principle into a complicated argument involving governments, regulators, overseas technology companies, algorithms and different forms of age estimation. To me, the starting point remains simple: if you cannot reli...
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Scan to BIM

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 Opportunities, Challenges and the Future Evolution of Digital Engineering, Asset Management and the CAD Industry By Anthony Hamilton Abstract The rapid advancement of reality capture technologies has fundamentally altered the methods by which engineers, architects, asset owners and construction professionals interact with the built environment. Scan to Building Information Modelling (Scan to BIM) has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO) sector. By combining high-resolution laser scanning, LiDAR technologies, photogrammetry and Building Information Modelling methodologies, organisations can create highly accurate digital representations of existing assets for design, construction, operations and maintenance purposes. The adoption of Scan to BIM has accelerated in response to increasing demands for digital transformation, improved asset management, enhanced safety performance and reduced pro...
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Abandoned Underground Mines

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Assessment Task 3 - A Contentious Issue

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36200 Argument, Evidence and Intuition Assessment Task 3 - A Contentious Issue Anthony Hamilton Student No.  10168577 The Presentation / Report can be found at http://anthony-hamilton-36200.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-quantified-self.html The Reflection can be found on the last page Should Australia increase the rate of the GST ? Over recent years Australia’s government expenditure has been greater than its revenue, well since 2008 Figures from the ABS In the recent figures published by ABS at the end of the September t axation revenue decreased 15.1% to $99,763m from $117,469m in the June quarter 2014. Furthermore, general government sector expenses exceeded revenue resulting in a Government Finance Statistics net operating balance of –$19,288m. or in other words we are spending more than what we are earning. Why has expenditure increased? Well spending has increased just as it has historically and yet revenue has also i...
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