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It looks like the defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, is running low on funds. Nothing else can account for the surfacing of its executive director Peter Jennings on the opinion pages of The Australian, conjuring up a fictional version of a Chinese bid to grab Taiwan.

Services company Wipro has appointed Sarah Adam–Gedge to the role of managing director for Australia and New Zealand.

The Australian Government-owned defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, appears to have spent oodles of American money on studies that are virulently anti-China, raising serious doubts over Canberra's claim that it has not picked a side in the battle for supremacy between the two global giants.

The defence industry-funded lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, has many shortcomings. But it has numerous strong points too, chief among which is its unceasing ability to spread misinformation, propaganda and heighten the fear index in society.

The Australian Government is attempting to fix a manufactured problem — disinformation on social media — without properly assessing the source to see if vested interests are pushing a case for which there is no basis.

Global shipbuilder Austal's data management systems in Australia were hacked recently and an extortion bid made by the attacker, the company said in a notice to the ASX on Thursday.

Canberra-based and state-of-the-art systems engineering company, Australian Technology Information Pty Ltd (ATI) has been purchased by Austal, Australia's leading shipbuilder and the world's largest designer and builder of 'high performance aluminium vessels for the defence and commercial markets'.