15# Top 5 Headlines of Real Auspol News, Monday 17 July 2017

 Hiya Steemians and welcome to the Top 5 Real News Headlines for Monday 17 July 2017...

 
 Australia to become major Arms dealer. 

The corrupt and ineffectual LNP-IPA COALition government that brought you the census fail, stolen Medicare data on the dark web and Centrelink's robo-debt, now want Australia to be a major arms dealer but they won't sell arms “willy nilly” says Defence Minister Christopher Pyne. 

LNP-IPA are spruiking this development for it's job creation capacity and heavily emphasise that it will only service “appropriate countries”, whatever that means when it is operational. One wonder how much the arms companies have donated to LNP-IPA to secure this deal.

 Pyne said by the end of the current contracts Australia would have built 12 submarines, 12 offshore vessels, nine frigates and 21 patrol vessels for the Pacific, these contracts are worth $200 billion over a decade. 

The full story is here.

  Murdoch makes a bid for Sky   

The real reason Murdoch wants Sky, is because it is the richest data set in the country. Not content with controlling the bulk of mainstream media in three countries, Murdoch, the Zionist/corporatist is tightening his grip. 

Sky is one of the “largest and most sophisticated datasets in the country” – which includes the TV viewing, internet and phone records of 13 million households – and potentially could be misused for political purposes if Rupert Murdoch is allowed to proceed with his plan to buy out Sky, six members of the House of Lords claim in a letter to the Observer. 

The full story is here.   

  Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

 In the past few years, our electricity prices have more than doubled and we are still to get our $500 rebate. While the media has feasted on the likes of pink batts and other nonsense, the simply astonishing story behind these price hikes has been all but ignored by Australian mainstream media. 

And yet, it may be one of the greatest rorts in Australia’s history. Since 2009, the electricity networks that own and manage our “poles and wires” have quietly spent $45 billion on the most expensive project this country has ever seen. 

Allowed to run virtually unchecked, they’ve spent vast sums on infrastructure we don’t need, and have charged it all to us, with an additional fee attached. 

The spending was approved by a federal regulator, and yet the federal government didn’t even note it until it was well underway. 

Let’s be clear: these spendings on infrastructure is the single biggest reason power prices have skyrocketed. According to the federal treasury, 51% of your electricity bill goes towards “network charges”.

 The full story is here.

   
 And they all shall be called banks 

The federal government has released draft legislation to end the ban on small financial institutions using the word 'bank' to describe themselves.

All banks will be allowed to call themselves that no matter their size under eased federal government rules to broaden competition. 

That is no matter what their size, financial institutions will be able to call themselves banks. The Turnbull government has released draft legislation to allow any banking business with an authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI) licence to call itself a bank. 

Presently, only ADIs with capital greater than $50 million are permitted to use the term 'bank'. 

The full story is here.

   
 Nearly 20K Australians caught up in massive BUPA data breach

 Bupa's international health insurance arm was hit by a malicious act in its British office, putting the private information of almost 20,000 Australian customers in danger. 

BUPA admitted on Friday that an employee had "inappropriately copied and removed some customer information" at its Bupa Global division, which also provides international health insurance for frequent travellers or people who work overseas as well as health insurance domestically in Australia. 

"The data taken includes: names, dates of birth, nationalities, and some contact and administrative details including Bupa insurance membership numbers," Bupa Global managing director Sheldon Kenton said. 

The data was then "made available to other parties", he added.  "We are contacting those customers who are affected to apologise and advise them, as we believe the information has been made available to other parties.  A Bupa Australia spokesperson said that, among the 547,000 customers affected worldwide almost 20,000 were Australians. 

The full story is here.   

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