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A giant petrel found on the New South Wales coast at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle, has been confirmed as the state’s first case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.

The positive test is the sixth confirmed case.

The NSW Government has been preparing for a positive result for some time and there is a clear plan in place to support industry and the community.

At this stage the result is limited to a single migratory seabird and has not impacted our poultry sector or domestic wildlife.

In all the conversations I’ve had and the interviews and press conferences I’ve held, no one has argued that the housing market was working fine the way it was. No one has been able to say that the status quo was fair or reasonable or sustainable for the future.

And once you get to that point, once everyone acknowledges that the system is broken. Then the choice for a party of government is very clear. If you don’t have the ticker, you can kick the can down the road and leave the problem to a future generation. Or you can do the hard thing, the right thing – and fix it. That is the choice we have made.

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A Tasmanian adventurer is funding a new Prado entirely with river gold.

His target is a base Land Cruiser Prado priced near AU$80,000.

One canyon dive on his best day pulled 22 grams worth thousands of dollars.

Instead of wrestling with high interest rates or a trade-in negotiation, Tasmanian content creator and adventurer Rob Parsons is trying to fund his next vehicle the hard way, using nothing but ancient prospecting techniques to get there. He wants a brand-new off-roader, and his plan is to pull the money out of the ground one riverbed at a time.

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The explorer, known for his navigation skills and solo expeditions, has launched a multi-day challenge to gather enough gold from remote waterways to cover the keys to that new truck. It sounds like a gimmick, and yet the math works.

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The target of this wilderness operation is the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado. The rugged SUV runs the mild-hybrid 2.8-liter turbodiesel engine and comes standard with 4WD. From his video it is understood that Parsons wants to buy the entry-level GX trim in Midnight Alloy shade, which carries a driveaway price of AU$ 79,545 (US$ 54,800) in Hobart, Tasmania.

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Parsons documents the journey through short videos posted to his Facebook page . Those will likely be stitched into a longer YouTube clip once the challenge wraps up.

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Across the first 13 days of the experiment he has gathered AU$ 25,501 (US$ 17,600) worth of gold, which works out to an average of AU$ 1,960 (US$ 1,350) per day. Not every dive plays out the same way, though, and scavenging instinct matters more here than physical labor.

His best stint so far was Day 12, which produced a massive 21.71 grams of gold valued at AU$ 4,072.34 (US$ 2,800), pulled from a deep canyon pool with the help of a portable dive compressor setup. The low point came on Day 8, bringing in just 0.80 grams worth AU$ 151.98 (US$ 105) before a hardware failure in his satellite communication forced him to abort the mission early.

While Parsons still needs another AU$ 54,000 (US$ 37,200) to reach his ultimate purchase target, his early yield proves that old-school grit might just beat modern financing if you have the right skills and experience. Hopefully, he will soon be able to buy his dream Toyota using it to reach new locations in the Tasmanian wilderness.

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The 'women in tech' discourse has, over time, shifted from general awareness around key issues to instigating meaningful and systemic reform. Each year, there are thousands of events, panels, initiatives and policies devoted to equalizing the experience between men and women – with remuneration a key part of this.

Mind the gap

Speaking at the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the then newly appointed Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella clumsily commented on how women should approach the question of unequal pay in the workplace.

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People immediately pushed back against his remarks, with widespread and universal condemnation. For example, the interviewer, computer scientist Maria Klawe, immediately pushed back, giving women the opposite advice.

You should, she advised, do your homework on fair salaries and actively practice negotiating. This was followed by media reports and social media commentary ridiculing the comments — drawing a swift apology from the Microsoft CEO.

Bridging the divide

Nadella addressed the controversy in an internal memo, as reported by GeekWire , and reaffirmed Microsoft's commitment to positive action.

In the years that have followed, there's been a mixture of changes across the tech industry – for better and worse. There is, for example, a higher proportion of women in tech now than more than ten years ago. But female leadership is declining .

There are also concerns that the pay gap is widening , and that women have disproportionately comprised over 45% of total job losses despite making up roughly 30% of the workforce. Despite a huge and very vocal push, the reality remains that progress on better representation, equal pay, and equal opportunity is patchy at best.

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Hollywood has effectively milked the Chinese theatrical market for all that it was worth; audiences in the Middle Kingdom mainly watch local movies these days. Hollywood movies can still break through on occasion, but this is getting rarer by the year. There was a solid, decade-long period, however, during which American films would often gross more in China than in North America. Warcraft , for instance, made more than $225 million in China alone; the film's total global haul stood at around $430 million. Furious 7 , the highest-grossing installment of the Fast & Furious franchise , made nearly $400 million in China. The one movie that benefited greatly from a thriving Chinese market was Guillermo del Toro 's first big-budget feature, Pacific Rim .