The scale of online child sexual abuse is immense: estimates suggest there are more than 300 million child victims of online sexual abuse globally. But what is the scale of online child sexual abuse in Australia? Answering this question with certainty is difficult because so many of these crimes go unreported and undetected. We can estimate, though. For example, in 2022–23 the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation Child Protection Triage Unit received 40,232 reports of online child sexual abuse materials, while the Australian Federal Police charged 186 offenders with online child sexual abuse crimes. In the past financial year the child protection triage unit number rose to 58,503. The United States-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children also received 74,919 reports of child sexual abuse material from Australia It is difficult to know whether these numbers reflect an increase in perpetration, or improvements in reporting or detection, or a combination. But they do highlight a significant problem that requires immediate action. Prevention, prevention, prevention There are many ways to address online child sexual abuse perpetration but broadly, there are three levels: primary, secondary and tertiary. Traditionally, the most common approach to address online child sexual abuse is tertiary prevention, which means detecting and responding to offences that have already occurred. This can involve online "stings" or other police operations. Then there are primary prevention initiatives, which aim to reduce the potential for risk and prevent the offence from occurring in the first place. These examples – such as the Australian Federal Police's Think...Keane watched the match in a live watch along with Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher and Ian Wright in a live YouTube special Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim (PA) Roy Keane suggested Ruben Amorim has a ‘massive job on his hands’ after he oversaw his first defeat as Manchester United manager in a comprehensive 2-0 win at Arsenal. Arsenal reduced Liverpool’s lead at the top of the Premier League to seven points with a crucial against United at the Emirates Stadium. After Fabian Schar’s late equaliser denied Liverpool victory at St James’ Park, Mikel Arteta’s men were offered the chance to inch closer to the summit. And the Gunners did not disappoint with Jurrien Timber and William Saliba both scoring from corners in the second half to provide the hosts with a win that kept their title hopes alive. Keane gave his verdict on a Stick To Football special on YouTube, as he suggested the flaws that have undermined United for the last few years will be tough for Amorim to erase. "You are on about these players, but what are we expecting from them? What have we seen from them for the last three or four years? This is what we have seen," said Keane. "We've seen them do well in the cup but in the league, this is what we’ve seen. “What was I expecting? For Man United to go and win at Arsenal? No, but I was expecting them to have a go and if they get beat 2-1 or 3-1, but they must be sitting in the dressing room afterwards wondering what happened. "They need to look in the mirror and ask if they gave everything tonight. Arsenal will be looking back saying ‘that wasn't too bad’. "I’m really disappointed with Manchester United. I thought the players were going through the motions a little bit. “He’s only in the door, but the manager’s probably thinking he thought United were a bit better than this. I was getting really frustrated at the end there.” Keane also suggested United’s hope of a top four finish in the Premier League may be forlorn after their latest disappointing display. "It shows you what a job Amorim has to do there,” he continued. “It’s a massive job. That was obviously their toughest game and they have come up well short. "When you see them come up against a good team like Arsenal, they are a long way off. "I can’t see United finishing in the top six. Can you? "It’s good that he has come in now and he’s taking the hits rather than everyone expecting him to fix it if had a pre-season. It’s a massive job he’s taken on.” Keane also gave his verdict on the title race on a night when Liverpool’s 3-3 draw at Newcastle meant their lead at the top of the table was trimmed to seven points after wins for Arsenal and Chelsea. "I’ll stick with Liverpool,” he added. “Obviously they will be kicking themselves to draw, but they scored three goals away from home and they have a big game at Everton at the weekend.”
FILE- Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist on "The Golden Wedding" (James Clark/Disney via Getty Images) "The Golden Bachelor" wedding and Simone Biles dominating the Paris Olympics were among the memorable moments viewers witnessed this year. This year’s presidential election inspired skits and parodies on shows like "Saturday Night Live." As 2024 comes to a close, the year was filled with a variety of programming on network television and streaming platforms. Whether you’re into dramas, comedies, or sporting events, these are some of the year’s best TV moments . "Golden Bachelor" couple Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist got married on live TV on Jan. 4, 2024, in one of the most authentic seasons of the franchise, but Turner and Nist filed for divorce three months later. Turner won the title of the first "Golden Bachelor" when the show premiered last fall, and at the end of the season, he proposed to Nist. RELATED: 'Golden Bachelor' stars Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist could lose big payday because of divorce: experts Fans were in disbelief when "Yellowstone " decided to kill John Dutton (Kevin Costner). But the bigger surprise was what the Paramount Network show did behind the scenes. Ahead of the show returning for another season, things began to change. There were rumors that Costner would only give the show a week to film the rest of season 5. Entertainment Weekly reported that Costner alleged that production shutdown for a year because creator Taylor Sheridan hadn't finished the necessary scripts. The Olympic Games was one of the biggest events on television this year, bringing the world’s greatest athletes to Paris. RELATED: Simone Biles wins gold medal, Suni Lee earns bronze in Olympics gymnastics all-around final And no one put on a bigger show than Simone Biles, who won three more gold medals and a silver medal, bringing her career total to 11 Olympic medals and cementing her legacy as the greatest American gymnast of all-time. The 2024 presidential campaign was a major moment in the nation this year, and it brought entertainment and politics to the forefront after Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee. Harris joined comedian Maya Rudolph on "Saturday Night Live" in her campaign’s final days, and Rudolph played Harris on the comedy show. One of the biggest shows of the year was HBO’s "House of the Dragon," a spinoff of the network's other popular franchise "Game of Thrones. The first two seasons of the show had plenty of standout moments, but one that captivated audiences was season two, episode four that is highlighted by an epic dragon fight. This battle was Targaryen versus Targaryen, but the sides become tangled when Prince Aemond turns on his own brother, King Aegon. They both survive to continue their rivalry, but Princess Rhaenys (along with her dragon) is lost forever, shocking viewers. "The Penguin" was another HBO hit series that delves into origins of the villain from the "Batman" films. In the show, Oz, also known as the Penguin (played by Colin Ferrell) recruits and trains Vic to be his partner to help him with his criminal enterprise. However, when Oz’s enemies find his mother, he realizes anyone he cares about can be used against him—which is when Oz shockingly strangles Vic to death. The Penguin understrood if he was going to ascend in the criminal underworld, he had to eliminate someone close to him like Vic. The final season of the Netflix series "Cobra Kai" centered on the biggest karate tournament in the world called the Sekai Taikai. And the episodes featuring the tournament lived up to the hype with high quality fighting sequences with karate dojos worldwide fighting for a trophy and bragging rights. In the end, one of Cobra Kai‘s captains is killed, adding an unexpected twist to the season. Information for this story was provided by Entertainment Weekly, US Magazine, IMDB.com, The Ringer and the Associated Press. This story was reported from Washington, D.C.
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Cover Five: What to make of wild week around Nebraska football, and 5 biggest impact signeesRepresentative image NEW DELHI: Retail sales of vehicles across categories in India grew 11.2% at 32,08,719 units in Nov, as compared to 28,85,317 units in same month last year, riding on two-wheeler demand, Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) said in Monday. Retail sales of two-wheelers were at 26,15,953 units last month compared to 22,58,970 units in Nov 2023, a growth of 15.8% buoyed by the festive spillover. On the other hand, passenger vehicle (PV) retail was down 13.7% at 3,21,943 units, as against 3,73,140 units in the year-ago month. The PV segment faced notable headwinds, FADA said. "While Nov was initially expected to build on prior momentum, particularly due to marriage season, dealer feedback suggests this segment underperformed expectations," FADA president C S Vigneshwar said. "Although rural markets offered some support, in the two-wheeler category, marriage-related sales remained subdued." On PV retail, he said, "dealers cited weak sentiment, limited product variety and insufficient new launches for weak performance." Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , and Mini Crossword .
ESPN First Take host Shannon Sharpe was not amused at all by fellow ESPNer Kirk Herbstreit’s rib-jabbing over Sharpe’s failed prediction that Ohio State would fire coach Ryan Day. Sharpe slammed Coach Day last week when he insisted that the school would probably fire Day after the team’s loss to Michigan during the regular season. That, though, did not happen, and on Saturday, Ohio State went on to beat Tennessee in their 2024 College Football Playoff game. As the game was winding down, broadcaster Herbstreit swiped at Sharpe, saying, “ First Take tried to fire him. They thought he was done. So, I’ll be excited to see what they talk about on Monday after this performance.” Herbstreit’s little jab did not sit well with Sharpe, who got all fired up about being called out — even if it wasn’t by name. During Monday’s broadcast of ESPN’s First Take , the case of coach Day did come up, but the discussion wasn’t aimed at Ohio State or the coach, but at Herbstreit. “I’m gonna let it slide,” Sharpe exclaimed. “I’m gonna be a good teammate. I’m gonna let it slide. Everybody’s at ESPN. Because had you not taken the route you’ve taken, I would have lit their ass up, but I’m gonna let it slide. You know what, guys? Congratulations, Ohio State. You won the game.” Sharpe wasn’t done. We went on to say, “But hey, if we’re gonna be on the same team, if we’re gonna work for the same network, don’t do that. Kirk, Chris Fowler.” Then Sharpe delivered a warning: “I promise you if you ever mention anything, or any platform that I’m on again and talking about, ‘I wonder what they’re gonna say,’ in negativity, I promise you ESPN ain’t got enough bosses to keep me off y’all for what I’m gonna say. So, I’m gonna let y’all slide today. I’m gonna turn it over to [Dan Orlovsky] before I get myself in trouble, but don’t play with me!” Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: facebook.com/Warner.Todd.Huston , or Truth Social @WarnerToddHustonThe Competition Bureau is alleging that Rogers is falsely advertising its Infinite wireless phone plans as offering unlimited data. The Rogers Communications sign is shown at the company's headquarters in Toronto. Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press Canada’s competition watchdog is taking legal action against Rogers Communications Inc. for what it calls “misleading” representations of its unlimited data plans, alleging that the company is falsely advertising its Infinite wireless phone plans as offering unlimited data. The Competition Bureau said it found there are significant reductions in data speed, known as throttling, after a subscriber reaches a certain data cap, and has filed an application with the Competition Tribunal asking that it order Rogers RCI-B-T to pay a penalty and issue restitutions to customers. The Competition Bureau, led by Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell, is arguing that once the data cap is reached, Rogers throttles consumers’ speeds by more than 99 per cent. “When this happens, downloading a high-definition movie, which used to take minutes, will take hours,” the bureau said in legal filings. Offering “unlimited” plans with data caps has been commonplace in the industry for several years, replacing punitive overage fees, as consumers have increased their data consumption. More than 2.5 million consumers subscribed to Rogers’s unlimited plans as of the end of 2023, according to the filing. Telus Communications Inc., BCE Inc. T-T , Quebecor Inc.’s QBR-B-T Freedom Mobile and SaskTel currently advertise similar plans online. No other providers are referenced in the bureau’s application to the tribunal. In a press release in response to the litigation, Rogers said it introduced unlimited data plans in 2019 to help eliminate overage fees and give customers more certainty over their bills. “The advertising of our Infinite plans is clear and truthful, and we will fight this litigation. These plans represent the norm in Canada and the Bureau’s decision to single out Rogers after five years is quite concerning,” the company said. The Competition Bureau did not directly answer a question about why it was challenging only Rogers, saying that it was required by law to conduct its work confidentially. Like Rogers, on their websites, the other providers describe their plans as coming with a prescribed amount of data at full speed, then data at reduced speeds until the end of the subscribers’ billing cycle. Details on data are usually included in a drop-down menu lower down on the company’s web page. However, the bureau said this dropdown is not “immediately visible” and is inadequate to alter the general impression conveyed by other advertising. It said that many of Rogers’s other advertisements for this plan – including on billboards, subway trains and social media – do not include this language. Rogers, Bell BCE-T and Telus all throttle speeds to 512 kilobits a second after the data cap is reached. According to the bureau, “operations that could be done quickly before the throttling, become difficult or virtually impossible after data is throttled.” The bureau launched an inquiry into Rogers’s “unlimited” data plans three days after its takeover of Shaw closed last April. Last year, the bureau obtained two court orders to gather information for its investigation of Rogers’s marketing practices. In 2017, the bureau published the third volume of its Deceptive Marketing Practices Digest, and asked telecommunications companies to avoid using the term “unlimited” if their products were restricted, limited or qualified in some way.
WASHINGTON — Russell Vought is well-known on Capitol Hill and thus far at least looks like a shoo-in to be confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump’s budget director, as he was during Trump’s first term on a party-line vote in 2020. The hard-charging Vought is a revered figure on the right with his pledges to upend the “deep state” and dismantle “woke and weaponized government,” including by refusing to spend all the money Congress appropriates. He’ll need to be vetted again in the new year, where Democrats on the Senate Budget and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panels will be poring over Vought’s writings and speeches since leaving the Trump administration to found a new pro-Trump think tank, the Center for Renewing America. Vought is also one of many contributors to the Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025, which Trump disavowed during his presidential campaign and is a major lightning rod on the left. Since Trump’s Nov. 22 announcement that Vought was his choice to once again lead his Office of Management and Budget, a parade of conservative GOP senators have come out in support, such as Mike Lee of Utah, Rick Scott of Florida, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. Incoming Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, is not among those openly praising Vought. “I would not have anticipated that choice, because wasn’t he associated with the Heritage study that the president very much stepped away from? So, seems unusual to choose him,” Collins told reporters last month. But Collins didn’t rule out supporting him either as she has twice before — in 2020 as well as in 2018, when he was confirmed as deputy OMB director on a tie-breaker vote by then-Vice President Mike Pence. “I give deference to all presidents as they try to build their Cabinets,” Collins said. “But there are certain standards, and that’s why the advice and consent role of the Senate is so important.” Collins’ Democratic counterpart on Appropriations, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, has made her opposition to Vought clear. She called him a “far-right ideologue” seeking to unlawfully expand executive spending powers, fire “tens of thousands” of federal workers and “gut programs that help working families” in a statement after Trump announced his selection. ‘Grinding halt’ If confirmed, Vought would play a key role in next year’s budget reconciliation and appropriations debates, as well as in a new set of negotiations to lift the debt limit. Senators are sure to scrutinize Vought’s past commentary, including his no-compromise approach to spending deals. He’s called for shutting down the government rather than accepting a bipartisan stopgap funding bill the last two years, for instance. “The Biden regulatory agenda comes to a grinding halt with a government shutdown,” he posted on X in September 2023. Vought called the 2023 debt ceiling and spending caps deal “terrible,” and backed Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for speaker later that year. “The American people deserve a Speaker that represents them and not the DC Cartel,” Vought wrote. After Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was elected and cut a deal to continue spending levels negotiated by Biden and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Vought bashed “Mike Johnson’s spending deal” that Democrats were “celebrating.” Here’s a look at what Vought has proposed, including as part of Project 2025 and in a budget blueprint he and his think tank drafted in 2022 that could become a template for Trump’s new budget due early next year. Project 2025 President Joe Biden put apportionments back into the hands of the career officials after Trump OMB officials signed off on the Ukraine aid holds that became the basis for Trump’s first impeachment, in 2019. Vought and his team always held that the moves were lawful uses of apportionment authority, and further, they want to push the envelope of what constitutes an illegal “impoundment” of federal funds under a 1974 law. Trump has suggested that could involve vast clawbacks of previously-signed spending laws. The first Trump administration implemented the policy on its own, where Vought is said to have used it to discourage pricey rulemakings by the Department of Health and Human Services, for instance. Republicans criticize the Biden administration for expanding food-stamp benefits and student debt relief via regulatory actions and believe a tighter “administrative pay-as-you-go” policy would keep regulatory spending in check. And his agency will work hand in hand with the new, informal “Department of Government Efficiency” advisory group, with a stated goal of reducing the federal employee headcount through return-to-office mandates, building relocations and more. “There certainly is going to be mass layoffs and firings, particularly at some of the agencies that we don’t even think should exist,” Vought said in an interview last month with Tucker Carlson. ‘Fiscal brokenness’ Lost amid the focus on Trump’s other prospective nominees and Project 2025 is the detailed budget blueprint Vought and his team at the Center for Renewing America released in December 2022. It’s a clear rejection of traditional GOP orthodoxy calling for higher defense budgets and overhauling Social Security and Medicare, though it’s more aligned on tax policy. But virtually every other entitlement and discretionary program would be on the cutting board, with a stated goal to “consciously and indelibly link the efforts of getting our nation’s finances in order with removing the scourge of woke and weaponized bureaucracy aimed at the American people,” Vought wrote. The budget compares its proposed fiscal 2023 spending agency by agency to enacted spending in fiscal 2021, so its numbers are not up to date. Nevertheless, the scale of reductions gives a sense of the magnitude of changes Vought contemplates. Here are some highlights of Vought’s budget plan, which he wrote in a preface would cure “America’s fiscal brokenness” by cutting trillions of dollars from federal spending. Vought makes no secret of his views on this budget category. “When families decide to get on a budget, they do not target the largest and immovable items of their spending, like their mortgage, first. They aim to restrain discretionary spending — they eat out less, shop less, and find cheaper ways of entertaining themselves,” Vought writes. “Politically, a similar approach is the only way the American people will ever accept major changes to mandatory spending.” The blueprint doesn’t outline all of the cuts over a decade, but in the first year of implementation, nearly every domestic agency would see double-digit appropriations cuts: a 54% reduction at the National Science Foundation, 45% to the State Department and foreign assistance, 43% at the Department of Housing and Urban Development; 40% to the Labor Department and more. Cuts would be more muted at NASA and the Justice Department, while the only nondefense agencies receiving discretionary increases are Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and Transportation. He would downsize the “bloated overhead of the Pentagon, the general officer corps, the civilian workforce, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense,” and shift responsibility for Ukraine’s defense to a European-led effort. And it would slash about $1 trillion, or 7%, from Medicare payments to providers, which could cause them to limit access and pare back services, as well as through pharmaceutical price restraints opposed by many in Trump’s own party. A small piece of the cost savings would come from charging new user fees to cover the cost of USDA meat, poultry and egg inspections. The plan would keep in place the current $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, unlike Vought’s boss who has called for some level of unwinding for the “SALT” cap. And it says nothing of Trump’s new campaign trail innovations like eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay. The budget also assumes the tax cuts would pay for themselves through economic growth — an assumption that isn’t shared by nonpartisan budget scorekeepers and most mainstream economists.