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#20954938 at 2024-06-02 07:12:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

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The RCH said when approached about the issues that its gender service "delivers a world-leading, multi-disciplinary model of care with a strong emphasis on supporting the mental health and wellbeing of the children and young people referred to our service".

"As always, our Gender Service is underpinned by both national and international research methodology, and we will continue to monitor outcomes that will inform best practice," the hospital said in a statement.

Queensland child psychiatrist Jillian Spencer, who was stood down from her job in a children's hospital over her opposition to gender-affirming medicine, said she believed that since the release of the Cass review, "the College of Psychiatry appears to be defending a gender-affirmative approach for children".

Despite the mantra that Australian gender clinics are multi?disciplinary and holistic, she said we could not be sure, as the same was once said of the Tavistock.

"Such similarities indicate the need for an inquiry to investigate how Australian gender clinics are actually functioning on the ground," Dr Spencer said.

"Concerns are reinforced by Freedom of Information data showing Australian paediatric gender clinics continue to prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones at high rates.

"I am concerned Australian gender clinics are providing a standard of care significantly worse than the Tavistock clinic on several measures."

For children approaching puberty, Australian clinics offer a three- to four-session assessment phase before referral for hormones, whereas the Tavistock clinic was criticised as "rushing" children into hormonal interventions using a four to six-session assessment phase.

The UK gender clinic prescribed cross-sex hormones from "around the time of the child's 16th birthday", whereas Australian clinics routinely prescribe cross-sex hormones to children aged 14. While the Cass review did not comment on gender surgeries, which are not provided to minors in Britain, in 2018 the Australian Family Court gave the green light for adolescents with decision-making capacity to undergo gender surgeries.

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists is facing ongoing calls to release a statement acknowledging the findings of the Cass review.

There is also growing concern at the dearth of information on the outcomes of the children who have been treated at public hospital gender clinics around the country, which have published very little data or outcomes based on patient research.

The college re-released a statement it gave to The Australian two weeks ago.

"The RANZCP is reviewing the findings of the Cass Review," a spokesperson said.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/australian-transgender-healthcare-guidelines-lack-rigour-and-independence-say-cass-review-researchers/news-story/ecca70816e066740d70adb7d888cb299

#20886265 at 2024-05-19 08:14:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

#35 - Part 10
Australian Politics and Society - Part 2
>>20565302 AHRC transgender rights inquiry 'biased, waste of taxpayer funds': experts - A national inquiry into trans?gender human rights focusing on "anti-trans mobilisation" and "disinformation" has been ?branded a "serious misuse of taxpayer funds" by experts concerned it fails to balance the rights of transgender people with the rights of women and girls. Specialists and lobby groups have also flagged a possible "bias" exhibited in the Australian Human Rights Commission's ?inquiry because it restricts submissions to experts "in trans and gender diverse matters". As part of the inquiry, the commission will probe "discrimination, harassment, vilification and violence" levelled at trans and gender diverse (TGD) Australians, and investigate "extremism and radicalisation". The inquiry, which will also examine how "education, employment, healthcare, housing, migration, service provision and the law" affect transgender Australians, is open for submissions but will only accept the opinions of experts "in TGD matters". Senior Queensland child psychiatrist Jillian Spencer said the inquiry fails to focus on how the rights of transgender people ?intersect with the rights of women and children. "All they seem to want is for the transgender community to voice any bad experiences they've had, and they don't want to look at the whole rights issue for the whole of the community," she said.
>>20570458 Women athletes launch landmark case against transgender inclusion - A group of 16 American women have launched a landmark legal case against the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) over the participation of transgender athletes in their sports, with their lawyer stating that the organisation has "institutionalised cheating and discrimination" against them. With a particular focus on Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who claimed a NCAA women's title in March 2022, the group has filed its 156-page claim at the United States District Court in the northern district of Atlanta, Georgia. It was in Atlanta that the NCAA Division 1 swimming championships took place, with the fact that about 300 women shared a dressing room with Thomas - at the time with "full male genitalia" - cited in the complaint.

>>20570471 Massive nationwide outage of McDonald's payment processing services in Australia - McDonald's says a global IT outage that prevented its servers from processing payments and saw restaurants closed across Australia and several other countries on Friday evening was not a cybersecurity incident. The company has also confirmed some of its restaurants' systems are now back online, and it is working to restore service to the remainder of its restaurants as soon as possible. "The issue is now being resolved," a McDonald's spokesperson told the ABC.
>>20589286 'A bowl of vomit' - Ukrainian ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko blasts Four Corners episode - Ukraine's Ambassador to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko has blasted an ABC program about the war in Ukraine as a "journalistic equivalent of a bowl of vomit". The documentary by filmmaker Sean Langan titled "Ukraine's War: The Other Side" aired on Four Corners on Monday night and was plugged as offering a human perspective of life on the Russian frontline. But Mr Myroshnychenko on Tuesday accused it of unquestioningly repeating "countless blatant lies, historical distortions, racist claims and propaganda narratives emanating from the Kremlin".
>>20589296 Video: ASIO, ASIS chiefs removed from national security committee - Two of Australia's leading intelligence bosses have been dumped from the Albanese government's top security body. The head of ASIO, Director-General Mike Burgess, and the head of ASIS, Director-General Kerri Hartland, have been removed from the Albanese government's national security meeting of Cabinet, according to Sky News. The director-generals have previously given advice on key security and sovereignty issues within the cabinet, which makes decisions on the highest risk and most urgent national security matters. But it's understood Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary Glyn Davis has removed both as permanent members.

#19699354 at 2023-10-09 09:08:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

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Psychiatrist Jillian Spencer, who openly advocates for a cautious rather than an affirmation-only treatment model for children with gender dysphoria, said the latest UK findings "beg the question, 'Why on Earth are puberty blockers still being prescribed'?".

Dr Spencer said despite potential side-effects including infertility and impaired sexual function, in Australia, these drugs "are being prescribed off label for children with gender dysphoria, which means that no drug company has ever had to prove to a regulator that puberty blockers are safe and effective".

"Australia is not taking any steps to regulate or monitor the prescription of puberty blockers to children and adolescents," she said. "Puberty blockers have been in use for at least 20 years and there still isn't any reliable evidence that they improve psychosocial outcomes. However, there is growing evidence of their harms.''

The senior staff psychiatrist lodged a complaint with Queensland's Human Rights Commission after she was stood down in April from clinical duties at the Queensland Children's Hospital, reportedly due to a "transphobia" claim.

Dr Spencer alleges she was prevented from adopting a neutral therapeutic approach and forced to comply with gender-affirming polices she believed may have harmed young people during her employment at the hospital.

Australian children's hospitals follow gender-affirmative guidelines, which gender-affirming doctors regard as world's best practice.

Peak body the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health strongly supports the gender affirmation model, including the use of puberty blockers, but did not respond to The Australian's request to comment on the new UK analysis.

AusPATH said on its website in 2022 there was "increasing evidence that access to reversible puberty blockers, and later gender-affirming hormone treatment if wished, is associated with positive mental health and social wellbeing in adolescents with gender incongruence''. AusPATH added the evidence showed "adolescents are satisfied with these treatments and perceive them as essential and lifesaving''. It opposed a UK recommendation to restrict the availability of puberty blockers for children with gender incongruence.

Dr Spencer and Dr Morris said Australia should follow the UK's plan, announced in June, to restrict puberty blockers to children taking part in clinical trials.

Dr Spencer said: "It is urgent that Australia ... fall in line with the UK and restrict the prescription of puberty blockers to high-quality clinical research trials. We need to stop exposing Australian children to these risky, experimental treatments without the safeguards of a clinical research trial.''

The new UK analysis has limitations: the sample size (44 children) is small, it has not been peer-reviewed and there is no control group, meaning researchers can't definitively conclude the changes in the children's mental health were caused by puberty blockers.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/uk-study-finds-mental-health-of-one-third-of-kids-on-puberty-blockers-deteriorates/news-story/3f0b52034671590e6b8a9ee91882cc0d

#19535062 at 2023-09-12 10:58:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

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Opposition Indigenous Affairs spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says 'women are under attack'

SARAH ISON - SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says pushing back against the transgender movement and its impact on children will be among her next priorities after the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum.

Speaking at an event hosted by Liberal senator Alex Antic that featured speakers including Katherine Deves and Moira Deeming, Senator Price said the parliamentary inquiry into gender-affirming care - which refers to medical treatments used to transition people to the gender of their choosing - proposed by One Nation Leader ?Pauline Hanson should not have been left to "a conscience vote".

"In the Senate, we had an opportunity to vote for an inquiry into gender-affirming treatments for children. It should never have been a conscience vote because this issue speaks to the human rights of our most vulnerable, and that is our children," Senator Price told the small group gathered in Parliament House.

"This debate, this argument, the way it's being played out, the way in which women are now under attack for standing up for the vulnerable, for standing up for children, is so many steps backward to where we've come to fight for our rights as women."

The topic of transgender rights has become a political flashpoint over the past two years, with Ms Deeming suspended from the Victorian Liberal party room following her appearance at a Let Women Speak rally in March.

At the 2022 federal election, Scott Morrison sought to bring the transgender issue into focus by selecting Ms Deves as the Liberal candidate for Warringah.

Senator Price said women such as Ms Deves and Ms Deeming were "brave" and had been "thrown under the bus" in expressing concerns for women's rights being impinged upon by transgender women.

"That sends a message to our vulnerable women, women who don't come from Western cultures, that they aren't important, that their voices don't matter," she said.

"If you can have a movement that has seen to provide equal rights and opportunity and respect for women in Western culture ... suddenly be overturned and go backward, well, that leaves our most vulnerable in a more marginalised position.

"That puts us further behind the eight-ball."

Asked if she would take up the issue following her campaign against the voice to parliament, Senator Price said it went "hand in hand" with her portfolio, particularly regarding issues facing marginalised Indigenous women.

"It's definitely up there in the list of priorities," she said.

Senator Antic's event was heavily policed, and organisers claimed they had received credible death threats.

Disallowed entry, the National Union of Students, LGBTQI+ advocates and Greens MPs protested outside Parliament House.

Greens LGBTQI+ spokesman Stephen Bates said the speakers were "fearmongers" and peddled transphobia.

"There is no line these people won't cross," he said. "They're hellbent on taking us back decades on LGBTIQA+ and women's rights."

Ms Deves told the event on Tuesday morning the resolve of women who were critical of transgender rights had been "strengthened" and "galvanised" by the backlash they had faced from some sections of society.

"The apparatuses of the state, the courts, disciplinary processes, and quasi-judicial bodies may be weaponised against those of us who refuse to acquiesce to a movement that is determined to erase us as a legal sex class," she said.

Psychiatrist Jillian Spencer, who has launched a complaint with the Queensland Human Rights Commission over her inability to object on medical grounds to gender-affirming treatments, said there needed to be a federal independent body set up to determine "what interventions are safe to be delivered to children, at what age and under what circumstances". She said children who were "vulnerable and confused" were presenting at gender clinics and being pushed into gender transitioning as a "way forward to happiness".

Dr Spencer, who appeared on Seven's controversial Spotlight episode, said public health services were "still requiring all their staff to affirm children and to recommend these risky interventions".

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/opposition-indigenous-affairs-spokeswoman-jacinta-nampijinpa-price-says-women-are-under-attack/news-story/32b7ec599e714c6d8b88abbc2f685d33

The Gender Agenda: De-Transitioning Full Episode | 7NEWS Spotlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgW_xtIcpew

#19211391 at 2023-07-20 12:28:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition

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"This book needs a lot of explanation and discussion"

Ms McLean provides cyber security education covering nude photos and consent to primary and high schools across Australia daily, and says her classes are done in a way that is age and developmentally appropriate and not encouraging illegal behaviours.

"It is a battle," she says of raising awareness on this issue.

"There is a lack of understanding of the digital world and many parents don't have a clue, which is fine, but if they end up finding this resource it's a disaster.

"Parents should educate themselves and make sure they are using a legitimate and factually correct resource."

Ms McLean said the fact the book was available in school libraries, where children were sneaking a look rather than taking it home, was very concerning because it did not allow for adults to engage with children while they were reading.

"This book needs lots of explanation and discussion," McLean says.

"It tells them their naked body is the primary focus"

Child psychiatrist, Dr Jillian Spencer says she has seen children charged by police with the distribution of child exploitation material in her practice.

"Encouraging children to chop their head off naked images sends an uncomfortable message," she said.

"It tells them their naked body is the primary focus when attempting to connect and form relationships with other people.

"It is important that we don't strip away from children the truth: that attraction between people is a bit uncontrollable and a bit magic and is influenced by factors that aren't always visible or easily described."

Dr Spencer explains that exposure to sexual concepts needs to occur gradually and tailored to the child's individual stage of development.

"The book appears to inundate children with a lot of graphic adult sexual information and pictures," she says.

"It describes sex acts without any relationship context.

"It is likely to frighten some children and encourage children to view sex as a series of acts that are separate from any emotional connection with another person."

"Unless we speak up it will end in tears for too many young people"

McLean agrees that it reduces a young woman to the sum of her body parts, which is not empowering.

"It is misleading, dangerous and damaging content," she stated.

"Unless we all speak up it will end in tears for far too many young people."

She also stressed the age of consent is stated as 16 in the book, but it can be 18 if the person is a sport coach, youth coach, pastor or teacher or person in authority, which is not mentioned anywhere in the book.

"We need resources to counteract pornography, but this is not one of them," McLean states emphatically.

https://www.kidspot.com.au/news/no-your-kids-shouldnt-send-nudes-even-with-their-faces-removed-heres-why/news-story/2cdf13b7bc9e332374ba528a72a36a4b

#19199832 at 2023-07-18 11:20:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition

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Doctors' plea for answers on transgender treatment in Australia

NATASHA ROBINSON - JULY 14, 2023

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The specialist youth and adolescent arm of the nation's peak psychiatry college is pushing for national guidelines on the care of young people with gender distress and gender dysphoria as doctors around the country say they feel muzzled and fearful of expressing professional views on gender medicine.

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry bi-national committee held an extraordinary meeting this week to discuss member concerns over the provision of services for young people presenting with gender dysphoria and incongruence.

"During this meeting, some members expressed their hesitancy to discuss gender issues or raise concerns and raised the importance of robust, evidence-based debate," according to a communique issued after the meeting and sent to psychiatrists. The committee unanimously agreed to support any psychiatrist or trainee to raise concerns during the course of their employment about any aspect of practice.

Some child psychiatrists at the meeting, which was called in the wake of gender-critical Queensland psychiatrist Jillian Spencer being stood down from clinical duties, expressed concerns about the lack of evidence underpinning medicalised affirmative care of young people with gender incongruence, and uncertainty over whether treating such children with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones reduced mental distress.

This issue is the subject of fierce international debate as paediatric specialists at the front line of gender medicine from six countries challenged the global Endocrine Society's claims that gender-affirming care improves the wellbeing of transgender and gender-diverse people and reduces the risk of suicide. The international experts, in an extraordinary public letter, said the claim was not supported by the best available evidence.

The RANZCP's FCAP bi-national committee in its meeting this week said it would be advocating via the college for the federal government to step in.

"Given the complexity and challenges in this area, and the significant community concerns and media interest, the committee felt that a national approach which includes Australian federal, NZ and state governments is critically needed," it said.

Currently, children's hospitals around the country follow the AusPath standards of care which gender affirmative physicians regard as world's best practice, but which are not accepted by all doctors because they represent the position of Royal Children's Hospital paediatricians who drafted them and declared them to be national standards.

The FCAP committee resolved to advocate via RANZCP for "better access to and consistency of care through the development of a national framework (along with necessary resources) including guiding principles for service provision and outcomes monitoring", as well as pushing for "the development of a robust evidence base, including co-ordinating and providing funding for research on the interventions and outcomes for the treatment of gender incongruence".

They also resolved to lobby for resources and fact sheets for young people and their families.

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#19188870 at 2023-07-16 09:27:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition

#30 - Part 17
Australian Politics and Society - Part 17
>>19139080 Gender-sceptic doctor launches human rights challenge to 'cheerleading' trans pronouns policy - A doctor's right to object on medical grounds to the unquestioning affirmation of children as the opposite gender faces a human rights test in Queensland, with a suspended psychiatrist filing a complaint against the state's children's hospital over transgender health policies. Jillian Spencer alleges she was prevented from adopting a neutral therapeutic approach and instead forced to comply with gender-?affirming polices that risked causing substantial harm to young ?people, during the course of her employment as a senior staff specialist in the consultation liaison psychiatry team at the Queensland Children's Hospital. In a complaint lodged with the Queensland Human Rights ?Commission, Dr Spencer, who is openly critical of gender-affirming policies, reveals that she was subject to lawful employment directions that required her to use gender-?affirming pronouns at all times in her practise of medicine and ?refrain from dissuading any child and their family from seeking a ?referral to the hospital's children's gender clinic, which frequently prescribes puberty blockers and cross sex hormones to young teenagers.
>>19139143 Endocrinologists' challenge to the medical transition of gender-questioning children silenced by medical college - The medical affairs committee of the nation's peak endocrinology society opposed the prescription of hormones to children and expressed deep reservations over the lack of evidence underpinning transgender affirmative medicine standards of care adopted by children's hospitals in explosive advice to a peak medical college. The Medical Affairs Committee of the Endocrine Society of Australia - a subspecialty college of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians - did not support the endorsement of gender-affirmative standards of care developed by influential doctors at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, pointing to concerns about the lack of evidence behind practices including placing children on puberty blockers at a very young age. The views of the ESA's medical affairs committee are contained in a letter to the RACP, which in late 2019 was consulting the profession at the request of then health minister Greg Hunt who had requested advice on the treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents.
>>19139214 Slapdown for 'big baby' Donald Trump Jr tweet by Clare O'Neil - Anthony Albanese's office has stepped in and directed a senior cabinet minister to delete a tweet attacking Donald Trump and his son, with foreign policy experts describing the incident as a diplomatic "own goal". Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil accused Donald Trump Jr of attempting to blame the Albanese government for delays in his Australia tour, calling him a "sore loser" and a "big baby". She also attacked the former US president over his election fraud claims, saying he "lost an election fair and square". The Australian understands Ms O'Neil deleted the tweets at the direction of the Prime Minister's office. Strategic Analysis Australia director Michael Shoebridge said Ms O'Neil's comments were "an unnecessary own goal" that lacked foresight given Mr Trump may be the Republican nominee for the White House at next year's election. Mr Shoebridge said the election of Mr Trump for a second term was "absolutely a credible scenario".
>>19139383 EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Jr accuses Labor of 'lying' about why he cancelled his tour - and suggests a sinister reason for delaying his visa: 'They want to shut down conservative voices' - Donald Trump Junior has hit back at 'lies' from the Government about why he postponed his tour at the last minute - and suggested Labor delayed approving his visa because they want to shut down conservative voices. Trump Jr. confirmed he'd already sold 8,000 tickets to his speaking tour before it was cancelled at the last minute - and called Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil a 'coward' after she risked escalating the matter into a full-blown diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and Australia after posting a series of juvenile Tweets. The Prime Minister's Office ordered O'Neil to delete a series of Tweets in which she called Trump Jr. a 'sore loser and a big baby' - and claiming the reason he cancelled his tour was because of 'poor ticket sales' rather than visa delays. Trump Jr. exclusively told Daily Mail Australia her comments were 'ridiculous lies' and perpetuated 'fake news' - as he blamed the Labor Government for his decision to postpone the tour. 'The tyrannical Left doesn't believe people have the right to freedom of expression and will do anything to shutdown conservative voices, but we will not bow down to them,' he said.

#19188856 at 2023-07-16 09:22:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition

#30 - Part 5
Australian Politics and Society - Part 5
>>18987818 Australian deaths from 'suicide kits' linked to global investigation - The deaths of several Australians by suicide have been linked to a now global investigation into a Canadian chef who has been charged in his homeland with selling a lethal substance online to vulnerable people all over the world. Australian law enforcement agencies have joined investigators in Britain, the United States, Italy, New Zealand and Canada to investigate alleged suicide kits sent by Kenneth Law who, for almost two years, used a website to sell a poison that at-risk people could use to end their lives.
>>18987863 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: Video: Always Ready - Check out U.S. Marines with MRF-D as they conduct an embassy reinforcement scenario at Mount Bundey Training Area! - #AlliesandPartners #FreeandOpenIndoPacific #MRFD #embassy - (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Cpl. Brayden Daniel)
>>18992075 The Age sacks columnist Julie Szego amid gender furore - The editor of The Age has sacked one of the masthead's star columnists, Julie Szego, after she took aim at the publication over its ?refusal to run an article on youth gender transition. Last week, Szego posted on ?social media that while she had been commissioned to write a feature-length story about the contentious issue by the newspaper's former editor Gay Alcorn, The Age's current boss Patrick Elligett refused to run it. Szego, a freelancer who has written for The Age on and off for more than two decades, subsequently chose to self-publish the 5000-word piece on her own Substack page, telling her social media followers about her new blog: "I'll be writing about gender identity politics ... without the copy being rendered unreadable by a committee of woke journalists redacting words they deem incendiary, such as 'male'."
>>18992075 A QUESTION OF TRANSITION - Youth gender treatment under scrutiny - JULIE SZEGO - 4 JUN 2023 - "This is a piece The Age refused to publish. It is the first in a series I'll be posting here." - https://szegounplugged.substack.com/p/a-question-of-transition
>>18992091 Senior child psychiatrist stood down after questioning gender medicine - The suspension of a senior staff psychiatrist over her approach to transgender patients has thrown the Queensland Children's Hospital into turmoil, casting a spotlight on widespread concerns among doctors at the treatment of children with gender dysphoria. The case of Jillian Spencer -- stood down from clinical duties apparently accused of transphobia - has exposed a culture in which clinicians are unable to employ medical discretion or a neutral therapeutic stance and are bound by their employment to affirm children's gender transition. Dr Spencer, a senior staff specialist in the QCH's consultation liaison psychiatry team, was removed from clinical duties in mid-April following a patient complaint in an unusual response from a public hospital that followed months of conflict over affirmative gender medicine and trans identity politics within the hospital.
>>18998407 USA puts flying schools on Entity List for training PLA aircrew - The US Department of Commerce has added international flight schools to its Entity List, stating that they have recruited Western pilots to provide training for China's People's Liberation Army (PLA). The two companies, the Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA) and Hong Kong-based Frontier Service Group, were among 43 entities added to the list. Entities on the list are subject to additional licensing requirements and policies beyond the USA's standard Export Administration Regulations. The Commerce Department says that the various entities added have provided assistance to Beijing in areas such as pilot training, aircraft manoeuvres and tactics, hypersonic weapons development, and weapon lifecycle management using Western software. China's tapping of former western military pilots has come into the spotlight in the last 12 months. Former US Marine Corps pilot Daniel Edmund Duggan is in Australia fighting extradition to the USA. He faces allegations that he helped train Chinese military pilots.
>>18998479 Video: Australia's Bushmasters to play 'huge role' in Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia, troops say - In a secret location in eastern Ukraine, frontline troops from the 80th Air Assault Brigade are putting one of their Bushmasters through its paces. "It's fantastic," says driver Oleksandr when asked about the armoured personnel carrier that was built in Bendigo. "Words cannot express it. It's such a powerful vehicle. It is much easier to drive than our equipment," he says. Australia pledged 90 Bushmasters to Ukraine after President Zelenskyy addressed the national parliament last year and asked for the vehicles. They have proved invaluable to Ukraine's armed forces over the past year.