Screen Australia Gets Behind Antarctica-Shot Drama ‘Shiver’ In 46-Project Funding Round

Screen Australia Gets Behind Antarctica-Shot Drama ‘Shiver’ In 46-Project Funding Round

Screen Australia has announced AUS$12.8 million ($7.9m) funding round across 46 narrative projects, including Robert Connolly’s Shiver, the first Australian narrative feature film to shoot in Antarctica. The drama is adapted from Nikki Gemmell’s acclaimed novel and follows the profound transformation of a young journalist as she ventures into the vast, fragile wilderness of Antarctica….

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Google to pay  million fine for blocking competitor search engines in Australia

Google to pay $36 million fine for blocking competitor search engines in Australia

Google has agreed to pay a 55 million Australian dollar ($36 million) fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia’s two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines on some smartphones, the US tech giant and Australia’s competition watchdog said. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a statement it had commenced…

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