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The Australian government has been ordered to pay compensation to asylum seekers whose details were exposed in a massive data breach seven years ago.
The Information Commissioner has determined the Department of Home Affairs interfered with the privacy of 9,251 detainees in immigration detention by mistakenly releasing their personal information.
The privacy breach relates to the unauthorised release of a detention report on the department s website in 2014.
Then Immigration Minister Scott Morrison called the incident unacceptable , saying the information was never intended to be in the public domain.
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Australia s privacy regulator found the report contained embedded personal details that could identify all asylum seekers held in mainland detention and on Christmas Island.
One Australian state is set to take the lead in raising the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 - and the rest of the country could follow.
Tasmania is introducing a bill into state parliament this year which would prohibit anyone under 21 years of age from buying cigarettes.
Similar laws were previously introduced in one United States town and proved so successful in reducing smoking rates in younger people that the entire country followed suit.
Tasmania is introducing a bill into state parliament this year which would prohibit anyone under 21-years-old from buying cigarettes (file image)
Tobacco use was halved among high school students in town of Needham Massachusetts where the law was first introduced - plunging by 47 per cent.
Tasmania could become the first state in Australia to raise smoking age to 21
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Smoking rates in the US town of Needham dropped by almost half when the legal age was increased to 21.
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Anti-smoking campaigners hope Tasmania could this year set off a chain of events that would see the legal smoking age increased to 21 across the country.
Key points:
A bill that would ban the sale of cigarettes in Tasmania to people aged under 21 will be re-introduced to Parliament this year
Tobacco 21 legislation was enacted across the United States in December 2019
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