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All the news corp (rupert murdoch owned) web sites in Australia do this now. That's one reason I don't visit them!

They are forced to do that by law.

Australian website, there's nothing forcing them to do anything.

Maybe the servers are in EU?

Nope, Sydney.

    person:         News Limited
    country:        AU

Aren't Australia and Great Britain "connected" by that Commonwealth stuff? I'm not an expert in international politics, but in case that Australia is bound to that cookie law in GB, that'd explain it.

We are, but their privacy laws have absolutely no bearing on Australia. At the moment the only control the queen has is the ability to indirectly act through a Govener General who can disband the current government at will. That's never happened and probably never will though.

The whole cookie thing is just people flying off the handle anyway. One person put a warning so now everybody else does too.

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