News Tweets Archive COVID-19

•• The Guardian • Paul Karp • 11 hours ago • theguardian.com
AAT member says he was benched after too many decisions against government
Michael Manetta says move undermines impartiality and independence of administrative appeals tribunal
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•• The Sydney Morning Herald • Bianca Hall • 10 hours ago • smh.com.au
Young, smart and unable to pursue a future
Thousands of young people who grew up in Australia are denied places at universities and TAFE because they cannot afford the international student fees imposed on people on temporary visas.
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•••• ABC News • Eric Tlozek • 21 hours ago • abc.net.au
Administrative Appeals Tribunal gave barrister 'latrine duty' for making too many decisions against government, he claims
Adelaide barrister Michael Manetta says he's been stopped from hearing welfare debt cases at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal because he made too many decisions against the government.
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•• news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • 8 hours ago • news.com.au
PM’s super for house plan ‘will bump prices’
Superannuation Minister Jane Hume has conceded that the Prime Minister’s super for houses plan could drive up prices in the short-term.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
A who’s who of ⁦@ScottMorrisonMP⁩ front bench including Peter Dutton have previously criticised allowing first home buyers to raid super to buy a house as “a bad idea”. news.com.au/national/feder…
7 hours ago
•• The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • 15 hours ago • smh.com.au
‘Extraordinary and unprecedented’: Court order could have chilling effect on journalism
Investigative journalists warn a recent court order could have a chilling long-term effect on Australian media.
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•• The Sydney Morning Herald • Katina Curtis • 10 hours ago • smh.com.au
‘Terrible for democracy’: Political appointments to appeals tribunal skyrocket under Coalition
The rate of political appointments to the tribunal that reviews government decisions is now eight times higher than it was in the Howard era.
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•• The Guardian • Paul Karp, Josh Butler • 6 hours ago • theguardian.com
Coalition minister concedes plan to allow first homebuyers to access super will push up house prices
Allowing access to up to $50,000 of retirement savings ‘like throwing petrol on a bonfire’, industry super group warns
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•• The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • 10 hours ago • smh.com.au
Albanese reveals two-term strategy if Labor wins
Anthony Albanese says he wants to “change the way that politics operates in this country” and that his party has learned the lessons of the Rudd and Gillard years.
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James Massola@jamesmassola
Exclusive: Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has laid out an ambitious two-term strategy to roll out universal childcare, add super to PPL, expand the scheme and potentially hold a royal commission into the COVID pandemic. @smh #AusPol2022 #ausvotes smh.com.au/politics/feder…
9 hours ago
••• The Australian • Alice workman • 2 days ago • theaustralian.com.au
Was PM warned? It’s up for debate
A curious screenshot was sent to Diary at 9.12pm on Wednesday, as the final showdown between Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese was starting.
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Josephine Tovey@Jo_Tovey
wild story from @workmanalice
theaustralian.com.au/commentary/was…
21 hours ago
• The New York Times • Damien Cave • 20 hours ago • nytimes.com
How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed a Million Americans
The United States and Australia share similar demographics, but their pandemic death rates point to very different cultures of trust.
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Damien Cave@damiencave
Comments have been opened on my story exploring the Covid death tolls in Australia and the U.S. Feel free to share your views. A few thoughts on some of the responses and questions I've gotten via email... 1/ nytimes.com/2022/05/15/wor…
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••• The Sydney Morning Herald • Shane Wright • 23 hours ago • smh.com.au
The superannuation housing ‘solution’ will drive up prices
Coming to a Saturday auction near you - first time buyers with an extra $50,000 in their pockets that will push up prices and make housing more unaffordable.
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Shane Wright@swrighteconomy
Another housing policy that will only push up prices and make them less affordable. With special Towering Inferno mention for Steve McQueen fans ... theage.com.au/politics/feder…
23 hours ago
•• The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • 19 hours ago • theguardian.com
Super for houses is a bad idea, but Scott Morrison wants to pick a fight over it
Having come off worse in the argument over a pay rise for minimum wage workers, the PM is keen to move the debate on to more politically fertile territory
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
When the manufactured short term product differentiation fight has to triumph over substance. Honestly, are you wondering why Australia is standing still when it comes to the resolution of so many important problems? Take Sunday as a case study 👇 #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
19 hours ago
• The Sydney Morning Herald • Sean Kelly • 10 hours ago • smh.com.au
After labouring the point, Albanese finally gets his story straight
In this age of too many vague political words, can clear and specific beliefs still reach people?
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••• The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe, Stephanie Peatling • 20 hours ago • smh.com.au
Morrison enters last week with controversial plan to allow first home buyers to dip into super
The PM promised first home buyers they would be able to use their super to get into the market, attracting criticism it will drive up property prices and weaken retirement incomes.
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• The Sydney Morning Herald • Ross Gittins • 10 hours ago • smh.com.au
Corporate chiefs should back wage hikes - because cheating customers ain’t smart business
The business community risks shooting itself in the foot by opposing wage increases.
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• The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • 11 hours ago • theguardian.com
Julia Gillard makes rare appearance to back Katy Gallagher as Labor fears David Pocock upset
Labor strategists are concerned that former Wallaby, who is running as an independent in the ACT, could split the progressive vote
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Margaret Simons • 10 hours ago • smh.com.au
Could this be the election in which News Corp’s impotence is exposed?
All media outlets are guilty at times of outbreaks of stupidity, errors of fact and judgment and egregious omissions. News Corporation is in a different class. But is it having an impact?
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Paul Farhi • 6 hours ago • smh.com.au
Fox hosts and others spreading ‘race theory’ embraced by Buffalo suspect
“Great replacement theory”, which casts immigration as part of a plot by “elites” to seize power from white people was once confined to far-right white extremists.
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•• The Washington Post • Michael E. Miller, Frances Vinall • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
The Twitter account defending Australian democracy
With snappy humor and serious factchecks, the Australian Electoral Commission is trying to counter a growing flood of misinformation. Analysts say it could be a model for the United States.
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Crikey • Wendy Harmer • 5 hours ago • crikey.com.au
'The temperature is rising in Mackellar... by late afternoon the cops have been called'
Liberal MP Jason Falinski's camp have alleged two women were harassing a volunteer, whereas a witness says no such conflict occurred.
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • 6 hours ago • theguardian.com
Adam Bandt outlines seven demands for Labor in Greens’ balance-of-power wishlist
Party confident of winning at least one seat in Brisbane, where it will launch its campaign on Monday night
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•• The Sydney Morning Herald • Bianca Hall • 1 day ago • smh.com.au
For 19,000 people, this election could open the door to life
The decade-long uncertainty meted out to men, women and children who sought to come to Australia by boat has left them unable to pursue meaningful futures.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • 11 hours ago • theguardian.com
Want to make art? You better be rich: how Australian culture locked out the working class
Wages are low, work insecure and funding has been gutted. Amid a cost-of-living crisis and a pandemic, are we about to lose a swathe of artists to obscurity?
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• Crikey • Ian Macphee • 1 day ago • crikey.com.au
The Liberal Party is beyond reform. That's why this former Liberal minister says you should vote independent
Malcolm Fraser and other like-minded MPs wanted to create the Reform Australia Party. The 'teal' independent movement may be its rebirth, a former Fraser minister writes.
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Peter James Fray@PeterFray
Ian Macphee, ex Lib minister, explains why he will be voting independent this Saturday crikey.com.au/2022/05/15/ian…
23 hours ago
Australian Financial Review • Michael Read • 1 hour ago • afr.com
PM’s super property pitch adds up to a 1pc deposit
Withdrawing 40 per cent of their super will give the average 25-29-year-old a 1 per cent deposit on a cheaper Sydney property. Those aged 35-39 will have 4 per cent.
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David Marin-Guzman@dmaguz
To withdraw $50,000, a person would need to have superannuation savings of $125,000, a sum the average Australian does not accrue until they are in their 40s. afr.com/politics/pm-s-…
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• The Guardian • Paul Karp • 19 hours ago • theguardian.com
Factcheck: Scott Morrison says Australia is a world leader in Covid recovery. Is he right?
It wasn’t a race, the prime minister famously said, yet now he’s claiming the win. Here’s how the numbers –on jobs, vaccines and the economy – really stack up
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • 21 hours ago • smh.com.au
Morrison repositions himself with pitch to younger voters in final week of campaign
The PM who spent most of the last five weeks sledging his opponent and arguing over past decisions, has been replaced by someone who wants to talk about his optimism.
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The Canberra Times • Karen Barlow • 15 hours ago • canberratimes.com.au
'Incredible representative': Gillard intervenes to endorse 'at-risk' Gallagher
Australia's first female PM has written a personal letter endorsing Katy Gallagher, asking Canberrans not risk losing her...
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ABC News • Stephen Dziedzic • 2 hours ago • abc.net.au
Scott Morrison suggests Labor may have leaked AUKUS information had it been briefed sooner
The Prime Minister denies that Australia broke with the Biden administration when it decided not to consult Labor about its momentous decision to scrap the French submarine program and unveil an ambitious new plan to build nuclear-powered submarines with the US and the UK.
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••• ABC News • Nick Sas • 1 day ago • abc.net.au
Australia led the world in COVID infections this week and the experts say 'it's not over'
With the country in middle of an election campaign, a war raging in Ukraine and cost of living rising, COVID-19 has dropped off the radar for some Australians. But experts say the number of daily cases and deaths is "extraordinary".
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The Guardian • Harry Fischer • 4 days ago • theguardian.com
Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown
Exclusive: Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns
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Sydney Review of Books • 8 hours ago • sydneyreviewofbooks.com
Critic Swallows Book | Catriona Menzies-Pike on Trent Dalton
If Dalton’s novels are contemporary classics, does his roaring success have anything to tell us about contemporary Australia?
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Catriona Menzies-Pike@catri
I'm hoping we are about to have a change of government, so I got my act together and wrote about the defining novelist of the Morrison era.
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/dalton-…
7 hours ago
The Guardian • Benita Kolovos • 1 day ago • theguardian.com
Ultra-marginal Chisholm hopes for a milder ride, but scrabble for votes still intense
Liberal Gladys Liu won the Melbourne eastern suburbs seat in a hugely contentious 2019 poll, and needs every vote she can muster to ward off Labor
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Benita Kolovos@benitakolovos
ICYMI yesterday - here’s my piece on Chisholm for @GuardianAus Anywhere but Canberra series. theguardian.com/australia-news…
5 hours ago
The New Daily • Alan Kohler • 9 hours ago • thenewdaily.com.au
Alan Kohler: The time for lazy, comfortable government is over
If Treasurer Josh Frydenberg loses his seat on Saturday his best legacy could end up being his commissioning of a review of Australian productivity.
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ABC News • Janine Cohen, Matt Henry • 10 hours ago • abc.net.au
'It's all about community and grassroots democracy': Could the rise of the independents change the outcome of the election?
When Cathy McGowan won the federal seat of Indi nearly a decade ago, no-one could have predicted her impact on this current election campaign. Now, she's seen as a "secret weapon" of the independents movement.
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The Age • Royce Millar • 10 hours ago • theage.com.au
Zoe on Zoe: What the Goldstein independent wants from the next government
She grew up disillusioned with Labor after seeing her father’s experiences. Now she lives bayside, has two children in private schools and is a swinging voter.
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• The Guardian • Paul Karp • 22 hours ago • theguardian.com
How does the Coalition’s super scheme for first-homebuyers work and would it drive up prices?
Will it make housing unaffordable, as critics claim, and how does it compare with Labor’s Help to Buy scheme?
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• The Sydney Morning Herald • Rob Harris • 1 day ago • smh.com.au
How ‘Big Ange’ won over Celtic fans and conquered Scotland
Mocked as “Ange Postecog-who?” when his shock appointment was leaked to the Scottish media, the Australian coach is now beloved by Celtic fans.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Corrigan • 5 hours ago • smh.com.au
‘Hang your head in shame, Shark’: Wayne Grady attacks Norman over Saudi golf
The US PGA champion and former friend of Greg Norman has been brutal in his reaction to Norman’s involvement in the rebel tour.
Australian Studies Institute • 7 days ago • ausi.anu.edu.au
Democracy Sausage live! Australia’s election countdown
As Australians head to the polls, join Democracy Sausage host Mark Kenny and three outstanding guests for a sizzling live election event. About this event After months of anticipation, Australia’s political future is about to be decided. So how have Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese performed throughout the federal election campaign so far? Has either major party done enough to win victory in their own right on 21 May? And what do the candidates’ policy announcements tell us about the sort of government they’ll lead?
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TV Blackbox • Media Release • 1 hour ago • tvblackbox.com.au
NITV’s THE POINT puts the spotlight on First Nations issues in special election episode
In the lead up to the federal election, National Indigenous Television (NITV) continues to be at the forefront, covering the issues impacting First Nations communities and asking the questions that need to be answered before the May 21 poll.
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The Telegraph • Hayley Dixon • 10 hours ago • telegraph.co.uk
Eurovision winner Oleh Psiuk heads home to defend Ukraine
Kalush Orchestra frontman kisses girlfriend goodbye in Turin before piling belongings into taxi and heading to airport
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Primer • Felicity Robinson • 1 day ago • primer.com.au
Women's Safety Matters. Here's Where The Major Parties Stand
Millions of Australians have lived through gendered violence. Jess Hill reveals what the major parties have pledged to do about it.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Andrew Hornery • 2 hours ago • smh.com.au
Australian Values leader Heston Russell faces charge over pool-party assault
Following a five-month investigation, NSW Police say the former SAS commando turned OnlyFans model is due to face a common assault charge.
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ABC Radio • 2 days ago • abc.net.au
One. Week. To. Go
The focus of the Federal Election shifted to wages this week with Labor arguing for an increase in the minimum wage. The Prime Minister says it isn't that simple, but he also says he will have to change his leadership style to win another term. So where are we in the campaign with one week to go? And why is no-one talking about how closing the gender wage gap would fix Australia’s skills shortage?
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The Age • Katina Curtis • 3 hours ago • smh.com.au
AAT barrister says he was shifted to ‘latrine duty’ after too many findings against government
Michael Manetta alleges a former Liberal senator heading up the section examining social security appeals shifted him out of the area because he found against the government too often.
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The Washington Post • Marianna Sotomayor • 6 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Stefanik echoed racist theory allegedly espoused by Buffalo suspect
The No. 3 House Republican, who ran Facebook ads parroting the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, illustrates the radical turn taken by an increasing number of Republicans.
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The Australia Institute • Jake Wishart • 9 hours ago • australiainstitute.org.au
Government Agency Political Appointments as High as One in Three
A new report from the Australia Institute’s Democracy & Accountability Program represents the largest and most comprehensive domestic study of the practice of cronyism in relation to appointments to a government agency ever conducted in Australia. This detailed deep dive report has investigated every single appointment made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) since 1996
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Greg Jericho@GrogsGamut
Some great research here. twitter.com/ebony_bennett/…
4 hours ago
The Guardian • Sarah Martin, Khaled Al Khawaldeh • 5 days ago • theguardian.com
Coalition and Labor pledge $40m of election cash to clubs that benefited from ‘sports rorts’
Some organisations awarded sports grants against the department’s recommendations in 2019 are in line for more money in 2022
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • 4 hours ago • theguardian.com
Australian authorities to buy out fisheries, citing climate crisis
$20m permit buyback aims to help recovery of jackass morwong, redfish, john dory and silver trevally
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