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The Sydney Morning Herald • Julia Banks • July 3, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Shut up and take your HRT’: ex-MP Julia Banks on Canberra’s boys’ club
When Julia Banks transitioned from a successful corporate career into federal politics, she was shocked to find sexism and backroom skulduggery still running rife. The best antidote? Channelling Helen Mirren.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • July 3, 2021 • theguardian.com
Fifty shades of bad: the Coalition’s $660m taxpayer fund for marginal seat MPs
The slapdash culture of entitlement that lurks behind the decision-making that brought us sports rorts and now car park cronyism reeks
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ABC News • Laura Tingle • July 3, 2021 • abc.net.au
Missing 'magic numbers' and invisible asterisks: Morrison's new plan isn't a step forward
Friday's national cabinet wasn't a step forward, it was but a stark illustration of the problems in our vaccination roll-out, writes Laura Tingle.
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Laura Tingle@latingle
This week's column:The missing 'magic numbers' in Morrison's COVID strategy are a stark reminder of our bungled vaccine rollout abc.net.au/news/2021-07-0…
July 3, 2021
The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • July 3, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: Morrison ignored chief health officers’ advice
On Monday, chief health officers urged Scott Morrison to drop the AstraZeneca vaccine entirely. Instead, he broadened its usage.
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The Age • George Megalogenis • July 3, 2021 • smh.com.au
Why the premiers have PM pincered on COVID
Scott Morrison had no choice on Friday but to yield to the Labor premiers’ demand to restrict overseas arrivals. Their power will test him as he prepares for a federal election.
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George Megalogenis@GMegalogenis
On the great power shift in Australian politics, where the premiers decide who comes to this country and the PM takes a sickie. Column in The Age and SMH. theage.com.au/national/why-t…
July 3, 2021
The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • July 3, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Michael Pascoe: Scott Morrison’s double failure on returning Australians
Here’s a secret about Australians trying to get home, one that’s not really a secret: there's no queue.
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The Guardian • Amy McQuire • July 3, 2021 • theguardian.com
Forty years in an unmarked grave: family of murdered woman Queenie Hart fight to bring her home
Family were for years denied justice by a legal system that viewed Aboriginal women as disposable and their deaths not worthy of grief
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Amy McQuire@amymcquire
This is a story very close to my heart - it is about Queenie Hart, a proud Wakka Wakka woman who died in 1975 at the hands of a 'sadistic killer', a white man who walked free without even a trial.
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July 3, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • July 2, 2021 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison’s ‘new deal’ for a Covid-normal Australia is just the old deal he’s failed to deliver – get us vaccinated
The PM’s plan is the quicker we all get vaccinated, the quicker we get out of this; less an insight than a statement of the bleeding obvious
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Also: if you missed this last night, when the “new deal” to open Australia is the old deal with the same set of challenges 👇#auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 3, 2021
SBS • Rashida Yosufzai, Sophie McNeill (@Sophiemcneill) • July 2, 2021 • sbs.com.au
'I really feel betrayed': Australians stranded abroad are 'gutted' by the cut to international arrivals
Australians stuck overseas say they are devastated by the news they'll be waiting much longer to get home, after a decision to slash the cap on international arrivals.
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ABC News • Elise Kinsella, Andy Burns • July 2, 2021 • abc.net.au
A trans woman was strangled and her killer jailed. But the court never heard vital information
A transgender woman was strangled and her killer was jailed for two years. Now the ABC can reveal crucial information about the night she was killed.
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Background Briefing@BackgroundBrief
Mhelody Bruno's killer was jailed for 22 months. This is the information the court never heard abc.net.au/news/2021-07-0…
July 2, 2021
The Saturday Paper • Richard Ackland • July 3, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Investigative reporting and defamation
The Ben Roberts-Smith case may be the greatest show in town, yet the consequences for the media defendants cannot be overstated. The future of investigative reporting is held in the balance. It may not yet have sunk in how significant the case is to future journalistic careers, to the serious task of public interest reporting and to free speech itself. Observers of litigation
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Malcolm Knox • July 3, 2021 • smh.com.au
The B-team’s deeply cynical politics will generate more, not less, persecution of the religious
Reviving the religious freedom bill will further cheapen political debate beyond the amateur theatre we already suffer.
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The Guardian • Naaman Zhou • July 3, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘It makes me sick’: families of Australians stranded overseas devastated after arrivals cap slashed
Father of three-year-old citizen stuck overseas says the move wouldn’t be necessary if the vaccine rollout had been better handled
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The New Daily • Dennis Atkins • July 3, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Why Palaszczuk went postal. The backstory to the Qld hand grenade
The political pathology of Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Scott Morrison flameout this week can be found in last year’s Queensland state election.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Fergus Hunter • July 3, 2021 • smh.com.au
Third day of charges at Bowral organic food store over COVID-19 breaches
An owner and an employee of The Organic Store in Bowral were arrested for the second time on Saturday over defiance against public health orders.
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Australian Financial Review • David Marin-Guzman • July 1, 2021 • afr.com
MUA wins agreement that most new hires will be ‘friends and family’
Up to 70 per cent of recruits must be sourced from employees “families and friends” and a union list of names in a groundbreaking new waterfront deal.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Hannah Izzard, Miles Martignoni • July 3, 2021 • theguardian.com
Matt Canavan on leadership and why he doesn’t want a net zero policy – Australian politics podcast
This week Katharine Murphy interviews Nationals senator Matt Canavan on Australia’s climate wars
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SBS • Jason Lee • July 3, 2021 • sbs.com.au
'Politics aside, we've abandoned children in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict'
OPINION: Jason Lee recently returned to Sydney from the Palestinian territories. As a new study shows children in the West Bank have lost their faith in the rest of the world to help them, he says it’s time Australia recognised their plight.
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The Times • Anshel Pfeffer • July 2, 2021 • thetimes.co.uk
No takers for a million soon-to-expire Covid vaccine doses in Israel
Israel may have to destroy up to a million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine due to expire by the end of the month unless another country capable of administ
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The Saturday Paper • Karen Middleton • July 3, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Car park slush fund among worst breaches
While the government’s $660 million fund had no eligibility criteria, a press release was deemed ‘relevant authority’.
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MargaretSimons@MargaretSimons
I think this story has been under reported in what, admittedly, has been a news rich week. @KarenMMiddleton does a great job laying out the detail. Car park slush fund among worst breaches thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
July 3, 2021

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