Wednesday, October 13, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

Australian Financial Review • Joe Aston • October 12, 2021 • afr.com
JobKeeper wasted $40 billion, not $27 billion, but who’s counting?
This is not Treasury’s finest hour.
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Stephen Mayne@MayneReport
Another excellent @mrjoeaston piece on JobKeeper than @JoshFrydenberg will hate. $40 billion is a shameful amount of public money to waste like this (pay): afr.com/rear-window/jo…
October 12, 2021
The Guardian • Amanda Meade • October 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
News Corp’s Andrew Bolt says his company’s climate campaign is ‘rubbish’
Commentator adds voice to backlash against Mission Zero editorial project which has been criticised by some longtime supporters of climate action
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jennifer Duke, Shane Wright • October 13, 2021 • smh.com.au
A budget reckoning: How the tax system is failing Australians
Top economists, former Treasury officials and ex-politicians are warning that Australia is fast approaching a fiscal nightmare.
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The Guardian • Ketan Joshi • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
News Corp’s turnaround on climate crisis is a greenwash
The company won’t change until it understands the grave damage it has done with its ugly legacy of denialist reporting
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ABC News • Gareth Hutchens • October 13, 2021 • abc.net.au
This economist just won the Nobel Prize for his research on the minimum wage, but it cost him a lot of friends
Economists whose work looking at whether increasing the minimum wage creates more jobs was ridiculed for years have won a Nobel Prize. Here's how they did it.
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Sally McManus@sallymcmanus
These economists proved what the ACTU has been saying for 25 years and won the Nobel Prize. Minimum wage rises do not lead to job losses. Instead people have more money to spend and this leads to more jobs. Who would have thought! abc.net.au/news/2021-10-1…
October 13, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Bevan Shields • October 13, 2021 • smh.com.au
The electric car revolution putting Australia and the rest of the world to shame
Only 10 years ago diesel cars accounted for 75 per cent of new sales in Norway. Today they make up just 2.3 per cent.
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The Age • Nyadol Nyuon • October 13, 2021 • smh.com.au
Anti-vaxxers hide privilege behind language of oppression
It is difficult to have empathy for those who claim they are now an oppressed class because of their decision to not be vaccinated.
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The Guardian • Isabelle Oderberg • October 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
Miscarriage is the most common pregnancy complication. So why are we so bad at treating it?
I hear every day from women desperate to be heard, to have their horror stories told in the hope of helping others
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Ross Gittins • October 13, 2021 • smh.com.au
How flimflam politicians cultivate a culture of business greed
A culture has developed that business’ contribution to the economy is so heroic that behaving with honour and even obeying penny-fogging laws is optional.
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Ross Gittins@1RossGittins
We risk becoming a business kleptocracy - with politicians showing the way bit.ly/30cbedu #asuecon #ausbiz #auspol
October 13, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Adam Morton • October 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
More Australians than ever are worried about the climate crisis, annual survey suggests
A record 75% of voters are worried about climate and 69% want the PM to push for net zero, but Queenslanders are less concerned than the rest of the nation
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lisa Visentin, Nick Bonyhady • October 13, 2021 • smh.com.au
Tudge flags further free speech measures as sacked climate sceptic loses High Court case
The Education Minister Alan Tudge says he’s “concerned that, in some places, there is a culture of closing down perceived ‘unwelcome thoughts’ rather than debating them”.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Michael McGowan • October 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
One tonne of Clive Palmer hydroxychloroquine sent for destruction after dispute with TGA
Tycoon imported 1,118kg of the drug before Therapeutic Goods Administration decided it would not be used to treat Covid
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The Guardian • Royce Kurmelovs • October 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
Comedian’s ‘subversive’ billboards attacking Australia’s climate policy to feature in New York’s Times Square
Dan Ilic raises $140,000 for satirical campaign ridiculing fossil fuel-supporting Australian politicians ahead of the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow
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The Guardian • Ian Sample, Peter Walker • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Covid response ‘one of UK’s worst ever public health failures’
Early handling and belief in ‘herd immunity’ led to more deaths, Commons inquiry finds
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Greg Dore@GregDore2
Always odd when some compare current situation in parts of Australia—Sydney opening-up—to 🇬🇧 Covid strategy. Other than slower 💉 rollout we’ve done things so differently & will soon have higher 💉 coverage. 🇬🇧 deaths per pop would = 🇦🇺 50K+ deaths. theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
October 13, 2021
ABC News • Elizabeth Byrne • October 13, 2021 • abc.net.au
WA Premier says Clive Palmer's High Court loss 'a monumental victory' for state
Clive Palmer has lost his High Court battle with Western Australia in a challenge to a law that prevents him suing the state for up to $30 billion — a figure Premier Mark McGowan says would have "left our state bankrupt".
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The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Tiny Victorian town could lose its only post office as operator refuses Covid vaccine
Angela Spedding says Australia Post told her she will have to close Merrigum post office if she does not book in for a jab by the end of the week
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ABC News • Daniel Ziffer • October 13, 2021 • abc.net.au
JobMaker was meant to support 450,000 jobs. The real figure is just 1 per cent of that
One of the key elements touted in the October 2020 federal budget, JobMaker promised $4 billion over two years in taxpayer funds to pay employers to hire workers under the age of 30. But fewer than 5,300 workers have been signed up.
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Nick Feik@NickFeik
Was a cracking announcement though. twitter.com/CaseyBriggs/st…
October 13, 2021
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst, Katharine Murphy • October 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
News Corp and business council backflips on climate don’t mean mission accomplished, Labor warns
Chris Bowen warns battle for emissions reduction is not yet over, and says Coalition has ‘one last chance’ on new roadmap
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Chris Bowen says the backflips by the BCA and News Corp don’t mean the climate wars are over. “We’ll see how different people react to policy announcements .. in the election campaign” #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 13, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Rob Harris • October 13, 2021 • smh.com.au
Kangaroo pulled from Canberra lake in viral video euthanised by vet
Footage of a dawn retrieval of a kangaroo from Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin went viral around the world, but the kangaroo met a tragic end.
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ABC News • Andrew Greene • October 13, 2021 • abc.net.au
Taxpayer-funded $250,000 legal effort helps keep original French submarine price secret
Defence and the French company Naval Group spends almost a quarter of a million dollars on taxpayer-funded lawyers trying to keep hidden the original proposed cost of Australia's future submarine.
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