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The Age • Nick McKenzie • October 13, 2021 • theage.com.au
Demands for Premier to face IBAC grilling don’t stack up
Some of those calling for Daniel Andrews to be hauled before the anti-corruption commission, including commentators and politicians, have not produced any credible evidence of an abuse of public funds.
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Raf Epstein@Raf_Epstein
Read this - the crystal clear distinction between the 'repeaters' and the 'reporters'
@Ageinvestigates knows what is going on with @ibacVic
Too many others in the media are mere cheer leaders
"Demands for Premier to face IBAC grilling don’t stack up"
theage.com.au/national/victo…
October 14, 2021
The Guardian • Sarah Martin • October 14, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia has 200 fewer intensive care beds than at the start of the pandemic
Figures provided to the federal health department show 8% drop in the number of beds, with regional areas worst affected
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • October 14, 2021 • smh.com.au
Speaker who restored respect to the House will leave a gaping hole
When Tony Smith leaves the Speaker’s chair there will be a huge responsibility on future prime ministers to find someone to match him.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Adam Morton • October 14, 2021 • theguardian.com
States put Australia on track to beat 2030 emissions pledge but Morrison may not make it official
Prime minister under pressure to increase country’s 2030 emissions reduction goal but faces challenges from openly hostile Nationals
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Morrison has told colleagues he wants to formally increase Australia’s 2030 target, but with Nationals not locked in on 2050, it’s unclear whether he has the political capital to deliver it #auspol theguardian.com/environment/20…
October 14, 2021
The Guardian • Paul Karp • October 14, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia seeks to overturn landmark ruling preventing deportation of Aboriginal people
The federal government wants to challenge the high court decision in Love and Thoms following the retirement of two supporting judges
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ABC News • Stephen Dziedzic, Liam Fox • October 14, 2021 • abc.net.au
'Bewildering': Australia plans to stop AstraZeneca production — but how will it affect our neighbours?
CSL's Melbourne plant is making about a million doses a week and up to 800,000 are being sent overseas to bolster vaccine rollouts in the Pacific and South-East Asia. But the company is expected to wind up production of AstraZeneca in Australia early next year.
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Stephen Dziedzic@stephendziedzic
Why stop at 50 million? Aid groups are pressing the Government to extend its contract with CSL, and ramp up production of AstraZeneca vaccines in Melbourne next year, to help fight the pandemic
abc.net.au/news/2021-10-1…
October 14, 2021
ABC News • Jake Evans • October 14, 2021 • abc.net.au
Australia 'dumping ground' for worst emitting cars as government delays signing on to international standards
More than 80 per cent of the global car market now follows 'Euro 6' emissions standards — but Australia's resistance to signing on is leaving the country with less efficient, less safe and higher polluting cars, experts warn.
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Slate • Cameron Wilson • October 13, 2021 • slate.com
I Found ClickHole’s “Worst Person You Know”
I had to know what he thought of becoming a legend.
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CAMWILSON@cameronwilson
Ladies and Gentlemen: We Got Him
slate.com/culture/2021/1…
October 14, 2021
The Age • Jack Latimore • October 13, 2021 • theage.com.au
‘The embodiment of everything’: Preserving the language of Indigenous Victorians
The restoration and preservation of Indigenous languages has attracted considerable popular interest over the past two decades, but more funding is required if many are not to be lost forever.
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Jack Latimore@LatimoreJack
“To break a culture you take the language, or you take the kids. Both of those things happened…the key to breaking a person’s identity, breaking their culture, is to get rid of the way they communicate, the thing that makes them who they are is language.” bit.ly/3iZ8bfq
October 14, 2021
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • October 14, 2021 • theguardian.com
News Corp climate campaign pledged ‘positive stories’ only. Also excluded, any mea culpas
From attacking people who are anti-nuclear to blaming Greens for lack of climate action, what was that about no partisan sniping or politicising?
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick Bonyhady, Anthony Galloway • October 14, 2021 • smh.com.au
Defence emails reveal staff shame at Dutton’s ‘tone-deaf’ IDAHOBIT morning tea ban
Defence employees complained of being “slightly disturbed” by Peter Dutton’s ban on special morning teas after one in support of the LGBTQI community.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
The jumped-up Queensland copper makes a total prick of himself. Again. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
October 14, 2021
ABC News • Inga Ting, Nathanael Scott, Alex Palmer, Michael Workman • October 14, 2021 • abc.net.au
Jackpot: How the gambling industry cashed in on political donations
Over $80 million in legal gambling-related payments — at least double what was previously identified — have flowed into the coffers of political parties during the past 22 years, an ABC News investigation can reveal.
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Inga Ting@ingating
We've spent months combing through thousands of political payments.
Turns out gambling-related donors poured more than $80 million into the political system over 22 years - at least double the amount previously identified.
Here's who hit the jackpot abc.net.au/news/2021-10-1…
October 14, 2021
The Guardian • Gabrielle Chan • October 14, 2021 • theguardian.com
Federal funding for Australian farmers could be open to environmental challenge, experts warn
Amid call for land-clearing law reparation, lawyers say global agreements may not always permit such assistance
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The Age • Miki Perkins • October 13, 2021 • theage.com.au
Victoria failing to protect threatened species, Auditor-General finds
Only 20 per cent of the state’s 2000 threatened species have had protection action plans developed by the Environment Department, according to a report from Auditor-General Andrew Greaves.
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the Guardian • https://www.theguardian.com/profile/matilda-boseley,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/caitlin-cassidy,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/elias-vis… • October 14, 2021 • theguardian.com
TGA approves rapid antigen self tests; severe storms sweep parts of NSW – as it happened
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says 90% of jobs lost in September were in Victoria as state records most infectious day with 2,297 cases. This blog is now closed
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Adam Morton@adamlmorton
A summary by Andrew Forrest just now
theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 14, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Shane Wright, Mike Foley • October 14, 2021 • smh.com.au
Reserve Bank warns Australia cannot hide from global drive to net zero by 2050
Reserve Bank deputy governor Guy Debelle says the cost of emissions-intensive Australian businesses is already climbing due to global action on climate change.
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Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • October 13, 2021 • afr.com
Government mulls 2030 emissions projection rather than target
The Morrison government could stop short of formally increasing its reduction goal for 2030, and instead adopt an upgraded forecast.
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triple j • October 13, 2021 • abc.net.au
PM’s BBQ curries
Scott Morrison’s popular curry cooking posts have drawn criticism from young South Asian Australians.
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Herald Sun • Grant McArthur • October 13, 2021 • heraldsun.com.au
It’s a very bumpy road to Covid freedom
Victorians have been starved of freedom for so long it’s no wonder few of us can stomach the thought of a couple of more weeks under any sort of lockdown.
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ABC News • Bension Siebert, Callum Marshall, Bill Ormonde, Jonathon Poulson • October 13, 2021 • abc.net.au
With zero COVID cases, Wilcannia has overcome Australia's worst per capita outbreak
The last two infected people in the town have recovered and the community is celebrating a turnaround that seemed all but impossible just a few weeks ago.
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