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Australian Financial Review • Laura Tingle • October 15, 2021 • afr.com
The most abject failure of leadership in living memory
Prime ministers are supposed to make the case for change and then discipline their governments. Scott Morrison does not fulfil this most basic task.
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The Guardian • Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Joshua Mcdonald, Kate Lyons • October 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
An impossible choice: when climate change arrives at your door
We often talk about the ‘existential threat’ of climate change to islands in the Pacific. But what does that actually mean?
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Laura Murphy-Oates@lauramoates
Hugely excited to launch 'An Impossible Choice' today on Full Story - a 3 part documentary series about the Pacific Islands, the climate crisis and the impossible choices it forces on those who live there 1/2 theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 15, 2021
The Guardian • Sarah Martin • October 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘It needs more work’: Liberal MPs call for tougher federal integrity commission
Celia Hammond says proposed anti-corruption watchdog should hold public hearings if certain threshold met
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The Guardian • Nadeem Badshah • October 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
Queen ‘irritated’ by world leaders talking not doing on climate crisis
Overheard comment suggests anger at possible no-shows at Cop26 by leaders of countries with worst CO2 emissions
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Hmm, yes theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/o…
October 15, 2021
The Age • Jenny Noyes • October 15, 2021 • smh.com.au
Porter pursuing appeal over settled defamation case on ‘a matter of principle’
Christian Porter will appeal against a decision that prevented his barrister from acting for him in his defamation case against the ABC, even though that case was settled.
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The New York Times • Van Badham • October 14, 2021 • nytimes.com
Opinion | No, Australia Is Not Actually an Evil Dictatorship
Australians have been enlisted as unwitting props in an American culture war.
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Van Badham@vanbadham
Hello, this is me in the @nytimes on the subject of how far right actors are trying to use Australians as puppets in an anti-lockdown propaganda war. Thank you to the superb @sexenheimer for his participation. #auspol
nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opi…
October 14, 2021
Crikey • Michael Bradley • October 15, 2021 • crikey.com.au
Free-speech warriors want Grace Tame to sit down, shut up and stop giving a voice to the silenced
To Janet Albrechtsen, Grace Tame's advocating for survivors is 'partisan' and having an opinion is 'dividing the nation'. Really?
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Grace Tame@TamePunk
Another Crikey cracker by @marquelawyers’ Michael Bradley.
What’s really come to the surface recently aren’t fault lines, they already existed. It’s ideas assumed by some about how survivors should be —acquiescent, quiet. We aren’t.
We’re equal players.
crikey.com.au/2021/10/15/gra…
October 15, 2021
Crikey • Bernard Keane • October 14, 2021 • crikey.com.au
How News Corp's 'best of both worlds' status is normalised by the media
News Corp enjoys the dual status of a political party and a media organisation, with the power of one and the non-accountability of the other. And the rest of the mainstream media is complicit.
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin, Adam Morton • October 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
Regional Liberals praise ‘upside’ of climate action as some Nationals continue scare campaign
Federal Liberal MP Rowan Ramsey says ‘we have to face up to what the world is doing and … have an intelligent debate’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Bevan Shields • October 15, 2021 • smh.com.au
The Queen condemns ‘really irritating’ world leaders for snubbing Glasgow climate talks
Audio reveals the 95-year-old monarch sharing her unguarded views about the COP26 climate summit: “they talk, but they don’t do.”
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The Australian • CAMERON STEWART • October 15, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Sensible path other states must follow
At last, Fortress Australia has been breached.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • October 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
Lupus sufferers pleaded for hydroxychloroquine before Clive Palmer’s doses were destroyed
Drug’s potential as Covid treatment, since dispelled, affected availability for people with proven medical need
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The Age • Chloe Booker • October 15, 2021 • smh.com.au
As I was told in hospital you may not make it, I had only you to clutch onto
You brought us so much joy in your few short months. Long weeks stuck inside during an unrelenting pandemic became bearable. Until I felt your life slowly extinguish from within me.
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Chloe Booker 📚@chloebooker
This is still pretty raw. It started out as a letter to my unborn baby that I never expected to publish. It’s Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day today, which aims to end the silence around such losses #standingsilent #pail2021 theage.com.au/lifestyle/life…
October 15, 2021
Crikey • Bernard Keane • October 15, 2021 • crikey.com.au
Pauline Hanson is more of a politician than Barnaby Joyce — she has an idea of national interest
Why do we allow the representatives of a tiny minority of voters to thwart urgently needed climate action? And whose fault is that?
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HerCanberra • Elizabeth Lee • October 15, 2021 • hercanberra.com.au
How do you grieve for someone you have never met?
Today marks International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. ACT Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee reveals her private and most recent pain.
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The Guardian • Elias Visontay, Amy Remeikis, Christopher Knaus • October 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison declares Australians will be first to return under NSW plan to end quarantine
Dominic Perrottet had earlier declared an end to ‘the hermit kingdom’ and scrapping of quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals from 1 November
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Elias Visontay@EliasVisontay
Airline source tells me that 6000 weekly seats into Sydney will become available over the next 48 hours. Airlines also exploring idea of weekly charter just for unvaccinated passengers so all other flights can be designated vax-only w/@knausc @GuardianAus theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 15, 2021
Shepparton News • October 14, 2021 • sheppnews.com.au
Federal fight - Rob Priestly to run as independent in Nicholls
City of Greater Shepparton Deputy Mayor and prominent local businessman Rob Priestly has announced he will stand as an independent for the seat of Nicholls at the next Federal Election. Mr Priestly said he decided to stand to improve the...
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Gabrielle Chan@gabriellechan
Nats Damien Drum faces independent challenge in Nicholls on climate and the opportunity for regions, integrity commission, community not party representation, Indigenous representation. "Now is the time for everyday people to step up". sheppnews.com.au/news/2021/10/1…
October 15, 2021
The Guardian • Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson • October 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
In Samoa we are born into land, climate change threatens to take it away from us
Everyone in the Pacific has stories of times the climate crisis hit our lives. For me, it is the birth of my daughter between cyclones
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • October 15, 2021 • smh.com.au
Sink or swim: why Barnaby Joyce has to accept net zero
Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce has to keep his Nationals party room happy. But he also has to keep the Coalition in government. Otherwise he’s just a rebel with a lost cause.
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Pearls and Irritations • Bronwyn Kelly • October 15, 2021 • johnmenadue.com
News Corp’s climate pivot perpetrates a new fraud and draws us closer to climate catastrophe
Not only does News Corp’s new climate change campaign come after years of spreading climate misinformation, it is also simply replacing its last fraud with another. For the past decade, stalwarts of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have claimed that climate change is a hoax and a fraud perpetrated on the Australian people. News Corp has Continue reading »

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