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The Guardian • Ben Doherty, Nick Evershed • November 7, 2021 • theguardian.com
Cost of Australia holding each refugee on Nauru balloons to $4.3m a year
Exclusive: Taxpayer cost of offshore processing regime revealed as government remains silent on where $400m went
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Ben Doherty@BenDohertyCorro
The cost to Australian taxpayers to hold a single refugee on Nauru has escalated tenfold to more than $350,000 every month – or $4.3m a year – as the government refuses to reveal where nearly $400m spent on offshore processing on the island has gone. theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 7, 2021
The Age • Melissa Cunningham • November 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
In the ICU where only Maria is vaccinated, others die in disbelief
Healthcare workers on the sharp end of the pandemic are not just fighting a war against coronavirus, but combating a never-ending scourge of misinformation about the disease.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick McKenzie, Joel Tozer • November 7, 2021 • theage.com.au
Michael Sukkar knew of scheme that misused public funds to boost faction
Emails and messages suggest that taxpayer funds were allegedly misused for Liberal Party purposes, highlighting again the need for a federal anti-corruption commission.
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Sumeyya Ilanbey@sumeyyailanbey
Federal minister Michael Sukkar had intimate knowledge of a long-running scheme in which his best friend, younger brother and factional supporters were paid by taxpayers for political work that boosted the power of Mr Sukkar’s faction. theage.com.au/politics/feder…
November 7, 2021
The Guardian • Sean Kelly • November 7, 2021 • theguardian.com
Writing a book about Scott Morrison: ‘the fact he seemed boring wasn’t an obstacle’
Looking closely at how Scott Morrison has succeeded – and the ways in which he has failed – can tell us a lot about politics, and journalism, and Australians
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Sean Kelly@mrseankelly
I have a piece in @GuardianAus today on why I felt I needed to write a different type of book about Scott Morrison - and the other book I almost wrote but didn't.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 7, 2021
The Age • Chip Le Grand • November 7, 2021 • theage.com.au
‘Best interest’: Tim Smith to quit politics at next election
The controversial MP, once touted as a future leader of his party, has not sought preselection for his seat of Kew.
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Medium • Ed Husic • November 8, 2021 • edhusic.medium.com
Healing after COVID: reuniting a divided city
I begin by acknowledging that we meet on the lands of the Dharug people and I pay my respects to elders, past, present and emerging and…
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Laura Tingle@latingle
A powerful speech about what the Sydney lockdown looked like in its West. Labor MP Ed Husic: 'The Liberals were content to draw a line through the middle of Sydney, carve it up — & see how we on the other side fared. It was a grossly uneven line at that' link.medium.com/YR6NbOWVYkb
November 7, 2021
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • November 7, 2021 • theguardian.com
Victorian MP Tim Smith will not contest next election after drink-driving crash
Liberal member for Kew says decision is in the best interest of the party after ‘terrible lapse in judgement’
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Josh Taylor@joshgnosis
Tim Smith sent an email to branch members at midnight on Saturday saying he won't contest the next election. theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 7, 2021
Gawker • Alex McKinnon • November 5, 2021 • gawker.com
Meet Australia’s Batshit Insane Mining Billionaires
If you want to know why a country that regularly catches fire has such disastrous climate policy, start here.
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Australian Financial Review • Patrick Durkin • November 7, 2021 • afr.com
Michael Sukkar engulfed in branch-stacking scandal: court documents
The Assistant Treasurer faces fresh allegations he helped devise an illegal branch-stacking scheme that used electoral officers to boost his political power, court documents filed by Nine Entertainment claim.
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Stephen Mayne@MayneReport
Rule number one for those in positions of corporate or political power: don't sue Nick McKenzie. Rather than being silenced, Nine will run a truth defence & then use discovery process to go again, as Sukkar-Andrews-Bastiaan faction discovered last night: afr.com/politics/micha…
November 8, 2021
ABC News • Shahni Wellington, Kirstie Wellauer, • November 7, 2021 • abc.net.au
First Nations advocates call out stark difference in how Indigenous missing children cases are treated
When Cleo Smith was found, a collective sigh of relief was felt across the country. Sadly, not all who are searching for their missing children will experience the same outcome. Warning: This story contains the name and image of a deceased Indigenous person.
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Nessa Turnbull-Roberts@TurnbullVanessa
WA police took 10 hours before they would bother to look for baby Charlie who had been abducted by a known violent man,abused the child's grandfather for reporting the abduction.
A birth certificate had to be issued for proof, before they even looked
abc.net.au/news/2021-11-0…
November 7, 2021
The Monthly • Richard Denniss • November 1, 2021 • themonthly.com.au
The needle and the damage done
The federal government’s handling of the pandemic has been the worst public policy screw-up in Australian history
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
On January 1 Scott Morrison said he’d prefer longer lockdowns to a rapid rollout. In February he said we would be 100% vaxed by October. In March he said ‘it’s not a race’…now he’s blaming premiers for the frustration of long lockdowns! #auspol #insiders themonthly.com.au/issue/2021/nov…
November 21, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Caitlin Fitzsimmons • November 7, 2021 • smh.com.au
House price growth three times faster than wages over four decades
Alexandra Samootin owned a home in Mona Vale with her husband of 22 years but, after her divorce, she ended up homeless.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter FitzSimons • November 7, 2021 • smh.com.au
Russell Oxford, ‘true great’ of NSW policing, calls it a day
As a young constable, Russell Oxford met famed detective Roger Rogerson. Three decades later, he put Rogerson away for murder.
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The Age • Robert Nelson • November 7, 2021 • theage.com.au
Father and Son review: Jeremy Deller’s pop-up installation burns bright
In Jeremy Deller’s spooky installation in a deconsecrated church in Collingwood, the Father and Son both perish.
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Maddison Connaughton@madconnaughton
I’m confused by this… did the reviewer really not realise the figures are of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch? theage.com.au/culture/art-an…
November 7, 2021
The Age • Aisha Dow • November 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
Hundreds of younger COVID-19 patients, pregnant women, admitted to ICU
“Delta is affecting the younger people, who in general have fewer comorbidities.”
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Hannah Furness • November 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
Barbados will become a republic. Prince Charles will be guest of honour
The heir to the British throne is expected to acknowledge the end of an era for the monarchy while emphasising “Little England’s” continued Commonwealth links.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jane Caro • November 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
There is a generation of men who have been caught flat-footed
Once, one of the advantages of power and status was the assumption that you were a gentleman and so your word was your bond. But how times have changed.
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Jane Caro@JaneCaro
Why an entire generation of privileged men are currently reeling in shock. My latest in @smh smh.com.au/lifestyle/life…
November 6, 2021
The Australian • Nick Tabakoff • November 7, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Palaszczuk’s mystery absence from PNN
Queenslanders tuning in for their daily Covid update from Annastacia Palaszczuk on her fast-growing news outlet, PNN otherwise known as the Palaszczuk News Network were last week left asking one tricky question: why had the star of the show gone missing for nearly two weeks And did the Premiers strange absence have anything to do with her states vaccination go-slow
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skynews • November 7, 2021 • skynews.com.au
Leaked Macron text could cost Australia ‘candid’ communication with foreign leaders
The leaked text message between Scott Morrison and Emmanuel Macron about the submarine deal could cost Australia future candid exchanges of communication between foreign leaders and the Prime Minister, according to Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell. It comes as a leaked private text message, believed to have been leaked by Mr Morrison's office to show Mr Macron actually knew about the agreement, was published in The Daily Telegraph on Monday evening. The text message appeared to cast doubt on the French claim that they were blindsided by the AUKUS partnership. The French ambassador…
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ABC News • November 7, 2021 • abc.net.au
Future of Sydney's Chinatown 'hanging by a thread' with claims historic area has been forgotten
It’s one of Sydney’s best-known areas, but the pandemic has left Chinatown struggling to survive. The closure of some iconic restaurants has prompted desperate calls for help.
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