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The Guardian • Amanda Meade • November 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Kennedy awards miss the joke, but Peta Credlin and John Laws become the punchline | The Weekly Beast
The AFR’s Michael Roddan marched out after ‘Bogan Walkleys’ quip goes down like a lead balloon with organisers. Plus: who’s in line to replace Fran Kelly?
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ABC News • Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop • November 12, 2021 • abc.net.au
NSW Police opposed plan to protect Aboriginal communities from COVID-19
Before this year's spiralling COVID-19 outbreak, in which at least 15 Aboriginal people have died, one of Australia's most senior police officers swayed the New South Wales government to reject a plan to protect Aboriginal communities.
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The Guardian • Cait Kelly • November 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Sixteen deaths in Australia’s troubled seasonal workers program since pandemic began
Spike in fatalities comes to light as scheme faces claims of exploitation and ‘inhumane conditions’
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The Age • Nick McKenzie • November 12, 2021 • theage.com.au
Police were prevented from arresting Labor MPs over ‘red shirts’ rort: documents
The secret police files from late 2018 reveal detectives were directed by high-ranking officers to make sure that 16 named members of Parliament “not be arrested, photographed, searched”.
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Sumeyya Ilanbey@sumeyyailanbey
Detectives in Victoria Police’s fraud squad urged force command to consider arresting and prosecuting up to 16 Andrews government MPs over the “red shirts” rorting affair, but their plan was knocked back by senior officers. theage.com.au/politics/victo…
November 12, 2021
The Australian • Jacquelin Magnay • November 12, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Australia to block phase out of coal in final text
Australia has supported Saudi Arabia, Russia and India in blocking one of the most controversial lines in the COP26 initial draft statement: to accelerate the phase out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels.
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • November 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Pure spin’: experts pan Coalition net-zero modelling that allows gas sector to grow
The modelling released on Friday afternoon also relies on offsets and unknown future technology for a large part of emissions cuts
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SBS • Eden Gillespie • November 12, 2021 • sbs.com.au
Refugee with disability says he's sleeping rough after release from immigration detention
A refugee with a severe spinal disability is now sleeping rough on the streets of Melbourne after being detained for eight years by the Australian government.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Shane Wright • November 12, 2021 • smh.com.au
This is not economic modelling on net zero, it’s adjacent to it
It looks like economic modelling, but the analysis of the Coalition’s net zero Australian Way plan is more a collection of numbers and jargon.
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The Canberra Times • Sarah Basford Canales, Karen Barlow • November 12, 2021 • canberratimes.com.au
'Afterthought': Higgins slams end of parliament respect training
Brittany Higgins accuses federal government of considering sexual harassment training an "afterthought" as the Parliamentary respect training reaches its conclusion.
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The Guardian • Gabrielle Jackson, Lenore Taylor, Mike Ticher, Miles Herbert, Karishma Luthria, Camilla Hannan, Melanie Tait • November 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison’s hollow climate campaigning – with Lenore Taylor
Gabrielle Jackson talks to Lenore Taylor and Mike Ticher about a week of climate change politics and posturing
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Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • November 11, 2021 • afr.com
Desperate PM driven to can-do capitalism scare
Embarrassed by reversing direction on electric cars, Scott Morrison is trying to conflate federal Labor with the power-addicted, micro-managing premiers.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • November 12, 2021 • smh.com.au
Bennelong race thrown open after John Alexander decides to leave politics
Federal Liberal MP and former tennis champion John Alexander will not contest the next election in his seat of Bennelong.
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Federal Politics@Politics_SMHAGE
BREAKING: John Alexander to leave politics, leaving the Liberal Party fearing it could lose the seat of Bennelong | @CroweDM #auspol smh.com.au/politics/feder…
November 12, 2021
The Guardian • First Dog on the Moon • November 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Once upon a time there was a wallaby who lied
In the beginning it only told small wallaby sized fibs – nobody really cared. Eventually people noticed and some of them got quite cross
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F Onthemoon@firstdogonmoon
Today’s cartoon will not move the overton window one whit - however I enjoyed doing it and perhaps some of my creative enthusiasm will shine through - it is about a wallaby who cannot tell the truth theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
November 12, 2021
The Age • Annika Smethurst • November 11, 2021 • theage.com.au
Dumped Liberal leader Michael O’Brien facing preselection threat
Six weeks after losing the party leadership, the Malvern MP is facing another challenge, this time from a councillor aligned with former attorney-general Tim Smith.
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The Guardian • Paul Karp • November 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison says he ‘believes’ he has never told a lie in public life – was that a lie?
Australia’s prime minister was asked about lying allegations on Melbourne’s 3AW radio. We fact checked him
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Gabrielle Chan@gabriellechan
Here are five topics on which Morrison has made false or incorrect statements for readers to judge… ⁦@Paul_Karp⁩ theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 12, 2021
The Guardian • Adam Morton • November 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia shown to have highest greenhouse gas emissions from coal in world on per capita basis
Analysis released at Cop26 climate summit shows Australia’s per capita emissions from coal power nearly double those of China
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The Guardian • Richard Denniss • November 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
Audacity of hype: Scott Morrison is betting voters will settle for plans over performance
The prime minister with the shortest planning horizon in living memory is a laggard, not a leader
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
Economists can’t predict the price of oil next month or the rate of inflation next year. Asking them to predict the likely costs of technologies that haven’t been invented yet is fantasy stuff. You can see why Morrison is a fan #auspol #climate theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
November 12, 2021
ABC Radio National • November 12, 2021 • abc.net.au
Millions of junk credits issued for Australian forests that already exist
There are further questions about the integrity of Australia's carbon credits scheme, with new analysis revealing millions of credits issued for reforestation are junk cuts. Data contained in a recent report by the Clean Energy Regulator has revealed more than 10 per cent of the areas included in projects that are intended to regenerate forests already had forests on them when they started.
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The Guardian • Cait Kelly, Matilda Boseley, Lisa Cox, Paul Karp, Caitlin Cassidy, Stephanie Convery, Tess McClure, Calla Wahlquist, Josh Taylor, Natasha May, Tory S… • November 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Morrison comments on Aukus fallout – as it happened
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Paul Karp@Paul_Karp
First look at net zero modelling, claiming biz will pay up to $25 a tonne to reduce emissions; and explaining where the $2K per person boon is coming from (allegedly). #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 12, 2021
The Guardian • Paul Karp • November 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Barriers to documentation disadvantage Indigenous Australians under proposed voter ID laws
Legacies of colonisation and stolen generation make obtaining accurate birth records ‘logistical and practical nightmare’
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