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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • November 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
Prime minister’s department breached FOI laws over release of Brittany Higgins documents
Information commissioner tells department to fix compliance with act after dragging out information request
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The New Daily • Paul Keating • November 17, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Paul Keating: The SMH misrepresented my views. This is my reply
Paul Keating submitted an opinion piece to the Nine newspapers in response to an article written by their international editor. They declined to publish it.
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MargaretSimons@MargaretSimons
Whatever you think of the arguments on both sides, the publication of this by @TheNewDailyAu and @johnmenadue shows once again that the MSM's gatekeeping role is much diminished. thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/…
November 17, 2021
The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • November 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
Centrelink’s cancelling of 80-year-old’s age pension ‘absurd and wrong’, tribunal rules
Aged care resident did not ‘personally have the capacity to comprehend … a decision to suspend his pension’
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The Age • Paul Sakkal, Rachel Eddie • November 16, 2021 • theage.com.au
Liberal MPs join protest at which fringe element promotes violence
Four state Liberal MPs encouraged a large and sometimes angry group of protesters at Parliament House despite colleagues warning it had the potential to harm perceptions of the Coalition among mainstream voters.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
One in five state Liberal MPs have either addressed or attended protests that have featured nooses and death threats, prompting one Liberal MP to warn their colleagues against "playing footsies" with extremists @theage
theage.com.au/politics/victo…
November 16, 2021
The Guardian • Josh Taylor • November 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
Most of United Australia party’s videos pulled from YouTube for allegedly violating advertising policy
UAP has spent $2.684m on 25 YouTube ads since ex-Liberal MP Craig Kelly joined in August
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jenna Price • November 17, 2021 • smh.com.au
Struggling to find staff? Here’s why nobody wants to work for you
This isn’t about job snobbery. It’s more about bondage hesitancy.
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Dr Jenna Price@JennaPrice
As my old mother used to say, this might be a good time for employers to take a good hard look at themselves.
smh.com.au/national/strug…
November 17, 2021
The Guardian • Peter Hannam • November 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
Coastal defences need $30bn boost to prevent Australian homes becoming uninhabitable
Exclusive: Investment would avoid disruption to communities as coastal floods and erosion worsen with rising sea levels, insurance council says
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Harriet Alexander • November 16, 2021 • smh.com.au
Mother and daughter jailed for importing tea the ABF wrongly identified as drugs
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions is resisting the attempts of two women who were wrongly jailed after their tea was misidentified as an illegal drug to sue for costs.
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Hugh Riminton@hughriminton
This story is an outrage: women left in jail - and having to pay their own legal fees - after Border Force farcically mistook tea for amphetamines. twitter.com/HenrySherrell/…
November 17, 2021
The Guardian • Peter Hannam • November 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
What is the ‘safeguard mechanism’ and how is it supposed to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions?
Intended as a pollution cutting ‘stick’, government is now ‘trying to paint it orange and pretend it’s a carrot’, says one expert
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Lenore Taylor@lenoretaylor
Explainer: How the Morrison government is attacking the ALP for possibly thinking about implementing the coalition's own climate policy - as backed by the business council (you couldn't make this stuff up) theguardian.com/environment/20…
November 17, 2021
The Guardian • Amy Remeikis • November 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison’s ‘can-do capitalism’ is a hypocritical example of ‘do nothing’ leadership
The Coalition has a solid track record in imposing ‘don’t do’ regulation on some people when it suits them
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Pearls and Irritations • Paul Keating • November 17, 2021 • johnmenadue.com
Paul Keating responds to Peter Hartcher's 'King Canute' column
Peter Hartcher has a lot to answer for, writes Paul Keating in a response to the Nine columnist that did not make it to print. I should have hoped that after 26 years away from the National Press Club, my appearance there, at the Club’s invitation, would have indicated to Peter Hartcher that I believed Continue reading »
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • November 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia is reopening but thousands of humanitarian visa holders remain stranded overseas
One family sheltering in Iraq say they sold their car to pay for their flights when granted visas before ‘everything changed’
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The New Daily • Richard Denniss • November 17, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Richard Denniss: The massive contradiction in Morrison's net-zero plan
The purpose of the government's net-zero modelling was to show Australia can get to net zero without a carbon price. But it proves the opposite.
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
Scott Morrison’s net zero plan is based on…a carbon price! The economic modelling assumes an imaginary $24 carbon price that ‘motivates’ the uptake of the imaginary technologies that haven’t been invented yet…it really is next level BS #auspol #climate thenewdaily.com.au/finance/financ…
November 17, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Wendy Tuohy • November 17, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Outrage’ keeps Carol Schwartz fighting for equality as media remains gendered
An analysis of 60,000 news stories in May 2021 by Ms Schwartz’s Women’s Leadership Institute Australia found less than a third of quotes were from women.
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Dr Blair Williams🏳️‍🌈♀️💉💉@BlairWilliams26
And the report @JennaPrice and I have been working on for over 8 months has been released today! We found that men's voices continue to dominate in the media, especially in sports, business and politics.
smh.com.au/national/outra…
November 17, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Matt O'Sullivan • November 17, 2021 • smh.com.au
Premier ‘unwilling to accept’ $2.5b budget blow from scrapping rail corporation
Emails reveal Dominic Perrottet insisted on pushing ahead with the controversial rail entity because scuttling it would cost the state budget billions.
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The New Daily • Matthew Elmas • November 16, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Morrison and Joyce are making false claims about petrol prices
Australia's two most senior politicians made extraordinary claims about petrol prices this week. So TND fact-checked their comments.
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The Guardian • Stephanie Convery, Laura Murphy-Oates, Jane Lee, Karishma Luthria, Melanie Tait, Gabrielle Jackson, Miles Martignoni • November 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
Tasmania – the state where pokies are king
Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to lower house independent Tasmanian MP Kristie Johnston and inequality reporter Stephanie Convery about the gambling lobby’s influence on Tasmanian politics and the bill that’s brought this out into the open
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Australian Financial Review • Mark Ludlow • November 16, 2021 • afr.com
No new limits for big polluters despite net zero pledge: Angus Taylor
The Morrison government said any plans by Labor to change the safeguard mechanism for big polluters would be akin to backdoor carbon tax.
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The Age • Bianca Hall, Rachel Eddie • November 17, 2021 • theage.com.au
‘Coercive powers’: Former minister Adem Somyurek threatens to scupper pandemic bill
The disgraced Labor powerbroker is back in Parliament after belatedly proving his vaccination status and has threatened to block the pandemic legislation.
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The Age • Deborah Glass • November 17, 2021 • theage.com.au
Powerful pandemic laws lack independent oversight
The lockdown of people in public housing reminds us of the need for the new pandemic legislation to protect liberties.
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Joanna McCarthy@joanna_mcc
Good read from ⁦@VicOmbudsman⁩ on proposed pandemic law.
theage.com.au/politics/victo…
November 17, 2021

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