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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jacqueline Maley • November 19, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘The real reason is the environment’: Allegra Spender to run as Wentworth independent
The daughter of eastern suburbs darling-designer Carla Zampatti and former Liberal MP John Spender, Allegra Spender, seems tailor-made to capture the blue-ribbon Liberal seat of Wentworth at the next election.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Button • November 20, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘They cancelled me as a human’: What nearly killed Logie winner Hugh Sheridan
An online campaign quashed Sheridan’s show before it even began - and left him suicidal. A case of rebalancing bias – or cancel culture gone mad?
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Kerri Sackville@KerriSackville
Everyone on Twitter should read this. I don’t know what the answer is, but it’s a great examination of the questions. smh.com.au/national/they-…
November 20, 2021
ABC News • Laura Tingle • November 20, 2021 • abc.net.au
When Morrison denounced violent threats, it was the second 'of course' that left him on the back foot
The ugly escalation in Melbourne is the sort of moment you would expect leaders to quickly respond to and settle down — but the Prime Minister couldn't resist adding a political kicker, writes Laura Tingle.
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Laura Tingle@latingle
This week’s column: the PM not so much in a spot of bother as a dalmatian’s worth of them abc.net.au/news/2021-11-2…
November 20, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • November 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
As Melbourne faces ugly civil unrest, Scott Morrison looks like a political leader casting around for a hammer blow
A prime minister who is demonstrably comfortable with intervention, now declares government has to get out of people’s faces
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • November 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
Labor pledges funding boost to safeguard Australian public broadcasters from ‘arbitrary’ interference
Anthony Albanese says he will provide the ABC and SBS with five-year funding terms and review options to deliver greater financial stability
The Australian • RACHEL BAXENDALE • November 19, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Andrews on track for third term
Daniel Andrews is on track to win a third term as Victorian premier with an increased majority with 12 months to go to next years state election, according to the first major Newspoll since the 2018 Danslide that reduced the Coalition to 27 of 88 lower house seats.
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Rachel Baxendale@rachelbaxendale
NEWSPOLL: 2PP Labor leads 58-42 (was 57.3-42.7 in 2018). Primary: 44-36. Andrews: satisfied 56, dissatisfied 42, uncommitted 2. Guy: sat 34, dissat 42, uncommitted 24. Better Premier 54-33. Andrews' handling of Covid: 60 well, 39 poorly #springst
theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…
November 19, 2021
The Guardian • Elias Visontay • November 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
A broken dream: outer Melbourne has affordable houses but no train or school
In the first of a short series on Australian housing, Elias Visontay examines how Victoria’s planning system is failing residents and the environment
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Elias Visontay@EliasVisontay
Urban planning, housing affordability, climate change, public transit and roof colours! If this sounds like your jam, check out @GuardianAus' future of Australian housing series. I kicked it off by looking at developers and estates in outer Melbourne (1/5) theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 20, 2021
Newcastle Herald • Sage Swinton • November 19, 2021 • newcastleherald.com.au
Police raid environment centre in relation to protests
It comes after weeks of anti-coal protest action by Blockade Australia.
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Georgina Woods@georgefwoods
Our little environment centre was raided by police this afternoon, even though it's not involved in the recent coal protests. Here they are carting our banners and corflutes away. newcastleherald.com.au/story/7518134/…
November 19, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Alexandra Smith • November 19, 2021 • smh.com.au
NSW assisted dying bill expected to pass
Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich says his voluntary assisted dying bill is likely to pass the first vote. The lower house debate so far has had 39 speeches supporting the bill and 25 opposing it.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
NSW Treasurer @Matt_KeanMP is a man of high principle and integrity. Truly remarkable, truly rare. smh.com.au/politics/nsw/a…
November 20, 2021
The Saturday Paper • Saxon Mullins • November 20, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Why all Australian states should have affirmative consent laws
In 2013, when I was 18 years old, I was sexually assaulted behind a nightclub in Sydney’s Kings Cross. The second trial of my case ended with an outcome that seems like it shouldn’t have been possible: the court acknowledged that I had not consented but that the accused did not know. His conviction was overturned. I was supposed to run; I was supposed to kick and scream. I was
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Saxon Mullins@SaxonAdair
Some words from me today in the @SatPaper on the affirmative consent law wins we’ve had recently.
Spoiler alert: I’m a fan!
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/…
November 20, 2021
The Saturday Paper • Paul Bongiorno • November 20, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
John Alexander turns on Scott Morrison
Former Australian tennis great John Alexander doesn’t like the way the game of politics is being played. Winning is everything and the biggest losers are Australians. Good policy and a genuine bipartisan search for what is best for the nation, in his opinion, comes a poor last. People want political leadership with vision, and they are not getting it. “People,” he says, “are
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Christine Wallace • November 19, 2021 • smh.com.au
Revealing book about Scott Morrison is an important PSA but it buries the lead
Annika Smethurst’s biography of the PM is full of startling information but it leaves his working relationship with women until the final pages.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Josh Pallas • November 19, 2021 • smh.com.au
Victoria’s supposedly autocratic pandemic laws would be better than NSW’s
The proposed bill in Victoria would answer to a charter of human rights. For a start, NSW doesn’t have such a charter.
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The Age@theage
"A great irony," writes NSW's Council for Civil Liberties vice-president Josh Pallas "is that the proposed laws would be a significant improvement on those in NSW, and a marked improvement on those currently operating Victoria" | OPINION #covid #covid19... theage.com.au/national/victo…
November 19, 2021
ABC News • Matthew Doran • November 20, 2021 • abc.net.au
'Pillars of our democracy': Labor pledges to restore funding to ABC and SBS
Arguing the electoral cycle is leaving public broadcasters vulnerable, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says a Labor government would provide funding certainty for the ABC and SBS.
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The Conversation • Peter Martin • November 16, 2021 • theconversation.com
The embarrassingly easy, tax-free way for Australia to cut the cost of electric cars
Electric cars are expensive in Australia partly because European emission standards reward manufacturers for selling them there. There’s an obvious fix.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Eryk Bagshaw • November 20, 2021 • smh.com.au
Australia left shooting blanks as US and China seek political ceasefire
As the two superpowers attempt to negotiate a new equivalence, Australia has fired almost all the shots in its diplomatic barrel.
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • November 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
Lewis Hamilton praised after wearing rainbow helmet in Qatar GP practice
Lewis Hamilton has been praised for “an incredible act of allyship” after wearing a rainbow-coloured helmet at the Qatar Grand Prix
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter FitzSimons • November 19, 2021 • smh.com.au
Say it ain’t so, Joe: Paine scandal such a shock after key role in cultural clean-up
After “Sandpapergate”, the wicketkeeper seemed not only to be a cleanskin to beat them all, but he looked the part, sounded the part and, as far as anyone knew, lived the part.
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The Guardian • Moira Donegan • November 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
Part of the ‘great resignation’ is actually just mothers forced to leave their jobs
During the pandemic, women have exited the labor force at twice the rate of men; their participation in the paid labor force is now the lowest it has been in more than 30 years
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The Australian • RACHEL BAXENDALE • November 19, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Coalition facing uphill battle for power
Matthew Guys Coalition opposition will have to pull off a political and mathematical miracle if it is to stage an unlikely victory when Victorians go to the polls on November 26 next year.
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