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The Guardian • Adam Morton • December 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
Labor’s climate plan can’t fix 12 years of broken politics – but it could be the catalyst Australia needs
With parts of the business community ready to move on emissions, the opposition’s modest goal could be easily met – or surpassed
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Adam Morton@adamlmorton
The science matters, the economics matters and the broken politics matters. Whatever your views, they’re all issues.
Some initial analysis of Labor’s climate policy.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
December 4, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • December 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
The climate war is destructive, dumb as a bag of hammers, but Scott Morrison is prepared to wage it anyway
The prime minister wants a fight with Labor to help his re-election chances and Anthony Albanese has finally given him one
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
When Scott Morrison reheats his tired old pantos, like beware a Labor Greens coalition, understand Morrison could be fighting for his political life post election with teal climate independents. Here’s my column theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol
December 4, 2021
ABC News • Laura Tingle • December 4, 2021 • abc.net.au
Why aren't more people predicting a Coalition election loss?
The Opposition's climate offering includes the sorts of tangible policies that voters can easily grasp, and limits obvious opportunities for political attack from the Coalition, writes Laura Tingle.
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Laura Tingle@latingle
This week’s column: it says much that the gap between how voters are feeling & the government’s record this year has not, until now, translated into any confident predictions it is at serious risk of being turfed out of office. abc.net.au/news/2021-12-0…
December 4, 2021
The Guardian • Mike Bowers • December 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
Masks, marches and mandates: the year in politics from the lens of Mike Bowers
Guardian Australia’s photographer-at-large takes us through the scenes that made up a tumultuous year in Australian politics
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The Guardian • Cait Kelly, Tory Shepherd • December 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘If I’d known, I would have got it’: on the frontline of Australia’s ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’
Overworked doctors and nurses are digging deep to find compassion for patients who chose not to have a Covid vaccine
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Bridie Jabour@bkjabour
94% of Covid ICU patients are not vaxxed and at this point that means a lot of sick misinformed people nurses and doctors have to deal with theguardian.com/australia-news…
December 4, 2021
The Age • Paul Sakkal • December 3, 2021 • theage.com.au
Victorian Liberals abandon push for gender quota
The Liberals have 31 MPs in State Parliament, seven of them women. But the push for quotas to increase female representation is not on the agenda at this weekend’s state council meeting.
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The Age • John Silvester • December 4, 2021 • theage.com.au
Loner, pilot, barbecue-lover - mystery swirls around accused killer
The detectives who spoke to Greg Lynn about missing campers Carol Clay and Russell Hill last month had never met him, but they had already built a psychological profile of the suspect.
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Tom Cowie 🐄@tom_cowie
Sly's piece on the campers was always going to be a must-read theage.com.au/national/victo…
December 4, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • December 3, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Absurd’: lawyers criticise government’s high court bid to keep Collaery decision secret
Commonwealth also seeking to put forward new secret evidence that Bernard Collaery’s lawyers say would cause ‘irreparable prejudice’
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The Saturday Paper • December 4, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The smallest man in the room
In February last year, Mike Seccombe reported what at the time seemed incredible: Australia had a net-zero emissions target for 2050. This was in spite of the Morrison government. The story added up the commitments of every state and territory and found that Australia would reach the global target irrespective of Scott Morrison’s then refusal to endorse it.
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
Last Feb i told ⁦@SatPaper⁩ “If the states all meet their stated (Net Zero) goals, then Australia meets it, & what Scott Morrison thinks about that is precisely irrelevant”…this week the Morrison Govt tried to undermine those commitments 🤯 #auspol thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/editor…
December 4, 2021
The Age • Miki Perkins • December 4, 2021 • smh.com.au
Uncovered: the mysterious journey of the short-finned eel
It’s the first time anywhere in the world that an eel migration has been tracked from the freshwater river, where they spend years maturing, to the oceans, where they go to spawn and die.
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The Courier Mail • RHYLEA MILLAR • December 4, 2021 • thechronicle.com.au
‘Wake up’: NRL star takes aim over segregation comparison
Australia knows him for his sporting legacy and for being a loveable larrikin with an infectious laugh.
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The Courier-Mail@couriermail
Rugby league great Johnathan Thurston has taken aim at those comparing Queensland’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate to racial segregation, telling protesters to ‘wake up’. couriermail.com.au/news/wake-up-n…
December 4, 2021
The Saturday Paper • Paul Bongiorno • December 4, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Symptoms of decay expose Morrison’s old and tired government
If the last fortnight of parliament for the year is any guide, Labor has its tail up and the government is in the doldrums. The lack of engagement from the Coalition backbench as the prime minister and his ministers slugged it out with the opposition was one thing, but the dead giveaway was the sitting schedule for next year. The Morrison government is thumbing its nose at the
The Saturday Paper • Kieran Pender • December 4, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Inside Bernard Collaery’s trial
Secret evidence, secret hearings and secret judgements. Each step in the prosecution of Bernard Collaery comes with another layer of opacity. If it were not so serious, the accumulation of secrecy in this case would be comedic. Secrecy heaped upon secrecy for secrecy’s sake. A secrecy onion? But this case is no laughing matter. At stake are transparency and accountability.
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Kieran Pender@KieranPender
'Whistleblowers make Australia a better place. They should be protected, not punished – and certainly not prosecuted in a secret trial, with secret evidence and secret judgements.' I have a column in today's @SatPaper on the prosecution of Bernard Collaery thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/…
December 4, 2021
ABC News • Erin Semmler, Jasmine Hines • December 4, 2021 • abc.net.au
Renowned holiday isle back in hands of the people banished 120 years ago
The Woppaburra people are now formally recognised as the native title holders for the Keppel Islands in central Queensland, with the claim covering 567 square kilometres and 13 islands.
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The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • December 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison attacked over ‘secrecy’ after documents reveal cyclones and floods set to pummel Australia
National cabinet documents obtained by Rex Patrick reveal increased risk of extreme weather events
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The Guardian • Cait Kelly • December 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Mesmerising’: a massive murmuration of budgies is turning central Australia green and gold
After a bumper wet season, huge flocks of budgerigars are on the move in the deserts of the Northern Territory
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The Advertiser • Andrew Hough, Greg Barila, Emily Jarvis • December 3, 2021 • adelaidenow.com.au
‘Extraordinarily concerned’ but SA holds the line on borders
South Australia remains ‘extraordinarily concerned’ about the spread of the Omicron variant in the eastern states, but SA will not close its borders to NSW, the ACT and Victoria, Premier Steven Marshall announced today.
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Andrew Hough@andrew_hough
EXC Borders to NSW, ACT, Victoria, set to close amid mounting fears over #Omicron strain & 'lax' international #covid19 quarantine interstate. All but essential travel to go. Emergency crisis talks on Saturday. @theTiser pg1
adelaidenow.com.au/coronavirus/sa… #Adelaide #OmicronVariant
December 3, 2021
ABC News • Claudia Jambor, Sarah Scopelianos, Daniel Franklin • December 4, 2021 • abc.net.au
Meet the tradie trailblazers changing workplace culture
Women make up just 3 per cent of Australia's skilled trades sector. Those who have made it in the industry say change is happening, but slowly.
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Claudia Jambor@claudiajambor
For the past few months, I've been chatting and filming tradeswomen from around Australia about their experiences to find out why just 3% of the country's skilled trades force is made up of women. Here's what they said. @maren_preuss @scopelianos abc.net.au/news/2021-12-0…
December 4, 2021
ABC News • Heather Ewart • December 4, 2021 • abc.net.au
Roads scholar: Heather Ewart shares her top tips for holiday road trips
Let the Back Roads host help you navigate the best bits of the tracks less travelled, including the South Australian outback, Victoria's high country and a no-rush Nullarbor crossing.
ABC News • Joseph Dunstan • December 4, 2021 • abc.net.au
Why Victoria's still recording hundreds more daily COVID-19 cases than NSW
While Victoria and New South Wales's daily tallies are still hundreds of cases apart, those watching the numbers closely say the shape of their infection curve largely tells the same story.
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