Monday, September 27, 2021 to Sunday, October 3, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Sydney Morning Herald • John Lyons • October 2, 2021 • smh.com.au
Touchy subject: We must end self-censorship on Israel and Palestine
The Australian media needs to get to a point where the reality of Israel can be discussed without accusations of anti-Semitism being used to block the debate.
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John Lyons@TheLyonsDen
Extract from my new book #DatelineJerusalem. I draw on my 6 yrs in MidEast & scores of interviews with current & former editors & correspondents to look behind the scenes @MonashPub
Touchy subject: We must end self-censorship on Israel and Palestine smh.com.au/national/touch…
October 2, 2021
Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey, Hans van Leeuwen • October 1, 2021 • afr.com
Europe postpones FTA negotiations with Australia
The EU has postponed the next round of FTA negotiations with Australia, in retribution for the cancellation of the $90 billion submarine contract.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Paul Keating • September 29, 2021 • smh.com.au
A relic of a bygone age? I might be, but I’m not a defeatist
The Coalition is not only turning over control of our defence forces to the US, but shopping our foreign policy too.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick Bonyhady • October 1, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Fake unions’: New associations ride jab mandate fears to get members
Branded “fake unions” by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, new associations are vehemently opposed to jab mandates.
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news.com.au • Shannon Molloy • October 1, 2021 • news.com.au
Don’t feel too sad for Gladys Berejiklian – this disaster is her own fault
ANALYSIS
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
Yes, it’s NewsCorpse. But it’s a very good piece. Cuts through a lot of crap. news.com.au/finance/work/l…
October 1, 2021
ABC News • Nadia Daly, Xanthe Kleinig • September 27, 2021 • abc.net.au
William had his first Pfizer appointment booked for October. He ended up dying at home alone with COVID-19
A worrying trend is emerging of people dying at home from COVID-19 — and many are being diagnosed post-mortem.
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Nadia Daly@nadiasdaly
This is William Orule. He came to Australia as a refugee, put himself through highschool, then law school and only just graduated - with big ambitions to help his community.
A few weeks ago he died at home alone from COVID.
See his story tonight on 7.30
abc.net.au/news/2021-09-2…
September 27, 2021
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • September 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Does Scott Morrison’s climate spin match his government’s record on emissions?
This is the first of a weekly column examining claims about climate change made by governments, politicians, business and in the media
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Graham Readfearn@readfearn
New weekly fact check column from me on #climate stuff. Here’s the first. Has Australia really cut emissions by 20% since 2005? Does BoM deliberately put thermometers near airports to make warming seem worse, as one News Corp columnist claimed? 😬🤷‍♂️ theguardian.com/environment/20…
September 30, 2021
ABC News • Paul Farrell • October 3, 2021 • abc.net.au
How an obscure shooting association grant brought down Berejiklian
Situated on the outskirts of the regional town of Wagga Wagga, just behind a truck rental lot, is a hulking clubhouse and convention centre that has unexpectedly ended the career of one of the most powerful political leaders in Australia.
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Paul Farrell@FarrellPF
A lot of hot takes on Gladys Berejeklian and ICAC right now. Here’s some facts about how and why an obscure shooting association grant has become a centrepiece of the ICAC investigation into the Premier, and what we may see at the public hearings
abc.net.au/news/2021-10-0…
October 3, 2021
Australian Financial Review • Ronald Mizen • September 29, 2021 • afr.com
Rennick to cross floor on national cabinet secrecy laws
LNP senator Gerard Rennick says he will vote against the government’s move to exclude national cabinet from information disclosure laws.
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Ronald Mizen@ronmjm
“I don’t really know why @ScottMorrisonMP feels the need to keep it a secret. I’ve got no time for secret stuff. I’ll vote against it,”@SenatorRennick told @FinancialReview. #auspol afr.com/politics/feder…
September 29, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Bevan Shields • September 29, 2021 • smh.com.au
No, the UK’s energy woes have not really been caused by net zero
The crisis gripping Britain consists of three main problems, and two of them have absolutely nothing to do with climate policy.
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The Australian • Paul Kelly • September 29, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Call it out, Trump is a political criminal
With Donald Trump heading the field as the most likely Republican candidate for the presidency in 2024, Americas constitutional crisis seems far from over as new material surfaces about Trumps effort to illegally seize power in January this year.
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan • October 3, 2021 • theguardian.com
NRL grand final a tale of Sydney’s stark geographic and class divide
Souths may represent rugby league’s blue collar past but it is the Panthers who better embody it in 2021
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The Age • Jewel Topsfield, Royce Millar • September 27, 2021 • theage.com.au
How Denise Morgan escaped Albert Park’s house of horrors
She lived in a tiny room with no window, inside a home filled with bed bugs and stained mattresses until a COVID cluster helped expose conditions in Hambleton House.
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Jewel Topsfield@JewelTopsfield
For a couple of months ⁦@MillarRoyce⁩ and I have been investigating Supported Residential Services - homes for people with disability and mental illness in Victoria - and issues with #NDIS . Here are our stories. Many thanks to all who assisted us. theage.com.au/national/victo…
September 29, 2021
The Australian • GREG BROWN, RICHARD FERGUSON • September 27, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
PM’s hard sell on net-zero
Only 12 government backbenchers have publicly thrown their support behind a target of net-zero emissions by 2050, highlighting Scott Morrisons internal difficulties in bringing the Coalition behind the policy before the Glasgow climate conference.
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Kylar Loussikian@kloussikian
We asked Coalition MPs one simple question: do you support a net zero emissions by 2050 target. The chief government whip found out and asked them not to respond theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic… @gregbrown_TheOz @RichAFerguson
September 28, 2021
The Guardian • Laura Murphy-Oates, Luke Henriques-Gomes, Karishma Luthria, Camilla Hannan, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson, Ellen Leabeater, Bethany Atkinson-Qu… • September 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Sick, broke and waiting for the disability support pension
Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to Natasha Thomson about her battle to access the disability support payment, and Luke Henriques-Gomes about the push to reform this system
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Laura Murphy-Oates@lauramoates
I spoke to @lukehgomes about the push for disability payment rules to be ‘rewritten’ - with some people struggling for years, living below the poverty line, before receiving support 1
theguardian.com/australia-news…
September 28, 2021
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • September 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
My patients in Melbourne tell me how they caught Covid, and the reasons leave me sad and frustrated | Kate Gregorevic
The impact of poverty on health has always been obvious to me, now maybe it will be obvious to everyone else
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
Highly recommend this article by Melbourne doctor @DrKGregorevic about the impact of disadvantage on Melbourne's outbreak theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
September 30, 2021
The Guardian • Adam Morton, Katharine Murphy • September 29, 2021 • theguardian.com
Climate pressure on Scott Morrison grows as NSW promises to cut emissions in half by 2030
The Berejiklian government commitment is backed by Liberals and Nationals in state cabinet while their federal counterparts remain split
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • September 29, 2021 • theguardian.com
Former US navy secretary now Scott Morrison’s Aukus middleman on submarine plan
Prof Donald Winter, who advised the Australian prime minister on scrapping the French deal, takes on new $US6,000 a day role
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • September 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Future Fund worth $250bn says FoI requests ‘administratively burdensome’
Fund says ‘hundreds of hours a year’ are required to process requests that would be shielded under proposed Coalition legislation
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
Future Fund worth $250bn says FoI requests ‘administratively burdensome’ as Morrison government moves to shield it from transparency. Comes after
FOI revealed it had invested in a company linked to the Myanmar military. theguardian.com/australia-news…
September 29, 2021
Australian Federal Police • September 29, 2021 • afp.gov.au
AFP Statement in relation to the Leppington Triangle investigation
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has finalised its investigation into the Commonwealth of Australia’s purchase of land for the development of the Western Sydney Airport, with no evidence of criminal conduct identified.
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