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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 28, 2022 • news.com.au
$37,000 bill for MP to leave Vic lockdown
Liberal frontbencher Tim Wilson claimed $37,494 from taxpayers in travel allowance after leaving Melbourne’s brutal lockdown for 95 nights over 2021.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 27, 2022 • news.com.au
Pharmacists sound alarm over ‘free’ RATs
Pharmacists have sounded the alarm over the Prime Minister’s “free” rapid antigen test program, revealing the $10 rebate doesn’t even cover the wholesale cost of the tests and won’t be refunded for weeks.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Keep in mind these tests were selling for $5 per unit wholesale in December. So taxpayers now paying $10 per rest to chemists plus $4 “handling fee” per transaction. So $24.30 for a pack of two for tests govt could have paid $10 for wholesale and just handed out for free.? twitter.com/samanthamaiden…
January 28, 2022
The Monthly • Martin McKenzie-Murray • January 28, 2022 • themonthly.com.au
Grace notes
Grace Tame’s sexual abuse as a child, also experienced by the author, makes policing her manners misguided at best
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The Shot • January 28, 2022 • theshot.net.au
Because we could not stop for death
Living, and dying, with Covid
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🕯 RonniSalt 🕯@RonniSalt
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Sometimes, writing hurts.
This one hurt.
My latest piece in @shot_au on "living alongside the virus".
On loss and life (and coffee shops) in our time of covid.
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theshot.net.au/general-news/b…
January 28, 2022
news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 28, 2022 • news.com.au
‘Terrible life’: PM breaks silence on Grace
Scott Morrison has broken his silence on the Grace Tame controversy, suggesting she’s had “a terrible life ... ordeal” but that he will always greet guests with a smile.
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Nina Funnell, journalist & #LetUsSpeak manager@ninafunnell
Scott saying "she's had a terrible life" is the most condescending, ignorant & utterly disempowering comment to make about @TamePunk .
Grace's whole message is that as survivors, we are not defined by our experiences of sexual violence.
#LetHerSpeak
news.com.au/lifestyle/real…
January 28, 2022
The Guardian • Lenore Taylor • January 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
The gap between Australian climate policy and the science is closing far too slowly – we have to keep up the pressure
Tiny steps towards net zero are being undermined by new fossil fuel projects. An election year offers the chance to hold our politicians to account
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick Miller • January 27, 2022 • smh.com.au
Why the powerful should never underestimate cartoonists
The Age’s new political cartoonists, Badiucao and Megan Herbert, have both experienced first hand the viral power of a simple, poetic work.
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The Guardian • Bernard Zuel • January 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Whitlams’ Tim Freedman on loss, light and horse racing: ‘I was a full-time gambler for four years’
Dedicated to another lost friend, the band’s first album in 16 years marks a return to joyous form for the singer – after a four-year stint at the racetracks
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steph harmon@stephharmon
“I’ve never talked about it because I’m the guy who wrote Blow Up the Pokies, why would I be a gambler?” theguardian.com/music/2022/jan…
January 28, 2022
news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 28, 2022 • news.com.au
Albanese claimed $17k to stay in his own flat
Labor leader Anthony Albanese claimed $17,169 in travel allowance from taxpayers to stay at his mortgage-free Canberra apartment for 59 nights during Sydney’s marathon lockdown while staging “guerilla” campaign missions into Queensland and Tasmania.
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The Guardian • Josh Butler, Graham Readfearn • January 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Coalition’s $1 billion pledge for Great Barrier Reef
Coalition investment includes funding for water quality projects, pest management and reef science
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Adam Morton@adamlmorton
Morrison govt pledges an average $111m extra a year for the reef over 9 years, focusing on water quality.
Acknowledges climate change is the reef's biggest threat. 2030 climate target still consistent with virtually all coral reefs being lost (ref: IPCC).
theguardian.com/environment/20…
January 28, 2022
The Guardian • Brigid Delaney • January 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Did I just pay someone to bash me up? The horror of a rough massage
She pulled my hair, attacked my ear lobes and pounded me with all her might. How was this helping my back?
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Michael Slezak@MikeySlezak
I haven’t laughed so much reading a column in a long while. Thanks @BrigidWD!!! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
January 28, 2022
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • January 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Word salad of nonsense’: scientists denounce Jordan Peterson’s comments on climate models
Speaking on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Peterson claimed the climate was too complex to be modelled accurately, which was quickly shot down by scientists
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The Guardian • Josh Butler • January 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison defends embattled aged care minister against ‘knockers’ amid cricket scandal
Prime minister insists Richard Colbeck works ‘every day for the welfare of people living in our residential aged care facilities’
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The Guardian • Kieran Pender • January 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Should Australia’s major sports stars really be defined by fossil fuel companies trying to look good?
What is the cost to athletes and sports of accepting money from an influential denier of global warming? And what is the cost to our planet?
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Kieran Pender@KieranPender
In recent months, I have been investigating Gina Rinehart's growing ties to Australian sport & the tension between athlete climate activism & Rinehart's global warming denial for @GuardianAus. Today, @AUSOlympicTeam announced a partnership with Rinehart theguardian.com/business/2022/…
January 28, 2022
ABC News • James Purtill • January 28, 2022 • abc.net.au
Could this technology help curb climate change and earn Australia billions?
On a barren lava plateau in Iceland stands an entirely new kind of industrial facility that sucks carbon dioxide from the air and traps it in stone. So, is this part of the solution to climate change?
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The Guardian • Amanda Meade • January 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
It took three years but the SMH finally got its revenge on Clementine Ford – kind of | The Weekly Beast
Nine spikes a story on Ford at the 11th hour after a ‘breakdown in communication’. Plus: the AFR says Covid is good for the wealthy
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick O'Malley • January 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Band-Aid on a broken leg’: Experts say Great Barrier Reef plan won’t save it
Government spending money on water quality and illegal fishing is useful, but experts and activists say it will not address the reef’s key threat: climate change.
Pearls and Irritations • Alan Sunderland • January 28, 2022 • johnmenadue.com
The Morrison government seeks to punish the ABC for doing its job
Governments around the world are targeting public broadcasters for daring to hold the powerful to account – the Coalition here is no exception. In Berlin recently, anti-vaccination protesters gathered outside the offices of the public broadcaster, branding it “fake news media” because it dared to deliver accurate, impartial and timely coverage of COVID-19. A few Continue reading »
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ABC News • Michelle Grattan • January 28, 2022 • abc.net.au
With Australia's Omicron death toll mounting, the argument for a COVID royal commission grows
The case for a royal commission into Australia's handling of COVID-19 is overwhelming, especially to inform us about what needs to be done to prepare for future pandemics, writes Michelle Grattan.
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Refinery29 • Kara Schlegl • January 28, 2022 • refinery29.com
Autism, Masking, and Why We Need To Stop Telling Women To Smile
Grace Tame is autistic. She's also a prominent campaigner on behalf of sexual assault survivors, and a sexual assault survivor herself. So why is she being condemned in the press for not smiling enough around powerful men?
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Kara Schlegl@karaschlegl
I was asked to write about the absurd uproar around a smile this week, and decided to write a piece for all the autistic women and girls out there. Fuck being polite, be yourself. ♥️♥️♥️ Autism, Masking, and Why We Need to Stop Telling Women to Smile.
refinery29.com/en-au/smiling-…
January 28, 2022

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