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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • February 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Koala listed as endangered after Australian governments fail to halt its decline
No recovery plan for the Australian marsupial was in place despite it being identified as a requirement nine years ago
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Lisa Cox@_LisaMCox
The federal government has officially listed the koala as endangered. In 10 years the species has gone from having no listing to vulnerable and now endangered. theguardian.com/environment/20…
February 11, 2022
Australian Financial Review • Joe Aston • February 10, 2022 • afr.com
Josh Frydenberg sustains full-body gravel rash
Frydenberg’s complete lack of political judgment has been exposed for all to see.
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Sally McManus@sallymcmanus
I can't beleive I just read the most extraordinary take-down of Josh Frydenberg ever...in the Financial Review afr.com/rear-window/jo…
February 10, 2022
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • February 10, 2022 • theguardian.com
It began with a pre-dawn insurrection on religious discrimination and it got worse for Scott Morrison
Clearly someone, or more than someone, wants to cause the prime minister some capital T trouble, but their endgame is entirely unclear
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The Guardian • Paul Karp, Daniel Hurst • February 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Reckless and desperate’: Malcolm Turnbull savages Peter Dutton for claiming China is backing Labor
Former Liberal prime minister says defence minister has undermined national security ‘purely for crass political advantage’
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Deborah Snow@DeborahSnow
This is getting wilder by the hour... ministers who have access to high level intelligence have a duty to wield it responsibly,that's just a hallmark of competent govt theguardian.com/australia-news…
February 11, 2022
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • February 10, 2022 • theguardian.com
Peter Dutton has plumbed new and dangerous depths by suggesting China is backing Labor
Did the defence minister not hear the Asio boss warn that stoking community division has ‘the same corrosive impact on our democracy as foreign interference itself’?
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
Desperate, dangerous and wrong: My comment on Dutton's question-time intervention theguardian.com/australia-news…
February 10, 2022
The Guardian • Paul Karp • February 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I did what was right’: Liberal rebel Fiona Martin on the change that sank the religious discrimination bill
The Reid MP, who provided the decisive third vote, is now being accused of breaking her promise not to cross the floor
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • February 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Avi out’: the uncomfortable relationship between Rebel News and Australia’s anti-vaccine protesters
The far-right outlet’s reach has grown exponentially on the back of an avalanche of posts on the Canberra convoy and last year’s Melbourne rallies
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ABC News • February 11, 2022 • abc.net.au
When Karen got a letter from the National Disability Insurance Agency, she had to read it three times before it sank in
Hundreds of people across the country are appealing large cuts to their NDIS funding, with some resorting to measures like quitting jobs or selling homes to support their loved ones in the meantime.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
Cruel, savage cuts to the NDIS.
abc.net.au/news/2022-02-1… via @ABCaustralia
February 11, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Michaela Whitbourn • February 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
Roberts-Smith boasted that killing young Afghan was ‘beautiful’, court told
War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith told a fellow Special Air Service soldier he shot a young Afghan man in the head and it was “the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen”, the Federal Court has heard.
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The Guardian • Cait Kelly • February 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Firm but friendly’: how the AEC Twitter account is winning friends and influencing people
The electoral commission says ‘professionalism’ is boring and disengaging – so it’s breaking the rules to combat growing mistrust in the political process
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Mike Ticher@mikewsc1
Hope all this doesn’t go to @AusElectoralCom’s head. theguardian.com/australia-news…
February 11, 2022
The Australian • PAIGE TAYLOR • February 10, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Boy, 15, in glass cell for 79 days
A 15-year-old boy was locked alone in a glass-walled observation cell for 79 days, including Christmas Day, and on just 34 of those days he was led from solitary confinement to a 20m-long cage where he was permitted to exercise for about one hour.
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Paige Taylor@paigeataylor
The Perth children’s court president has flat out told the McGowan govt it broke the law at the state’s only juvenile detention centre. Judge Quail refuses to re-jail a boy for assaults on prison guards while he was treated unjustly ⁦@australian⁩ theaustralian.com.au/nation/boy-15-…
February 10, 2022
The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy • February 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘He was larger than life’: the great-grandfather who bellowed show tunes as he died of Covid
Ralph Cordingley caught the virus in his Queensland nursing home. His family say he sucked the marrow out of life until the end
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Reuters • February 12, 2022 • reuters.com
Macron refused Russian COVID test in Putin trip over DNA theft fears
French President Emmanuel Macron refused a Kremlin request that he take a Russian COVID-19 test when he arrived to see President Vladimir Putin this week, to prevent Russia getting hold of Macron's DNA, two sources in Macron's entourage told Reuters.
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John Hudson@John_Hudson
Two sources tell @Reuters that the absurdly long 13 ft table between Putin and Macron was necessary because Macron refused to take a Russian-administered covid test that would turn over the French leader's DNA to the Russians. reuters.com/world/europe/p…
February 11, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • February 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
Gladys Berejiklian says ‘yes’ to Optus
Former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian will join telco operator Singtel Optus at the end of the month, in her first major role since resigning from her position last October.
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • February 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘A drop in the ocean’: government’s $50m koala pledge won’t tackle root cause of decline
Campaigners say ‘money isn’t the issue’ when there’s no koala recovery plan, while other threatened species receive little funding
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Lisa Cox@_LisaMCox
Sharing this piece from the weekend again after today's endangered listing of the koala. Years of inaction and there are still so many overdue plans, policies and reforms. The endangered listing was completely preventable theguardian.com/environment/20…
February 11, 2022
The Guardian • Michael McGowan • February 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW decision to lift Covid restrictions linked to hundreds of aged care deaths
Not-for-profit aged care boss says his warnings were ignored by Dominic Perrottet’s government and cases ‘skyrocketed’ as a result
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Lenore Taylor@lenoretaylor
The head of Australia’s peak aged care body has linked New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet’s decision to lift Covid restrictions late last year to the deaths of hundreds of aged care residents. - from @mmcgowan
theguardian.com/australia-news…
February 11, 2022
ABC News • Nassim Khadem • February 11, 2022 • abc.net.au
Women earn $26,000 a year less than men, their extra penalty for doing most of the housework and caring
While the $26,000 gender pay gap should be alarming to many, those who downplay the data's significance like to draw attention to what it doesn't show, writes Nassim Khadem.
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catherine fox@corporatefox
Denial is back with a vengeance - great analysis ⁦@NassimKhadem⁩: It's not a lie: Men are twice as likely to be more highly paid than women abc.net.au/news/2022-02-1…
February 11, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • February 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
Chinese spies attempted to install Labor candidates in federal election
The plot was foiled by the nation’s counter-espionage agency ASIO, preventing the Chinese spies from installing sympathetic candidates into Labor’s preselection process.
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ABC News • Stephen Dziedzic, Andrew Greene • February 11, 2022 • abc.net.au
Australia deploys diplomatic resources to fight 'disinformation' on nuclear submarine plan
Australia is bulking up specialised diplomatic teams in Canberra and Vienna to win international acceptance for the AUKUS nuclear submarine project as it braces for a massive "disinformation" campaign from China and Russia.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Georgina Mitchell • February 10, 2022 • smh.com.au
Men awarded $61,755 in costs after court played police bodycam vision
The men were accused of assaulting police at a Guildford service station in Sydney’s west last year, however the charges were dropped when a series of videos emerged.
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