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Australian Financial Review • Aaron Patrick, Tom McIlroy • February 20, 2022 • afr.com
The night God, sex and the backbench humbled a prime minister
The untold story of a pivotal event in the history of the Morrison government: a bitter struggle between Liberals over religious and gay rights.
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Malcolm Farr@farrm51
Stunning account. How Liberal rebels brought down Morrison’s Religious Discrimination Bill. At a minimum it exposes Dutton’s claim of broken agreements as horse twaddle. afr.com/politics/feder…
February 21, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Billie Eder • February 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘A really loving boy’: 16-year-old dies after collision with police
Sixteen-year-old Jai Wright died on Sunday afternoon after suffering head injuries in a collision with an unmarked police car on Saturday morning.
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Sean Kelly@mrseankelly
Given that this involves the death of a young man, reports of conflicting accounts from the police, and what most outlets are willing, sometimes, to call a national crisis, it feels like this should be a really, really big story in Australia today
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February 21, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Katina Curtis • February 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘A perfect storm’: Up to 70,000 women may have been coerced into withdrawing super
Super funds and financial legal services are now hearing from women who were forced by abusive partners to withdraw from their superannuation during the pandemic.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Alexandra Smith • February 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Sydney train shutdown: Perrottet’s monumental political gamble
The Premier showed that he is ready and willing for a fight. He had better hope voters hate unions as much as he does.
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The Guardian • David Pegg, Kalyeena Makortoff, Martin Chulov, Paul Lewis, Luke Harding • February 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Revealed: Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians
Massive leak reveals Swiss bank’s accounts have been used by an array of high-risk clients over several decades
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Paul Lewis@PaulLewis
We've had access to a massive leak from one of the world’s biggest private banks, Credit Suisse. It reveals the secret wealth of customers involved in torture, drug and human trafficking, money laundering, corruption and war crimes. #SuisseSecrets theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/…
February 21, 2022
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • February 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
United Australia party candidate told rally she wanted to chant ‘hang Dan Andrews’, footage appears to show
Footage appears to show Rebekah Spelman, UAP candidate for Aston in Melbourne’s east, leading anti-lockdown rally in a chant of ‘jail Dan Andrews’
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The Guardian • Paul Karp, Donna Lu • February 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Josh Frydenberg ads appear on WeChat despite Liberal MPs calling for boycott
Ads attacking Anthony Albanese and celebrating Chinese New Year come weeks after Scott Morrison lost control of WeChat account
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The Guardian • Adam Morton, Peter Hannam, Katharine Murphy • February 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
AGL rejects takeover bid by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canadian fund manager Brookfield
Bid led by Atlassian founder to buy Australia’s biggest polluter and shut its coal plants earlier than planned rejected as not in shareholders’ best interests
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Dana Daniel • February 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Morrison seeks volunteer army to fill aged care staffing gaps
The federal government is recruiting volunteers to fill staff shortages in aged care - a move attacked by Labor and unions as “miserly” and “a cop out”.
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan, Tamsin Rose • February 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘They did an Alan Joyce on us’: how the Sydney rail dispute escalated
Sydney’s train network will resume with limited services on Tuesday after a Fair Work Commission hearing was adjourned with no resolution
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Paul Karp@Paul_Karp
Sydney’s transport network was thrown into chaos on Monday morning after an industrial dispute between the rail workers’ union and NSW government saw staff across the network LOCKED OUT. 3rd par NOT A STRIKE.
Good stuff @tamsinroses
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February 21, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • February 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Court action launched to challenge Scott Morrison’s key ally
The court action is an attempt to stop federal intervention that could give Prime Minister Scott Morrison more power over the Liberal Party.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Liberal Party's civil strife has gone to court this morning.
This is basically about trying to stop Scott Morrison and Alex Hawke.
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February 21, 2022
The Guardian • First Dog on the Moon • February 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Remember the time Comrade Albo talked to actual communists!? Of course you don’t but we found it
Did you read our exclusive on how he sometimes speaks Chinese to Chinese people!?
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NITV • Rachael Knowles NITV News • February 21, 2022 • sbs.com.au
Family call for independent investigation into Dunghutti teenager's death
Jai Wright was killed in a collision with a police car on Saturday. His family says officers have provided inconsistent accounts of what took place.
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Senator Lidia Thorpe@SenatorThorpe
Where is the outrage? Our community has lost another young Blak life again to the racist so-called-justice system. Jai was on a bike!
Rest in power, brother ✊🏾
We demand an independent investigation- police must never investigate police. sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2…
February 21, 2022
The Guardian • Adam Morton, Katharine Murphy • February 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Mike Cannon-Brookes dismisses PM’s suggestion that coal plants should run to end of scheduled life
Tech billionaire bidding for AGL says ‘the private market is stepping up and providing replacement capacity exactly as asked’
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RTBU Express • Alana Mew • February 21, 2022 • rtbuexpress.com.au
Rail workers ready to drive the trains: NSW Government dummy spits shuts train network
Media release, 21 February 2022: Today’s rail chaos is the result of […] Read More »
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Australian Financial Review • John Kehoe, Jacob Greber, Mark Ludlow, Elouise Fowler • February 21, 2022 • afr.com
Cannon-Brookes’ AGL bid faces Morrison veto
Mike Cannon-Brookes has hit back at the Morrison government, arguing a faster switch from coal to renewables would cut power prices and not destabilise the grid.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Matt O'Sullivan, Tom Rabe • February 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
How weekend brinkmanship led to shutdown of Sydney’s rail network
It was to be the day on which Sydney fully reopened to the world. Instead, tens of thousands of commuters were left stranded after the city’s rail network was shut down.
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The Australian • SHARRI MARKSON, ANGELICA SNOWDEN • February 20, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Ice video ‘filmed in Bainbridge’s home’
The ice pipe video that multi-millionaire entrepreneur Geoff Bainbridge claims was taken six years ago as part of a sophisticated extortion racket was actually filmed in the bedroom of his Melbourne home in the past 18 months.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios, Lisa Visentin • February 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
Clive Palmer spends 100 times more than major parties on advertising
Party leader Craig Kelly said UAP was relying solely on Clive Palmer’s deep pockets to finance the advertising blitz as the mining mogul spends $30 million in six months.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Sean Kelly • February 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Relaxed and comfortable? That’s not how the PM wants you
At the last election, Scott Morrison promised quietness. Now, he is shouting at us, attempting to usher us into a national mood defined by the presence of crisis.
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