Monday, February 28, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Royce Kurmelovs • February 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Lismore flood: hundreds rescued and thousands evacuated as NSW city hit by worst flooding in history
Rapidly rising flood waters inundate regional city, leaving people stranded on roofs, including local MP who had to be rescued by her electorate officer in a canoe
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Bridie Jabour@bkjabour
it is crazy and unprecedented what’s happening in Lismore theguardian.com/australia-news…
February 28, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Rob Harris • February 27, 2022 • smh.com.au
Kevin 3.0: Rudd attempted a short-lived comeback to political life
The two-time prime minister sent panic through the highest ranks of the party with his efforts.
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The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy • February 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Lismore flooding: before and after pictures show the full scale of disaster
Comparing pictures of flooded streets with Google streetview images of the same thoroughfares shows the extent of the crisis
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • February 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Former SAS soldier tells court he saw Ben Roberts-Smith kick handcuffed man off a cliff before he was shot dead
Witness heard gunfire and turned to see different patrol member with raised weapon and detainee shot dead, court hears
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Ben Doherty@BenDohertyCorro
Ben Roberts-Smith’s SAS comrade saw him kick an unarmed, handcuffed Afghan man off a cliff before ordering subordinate soldiers to drag the severely injured man under a tree where he was shot dead by another soldier, the federal court has heard. @guardian theguardian.com/australia-news…
February 28, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker • February 27, 2022 • smh.com.au
Predicted COVID chaos in schools a false alarm
Low case numbers see twice-weekly rapid antigen testing end, along with mask mandates for students and teachers.
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Lim Min Zhang • February 28, 2022 • straitstimes.com
Singapore will impose export controls on items that can be used as weapons in Ukraine: Vivian Balakrishnan
It will also block certain Russian banks and financial transactions connected to Russia. . Read more at straitstimes.com.
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The Guardian • Fiona Harvey • February 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
IPCC issues ‘bleakest warning yet’ on impacts of climate breakdown
Report says human actions are causing dangerous disruption, and window to secure a liveable future is closing
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Tom Rabe • February 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
ICAC finds former NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong corrupt
The NSW corruption watchdog has found former Labor MP Ernest Wong engaged in serious corrupt conduct as part of a scheme to circumvent the state’s donation laws.
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The Guardian • Yuval Noah Harari • February 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Why Vladimir Putin has already lost this war
The Russians may yet conquer Ukraine. But Ukrainians have shown that they will not let them hold it, says historian and author Yuval Noah Harari
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Catherine Naylor • February 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘We’ve got mum’: Stunned flood victims reveal how they beat fast-rising waters
Noel Leon cradles his three-month-old daughter in his arms. He and some others have been lucky enough to escape devastating floodwaters. But they fear for those left behind.
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Rachel Clun@rachelclun
"No one is crying. They are running on adrenalin. Many have no idea where they will go next." Scenes from the catastrophic flooding in Lismore: smh.com.au/national/nsw/w…
February 28, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Michaela Whitbourn • February 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
Ben Roberts-Smith kicked an unarmed and handcuffed man off a cliff, says witness
A former elite soldier has told the Federal Court that war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith coached him on the “story” he should tell about the death of an unarmed and handcuffed Afghan man.
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Louise Milligan@Milliganreports
What the court is hearing being alleged in this trial is so disturbing. It raises, yet again, in the end, big questions about the utility of defamation proceedings for plaintiffs and also about the operation of the laws governing them in this country.
smh.com.au/national/ben-r…
February 28, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Heath Gilmore, Billie Eder, Sarah Keoghan • February 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘A tragedy unfolding in front of our eyes’: Estimated 400 still trapped in Lismore flood
Lismore mayor Steve Krieg estimates hundreds of people are waiting on their roofs or inside roof cavities to be rescued, with waters still rising.
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Laura Chung@Laura_R_Chung
A rescue mission is underway to find 400 people trapped by rising floodwater inside the Lismore CBD, with severe weather and thunderstorms forecast this evening further hampering their efforts smh.com.au/national/nsw/a…
February 28, 2022
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst, Paul Karp, Ben Butler • February 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australia’s Future Fund to divest $200m of holdings in Russian companies
NSW government says it will sell holdings of Russian assets, as rouble crashes more than 40% after international sanctions
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • February 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Thinktank linked to tech giant Canon under pressure to remove ‘dangerous’ climate articles
Exclusive: Some Canon Institute for Global Studies posts call the climate crisis ‘fake news’ and compare Greta Thunberg to a communist
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The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy • February 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Pilot, cafe owner, photographer: family remembers ‘incredible’ great-grandfather who died from Covid
Apostolos ‘Jack’ Moulos held deep family bonds but late-stage dementia and lockdown separation made his time in aged care even harder
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Gabrielle Chan@gabriellechan
The Niagara Café , opened in Singleton by his father, would be the place Jack grew up and devoted much of his life. It was a cultural hub in Singleton, the place where Jack fell in love with books, jazz and classical music. The lives lost to Covid… theguardian.com/australia-news…
February 28, 2022
Crikey • Cam Wilson • February 28, 2022 • crikey.com.au
Researchers made Facebook ads with Australian election conspiracies. Meta approved them all.
Tech think tank Reset Australia bypassed Facebook's advertisement filter with egregious misinformation graphics.
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Crikey • Kishor Napier-Raman • February 28, 2022 • crikey.com.au
NSW divests from Russia as shady Future Fund remains silent
Civil society groups are calling for greater transparency, and for the fund to immediately divest any Russian assets.
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Kishor@kishor_nr
NSW is divesting from Russia. But Australia's sovereign wealth fund won't say whether it'll do the same
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crikey.com.au/2022/02/28/nsw…
February 28, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter de Kruijff • February 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Smouldering dumpster fire’: Literary giant Tim Winton pokes the oil and gas bear
Author and environmentalist Tim Winton has used his closing speech at the Perth Festival’s writers weekend to pillory the oil and gas industry for trying to expand instead of winding down.
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The Guardian • Chris Bonnor • February 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Educational inequality and a tale of two Australian schools
In 2011, David Gonski visited two western Sydney schools and determined to reduce the gap between them. What has happened in the decade since his lauded report?
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Australian Financial Review • Michael Read, John Kehoe • February 28, 2022 • afr.com
Australian investors dump Russian assets
Some of the largest super funds such as AustralianSuper and Rest refuse to say if they will liquidate hundreds of millions of dollars of investments.
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