March 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Sisonke Msimang • March 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins are supremely admirable, and the acceptable white faces of Australian feminism
Anger expressed by black women activists is seen as toxic, divisive and polarising
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The Guardian • Adam Morton • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Budget papers show Morrison government plans to cut climate spending if it wins election
Reduction in spending across clean energy agencies represents a 35% annual cut over four years
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The Guardian • Lorena Allam, Nick Evershed • March 16, 2022 • theguardian.com
Almost half the massacres of Aboriginal people were by police or other government forces, research finds
The final update of the project mapping massacres on Australia’s colonial frontier adds a further 113 sites where six or more people were killed
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The Guardian • Ben Smee, Lisa Cox • March 30, 2022 • theguardian.com
Barnaby Joyce abolishes body set up to advise on major water projects after dam announcements
Exclusive: Letter from member to colleagues questioned whether government’s funding promises on dams made for ‘political purposes’, after body not consulted
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • March 22, 2022 • smh.com.au
Liberal-led council threatens not to collect bins with anti-Morrison stickers
Philip Ruddock’s Hornsby Council has warned residents they must remove stickers saying the Prime Minister should be binned.
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The Guardian • Josh Taylor • March 31, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison must reveal any text messages from QAnon friend, information watchdog orders
After two-year freedom of information battle with Guardian Australia, the PM’s office has been told to search for any messages with QAnon proponent Tim Stewart
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • March 12, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The baby trapped in mud for 24 hours after the NSW floods
As extraordinary stories emerge of the rescue efforts in northern New South Wales, with hundreds of people saved, residents describe being completely abandoned by the federal government.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
Stories out of the Northern Rivers after the flooding catastrophe there are truly astonishing. A baby, unconscious in the mud, in a landslide. A elderly man on a chair in his hallway, waters to his chest, on the phone to his son. A whole region shattered. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
March 12, 2022
The Guardian • Paul Karp • March 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Stuart Robert says ‘dud teachers’ not an issue in Australia’s independent schools
Acting education minister says teacher training needs overhaul as ‘bottom 10%’ are ‘dragging the chain’
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Associated Press • Mstyslav Chernov • March 21, 2022 • apnews.com
Names on a list: Fleeing Mariupol, one checkpoint at a time
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in. We were the only international journalists left in the Ukrainian city, and we had been documenting its siege by Russian troops for more than two weeks.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • March 10, 2022 • theguardian.com
In a disaster zone on the frontline of the climate crisis, the PM resorts to self-serving pontification
Scott Morrison brings his signature crisis characteristics – passivity and blame-shifting – to Lismore
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
You can’t face the future with clarity and resolve if you can’t be honest about the past. Some thoughts from me on the PM in Lismore, and Australia’s lack of a coherent disaster strategy 👇 #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 10, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Rob Harris • March 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
Kimberley Kitching: Farewell to a patriot and a friend
“Patriot” has been used to describe the late senator – a lover of language (she spoke six), she would be keen to explain the origin of the word – and her work shows she was just that.
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn, Nick Evershed, Josh Nicholas • March 1, 2022 • theguardian.com
What caused the ‘rain bomb’? How the unprecedented Queensland and NSW 2022 floods unfolded
The damage was much worse than predicted. So how did it come about, and how does it compare to the 2011 Brisbane disaster?
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Nick Evershed@NickEvershed
This is the wettest summer on record for Brisbane as far as I can tell, based on Alderley BoM station back to 1899. Here's what it looks like against historical averages (crazy, it looks crazy) theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 1, 2022
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • March 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Kimberley Kitching’s death and its aftermath are another glimpse into the routine brutality of Australian politics
This is fundamentally a story about contemporary politics. It isn’t pretty, because the arena can be hostile to humans
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • March 22, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Russians were hunting us down: the war on journalism in Mariupol
A reporter describes life under siege in the Ukrainian city and why it was so important to break the silence
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Mike Ticher@mikewsc1
This is an incredible account not just for the courage of those involved and the terrible things they saw, but also for what journalism and access to information means in the Ukraine war. theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
March 22, 2022
Sky • Stuart Ramsay • March 5, 2022 • news.sky.com
Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week
On Monday, near Kyiv, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked. Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour, Stuart was wounded. Their experience illustrates the scale of the mayhem and violence as Russia's invasion enters a new and deadlier phase.
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Andy Hughes@SkyAndyHughes
Everyone should watch this. Sky News team comes under fire from Russian forces in Kyiv, despite making it clear they’re journalists.
Two colleagues were hit by bullets - corespondent Stuart Ramsay and Camerman Richie Mocker. They’re lucky to be alive. news.sky.com/story/sky-news…
March 5, 2022
Crikey • Guy Rundle • March 21, 2022 • crikey.com.au
Labor's factional war on Kimberley Kitching needs to be exposed
An ALP sub-faction centred on Bill Shorten risks betraying the party and gifting Scott Morrison a chance to hold on to power.
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The Guardian • Amanda Meade • March 16, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Australian’s coverage of Zachary Rolfe verdict condemned as ‘a national disgrace’
News Corp paper published multiple negative stories about Kumanjayi Walker and body camera footage from night he was killed
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The Australian • Gideon Haigh • March 5, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
In a prim, censorious game, Warnie was the soul of indiscretion
There will never be another Shane Warne, in part because of the astronomical odds against the original. No Australian cricketer achieved such distinctive greatness no Australian athlete has attained such unique fame no Australian man was as discussed, exalted, execrated, lauded and lampooned.
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ABC News • Louise Milligan, Naomi Selvaratnam, Lauren Day • March 7, 2022 • abc.net.au
A teenager needed urgent surgery. The hospital gave her 'the shut-up pill' and sent her away
She was supposed to get surgery and weekly check-ups, instead the 18-year-old was sent away from a Queensland hospital multiple times and died within months.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Stephanie Tran • March 25, 2022 • theguardian.com
Coalition went ‘directly’ to Whitehaven to purchase coal for Ukraine
Keith Pitt denies previous donations to Liberal party played a role while another coalminer says it wasn’t contacted regarding 70,000-tonne shipment
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