Wednesday, March 9, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I can’t afford to go anywhere else’: the NSW caravan park residents devastated by floods
Unable to afford insurance against increasingly common inundations, many have no option but to stay and rebuild
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison circus fails to impress Lismore, a town that has lost everything
The prime minister was met with anger and protest on his visit to the flood-ravaged NSW town, and didn’t stop to shake hands
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • March 9, 2022 • news.com.au
PM’s controversial move during flood visit
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended his decision to ban television cameras from his visits to flood-affected communities in northern NSW today.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Scott Morrison has been accused of carefully stage-managing his visit to flood affected areas in NSW to exclude the media from some visits to a farm and an SES base. news.com.au/national/polit… via @newscomauHQ
March 9, 2022
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Angus Taylor attacks Beetaloo Basin activists and says Australia right to expand fossil fuels
Taylor says Australia has ‘kept our foot on the accelerator’ when it comes to supply of oil and gas
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Natassia Chrysanthos • March 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Marcus wanted five minutes with Scott Morrison. The flood victim was told the PM had no time
The Prime Minister avoided public interactions during his highly anticipated visit to Lismore on Wednesday, despite dozens of people turning up to protest outside his press conference.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Alexandra Smith • March 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Canberra should offer universal affordable childcare otherwise NSW will: Kean
Treasurer Matt Kean says if Canberra fails to take the lead on affordable childcare, NSW will step in as it did with climate change.
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Bridie Jabour@bkjabour
it’s wild how much my kids learn in childcare. Childcare debate often framed in “getting women to work” but reality is it gives kids huge headstart for school that many kids just can’t access and puts the already disadvantaged even further behind twitter.com/smh/status/150…
March 9, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Katina Curtis • March 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Losing it not using it: Half of new fathers not taking up paid parental leave
Economists say if the lesson the government takes away is that fathers don’t want to use the leave, that’s the wrong thing to learn.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Katina Curtis • March 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Prime Minister declares floods a national emergency
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declared the NSW floods a national emergency, triggering more Commonwealth resources, including more help from Defence.
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ABC News • Henry Belot, Stephanie Borys • March 9, 2022 • abc.net.au
'I won't cop that': PM defends ADF while declaring floods a national emergency
Prime Minister Scott Morrison defends the Australian Defence Force's response during the floods in Northern NSW, saying troops have done an "amazing job".
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Raf Epstein@Raf_Epstein
“Prime Minister to declare floods a national emergency”
We spoke to people last Tues who’d spent the early hours of Monday reducing dozens. And we’re in Melb
We spoke to people yday organising their own chopper drops of food.
The feds are late to this abc.net.au/news/2022-03-0…
March 9, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Doherty • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Afghan with prosthetic leg ‘marched off’ by Ben Roberts-Smith before being found dead, court hears
SAS soldier tells defamation trial he heard a burst of gunfire and later walked past dead body lying outside Whiskey 108 compound
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Ben Doherty@BenDohertyCorro
A disabled man found hiding in a tunnel during a raid on an Afghan village compound was led away by Ben Roberts-Smith and another soldier before he was later found dead from gunshot wounds outside, a serving member of the SAS told the federal court. theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 9, 2022
The Guardian • Josh Butler • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison says defence force ‘not available on a moment’s notice’ to respond to floods disaster
Prime minister visits Lismore as government declared national emergency to release more resources to help
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Josh Butler@JoshButler
PM Morrison to declare a floods “national emergency” when he lands in Lismore today
Labor's Murray Watt: "Why has he waited till he is surrounded by TV cameras before doing it? He could have done this at any time over the last week" #auspol
theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 9, 2022
The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • March 9, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Michael Pascoe: Australia riding on its freeloading carbon industries
Amid war and a climate emergency, Australia’s Big Carbon companies are booming, raking in super profits from the international crisis.
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Mark Ogge@MarkOgge
@MichaelPascoe01 says Australia Institute proposal for $1 tonne Climate Disaster Levy on fossil fuel exporters "not ambitious enough" especially given they pay virtually no tax
How much do you think it should be?
See Twitter poll in thread #auspol
thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2022/0…
March 9, 2022
The Guardian • Josh Butler • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
More politicians back expanding Australia’s cyclone reinsurance scheme to cover fires and floods
Coalition and Labor MPs say widening pool would help flood victims in NSW and Queensland who can’t afford insurance premiums
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The Australian • SIMON BENSON • March 8, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
I’ll be more like a Hawke or Howard: Albanese
Anthony Albanese is pledging to end Labors class and climate wars, govern in the style of Bob Hawke and John Howard if elected, and put the cost of living and wages growth at the centre of Labors economic policy in a re-run of former Labor leader Kevin Rudds 2007 promise to be a fiscal conservative.
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Kishor@kishor_nr
Albanese did not actually say this
theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…
March 9, 2022
The Guardian • Peter Hannam • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Fuel and food prices set to rise as Russian invasion affects Australia’s economy
Reliance on commodity exports may assist country as world scrambles to find non-Russian sources of energy, metals and food
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Gabrielle Chan@gabriellechan
The global shock brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine may have unforeseen consequences for the Australian economy, economists have warned. @p_hannam theguardian.com/business/2022/…
March 9, 2022
news.com.au • Natalie Brown and Samantha Maiden • March 9, 2022 • news.com.au
Scott Morrison to declare NSW floods a national emergency
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will officially declare a national emergency in relation to the floods today during a visit to Lismore amid ongoing criticism that the SES has been too slow to ask for help from Defence.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
PM declares a national emergency on floods.
Here’s the interesting part: usually request comes from states but NSW didn’t request it? It’s largely administrative but I’m still not clear why NSW hasn’t declared a state of emergency news.com.au/technology/env…
March 9, 2022
The Guardian • Natasha May • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Farmers’ report warns climate crisis puts Australia’s food supply at increasing risk
Global heating ‘amplifies risks all the way through the supply chain, from farm to warehouse to supermarket shelves’
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Gabrielle Chan@gabriellechan
Empty supermarket shelves will become a more frequent sight for Australians as the climate crisis heightens the risk of food shortages after extreme weather events, a new report says. @tasha_tilly theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 9, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jenna Price • March 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
This is the future for natural disasters: the cavalry won’t be coming
Know your neighbours and their circumstances. Accelerating climate change will soon outstrip the capabilities of the ADF and SES: communities are the only thing you can rely on.
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The Guardian • Richard Denniss • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
When it comes to climate-induced disasters the Coalition wants to save for a rainy day – but it’s already pouring
Subsidies to prop up fossil fuel are more pressing for the Morrison government than subsidies for renewables or climate adaptation
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ABC News • March 9, 2022 • abc.net.au
Paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale charged with more historical offences
Detectives charge Gerald Ridsdale with 24 sexual offence charges relating to two boys in Victoria's Western District dating back to the early 1980s.
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