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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 Sydney Morning Herald • George Megalogenis • March 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
Walk in circles, mop up disasters: Australian politics still operates with a male-only brain
The Prime Minister’s response to the floods is a symptom of deeper, structural problem.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol, Lucy Carroll • March 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
NSW Health wants return to masks, working from home, but Hazzard ‘not keen’
NSW Health has recommended the reintroduction of indoor masks, density limits, singing and dancing bans, and a return to working from home as COVID-19 case numbers rise.
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The Saturday Paper • Dan Cass • March 12, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Remembering Moss Cass
Australia’s first minister for Environment and Conservation was a brilliant, bold and persuasive man who is remembered by his son as a scientist and a leader, an idealist and a visionary.
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Dan Cass 🔋 🔌 🚗 ⚡️ 💡 🏡@DanJCass
I am very proud to have a piece in @SatPaper today remembering my wonderful father, Moss Cass, who died two week ago. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2022/03/1…
March 12, 2022
The Guardian • Josh Butler • March 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
Labor demands Christian Porter resign before election after changes to ‘blind trust’ disclosure rules
Porter had previously stepped down as minister after refusing to identify creators of a blind trust that paid his legal fees in a defamation case
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • March 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
After the trauma of defeat, it makes sense for Labor to play it safe. But why has it taken so long for Albanese to define himself?
Labor’s current mindset is planning and hoping. But the party needs a gear change to convince voters their leader is the man for the moment
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The Guardian • Nino Bucci • March 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘This case is tragic’: Zachary Rolfe is cleared and an Aboriginal family left with questions
The jury ultimately believed the NT police officer’s account of the killing of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker. But while the trial is over, many matters remain unresolved
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Nino Bucci@ninobucci
I have spent the past five weeks covering the trial of Zachary Rolfe, and hope this piece conveys something about the pervasive sense of loss and waste and injustice that surrounded yesterday’s verdict.
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March 12, 2022
The Saturday Paper • Paul Bongiorno • March 12, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The cabinet minister organising against Morrison
There is growing anxiety in the parliamentary Liberal Party. They are worried they are doomed to oblivion with Scott Morrison and are beginning to look for a way out. A senior member of the government – a minister in Morrison’s cabinet – has begun contacting “like-minded” colleagues by email to arrange meetings where they can discuss the crisis. One recipient says, “The last
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The New Yorker • David Remnick • March 12, 2022 • newyorker.com
The Weakness of the Despot
An expert on Stalin discusses Putin, Russia, and the West.
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The Saturday Paper • Brian Toohey • March 12, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Defence spending booms as efficiency dives
By cutting public service jobs then outsourcing to contractors, the cost of defence staffing has doubled. With problems from planning through to delivery, the billions being spent are not giving taxpayers value for money.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • March 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘It was weirdly functional’: the inside story of the extraordinary evacuation of Ballina hospital
The complexity of shifting an entire hospital during a flood emergency is mind-boggling, but doctors say an ‘amazing’ team made it work
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
The inside story of Ballina hospital's extraordinary evacuation to a local high school during the floods. Using ragtag fleet of schoolbuses, taxis, and vans, doctors moved an entire hospital in 3hrs, incl. palliative care patients & dementia sufferers theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 12, 2022
news.com.au • Duncan Murray • March 11, 2022 • news.com.au
BRS ‘mentored’ NT cop who shot Indigenous man
Beleaguered ex-SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith acted as a “mentor” to Northern Territory cop Zachary Rolfe, who was put on trial for the shooting death of an Indigenous man in 2019, court documents have revealed.
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Sonia Smallacombe@SSmallacombe
Ben Roberts-Smith, Zachary Rolfe: Former SAS soldier was a ‘mentor’ to NT cop that shot and killed Indigenous man news.com.au/national/court… via @newscomauHQ
March 11, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Tony Wright • March 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
Fire and rain: Scott Morrison seems paralysed by disaster
John Howard went to Lismore and faced his numerous critics head-on. Scott Morrison went to Lismore, haunted by a previous disaster, and dodged face-to-face scrutiny.
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The Guardian • Paul Karp • March 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Disrespectful and wrong’: lawyers slam Coalition’s push to restore power to deport Aboriginal non-citizens
Federal government’s appeal against the release of NZ man due to his claim of Aboriginality is being criticised as ‘a significant step backwards’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway, Kate Geraghty • March 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
Inside a Kharkiv hospital, a family waits for a wounded boy to wake up
His mother was shot dead in front of him. Now Volodymyr lies in intensive care while his family shelters in the hospital basement. Kate Geraghty and Anthony Galloway report from Kharkiv.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
More superb reporting from Geraghty and Galloway.
smh.com.au/world/europe/i…
March 11, 2022
Crikey • Bernard Keane, Glenn Dyer • March 9, 2022 • crikey.com.au
A city is flooded, a state in chaos — but the business elite is told: "Get greedy"
As the waters rose yesterday, advice given to the ruling class at the AFR Business Summit reveals some cognitive dissonance.
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The Australian • Peter van Onselen • March 12, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Labor should be bold and win mandate for action
If the Coalition is re-elected in May, during its next term it will surpass 10 years in power. It has already been in office for 8 years. Three full terms, three different prime ministers. A lost decade, according to Anthony Albanese this week. Whether or not that is true, it has certainly been a lost decade for many highly regarded Labor politicians who have languished on the wrong side of the Treasury benches since Kevin Rudd was resoundingly defeated in 2013.
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Foreign Affairs Magazine • Richard K. Betts • March 12, 2022 • foreignaffairs.com
The No-Fly Zone Delusion
In Ukraine, good intentions can’t redeem a bad idea.
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Al Jazeera • March 12, 2022 • aljazeera.com
47 Yemeni children killed, maimed in last two months: UNICEF
More than 10,200 children killed or injured since the Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015, the UN agency says.
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The Guardian • First Dog on the Moon • March 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
All the cool kids are talking about State Capture – it’s everywhere and you don’t want it
Yes this is a long not very interesting cartoon BUT THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT
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