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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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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 • Paul Daley • March 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?
The steel city knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob Sredersas
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Stephen Jones MP@StephenJonesMP
Serious questions about Nazi war crimes committed by a man venerated in my local community for his role in establishing our art gallery.
Its painful but we cannot gloss over it. We cannot name a gallery after a man associated with heinous war crimes.
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March 21, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Charlotte Grieve • March 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Woodside contradicts CSIRO report debunking key climate claims
Woodside continued to claim its largest gas project would reduce emissions in Asia by replacing coal, despite commissioning a report by the CSIRO that found otherwise.
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Michael Slezak@MikeySlezak
Woodside commissioned a report by CSIRO, assessing its claims that more gas would lower emissions in Asia. It found the claims were wrong. Woodside then buried the report and continued to make the claims. Cracker story by @CharlotteGriev1 smh.com.au/business/banki…
March 21, 2022
Four Corners • March 21, 2022 • abc.net.au
Despair and Defiance: The Battle for Ukraine
“We’re pleading with the whole world to hear us.” Military volunteer On Monday, Four Corners takes you into a city under siege - Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. “The Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian spirit prevail. We are highly motivated, but Putin's number of jets, bombers and other weapons significantly outnumber ours.” Ukrainian member of parliament With the city enduring indiscriminate bombing, and with Russian forces attempting to encircle the capital, Sarah Ferguson reports on the Ukrainian people resisting the Russian invasion.
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Sarah Ferguson@FergusonNews
Thank you to all who watched & commented. Stay with the story & the people of Ukraine who will continue to suffer, on the frontlines & displaced around the world. They are funny & crazy brave & need solidarity. #4corners #ukraine ⁦@abcnews⁩ abc.net.au/4corners/despa…
March 21, 2022
The Guardian • Josh Butler • March 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Coalition expands recycling, carbon credit scheme by $60m amid claims of climate ‘fraud’ by thinktank
Recycling Modernisation Fund boost will focus on hard-to-recycle plastics as carbon credit tax cuts aim to encourage farmers to cut emissions
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Richie Merzian@RichieMerzian
Out today
'@TheAusInstitute launched an advertising campaign criticising the government over what it claims are “false solutions to climate change currently perpetrated by the fossil fuel industry”.
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March 21, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Matthew Knott • March 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘You’re seen as risky’: non-white workers held back by subtle racism
A landmark report calls for Australian companies to confront their ingrained preference for white, Anglo-Saxon employees over those from other backgrounds.
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Naaman Zhou@naamanzhou
A good report on a sobering statistic—but that figure is, in fact, even worse among Australian media organisations, for both senior positions and senior reporters. twitter.com/theage/status/…
March 21, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Chris Wallace • March 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Fitness to govern? South Australian leader shows Albanese the way
Labor’s victory in the South Australian state election has heaped more pressure on the Morrison government just eight weeks from the federal poll.
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The Guardian • Benita Kolovos • March 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Inside Victoria’s lower house, where non-government business isn’t allowed
Crossbenchers say reforms are needed in the state’s legislative assembly to allow them to be heard
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The Guardian • Donna Lu • March 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Extremes of 40C above normal: what’s causing ‘extraordinary’ heating in polar regions?
Antarctic and Arctic temperatures have shocked researchers. How unusual are they and what are the consequences?
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The Australian • DAVID PENBERTHY • March 20, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
How it all went so wrong for SA Libs
It was a tale of two campaigns - one slick and brutal, the other so pathetically amateurish and laughable it can be best told with a story involving giraffes.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Josh Feldman, Eryk Bagshaw • March 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Australian judge accuses UN of ‘coup d’etat’ after dismissal from case involving Chinese dissidents
Rowan Downing QC has accused the United Nations of an “attack upon the independence of the judiciary”.
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Financial Times • Guy Chazan • March 21, 2022 • ft.com
‘Hell on earth’: survivors recount the assault on Mariupol | Free to read
Residents who escaped from besieged Ukrainian port depict harrowing conditions for civilians
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Jim Pickard@PickardJE
horrific account of the reality on the ground in besieged Mariupol by ⁦@FT⁩ reporter ⁦@GuyChazan⁩ in Lviv
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March 21, 2022
ABC News • Daniel Ziffer • March 21, 2022 • abc.net.au
Surprise government decision crashes carbon market, making polluting cheaper
Private companies are set to receive a multi-billion-dollar windfall, after being allowed to break long-standing government supply contracts to cash in on a booming carbon credit market.
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The Guardian • Cait Kelly • March 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘A form of cruelty’: 51 asylum seekers brought to Australia under medevac laws still languish in detention
Since 2017 about 206 refugees have been released but their freedom highlights the ‘random’ way others remain locked up
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The Guardian • Josh Taylor, Matilda Boseley, Michael McGowan, Benita Kolovos, Adeshola Ore, Tory Shepherd, Paul Karp, Josh Butler • March 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Mourners farewell Kimberley Kitching; Morrison and Modi virtual summit begins; six Covid deaths recorded – As it happened
All the day’s news as it unfolded
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Josephine Tovey@Jo_Tovey
NSW Health says a 'previously well' 2-yr-old has died from a Covid infection in Sydney
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March 21, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Laura Chung, Sarah Keoghan • March 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Fears of heavy rains and more flash flooding in hard-hit Northern Rivers region
The fresh concerns come as nine Lismore residents have dumped flood-affected household items outside Kirribilli House and called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to act on climate change.
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ABC News • Antoinette Radford • March 21, 2022 • abc.net.au
After fleeing the Taliban, Najeeb died in Australia in an all too common accident
On what would have been his 25th birthday, Najeeb Rafee was taken off life support after an accident in a Canberra river. Now, his friends are honouring his legacy through a refugee and migrant swim school.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • March 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Conservationists call for ban on explosives to scare seals at salmon farm in federal waters off Tasmania
Federal government has not ruled out the use of underwater explosives and ‘bean bag rounds’ in trial off north-west Tasmania
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jewel Topsfield, Sophie Aubrey • March 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Urgent national priority’: Pandemic’s staggering mental toll on young Australians
An exclusive survey reveals 82 per cent of young Australians have experienced mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, with one in four having suicidal thoughts.
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