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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • March 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Climate crisis is greatest threat to Australia’s future and security, former defence leaders warn
Open letter calls on politicians to make climate a primary focus in election year and ‘address this clear and present danger’
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Gabrielle Chan@gabriellechan
In a full-page advertisement in the Oz, senior retired defence and security personnel have called on political leaders to make the security risks posed by climate change a central issue of the forthcoming federal election. ⁦@_LisaMCox⁩ theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 23, 2022
ABC News • Jake Lapham • March 23, 2022 • abc.net.au
Anger in Sydney's west over Labor plan to parachute 'white millionaire' into Parramatta seat
A row has broken out in Labor Party ranks in Western Sydney over a move to parachute a wealthy executive from the eastern suburbs into a multicultural seat.
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Benjamin Law 羅旭能@mrbenjaminlaw
Parramatta locals steamrolled if the ALP parachutes a white high profile candidate:
Durga Owen: aid worker, solicitor, law lecturer & Tamil refugee
Alan Mascarenhas: Parramatta ALP VP, son of Indian migrants
Abha Devasia: union lawyer, Malayalee woman
abc.net.au/news/2022-03-2…
March 23, 2022
Australian Financial Review • Andrew Clark • March 23, 2022 • afr.com
Max Walsh was one of the greats of Australian journalism
Max Walsh exerted enormous influence on the shape of modern Australia through his roles as a political journalist and as editor-in-chief of the Financial Review.
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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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Craig Reucassel@craigreucassel
Political free speech and bins! This is really in my wheelhouse. smh.com.au/national/nsw/l…
March 22, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Smee, Josh Butler • March 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Morrison’s green light for Queensland’s Hells Gates Dam threatens Great Barrier Reef, experts warn
PM announces $5.4bn in funding for project that’s yet to have environmental approvals or final business case
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Adam Morton@adamlmorton
Morrison announces $5.4bn for the Hells Gates Dam. It does not have a final business case or environmental approval. Critics say there is evidence it would likely increase pollution on the Reef and isn't economically viable.
- by @BenSmee @JoshButler
theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 23, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jenna Price • March 23, 2022 • smh.com.au
Why our charities should be free to criticise hopeless policy
Charities work on our behalf, collectively. But time and again this federal government tries to silence them.
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ABC News • Lorna Knowles, Kevin Nguyen • March 23, 2022 • abc.net.au
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston resigns after misconduct investigation
Brian Houston resigns from the global megachurch he founded after an internal investigation into revelations he behaved inappropriately towards two women.
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Louise Milligan@Milliganreports
Here we go again. Another bloke with a lot of power, wealth and enormous amounts of influence resigns over these sorts of issues. Will be interested to see the PM’s response. twitter.com/raf_epstein/st…
March 23, 2022
ABC News • Lucy Thackray • March 23, 2022 • abc.net.au
After what she witnessed at school, the mere sound of an alarm can give Felicity a panic attack
Walgett Community College is so notorious there are social media pages dedicated to cataloguing the routine violence that occurs within its walls. After 10 years of chaos, parents and students want to know why the problems aren't being fixed.
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Lucy Thackray@LucyThack
Violence is so severe at this rural town’s only high school, students are put into prison-style lockdowns. One student now has panic attacks from an alarm sound, another has been sent 1500km away to escape attacks. Locals plead to not give up on these kids abc.net.au/news/2022-03-2…
March 23, 2022
The New Daily • James Robertson • March 23, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Australians' distrust of Morrison turning them off government
Australians regard Scott Morrison as the nation’s least trustworthy politician, as new research reveals how we feel about our leaders.
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The Guardian • Emma Kemp • March 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Ash Barty announces shock retirement from tennis at 25
The world No 1 announced the news on social media on Wednesday only two months after winning the Australian Open
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan • March 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Outgoing Parramatta MP disappointed by Labor plan to parachute Andrew Charlton into her seat
Julie Owens says branch members ‘in best position to decide’ on preselection in western Sydney seat
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Michael McGowan@mmcgowan
Retiring Labor MP Julie Owens says she’s disappointed by the party’s plan to parachute former Rudd advisor Andrew Charlton into her seat of Parramatta, saying local branches “should have a say” in the preselection. theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 23, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Scott Spits • March 23, 2022 • smh.com.au
Ashleigh Barty announces shock retirement from tennis
World No.1 and three-time major champion Ashleigh Barty has announced her shock retirement from tennis.
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • March 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Appalling’: Newcastle residents question response after wool store fire showers homes with asbestos
Weeks after a warehouse fire rained debris onto suburbs, residents say they have been left in the dark about the cleanup
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • March 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australian War Memorial urged to stop accepting money from Lockheed Martin
Veterans, historians and experts say companies that profit from conflict have no place in a solemn memorial to those killed in war
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
Ex-employees, veterans, historians and academics have written to the Aus War Memorial urging it to end its sponsorship with Lockheed Martin when current deal ends next month. One said the deal was a "shocking affront to its stated purpose" theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 23, 2022
The Guardian • Marina Hyde • March 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Nazanin is grateful, but is she grateful enough? I don’t know but the trolls will tell us
If she had been docile, she might have silenced her critics. Luckily the ingratitude police are on the case, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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ABC Radio National • March 23, 2022 • abc.net.au
Russian politician says Putin will die this year
Russian Opposition Leader Navalny, received another 9-year prison sentence, but Russian Politician Ilya Ponomarev says the sentence won't matter, as Putin won't live that long He says that Putin cannot win the war in Ukraine and warns there are a lot of hungry people within Putin's inner-circle.
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The Guardian • Lorenzo Tondo • March 22, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I will not be held prisoner’: the trans women turned back at Ukraine’s borders
Trans women are reportedly being denied passage to safer countries, despite their legal status as women and the danger posed by Russia’s transphobic policies
Brisbane Times • Matt Dennien • March 22, 2022 • brisbanetimes.com.au
Queensland marks 100 years since the state’s upper house was abolished
A century on, many question how the system meant to replace the house of review is working to keep government accountable.
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@MartySilk@MartySilkHack
It feels extremely Queensland to release a commemorative red wine to mark the centenary of abolishing the upper house
brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queen…
March 23, 2022
The Australian • James Madden • March 23, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Journalist, editor, pioneer — Max Walsh dead at 84
Legendary Australian journalist Max Walsh has died, aged 84.
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Foreign Policy • Jack Detsch • March 22, 2022 • foreignpolicy.com
‘Winging It’: Russia Is Getting Its Generals Killed on the Front Lines
Russian generals have had to lead from the front because its amateur army can’t move otherwise.
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Bianna Golodryga@biannagolodryga
Just unbelievable: “The tally of Russian generals killed in the nearly monthlong conflict…is likely the highest casualty rate among general officers in the Russian military since World War II.” foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/21/rus…
March 23, 2022

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