April 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Saturday Paper • Karen Middleton • April 2, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
‘Actually a Moslem’: The true story of Morrison’s ruthless preselection
After 15 years without answers, a series of statutory declarations finally reveals how race and allegations of ‘criminal’ activities were used in Scott Morrison’s controversial preselection.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Margaret Simons • April 18, 2022 • smh.com.au
Focus on gaffes misses the real issues
Political journalism is not, or should not be, like sport reporting.
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Sean Kelly@mrseankelly
Very important point in an excellent column by @MargaretSimons
smh.com.au/national/focus…
April 18, 2022
ABC News • Laura Tingle • April 27, 2022 • abc.net.au
Brittany Higgins complains AFP unlawfully disclosed evidence in sexual assault case to defence team
Protected evidence in the case of a man charged with the sexual assault of Brittany Higgins — including counselling notes and video recordings — was unlawfully disclosed to the defence by the Australian Federal Police, according to a formal complaint to the AFP.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • The Herald's View • April 14, 2022 • smh.com.au
Morrison says he has ‘honoured his proposal’ for a federal ICAC. He is wrong
The prime minister committed himself to introducing a proposal to parliament and fighting to have it passed. He has not. It is a broken promise.
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Bevan Shields@BevanShields
Herald editorial: Scott Morrison's attack on the NSW ICAC today was nothing short of hysterical and his approach to such a crucial issue raises serious questions about the Prime Minister's understanding of transparency and honesty in government smh.com.au/politics/feder…
April 14, 2022
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • April 26, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison is setting up another fake fight on a carbon ‘tax’
With Australia’s lived experience of global heating, you would think we’d have moved past grown men staging hyperbolic encounters with invisible things
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • April 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
Morrison accused of using race in bid for seat
Michael Towke ended 15 years of silence on the incendiary claim about the long-disputed ballot by saying Scott Morrison told party members they should not vote for him because he was from a Lebanese family and because of rumours he was a Muslim.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Michael Towke has confirmed to us his statutory declaration about Scott Morrison.
“Amongst many unedifying tactics used to unseat me from my preselection victory for Morrison, racial vilification was front and centre and he was directly involved.”
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
April 3, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Rob Baillieu • April 22, 2022 • smh.com.au
My father was Liberal premier, but I can’t support his party
The son of former Victorian Liberal Premier Ted Baillieu says the party has abandoned its small-l liberal values and that independents offer a vision for the future, not the past.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • April 13, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison effectively ditches his promise to establish a federal anti-corruption commission
Prime minister says if Coalition wins election he would only introduce legislation if Labor agreed in advance to back heavily criticised model
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • April 2, 2022 • smh.com.au
Party members say Morrison used Lebanese background against opponent
Two statutory declarations say Scott Morrison told party members they should not back his main opponent, Michael Towke, for preselection in 2007 because of his ethnic background and because of rumours he was a Muslim.
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan • April 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW Liberal candidate described campaign supporting LGBT youth as ‘grooming tactic’ used by ‘gender extremists’
On a now-deleted website, Katherine Deves criticised NSW police for endorsing Wear it Purple Day and makes a series of inflammatory posts about trans people
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • April 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
I’m a Liberal MP and I cannot vote for the re-election of a Scott Morrison government | Catherine Cusack
The prime minister has ruined the party of Robert Menzies, trashing its values and forfeiting the integrity and values of Australia with his scheming
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Ben Doherty • April 26, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Systemic failures at every step’: the Indonesian children Australia sent to adult jails for years
Six children jailed as adults for acting as crew on people-smuggling boats have had their convictions quashed. But Australian authorities had been told before they were jailed of doubts about the wrist X-ray technique used to prove they were over 18
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • April 22, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘This is a joke’: Farcical scenes as media banned from Deves’ pub event
Journalists were informed Deves would not enter the room under any circumstances if the media was present.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Rachel Clun • April 29, 2022 • smh.com.au
Here’s how inflation is super sizing the price of your burger
Here’s what inflation – at its highest rate in more than 20 years – is doing to the cost of your Aussie burger.
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Rachel Clun@rachelclun
Inflation is biting - I took a deep dive into the data and looked at how much it was supersizing the cost of a burger (and yes, I had a burger for dinner after this!) theage.com.au/politics/feder…
April 29, 2022
news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • April 15, 2022 • news.com.au
War erupts over anti-transgender candidate
The Liberal Party is at war over Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves with the state’s Treasurer declaring there is no “place in a mainstream political party for bigotry.”
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Matt Kean MP@Matt_KeanMP
There is no place in a mainstream political party for bigotry. Coming out as Trans would be hugely challenging, especially for kids, and political leaders should be condemning the persecution of people based on their gender, not participating in it. news.com.au/national/feder…
April 15, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Antoinette Lattouf • April 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
Attacks on ABC presenter Fauziah Ibrahim go too far
If you’re a woman of colour who is perceived to have made a mistake, the trolling can be brutal and sustained. It can hurt your career and threaten your safety.
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Josephine Tovey@Jo_Tovey
The pile-ons of women at the ABC are increasingly deranged and one of the worst things about Aus Twitter. smh.com.au/national/attac…
April 28, 2022
ABC News • Stephanie Borys • April 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
Questions raised over millions in federal budget funding for charity with no office or staff
The Prime Minister's department insists it carried out "due diligence" before awarding, without a tender process, millions of dollars to a foundation that appears to have no office, website or staff and was established last year.
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Australian Financial Review • Michael Read • April 14, 2022 • afr.com
I’m travelling with Scott Morrison and we haven’t met a real voter yet
For the media, the experience is like being on a chaotic school excursion.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • April 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
Matt Canavan billed taxpayers for trip with family to Brisbane, where he spoke at CPAC dinner
Conservative Political Action Conference promised to donate part of dinner’s proceeds to Canavan, who says there is no record of a donation and trip was legitimate parliamentary business
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
LNP senator Matt Canavan billed taxpayers thousands of dollars to fly with his family for a three-night trip to Brisbane, during which he headlined Xmas drinks for a controversial conservative group that planned to donate him part of the night’s proceeds theguardian.com/australia-news…
April 12, 2022
The Guardian • Lisa Cox • April 25, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Worst it’s ever been’: a threatened species alarm sounds during the election campaign – and is ignored
Warnings of dramatically escalating extinctions in Australia over the next two decades seem to be falling on deaf ears
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