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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 Australian • SIMON BENSON • April 3, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Labor marked down as election looms: Newspoll
Popular support for Labor has fallen in the wake of last weeks federal budget and a political contest over economic management, with the Coalition closing the gap as Scott Morrison prepares to call the election within days.
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Kieran Gilbert@Kieran_Gilbert
Newspoll 54-46 Labor over Coalition in latest survey theaustralian.com.au/nation/newspol…
April 3, 2022
The Sunday Times • Louise Callaghan • April 3, 2022 • thetimes.co.uk
Bodies of mutilated children among horrors the Russians left behind
Deep in the forest outside Kyiv, where the mushroom-pickers used to roam and rich city folk built their palatial dachas, Maria Dabizhe, 80, sat sifting through
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Louise Callaghan@louiseelisabet
In the woods outside Bucha today we met Maria, 80, who hadn't minded the Russian soldiers so much when they turned up at her house. It was only after they withdrew that she found out they had tied up and executed her neighbours. thetimes.co.uk/article/bodies…
April 3, 2022
Australian Financial Review • Misha Zelinsky • April 1, 2022 • afr.com
‘No culture, no sports, only fighting’: The steel town that forged Volodymyr Zelensky
Before he was Ukraine’s president and a global icon of democracy, Volodymyr Zelensky was a boy from the gritty former Soviet industrial city of Kryvyi Rih.
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misha@mishazelinsky
Reckon you’ve read everything there is on Volodmyr Zelensky?
You can’t understand Ukraine’s iron president until you know the steel town he’s from.
My profile of Kryvyi Rih — the city that made Vova @FinancialReview (generously free @MStutch)
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April 1, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • April 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
The secret plan to save Anthony Albanese from COVID - and what happens if he catches it
Labor has been war-gaming how to protect Anthony Albanese on the election campaign trail.
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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 • Caitlin Fitzsimmons • April 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
Authorities probing death of Villawood detainee
Friends of a man who died in immigration detention in Sydney last weekend say he took his life after being bullied and bashed by other detainees.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • April 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
Labor threatens dodgy aged care providers with jail time
Labor has released new details about how it will reform the aged care sector if it wins the looming federal election.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Andrew Taylor • April 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Single biggest threat’: Push for inquiry into health impacts of climate change
An Independent candidate for the federal seat of Mackellar has called for an inquiry into the health impacts of climate change.
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Human Rights Watch • April 3, 2022 • hrw.org
Ukraine: Apparent War Crimes in Russia-Controlled Areas
Human Rights Watch has documented several cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations against civilians in occupied areas of the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions of Ukraine.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Ben Schneiders • April 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
Mormons Inc: Church accused of multinational tax rort
The Mormon Church is involved in a significant alleged tax rort, allowing its adherents to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in tax exemptions not lawfully available to followers of other religions.
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The Shot • April 1, 2022 • theshot.net.au
Women of independent means
The "teal" movement reshaping Australian politics
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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 Sydney Morning Herald • Phil Lutton • April 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
Junior sport crisis: Push to make coaching more fun, less structured
Some of the biggest names in sport have thrown their weight behind a major shake-up of community coaching as officials try to combat dwindling participation numbers and alarming rates of inactivity among Australian children and teenagers.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jacqueline Maley • April 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
The women voters Morrison needs to woo are not the ones you might think
The Liberals need to capture the votes of non-university-educated women who juggle jobs and children and who, if they have an idle moment, are more likely to scroll Facebook or Instagram than read the news.
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The Monthly • Josh Bornstein • March 31, 2022 • themonthly.com.au
The great wealth redistribution
The repressive regulation of unions has decimated employee bargaining power, leaving wages going nowhere
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Josh Bornstein@JoshBBornstein
The reason that wages are going backwards has nothing to do with the unemployment rate or the usual excuses wheeled out by the federal government . The truth is staring us in the face. My column for ⁦@THEMONTHLY⁩ . themonthly.com.au/blog/josh-born…
March 31, 2022
The Age • Paul Sakkal • April 1, 2022 • theage.com.au
Leak puts Victorian Greens in turmoil over transgender policy
An internal feud over trans rights has been simmering for years. It came to the boil when comments a Greens councillor made in a private Facebook group were leaked.
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The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • March 31, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Michael Pascoe: The dirty little budget secret – we’re in trouble next year
Tucked away in a single overlooked budget chart is the Treasury’s forecast that our 'word-leading' economic recovery hits the wall next year.
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Michael Pascoe@MichaelPascoe01
Michael Pascoe: The budget’s dirty little secret – we slump next year
"This is a miserable budget, lacking integrity, conceived in cynicism, designed to help a political party, not the nation" | The New Daily thenewdaily.com.au/finance/financ…
March 31, 2022
Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • April 3, 2022 • afr.com
Liberals to start from behind after lukewarm budget response: poll
The Prime Minister and his government are on the nose, but voters have yet to flock en masse to Labor or Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.
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ABC News • Richard Willingham • April 3, 2022 • abc.net.au
These are the Victorian seats to watch this federal election
Will complacency towards Melbourne's outer suburbs roll Labor at the ballot box or will anger over COVID put the Coalition to the test?
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