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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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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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The Guardian • Fiona Harvey • April 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster
Greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025, say climate scientists in what is in effect their final warning
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The Guardian • Paul Karp • April 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Liberal MP accuses Scott Morrison of ‘ruthless bullying’ and scheming at the expense of flood victims
NSW upper house member Catherine Cusack claims prime minister has ruined the Liberal party and says she will not vote for re-election of Coalition government
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • April 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
Labor vote rises despite broad support for budget ahead of election
Voters have strongly backed the spending in the budget aimed to help households, but support is drifting away from Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Headline says it all. @smh
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
April 5, 2022
The New York Times • Malachy Browne, David Botti, Haley Willis • April 5, 2022 • nytimes.com
Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims.
The images rebut Russia’s claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha, near Kyiv, took place after its soldiers had left town.
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Matina Stevis-Gridneff@MatinaStevis
Analysis of satellite images by the @nytimes visual investigations team shows bodies lay in Bucha for at least 3 weeks, when Russian forces controlled the area, refuting Russian claims the massacre was carried out by Ukrainian forces after their departure.
nytimes.com/2022/04/04/wor…
April 5, 2022
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Sarah Martin • April 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Poll: Coalition cash splash leaves voters cold as just a quarter say budget will be good for them
Half of voters say budget designed to win election as Labor takes 11-point lead on economic management
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ABC News • Casey Briggs • April 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
With the election nearly upon us, can we actually trust the opinion polls this time?
There's been a lot of soul-searching after opinion polls failed to predict Scott Morrison's 2019 win, but the big question remains: Will the polls be closer to the mark this time around?
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • April 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘We can’t afford to get this wrong’: relocating Leadbeater’s possums is risky – but it’s their only chance
Exclusive: With only 33 of Victoria’s lowland population left, the team charged with their recovery says ‘we need to be proactive’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • April 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
Lib challenger to take preselections appeal to High Court
The High Court will be asked to make the final decision on an extraordinary legal challenge to the validity of Liberal Party preselections.
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Michael Koziol@michaelkoziol
Update: the NSW Liberal Party executive who took Scott Morrison to court over candidate preselections will ask the High Court to hear an appeal on today’s verdict smh.com.au/politics/feder…
April 5, 2022
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • April 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Nearly 1,400 Afghans granted emergency visas never made it to Australia
Senate inquiry calls on government to reinstate 1,398 lapsed humanitarian visas originally granted after Taliban takeover
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick O'Malley • April 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
Goal of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees ‘no longer plausible’: UN
Despite the bad news, co-author Australian Professor Frank Jotzo said pathways to 2 degrees of warming were achievable.
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The Guardian • Van Badham • April 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Today’s ‘woman’ is supposed to people-please yet also be an empowered ‘girlboss’ – why?
The patriarchy has realised liberal feminism’s potential to make women too stressed to revolt against the vampiric masculinities in their lives
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Van Badham@vanbadham
My latest in the @guardian is about the revelation that women who out-earn their male partners ALSO do more domestic labour than them.
Spoiler alert, ladies: the real enemy IS PATRIARCHY… and the call is coming from inside the house.
theguardian.com/society/2022/a…
April 5, 2022
news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • April 5, 2022 • news.com.au
‘Self-serving bully’: Liberal MP lashes PM
NSW Liberal MP Catherine Cusack has described the Prime Minister Scott Morrison as a “self-serving bully” who is clueless about women, has denied flood victims assistance and destroyed the Liberal Party.
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ABC News • Natalie Whiting • April 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
A $95m skyscraper was meant to be a symbol of China's rising influence in PNG. Now it's been declared 'uninhabitable'
Documents leaked to the ABC reveal the tallest building in Papua New Guinea, constructed by Chinese investors as a "symbol of friendship" between the two nations, has been deemed uninhabitable.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Dana Daniel • April 4, 2022 • smh.com.au
Mystery solved over Hansard change to hide budget’s missing $10 drug price cut
Bureaucrats had initially dodged questions over who asked for Hansard to be edited to delete references to a $10 cut to the price of medicines that did not make it into the budget.
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The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • April 5, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Michael Pascoe: Housing catastrophe worsens as Falinski failure exposed
How badly did Jason Falinski maul and distort the housing inquiry he chaired at our expense? So badly the secretariat took their names off the final report.
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The Intercept • Ken Klippenstein • April 5, 2022 • theintercept.com
Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” and “Plantation”
Also: “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” “vaccine,” and others.
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Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein
Amazon to ban the word "union" on its new worker chat app, per internal company documents leaked to me.
Other banned terms include "living wage," "slave labor," "harassment" and "restrooms"
theintercept.com/2022/04/04/ama…
April 5, 2022
Australian Financial Review • Jill Margo • April 5, 2022 • afr.com
‘Party’s over’ as Australia hits vaccine ceiling
The nation did extremely well with primary doses of the vaccine, but now it has hit an impasse with boosters.
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ABC News • Anna Freeland, Hannah Reich • April 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
Virginia Gay's production of Cyrano was cancelled on opening night. Here's what happened next
After two years of cancellations and billions of dollars lost, we take stock of the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on Australia’s performing arts and the challenges ahead.
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Benjamin Law 羅旭能@mrbenjaminlaw
A shocking look into the wrecking of Australia's live entertainment by @annamareefree and @hannahsreich.
Workers lost $417.2M and 374K gigs. <1% had income protection or insurance.
“COVID shone a black light on the murder scene of the arts in Australia."
abc.net.au/news/2022-04-0…
April 5, 2022

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