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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • April 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
Albanese pays a price for bad week as voters swing back to government
Scott Morrison now leads Anthony Albanese as preferred prime minister by 38 to 30 per cent after the Labor leader held the advantage two weeks ago.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola, Anthony Galloway • April 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
Voters don’t care about integrity commission: seven Liberal MPs
After days of political heat on Scott Morrison over his broken promise to introduce a federal integrity commission, seven members of the prime minister’s backbench have spoken out to declare the issue isn’t a top order concern with voters.
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • April 17, 2022 • crikey.com.au
Liberal candidate Katherine Deves said trans woman were doing 'womanface', claimed gender identity is a 'gift to sex offenders'
New anti-trans revelations hit the PM's hand-picked candidate for the once-safe Liberal seat of Warringah.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Julia Baird • April 16, 2022 • smh.com.au
Our children need climate action not culture wars
In the seat of Warringah, there is a peculiar pall of frustration in the air. But it’s got nothing to do with transgender issues.
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💥Dr💥 Julia Baird@bairdjulia
If we want to protect our kids, let's talk about climate, not vilify young trans people. My @smh column.
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April 16, 2022
ABC News • Michael Slezak • April 17, 2022 • abc.net.au
Vaughan and Yvonne's home is crawling with acid-spitting crazy ants. And they're spreading to other parts of northern Australia
Yellow crazy ants are categorised as one of the worst invasive species on the planet, capable of completely destroying ecosystems — and they're spreading in northern Australia.
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Michael Slezak@MikeySlezak
Yellow crazy ants spread into Townsville and parts of north-east Australia, as councils plead for funding abc.net.au/news/2022-04-1…
April 17, 2022
The Guardian • Josh Butler, Sarah Martin • April 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
AEC alarmed at ‘dangerous’ voter fraud claims spreading before Australian election
Candidates from One Nation, United Australia party and other micro parties have begun seeding Facebook with advice tinged with claims about ballots being erased, amended or hidden
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Michael West Media • https://www.facebook.com/michaelwest.journo/ • April 17, 2022 • michaelwest.com.au
"Labor trolls, 'thugs" and "lobotomised sh*theads" belie a bigger challenge for media elites
The social media outcry over ABC Breakfast News presenter Fauziah Ibrahim's silly Twitter lists belies the greater issue of media bias
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Mike Foley • April 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘A matter for the NSW Liberal Party’: Payne refuses to endorse Deves in Warringah
Senior NSW Liberal Marise Payne says Katherine Deves started an ‘important discussion’ over trans rights in sport but refused to endorse the party’s candidate.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • April 16, 2022 • smh.com.au
Glucose monitoring device price slashed on diabetes support scheme as Anne Ruston named health minister
All Australians with type 1 diabetes will have access to crucial glucose monitoring devices if the Coalition is returned to government.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick Bonyhady, Zoe Samios • April 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
Facebook’s political ad tracker suffers major malfunction
New data on Facebook and Instagram ad expenditure has not been added to the social media giant’s transparency site since last Monday.
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The New York Times • Stephanie Nolen, Karan Deep Singh • April 16, 2022 • nytimes.com
India Is Stalling the W.H.O.’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public
The agency has calculated that 15 million people have died as a result of the pandemic, far more than earlier estimates, but has yet to release those numbers.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Laura Chung • April 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Last meaningful opportunity’: Federal election firing up young climate activists
Student Anjali Sharma is part of a generation of climate activists driven by the urgency of warnings the global tipping point is approaching and governments are failing to respond.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola, Anthony Galloway, Michael Koziol • April 16, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘She won’t win the seat’: Liberals dismayed as PM digs in on Deves
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is digging in on Katherine Deves’ candidacy in the seat of Warringah, causing alarm in the NSW Liberal Party.
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Patricia Karvelas@PatsKarvelas
Deves also derided LGBTQ support initiative Wear It Purple Day as a “grooming tactic” aimed at children.
Fact: The day is about pride and reducing harm to young people #auspol theage.com.au/politics/feder…
April 16, 2022
The Atlantic • Anne Applebaum, Jeffrey Goldberg • April 15, 2022 • theatlantic.com
Liberation Without Victory
In a wide-ranging conversation at his compound in Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells The Atlantic what Ukraine needs to survive—and describes the price it has paid.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • April 16, 2022 • smh.com.au
Taxpayers fund $55.6 billion in federal grants over less than four years
The findings will fuel an election row over calls for a national integrity commission, which Labor has pledged to establish if it wins government.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
With this much cash flowing out the door, who thinks an integrity commission is an optional extra?
Our page one story today:
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April 16, 2022
ABC News • Gareth Hutchens • April 17, 2022 • abc.net.au
Why do Australia's politicians behave like this? It's been the same for 80 years
In Australia, politics and journalism has been played the same way for decades, as this newspaper from 1939 shows.
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ABC News • Nour Haydar • April 17, 2022 • abc.net.au
Anne Ruston to be health minister if Coalition re-elected, PM won't name her replacement
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces South Australian senator Anne Ruston will take over as health and aged care minister if the Coalition is re-elected, but says he will not decide who will take her Women's Safety and Social Services roles until after the election.
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Reuters • April 14, 2022 • reuters.com
Troops burn villages in Myanmar heartland, seek to crush resistance
Satellite images reviewed by Reuters show widespread torching of villages in the central Sagaing region of Myanmar.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Broede Carmody • April 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
As it happened Election 2022: Anne Ruston named Scott Morrison’s pick for health minister as Coalition, Labor campaigns continue across the country
Scott Morrison has confirmed he wants Social Services Minister Anne Ruston to replace Greg Hunt as health minister should the Coalition win another term of government, Labor leader Anthony Albanese is in Queensland today and the PM is in Sydney.
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Literary Hub • April 14, 2022 • lithub.com
On Natural Wine, Inherited Money, and the Delusions of the “Future-Rich Millennial”
As I approached my mid-thirties, I noticed that a particular sliver of my contemporaries had stopped pretending to be broke, or poor, and started brazenly trying to join the professional managerial…
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