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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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Brittany Higgins@BrittHiggins_
This is not an allegation of police misconduct, this is fact.
I was notified by the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions as required under 14C Victims of Crime Act.
What occurred is unlawful and completely against protocol. (1/2)
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April 28, 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
The Guardian • Adam Morton, Katharine Murphy • April 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Coalition climate policy forced big polluters to pay $15m for carbon credits in past year
Scott Morrison says Labor wants to use government safeguard mechanism as a ‘sneaky carbon tax’ but it is already making big business pay for offsets
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The Guardian • Paul Karp • April 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Private schools received an extra $10bn funding in Coalition ‘special deals’, study finds
Exclusive: Public schools underfunded by at least $6.5bn a year while non-government schools received transitional funding after Gonski 2.0 reforms
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • April 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Christian Porter denied justice plea from Indonesians jailed in Australia when they were children
Former attorney general refused to refer cases to WA court of appeal, despite an earlier ruling finding a miscarriage of justice in a similar case
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
Christian Porter denied a plea for mercy from six Indonesians wrongly jailed as people smugglers, telling them they had no prospect of success. That's despite a highly similar case years earlier finding a substantial miscarriage of justice had occurred theguardian.com/australia-news…
April 28, 2022
The Age • Nick McKenzie, Sumeyya Ilanbey • April 28, 2022 • theage.com.au
Anti-corruption watchdog calls out Victorian Labor’s rotten culture
“Significant cultural reform is required within the ALP” to rid the party of a culture that encouraged the misuse of public funds, nepotism and other wrongdoing, IBAC says.
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Sumeyya Ilanbey@sumeyyailanbey
Premier Daniel Andrews has been secretly grilled by Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog as part of an investigation that has found the Labor Party’s culture is rotten and encouraged the serious misuse of public resources. #springst theage.com.au/politics/victo…
April 28, 2022
The Age • Paul Sakkal • April 28, 2022 • theage.com.au
‘I live in Camberwell’: Victorian Liberal candidate admits to listing false address
Isaacs candidate Robbie Beaton is pitching himself as a “long-time local business owner”. He had claimed to live in the electorate, but now admits he actually lives 20 kilometres away in the eastern suburbs.
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The Guardian • Stephanie Convery • April 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Housing in Australia is broken’: only 1.6% of private rentals are affordable for those on minimum wage
Anglicare’s annual snapshot calls for 50% rise in rent assistance payments, more social housing and changes to tax system
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ABC News • Daniel Ziffer • April 28, 2022 • abc.net.au
More than half a million people have left Australia during COVID-19. So why isn’t there anywhere to rent?
Stagnant incomes and surging rents have collided, created a housing crisis in Australia. Great-grandmother Veronica Silva is one of millions caught in the middle and is being forced to move further away from her family.
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The Guardian • Fiona Wright • April 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 Stella prize: ‘I was one paycheck away from complete poverty’
In the first year poetry was eligible to enter the Australian literary award, the debut poet has won for her collection Dropbear. She’s thrilled – but says prizes ‘cannot be the way we sustain the arts’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • April 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
Coalition’s khaki election risks turning into Dad’s Army
Whether through complacency, neglect or ineptitude, the long promised khaki election, which was expected to help deliver another victory for Scott Morrison, is in danger of turning into a farce.
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The Guardian • Adam Morton • April 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Calling the safeguard mechanism a ‘sneaky carbon tax’ is a scare campaign and an argument for inaction | Temperature Check
Scott Morrison is criticising the Coalition’s own climate policy – it’s just one that has barely been used
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Facts. Read. theguardian.com/environment/20… @adamlmorton #auspol
April 28, 2022
Reuters • April 28, 2022 • reuters.com
Breakingviews - Breakingviews: Elon Musk probably won’t buy Twitter
There are good reasons for him to get cold feet, Breakingviews columnists Lauren Silva Laughlin and Gina Chon write.
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Ian Fraser@Ian_Fraser
It’s looking increasingly likely that Elon Musk will withdraw his $44 billion takeover offer for Twitter. reuters.com/breakingviews/…
April 28, 2022
The Guardian • Laura Murphy-Oates, Christopher Knaus, Joe Koning, Joey Watson, Ellen Leabeater • April 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Indonesian children Australia wrongly imprisoned in adult jails
Reporter Christopher Knaus breaks down why Indonesian children were wrongly jailed in Australia as adult people smugglers, in a case involving a ‘substantial miscarriage of justice’
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Laura Murphy-Oates@lauramoates
"The image will never leave me...this poor tiny child hanging on to the barbed wire fence & when I went up to him he just burst into hysterics." A special Full Story today investigating the case of the Indonesian kids wrongly jailed as adults with @knausc
theguardian.com/australia-news…
April 28, 2022
The Australian • ALICE WORKMAN • April 28, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
We deserve a pay rise now: Lib MP
Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt has stood by his call for politicians to be given a pay rise, despite the average Australian workers wage going backwards in real terms.
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the Guardian • https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tory-shepherd,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/amy-remeikis,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jordyn-beazley… • April 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Frydenberg expects ‘close’ battle to hold seat as Labor cost of living attacks continue – as it happened
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
New: Labor is proposing a leaders debate in the final week of the campaign at the National Press Club, which is the traditional location for election debates. Paul Erickson has written to Andrew Hirst this morning theguardian.com/australia-news… @AmyRemeikis #auspol
April 28, 2022
The Guardian • Greg Jericho • April 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Australian inflation rate gives the lie to Morrison’s claims of strong economic management
Workers’ ability to buy things with their wages is little different from when Tony Abbott took office in September 2013
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Greg Jericho@GrogsGamut
The 2.1% rise in the CPI is certainly a jump - but the biggest jump was for items you can't avoid paying - non-discretionary items rose 3% in 3 months.
That means those on lower incomes were hurt much more than others
theguardian.com/business/grogo…
April 28, 2022
ABC News • Andrew Greene • April 28, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Unsuited for Australia's needs': Former navy chief calls for nation to back out of $45 billion frigate deal
Vice Admiral David Shackleton says Australia's troubled $45 billion future frigate program should be scrapped, arguing the British-designed warships "won't give the government a range of military options it could need for managing a conflict".
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • April 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
Liberal Party investigates leak of Deves’ Warringah nomination form
The form reveals Deves’ bid was proposed by barrister Bridie Nolan and she received a written reference from a Sky News journalist.
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The Age • Karl Quinn • April 22, 2022 • theage.com.au
Todd Sampson’s neo-Nazi row: New series on hate and social media slammed
A two-part documentary has been embraced by far-right figures and decried by anti-fascist activists.
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Ginger ‘Peter’ Gorman 🌈@GingerGorman
THREAD 🧵
Some people seem to know that I was set to be interviewed as an expert in this series.
Therefore, I feel obliged to publicly state I have written to the producers stating that I will no longer take part.
smh.com.au/culture/tv-and…
April 28, 2022

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