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ABC News • Andrew Greene • May 27, 2022 • abc.net.au
Scott Morrison instructed Border Force to reveal election day asylum boat arrival
One of Scott Morrison's final acts as prime minister was to instruct the Australian Border Force to publicise an intercepted boat of asylum seekers on election day, which the Liberal Party then seized upon.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Tony Wright • May 27, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘I love the boy’: The gift our PM received from a bamboo prison
Tom Uren, titan of the Labor Party, taught Anthony Albanese a lesson about protecting the vulnerable - one he had learned in the harshest way imaginable.
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The Guardian • Ben Smee • May 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
Lincoln Crowley appointed Australia’s first Indigenous supreme court justice
Highly regarded Queensland barrister was told as a boy he would probably end up in jail because his family is Aboriginal
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Josh Butler • May 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison’s staff urged border force to publicise Sri Lankan boat interception on election day
ABF officials made it clear publication of the interception could only proceed on the authority of the home affairs minister, Guardian Australia understands
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Here’s what happened on election day. Morrison staff, through Karen Andrews office, told border force to publicise the boat interception. Border force officials told political staff this would only happen if the minister authorised it. New details here 👇 theguardian.com/australia-news…
May 27, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • May 27, 2022 • smh.com.au
Murugappan family allowed to return to Biloela
The family of asylum seekers will be given a pathway to become Australian residents under a decision by the Albanese government to end years of dispute over their treatment.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
BREAKING: the government has issued bridging visas for the Murugappan family to return home.
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
May 27, 2022
ABC News • Erin Semmler, Rachel McGhee • May 27, 2022 • abc.net.au
Tamil asylum seeker family cleared to return home to Biloela
Acting Home Affairs Minister Jim Chalmers announces a Tamil asylum seeker family will be allowed to return to their central Queensland home in Biloela on bridging visas.
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Crikey • Bernard Keane • May 27, 2022 • crikey.com.au
Home Affairs breached caretaker conventions and there must be an inquiry
A thorough investigation into the election day announcement of a boat arrival is needed before anyone is let off the hook.
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Bernard Keane@BernardKeane
It seems clear that a major breach of caretaker conventions happened at Home Affairs on Saturday if @AndrewBGreene's report and Prime Minister Albanese's account are correct.
An external judicial inquiry is needed, not Home Affairs investigating itself
crikey.com.au/2022/05/27/hom…
May 27, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Annika Smethurst • May 26, 2022 • smh.com.au
Darren Chester to challenge Barnaby Joyce for Nationals leadership
Chester confirmed his intention to nominate for the leadership late on Thursday, saying it was “time for a change”.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • May 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australian police renew calls for national firearms database following mass shootings in the US
Existing information on gun ownership and tracking undermined by inaccurate, inconsistent and incomplete data across multiple jurisdictions
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
Federal police have renewed their plea for a proper national firearms database in the wake of the Texas school shootings, a reform that successive Australian governments have struggled to implement since it was first recommended 30 years ago. theguardian.com/australia-news…
May 27, 2022
The Guardian • Adam Morton • May 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Highly implausible’ that new Galilee Basin coalmines would be profitable, study finds
Report says Adani’s Carmichael mine in central Queensland seems ‘rather a political decision, not an economically driven one’
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The New Yorker • John Cassidy • May 26, 2022 • newyorker.com
How to Prevent Gun Massacres? Look Around the World
Australia, Britain, Canada, and other countries have enacted reforms that turned mass shootings into rare, aberrational events rather than everyday occurrences.
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The New Yorker@NewYorker
Australia’s response to a 1996 massacre provides a concrete example of how a healthy democracy can confront powerful interests to introduce rational policies that clearly benefit the country. nyer.cm/xpmntFx
May 26, 2022
the Guardian • https://www.theguardian.com/profile/elias-visontay,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/mostafa-rachwani-,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/daniel-h… • May 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW paramedics take industrial action; interest rate rises predicted – as it happened
This blog is now closed
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Josh Butler@JoshButler
PM Albanese on the Toto account: "I don’t even know who’s done this, they’ve got old photos of mine I’ve posted over the years and put them up as if they’re new"
theguardian.com/australia-news… twitter.com/TotoAlbanese/s…
May 27, 2022
The Guardian • Lenore Taylor, Mike Ticher, Miles Herbert, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson, Joe Koning • May 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
The end of political coverage as usual – with Lenore Taylor
In this episode of Full Story, Gabrielle Jackson talks to Lenore Taylor and Mike Ticher about what the media learned from the election campaign
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Gabrielle Jackson@gabriellecj
If people voted for the end of politics as usual, should it be the end of coverage as usual? Today on Full Story, I’m discussing this with ⁦@lenoretaylor⁩ and ⁦@mikewsc1⁩ theguardian.com/australia-news…
May 27, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Rob Harris • May 27, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Trust and respect’: In call, Macron agrees to rebuild ties with Australia
Macron reminded PM Albanese of the “deep breach of trust” which had occurred in an ugly chapter in Franco-Australian relations last year following the cancellation of a $90 billion submarine contract.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Our Europe correspondent, Rob Harris, reports on Anthony Albanese’s phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron.
theage.com.au/world/europe/t…
May 27, 2022
The Guardian • Andy Ball, Nick Evershed • May 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
Booth by booth: detailed maps of the 2022 Australian election result
Results mapped by polling booths in each electorate reveal striking geographic trends
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Nick Evershed@NickEvershed
ok, second time lucky! here is a very nice booth-by-booth results map of the election, @pixelpioneer has now fixed the issue that randomly assorted booths within electorates so please have a look!
theguardian.com/australia-news…
May 27, 2022
The Guardian • Helen Davidson • May 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
Taiwanese people stuck with the name ‘Salmon’ after sushi promotion
Parliament debates law that bans people from changing their names more than three times after stunt leads to unforeseen consequences
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
The quotes in this @heldavidson story!
“After the salmon chaos incident some people had already changed their name three times and now have no way to change them back”
“Be responsible for your own life, Salmons!”
theguardian.com/world/2022/may…
May 27, 2022
The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • May 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
Melbourne woman with cerebral palsy fights to stay in her home after NDIS funding cut
Samar Bain faces being forced into shared accommodation as agency says support package is not ‘value for money’
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The Shot • May 27, 2022 • theshot.net.au
Requiem for a lost country
Scott Morrison is gone. Although he isn’t dead, something is gone all the same.
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Australian Financial Review • Aaron Patrick • May 27, 2022 • afr.com
Poor decisions, accidents and fate: How the Liberals imploded
The Liberal Party knew it was losing the election, yet some MPs, whose careers were destroyed, were in denial.
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Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • May 26, 2022 • afr.com
Canavan hardens climate stance despite Liberal drubbing
Renegade Nationals senator Matt Canavan has hardened his stance against net zero emissions by 2050.
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
Well said Matt Canavan! Couldn’t agree more
“People that are committed to climate change action will not vote for us. As this election proved once again, climate-conscious voters will go for the real deal, or the real teals in this case” #auspol #climate afr.com/politics/feder…
May 27, 2022

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