June 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Amanda Meade • June 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
ABC to abolish 58 librarian and archivist jobs with journalists to do archival work
A further 17 contract positions will also be axed with many of the staff affected based outside Sydney and Melbourne
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Georgina Mitchell • June 8, 2022 • smh.com.au
Court of Appeal overturns order requiring 60 Minutes, SMH and The Age to hand over draft stories
Lawyers for the cosmetic surgeon who was originally granted the order have launched fresh proceedings.
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The Guardian • Peter Hannam, Tamsin Rose, Michael McGowan • June 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
John Barilaro received plum New York trade job after senior public servant had already been offered it
Gladys Berejiklian told Jenny West she had the job in August but that offer was later rescinded and the role readvertised
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Patrick Keneally@patrickkeneally
The NSW govt offered a $500,000 a year trade commissioner job to a senior public servant with a stellar CV, only to rescind the offer and later appoint the former deputy premier John Barilaro theguardian.com/australia-news…
June 21, 2022
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • June 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Sky News Australia is a global hub for climate misinformation, report says
Murdoch-owned channel creates and distributes content promoting climate scepticism across the world, analysis finds
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan, Tamsin Rose • June 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Recruiter told to halt search for New York trade role a day before John Barilaro’s resignation
Email from head of Investment NSW said New York position would now be handled as an ‘internal matter’
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • June 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Miles Franklin-nominated novelist apologises for plagiarising Nobel laureate ‘without realising’
Exclusive: Guardian Australia uncovers multiple near-identical phrases and scenes in John Hughes’ book The Dogs and Svetlana Alexievich’s nonfiction work The Unwomanly Face of War
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • June 2, 2022 • theguardian.com
Coalition scrapped recovery plans for 176 threatened species and habitats in one of its final acts
‘On what sort of planet does the commonwealth think they don’t need a recovery plan for a Tasmanian devil’, asks Wilderness Society
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • June 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Paul Keating urged me to work with Dominic Perrottet, Daniel Andrews reveals
Exclusive: Victorian Labor premier reveals he was encouraged to work with Liberal counterpart in NSW by their ‘mutual friend’
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The Guardian • Adam Morton • June 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Environment report Coalition didn’t release paints ‘damning story of neglect’, Tanya Plibersek says
Minister will release five-yearly report which she says details ‘alarming story’ of native species extinction and cultural heritage loss
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • June 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Coalition’s $1 billion energy promise fails to power up
The former government unveiled a program in 2019 to support six hydropower schemes, five gas projects and one coal-fired power station upgrade. So far, none of the projects has been built and several have been abandoned.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Watt a charade.
Not a single bit of electricity flowing from $1 billion pledge three years ago.
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June 21, 2022
ABC News • Ian Verrender • June 13, 2022 • abc.net.au
Australia is paying more for gas and the 'tragedy' is the profits are nearly all going overseas
Australia's oil and gas resources are overwhelmingly exploited by global multinationals and most of these corporations pay no tax.
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Ian Verrender@IanVerrender
How your spiking energy bills are making foreign investors rich | @abcnews #energy #gas #gasprices #auspol #ausecon #ausbiz #costofliving #energyindustry
abc.net.au/news/2022-06-1…
June 13, 2022
The Canberra Times • Karen Barlow • June 17, 2022 • canberratimes.com.au
School's choice: Labor to put secular back into chaplaincy program
Labor is moving to end the compulsory religion aspect of the $60 million a year, Howard-era National School...
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • June 18, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Inside the Qantas saga: ‘It is a wonder they can get a plane off the ground’
As Qantas drops to become the worst performing airline in the country, staff and unions say years of outsourcing have turned it into a budget carrier.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Chris Barrett • June 2, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘We didn’t know there was an election’: Sri Lankan men reveal desperate boat journey
The dozen young men intercepted by Border Force on election day fled Sri Lanka hoping Australia would let them in.
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Kishor@kishor_nr
"An election in Australia was the last thing on their minds.
'How could we predict the day? We just wanted to save our lives and get to shore,' said father-of-two Pathmanathan"
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June 2, 2022
The Guardian • Paul Karp • June 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Anthony Albanese backflips on national cabinet secrecy and refuses to say why
PM opts to continue to prevent release of documents related to meetings with state leaders despite his previous criticism of the practice
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Tom Rabe • June 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
Pork-barrelling at an ‘industrial scale’ in NSW, ICAC forum told
A Berejiklian government grants scheme that resulted in millions of dollars flowing mostly to Coalition electorates has been described by the head of the NSW corruption watchdog as blatant, politically motivated pork-barrelling.
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • June 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Nadesalingams are back in Biloela, but Australia’s unjust immigration system endures
It should not have taken four years of campaigning, community vigils and online petitions to achieve a fair, transparent and reasonable process
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • June 11, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
‘Negligent in the extreme’: Labor inherits crises across portfolios
As Labor ministers take up their portfolios, the party has uncovered a mess of unmade decisions and funding holes across Arts, Energy and the NDIS.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
The train wreck, the mess, the shambles left behind by the deceitful, indolent, incompetent Morrison rabble. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/… via @SatPaper
June 11, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Andrew Hornery • June 13, 2022 • smh.com.au
I made mistakes over Rebel Wilson, and will learn from them
I have learnt some new and difficult lessons, and want to be upfront about the things I got wrong.
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Bevan Shields@BevanShields
The Herald made mistakes over Rebel Wilson, and will learn from them. Saturday’s piece has been retracted and Andrew Hornery goes into detail here about what we didn’t get right smh.com.au/culture/celebr…
June 13, 2022
RenewEconomy • Giles Parkinson • June 14, 2022 • reneweconomy.com.au
The day the fossil fuel industry lost all perspective, and threw away its social licence
Fossil fuel generators want more market support to ensure the lights stay on. But their actions this week show they care more about profits than providing an essential service.
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