Sunday, June 12, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Sydney Morning Herald • Bevan Shields • June 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
A note on Rebel Wilson
An article about Rebel Wilson has promoted some attention. In the interests of transparency I wanted to offer the Herald’s view on this issue.
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casey briggs@CaseyBriggs
The SMH editor: “To say that the Herald ‘outed’ Wilson is wrong … I had made no decision about whether or what to publish”
The SMH story: “this media outlet emailed Rebel Wilson’s representatives… Big mistake. Wilson opted to gazump the story” twitter.com/bevanshields/s…
June 12, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Adele Ferguson, Joel Tozer • June 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
Surgeons, priests and media friends: Inside the fight to publish cosmetic investigation
As soon as the founder of the country’s biggest provider of cosmetic procedures realised his lucrative business was under media scrutiny, he pulled out all the stops.
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Louise Milligan@Milliganreports
Good piece by @adele_ferguson. The operation of defamation laws in this country and the legal practitioners and spin doctors who operate in this space should (again) be put under the microscope. @markdreyfusQCMP smh.com.au/national/surge…
June 12, 2022
The Age • Jon Faine • June 12, 2022 • theage.com.au
Hubris, the Liberal Party and a tale of two Tims
Tim Wilson and Tim Smith offer a lesson to their party, both state and federal. They lost the capacity for self-doubt, believed their own BS and showed no respect for the electorate.
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ABC News • Harriet Tatham • June 12, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Like a horror film': Marion’s walls are covered in oil after Lismore floods ruptured disused Boral tanks
Months after deadly floods inundated large parts of New South Wales, people in South Lismore are left with homes covered in a sticky oily residue from a disused construction site.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter FitzSimons • June 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘People were fed up’: Sussan Ley on her punk past, feminism and why the Liberals lost
COVID crankiness not Scott Morrison was the primary drag on their vote, the new deputy leader of the Liberal Party says.
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Ellen Fanning:Journo@ellenmfanning
Note to ⁦@Peter_Fitz⁩ puzzling with Sussan Ley on WHY OH WHY folks were fed up with Coalition - no mention that one of her last acts as Env Minister was to scrap recovery plans for 176 threatened species,habitats despite 6,701 submissions opposing. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
June 12, 2022
The Klaxon • June 11, 2022 • theklaxon.com.au
"Corporatised" Guide Dogs Victoria: a charity broken
Guide Dogs Victoria, whose CEO resigned in disgrace last week, is charging taxpayers four times what it was a decade ago to deliver just three-quarters of the services.
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Ronni Salt@RonniSalt
Guide Dogs Vic has received $23.8 mill in handouts from the fed govt in the 10 years Josh Frydenberg has been in office
They have decreased their output by 25% in that time
The CEO's wage rose to $553K - half of the taxpayer funds they receive every year
theklaxon.com.au/home/guide-dogs
June 11, 2022
The Guardian • Lisa Cox • June 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Secretive, adorable weirdos’: rare possum caught in the Northern Territory for first time
Ecologists say discovery of scaly-tailed possum at Bullo River Station is a sign of positive benefit of private land conservation
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ABC News • Jane Norman • June 12, 2022 • abc.net.au
Australia's Defence Minister meets Chinese counterpart, thawing a two-year diplomatic freeze
Defence Minister Richard Marles holds a one-on-one meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Singapore, officially ending a two-year diplomatic freeze between Canberra and Beijing.
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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 • Chris Barrett • June 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
Australian deputy PM meets with China defence chief in diplomatic breakthrough
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has held talks with China’s defence chief at a defence summit, the first face-to-face meeting between ministers from the countries in two years.
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ABC News • Mary Lloyd • June 12, 2022 • abc.net.au
When I shaved my hair during chemo, I feared backlash. The result was quite the opposite — until recently
Why are bald heads on women so troubling for some men, yet something experienced quite differently by the women themselves, asks Mary Lloyd.
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst, Josh Butler • June 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
Richard Marles’s ‘full and frank’ meeting with China ends Australia’s diplomatic freeze
Defence minister says the controversial interception of an Australian aircraft by a Chinese jet last month was discussed, as well as broader issues in the Pacific
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • June 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
Warning over Centrelink call centres as Services Australia slashes contracts
Exclusive: Agency says decision to cut outsourced workload by 30% is due to reduced demand as unions warn of longer wait times
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Human Rights Watch • César Muñoz • June 11, 2022 • hrw.org
We Need to Find Missing Journalist, Rights Defender in Brazil’s Amazon
I have known journalist Dom Phillips for years. I remember him telling me over dinner how he wrote about music in his native UK, but moved to Brazil after becoming enamored with the country during a visit in 2007.
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César Muñoz@_Cesar_Munoz
I've known @domphillips for years. He's a brilliant, caring journalist. He and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Pereira are missing since June 5. Brazil's government lost precious time in the search for them. It needs to step up its efforts. My piece:
hrw.org/news/2022/06/1…
June 11, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Andrew Taylor • June 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
No jobs, no trees: The suburbs where urban sprawl is hurting Sydney
Sydney’s urban sprawl extends up to 60 kilometres, with plans to build thousands of homes more than 80 kilometres from the CBD.
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RenewEconomy • Giles Parkinson • June 12, 2022 • reneweconomy.com.au
AEMO imposes price cap on electricity market for first time since 2009
AEMO intervenes to impose price cap on Queensland, which has been suffering the country’s highest prices for nearly a year, and warns of supply crunch.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Aisha Dow, Melissa Cunningham • June 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
Respected epidemiologist honoured on Queen’s birthday reflects on shock diagnosis
It was 3am and Professor Mary-Louise McLaws was awake working, waiting for another online meeting to start with experts at the World Health Organisation, when she developed a sudden strange headache.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Greg Barns SC • June 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
What we got wrong in 1999 and how to secure a republic this time
The campaign director of the Yes campaign in 1999 considers the mistakes and barriers - and how a fresh republic referendum might be won.
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ABC News • Michael Slezak, Brendan Esposito, Nick Sas • June 12, 2022 • abc.net.au
They came to Australia to unlock the secrets of the universe — and their mission nearly came undone
NASA scientists arrive in the Northern Territory for a rare event that they hope will reveal secrets of the solar system's most mysterious dwarf planet.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Caitlin Fitzsimmons • June 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
Rough sleeping on the rise: Why Dave chose to return to the streets
The government pushed to get homeless people into housing during the pandemic, showing “it can be done”, but now rough sleeping is increasing again.
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