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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 Guardian • Editorial • June 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Guardian view on Julian Assange’s extradition: a bad day for journalism
Editorial: Priti Patel could have turned down the American request. By not doing so she dealt a blow to press freedom
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The Australian • EWIN HANNAN • June 17, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Watchdog’s poll talks with building chiefs
Coalition-appointed building watchdog Stephen McBurney held a strategic meeting with the Master Builders that discussed the federal election ahead of the May 21 poll, new documents reveal, sparking calls by Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke for an explanation and union demands for him to resign.
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Bernard Keane@BernardKeane
Extraordinary and egregious politicisation of an allegedly independent public agency, including working with stakeholders on partisan election campaigns. The head must resign or be sacked immediately. Great story by @EwinHannan theaustralian.com.au/nation/watchdo…
June 18, 2022
The New Daily • Zoe Daniel • June 18, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Zoe Daniel: How to fix the energy crisis the Coalition's gave us
Fires. Floods. Pandemic. War. And now an energy crisis. These are wearing times for households and businesses - but there is a solution
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Miki Perkins • June 18, 2022 • smh.com.au
I measured gas pollution in my kitchen and this is what I found (yikes)
Concerns about the health risks of cooking with gas indoors prompted our environment reporter to trial a pollution monitor in her home.
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Miki Perkins@perkinsmiki
So I wrote a story about how I borrowed a air monitor and measured gas pollution in my kitchen.
theage.com.au/environment/cl…
June 18, 2022
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • June 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
Thaw or cold war: will Labor succeed in unfreezing Australia-China relations?
The new government has struck a different tone with Beijing but the same difficult problems – from trade to the Indo-Pacific – remain
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
After the end of a two-year diplomatic freeze between China and Australia, the new Albanese govt is embarking on a grand experiment: is a different tone enough to get the relationship on a better footing? Feature article on the story so far and what’s next theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…
June 18, 2022
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • June 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
Catholic church uses paedophile priest’s death as shield against new allegations in NSW
Lismore diocese wins halt on civil case after arguing woman had never complained before Clarence Anderson died in 1996
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
Catholic church succesfully uses the death of a known paedophile priest to shield itself from being sued over new abuse complaints, arguing a fair trial now impossible. Will it deploy this strategy more broadly against other delayed complaints? theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…
June 18, 2022
The Guardian • Nino Bucci • June 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
Victoria corruption watchdog loses half its legal team in six months
Departures come as Ibac probes classified information leaks and has three outstanding reports with potential political fallout in state election year
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • June 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
With the chance to use his political capital for reform, can the PM repay the trust placed in him?
There’s a growing crisis everywhere Anthony Albanese looks, but they may enable a more ambitious agenda
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The Guardian • Nino Bucci • June 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
Victorian Greens leader ousts party’s state convener over past comments about trans people
Parliamentary leader Samantha Ratnam says she acted under party rules to overturn the recent election of Linda Gale
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Latika Bourke • June 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
UK orders extradition of Julian Assange to United States
Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States to face spying charges over the publication of classified documents more than a decade ago, but his lawyers said he will appeal.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter FitzSimons • June 18, 2022 • smh.com.au
Why are NRL clubs receiving government hand-outs?
A hundred million dollars for NRL clubs? Surely there are more important projects for taxpayer money to be spent on.
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The Guardian • Amanda Meade • June 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
Bad press: the Rebel Wilson debacle that rocked SMH to its core
How did a short piece in a gossip column lead to tumultuous events that saw the Sydney Morning Herald publish three apologies in as many days?
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Illawarra Mercury • Desiree Savage • June 18, 2022 • illawarramercury.com.au
Huge fire burns at Dapto substation
Transgrid have confirmed no Illawarra residents or businesses should lost power due to the blaze at their substation,...
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The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • June 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Why are we heating the air?’ Australians turn to warming gadgets as cold and energy costs bite
From hand warmers to heated socks, there are devices for every extremity. But experts flag some safety concerns
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The Australian • JANET ALBRECHTSEN • June 18, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Feeding a basic instinct for smut
If ever we needed reminding that there are more than 50 shades of grey to our prurient fascination with the sex lives of others, it arrived this week when The Sydney Morning Heralds resident gossip columnist tried to out Rebel Wilson as gay.
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Stephen Mayne@MayneReport
Hilarious for anyone from within the News Corp sewer giving a lecture about journalistic ethics and media intrusion. After all that industrial scale phone hacking, Rupert brought Rebekah Wade back as CEO of News UK: theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/sex-l…
June 18, 2022
The Guardian • Paul Karp • June 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
Albanese government urged to end legal fight over power to deport Aboriginal people
Greens senator Lidia Thorpe calls on Labor to pull appeal launched by Morrison government, saying Indigenous people ‘cannot be aliens to this country’
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The New York Times • By Natalie Reneau, Stella Cooper, Alan Feuer and Aaron Byrd • June 17, 2022 • nytimes.com
Video: How the Proud Boys Breached the Capitol on Jan. 6: Rile Up the Normies
A Times investigation of court documents, text messages and hundreds of videos shows how the Proud Boys coordinated to instigate multiple breaches of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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The Economist • June 17, 2022 • economist.com
China’s elites think feminism is a foreign plot
Party bosses blame a brutal assault on gangsters, rather than endemic sexism
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BBC News • https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews • June 18, 2022 • bbc.com
Julian Assange can be extradited, says UK home secretary
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US is approved by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel.
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