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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • July 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Witness K and Bernard Collaery are heroes’: how Australia made two men pay for its dirty secrets
Decision by new government to abandon prosecution prompts widespread relief from lawyers and supporters in Australia and Timor-Leste
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • July 9, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
‘Pushing bullshit’: Leaked docs reveal Dutton’s education farce
Leaked documents show the Liberal Party cut more than half the national history curriculum to fit its ideology. Now Peter Dutton is using attacks on education to rebuild his base.
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Craig Foster@Craig_Foster
‘“I still want to see a more positive, optimistic view of Australia’s history,” Tudge told Sky News.’
Here’s an idea.
How about we just tell the truth. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
July 9, 2022
The Guardian • Marina Hyde • July 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
The good news: Johnson’s on the way out. The bad news: look who’s on the way in
One ridiculously graceless ‘resignation’ speech later, here are the top Tory gorgons competing to control the sunlit uplands, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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The Saturday Paper • Kieran Pender • July 9, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
On trial for telling the truth
Four years. Four million taxpayer dollars. More than a dozen judgements. Days and days in court – often in closed court, with the media and public barred from attending. On Thursday, it was finally over. The prosecution of Bernard Collaery came to an end.
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Kieran Pender@KieranHRLC
In today's @SatPaper, me on Collaery and what must come next - an end to the other whistleblower prosecutions, PID Act reform and a whistleblower protection commissioner satpa.pe/9w0
July 9, 2022
The Dallas Morning News • Dave Lieber • July 9, 2022 • dallasnews.com
Pregnant woman says her fetus should count as a passenger in HOV lanes. She got a ticket
Under Texas' new abortion law, does a fetus count as a second passenger in an HOV lane? A pregnant woman from Plano, Texas says she will make that argument in...
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No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen@NoLieWithBTC
NEW: A woman in Dallas is arguing that she can’t be ticketed for driving alone in the HOV lane because she’s 34 weeks pregnant and the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—and Texas law now says a fetus is a person. She says they can’t have it both ways. dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/…
July 9, 2022
Crikey • Bernard Keane • July 8, 2022 • crikey.com.au
With the persecution of Collaery ended, it's time to hold the perpetrators to account
Bernard Collaery's legal ordeal has been ended by Mark Dreyfus, but those responsible for our actions in Timor-Leste must be pursued.
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Bernard Keane@BernardKeane
With the Bernard Collaery trial ended, it's time the perpetrators of the crimes he helped expose were held to account.
And what about the politicians and journalists who sat silent while he was persecuted?
crikey.com.au/2022/07/08/ber…
July 9, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Tony Wright • July 8, 2022 • smh.com.au
War Memorial grows while veterans are consigned to the hurt locker
The Australian War Memorial is being rebuilt for $498 million, but the Veterans’ Affairs Department, unable to cope with suicides, was stripped of $430 million.
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Tony Wright@tonyowright
Approving half a billion to expand a war memorial, Morrison government ordered almost that much sliced from helping veterans. “War Memorial grows while veterans consigned to the hurt locker”. theage.com.au/national/war-m…
July 9, 2022
The Guardian • Lorena Allam • July 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Alexander Berry: holes in the story of a NSW pioneer conceal a dark past of Indigenous exploitation
A pretty Shoalhaven town now bears Berry’s name, but the Yuin people say he sent body parts of their ancestors to British museums
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日本放送協会 • July 9, 2022 • www3.nhk.or.jp
安倍元首相銃撃 容疑者「特定の団体に恨み」計画的犯行か | NHK
【NHK】安倍元総理大臣が奈良市で演説中に銃で撃たれ死亡した事件で、逮捕された容疑者が、「特定の団体に恨みがあり、元総理がこの団体…
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Josh Robertson@jrojourno
Shinzo Abe’s killer told police he held a grudge over the ex PM’s association with a certain group & his “mother was absorbed in the group and made a large donation, and the family life was messed up”, NHK reports. www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/2022…
July 9, 2022
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Amy Remeikis, Paul Karp, Josh Butler, Daniel Semo, Karishma Luthria, Miles Martignoni • July 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Dutton’s move to the right, the new parliament and kingmakers: your questions answered
Guardian Australia’s Canberra team answer some of your most burning political questions in the lead up to parliament’s fresh start
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The Guardian • Fintan O’Toole • July 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
Boris Johnson has vandalised the political architecture of Britain, Ireland and Europe
His political career has consisted of chucking rocks over the walls of the neighbours. The damage will last for years, says Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Annika Smethurst, Nick Bonyhady • July 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Clive Palmer’s $100 million senator reveals his political agenda
Ralph Babet is a French speaking, pro-immigration real estate agent and former Greens voter who wants a bill of rights and term limits on MPs.
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ABC News • , Charlotte King • July 9, 2022 • abc.net.au
'She stole my baby': Patsy lost her son for 21 years, and stories like hers are influencing births today
My mum's story has haunted my family, and it's helping me understand why some First Nations women avoid hospitals, writes Carly Williams.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • July 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘No place for them’: the rental and social housing crisis in the bush
Tamworth has never been a high-demand area for social housing, but many locals are being pushed to the edge
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Gabrielle Chan@gabriellechan
Tamworth real estate agent George Barton has never seen a market like this. Housing supply in the region of 60,000 people has become almost nonexistent. “As it stands today, we’ve only got three [rental homes] on our books.” ⁦@parkerfiftyone⁩ theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 9, 2022
The Australian • Kristin Shorten • July 9, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Policeman Zachary Rolfe to return to work within weeks
More than 32 months after being suspended from duty over the fatal shooting of Indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker, Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe will return to work within weeks.
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Associated Press • Barbara Ortutay, Tom Krisher • July 9, 2022 • apnews.com
Musk abandons deal to buy Twitter; company says it will sue
Elon Musk announced Friday that he will abandon his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter after the company failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts.
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The Washington Post • Gerrit De Vynck, Faiz Siddiqui, Rachel Lerman • July 9, 2022 • washingtonpost.com
Elon Musk files to back out of Twitter deal
Musk said he's done with trying to buy Twitter, but it's unclear if he can just walk away without a massive legal fight.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Latika Bourke • July 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Sexual harassment scandals helped bring down Johnson. He won’t be the last
The ongoing failure to address Westminster’s culture will only see more young political hopefuls harmed by the unscrupulous who get drunk, literally and figuratively, on power.
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Latika M Bourke@latikambourke
Sex scandals will bring down more prime ministers if Westminster doesn't deal with its sex pests.
✍️ Me on Pestminster in today's @smh & @theage
🔗 Full piece: latika.me/Pestminster
July 9, 2022
The Guardian • Amanda Meade • July 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
Independence day: Labor vows to end ABC board-stacking and ministerial interventions | The Weekly Beast
No more captain’s picks or complaint calls about negative stories, communications minister says. Plus: the ‘sixty-three, sixty-four, seventy-five’ Wimbledon match
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The Sydney Morning Herald • July 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Elon Musk terminates multibillion-dollar Twitter deal
Tesla chief executive officer Elon Musk said on Friday he was terminating his $US44 billion ($64b) deal for Twitter, citing material breach of multiple provisions of the agreement.
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