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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • July 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Qantas: outsourced baggage handler says one in 10 bags not making flights at Sydney domestic terminal
Exclusive: Worker raises concerns about chronic staff shortage, poor pay and unmanageable workload as domestic travel soars
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Bridie Jabour@bkjabour
wild story on the conditions baggage handlers are working in that while focuses on Qantas explains a lot the “airport chaos” being experienced worldwide after pandemic redundancies and airlines outsourcing contracts, by @EliasVisontay theguardian.com/business/2022/…
July 11, 2022
The Guardian • Michael McGowan • July 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘A present for someone’: Jenny West gives explosive testimony at inquiry into John Barilaro’s NY trade job
Former senior public servant says she had been sent a brief signed by Gladys Berejiklian confirming her in the New York role
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Ben Eltham@beneltham
I mean I have to admit this does seem quite corruptish. A bit corruptiony, you might say. A little bit unlawfulesque theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 11, 2022
Australian Financial Review • Joe Aston • July 10, 2022 • afr.com
Scott Morrison’s rugby league delusion
The former prime minister is a pretend NRL fan just like he is, fundamentally, a pretend Liberal.
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James Massola@jamesmassola
🔥🔥🔥 ⁦@mrjoeaston⁩ today. afr.com/rear-window/sc…
July 11, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Tom Rabe • July 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
NSW government cites national security to keep Barilaro documents secret
The NSW government is refusing to make public several documents relating to the process surrounding John Barilaro’s appointment to a US trade posting.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michaela Whitbourn, Lucy Cormack • July 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
ICAC considers probe into John Barilaro’s US trade post
A NSW parliamentary inquiry heard explosive evidence on Monday that a top bureaucrat said a US role ultimately given to John Barilaro was “a present for someone”.
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The Guardian • Harry Davies, Simon Goodley, Felicity Lawrence, Paul Lewis, Lisa O'Carroll, Sam Cutler • July 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
124,000 documents expose inner workings behind US tech firm’s rise as a global empire responsible for 19m journeys a day
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Rob Davies@ByRobDavies
Exclusive: Welcome to The Uber Files.
A cache of 124,000 documents, leaked to the Guardian and shared with the @ICIJorg and international media partners, expose the inner workings of Uber and the rules it flouted in pursuit of world domination.
theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/…
July 11, 2022
ABC News • Laura Gartry, Adam Harvey, Ariel Bogle, Nick Wiggins, Brigid Andersen, Maddy King • July 11, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Everything has to change': Decades of ignored warnings are leaving towns with flood 'refugees'
As towns and suburbs continue to go under water, experts say Australia is at a critical moment where the choices made now will determine whether the misery will be repeated for generations to come.
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Four Corners@4corners
With Australia in the grip of a relentless flood emergency, #4Corners met people caught in the deluge — they are traumatised, some are homeless and all of them face an uncertain future.
abc.net.au/news/2022-07-1…
July 11, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Lucy Cormack • July 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
Public servant was told US trade job ‘a present for someone’, Barilaro inquiry hears
The same day Jenny West’s plum US job offer was retracted as it was going to become a political appointment, she also learnt she was being made redundant.
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The Guardian • Adam Morton • July 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Labor faces decisions on approval of up to 27 coal developments including greenfield mines
Environment minister Tanya Plibersek says she would be ‘carefully considering’ projects referred under EPBC Act
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David Pocock@pocockdavid
Climate scientists, Pacific leaders, the UN, IEA all calling on Australia to not approve any more fossil fuel projects. It's time to get serious about the smart energy transition and making the most of the huge opportunities it presents us with.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
July 11, 2022
Pearls and Irritations • Stuart Rees • July 11, 2022 • johnmenadue.com
Superiority born from class: Lowy Institute’s Michael Fullilove on Julian Assange
Social distance from others’ experiences enables people in high places to assume they know best, that the public can be reassured.
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Bernard Keane@BernardKeane
Excellent piece in which @ProfStuartRees demolishes buffoon and State Department drone @mfullilove johnmenadue.com/superiority-bo…
July 11, 2022
The Age • Chip Le Grand • July 11, 2022 • theage.com.au
Fledgling political party’s secretary resigns as student sex finding emerges
The Victorians Party’s failure to properly scrutinise the background of one of its most important office holders raises questions over the vetting process for aspiring MPs.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
The Victorians Party, a new group hoping to win the balance of power at the November election off the back of anti-lockdown sentiment, was established by a former school teacher deregistered after findings that he had oral sex with a student
theage.com.au/politics/victo… #springst
July 11, 2022
RenewEconomy • Giles Parkinson • July 11, 2022 • reneweconomy.com.au
Integrated wind and solar still cheapest, and green hydrogen costs falling fast: CSIRO
Wind and solar are still clearly cheapest form of new energy, even with storage and transmission, latest CSIRO report says. Cutting emissions goes hand in hand with lower costs.
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Michael Mazengarb@MichaelM_ACT
Another report from the CSIRO confirming wind and solar - even after firming and grid costs are included - are still cheapest sources of new electricity generation.
Gas and nuclear still the most expensive.
reneweconomy.com.au/integrated-win…
July 11, 2022
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • July 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Gareth Evans says conviction of Witness K should be reversed after Bernard Collaery decision
Former attorney general and foreign minister says prosecution of Witness K’s lawyer Collaery, now abandoned, was ‘indefensible’
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The Guardian • Susan Chenery • July 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Homes of last resort: the pods housing a NSW community ravaged by floods
A few dozen people reside at the northern rivers’ Wollongbar Community Village – and it has a waiting list of 600
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Gabrielle Chan@gabriellechan
Wollongbar Community Village is what becomes of the broken-hearted – the last resort when all the normal rhythms and rituals of daily life are washed away, along with your home and your possessions. By Susan Cheney theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 11, 2022
The New Daily • Alan Kohler • July 11, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Look to the west to find out how to get the end of coal right
The state governments of NSW, Queensland and Victoria should look to Collie in WA for a model of how to transition away from coal.
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The Guardian • Harry Taylor • July 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
British tourists survive avalanche in Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan
The group of 10 people, including nine from UK, managed to take shelter when avalanche struck
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Mike Ticher@mikewsc1
Very glad everyone is OK here and applaud the very British audible reaction, which seems pitched around the level of getting caught in a sudden downpour on a London street. theguardian.com/world/2022/jul…
July 11, 2022
The Guardian • Nino Bucci • July 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Community legal services turn clients away amid funding shortfall as family violence spikes
Centres across Australia struggle with demand as sector awaits reforms indicated by attorney general Mark Dreyfus
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the Guardian • https://www.theguardian.com/profile/caitlin-cassidy,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/natasha-may,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/josh-taylor,h… • July 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Nation records 13 Covid deaths as WA and ACT reduce official reinfection period – as it happened
This blog is now closed
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The Age • Sumeyya Ilanbey • July 11, 2022 • theage.com.au
Victoria to restrict deals silencing sexual harassment victims
In an Australian first, the Andrews government plans to restrict employers’ use of non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases.
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The Guardian • Eden Gillespie • July 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Effectively in solitary confinement’: life of deportees at a Brisbane hotel
Up to 20 migrants and asylum seekers who have committed crimes are detained at the Meriton Hotel – some for years
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Eden Gillespie@edengillespie
As a first-time adult offender who’s spent almost half of her life in Australia, New Zealander Freya Cox* feels she’s been treated unfairly.
The 25 y/o is fighting her deportation as she says she and her three kids have no ties to New Zealand. theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 11, 2022

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