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The Sydney Morning Herald • Waleed Aly • July 15, 2022 • smh.com.au
Australia’s current approach to COVID embodies a simple contradiction
As a nation, Australians love following rules, but it seems no level of government is willing to pull the lever to tackle the impending COVID wave.
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Claire Connelly@_ClaireConnelly
‘We now have a situation where the law requires COVID-positive people to stay home for seven days, but refuses to provide them with compensation if they have no leave entitlements. It’s a legally mandated week of zero income.’
smh.com.au/national/austr…
July 15, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Butler • July 15, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Uber files: firm knew it launched illegally in Australia, then leaned on governments to change the law
Exclusive: company acknowledged in documents leaked to the Guardian it had used ‘hyper-aggressive tactics’ in global expansion
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola, Lucy Cormack, Paul Sakkal • July 15, 2022 • smh.com.au
Albanese signs off on restoring the $750 pandemic isolation payment in policy reversal
National cabinet has been brought forward to Saturday in a snap decision that underscores the urgent need to address growing COVID caseloads.
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ABC News • Nassim Khadem • July 15, 2022 • abc.net.au
ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle is about to face trial and the government will not intervene
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has ruled out dropping charges against former ATO public-servant-turned-whistleblower Richard Boyle, who is set to face trial later this month.
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The Age • Patrick Hatch • July 15, 2022 • theage.com.au
Albanese government seeks to pull plug on Victoria’s electric vehicle tax
Federal Labor has joined a legal bid to strike down Victoria’s controversial electric vehicle tax, opening up a fight with several states over who should control billions of dollars of road user revenue.
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The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy • July 15, 2022 • theguardian.com
Regular cannabis use now more accepted by Australians than smoking tobacco, study finds
Support grows for stricter penalties for supplying cigarettes to minors and a crackdown on e-cigarettes, National Drug Strategy Household Survey reveals
ABC Radio National • July 15, 2022 • abc.net.au
Health Minister says emergency COVID payments have to end
As a third wave of omicron looms, the government is coming under pressure to continue COVID isolation payment and frees RATs for concession holders. Health Minister Mark Butler says that while it's a tough decision, we've entered a new phase of the pandemic and have significant budgetary pressures.
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
Excellent interview by @PatsKarvelas abc.net.au/radionational/…
July 15, 2022
The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • July 15, 2022 • theguardian.com
Jobseeker forced to travel 60km to keep payments under new welfare program
Another says experience of new points-based system has been ‘humiliating and degrading’
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
New: A Victorian jobseeker faces a nine-hour round trip to get to his Workforce Australia provider due to the lack of local buses theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol
July 15, 2022
The Guardian • Josh Taylor • July 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘A landlord’s market’: rents hit record highs across Australia’s capital cities
House and unit rentals went up by 12% in the past year alone – the largest annual increase in 14 years
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Bridie Jabour@bkjabour
so much handwringing in the media each month over interest rates while rents rise an average of 12% in past year theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 15, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola, Angus Thompson, Lucy Cormack • July 14, 2022 • smh.com.au
Albanese calls emergency national cabinet meeting as premiers push for pandemic leave reboot
State leaders both Labor and Liberal have called on the Albanese government to rethink axing the $750 weekly payment for those isolating with COVID.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Eryk Bagshaw • July 14, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘This place will crack’: Centuries-old graves threatened by the sea
Five generations of families are buried in Sigatoka, Fiji. This week the ocean lapped the shore with the threat of economic and environmental destruction.
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Carbon Brief • Zeke Hausfather • July 15, 2022 • carbonbrief.org
Factcheck: No, global warming has not ‘paused’ over the past eight years
As with the previous hiatus, drawing the conclusion that global warming has “flatlined” relies heavily on looking at data over a short period in isolation.
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Zeke Hausfather@hausfath
Seven years ago I joked that we would soon have folks claiming that global warming "stopped" in 2015. And like clockwork, the Times made that claim this week.
So here is a new @CarbonBrief factcheck to use as we revisit the "pause" of yesteryear: carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no-g…
July 15, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Laura Chung • July 15, 2022 • smh.com.au
How thunderstorms in Fiji are melting Antarctica’s glaciers
Antarctica has lost roughly 3 trillion tonnes of ice since the early 1990s, raising the question of what the world could look like as its ice retreats.
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Miki Perkins@perkinsmiki
A clear and concise explanation of what is happening with atmospheric rivers and melting ice at the poles by @Laura_R_Chung
Also, terrifying
How thunderstorms in Fiji are melting Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ theage.com.au/environment/cl…
July 15, 2022
The Guardian • Gabrielle Jackson, Lenore Taylor, Mike Ticher, Miles Herbert, Camilla Hannan, Miles Martignoni • July 15, 2022 • theguardian.com
Has Covid ended Labor’s honeymoon? – with Lenore Taylor
In this episode of Full Story, Gabrielle Jackson talks to Lenore Taylor and Mike Ticher about Labor’s response to the new Covid wave
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • July 15, 2022 • theguardian.com
Liberal MP Bridget Archer open to crossing floor to vote for government’s emissions target bill
Moderate Liberal says if Anthony Albanese wants to end climate wars, he must tone down ‘inflammatory’ rhetoric
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Intelligencer • Olivia Nuzzi • July 15, 2022 • nymag.com
Donald Trump on 2024: ‘I’ve Already Made That Decision’
In an interview with New York, the former president says the only question left in his mind is when he’ll announce.
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Eli Yokley@eyokley
incredible 152 word sentence nymag.com/intelligencer/…
July 15, 2022
The Guardian • Amanda Meade • July 15, 2022 • theguardian.com
Press watchdog wades once again into Australian tabloids’ unfair reporting of trans issues | The weekly beast
Spike in adjudications about trans issues at various Australian publications. Plus: the political journos jumping on the Labor bandwagon
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola, Mike Foley • July 14, 2022 • smh.com.au
Greens slam Labor climate bill as government digs on 43 per cent ‘mandate’
Greens leader Adam Bandt said that “if you’re going to legislate targets then they should be Dutton-proof”.
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Sky News Australia • Tyrone Clarke • July 14, 2022 • skynews.com.au
Labor defends ABC independence after sexual social media post
The Communications Minister has defended the ABC’s editorial independence after the public broadcaster was slammed for a highly sexualised Instagram post which asked social media users when they last masturbated.
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The Guardian • Josh Butler • July 15, 2022 • theguardian.com
Anthony Albanese agrees to meet state and territory leaders as calls grow to bring back Covid support
Labor says it has ‘no money’ to continue pandemic leave payments as state leaders and some of its own backbenchers urge rethink
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