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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Sarah Martin • July 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
Greens will ruin climate consensus if they sink 43% target, Labor activist warns
‘We were in this place in 2007 and we watched it all go wrong,’ Labor and former Wilderness Society campaigner Felicity Wade says
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
A message from the activist group LEAN that lobbies Labor for higher climate ambition. The Greens will ruin climate consensus if they sink Labor’s 43% target ⁦@msmarto⁩ #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 20, 2022
The Guardian • Adam Morton • July 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
The dire state of the environment report is a major challenge for Labor – and an opportunity
A true picture of how bad things have become emerges from the report, but with 2,000 pages of convincing evidence, change is possible
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Lenore Taylor@lenoretaylor
If (new) environment laws...still allow development of new coal and gas mines – when the state of the environment report finds climate change..threatening every ecosystem, logic will be stretched beyond breaking point - @adamlmorton theguardian.com/environment/20…
July 20, 2022
The Guardian • Imogen Dewey • July 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
Jennifer Down wins 2022 Miles Franklin award for Bodies of Light
Book prize judges have praised ‘ethical precision’ of Melburnian’s second novel, a poised unpacking of the horrors of institutional failure
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Alexandra Smith, Lucy Cormack • July 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
John Barilaro told chief of staff he would create New York trade role for himself: parliament
The former chief of staff to John Barilaro has provided evidence claiming his ex-boss told him in 2019 he would create a position in New York to ensure he had a job to go to after he left politics. Barilaro rejects the claims.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
Start spreadin’ the news
I’m leavin’ today
I want to be a part of it.
New Pork, New Pork…
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July 20, 2022
The Age • Rachel Eddie • July 20, 2022 • theage.com.au
The factors that make people more likely to get seriously sick or die from Omicron
Health officials say there is a 12 per cent gap in booster coverage between Victorians in the most advantaged and disadvantaged suburbs.
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The Age • Sumeyya Ilanbey • July 20, 2022 • theage.com.au
‘Absolutely disgraceful behaviour’: Victorian Labor’s rotten culture exposed
A new parliamentary watchdog will be launched in response to a report that revealed rampant nepotism inside the ALP and prompted an apology from the premier.
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The Age@theage
Victoria’s integrity agencies have excoriated Andrews government MPs and the Labor Party in a damning report. | @sumeyyailanbey theage.com.au/politics/victo…
July 20, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Harriet Alexander • July 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
Bribes, blackmail, lies and escorts: Former councillor confesses
The three-time mayor of Hurstville Council has told the ICAC how he came to be in the pocket of a Chinese property developer.
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The Guardian • Ben Butler, Lorena Allam • July 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
Youpla funeral insurance founder’s multimillion-dollar yacht arrives in Vanuatu
The company founded by Ron Pattenden collapsed owing millions in unpaid policies to thousands of low-income Aboriginal families
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The Guardian • Josh Taylor • July 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
Border Force has seized more than 1,000 devices from people entering Australia in past five years
Agency keeps about one in 40 devices searched – but there are no details on prosecutions that result
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • July 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
Indigenous Australians losing driving licences and face crushing debts over NSW Covid fines, lawyers say
Aboriginal Legal Service NSW urges fines for public health rule breaches be withdrawn or converted to cautions
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The Guardian • Eden Gillespie • July 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Queensland police misidentify domestic violence victims as attackers, inquiry told
Inquiry hears no effort was made to communicate with deaf woman wrongly identified as a perpetrator
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Eden Gillespie@edengillespie
Queensland police made a protection order against woman due to scratches she inflicted in self-defence when her partner was strangling her. theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 19, 2022
The Guardian • Jeff Sparrow • July 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Climate action is fighting back against big polluters. We don’t need to end Australia’s climate wars – we need to win them
There is no ‘peace’ to be brokered with fossil fuel companies who stand to make billions. Effective policy is to threaten their gains
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Jeff Sparrow@Jeff_Sparrow
I wrote a column for @GuardianAus on the call to 'end the climate wars' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
July 19, 2022
The Age • Chip Le Grand • July 20, 2022 • theage.com.au
Health chief pushed for work-from-home return, masks indoors
Ben Cowie’s latest advice to the Andrews government, had it been accepted, would have represented a wholesale shift in our pandemic response.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Bianca Hall • July 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
Government fights to keep list of secret detention sites from public
The revelation comes as the court considers whether immigration detention facilities in Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide were established unlawfully.
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Bianca Hall@_Biancah
Big day in the Federal Court today - we learned the federal government wants to keep secret a list of dozens of hotels, schools, hospitals, businesses and homes it uses as makeshift detention facilities for refugees and asylum seekers across Melbourne 1/2
theage.com.au/national/gover…
July 20, 2022
The Guardian • Michael McGowan • July 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I’m off to New York’: John Barilaro’s former chief of staff gives explosive submission to inquiry
Former NSW deputy premier denies allegations he’d spoken about wanting NY trade role in 2019 ‘when I get the fuck out of this place’
The Age • Nick McKenzie • July 20, 2022 • theage.com.au
Reducing political corruption will only happen with cultural change
The fact such vast powers were needed to expose wrongdoing shows how hard it was to substantiate what was an open secret within Victorian Labor.
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The Guardian • Martin Farrer • July 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Hellfire’: what the papers say about UK’s hottest ever day
Record 40.3C temperature dominates front pages along with dramatic pictures of burning houses on the outskirts of London
The Sydney Morning Herald • Natassia Chrysanthos, Lucy Cormack • July 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
Drummoyne MP John Sidoti found corrupt, vows to clear name
The premier called for Sidoti to resign after the ICAC found the MP engaged in “serious corrupt conduct” to benefit his family’s property interests in Sydney’s inner west.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • July 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
Woman with PhD posed as medical doctor to write fake Covid exemptions
Lawyer for Queenslander Maria Pau says ‘she believed she had the power’ to issue more than 1,200 bogus certificates
Crikey • Cam Wilson • July 20, 2022 • crikey.com.au
ADF self-harm cases have spiked, with hundreds hospitalised
Department of Veterans' Affairs data reveals self-harm hospitalisations over the past five years are nearly the same as the 17 previous years.
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