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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • July 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW government suggested children as young as 10 could work off $1,000 Covid fines
Exclusive: government rejected call by legal groups to replace Covid fines, issued to about 3,000 children, with cautions
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • July 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Domestic violence victim-survivor and mother of three left without Centrelink payments after perpetrator exploited system
Flaws in system need fixing so people leaving violent partners don’t end up in poverty, survivors say
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The Guardian • Sarah Collard • July 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Police officer laughs and uses expletive to describe missing Aboriginal man in video shown at inquest
Body cam footage played in court shows constable saying ‘fuck this little cunt’ during initial search for Gordon Copeland, who drowned in NSW river
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ABC News • Erin Handley • July 21, 2022 • abc.net.au
'The money does flow back to the military': Invoices reveal Australian embassy spent $750,000 at five-star hotel linked to junta
Official documents reveal an Australian embassy spent $750,000 at a luxury hotel built on land owned and leased by Myanmar's military junta, with activists saying taxpayer dollars should not have been used.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Chris Wallace • July 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Albanese goes back to the future for governing
When the prime minister said this week that he thought “the former government stopped governing”, it wasn’t just rhetoric.
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MargaretSimons@MargaretSimons
Good to see some reporting and analysis on the public service reforms, which will surely have much to do with the competence or otherwise of this and future governments. Serious media organisations should have a special PS round or beat, IMHO. theage.com.au/politics/feder…
July 21, 2022
The Guardian • Jane Lee, Adam Morton, Karishma Luthria, Laura Brierley Newton, Joe Koning, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson, Molly Glassey, Laura Murphy-Oates • July 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australia’s ecosystems are on the verge of collapsing. Can the government change this?
Environment editor Adam Morton explains to Jane Lee how a new scientific report’s findings present Labor with a real opportunity to end Australian politics’ longstanding indifference to the decline of our land and wildlife
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ABC News • July 21, 2022 • abc.net.au
Rio Tinto agrees to pay nearly $1 billion in tax avoidance settlement with ATO
Rio Tinto will hand over $1 billion in unpaid taxes after an ATO investigation, in one of the largest settlements in Australian tax history.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • July 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Leading environment group says Labor must include ratchet mechanism in climate change bill
Australian Conservation Foundation says legislation needs to ensure 43% emissions reduction target can be increased over time
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The Guardian • Eden Gillespie • July 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Family of Queensland woman killed by former partner call for national domestic violence database
Calls come ahead of meeting of Australia’s ministers for women, where groups say a national register should be discussed
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Eden Gillespie@edengillespie
Doreen Langham had contact with 16 officers before she was murdered. Not one of them checked her ex-partner’s interstate records, which had a significant history of DV.
Now, her daughters are calling for a national register for high risk DV offenders: theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 21, 2022
ABC News • Nassim Khadem • July 21, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Unprecedented growth in house prices': OECD call to cap tax breaks benefitting the rich
Capping tax breaks for housing could help reduce house prices and ensure that property is not concentrated in the hands of older and wealthier Australians, the OECD says.
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The Guardian • Greg Jericho • July 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Wages growth should be skyrocketing on the back of Australia’s low unemployment. Is the system broken?
The hope for productivity driving wages growth will only occur if the labour market truly becomes fair
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The Guardian • Van Badham • July 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
When the world overwhelms, joyous rituals like weddings endure – now that’s what J-Lo and I have in common
From their rekindled romance to their marriage, Bennifer have inspired an all-too-rare feeling of hope
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • July 21, 2022 • crikey.com.au
When Australian columnists write about trans people, it's not a fair fight
Columnists railing against gender-inclusive terminology not only erases and harms transgender people, it divides groups of people that should be allies, not foes.
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cammyboo AO@cameronwilson
I wrote about how the "trans debate" in Australian media largely plays out without consideration of trans perspectives crikey.com.au/2022/07/21/aus…
July 21, 2022
MEAA • July 13, 2022 • meaa.org
Climate Reporting - Every Journo's Round
Join us and a panel of experts for a discussion the best ways to approach climate reporting.
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Karen Percy@PercyKaren
On August 3rd, I will be moderating this terrific forum on Climate Reporting hosted by @withMEAA & @Climatecouncil Join me @PerkinsMiki from @Theage, the CC's Prof Lesley Hughes and farmer and Worimi man Josh Gilbert. Climate is now every reporter's round!
meaa.org/events/reporti…
July 21, 2022
ABC • July 21, 2022 • abc.net.au
Satan, miracles and God's plan: Scott Morrison 'unplugged'
We haven't seen too much of him since he lost the election, but Scott Morrison has been back in the headlines after delivering a lengthy weekend address at a Pentecostal church in Perth. In it, he referenced Satan, miracles and God's plan, telling the faithful it would be a mistake to trust in governments like they trust in God. Today, Radio National Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas runs us through the key moments, and why they matter. Featured: Patricia Karvelas, host, ABC RN Breakfast
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ABC Radio National • https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/fran-kelly/2913202 • July 21, 2022 • abc.net.au
A COVID reset, while heat is on climate targets
The Albanese government has re-introduced pandemic leave payments after coming under sustained pressure from the community. But was the delay in announcing this COVID reset the Government’s first big misstep, or a sign it is willing to listen? And Labor's legislation to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030 is set to be introduced to Parliament next week, but will it have the support it needs from the Greens in the Senate? Lenore Taylor, Editor at the Guardian Australia joins Fran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas to unpack the big issues of the week.
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan • July 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
The NSW government falls uncomfortably silent as the spotlight shifts to its own woes
Analysis: After 12 years and a roll call of Icac scalps, the Coalition’s lines about the ‘bad old days’ of Labor don’t hit the way they used to
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The Guardian • Josh Butler • July 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Albanese labels Morrison’s comments about not trusting government ‘astonishing’
PM accuses his predecessor of making ‘nonsense throwaway conspiracy’ claims about the UN at a church in Perth
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Foreign Policy • Lynne O’Donnell • July 21, 2022 • foreignpolicy.com
The Taliban Detained Me for Doing My Job. I Can Never Go Back.
FP’s columnist on a harrowing return to Kabul, almost one year after the United States left Afghanistan.
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The Age • The Age's View • July 20, 2022 • theage.com.au
Labor has been dragged to this. Now it must act
A joint investigation by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission and the Victorian Ombudsman has exposed a “catalogue of unethical and inappropriate behaviour and concerning practices” in state Labor.
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