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The Guardian • Adam Morton • August 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australia’s climate change targets will become law. What happens now?
Here’s what we know the new bill means for climate action and what happens once we have legislated targets
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • August 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Workforce Australia provider makes jobseeker complete personality tests assessing ‘zest’ and ‘spirituality’
Emma Rayward says the surveys used by job agency Asuria made her feel ‘uncomfortable’ and took up most of her appointment
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
Another story from me on Workforce Australia theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 5, 2022
The Guardian • Brigid Delaney • August 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
I’m the opposite of Pretty Woman. People think I’m obscenely wealthy
I almost bought a $15m mansion just to be polite
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theage • Angus Dalton • August 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
The return of Sydney's seals
They've straddled landmarks, stolen fish and charmed residents - this is the glorious story of the harbour city's seals.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
New Victorian laws targeting peaceful protesters should send a chill up our spines
Australia has a rich history of environmental protest. We shouldn’t threaten communities trying to speak out
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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • August 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Passenger kept from boarding after Jetstar’s refusal to assist with wheelchair makes discrimination complaint
Exclusive: Complaint lodged with human rights commission after man turned away at gate of Sydney airport flight
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The Guardian • Joe Hinchliffe • August 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Queensland real estate body tells landlords how to skirt new no-grounds eviction laws
Renters express shock as property managers told to provide tenants with notice to leave at same time as new leases
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The Age • John Silvester • August 5, 2022 • theage.com.au
Death at Kirkstall: the violent shadow that lay over a country town
“We have lived in fear for 10 years. People talked of selling up and moving,” says one resident.
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Michael Bachelard@mbachelard
Another cracking read from Sly: ‘Since his violent death thousands of words have been written about his bloody life and grisly end. One of the few positive comments: “He made the best poached eggs ever.” theage.com.au/national/death…
August 5, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Will Bennett • August 4, 2022 • smh.com.au
Australians are too obsessed with rules. She’ll no longer be right
I worry our cultural fetishisation for rules made us susceptible to a creeping authoritarianism overreach during the pandemic.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lisa Visentin • August 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘I don’t envy them’: Republic Yes campaigner says some Voice detail needed
The director of the failed republic campaign says detail of the Voice model is needed to counter emerging scare campaigns, but it’s a difficult balance.
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Katina Curtis@katinacurtis
The man who steered the Yes campaign in the republic referendum offers @LisaVisentin some insights into what needs to happen with the Voice debate smh.com.au/politics/feder…
August 5, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Tony Wright • August 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘I put my head down to get a breath’: A moment plucked from a bushfire gains immortality
SMH and The Age photographer Alex Ellinghausen captured an image of firefighter Chris Montgomery during the Black Summer bushfires that will forever tell a story of the sacrifice of those who volunteer to stand between community and disaster.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
How an image from the Black Summer bushfires became a statue.
Tony Wright tells the story of Chris Montgomery, the firefighter captured in that iconic photo by Alex Ellinghausen.
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
August 5, 2022
Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • August 5, 2022 • afr.com
As good a start to Parliament as anyone can remember
The past fortnight stood in stark contrast to previous years in which the Morrison government regarded Parliament as something to be endured rather than turned to its advantage.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Shirley Barrett appreciation: ‘She never stopped being the life of the party’
Australian film-maker and author Shirley Barrett died this week. Her brother-in-law Imre Salusinszky pays tribute
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ABC • August 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
A referendum, a 'colonising' Queen, and the hope for a Voice
History shows us changing the constitution can be an unpredictable process, but Anthony Albanese has made it clear that's one of his main aims during his first term as leader. He's pushing ahead with a referendum on a First Nations Voice to Parliament, which would enshrine in the constitution a body to advise on matters relating to Australia's first peoples, and already there's resistance. Today, ABC Radio National Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas on what could be a difficult path ahead. Featured: Patricia Karvelas, host, ABC Radio National Breakfast
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The New Daily • Alan Kohler • August 4, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Alan Kohler: Big government is already here. But how will we fund it?
Relying on central banks to support growth by printing money is clearly not viable because of what that does to inequality. Government will have to step up.
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Quentin Dempster@QuentinDempster
Just do it! Our new PM @AlboMP has the numbers in the new parliament to legislate to abandon Stage 3 tax cuts. Alan Kohler: Labor must abandon the Stage 3 tax cuts. Effective government must be funded | The New Daily thenewdaily.com.au/finance/financ…
August 4, 2022
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • August 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Prosecutors seek suppression orders in case against tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle
Adelaide-based public servant blew the whistle on the use of garnishee notices to claw back debts from taxpayers
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
The Guardian has intervened to fight an attempt by Commonwealth prosecutors to suppress the whistleblower protection case mounted by former tax official Richard Boyle. theguardian.com/law/2022/aug/0…
August 5, 2022
The Guardian • Damian Carrington • August 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Revealed: how climate breakdown is supercharging toll of extreme weather
Guardian analysis shows human-caused global heating is driving more frequent and deadly disasters across the planet, in most comprehensive compilation to date
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Joelle Gergis@joellegergis
A reminder that physics doesn’t care about our political dramas. Fossil fuels are cooking our planet. The longer we delay reducing our emissions, the more heat we bake into the system. Fact. Extreme weather is damaging our world with every passing season theguardian.com/environment/20…
August 5, 2022
Australian Associated Press • watermark feed • August 5, 2022 • aap.com.au
Barnaby's meltdown over nuclear energy claim
The former deputy prime minister claims Australia is the only OECD country that doesn't produce nuclear power.
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AAP FactCheck@AapFactcheck
Barnaby Joyce has urged Australia to go nuclear, claiming we are outliers among our contemporaries.
This is false
Full #FactCheck: bit.ly/3BZAIvN
#auspol
August 5, 2022
The Age • Sam McClure, Jon Pierik • August 5, 2022 • theage.com.au
Ex-Crow opens up on devastating broken promise, says doctor filed ‘damning’ report on camp
Former Adelaide Crows player Josh Jenkins says the contents of the report were not acted upon, and claims the club signed confidentiality agreements on behalf of the players.
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The Guardian • Eden Gillespie • August 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Nadesalingam family feel ‘peace’ after being granted permanent residency in Australia
In Biloela, Priya Nadesalingam says ‘I know my daughters will get to grow up safely in Australia. Now my husband and I can live without fear’
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