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The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • August 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Unfair’: Tax cuts for highest income earners to give men double the amount as women
Economists, unions, the welfare sector and the Greens are urging the government to axe the tax cuts, which would provide major income tax relief to high-income earners.
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The New Daily • Finbar O'Mallon • August 20, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Governor-General omitted Morrison swearing-ins from official diary
Governor-General David Hurley's diary makes no mention of the five times he handed extra ministerial powers to then-prime minister Scott Morrison.
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The Washington Post • Margaret Sullivan • August 21, 2022 • washingtonpost.com
Perspective | My final column: 2024 and the dangers ahead
Before signing off, Margaret Sullivan offers advice to her fellow journalists on how to cover a perilous election.
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Margaret Sullivan@Sulliview
A prescription for campaign coverage that recognizes we’re in dangerous territory — and adjusts accordingly. My column. No paywall. -30- wapo.st/3dMahQ3
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ABC News • Gareth Hutchens • August 21, 2022 • abc.net.au
Long-term unemployment is falling rapidly, and it's changing lives
As the labour market gets tighter, long-term unemployment is declining quickly, writes Gareth Hutchens
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan • August 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW police strip-searched more than 100 children as young as 13 in two-year period
Exclusive: More than 4,400 strip searches were carried out in total between July 2020 and May 2022
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick O'Malley • August 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
What if China saved the world and nobody noticed?
If pending US efforts on renewable energy are extraordinary, the revolution under way in China is truly staggering.
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • August 20, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: Barilaro affair sacking dodged whistleblower protections
New revelations in the John Barilaro trade saga show how firing the woman first offered the New York role prevented her from accessing state whistleblower protections.
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The Saturday Paper@SatPaper
The NSW public servant who was first offered the New York trade role sought by John Barilaro was also made redundant in a move that circumvented a law carrying jail time for “reprisals” against whistleblowers. | @SquigglyRick
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The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • August 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Two sides of the wire: how the Overland Telegraph brought colonial triumph and Aboriginal devastation
The project connected Australia to the world 150 years ago, but central Australia’s Aboriginal communities paid a terrible price
The Sydney Morning Herald • Lisa Visentin, Shane Wright • August 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Barnaby Joyce reveals why he didn’t push back on Morrison’s power grab
Joyce said the Nationals risked losing its extra cabinet minister and staff they “weren’t entitled to” if he pushed back on Scott Morrison’s encroachment into the resources portfolio.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • August 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Festival refuses government’s demand to cancel bestiality talk
NSW Arts Minister Ben Franklin did not contact the Festival of Dangerous Ideas before publicly demanding the event be removed.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Adele Ferguson • August 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Please don’t kill me’: Elite soldier feared for his life after cosmetic surgeon cut him open
Shocking revelations about botched cosmetic surgery are the tip of the iceberg in a lucrative growth industry that is out of control.
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The Age • Paul Sakkal, Annika Smethurst • August 21, 2022 • theage.com.au
The prescient Victorian document that foretold the Liberal Party’s crisis
Matthew Guy had his best week in months as he turned his focus to policy, but his party faces an entrenched crisis of conservatism that its incoming president knows all too well.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jamila Rizvi • August 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
What I wish I’d known before entering the medical system
Despite having bad luck with health, I’ve had good fortune with doctors.
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The Canberra Times • Toni Hassan, Carla Wilshire • August 21, 2022 • canberratimes.com.au
It's time for the ACT to make a big call on phones in schools
Banning phones from the start of the school day to the end would be an investment in students'...
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Crikey • Gina Rushton • August 19, 2022 • crikey.com.au
The one-man newspaper fighting for regional journalism
The smallest newspaper in the country, The Orange News Examiner, illustrates the importance and fragility of regional journalism.
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Sky News Australia • Andrew Clennell • August 21, 2022 • skynews.com.au
Albanese to review manufacturing grants
Some of the more than $800 million in manufacturing grants that were doled out by former prime minister Scott Morrison after he secretly swore himself in as Industry Minister will be reviewed to see if any of them should be scrapped, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.
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The Times • Matthew Parris • August 20, 2022 • thetimes.co.uk
There’s no more to Truss than meets the eye
More than six years ago I wrote on this page about an expanding star in the Tory sky. “Steadily,” I said, “almost imperceptibly, an absurd idea has crept upon u
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The Guardian • Amy Remeikis • August 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Barnaby Joyce: the most perplexing contradictions in his account of the Morrison ministry scandal
Repeated questioning of Nationals leader over when he knew about Morrison taking on resources portfolio provided confusing results
The Age • Jon Faine • August 21, 2022 • theage.com.au
Heading for a stop-start disaster
Tampering with a big-build project midway, to solve an unrelated policy or budget problem, is tantamount to vandalism.
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Australian Financial Review • Tom McIlroy • August 21, 2022 • afr.com
Kerr-Fraser conflict a precedent for governor-general’s intervention
Moves by the governor-general to knock back federal government appointments in the 1970s provide a precedent for the Morrison ministries case.
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