September 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

ABC News • Russell Jackson • September 21, 2022 • abc.net.au
Family separations and pregnancy termination: Hawthorn racism review reveals shock allegations against former coaches
Alastair Clarkson and Chris Fagan are named in a Hawthorn review into how First Nations players were treated during Clarkson's time at the helm of the Hawks. Warning — this story contains details of self-harm, pregnancy loss, and intergenerational trauma for Indigenous people.
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Russell Jackson@rustyjacko
TW: Racism, trauma, suicide, pregnancy loss.
Hawthorn faces grave allegations by First Nations players & their families.
I plead with everyone who reads this to respect the anonymity that protects the people in this distressing story from serious harm.
abc.net.au/news/2022-09-2…
September 21, 2022
ABC News • Stan Grant • September 18, 2022 • abc.net.au
As my colleagues have worn black in mourning for the Queen, I've wrestled with asphyxiating anger — and I'm not alone
We aren't supposed to talk about these things this week. We aren't supposed to talk about colonisation, empire, violence about Aboriginal sovereignty, not even about the republic, writes Stan Grant.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Matthew Knott, Rob Harris • September 13, 2022 • smh.com.au
Ben Roberts-Smith to attend Queen Elizabeth funeral commemorations
The controversial former soldier has been invited to attend the funeral commemorations as a recipient of the prestigious Victoria Cross.
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Nick McKenzie@Ageinvestigates
BREAKING- Ben Roberts-Smith, subject of multiple ongoing alleged war crimes investigations by the Australian Federal Police and Special Investigator, plans (according to his spokesperson) to join fellow Victoria Cross recipients at the Queen’s funeral- smh.com.au/politics/feder…
September 13, 2022
The Guardian • Greg Jericho • September 1, 2022 • theguardian.com
The stage three tax cuts are a pile of garbage, and everybody knows it
Anthony Albanese could learn a thing or two from Bob Hawke, who walked back tax cuts promised ahead of the 1983 election
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The Guardian • Damian Carrington • September 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change
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Donna Lu@donnadlu
In news that'll be overshadowed today: "The Earth may have left a ‘safe’ climate state beyond 1C global warming." The world is on the brink of 5 climate tipping points, incl. coral die off and the collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets theguardian.com/environment/20…
September 9, 2022
The Guardian • Paul Karp • September 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison’s secretive cabinet committee of one had hundreds of meetings, FOI documents suggest
Exclusive: Transparency advocate Rex Patrick says body established by former PM with only one permanent member – Morrison – was ‘an abuse of process’
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The Guardian • Lorena Allam • September 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Racist and disgusting’: inquest into Kumanjayi Walker death hears of ‘shocking’ texts sent by Zachary Rolfe
Warning: this story contains extremely offensive language heard in courtCourt hears police constable Rolfe talked of having ‘smashed’ Aboriginal community and described local people as ‘neanderthals’
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Inside Story • Administrator • September 29, 2022 • insidestory.org.au
Exclusive: Economists protest at Mathias Cormann’s reorientation of the OECD
Michael Jacobs reports
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ABC News • Stephanie Borys • September 7, 2022 • abc.net.au
Government scraps funding for foundation with links to Governor-General
A mystery foundation established just over a year ago by a businessman with connections to the Governor-General has had its federal funding cancelled.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • September 23, 2022 • smh.com.au
Secrets and allies: Tribunal jobs raise questions about transparency and cronyism
There is concern that some of the Liberal loyalists who were given cosy Administrative Appeals Tribunal jobs before the election might not be properly appointed and could, in theory, have their decisions challenged.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Trashing good governance with jobs worth up to $496,000 a year.
Inside the appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal ten days before the election was called.
Column:
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
September 23, 2022
ABC News • Bec Symons, Charlotte King, Andy Burns • September 1, 2022 • abc.net.au
Victorian Liberal Party members slam 'infiltration' by hardline Pentecostal groups
A Pentecostal church group in Gippsland is accused of branch-stacking to 'infiltrate' local Liberal Party branches and gain influence over the party's internal direction.
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • September 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
Court upholds finding that company part-owned by Angus Taylor illegally cleared grasslands
Jam Land ordered to pay government’s costs after federal court dismisses appeal over clearing of critically endangered NSW grasslands
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ABC News • Joseph Dunstan, Jedda Costa • September 13, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Remarkable life' of Uncle Jack Charles honoured after actor's death at 79
Actor, musician and revered Victorian Aboriginal elder Uncle Jack Charles is mourned as a cheeky, tenacious "father of black theatre", after his death in Melbourne aged 79, following a stroke.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Richard Flanagan • September 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
Perhaps, behind the crown lies nothing at all
We lie to ourselves when we indulge in a mass hysteria proclaiming that at the centre there is something greater than ourselves. But perhaps a mass hysteria is exactly what is needed to make us continue to believe that eternal lie.
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The Guardian • Adam Morton, Rafqa Touma • September 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
Labor urged to axe $1.9bn in ‘zombie’ fossil fuel subsidies promised by the Coalition
Exclusive: Morrison government announced support for coal and gas projects in ‘gas-fired recovery’ but didn’t formalise contracts, PBO analysis reveals
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Crikey • September 22, 2022 • crikey.com.au
A statement on Mr Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey's publisher Private Media
Lachlan Murdoch is suing Crikey’s publisher Private Media, journalist Bernard Keane and Crikey’s editor-in-chief Peter Fray. Private Media’s CEO Will Hayward has released the following statement.
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Bernard Keane@BernardKeane
We've filed our defence in the defamation case brought against myself,@PeterFray and Crikey by Lachlan Murdoch. Our CEO @mrwillhayward has released a statement about it here.
crikey.com.au/2022/09/22/sta…
September 22, 2022
The Guardian • Brigid Delaney • September 30, 2022 • theguardian.com
It is the great paradox of being human: we change but we stay the same
Is the older me just a watered-down version of the younger me? There is something eternal in us all – a thing that doesn’t age or calcify
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Lenore Taylor@lenoretaylor
The last @GuardianAus column from @BrigidWD "for a while at least" as she moves to new things - we wish her well but we are hoping🤞she'll be back sometime -
I was a chaos merchant who fell into sewers. I wonder: do we ever change? | Brigid Delaney theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
September 30, 2022
The New Daily • James Robertson • September 21, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Top spook refuses to answer questions about his role in Scott Morrison’s moves on cabinet
New details are emerging about the role played by advisers in Scott Morrison's office and the public service when the former PM moved to bypass cabinet
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Frank Bongiorno@fbongiornoanu
You do have to wonder whether what we really need is a full Royal Commission into Commonwealth Public Administration as in the 1970s. This is looking really dire. #auspol thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/…
September 22, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Miki Perkins, Mike Foley • September 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
AGL expected to close Loy Yang power station a decade early
The likely early closure of two major coal-fired power plants in Victoria and NSW signals the rapidly decreasing economic viability of Australia’s ageing and polluting coal fleet.
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The Saturday Paper • Karen Middleton • September 3, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Inside Morrison’s secretive $18m leadership grant
Pressure is mounting to investigate a special grant to fund a leadership program pitched to Scott Morrison by Governor-General David Hurley.
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Bob Carr@bobjcarr
Take it from me: the Governor General’s role in getting $18m from Morrison for a charity without a record, office or program and no competitive bid is set to be the most controversial vice regal indulgence since Kerr’s dismissal of Whitlam. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
September 3, 2022

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