October 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

ABC News • Bridget Brennan, Suzanne Dredge, Stephanie Zillman, Nick Wiggins, Laura Gartry, Georgina Piper, Simon Elvery, Colin Gourlay • October 24, 2022 • abc.net.au
'There's just silence': She fought to stop violence against women. Why didn't her murder start a movement?
First Nations women are being murdered at up to 12 times the national average. But a Four Corners investigation reveals we will likely never know the true scale of how many First Nations women have been lost.
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Bridget Brennan@bridgeyb
How Many More? @4corners has established hundreds of cases of black women murdered, missing or killed in suspicious circumstances over just two decades abc.net.au/news/2022-10-2…
October 24, 2022
ABC News • Jake Evans, Andrew Probyn • October 20, 2022 • abc.net.au
Greens senator Lidia Thorpe admits to undisclosed relationship with ex-bikie boss while on law enforcement committee
Staffers to Greens senator Lidia Thorpe were concerned her undisclosed relationship with a former outlaw motorcycle gang president while she served on parliament's law enforcement committee posed a perceived conflict of interest.
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • October 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australia quietly drops recognition of West Jerusalem as capital of Israel
Exclusive: Former PM Scott Morrison’s decision to formally recognise West Jerusalem has now been reversed by Labor government
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty, Ellen Leabeater, Miles Herbert, Camilla Hannan, Allison Chan, Joey Watson, Ryan Pemberton, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson, Mellany … • October 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media, part one: reputation
Who is Ben Roberts-Smith and how did he earn the military’s highest honour, the Victoria Cross?
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • October 22, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: Toxic culture has plunged the Bureau of Meteorology into chaos
Bureau of Meteorology staff have been hospitalised because of work conditions, as a loss of senior meteorologists means junior forecasters are trying to deal with natural disasters beyond their expertise.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
Cannot overestimate amount of work that went into this. Rebranding failure at the Bureau of Meteorology is symptom of a much bigger disease: a truly horrific workplace culture that has seen employees hospitalised, meteorologists gagged, Min’ office misled. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
October 22, 2022
NITV • Karen Michelmore, Keira Jenkins • October 24, 2022 • sbs.com.au
Noongar schoolboy killed in violent Perth assault
A man has appeared in the Midland Magistrates Court charged with murder following a senseless attack on a 15-year-old boy.
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Benjamin Law 羅旭能@mrbenjaminlaw
Year 9 student Cassius Turvey died after he and friends were allegedly attacked after school by white men armed with weapons, shouting racist abuse.
Absolutely fucked that a racist murder of a kid can happen in broad daylight in suburban Australia.
sbs.com.au/nitv/the-point…
October 25, 2022
The Guardian • Marina Hyde • October 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
Delusional broadcast disorder has claimed its latest victim: John Cleese
The great affliction of our age makes men believe they have been cancelled by the BBC while they are literally on the BBC, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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The Guardian • Damian Carrington • October 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies
Key UN reports published in last two days warn urgent and collective action needed – as oil firms report astronomical profits
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The Guardian • Sarah Collard • October 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Cassius Turvey killing: mother questions why police took only a brief statement before he died
‘We did not hear from any detectives, no police. Nothing. For five full days. That was their opportunity’ said Mechelle Turvey
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • October 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Bureau of Meteorology was ‘cowering in the corner’ on climate crisis, former staff claim
Exclusive: Claims that discussing climate change at BoM ‘is basically banned’ come after allegations of a toxic workplace culture
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • October 24, 2022 • theguardian.com
US prison operator begins $750,000-a-day contract for Nauru offshore regime
Previously accused of ‘gross negligence’, MTC will be paid $47.3m to oversee detention of 111 refugees and asylum seekers for two months
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The Guardian • Josh Butler • October 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Teena McQueen ‘spits in the face’ of Liberals by hailing defeat of ‘lefties’, Tim Wilson says
Fellow moderate Simon Birmingham calls on the party vice-president to resign as anger mounts over her comments at CPAC
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty, Ellen Leabeater, Camilla Hannan, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson • October 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
Introducing Ben Roberts-Smith v the media
Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, is suing three newspapers for defamation over articles he says falsely accuse him of war crimes
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Gabrielle Jackson@gabriellecj
So excited to launch the preview of our new podcast series on the defamation trial of the century. Blows my mind how good it is. Huge shout out to @BenDohertyCorro and @EllenLeabeater for months of hard work.
Introducing Ben Roberts-Smith v the media theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 8, 2022
ABC News • Patricia Karvelas • October 16, 2022 • abc.net.au
Criticism of Fran Kelly's new talk show gig reeks of ageism — a stubborn form of discrimination we need to call out
Recent criticism of Fran Kelly's new ABC TV hosting gig seemed to suggest the veteran journalist was past her use-by date and a "safe choice". But we must call out and denounce ageism wherever it emerges, writes Patricia Karvelas.
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The Age • Paul Sakkal • October 11, 2022 • theage.com.au
Liberals’ top lawyer quits over party’s legally ‘risky’ decisions
Legal and compliance director Chandra Lloyd resigned on Monday night after telling the Liberal Party’s Victorian president that she could no longer work under state director Sam McQuestin.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
The Liberal Party’s in-house lawyer has quit, alleging the party's top officials have ignored advice that some of its campaigning might break the law
VEC now probing Liberal mailouts of postal vote applications, which are prohibited
theage.com.au/politics/victo… @theage #springst
October 11, 2022
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • October 1, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I will not’: how Julia Gillard’s words of white-hot anger reverberated around the world
Ten years on from the misogyny speech, Katharine Murphy reflects on how it was framed at the time – and what has been gained since
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Almost a decade ago, I reported @JuliaGillard’s misogyny speech live. Here’s what I’ve learned in the ensuing years. Thanks to @lucykateclark for this edit of a longer book chapter theguardian.com/world/2022/sep…
October 1, 2022
The Guardian • Richard Denniss • October 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Jim Chalmers has a unique chance to remake Australia – or to squander $243bn on the rich
Australia is one of the richest countries in the world but decades of tax cuts have trained us to feel poor
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
JimChalmers has a once-in-a-century chance to spend a 1/4 of a trillion on nation building without going into a cent of debt.Or he can keep the stage 3 tax cuts. Australia is a rich country & if we ditch these cuts we’ll feel like it #auspol #revenuesummit theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 6, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Smee, Eden Gillespie • October 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Queensland police inquiry hears allegations of recruits being taught racism, officers being raped
State’s police commissioner reveals she too suffered sexual assault and harassment early in her career
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • October 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Senator Linda Reynolds accused of attempting to ‘coach’ defence lawyers in Brittany Higgins cross-examination
Court hears evidence senator sought to obtain transcripts of Higgins’ evidence prior to coming to court to give her own testimony
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
Wow. Just WOW ! theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 17, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Ken Boston • October 24, 2022 • smh.com.au
Cranbrook’s pool was no good for water polo, so the taxpayer helped fund a new one
The hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars flowing from government coffers to wealthy, high-fee independent schools must be urgently redirected to those with genuine educational need.
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