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Australian Financial Review • Joe Aston • October 4, 2022 • afr.com
God saved Essendon from Andrew Thorburn
The appointment of the former NAB CEO to run the Essendon Football Club landed like a turd in the punch bowl.
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ABC News • Michael Slezak, Marty Smiley, Nick Sas • October 4, 2022 • abc.net.au
Once a decade Lake Eyre comes alive. But scientists say the gas industry's final push is putting it all at risk
The gas industry has been mining Australia's Lake Eyre Basin for decades, but possible future extraction techniques like fracking could devastate its fragile ecosystem.
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Michael Slezak@MikeySlezak
The Lake Eyre Basin is the last big free-flowing desert river system in the world.
But will it be lost in the gas industry’s last dash for cash? abc.net.au/news/2022-10-0…
October 4, 2022
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • October 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
A shift on stage-three tax cuts would move the first Albanese budget from B for boring to B for big | Kathrine Murphy
Labor understands any broken promise will be weaponised by its political foes. But an economic storm is brewing and it’s time to change tack
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
The ineptitude of Liz Truss has just given Anthony Albanese a useful precedent to move on our own tax cuts for high income earners if he wants to hedge against a downturn by rebuilding Australia’s fiscal buffers. Here’s a column on stage three 👇 #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 4, 2022
Reserve Bank of Australia • October 4, 2022 • rba.gov.au
Statement by Philip Lowe, Governor: Monetary Policy Decision | Media Releases
At its meeting today, the Board decided to increase the cash rate target by 25 basis points to 2.60 per cent.
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The Guardian • Ben Smee • October 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Unspeakable trauma’: police in Queensland and NSW failed to investigate alleged gang rape of 14-year-old girl, records show
Exclusive: A senior officer told Karen Iles they believed her statement, including names, photos, maps and diary excerpts, had been destroyed
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Ben Smee@BenSmee
Police in Queensland and New South Wales failed to investigate a series of alleged sexual assaults against a 14-year-old girl, lost key documents related to the case, and later told the alleged victim that her formal statement had been “destroyed” theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 4, 2022
The Guardian • Sarah Martin • October 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Jim Chalmers says he will make the ‘right decisions’ on stage-three tax cuts
Treasurer says while the government’s policy has not yet changed ‘any responsible government’ would be looking at global economic pressures
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Plibersek criticises scrapped UK tax cuts and says Labor’s budget will look at ‘tough’ conditions theguardian.com/australia-news… @msmarto #auspol
October 4, 2022
Nervous Laughter • Rick Morton • October 4, 2022 • rickmorton.substack.com
One Is Moving to Queensland
like a character from Neighbours who has been written out of the show
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
getting out of this mouldy silly city rickmorton.substack.com/p/one-is-movin…
October 4, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jewel Topsfield • October 4, 2022 • smh.com.au
Candidate ‘elbowed out’ by Labor named most influential Asian Australian
After being overlooked by the ALP in the federal seat of Fowler, Tu Le has been honoured for putting the lack of Asian-Australian representation in politics on the national agenda.
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The Guardian • Emma Kemp • October 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Andrew Thorburn resigns as Essendon CEO after one day over links to controversial church
Essendon says City on a Hill’s values are in ‘direct contradiction’ with its own, as Daniel Andrews labels its views on homosexuality and abortion ‘appalling’
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Laura Murphy-Oates, Jordyn Beazley, Karishma Luthria, Joe Koning, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson, Molly Glassey • October 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
The former Australian tax officer who could be jailed for whistleblowing
Reporter Christopher Knaus speaks to Laura Murphy-Oates about the former tax officer whose case is a major test of Australia’s whistleblower laws
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Kieran Pender@KieranHRLC
The first-ever case to invoke a whistleblowing defence under Australian law has just commenced in the District Court in Adelaide, in the prosecution of Richard Boyle. I'll post updates when I get them. Here's a great explainer from @knausc @GuardianAus theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 4, 2022
The Age • Jon Pierik, Caroline Schelle • October 4, 2022 • theage.com.au
New Essendon boss Andrew Thorburn quits one day after appointment
Essendon’s tumultuous off-season has continued, with new CEO Andrew Thorburn resigning only a day after his role was confirmed.
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • October 4, 2022 • crikey.com.au
Inside CPAC, conservative elites are fighting their supporters over the future of the right
Organisers of Australia's right-wing conference wanted to use the weekend to set the direction of conservative politics in the country. The attendees had other ideas.
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CAMERONWILSON@cameronwilson
At CPAC, University of Melbourne emeritus professor and climate denialist Ian Plimer claims that carbon dioxide isn't a pollutant and he'll prove it: "If any of you ladies want a long Hollywood kiss from me, it's not going to kill ya"
My article here: crikey.com.au/2022/10/04/cpa…
October 4, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Caroline Schelle • October 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Ripped apart’: Refugee to fight forced resettlement
A refugee who fled Iran and spent more than seven years in detention has been told he will not be settled in Australia and has days to decide where he wants to go.
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Craig Foster@Craig_Foster
Medevac refugees like ⁦@FarhadBandesh, ⁦@AzimiMoz⁩ so mistreated by successive Australian Governments have endured enough cruelty in our name.
They’re slowly rebuilding the lives that we destroyed a decade ago.
End the cruelty. Let them stay. smh.com.au/national/rippe…
October 4, 2022
Vanity Fair • Joe Pompeo • October 4, 2022 • vanityfair.com
“I Think Lachlan’s Trying to Peter Thiel Crikey”: Inside a Scrappy Australian News Site’s War With the Murdochs
As the Murdoch family contends with billion-dollar defamation suits tied to the 2020 election, Lachlan Murdoch is taking Crikey to court over a critical Jan. 6–related opinion column. The site, says founder Stephen Mayne, has long “been holding the Murdoch empire to account.”
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news.com.au • October 4, 2022 • news.com.au
Major bank hit by third party data breach
As millions deal with the repercussions of the Optus data breach, more companies have had the data of their employees leaked.
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news.com.au@newscomauHQ
#BREAKING: Days after Optus was hit by a major cyber attack, Telstra is reportedly dealing with its own breach, as 30,000 past and present workers have their details leaked.
news.com.au/technology/onl…
October 4, 2022
ABC • October 4, 2022 • abc.net.au
Employed and homeless: the towns with nowhere to live
Rising rents are biting around the country, and in some towns, even those with steady work and a good rental history have been priced out of the market. Charities have switched from helping with rental applications, to handing out tents. Today, ABC TV Four Corners reporter Louise Milligan on how tens of thousands of workers have been left with no place to call home. Featured: Louise Milligan, reporter, ABC TV Four Corners
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Melissa Clarke@Clarke_Melissa
You can have a good job, solid rental history and still be homeless, due to the regional housing crisis. ⁦
🎧 @4corners⁩ reporter ⁦@Milliganreports⁩ takes me through some heart-breaking cases for today’s ABC News Daily ep 👇 abclisten.page.link/EB5cpf4ue8o9R9…
October 4, 2022
The Guardian • Kim Willsher • October 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Ordinary’ Chinese vase valued at €2,000 sells for almost €8m after bidding war
Tianqiuping-style porcelain sells for nearly 4,000 times its estimated value
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • October 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Chair of Australia’s job services inquiry questions privatisation, likens compliance to Squid Game
MP Julian Hill says some ‘stunts’ in the employment services system only push people further into poverty
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
This speech from Labor MP and Workforce Australia chair inquiry Julian Hill is worth a read for those following employment services policy theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 4, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Mike Foley • October 4, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘No more extinctions’: Labor’s wildlife pledge raises funding questions
The government has launched a new action plan to halt Australia’s extinction crisis but experts say they’ll need to spend a lot more money to achieve it.
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Miki Perkins@perkinsmiki
The devil is always in the detail:
"The funding available to her initiative is a fraction of what experts say is required to reverse wildlife losses."
‘No more extinctions’: Labor makes bold wildlife protection pledge theage.com.au/politics/feder…
October 4, 2022
The Age • Paul Sakkal • October 4, 2022 • theage.com.au
Catholics mobilise for record election package to fix leaky, ageing schools
The Catholic schools commission is urging parents and principals to get behind a bid for $800 million in funding to update old and dilapidated buildings.
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