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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter FitzSimons • October 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Barnaby Joyce has been generous to me, says his altered ego, Barabbas Loins
Mark Humphries, 37, is a writer, comedian and satirist, regularly appearing on ABC 7.30 doing sketches.
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Mark Humphries@markhumphries
Someone got a bit sweary in the @smh today.
(It’s me. I got a bit sweary)
smh.com.au/culture/celebr… twitter.com/markhumphries/…
October 9, 2022
The Australia Institute • October 2, 2022 • australiainstitute.org.au
Polling – Stage 3 income tax cuts
Key results The Australia Institute surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,409 Australians about their views on the stage 3 income tax cuts. The results show that the stage 3 tax cuts are not widely supported. • Respondents were most likely to correctly identify that high income earners would benefit most from stage 3 income
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
A strong majority of Australians want the Government to prioritise good economic management over keeping promises. It’s ok to break a promise when the people you made the promise to are ok with it #insiders #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/report/polling…
October 9, 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
Jim Chalmers has a once in a century chance to spend $250 billion on nation building…without increasing debt by a cent…surely better pay for teachers and nurses are more important and more popular than $9000 for those on $200k #insiders #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 9, 2022
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • October 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Could a fourth La Niña follow Sydney’s record-breaking rainfall?
Another week of torrential rain has obliterated the previous annual record for highest rainfall. What’s behind the east coast’s latest drenching?
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The Guardian • Greta Thunberg • October 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’
Governments may say they’re doing all they can to halt the climate crisis. Don’t fall for it – then we might still have time to turn things around
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • October 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Female students chant ‘get lost’ at Iranian president on campus
Ebrahim Raisi urged staff and students to be alert to ‘evil goals’ of protests over death in custody of Mahsa Amini
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The Guardian • Nino Bucci • October 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Dying is normal in this jail’: teenager held in Port Phillip prison for four months
Sentencing judge feared that the life of young man held in an adult prison and not offered rehabilitation would become ‘a disaster’
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MLTSHP • October 9, 2022 • mltshp.com
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Tony Hightower may have@ThatTonyH
I know everyone thinks Hemingway has the ultimate Six Word Story, but may I present
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October 9, 2022
The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • October 7, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Treasury warned against Stage Three tax cuts
In 2018, when Scott Morrison announced his tax-cut package, Treasury laid out in black and white the grounds for scrapping Stage Three
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Michael Pascoe@MichaelPascoe01
Michael Pascoe: Treasury tells why it would be irresponsible governance, not smart politics, to keep a promise made back when unicorns danced over rainbows and the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and Easter Bunny were all regularly seen in the public bar. thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/…
October 8, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • October 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Labor to air decision on stage three tax cuts before the budget
Momentum is building for Treasurer Jim Chalmers to make changes to the stage three tax cuts as the opposition accuses the government of “breaking a promise” at the election.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick Bonyhady, Zoe Samios • October 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Optus was set to dine out on its success. Then the hack happened
The country’s second-largest telecommunications company has become a case study in how a corporate problem can become a political maelstrom.
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Nick Bonyhady@nickbonyhady
Even after the mammoth hack, Optus' leaders were set to host 100+ people at the Art Gallery of NSW for an "evening of culinary delights and meaningful dialog" [sic]. Only at 10pm the night before did Optus finally pull the pin.
smh.com.au/technology/opt…
w/ @zoesam93
October 9, 2022
The Saturday Paper • Zoe Daniel • October 8, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The lasting impact of Julia Gillard's misogyny speech
A new wave of women in parliament is taking up the unfinished fight for equality, channelling the outrage unleashed 10 years ago by Julia Gillard’s famous speech against misogyny.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • October 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
All-day public transport travel for $2 in Victorian Liberal election pledge
The party said it would save a typical family $3,500 a year, and cost nearly $1.3bn over four years
The Guardian • Graeme Green, Karen McVeigh • October 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Cop27 climate summit’s sponsorship by Coca-Cola condemned as ‘greenwash’
Plastics campaigners call it ‘astounding’ that multinational they say is world’s top polluter has sponsored key UN climate meeting
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lucy Carroll • October 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Education gap widens as HSC high achievers disappear from low socio-economic schools
Almost 60 per cent of the highest achieving HSC students are concentrated in the most advantaged schools while the proportion of the state’s top achievers who attend disadvantaged schools is shrinking.
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The Guardian • Dani Anguiano • October 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
New Weinstein trial to begin in Los Angeles, five years after bombshell reports
Disgraced producer, already poised to spend life in prison, faces 11 additional sexual assault charges
ABC News • October 9, 2022 • abc.net.au
These women's basketball fans are redefining traditional ideas around sports fandom
From custom, handmade merchandise, to personally crafted zines, to social pick-up games: The women's basketball fan community is thriving and growing thanks to the recent World Cup in Sydney.
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The Washington Post • Siobhán O'Grady, Anastacia Galouchka, Whitney Shefte • October 9, 2022 • washingtonpost.com
In Russian-occupied Izyum, she was raped and tortured
Alla, a 52-year-old Ukrainian woman, said she was held hostage, tortured, and raped by Russian soldiers in a shed outside a medical clinic in occupied Izyum.
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The Sunday Times • Harry Yorke, Caroline Wheeler, Dipesh Gadher • October 9, 2022 • thetimes.co.uk
Suella Braverman wants to make cannabis a class A drug
Suella Braverman is considering upgrading cannabis to class A amid concerns it has become a “gateway” drug for more harmful substances. The home secretary has told allies she is on the “same side” as a group of Conservative police and crime commissioners (PCCs) who in recent days have called for the
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The New Daily • Alan Kohler • October 6, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Alan Kohler: A global epidemic of bad thinking
Bad thinking is different to stupidity or ignorance, but is a sort of rampant confirmation bias, where countervailing evidence is ignored.
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