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The Saturday Paper • Polly Hemming • October 29, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How the government supports greenwashing
Unlike in almost any other country, Australia’s corporate greenwashing is being facilitated and encouraged by government.
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Polly Hemming@pollyjhemming
"Carbon neutral petrol and gas companies might make for good short-term optics, but they do nothing to prepare Australia for long-term reality."
My piece on Australia's state-sponsored greenwash in today's @SatPaper
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/environment/li… #climate #auspol
October 29, 2022
The Verge • Nilay Patel • October 29, 2022 • theverge.com
Welcome to hell, Elon
Owning Twitter means owning a host of impossible political problems. Is Elon ready?
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The Guardian • Greg Jericho • October 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Taylor Swift’s incredible success in graphs – who can blame me for being a Swiftie as a 50-year-old man?
Of recent artists only Drake, Kanye West and Beyoncé have the same cultural vitality as Taylor Swift, and I am nowhere hip enough to be part of the Beyhive
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • October 29, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
‘It’s kind of horrific’: BoM cuts compromise forecasts
As the Bureau of Meteorology deals with cuts and delayed upgrades, it is breaching its international obligations for weather data.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
Bureau of Meteorology no longer meets its international obligations on upper atmosphere monitoring as it cuts weather balloon launches and wants to cut even more in capital cities. These also feed into the models, esp. re: thunderstorms. BoM confirmed. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
October 29, 2022
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • October 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australia drops opposition to treaty banning nuclear weapons at UN vote
After former Coalition government repeatedly sided with US against it, Australia has shifted position to abstain
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • October 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Peter Dutton delivers red meat to the conservative base while moderates wait for the second coming of Josh Frydenberg
The opposition leader’s doubling down on crusades that estrange the party from its inner-city heartland must have felt pretty eccentric from the teal corner
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
The climate wars are not over. Cost of living breathes new life into old bollocks. Dutton appears to have written off teal territory, and is coming for Labor, Abbott style. Labor needs to explain, not slap or smirk. Here’s the column #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 29, 2022
ABC News • Dana Morse • October 29, 2022 • abc.net.au
Dutton says too many Aboriginal children aren't safe in their homes. The reality is so much worse
In the same week that an Aboriginal boy died after he was "in the wrong place at the wrong time" and the federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton has said he's concerned about the welfare of Indigenous children, writes Dana Morse.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jacqueline Horan • October 29, 2022 • smh.com.au
One person’s word against another. The problem with sexual assault cases
Involving complainant advocates in law reform initiatives offers a novel approach to a vexed issue that has not responded to traditional reform.
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Josh Bornstein@JoshBBornstein
The problems with criminal sexual assault trials- as one myth about sexual assault is eliminated by law reform, another springs up in its place. smh.com.au/national/one-p…
October 29, 2022
The Australian • ewin hannan • October 29, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
We will have the power to go after non-union sites: Setka
Federal Labors significant industrial relations changes represent important gains for workers and unions after years of stagnating pay packets and a ground war waged against organised labour by successive Coalition governments.
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The Guardian • Marina Hyde • October 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
People are going spare about Prince Harry’s memoir. Just don’t ask them why
The Sussexes draw more ire than genocidal dictators – from people who struggle to articulate exactly what their problem is, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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The Canberra Times • Ebony Bennett • October 29, 2022 • canberratimes.com.au
A wellbeing budget for our times asks big questions
After years of Scott Morrison, the pandemic and impending climate crisis, Australia may well be ready for a...
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Allison Chan, Camilla Hannan, Molly Glassey • October 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Jim Chalmers on the Albanese government’s first budget
Political editor Katharine Murphy speaks to Jim Chalmers at the end of a big week – having just released the first Labor budget in nine years, in the midst of energy prices driving up household costs
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
It was a huge week. I was grateful ⁦@JEChalmers⁩ found the time to have a big picture conversation about where the government heads on multiple fronts, including energy, unlocking wealth from super and stage three tax cuts. Have a 🎧 #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 29, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Colleen Long • October 29, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Not a random attack’: Nancy Pelosi’s husband severely beaten with hammer in home break-in
The intruder allegedly shouted “where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” before assaulting Paul Pelosi with a hammer.
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Pearls and Irritations • John Menadue • October 29, 2022 • johnmenadue.com
The Pentagon builds a network in our Department of Defence amidst media silence
Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles need to break up the American network in our Department of Defence that the Washington Post has exposed.
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The Saturday Paper • October 29, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Don’t look away
Occasionally an image will so trouble the people looking at it – so appal them with its curdled familiarity, its stolen innocence, its senselessness – that it will bring with it Rankine’s “new kind of logic”. Irrespective of what happens in court, the last picture of Cassius Turvey should do this. No country should be able to look at his unmoving face and not call into question all the structures and prejudices and privileges that went into his death.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • October 29, 2022 • smh.com.au
Morrison’s chief political strategist drafted to guide Perrottet’s re-election bid
One of Scott Morrison’s most-trusted lieutenants has been drafted in to help win Dominic Perrottet re-election, but not everyone is happy about it.
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The Guardian • Cait Kelly • October 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I’m not leaving’: Rochester renters sent eviction notices after floods are hitting back
Property management company says it’s legally required but tenants such as Tammy Gavin, and her four children and grandson, just want to be home
The Guardian • Richard Ackland • October 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australia’s legal system leaves juries stranded in a time warp – the world has moved on
Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial has highlighted the fragility of juries as courts ineffectively try to eliminate the risk of pre-judgment
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The Age • Clay Lucas • October 29, 2022 • theage.com.au
Will Hawthorn go back to blue, remain red or could teal lightning strike again?
Labor enjoyed a shock win in Hawthorn at the 2018 election for the first time in 63 years. But now a “teal” candidate wants to take the seat.
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The Guardian • Royce Kurmelovs • October 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Strict anti-protest laws may have encouraged mining conference to move from Melbourne to Sydney
Legal observers also say police in the eastern states have been visiting the homes of climate activists in the leadup to the conference
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