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The Age • Paul Sakkal • November 4, 2022 • theage.com.au
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews investigated by anti-corruption watchdog
The investigation relates to the awarding of $3.4 million to a Labor-linked union on the eve of the election.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
Breaking: Daniel Andrews is being directly investigated in a corruption probe examining $3.5m in grants promised to a union on the eve of the 2018 election. Investigators focused on key meeting where Andrews is alleged to have promised funds
theage.com.au/politics/victo… #springst
November 4, 2022
The Guardian • Amanda Meade • November 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Courier-Mail columnist Peter Gleeson weathers scandal as more plagiarism revealed | The Weekly Beast
Journalist apologises for ‘unintentional’ lifting of material from political analysis written by Josh Bavas and is revealed to have copied Queensland parliament factsheet. Plus: Quillette charges US$150 for New Orleans social
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ABC News • Sarah Abbott • November 4, 2022 • abc.net.au
Portrait of a 500yo forest giant, 'the world's biggest blue gum'
This 80-metre-tall Tasmanian blue gum was discovered by giant-tree hunters in an area of forest slated for logging. So what is the future of the forest giant?
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JON DEE (JonDee.com)@JonDeeOz
The world's biggest blue gum is 500 years old. This 80 metre tall giant is in a Tasmanian logging coupe. Tap on the photo below👇
abc.net.au/news/2022-11-0…
November 4, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Mike Foley, Laura Chung, Nick Toscano • November 4, 2022 • smh.com.au
Climate impacts could block fossil fuel projects under Plibersek change
The federal government will now accept public submissions on the climate change impacts of 18 contentious coal and gas projects.
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Laura Chung@Laura_R_Chung
Approval of almost 20 major coal and gas proposals across Australia, including more than a dozen in Queensland and a handful in NSW and WA, will be reassessed by the federal government to include the projects’ climate impacts smh.com.au/environment/cl…
November 4, 2022
The Guardian • Josh Bornstein • November 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Respect@Work bill is a step forward – but it falls short on improving access to justice for victims | Emma Golledge and Josh Bornstein
The anti-discrimination bill can do more to remove financial barriers and risks for those who have experienced workplace discrimination or harassment
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The Australia Institute • Greg Jericho • November 4, 2022 • australiainstitute.org.au
Twelve years of real wages growth wiped out in 3 years
The latest estimates from the RBA suggest real wages are about to fall back 15 years
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Greg Jericho@GrogsGamut
The latest RBA figures show we are experiencing a collapse in real wages that will take *many* years to repair.
australiainstitute.org.au/post/latest-rb…
November 4, 2022
BBC News • https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews • November 4, 2022 • bbc.com
Cassius Turvey: Aboriginal boy's killing puts spotlight on racism in Australia
The alleged murder of 15-year-old Cassius Turvey has caused grief and anger across Australia.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Laura Chung • November 4, 2022 • smh.com.au
Pressure mounting on $318b energy giant that says it cares about climate
Shell is just one of many companies accused of misleading consumers about their environmental bona fides.
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • October 30, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Most severe we’ve seen it’: Australia’s food relief providers struggle to meet demand
With power prices rising, wages stagnating and welfare leaving people below the poverty line, the demands on charities are off the charts
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
I interviewed several emergency relief providers recently and found this anecdote similarly heartbreaking/enraging theguardian.com/australia-news… twitter.com/AmyRemeikis/st…
November 4, 2022
The Age • Annika Smethurst • November 3, 2022 • theage.com.au
Why Victorian voters need to care about press freedom
As an often on-the-nose industry, one of the major challenges we face is convincing the public that protections for journalists and whistleblowers are worth fighting for.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
This month Victorians will be asked to decide who will lead the state. But they may be forced to do so without knowing all the facts after IBAC applied for an injunction order preventing us from publishing info you deserve to know theage.com.au/politics/victo… @theage @annikasmethurst
November 3, 2022
The Australian • EWIN HANNAN • November 3, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Break for bosses: Labor eyes deal on bargaining
Businesses would be able to negotiate with workers for six to 12 months before being roped into multi-employer bargaining by unions under confidential concessions being examined by Labor to try to win Senate support for its contentious industrial relations changes.
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Australian Financial Review • Jacob Greber • November 4, 2022 • afr.com
Labor set to join global 2030 deforestation ban in carbon credit boost
Australia is being urged to create an opportunity cost for farmers and forestry industries undertaking “business-as-usual” land clearing.
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The Guardian • Kari Paul, Josh Taylor • November 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Elon Musk announces Twitter mass layoffs to begin Friday
The reduction, which will be delivered by email, comes as the new Twitter CEO was speculated to cut as much as 50% of staff
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • November 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Large dams may threaten survival of platypus populations, research finds
Scientists have found major genetic differences between groups of platypuses above and below dams which may lead to inbreeding and reduced adaptability
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Human Rights Watch • November 4, 2022 • hrw.org
Australia: Flood Response Failed to Protect Most at Risk
Australian authorities failed to take effective steps to protect those most at risk from foreseeable harm of the catastrophic flooding in the New South Wales town of Lismore in February 2022.
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ABC • Rafael Epstein, Richard Willingham • November 4, 2022 • abc.net.au
VIC 02 | Where do political parties get their money from?
Elections campaigns require big bucks so Raf and Richard find out where the big parties get their cash from.
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Richard Willingham@rwillingham
It’s Friday, it’s podcast time! Three weeks to go before polling day. We take a look at how donations work (or don’t) on #springst plus all the heavy hits from the campaign. abclisten.page.link/YpxU2bwdmQVqDP…
November 4, 2022
Pearls and Irritations • Brian Toohey • November 4, 2022 • johnmenadue.com
Australian submarine madness and the phoney China threat
At some stage, a reality check needs to apply to the barrage of claims about increased Chinese aggression or the China threat.
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Bloomberg • Josh Eidelson • November 4, 2022 • bloomberg.com
Twitter Sued for Mass Layoffs by Musk Without Enough Notice
Twitter Inc. was sued over Elon Musk’s plan to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at the social-media platform, which workers say the company is doing without enough notice in violation of federal and California law.
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Josh Eidelson@josheidelson
Scoop: Twitter was just sued in a proposed class action for conducting a mass layoff without the required 60 day notice bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
November 4, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios, Nick Bonyhady • November 4, 2022 • smh.com.au
Australian Twitter staff shut out as global purge begins
Billionaire Elon Musk is getting rid of half of Twitter’s workforce, making good on plans to slash costs at the social media platform he acquired for $US44 billion last month.
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Nick Bonyhady@nickbonyhady
Breaking: Australian Twitter staff are being locked out of their company accounts as part of the global purge.
“It’s not the company that we joined, and it’s not the app that we all love any more,” one local employee said.
theage.com.au/business/compa…
November 4, 2022
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • November 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Cyberspace ‘a battleground’ as reports of cybercrime in Australia jump 13%
Fraud, online shopping and banking among most commonly reported crimes, but ransomware ‘most destructive’, ASD says
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
The number of reports of cybercrime in Australia had shot up by 13% to 76,000 in a year, or one every seven minutes, even before a series of high-profile privacy breaches hit the headlines theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 4, 2022

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