Sunday, November 6, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Age • Nick McKenzie • November 6, 2022 • theage.com.au
The migration agent and the Liberal ministers: How one man gamed Australia’s visa system
A company run by Jack Ta, who boasted of “cosy” dinners with former Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton, has been used by more than a dozen drug offenders to remain in Australia on bogus asylum seeker claims.
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The Age • Josh Gordon • November 5, 2022 • theage.com.au
‘Animal spirits’ or eaten alive: Which way is Victoria’s debt heading?
Victoria has the highest debt as a proportion of its economy since the early 1970s. Does it matter? And what would the Treasurer and his shadow do about it?
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • November 5, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Robo-debt: Liberals knew it was illegal before it started
Departmental and legal advice both showed the robo-debt scheme was unlawful – but once Scott Morrison had seen the proposal, he wouldn’t give up on it.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
Not that they lacked the ability to conceive or design this wicked hunter’s trap of a debt policy – that is well recorded – but that these figures apparently possessed an inability... to wonder what the final outcome of such a hideous program might be. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
November 5, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jacqueline Maley • November 6, 2022 • smh.com.au
Costs changes in sexual harassment cases could deter litigants
Bearing in mind that litigation costs can run into many hundreds of thousands of dollars, this change could present a major obstacle for many victims.
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ABC News • Yara Murray-Atfield, Richard Willingham • November 6, 2022 • abc.net.au
Victorian Liberals pledge to cut stamp duty completely for first-home buyers
The opposition says it will scrap stamp duty for first-home buyers who purchase property worth less than $1 million if it wins the state election, while Labor says it will introduce a Victorian Veterans Card to help with the cost of living if re-elected.
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Richard Willingham@rwillingham
The Grattan Institute says the Oppo's stamp duty pledge is not surprising and warns it is unlikely to "raise home ownership in the long run...costs the taxpayer money in the short run. It ends up with house prices being higher than otherwise." abc.net.au/news/2022-11-0…
November 6, 2022
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • November 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Victoria election 2022 report card, week one: attack ads, train promises and the cost of living
Three guest panellists give their verdict on how the parties performed in the opening week of the campaign
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Benita Kolovos@benitakolovos
First of Guardian Australia’s Victorian election report cards by guest panelists @MargaretSimons, @TonyBar94852833 and @KirstyWebeck theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 6, 2022
The Age • Josh Gordon, Ashleigh McMillan • November 6, 2022 • theage.com.au
‘No plans to change the law’: Andrews rejects IBAC call for jailing journalists
Premier Daniel Andrews has clarified that he would not introduce laws that could mean jail for reporters for revealing IBAC probes after initially saying he would not rule it out.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • November 6, 2022 • smh.com.au
More housing would ‘punish’ eastern suburbs: Lib candidate
The Liberal candidate for Vaucluse has attempted to neutralise a debate about overdevelopment in the area.
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The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • November 4, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Tide going out on Buy Now, Pay Later
Bigger losses, rising defaults, crashing share prices and looming regulation – the tide is going out fast on buy now, pay later.
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The New York Times • Annie Karni, Malika Khurana, Stuart A. Thompson • November 6, 2022 • nytimes.com
How Republicans Fed a Misinformation Loop About the Pelosi Attack
Within hours of the brutal attack last week on Paul Pelosi, Republican officials and media figures began circulating groundless claims — nearly all of them sinister, and many homophobic — about what had happened.
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The Saturday Paper • Claire Connelly, Wendy Bacon • November 5, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Questions over Star's influence on planning
The Star’s involvement in fraud, money laundering and improper tax dealings hasn’t stopped the NSW government making planning and development decisions that facilitate the casino’s expansion.
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Claire Connelly@_ClaireConnelly
“In a sense, Star is too big to be allowed to fail,” he says. “Why then would you increase its size and thus increase its economic and political power?”
Me & @Wendy_Bacon on how the NSW government is facilitating the casino’s expansion.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/….
November 5, 2022
The Guardian • Joan E Greve • November 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Republicans appear better positioned than ever ahead of midterms
History shows that the president’s party typically loses seats in midterm, and Democrats seem likely to follow that pattern
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ABC News • Heath Parkes-Hupton • November 6, 2022 • abc.net.au
Sri Lankan cricketer charged with alleged sexual assault of woman in Sydney
Danushka Gunathilaka, who played one match in the ongoing T20 World Cup, is refused bail after being charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
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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
The Guardian • Fiona Harvey • November 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Cop27: crucial climate talks more fragile than ever after year of turmoil
With war in Ukraine and a cost of living crisis, the global picture is much changed since last year’s conference
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ABC News • Tom Joyner • October 30, 2022 • abc.net.au
Somalia is gripped by catastrophic hunger and drought. Aid workers say they've 'never seen anything like it'
Across Somalia, the worst drought in half a century is wiping out livestock and decimating crops, with families leaving their homes in desperate search of food for their starving children. Warning: This article contains images and details readers might find distressing.
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Nour Haydar@NourHaydar
Somalia is on the brink of famine, with children dying of malnutrition and hundreds of thousands of families displaced abc.net.au/news/2022-10-3… via @abcnews @tomrjoyner
October 31, 2022
The Guardian • Gabrielle Schwarz • November 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world
They are the images that made us sit up and take notice. As world leaders gather for Cop27, these pictures prove that global heating isn’t a distant possibility – it’s already here
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ABC News • Ariel Bogle • November 4, 2022 • abc.net.au
Australian Twitter staff locked out of company systems ahead of global lay-offs
The ABC understands most Australian Twitter staff have been logged out of the company's system, with workers globally to find out whether they still have a job via email.
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Ketan Joshi@KetanJ0
Australian Twitter staff locked out of their systems overnight. Zero doubt that this is a pretty severe breach of Australian labor laws - you can't retrench someone without a clear and consistent process before doing so. Add this to the lawsuit pile.
abc.net.au/news/2022-11-0…
November 5, 2022
The Guardian • Nino Bucci • November 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Saying no has an enormous impact’: overwhelmed community legal centres forced to turn away clients
Precarious funding is putting acute strain on the sector with lawyers having to prioritise ‘the neediest of the needy’
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