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The Guardian • Stephanie Convery • November 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Imperfect match: Australian renters in the dark over use of data by tech company Snug
Exclusive: Snug gives renters a score based on their profile that is meant to match them to properties, but critics say the process is opaque and skirts the law on rental bidding
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Stephanie H Convery@gingerandhoney
One of Australia’s newer rental application platforms is using renters’ data in obscure and potentially discriminatory ways to “score” their applications against rental properties, and gives them a higher score when they offer to pay more rent theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 17, 2022
The Guardian • Kieran Pender • November 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I am who I am’: how a blind Kurdish refugee became an Australian sporting superstar
Amir Abdi became a vocal disability advocate and unlikely superstar in two different sports – and is now hoping to lead Australia to the 2024 Paralympics
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Kieran Pender@KieranPender
This is the most incredible story I have ever had the privilege of telling. This is Amir Abdi's story - a refugee, disability advocate, national team representative in two different sports and maybe, soon, a Paralympian. For @GuardianAus with @abrfoto theguardian.com/sport/2022/nov…
November 17, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Smee • November 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Head of Queensland police First Nations unit investigated for alleged racism
Exclusive: Senior Indigenous elders have previously referred to Kerry Johnson’s ‘incomprehensible incompetence’
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • November 17, 2022 • crikey.com.au
'Your Aussie friend, and Trumpette!': Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart is a member of Donald Trump's female fan club
Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, is a long-time member of Donald Trump's female fan club 'the Trumpettes' — and that fandom dates back years.
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cameron wilson@cameronwilson
NEW: Gina Rinehart wrote endorsements for Donald Trump, lobbied Scott Morrison on his behalf, and even flew her private plane (brining climate denying geologist Ian Plimer) to a party of fellow member of Trump's female fan club the Trumpettes, posts claim.
crikey.com.au/2022/11/17/gin…
November 17, 2022
The Age • Rachel Eddie, Paul Sakkal • November 17, 2022 • theage.com.au
Guy facing IBAC probe after VEC refers donor scandal to watchdog
Opposition Leader Matthew Guy will go to next week’s state election with the prospect of an anti-corruption investigation into alleged illegality hanging over his head.
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Rachel Eddie@heyracheddie
VEC refers Guy, Catlin investigation to IBAC theage.com.au/national/victo…
November 17, 2022
ABC News • Kristian Silva • November 17, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Dear >': Home Affairs minister says emails telling refugees to leave Australia were not appropriate
Minister Clare O'Neil says her department acted without her knowledge when it "accidentally" sent hundreds of letters to asylum seekers, telling them to get out of the country.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Najma Sambul • November 16, 2022 • smh.com.au
Gina Rinehart shows up at Donald Trump’s campaign launch
The mining magnate and Australia’s richest person, who has yet to publicly state she was at the event, was a cameo in a selfie posted by Eric Trump with his wife Lara.
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The New Daily • Alan Kohler • November 17, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Time for a bit of red tape from the Labor government
The time has come to get out a roll of red tape and do a bit of re-regulating
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lucy Carroll • November 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
Principals at top private schools notch up pay packages of nearly $1 million
Confidential data that shows some private school principals receive remuneration packages of up to $970,000 has put the spotlight on transparency around top staff pay.
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The Age • Chip Le Grand, Josh Gordon • November 17, 2022 • theage.com.au
Fiscal reality bites Victoria’s spend, spend, spend election campaign
Global credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s says Victoria has the weakest fiscal position of any Australian state since it started keeping records in the 1980s.
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The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy, Cait Kelly • November 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW floods: Amber Stevens airlifted from atop a water tank with her baby, husband and two dogs
‘We rang the SES but they couldn’t get to us, there was no boat,’ says the resident of Tichborne in the state’s central west
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The Guardian • First Dog on the Moon • November 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
It’s White Ribbon day! We will open the festivities with 50 synchronised jetskis
On the main stage – the Mandatory Reporting Dancers with the Notallmen Orchestra
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ABC News • Matthew Doran • November 17, 2022 • abc.net.au
Emmanuel Macron accuses Scott Morrison of provoking 'nuclear confrontation' with China
The French president has accused former prime minister Scott Morrison of provoking "nuclear confrontation" with China as result of his decision to tear up a $90bn submarine contract with France.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick Moir • November 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Rivers bleed out over the landscape’: Behind the lens documenting NSW’s floods
These images give a glimpse of the birth and growth of a flood disaster that I fear has not peaked in its ferocity or scale.
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Bevan Shields@BevanShields
No other masthead in the country invests in photography in the way the Herald does. Our team has been out and about this week covering the emergency in regional NSW.
‘Rivers bleed out over the landscape’: Behind the lens documenting NSW’s floods smh.com.au/environment/cl…
November 17, 2022
Pearls and Irritations • Stephen FitzGerald • November 17, 2022 • johnmenadue.com
Pivotal Moment: Albanese and Xi in 2022 mirror Whitlam and Zhou in 1971
Our universities have become the industrial brothel-keepers to the nations fevered national security imaginary.
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan • November 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW minister took just five days to agree to fast-track project to raise Warragamba Dam
Exclusive: Documents show Anthony Roberts made the call in less than a week, after predecessor rejected previous request
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Mike Foley • November 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
Teals demand government scrap carve-out for native forest logging
“Having the government negotiating with the forestry industry on logging is akin to it negotiating with the tobacco industry on health,” MP Sophie Scamps said.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Alexandra Smith • November 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
Win or lose, Perrottet can’t escape this rift
Rifts between NSW Liberals and Nationals, while nothing new, have emerged at a terrible time for the premier but it is his rift with his deputy, Matt Kean, that will follow Dominic Perrottet beyond the state election, regardless of the result.
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The Guardian • Tamsin Rose • November 16, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW passes law to make coercive control a stand-alone offence in an Australian first
Attorney general Mark Speakman said government could have spent years more in consultation but instead acted to ‘save lives’
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Tamsin Rose@tamsinroses
New South Wales has become the first Australian state to create a stand-alone offence of coercive control after parliament passed legislation on Wednesday amid calls for further consultation on the bill. theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 17, 2022
HuffPost • Jennifer Bendery • November 17, 2022 • huffpost.com
Senate Advances Bill To Codify Same-Sex Marriage Protections
"We are on the cusp of a historic vote," Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) said of the bill aimed at protecting LGBTQ couples if the Supreme Court goes rogue again.
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Jennifer Bendery@jbendery
JUST IN: The Senate has advanced a bill that would codify same-sex marriage protections, with 12 Republicans joining Democrats in moving forward huffpost.com/entry/senate-s…
November 17, 2022

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