Monday, December 5, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Adam Morton • December 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Wherever you stand on Violet Coco, her jailing raises the stakes for climate protest
Laws across Australia have shifted significantly to limit protest and are being used to restrain or intimidate those who speak up
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Julia Quilter • December 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
Attacks on Higgins outside court were something new. Inside it, not so much
Brittany Higgins chose to dispense with the anonymity to which sexual assault trial complainants are entitled, giving the public a rare window into the trial process.
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Georgie Dent@georgiedent
'At the heart of cross-examination in sexual offence trials, the mission is to portray the complainant as a liar. No matter how the statute books have been re-written – & they have been – this core feature has barely changed,' @jquilter3 writes. smh.com.au/national/attac…
December 5, 2022
The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • December 3, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘You are being misled’: the Centrelink worker who tried to stop robodebt as it started
Exclusive: As the disastrous program gathered pace, Colleen Taylor reached out to her boss with strong concerns, only to be dismissed as overly sympathetic to welfare recipients
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • December 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘They think they own the world’: Harbourside residents take on Sydney party boats
High on the list of demands from noise-averse harbourside residents is a ban on boats anchoring or lingering in harbour bays – even during the day.
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ABC News • Loretta Lohberger • December 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
Nicolaas Bester accused of using social media to harass Grace Tame
Hobart man Nicolaas Ockert Bester appears in court over allegations he used a social media platform to menace former Australian of the Year Grace Tame.
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ABC News • Lucy MacDonald • December 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
Oliver is 17. He says he was locked inside his room for 23 hours a day — and it's legal
A "gladiator pit", a "war zone", a "kindergarten for the adult prison" — these are just some of the ways Tasmania's only youth detention centre has been described. This is what it's like inside.
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The New Daily • Alan Kohler • December 5, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Alan Kohler: In a warming world, inflation targets need to rise
Will the RBA really bring about recession and an even greater housing crash than we’ve had already to get inflation under three per cent?
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • December 5, 2022 • crikey.com.au
On Twitter, Elon Musk chats with right-wing trolls like Australian YouTuber Avi Yemini
Elon Musk has been increasingly palling around with election deniers, misinformation superspreaders and conspiracy theorists on Twitter.
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ABC News • Warwick Long, Luke Radford • December 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Science communicators' replace BOM forecasters on radio weather updates
Farmers are furious the Bureau of Meteorology is quietly replacing expert forecasters on local radio, employing community information officers to instead provide the service.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lucy Carroll • December 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
School education overhaul: Sweeping changes being made to how English and math are taught in years 3-10
The new curriculum puts an emphasis on punctuation, sentence structure and grammar in English, and a new maths syllabus will also be released.
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The Guardian • Josh Butler • December 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Marcia Langton warns of risk of ‘nasty, eugenicist’ debate about race ahead of voice referendum
Co-chair of the Indigenous voice to parliament design group condemns National party opposition and implores critics to examine detail
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@abcnews • December 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
Bass (*) (Key Seat) - VIC Electorate, Candidates, Results
Overview of the Bass (*) (Key Seat) electorate in the Victoria election 2022
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Antony Green - elections@AntonyGreenElec
Labor lead by 204 in Bass with almost every vote counted, including 186 provisionals. Unless something untoward is discovered in the distribution of preferences on Wednesday, Labor is set to win the seat. abc.net.au/news/elections… #vicvotes #springst
December 5, 2022
The Guardian • Simon Jackman • December 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Millennials and gen Z have deserted the Coalition – this could be dire for the opposition
Labor now has the opportunity to imprint lifelong loyalty on younger people
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Sean Kelly • December 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
When I found myself feeling sorry for Scott Morrison, alarm bells sounded
The ideal is not to shut ourselves off from sympathy with politicians; nor to close ourselves to what we may learn from their lives.
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MargaretSimons@MargaretSimons
Really struck by the fact that @mrseankelly never misses in terms of being worth a careful read. In these polarising times, nuance is so rare and the more valuable for that. When I found myself feeling sorry for Scott Morrison, alarm bells sounded theage.com.au/politics/feder…
December 5, 2022
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • December 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
The sleep switch: the hormone supplement sending Australian children to sleep
Experts have seen an increase in the number of children using melatonin. What do we know about the ‘hormone of darkness’?
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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • December 2, 2022 • theguardian.com
Climate activist who blocked traffic on Sydney Harbour Bridge jailed for at least eight months
Lawyers for Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco, who stopped traffic for 25 minutes in April, say it is ‘outrageous’ their client was refused bail before an appeal next year
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UN Special Rapporteur Freedom of Association@cvoule
#Australia - I am alarmed at #NSW court's prison term against #ClimateProtester 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗰𝗼 and refusal to grant bail until a March 2023 appeal hearing. Peaceful protesters should never be criminalised or imprisoned.👇🏽
bit.ly/3ivDiBZ
December 2, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Doherty, Elias Visontay • December 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Hillsong’s Brian Houston allegedly told victim who had been raped by his father ‘it’s your fault’
Pentecostal church founder denies the comment and has pleaded not guilty to concealing sexual abuse by his father Frank, who confessed to police in 1999
Crikey • Glenn Dyer, Bernard Keane • December 5, 2022 • crikey.com.au
Which Australian billionaires are looking to the future?
While some of the nation's richest are investing in minerals crucial to renewables technologies, others are still obsessed with fossil fuels.
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NZ Herald • Adam Pearse • December 5, 2022 • nzherald.co.nz
Watch: Details revealed as PM announces Covid inquiry; top epidemiologist responds
Royal Commission of Inquiry taking place with intention of preparing for future pandemics.
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The Guardian • Adeshola Ore, Cait Kelly • December 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Victoria’s child protection system is creating ‘new stolen generation’, Aboriginal leader says
Condemnation comes as the state’s truth-telling inquiry, the Yoorrook Justice Commission, prepares to hold hearings on the subject

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