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The Guardian • Joe Hinchliffe • December 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Queensland graziers unearth 100m-year-old plesiosaur remains likened to Rosetta Stone
Amateur fossil hunters find skull connected to body of marine giant elasmosaur for the first time in Australia
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ABC Alumni • December 6, 2022 • abcalumni.net
Muzzling Milligan
Last week, the ACT’s Director of Public Prosecutions announced that there would be no retrial of Bruce Lehrmann, because it would pose a “significant and unacceptable risk to the life of the compla…
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Jonathan Holmes@jonaholmes48
Muzzling Milligan - my reflections on how @jkalbrechtsen 's attack on @Milliganreports speech to the ACT Women Lawyers is aiding and abetting the very cancel culture she says she abhors. @abcalumni abcalumni.net/2022/12/06/muz…
December 7, 2022
Crikey • Cam Wilson • December 7, 2022 • crikey.com.au
‘Complete chaos’: how an ex-Fox exec and investor buying Junkee became a shambles
'It was the perfect storm of how everything could go completely wrong,' said one staff member. It was 'chaos and instability', said another.
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cameron wilson@cameronwilson
NEW: A year ago, a former Fox exec and a youth media startup investor bought Junkee.
Now, there's a mass exodus, mounting losses, legal threats and accusations of internal dysfunction.
I spoke to former and current staff about at how it all went wrong.
crikey.com.au/2022/12/07/jun…
December 7, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker • December 6, 2022 • smh.com.au
Perrottet will open a new selective school at Westmead. It’s a terrible idea
By announcing yet another selective school in Westmead, the government has doubled down on a system that has eroded the quality of education in NSW.
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • December 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scientists create Biodiversity Council in desperate bid to help save Australia’s threatened animals and plants
Modelled on the Climate Council, the body says it will be a ‘strong and trusted voice’ backed by science including First People’s knowledge
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The Guardian • Sian Cain • December 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Join the club’: Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and more reassure debut author after lonely book launch
Chelsea Banning tweeted about being ‘upset’ when only two friends showed up to her signing. Then some of the world’s biggest authors – and Flavor Flav – stepped in
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ABC News • Warwick Long, Jane McNaughton • December 6, 2022 • abc.net.au
ABC's 'please explain' to BOM after meteorologists hooked from radio forecasts
A Bureau of Meteorology decision to use community information officers instead of meteorologists for radio weather updates is bad for regional audiences, a senior ABC manager says.
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ABC News • Nour Haydar • December 7, 2022 • abc.net.au
Junior doctors warned for taking naps during quiet overnight shifts
A Sydney hospital has warned staff not to take naps during night shifts, telling junior doctors it would replace chairs with less comfortable ones to make it harder for them to rest.
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The Guardian • Jennifer Robinson • December 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
After watching how Brittany Higgins has suffered, how many women will be silenced?
I cried for Brittany – we must ensure better protection for women when they speak out
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Alexandra Smith • December 7, 2022 • smh.com.au
Voters back strong action on pokies, as 60% support cashless gaming card
More than 60 per cent of NSW voters want a cashless gaming card rolled out in the state’s pubs and clubs.
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The Washington Post • Jeremy Barr, Rachel Weiner • December 6, 2022 • washingtonpost.com
Rupert Murdoch to be deposed in $1.6 billion defamation case against Fox
The Fox Corp chairman is the highest-profile individual to be questioned in the case, which hinges on Fox’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election.
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Crikey • Bernard Keane • December 7, 2022 • crikey.com.au
News Corp is strangely silent on its part in the Liberals' downfall
Don't bother reading News Corp papers for a satisfactory account of what's gone wrong with the Liberals — a key player is absent.
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The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy • December 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Bin so long: Adelaide woman puts rubbish out for first time in two years after epic effort to cut waste
‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ ethos has long been part of Alice Clanachan’s life, but now she avoids creating waste in any form
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • December 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Robodebt royal commission told ‘misrepresentation may have made its way into the cabinet’
Bureaucrats from March 2015 insisted in documents that scheme would ‘not change’ how welfare overpayments were calculated, inquiry hears
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SBS News • Rayane Tamer, Sean Wales • December 6, 2022 • sbs.com.au
Behrouz Boochani was told he would never set foot in Australia. He just did
Behrouz Boochani has entered Australia three years after Peter Dutton said he would not be allowed to do so. But the Kurdish writer says his arrival should not be perceived as an achievement.
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BBC News • https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews • December 7, 2022 • bbc.com
Indonesia passes criminal code banning sex outside marriage
New laws will disproportionately punish women, LGBT people and religious minorities, critics say.
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Elaine Pearson@PearsonElaine
As I told @BBCNewsAsia, Indonesia's new criminal code is a disaster for human rights. It is a huge setback for a country that has tried to portray itself as a modern Muslim democracy. bbc.com/news/world-asi…
December 7, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Doherty • December 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Shrouded in secrecy: the Australian trial of a former Marines pilot facing extradition to the US
Daniel Duggan was arrested on return from China at the request of the FBI. Six weeks of high-security custody later, the charges against him remain sealed
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The Klaxon • anthonyklan • December 5, 2022 • theklaxon.com.au
Guide Dogs executives exit
The general manager responsible for marketing and communications at Guide Dogs Victoria has left the embattled group, along with its chief financial officer.
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ABC News • Richard Willingham • December 7, 2022 • abc.net.au
Victorian Labor wins 54th lower-house seat as Liberals grapple with 'existential crisis'
The Liberal Party is facing a crisis and must undergo generational change, one of the few MPs to gain ground in the election says, as his party prepares to elect a new leader in the wake of a widening electoral defeat.
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Richard Willingham@rwillingham
Victorian election results show 'existential crisis' for Liberal Party, MP says, as last seats to be decided abc.net.au/news/2022-12-0… via @ABCaustralia
December 7, 2022
The Guardian • Lauren Gambino • December 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud, New York jury finds
Twelve-person jury returns guilty verdict against former president’s company after being sent out on Monday to deliberate
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