Sunday, December 11, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • December 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
Sky’s Chris Smith stood down over inappropriate behaviour at Christmas party
Concerns about the behaviour were raised with senior members of the Sky News executive team, and it was dealt with immediately.
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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • December 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Flights were expensive so I took the overnight Sydney to Melbourne train – it was cheap and cheerful (at first)
I didn’t get decent sleep or phone reception but there was more legroom and a hot meal – and maybe a smile from Mother Earth
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Elias Visontay@EliasVisontay
How good is low speed rail?! theguardian.com/australia-news…
December 11, 2022
news.com.au • Nina Funnell • December 11, 2022 • news.com.au
‘Sought comfort’: Stepdad’s sick excuse for disgusting abuse
Warning: Distressing
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Nina Funnell, journalist & #LetUsSpeak manager@ninafunnell
A NSW judge has minimised a man repeatedly raping his own 13 y o step daughter by painting him a "war hero" & saying he was merely "seeking comfort & affection in the wrong place".
#JusticeShouldntHurt
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news.com.au/lifestyle/real…
December 11, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway, Caitlin Fitzsimmons • December 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
Coal producers to get up to $500 million compensation for price caps
Energy Minister Chris Bowen promised the caps on the price of black coal and gas are a “temporary and targeted measure”.
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • December 10, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How bureaucrats kept robo-debt alive
In the week before Scott Morrison gives evidence to the robo-debt royal commission, extraordinary details have emerged about how the public service shaped the ombudsman’s supposedly independent advice on the scheme.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
"catastrophic, multisystem failure within the Australian Public Service, which designed, incubated, sold and then covered for a program with a fatal flaw so obvious that every Centrelink front-line worker... knew it." On the week's Robodebt hearings:
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
December 10, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Malcolm Knox • December 10, 2022 • smh.com.au
Our middle-class bubble made robo-debt disgrace possible
The Canberra bubble conceived an unthinkable attack on vulnerable Australians and left the dirty work to robots, then too many of us missed the human element.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick O'Malley, Nigel Gladstone • December 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
Under the weather: the Bureau of Meteorology’s terrible, horrible, very bad, no good year
The bureau was pelted with record rainfall, hundreds of disasters, triple the average number of flood warnings, and then it dropped $220,000 on a name change.
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Alice Mulheron@AliceMulheron
Confirming this (frustrating) exprience. Many @abcnews interviews declined: "Every request from the media to speak with meteorologists has to be thoroughly vetted & approved at such senior levels that the release of critical information is often delayed" smh.com.au/environment/we…
December 11, 2022
The Guardian • James Tapper • December 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society
Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • December 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Darko Desic: the former fugitive who spent 30 years on the run and his fight to stay in Australia
Yugoslavia-born former fugitive will soon be freed from prison and could be deported if he isn’t granted a visa
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The Guardian • Anna Spargo-Ryan • December 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Dear year 12: you’re starting a career at the end of the world – so why not follow your dreams?
Every year well-meaning adults tell school students their results don’t matter. I’m taking the longer view …
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Caitlin Fitzsimmons • December 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
NSW cancelled 33,000 COVID fines, but not for those who challenged in court
Up to 3000 people who elected to contest their COVID fines in court have missed out on last month’s mass cancellation of more than 33,000 invalid fines.
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The Canberra Times • Dan Jervis-Bardy • December 11, 2022 • canberratimes.com.au
'The worst possible outcome': The Aussies languishing in nursing homes and hospital beds
Thousands of disabled Australians are languishing in nursing homes and hospitals
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The Age • Aisha Dow • December 11, 2022 • theage.com.au
Why Victorian emergency departments aren’t opening all beds
Doctors fear that some smaller emergency departments, particularly in regional Victoria, could be forced to close temporarily because they cannot operate safely due to gaps in their rosters.
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The Age • Cameron Houston, Paul Sakkal • December 11, 2022 • theage.com.au
Union heavyweight ‘headbutts rival’ at Christmas party
Plumbers’ union secretary and ALP right-wing powerbroker Earl Setches has been accused of repeatedly headbutting a union rival at a Christmas party last Thursday, as a factional feud erupts in Victorian Labor.
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ABC News • Alison McClymont, Dan Harrison, Mark Doman, Thomas Brettell, Katia Shatoba, Alex Palmer • December 11, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Don't tell mum…': Inside the terrifying final journey of Gulf Livestock 1
An ABC investigation can reveal the owner of a ship that sank in a typhoon two years ago, killing 41 people, had repeated safety concerns flagged by maritime authorities and may have been operating while insolvent, according to auditors.
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Pearls and Irritations • Brian Toohey • December 11, 2022 • johnmenadue.com
Wong warns US: Indo-Pacific does not want great power competition
The US is yet to provide evidence of what threat China poses to distant countries like Australia, let alone the US homeland.
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The Guardian • David Olusoga • December 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Meghan and Harry’s documentary has hit the raw nerve of tabloid prejudice
As an interviewee in the Netflix series, the scale and fury of the backlash to the comments on race and royals is revelatory
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Crikey • Maeve McGregor • December 8, 2022 • crikey.com.au
'Short of dictatorships, we are world leaders': Australia's record on criminalising environmental protest
'The jailing of peaceful protesters is chilling for anyone who cares about our democracy — we need to restore and protect the right to protest before it’s too late.'
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The Guardian • Josh Butler • December 10, 2022 • theguardian.com
Atagi’s strict Covid restrictions preventing ‘desperate’ parents from vaccinating their children, expert says
Exclusive: Vaccine recommendations should also consider effects of long Covid on the health system and workforce, Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah says
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ABC Radio National • December 11, 2022 • abc.net.au
Qatar in the spotlight
The eyes of the world have been on Qatar during the Football World Cup, and with all the attention has come a fair deal of criticism, especially about Qatar's human rights record.
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