Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Richard Denniss • December 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Anthony Albanese’s latest plan to subsidise foreign coal and gas companies is just absurd | Richard Dennis
Fossil fuel subsidies are a stupid idea. We aren’t so much decarbonising our economy as turbocharging its carbon intensity
4
Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
We have abandoned economics, climate science & even opinion polling when it comes to identifying options for reform. The only way forward is what the fossil fuel industry tells us to do. Imagine if we’d taken that approach to tobacco #auspol #climate theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
December 14, 2022
The Guardian • Amanda Meade • December 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Defamation reforms: Australian media may not be liable for Facebook comments in future
Attorneys general give in-principle support to changes including new innocent dissemination defence for intermediaries
1
The Guardian • Michael McGowan • December 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco reveals why she was prepared to risk jail time
Exclusive: In her first interview since being released from prison, Coco recalls how bushfires three years ago sparked her epiphany
4
The Guardian • Peter Hannam, Josh Butler • December 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Coal-fired power plants could receive bulk of price cap compensation, Treasury briefings suggest
Generators likely to receive lion’s share of payments worth more than $500m after commonwealth said producers could be paid if costs exceed $125 a tonne
2
The Sydney Morning Herald • Kishor Napier-Raman, Charlotte Grieve • December 14, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Beloved by Australians’: former Trump adviser fawns over Scott Morrison
Warning of “neo-Marxist global just agendas” Morrison got a very friendly welcome at a neoconservative Washington think tank.
6
The Guardian • Patrick Lenton • December 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Black Books: a hysterical bookshop sitcom about the stupidity of being alive
Absurd, slapstick-driven British TV series revolves around a trio of hapless bookshop workers who have zero grip on reality
2
Patrick Lenton@PatrickLenton
I wrote about one of my favourite shows in the world, Black Books, for @GuardianAus. I think what strikes me is that it’s endlessly rewatchable and endlessly quotable, and “bernard I ate your bees” comes up a surprising amount in my day to day life theguardian.com/culture/2022/d…
December 14, 2022
ABC News • December 13, 2022 • abc.net.au
New Zealand bans future generations from buying cigarettes
The new laws state tobacco can never be sold to anybody born on or after January 1, 2009.
2
The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • December 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Centrelink worker recounts ‘callous indifference’ from superiors after raising alarm about robodebt
Colleen Taylor tells royal commission that staff were told ‘not to interrogate’ injustices facing welfare recipients
1
Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
Heroic Centrelink worker Colleen Taylor seemed to remember a lot more about #robodebt than some of her superiors when she took to the stand this week. theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol #robodebtrc
December 14, 2022
The Age • Paul Sakkal • December 14, 2022 • theage.com.au
Victorian parliament goes backwards on diversity as Labor fails to pick non-European MPs
Only one new MP with non-European ancestry has been elected, enlarging the gulf between the proportion of Victorians from non-European backgrounds and the number of politicians who look like them.
2
Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
The proportion of Victorian MPs from non-European backgrounds has dropped from 10% to 6%
Labor failed to elect a single new MP of Asian or Middle Eastern heritage, while just one of the Coalition's 41 MPs has non-European ancestry
theage.com.au/politics/victo… @theage #springst
December 14, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Smee, Nino Bucci • December 13, 2022 • theguardian.com
Police in Australia examine conspiracy theories behind shooting deaths of two officers and four others
Conspiracy theories and any prior planning will be central to an investigation in Wieambilla, Queensland
2
ABC Radio National • December 14, 2022 • abc.net.au
LGBTQ Indonesians fear new criminal code
An overhauled national criminal code is set to criminalise sex and cohabitation outside of marriage in Indonesia. But gay marriage is not legal in Indonesia, meaning many queer couples may find themselves targeted with large fines or even prison if reported to authorities.
1
Max Walden@maxwalden_
The formidable Lini Zurlia of @ASEANSOGIE spoke with @PatsKarvelas @RNBreakfast on what many illiberal new provisions in the criminal code mean for LGBTQ Indonesians abc.net.au/radionational/…
December 14, 2022
ABC News • Stephen Dziedzic, Marian Faa, Lice Movono • December 14, 2022 • abc.net.au
'We cannot rule forever': Vote counting begins in third Fiji election since military coup
Fiji's opposition parties are confident they can beat Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama and win power in the Pacific Island country.
1
Stephen Dziedzic@stephendziedzic
Breaking - the polls have closed in Fiji, which means the blackout banning political campaigning and (most) reporting on the election has now ended. Here’s our first report on polling day in Suva 1/abc.net.au/news/2022-12-1…
December 14, 2022
The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • December 14, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Michael Pascoe: Business lobbyists don’t tell the truth
When dealing with business lobbyists, one must start with the assumption that they are not telling the truth.
3
The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • December 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison in the spotlight: what will the former PM be asked at the robodebt royal commission?
Morrison is likely to be asked what he knew about the scheme when it was devised, why he was attracted to it – and what he did when it came under fire
1
the Guardian • https://www.theguardian.com/profile/amy-remeikis,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/luke-henriques-gomes • December 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Former PM grilled at royal commission – as it happened
This blog is now closed
1
Greg Jericho@GrogsGamut
Rather good point by @AmyRemeikis
theguardian.com/australia-news…
December 14, 2022
The Australian • Jack the Insider • December 14, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Murders a wake-up call on the dangers of sovereign citizen cults
Four young police officers ambushed, two of them shot dead, one wounded, the other, who can only be described as a hero, left in a world of pain and trauma, and a neighbour executed, shot in the back.
1
Michael West • December 13, 2022 • michaelwest.com.au
A Royal Commission into Scott Morrison? He sold off the farm, in secret
Scott Morrison approved tens of billions of foreign takeovers upon his secret appointment as Treasurer, risking Australia's national interest
5
The Guardian • Josh Butler • December 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Experts decry Labor’s ‘appalling’ plan cut to number of Medicare psychologist sessions
Health minister maintains reform is needed as other mental health advocates back wholesale changes to Better Access system
2
Josh Butler@JoshButler
this is interesting - Labor MP Josh Burns calls on his government to reverse the decision to cut Medicare-backed psych sessions from 20 to 10
"I think we need to reconsider this decision" theguardian.com/australia-news… twitter.com/joshburnsmp/st…
December 14, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Margot Saville • December 14, 2022 • smh.com.au
When ‘Goblin Mode’ became a thing, I finally found my people
The Oxford Dictionary describes it as “a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly or greedy”. I think that’s nonsense.
3
CounterAct • Counteractive • December 13, 2022 • counteract.org.au
MILLIONS RAISE VOICE FOR JAILED CLIMATE ACTIVISTS & ANTI-PROTEST LAWS
12 December 2022 We were thrilled to play a leading role in coordinating this massive, diverse response in support of climate activists facing unprecedented repression – along with some other ...
4

About @newseachdayau Privacy