Monday, March 7, 2022 to Sunday, March 13, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Sisonke Msimang • March 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins are supremely admirable, and the acceptable white faces of Australian feminism
Anger expressed by black women activists is seen as toxic, divisive and polarising
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • March 12, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The baby trapped in mud for 24 hours after the NSW floods
As extraordinary stories emerge of the rescue efforts in northern New South Wales, with hundreds of people saved, residents describe being completely abandoned by the federal government.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
Stories out of the Northern Rivers after the flooding catastrophe there are truly astonishing. A baby, unconscious in the mud, in a landslide. A elderly man on a chair in his hallway, waters to his chest, on the phone to his son. A whole region shattered. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
March 12, 2022
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • March 10, 2022 • theguardian.com
In a disaster zone on the frontline of the climate crisis, the PM resorts to self-serving pontification
Scott Morrison brings his signature crisis characteristics – passivity and blame-shifting – to Lismore
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
You can’t face the future with clarity and resolve if you can’t be honest about the past. Some thoughts from me on the PM in Lismore, and Australia’s lack of a coherent disaster strategy 👇 #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 10, 2022
ABC News • Louise Milligan, Naomi Selvaratnam, Lauren Day • March 7, 2022 • abc.net.au
A teenager needed urgent surgery. The hospital gave her 'the shut-up pill' and sent her away
She was supposed to get surgery and weekly check-ups, instead the 18-year-old was sent away from a Queensland hospital multiple times and died within months.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I can’t afford to go anywhere else’: the NSW caravan park residents devastated by floods
Unable to afford insurance against increasingly common inundations, many have no option but to stay and rebuild
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison circus fails to impress Lismore, a town that has lost everything
The prime minister was met with anger and protest on his visit to the flood-ravaged NSW town, and didn’t stop to shake hands
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The Guardian • Ben Smee • March 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Jellyfish would ‘inevitably’ force nuclear submarines into shutdown if based in Brisbane, expert says
Exclusive: Leading marine scientist says Moreton Bay, one of three sites shortlisted, is bad choice due to risk to reactors if jellyfish sucked in
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Katina Curtis, Jennifer Duke • March 8, 2022 • smh.com.au
Government rejects plan to help mums get super on paid parental leave
Ministers ultimately decided the plan wouldn’t have a big enough impact for the amount of money required.
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Stephanie Peatling@srpeatling
EXCLUSIVE by @katinacurtis @JennieDuke: "Super won't be added to taxpayer-funded parental leave after the fed govt rejected a plan from its retirement income reviewer, leaving 100s of 1000s of women worse off in their savings if they have a child."
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
March 8, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway, Kate Geraghty • March 8, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘This war is sadism’: the battle to survive in the ruins of Kharkiv
In the ruins of Ukraine’s second-largest city, those who remain behind are determined to carry on. Anthony Galloway and Kate Geraghty report from Kharkiv.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
"Galyna Rasstanna couldn’t run to take cover when her apartment block was hit by a Russian airstrike."
Anthony Galloway reports from Kharkiv for @smh @theage with photo-journalist Kate Geraghty.
Shocking images of what this war brings.
smh.com.au/world/europe/t…
March 8, 2022
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • March 10, 2022 • theguardian.com
Labor senator Kimberley Kitching dies suddenly in Melbourne aged 52
Federal leader Anthony Albanese says ‘the Labor family is in shock tonight at the tragic news’ that Kitching had died of a suspected heart attack
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ABC News • Bridget Brennan • March 13, 2022 • abc.net.au
The sadness of Kumanjayi Walker's family is a familiar sorrow for Aboriginal people
While Kumanjayi Walker's story is unique, his is among hundreds of coronial investigations that already traversed similar ground, and delivered recommendations of great importance, writes Indigenous Affairs editor Bridget Brennan.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • March 9, 2022 • news.com.au
PM’s controversial move during flood visit
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended his decision to ban television cameras from his visits to flood-affected communities in northern NSW today.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Scott Morrison has been accused of carefully stage-managing his visit to flood affected areas in NSW to exclude the media from some visits to a farm and an SES base. news.com.au/national/polit… via @newscomauHQ
March 9, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • George Megalogenis • March 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
Walk in circles, mop up disasters: Australian politics still operates with a male-only brain
The Prime Minister’s response to the floods is a symptom of deeper, structural problem.
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • March 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Climate Council says too many leaders are silent on global heating’s role in ‘megafloods’
Organisation urges all political parties to outline concrete steps on how to prepare for inevitable climate-fuelled disasters
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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • March 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Locals take charge of NSW floods helicopter food and rescue efforts amid frustration with ADF
Volunteers are spending hours flying over submerged power lines and the stench of decaying cattle, delivering urgent aid to their towns
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Elias Visontay@EliasVisontay
ICYMI: Local volunteers crowdfunding helicopters for rescues and food drops are dwarfing the ADF's presence in the skies above Lismore. 14 community choppers each average 7 hours in air per day, while radar shows ADF's contracted choppers average one hour theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 7, 2022
The Guardian • Nino Bucci • March 11, 2022 • theguardian.com
Zachary Rolfe found not guilty of murder over Kumanjayi Walker fatal shooting
Rolfe, 30, was also cleared of two alternative charges of manslaughter and engaging in a violent act causing death
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Calla Wahlquist@callapilla
There has never been a murder conviction for an Aboriginal death in custody in Australia. More than 400 deaths since 1991. My thoughts are with Warlpiri people and all First Peoples, this is another hard day. twitter.com/callapilla/sta…
March 11, 2022
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • March 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Morrison decries ‘arc of autocracy’ reshaping world as he pledges to build nuclear submarine base
Prime minister to say Australia faces its ‘most difficult and dangerous security environment in 80 years’
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Angus Taylor attacks Beetaloo Basin activists and says Australia right to expand fossil fuels
Taylor says Australia has ‘kept our foot on the accelerator’ when it comes to supply of oil and gas
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The Guardian • Josh Butler • March 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison says defence force ‘not available on a moment’s notice’ to respond to floods disaster
Prime minister visits Lismore as government declared national emergency to release more resources to help
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Josh Butler@JoshButler
PM Morrison to declare a floods “national emergency” when he lands in Lismore today
Labor's Murray Watt: "Why has he waited till he is surrounded by TV cameras before doing it? He could have done this at any time over the last week" #auspol
theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 9, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol, Lucy Carroll • March 12, 2022 • smh.com.au
NSW Health wants return to masks, working from home, but Hazzard ‘not keen’
NSW Health has recommended the reintroduction of indoor masks, density limits, singing and dancing bans, and a return to working from home as COVID-19 case numbers rise.
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