Monday, April 25, 2022 to Sunday, May 1, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

ABC News • Laura Tingle • April 27, 2022 • abc.net.au
Brittany Higgins complains AFP unlawfully disclosed evidence in sexual assault case to defence team
Protected evidence in the case of a man charged with the sexual assault of Brittany Higgins — including counselling notes and video recordings — was unlawfully disclosed to the defence by the Australian Federal Police, according to a formal complaint to the AFP.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • April 26, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison is setting up another fake fight on a carbon ‘tax’
With Australia’s lived experience of global heating, you would think we’d have moved past grown men staging hyperbolic encounters with invisible things
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Ben Doherty • April 26, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Systemic failures at every step’: the Indonesian children Australia sent to adult jails for years
Six children jailed as adults for acting as crew on people-smuggling boats have had their convictions quashed. But Australian authorities had been told before they were jailed of doubts about the wrist X-ray technique used to prove they were over 18
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Rachel Clun • April 29, 2022 • smh.com.au
Here’s how inflation is super sizing the price of your burger
Here’s what inflation – at its highest rate in more than 20 years – is doing to the cost of your Aussie burger.
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Rachel Clun@rachelclun
Inflation is biting - I took a deep dive into the data and looked at how much it was supersizing the cost of a burger (and yes, I had a burger for dinner after this!) theage.com.au/politics/feder…
April 29, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Antoinette Lattouf • April 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
Attacks on ABC presenter Fauziah Ibrahim go too far
If you’re a woman of colour who is perceived to have made a mistake, the trolling can be brutal and sustained. It can hurt your career and threaten your safety.
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Josephine Tovey@Jo_Tovey
The pile-ons of women at the ABC are increasingly deranged and one of the worst things about Aus Twitter. smh.com.au/national/attac…
April 28, 2022
The Guardian • Lisa Cox • April 25, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Worst it’s ever been’: a threatened species alarm sounds during the election campaign – and is ignored
Warnings of dramatically escalating extinctions in Australia over the next two decades seem to be falling on deaf ears
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Ben Doherty, Gemma Holliani Cahya • April 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I want to know why he died’: family seeks justice over Australia’s jailing of Indonesian child
Erwin Prayoga was 14 when he was wrongly jailed as an adult in Western Australia. Shortly after he was deported to Indonesia, he died in agony
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Naaman Zhou@naamanzhou
When people say something “should be front page news,” this is what they should be talking about
The Australian government falsely put a 14-year-old Indonesian child in prison. When he fell ill, they quietly sent him home, where he died twitter.com/knausc/status/…
April 27, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Katina Curtis, Shane Wright • April 25, 2022 • smh.com.au
Coalition has promised voters $833m a day as it outspends Labor in campaign mode
BMX courses, playgrounds and roads are among the promises made in the last four weeks adding up to $23.3 billion from the Coalition and $1.9 billion from Labor.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Jaw-dropping amounts of money being splashed around already.
And you are paying.
Great, detailed work here by
@katinacurtis and
@swrighteconomy
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April 25, 2022
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Ben Doherty • April 26, 2022 • theguardian.com
Indonesian children jailed in Australia as adult people smugglers win court battle to clear their names
Six teens lured to crew boats from their impoverished villages repeatedly told officials they were children – 12 years on, a court has finally believed them
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • April 27, 2022 • news.com.au
New poll reveals PM’s huge Deves headache
Scott Morrison risks losing the NSW seat of Wentworth to independent Allegra Spender, as voters emphatically reject the politics of attacking trans people to win votes.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Ben Doherty • April 30, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘They were tiny’: the Indonesians still fighting their conviction as adults in Australia
Anto and Samsul Bahar were 15 when they were jailed in a maximum security facility in Western Australia
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • May 1, 2022 • smh.com.au
Labor leads polling at the campaign’s halfway mark
Voters have cut their support for the Coalition giving Labor a strong lead at the halfway point in the federal election campaign.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Paul Sakkal • April 26, 2022 • smh.com.au
Lib hopeful backs Deves and says climate emergency warnings border on child abuse
Colleen Harkin, running in the progressive seat of Macnamara, told a climate activist that “the earth is not going to implode next week, next month, next year”.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
The Liberal candidate for the Melbourne seat of Macnamara, Colleen Harkin, has said that describing global warming as a climate emergency is almost child abuse, and defended views on trans women of controversial candidate Katherine Deves @theage
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
April 26, 2022
The Guardian • Adam Morton, Katharine Murphy • April 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
Coalition climate policy forced big polluters to pay $15m for carbon credits in past year
Scott Morrison says Labor wants to use government safeguard mechanism as a ‘sneaky carbon tax’ but it is already making big business pay for offsets
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ABC News • Natasha Johnson • April 29, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Public service journalism has to deliver for the audience': Sarah Ferguson to replace Leigh Sales as host of 7.30
Award-winning investigative journalist Sarah Ferguson on the importance of public service journalism as the ABC announces she will take over hosting 7.30 in July.
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Sarah Ferguson@FergusonNews
This really is a fantastic time for @abcnews to pursue its mission for the Australian public. Very glad to be part of it with #7.30 twitter.com/natasha1johnso…
April 29, 2022
Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • April 25, 2022 • afr.com
Election 2022: Parties spin wheels in race for majority government: new Poll
Both sides are battling to form majority government with one-third of voters either opting for a minor party or undecided, the latest The Australian Financial Review/Ipsos poll shows.
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Phillip Coorey@PhillipCoorey
Ipsos Poll: Coalition struggles to make ground on Labor afr.com/politics/feder…
April 25, 2022
The Guardian • Nick Evershed • April 26, 2022 • theguardian.com
Election 2022: these maps show exactly where Scott Morrison is targeting his slick video ad campaign
Exclusive: See where the parties are pitching their digital campaigns – from the Liberals’ Why I love Australia to Labor’s WA focus and Clive Palmer’s blitz
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Nick Evershed@NickEvershed
For the first time in an Australian election we’re able to see exactly where the political parties are targeting some of their ads - these interactive maps show exactly where Morrison is targeting his Why I love Australia ad theguardian.com/australia-news…
April 26, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Mike Foley, Nick Toscano • April 26, 2022 • smh.com.au
Net zero ‘dead’: Nationals force climate war eruption in Coalition
Nationals politicians are questioning the Coalition’s net zero 2050 climate policy as Scott Morrison is campaigning on hydrogen in Queensland.
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Bernard Keane@BernardKeane
I'm sorry but this can hardly be correct.
The Press Gallery insisted Morrison won a major victory by convincing the Nationals to accept net zero by 2050.
Now the whole thing is off?
Has some told the so-called Liberal moderates?
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
April 26, 2022
The Guardian • Stephanie Convery • April 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
Low-income tenants hardest hit as Australian rent rises outstrip assistance payments
House rentals have risen by an average of 13.8% in capital cities and 20.2% for all rentals in regions compared with a 4.5% increase in rent assistance
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The Washington Post • Michael E. Miller • April 26, 2022 • washingtonpost.com
In Australia, slot machines are everywhere. So is gambling addiction.
Australia is home to 0.3 percent of the world’s population but 20 percent of its “pokies.” The country leads the planet with an average $1,000 in gambling losses per adult per year.
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Michael Miller@MikeMillerDC
When I moved to Sydney a year ago and exited two weeks of hotel quarantine, I remember going to a pub for a schnitty (chicken schnitzel for non-Aussies) and a schoonie (glass of beer) and being struck by the sight of a room full of slot machines.
washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/…
April 27, 2022

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