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ABC News • Andrew Greene • May 27, 2022 • abc.net.au
Scott Morrison instructed Border Force to reveal election day asylum boat arrival
One of Scott Morrison's final acts as prime minister was to instruct the Australian Border Force to publicise an intercepted boat of asylum seekers on election day, which the Liberal Party then seized upon.
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • May 28, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Coalition loss: ‘The transphobe thing was an absolute disaster’
Interviews with more than a dozen senior Liberals show how Scott Morrison’s belief in his own ‘genius’ and self-image as a ‘master strategist’ cost the party government.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • May 24, 2022 • theguardian.com
Mark Dreyfus flags Bernard Collaery case as priority if appointed attorney general
Labor MP says he would ‘seek an early briefing’ on prosecution of Collaery after criticising commonwealth’s handling
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The Guardian • Peter Hannam • May 25, 2022 • theguardian.com
Coalition delayed news that electricity prices are set to rise until after federal election
Outgoing energy minister Angus Taylor rejects suggestion delay was political and regulator says it was necessary to include ‘most recent network costs’
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The Guardian • Ben Smee • May 26, 2022 • theguardian.com
New Coalition MP was founding member of club promoting climate science denial
LNP member for Flynn, Colin Boyce, signed international statement rejecting climate crisis and criticised science in state parliament
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ABC News • Annabel Crabb • May 23, 2022 • abc.net.au
The final warning for Morrison fell on deaf ears. Now women have voted him out
Scott Morrison can't say he wasn't warned that women were angry. But will the next Liberal leader heed the lessons Morrison ignored, asks Annabel Crabb.
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Annabel Crabb@annabelcrabb
Australian women took a good look at the prime ministerial bulldozer... and sent him a John Deere letter. Here's my column on why abc.net.au/news/2022-05-2…
May 23, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Richard Flanagan • May 26, 2022 • smh.com.au
Morrison government’s fall marks end of Howard-era ascendancy
Every issue that defined Scott Morrison’s downfall had deep roots in John Howard’s prime ministership.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Annika Smethurst • May 26, 2022 • smh.com.au
Darren Chester to challenge Barnaby Joyce for Nationals leadership
Chester confirmed his intention to nominate for the leadership late on Thursday, saying it was “time for a change”.
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The Guardian • David Marr • May 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Stoking fear and hatred held the Coalition in power – finally Australia had enough
For the first time in a decade the logjam to change the country’s politics may be shifting
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • May 25, 2022 • news.com.au
The one losing MP ScoMo refused to call
Scott Morrison has refused to speak to former Liberal MP Fiona Martin after she lost her seat on Saturday night snubbing her in his round of calls to MPs who were defeated at the election.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Cat-Thao Nguyen • May 24, 2022 • smh.com.au
A lesson for Labor: Why the people of Fowler rejected Keneally
Labor’s ham-fisted campaign to get Kristina Keneally elected revealed a disturbing lack of understanding of the cultural complexities in Fowler.
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The Guardian • Gabrielle Chan • May 24, 2022 • theguardian.com
Barnaby Joyce says all is well with the Nationals’ vote – but a deeper dive suggests that’s not the case
Party leader is talking up its election success, but a closer look at the numbers shows their competition is increasing
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Tony Wright • May 27, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘I love the boy’: The gift our PM received from a bamboo prison
Tom Uren, titan of the Labor Party, taught Anthony Albanese a lesson about protecting the vulnerable - one he had learned in the harshest way imaginable.
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The Guardian • Paul Karp, Daniel Hurst • May 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Michael McCormack suggests Barnaby Joyce’s unpopularity in inner city contributed to Coalition’s loss
Former Nationals leader says he was ‘very popular’ in inner city and that mixed messages on net zero emissions ‘didn’t help’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • May 26, 2022 • smh.com.au
Change or die: Liberals need to find ‘sensible centre’ to survive
The opposition needs to stand for something more than whatever spin, stunt or sneaky manoeuvre gets them through.
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The Guardian • Ben Smee • May 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
Lincoln Crowley appointed Australia’s first Indigenous supreme court justice
Highly regarded Queensland barrister was told as a boy he would probably end up in jail because his family is Aboriginal
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Matt Lewis • May 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
Far-reaching judgment censoring 60 Minutes investigation should concern all Australians
A court’s intervention to stop reports of an investigation into the cosmetics industry raises serious concerns for press freedom.
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Nick McKenzie@Ageinvestigates
The court action to suppress @adele_ferguson @jttozer 60 mins expose of medical misconduct is the scariest legal development I’ve seen in 20 years of investigative journalism. And I say after 4 years battling Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal army. Media must unite to fight this. twitter.com/adele_ferguson…
May 28, 2022
Australian Financial Review • Jacob Greber • May 22, 2022 • afr.com
‘I’m hoping they’re happy’: Barnaby Joyce chides teals
The Nationals leader blasted them for beating moderates: “They’ve managed to get rid of three gay guys, one Aboriginal and one Asian. Was that their game plan?”
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • May 24, 2022 • smh.com.au
Albanese government turns around its first asylum seeker boat
Border Force has safely returned an asylum seeker vessel to Sri Lanka as an investigation is ordered into the disclosure of its arrival on election day.
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Sophie McNeill@Sophiemcneill
This is a violation of #Australia’s legal obligation not to commit refoulement - the forced return of people to places where their lives or freedom would be threatened or where they would face a risk of torture or inhuman/ degrading treatment @hrw
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
May 24, 2022
Reuters • May 25, 2022 • reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE China seeks Pacific islands policing, security cooperation - document
China will seek a region-wide deal with almost a dozen Pacific island countries covering policing, security and data communication cooperation when Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosts a meeting in Fiji next week, documents seen by Reuters show.
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Kirsty Needham@KirstyLNeedham
EXCLUSIVE China seeks Pacific-wide policing, security cooperation. Draft communique sent by Beijing to Pacific islands ahead of a foreign ministers meeting has prompted pushback from at least one of the invited nations, a letter leaked to Reuters shows.
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
May 25, 2022

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