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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • August 2, 2022 • theguardian.com
Peter Dutton has reached into the weeds of the climate wars and pulled out nuclear energy. It’s beyond ludicrous
The Coalition could’ve progressed a domestic industry in its nine years in power, but it didn’t
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
How about we talk about nuclear? Ok, sure. Let’s hang a lantern over this absolute, utter, bollocks theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol
August 2, 2022
The Age • Annika Smethurst, Paul Sakkal • August 2, 2022 • theage.com.au
Guy’s chief of staff asked wealthy Liberal donor for payments
The Age has obtained a contract, sent to the private email of Opposition Leader Matthew Guy, proposing payments to the private business of his chief of staff.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • August 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Coalition used private contractor to collect intelligence on Nauru asylum seekers
Exclusive: asylum seekers in the offshore detention centre who had contact with Australian journalists, lawyers and advocates were closely watched, documents reveal
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • August 1, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘It felt insulting’: welfare recipients sent to body language courses as job agencies profit
Providers in the welfare-to-work system are making lucrative earnings by enrolling clients into their own taxpayer-funded programs
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
I've been digging into the courses job agencies are making jobseekers do.
The courses are often run by the same company, and can be used to bolster their bottom line.
This is called "Understanding Body Language" and it is quite something!
theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 1, 2022
The Age • Paul Sakkal, Annika Smethurst • August 2, 2022 • theage.com.au
Matthew Guy’s chief of staff resigns after revelations he asked a wealthy Liberal donor for payments
Matthew Guy’s chief of staff Mitch Catlin has resigned following revelations he asked a wealthy Liberal Party donor to make more than $100,000 in payments to his private marketing business, in addition to his taxpayer-funded salary.
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn, Katharine Murphy • August 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Tanya Plibersek says she will block Clive Palmer’s proposed coalmine near Great Barrier Reef
Australia’s environment minister says billionaire Palmer’s Central Queensland Coal proposal would likely have ‘unacceptable impacts’ on reef
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The Monthly • Josh Bornstein • August 1, 2022 • themonthly.com.au
What’s gone wrong at the ABC
Years of government attacks over funding and balance have left the national broadcaster in desperate need of repair
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The Monthly@THEMONTHLY
“The ABC Overton window has shrunk to reduce the presence of strong left-wing commentary. A climate-change denialist is more likely to appear on an ABC discussion panel than a trade unionist.” @JoshBBornstein on the “creeping depression” infecting the ABC. bit.ly/3vsuGiW
August 1, 2022
news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • August 2, 2022 • news.com.au
ScoMo’s final act before being dumped as PM
A Japanese billionaire who hosted an international conference attended by Scott Morrison last week was awarded an Order of Australia by the Morrison Government in one of its last acts.
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The Guardian • Amanda Meade • August 1, 2022 • theguardian.com
ABC appoints former Coalition media adviser Fiona Cameron as ombudsman
Public broadcaster says newly-created independent position will help maintain audience trust and confidence
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Sean Kelly • August 1, 2022 • smh.com.au
Child poverty: A problem Labor can and must solve
The Albanese government could act today to change their lives, and has so far chosen not to. Nor do we have much indication yet that it will do so any time soon.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway, Jonathan Kearsley, Rob Harris • August 2, 2022 • smh.com.au
AFP warned George Christensen’s Philippines ‘activities’ put him at risk of compromise
After a three-year fight, the AFP has finally released a key letter it sent to the former Coalition government about the then-MP’s activities in Southeast Asia.
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The Age • Jack Latimore • August 2, 2022 • theage.com.au
A knife, a harness and the ‘power stance’: Eddie Betts reveals ‘cult-like’ training camp
A pre-season training camp for the Adelaide Crows left the AFL champion feeling ‘shattered’, and he says his complaints led to him being dropped from the club’s leadership group. He tells the story in a new autobiography.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Chris Wallace • August 4, 2022 • smh.com.au
Julia Gillard committed a terrible wrong. It’s time for Albanese to right it
On the day former prime minister Julia Gillard delivered her misogyny speech, the Senate passed a bill that consigned single-parent families to greater struggle and further entrenched intergenerational poverty.
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • August 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
In Australia’s welfare sector obligations are ‘mutual’, but profits flow only one way
As vast network of job agencies rakes in hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars, jobseekers face ‘humiliating’ tasks to maintain payments
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
New from me on mutual obligations and the privatised job services system theguardian.com/business/2022/…
August 6, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • The Herald's View • August 1, 2022 • smh.com.au
For the sake of NSW, Stuart Ayres must resign
The fiasco over the appointment of former deputy premier John Barilaro to a $500,000-a-year New York trade job has preoccupied NSW politics for long enough.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • August 2, 2022 • news.com.au
Liberals warned not to be climate change ‘weirdos’
Liberal leader Peter Dutton wants Australia to go nuclear, and has dismissed the government’s legislation to enshrine a 43 per cent reduction target by 2030 in law as “a stunt”.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
At the last party room meeting, MPs were briefed by Liberal strategist and 2022 campaign director Andrew Hirst
“The research says that 67 per cent of voters think the Liberal Party are weirdos on climate change,’’ a Liberal MP told news.com.au news.com.au/technology/env…
August 2, 2022
The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • August 2, 2022 • theguardian.com
Murray-Darling Basin Plan ‘cannot achieve’ environmental water savings target, report finds
Findings will increase calls for voluntary buybacks, which could provide the water quickly but would require legislation
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The Guardian • Adeshola Ore • August 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Unions call for Victoria’s proposed laws targeting environmental protesters to be scrapped
Bill would see protesters who illegally disrupt forestry workers in logging zones face up to 12 months’ jail
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The New Daily • Alan Kohler • August 4, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Alan Kohler: Big government is already here. But how will we fund it?
Relying on central banks to support growth by printing money is clearly not viable because of what that does to inequality. Government will have to step up.
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Quentin Dempster@QuentinDempster
Just do it! Our new PM @AlboMP has the numbers in the new parliament to legislate to abandon Stage 3 tax cuts. Alan Kohler: Labor must abandon the Stage 3 tax cuts. Effective government must be funded | The New Daily thenewdaily.com.au/finance/financ…
August 4, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Alexandra Smith • August 7, 2022 • smh.com.au
Dominic Perrottet proposed new trade role to minister
Premier Dominic Perrottet offered to create a parliamentary trade role for Transport Minister David Elliott as a sweetener for dumping him from cabinet and on another occasion also spoke to him about the agent-general position in London, in revelations likely to heap immense pressure on Perrottet’s leadership.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
This rabble treats the plums and perks of government as if they were running a family business. (Except that if it WAS a family business they’d be broke in a month.) The arrogance, the incompetence, is contemptible. smh.com.au/national/nsw/d…
August 7, 2022

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