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ABC News • Stephanie Borys • September 7, 2022 • abc.net.au
Government scraps funding for foundation with links to Governor-General
A mystery foundation established just over a year ago by a businessman with connections to the Governor-General has had its federal funding cancelled.
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The Guardian • Damian Carrington • September 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change
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Donna Lu@donnadlu
In news that'll be overshadowed today: "The Earth may have left a ‘safe’ climate state beyond 1C global warming." The world is on the brink of 5 climate tipping points, incl. coral die off and the collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets theguardian.com/environment/20…
September 9, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • September 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
Federal government settles Tudge affair case for $650k
The settlement covers former Liberal staffer Rachelle Miller’s claims of damage and loss suffered while she worked for former cabinet ministers Alan Tudge and Michaelia Cash.
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ABC News • Ahmed Yussuf • September 10, 2022 • abc.net.au
Sudanese government minister tells Australian woman 'we'd beat you until you begged us to stop'
Sudanese-Australian activist Nazik Osman calls for a senior Sudanese government minister to be banned from Australia after he allegedly threatened her during a visit to Perth for a mining conference.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • September 5, 2022 • news.com.au
Unusual detail in ex-staffer’s huge payout
EXCLUSIVE
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
BREAKING: Liberal frontbenchers Alan Tudge and Michaelia Cash are both named in a landmark taxpayer-funded $650,000 "no admissions" settlement to former political staffer Rachelle Miller for "hurt, distress and humiliation." news.com.au/finance/work/a…
September 5, 2022
Inside Story • Administrator • September 4, 2022 • insidestory.org.au
Did The Teacher’s Pet hinder the conviction of Chris Dawson?
Jeremy Gans on the judges’ judgements
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MargaretSimons@MargaretSimons
Glad to say @insidestorymag is back, and with this courageous piece. Great to have an outlet that can do deep and critical, even when that is against the tide. The podcast’s trial, on Inside Story inside.org.au/the-podcasts-t…
September 5, 2022
The Washington Post • Devlin Barrett, Carol D. Leonnig • September 7, 2022 • washingtonpost.com
Material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Some of the documents seized on Aug. 8 detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them.
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Antony (Tony) Walker@tonywalker1
Well, this is serious 👎 washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
September 7, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Laura Chung, Miki Perkins • September 7, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Tragic legacy of extinction’: Australia gets an ‘F’ in biodiversity
Some federal electorates contain more than 200 threatened species and that number is increasing, according to WWF.
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Laura Chung@Laura_R_Chung
Australia is failing to halt the decline of many endangered species, with a new scorecard revealing that in some federal electorates, hundreds of animals and plants are under threat 🐸 smh.com.au/environment/co…
September 7, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Latika Bourke • September 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Queen Elizabeth in doctors’ care live updates: Buckingham Palace release statement over The Queen’s health as royals travel north to Balmoral
Doctors are concerned about the health of Queen Elizabeth and have recommended the 96-year-old remains under medical supervision, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.
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The Age@theage
Following news of concerns for The Queen’s health, @theage and @smh have started a live blog to keep you across the latest developments | #TheQueen theage.com.au/world/europe/q…
September 8, 2022
The Saturday Paper • Mike Seccombe • September 10, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
‘I am hopeless now ’: Australia’s $9.65 billion torture camps
As the Albanese government prepares to finalise a Nauru contract with an American prisons operator, the cost of the brutal enterprise has stretched into billions of dollars.
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Jon “Semi-Fungible Airships” Kudelka@jonkudelka
An astonishing amount of money to achieve an astonishing amount of evil. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
September 10, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Doherty, Christopher Knaus • September 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
The ‘egregious’ history of likely new Nauru operator includes allegations of gang rape and murder in its US prisons
A Guardian investigation reveals the firm has been accused of ‘gross negligence’ that allegedly led to gang rape, murder and mistaken solitary confinement in its US facilities
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ABC News • Richard Willingham • September 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
'It actually fills me with horror': Experts sound alarm on crisis in forensic system
Some victims of violent crime in Victoria are waiting more than a day for examinations due to a shortage of forensic officers. Experts says the system is in crisis and the delays risk causing further harm to people already reeling from life-changing trauma.
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Richard Willingham@rwillingham
Victims of sexual assaults and rapes are forced to wait hours and hours for forensic examinations in Victoria.
The situation has been labelled 'dire', with urgent calls for reform in a bid to stop further trauma of victims.
Here's our investigation.
abc.net.au/news/2022-09-0…
September 5, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • September 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Transparency has been killed by obstruction’ as officials flout FOI rules
A “culture of secrecy” is seeing more freedom of information requests being denied and delayed, a report has found, with impacts on government accountability.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
It will take a commitment from the top to reverse this suffocation of FOI.
New report shows how bad it’s become:
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
September 5, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe, Mike Foley • September 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
Albanese reassures mining and energy bosses while Labor does climate deal in Senate
The PM has told the industry chiefs he wants to increase public investment in mining as the government gained ground in negotiations to pass a new law to enforce emissions cuts.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Senate deal done on 43 per cent carbon cut. Chris Bowen has spoken to David Pocock to clear the way for the vote today.
Meanwhile, Anthony Albanese tells mining industry Australia will remain a stable supplier of energy and resources.
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
September 6, 2022
The Age • Aisha Dow • September 7, 2022 • theage.com.au
Money, not pandemic, the main cause of Victoria’s triple-zero crisis
The idea that the pandemic is fully responsible for what happened at ESTA ignores the findings of a recent report and interstate comparisons.
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ABC News • Michael Slezak • September 6, 2022 • abc.net.au
Companies getting a 'very large cheque' for cutting emissions they would have cut anyway, expert says
Some of the biggest players profiting from Australia's carbon market speak out for the first time, backing expert analysis saying the system is generating meaningless credits that actually result in Australia's emissions going up.
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The Age • Paul Sakkal • September 7, 2022 • theage.com.au
Andrews government ‘pushed out’ triple-zero chief after funding plea
The former chairman of Victoria’s triple-zero service was pressured to resign after asking the state government for a long-term solution to a funding method he said was fundamentally flawed.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
ESTA chair requested a longterm fix to what he told the Andrews government was the triple-zero agency's "fundamentally flawed" funding model in 2015
He + half his board were forced to resign & replaced largely by Labor linked appointees theage.com.au/national/victo… @theage #springst
September 7, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Rob Harris • September 8, 2022 • smh.com.au
Pro-Putin comedy duo gave advice to Australian Senate committee posing as regime dissidents
The duo, Vovan and Lexus, have also targeted prominent Kremlin critics including Prince Harry, former British prime minister Boris Johnson, author J K Rowling, former US president George W Bush and singer Elton John.
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Stephanie Peatling@srpeatling
Well this Rob Harris story is the best thing you'll read today - how a pro Putin comedy duo gave evidence to an Australian foreign affairs committee featuring a sock puppet called Phil.
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
September 8, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Butler • September 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Qantas boss Alan Joyce nets $287k pay rise despite airline’s woes
Chief executive pay packet tops $5.5m as airlines plagued by delays, cancellations and other problems following a surge in post-lockdown travel
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Josh Taylor@joshgnosis
Qantas picked today to reveal this piece of information. twitter.com/meadea/status/…
September 9, 2022
ABC News • Stephen Long, Mary Fallon, Stephanie March • September 5, 2022 • abc.net.au
They could be sacked for speaking out, but these workers want you to know what's happening at Qantas
Dozens of Qantas staff, from pilots to flight attendants, tell ABC's Four Corners how they fear the airline's stellar safety reputation could be undermined.
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