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ABC News • Jake Evans, Andrew Probyn • October 20, 2022 • abc.net.au
Greens senator Lidia Thorpe admits to undisclosed relationship with ex-bikie boss while on law enforcement committee
Staffers to Greens senator Lidia Thorpe were concerned her undisclosed relationship with a former outlaw motorcycle gang president while she served on parliament's law enforcement committee posed a perceived conflict of interest.
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • October 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australia quietly drops recognition of West Jerusalem as capital of Israel
Exclusive: Former PM Scott Morrison’s decision to formally recognise West Jerusalem has now been reversed by Labor government
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty, Ellen Leabeater, Miles Herbert, Camilla Hannan, Allison Chan, Joey Watson, Ryan Pemberton, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson, Mellany … • October 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media, part one: reputation
Who is Ben Roberts-Smith and how did he earn the military’s highest honour, the Victoria Cross?
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • October 22, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: Toxic culture has plunged the Bureau of Meteorology into chaos
Bureau of Meteorology staff have been hospitalised because of work conditions, as a loss of senior meteorologists means junior forecasters are trying to deal with natural disasters beyond their expertise.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
Cannot overestimate amount of work that went into this. Rebranding failure at the Bureau of Meteorology is symptom of a much bigger disease: a truly horrific workplace culture that has seen employees hospitalised, meteorologists gagged, Min’ office misled. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
October 22, 2022
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • October 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Bureau of Meteorology was ‘cowering in the corner’ on climate crisis, former staff claim
Exclusive: Claims that discussing climate change at BoM ‘is basically banned’ come after allegations of a toxic workplace culture
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • October 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Senator Linda Reynolds accused of attempting to ‘coach’ defence lawyers in Brittany Higgins cross-examination
Court hears evidence senator sought to obtain transcripts of Higgins’ evidence prior to coming to court to give her own testimony
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
Wow. Just WOW ! theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 17, 2022
The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • October 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Virtuous globalization mastermind’: Scott Morrison lauded by international speaking circuit agency
Former Australian prime minister also credited with ‘controlling natural disasters’ by the agency that says it now ‘exclusively’ represents him
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The Guardian • Josh Butler • October 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Revealed: BoM rebranding and logo cost $220,000 as Plibersek shoots down weather bureau’s name change
Environment minister says Australians free to call it whatever they want after Bureau of Meteorology updates name
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Josh Butler@JoshButler
more on the Bureau Formerly Known As BOM - the rebrand cost $220k, as environment minister Tanya Plibersek says "Australians will make up their own minds about what they call it"
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October 19, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Doherty, Ellen Leabeater, Camilla Hannan, Joey Watson, Allison Chan, Miles Herbert, Karishma Luthria, Mellany Chun, Laura Brierley Newton, Daniel… • October 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media, part two: death in Darwan
Ben Doherty takes us through one of the key incidents under dispute in this extraordinary defamation trial – the raid of Darwan
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Gabrielle Jackson@gabriellecj
Today’s episode follows the raid on the village of Darwan, where the SAS was searching for an Afghan soldier who had killed three Australian soldiers. Join @BenDohertyCorro for - Ben Roberts-Smith v the media, part two: death in Darwan theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 18, 2022
The Guardian • Marina Hyde • October 22, 2022 • theguardian.com
Tories on their knees – and here comes Boris Johnson. Dear reader, look away
Who would think a lying, hypocritical degenerate was the answer to this crisis? A large number of Conservatives, apparently, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Greg Jericho@GrogsGamut
“The idea that the answer to a single part of this horror show is to bring back a morally degenerate financial incontinent who broke his own laws is something that tells you everything about the terminal sad-sacks who are so much as thinking of it.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
October 22, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Smee • October 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Queensland Christian school principal asked students if they knew unmarried teacher lived with boyfriend
Exclusive: Principal of Livingstone Christian college said investigation was sparked by a parent’s concern over ‘biblical moral standards’
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Paul Syvret@PSyvret
These "schools" need to stripped of all government funding. If you want your child to be educated in a fundamentalist hate cult, then don't expect a cent of public money. theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 17, 2022
The Guardian • Eden Gillespie • October 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Brisbane real estate agency advises landlords to increase rents by over 20% amid housing crisis
Agency claims most tenants ‘are agreeable’ to the rent increases, which Tenants Queensland calls ‘opportunistic price-gouging’
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The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • October 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
BoMshell as BoM says it doesn’t want to be BoM any more – just call us the Bureau
Bureau of Meteorology says its ‘insights, wisdom and data’ are more important than ever as it asks media to use its full name
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Gabrielle Chan@gabriellechan
The bureau – not to be mistaken for the long-running French thriller series, the 80s band or the US Federal Bureau of Investigation – will adjust its social media handles accordingly. ⁦@ToryShepherd⁩ theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 18, 2022
The Guardian • Josh Butler, Tory Shepherd • October 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
BoM paid communication consultants almost $70,000 to rebrand it ‘the Bureau’
Staff were treated like ‘naughty school children’ if they slipped up and referred to Bureau of Meteorology by its common acronym
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • October 22, 2022 • theguardian.com
Chalmers offensive: crunch time as treasurer faces first federal budget
A volatile global economy looms as Jim Chalmers assembles the Albanese government’s inaugural budget, where he will be judged on delivering on election promises while exercising restraint
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
No column this week. I thought a profile of ⁦@JEChalmers⁩ would be of interest to readers. The treasurer has trained for 20 years to rise at the dispatch box next Tuesday. Big moment for him, big moment for the government. Have a read 👇 #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 22, 2022
The Guardian • Nino Bucci, Benita Kolovos • October 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Daniel Andrews dismisses concerns over independence of review into Flemington racetrack flood wall
Melbourne Water chair John Thwaites, who was water minister when the wall was approved, will excuse himself from the review
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Nino Bucci@ninobucci
The independent review into the Flemington racetrack flood wall is being done by Melbourne Water. It’s chaired by John Thwaites, who was deputy premier and water minister in the state government that approved the wall in 2004.
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October 17, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Adele Ferguson • October 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Medicare is haemorrhaging’: The rorts and waste costing taxpayers billions of dollars a year
Billions of dollars are being rorted from Medicare each year, including by billing dead people and falsifying patient records to boost profits.
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The Guardian • Peter Hannam • October 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
Science minister warns CSIRO against ‘renting out’ its brand to giant gas companies
Ed Husic says science agency should focus efforts elsewhere after ‘very major’ gas company asked it to support bid for net zero emissions
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The Sydney Morning Herald • The Herald's View • October 18, 2022 • smh.com.au
The AMA’s leadership is in urgent need of a reality check
For too long, the AMA has wielded power within this country totally disproportionate to the size of its membership.
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ABC News • Michael Janda • October 17, 2022 • abc.net.au
Two tax changes could raise more than $20 billion a year and halve the deficit, but they're off the table this budget
The Treasurer may have ruled out making changes to the stage 3 income tax cuts in his first budget, but there is a growing push for more comprehensive tax reform from experts and the parliamentary crossbench.
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