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The Age • Sumeyya Ilanbey • November 20, 2022 • theage.com.au
‘Bloody Aboriginal’: Liberal candidate rails against Indigenous people, abortion and climate change
The Liberal Party’s candidate for the outer suburban seat of Narre Warren North says Australia should not recognise First Nations people because “we won this land fair and square”, that waste from nuclear energy should be dumped in “Alice Springs in the middle of nowhere”, and that he would vote to ban abortion, asking “what makes a vagina’s trajectory so special?“.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter Hartcher, James Massola • November 14, 2022 • smh.com.au
Only one man could save Scott Morrison from himself. And he chose not to
In the first of a three-part series we examine the moment from which former prime minister Scott Morrison could never recover — and why Josh Frydenberg didn’t save their party.
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James Massola@jamesmassola
Exclusive: Josh Frydenberg came within ten votes of replacing Scott Morrison as PM. But he didn’t strike. Details in Wipeout, part 1 of a new series by Peter Hartcher and me theage.com.au/politics/feder…
November 14, 2022
The Guardian • Benita Kolovos • November 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘It was a charade’: preference whisperer Glenn Druery falls for Animal Justice party’s Victorian election sting
Exclusive: Having successfully attracted the support of Druery’s clients, minor party switched its allegiances at last minute
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter Hartcher, James Massola • November 15, 2022 • smh.com.au
Revealed: the letter that Scott Morrison ignored that foresaw the teal wave
Thirteen moderate Liberal MPs wrote to Scott Morrison with two demands. Seven of them no longer sit in parliament.
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ABC News • Patrick Begley, Grace Tobin, Meghna Bali, Mary Fallon • November 14, 2022 • abc.net.au
'I can't breathe': A boy is held down, then a guard sits on him
Video footage shows how children are being treated in a youth detention facility facing allegations of excessive force and unlawful confinement.
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The Guardian • Stephanie Convery • November 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Imperfect match: Australian renters in the dark over use of data by tech company Snug
Exclusive: Snug gives renters a score based on their profile that is meant to match them to properties, but critics say the process is opaque and skirts the law on rental bidding
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Stephanie H Convery@gingerandhoney
One of Australia’s newer rental application platforms is using renters’ data in obscure and potentially discriminatory ways to “score” their applications against rental properties, and gives them a higher score when they offer to pay more rent theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 17, 2022
The Guardian • Nick Evershed • November 16, 2022 • theguardian.com
What is the sound of Facebook’s value crashing? Noisycharts turns news into noise
Rising carbon dioxide and the slump in the pound have been frequently graphed. Now we’ve turned the data and graphs into audio
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Nick Evershed@NickEvershed
Introducing... Noisycharts! It's new web-app that quickly makes data into charts with audio + animation. A few examples to follow... theguardian.com/news/datablog/…
November 16, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Courtney Act • November 19, 2022 • smh.com.au
Grow up, Senator! Kids reading about a girl in pants is not grooming
We help all kids flourish and stay safe by sharing more types of stories, not fewer.
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Courtney Act@courtneyact
Wrote an opinion piece in todays @smh.
“Showing queer kids straight content won’t turn them straight. And showing straight kids queer content won’t turn them queer…It just depends on how much shame you want them to carry into their lives.”
smh.com.au/national/grow-…
November 19, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • November 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
Top News Corp editor departed after lewd comments towards woman
The editor-in-chief of News Corp’s national masthead The Australian left his position at the company after an incident at a conference in California last month.
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The Guardian • Stephanie Convery, Josh Nicholas, Andy Ball • November 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australia’s gambling addiction: can politics finally stop the money wheel turning?
The $25bn lost on gambling annually comes mostly from those who can least afford it, but repeated attempts at policy reform have foundered. In the first part of a new series we ask why, and whether that may be about to change
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The Guardian • Stephanie Convery, Ben Butler • November 15, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Socially aware’ superannuation funds among those investing billions in gambling industry
Analysis reveals Australia’s biggest superannuation funds are investing huge volume of workers’ retirement savings in casinos and poker machines
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ABC News • Richard Willingham • November 16, 2022 • abc.net.au
Minor party candidate who called for Daniel Andrews to be hanged preferenced ahead of Labor by Liberals
Freedom Party upper-house candidate Rebekah Spelman says she does not want Daniel Andrews dead, but she does not regret her "exaggerated" comments calling for the premier to be hanged.
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The Guardian • Kieran Pender • November 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘I am who I am’: how a blind Kurdish refugee became an Australian sporting superstar
Amir Abdi became a vocal disability advocate and unlikely superstar in two different sports – and is now hoping to lead Australia to the 2024 Paralympics
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Kieran Pender@KieranPender
This is the most incredible story I have ever had the privilege of telling. This is Amir Abdi's story - a refugee, disability advocate, national team representative in two different sports and maybe, soon, a Paralympian. For @GuardianAus with @abrfoto theguardian.com/sport/2022/nov…
November 17, 2022
The Guardian • Amanda Meade • November 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Australian’s editor Chris Dore lost his job after attending News Corp event in California
Exclusive: Key Murdoch editor attended Wall Street Journal Tech Live event at Laguna Beach last month along with top News Corp executives
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The Age • Ashleigh McMillan, Nick McKenzie • November 19, 2022 • theage.com.au
Ultra-conservative Liberal candidate won’t sit in party room if elected: Guy
Renee Heath will not sit in the Liberal Party room, but it’s too late to disendorse her, Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy says.
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ABC News • Nassim Khadem • November 14, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Why are the Lebos destroying Coburg?': This is one of the racist slurs Hala has faced in her career
When a woman of Muslim faith in the public sector was asked by a colleague, "What are your cousins in the Taliban going to do next?" she was traumatised but decided to remain silent to avoid further discrimination. Here are just a few confronting examples of workplace racism allegations spanning more than a decade.
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ABC News • Patrick Begley, Grace Tobin, Meghna Bali • November 15, 2022 • abc.net.au
'We'll be considered barbarians': Why many countries aren't jailing children anymore, but Australia is
Multiple governments have buried this report. It spells out the dismal failures of youth detention policy in Australia. Why has barely anyone seen it?
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The Guardian • Adam Morton • November 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Chris Bowen on Cop27’s urgent fight: ‘If we’re not trying to keep to 1.5C then what are we here for?’
Australia’s climate change minister backs proposed loss and damage fund but says 1.5C target is crucial to limiting the bill
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The Guardian • Greg Jericho • November 14, 2022 • theguardian.com
How much more revenue would the Australian government have if it taxed gas companies properly?
At a time when people are struggling to pay the bills, a windfall profits tax could have doubled jobseeker or funded aged care
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Greg Jericho@GrogsGamut
There has been a massive surge in LNG production since the opening of the Gladstone port, that has led to a surge in gas industry revenue.
But a surge in tax revenue? Lol of course not!
theguardian.com/business/grogo…
November 14, 2022
iNews • David Parsley • November 15, 2022 • inews.co.uk
Rupert Murdoch urges Donald Trump not to run in 2024, threatening to back a Democrat if he does
News Corp sources reveal the media mogul is backing Republican Ron DeSantis - and could even get behind a 'non-Biden' Democrat over the former president
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Nyadol Nyuon OAM@NyadolNyuon
No one should have this power, not even against one's political opponents. twitter.com/patskarvelas/s…
November 15, 2022

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