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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • December 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
Prosecutor alleges police ‘aligned with defence’ in Bruce Lehrmann case and claims ‘inappropriate interference’
Exclusive: Letter from Shane Drumgold to ACT police chief, obtained under FOI, calls for inquiry into ‘political and police conduct’ during investigation of Brittany Higgins claimss
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • December 10, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How bureaucrats kept robo-debt alive
In the week before Scott Morrison gives evidence to the robo-debt royal commission, extraordinary details have emerged about how the public service shaped the ombudsman’s supposedly independent advice on the scheme.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
"catastrophic, multisystem failure within the Australian Public Service, which designed, incubated, sold and then covered for a program with a fatal flaw so obvious that every Centrelink front-line worker... knew it." On the week's Robodebt hearings:
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
December 10, 2022
The Guardian • Adam Morton • December 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
Wherever you stand on Violet Coco, her jailing raises the stakes for climate protest
Laws across Australia have shifted significantly to limit protest and are being used to restrain or intimidate those who speak up
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • December 10, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Keating told the truth’: Stan Grant, Larissa Behrendt and more remember the Redfern speech 30 years on
Keating was the first Australian prime minister to acknowledge the damage done by invasion, dispossession and assimilation policies. Those who were there remember its impact
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • December 11, 2022 • smh.com.au
Sky’s Chris Smith stood down over inappropriate behaviour at Christmas party
Concerns about the behaviour were raised with senior members of the Sky News executive team, and it was dealt with immediately.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Malcolm Knox • December 10, 2022 • smh.com.au
Our middle-class bubble made robo-debt disgrace possible
The Canberra bubble conceived an unthinkable attack on vulnerable Australians and left the dirty work to robots, then too many of us missed the human element.
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • December 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Senior public servant under scrutiny at robodebt inquiry appointed head of Aukus project office
Former head of Department of Human Services Kathryn Campbell has come under extensive questioning at the royal commission into robodebt
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Crikey • Bernard Keane • December 7, 2022 • crikey.com.au
News Corp is strangely silent on its part in the Liberals' downfall
Don't bother reading News Corp papers for a satisfactory account of what's gone wrong with the Liberals — a key player is absent.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Julia Quilter • December 5, 2022 • smh.com.au
Attacks on Higgins outside court were something new. Inside it, not so much
Brittany Higgins chose to dispense with the anonymity to which sexual assault trial complainants are entitled, giving the public a rare window into the trial process.
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Georgie Dent@georgiedent
'At the heart of cross-examination in sexual offence trials, the mission is to portray the complainant as a liar. No matter how the statute books have been re-written – & they have been – this core feature has barely changed,' @jquilter3 writes. smh.com.au/national/attac…
December 5, 2022
The Guardian • Shadi Khan Saif, Ben Doherty • December 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Afghan nationals in Australia fear for loved ones in grim wait for split-family visas
Wives, children and vulnerable parents have been left at mercy of Taliban as promises of swift family reunions fade
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan, Tamsin Rose • December 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Documents reveal ‘scramble’ to rubber-stamp NSW bill targeting climate protests
Exclusive: Emails show how NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s advisers, along with several other ministers, sought to fast-track bill after media furore
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The Guardian • Joe Hinchliffe • December 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Queensland graziers unearth 100m-year-old plesiosaur remains likened to Rosetta Stone
Amateur fossil hunters find skull connected to body of marine giant elasmosaur for the first time in Australia
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The Guardian • Jim Waterson • December 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
BBC preparing to go online-only over next decade, says director general
Tim Davie outlines vision for a world of ‘infinite choice’ where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • December 3, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘You are being misled’: the Centrelink worker who tried to stop robodebt as it started
Exclusive: As the disastrous program gathered pace, Colleen Taylor reached out to her boss with strong concerns, only to be dismissed as overly sympathetic to welfare recipients
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ABC Alumni • December 6, 2022 • abcalumni.net
Muzzling Milligan
Last week, the ACT’s Director of Public Prosecutions announced that there would be no retrial of Bruce Lehrmann, because it would pose a “significant and unacceptable risk to the life of the compla…
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Jonathan Holmes@jonaholmes48
Muzzling Milligan - my reflections on how @jkalbrechtsen 's attack on @Milliganreports speech to the ACT Women Lawyers is aiding and abetting the very cancel culture she says she abhors. @abcalumni abcalumni.net/2022/12/06/muz…
December 7, 2022
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • December 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I’m a writer
The ability to bend an inch at a time while seeming to stand up straight is a useful and gendered skill
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker • December 6, 2022 • smh.com.au
Perrottet will open a new selective school at Westmead. It’s a terrible idea
By announcing yet another selective school in Westmead, the government has doubled down on a system that has eroded the quality of education in NSW.
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • December 7, 2022 • crikey.com.au
‘Complete chaos’: how an ex-Fox exec and investor buying Junkee became a shambles
'It was the perfect storm of how everything could go completely wrong,' said one staff member. It was 'chaos and instability', said another.
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cameron wilson@cameronwilson
NEW: A year ago, a former Fox exec and a youth media startup investor bought Junkee.
Now, there's a mass exodus, mounting losses, legal threats and accusations of internal dysfunction.
I spoke to former and current staff about at how it all went wrong.
crikey.com.au/2022/12/07/jun…
December 7, 2022
The Guardian • Melissa Davey • December 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘No one would believe me’: Labor launches women’s health council to tackle medical misogyny
Exclusive: Experts will look into healthcare offered for menstruation, menopause and conditions such as heart disease, autism and cancer
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • December 10, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Australian government had multiple chances to press ‘stop’ on robodebt – but didn’t
Legal advisers said again and again that the automated debt recovery scheme was unlawful. New evidence shows how the objections were overcome
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
Melanie Klieve got a robodebt in the same month officials got yet more advice saying robodebt was unlawful.
Centrelink started taking money out of her payments. She was forced to sell her belongings and turn to charity.
Horrific. theguardian.com/australia-news…
December 10, 2022

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