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The New Daily • Alan Kohler • January 23, 2023 • thenewdaily.com.au
The Liberal Party – a retirement village for male baby boomers
The Liberal Party is not only seen as having no answer, it’s seen as part of the problem, writes Alan Kohler.
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Alan Kohler@AlanKohler
My @TheNewDailyAu column today, in which I examine the Liberal party's problem with young people, and conclude that it has become a retirement village for male baby boomers. This is a problem for Aust democracy, not just the party.
thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/0…
January 23, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • Sean Kelly • January 23, 2023 • smh.com.au
Dutton isn’t looking for details, he’s looking for a fight
Asking for more details always sounds reasonable. But it is important to ask whether, for someone who has doubts about the Voice, any particular detail would make a difference.
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Sean Kelly@mrseankelly
For Dutton – as for Turnbull and Morrison before him – it seems Indigenous affairs remains, above all else, an opportunity to gain political advantage.
This week's column
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
January 23, 2023
Australian Financial Review • Neil Chenoweth • January 22, 2023 • afr.com
PwC partner leaked government tax plans to clients
The former head of international tax for PwC Australia, Peter Collins, has been deregistered by the Tax Practitioners Board for dishonesty and for sharing confidential government briefings with PwC partners and clients.
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Rex Patrick@MrRexPatrick
On one hand they take $330M in consulting fees from taxpayers, while on the other hand they profit from advising clients how to avoid contributing to the tax base. But with 246K in donations to major political parties, there’s nothing to see here. #auspol afr.com/companies/fina…
January 23, 2023
The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • January 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
Age pensioner felt ‘sheer terror’ at receiving robodebt letter demanding $65,000, inquiry told
Woman says she feared she could lose her home when Centrelink letter ‘turned my life upside down’, before debt was reduced to $120 then refunded
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The Guardian • Eden Gillespie • January 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
Stranded at sea: amateur female sailors speak of sexual abuse by captains they met online
Crew websites urged to do more to protect victims, who set off seeking adventure only to be trapped onboard with a predator
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Kieran Pender@KieranPender
Really important reporting from @edengillespie theguardian.com/society/2023/j…
January 23, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • Paul Sakkal • January 23, 2023 • smh.com.au
‘Our most important year’: Pearson fears reconciliation will be lost forever without Voice
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says Australia is entering its most important year since the arrival of the First Fleet, and he fears the nation will forever squander its opportunity at reconciliation.
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ABC Radio National • January 23, 2023 • abc.net.au
'Demand for detail on the Voice is a diversion': Noel Pearson
Founder of the Cape York Partnership and Uluru Statement from the Heart activist Noel Pearson says he fears the Opposition's demand for detail on the Voice may be part of a "spoiling game". He says it's parliamentarians who have the responsibility to come up with the details.
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The Guardian • Rupert Neate • January 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
Joseph Stiglitz: tax high earners at 70% to tackle widening inequality
Nobel prize-winning economist calls for new top rate of income tax and 2-3% wealth tax on fortunes
Australian Financial Review • Mark Di Stefano, Samantha Hutchinson • January 22, 2023 • afr.com
Ad firms, pollsters plot how to sway voters in Voice referendum
The ‘yes’ and ‘no’ camps are slicing voter demographics to find out how to sell the Voice to the public.
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The Canberra Times • Adrian Rollins • January 20, 2023 • canberratimes.com.au
RBA wants workers to accept pay cut to save economy
RBA governor Philip Lowe wants wage growth to be kept below 4 per cent.
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The Guardian • Hannah Ellis-Petersen • January 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary
Government accused of ‘censorship’ over ban on film about PM’s role in violence during 2002 Gujarat riots
The Age • Rachel Eddie • January 21, 2023 • theage.com.au
Andrews government quietly shelves Australia Day parade
The Andrews government’s quiet shelving of its Australia Day parade has been welcomed by the co-chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, who described the event as an annual ‘slap in the face’.
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The Guardian • Laura Murphy-Oates, Tess McClure, Ellen Leabeater, Joe Koning, Gabrielle Jackson • January 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
Her own kind of leader – the legacy of Jacinda Ardern
The Guardians’s Aotearoa New Zealand correspondent Tess McClure speaks to Laura Murphy-Oates about the shock resignation of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the legacy she leaves behind
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The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy • January 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
Queensland public schools to join NSW in banning students from ChatGPT
Exclusive: Artificial intelligence expert questions firewall strategy, as Victoria opts to wait and see
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lisa Visentin • January 22, 2023 • smh.com.au
Hunt for first national anti-corruption watchdog chief enters final stages
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will soon refer the government’s pick for the top job to a new parliamentary committee for approval.
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • January 22, 2023 • theguardian.com
After the flood: what an El Niño might mean for Australia’s ecosystems
Scientists are fearing the worst, predicting dangerous bushfire weather, fiercer heatwaves and severe coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef
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The Guardian • Peter Hannam • January 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
‘No chance’ of global heating below 1.5C but nuclear tech ‘promising’ in climate crisis, Bill Gates says
Billionaire and founder of Microsoft tells Sydney audience it is ‘great to have Australia on board on climate’
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Scroll.in • Scroll Staff • January 22, 2023 • scroll.in
Start the week with a film: (The OG) ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
An action epic with a thumping pacifist heart.
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The Saturday Paper • Gareth Evans • January 21, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Listening to the Voice
Brian Kamara Willis was born somewhere in the Northern Territory in 1953 or 1954 – he never quite knew where or when – of an Aboriginal mother and a white father. He was one of the Stolen Generations, taken as a very young child to Adelaide, to a childhood of institutions and foster homes where he never settled.
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ABC Pacific • Prianka Srinivasan • January 23, 2023 • abc.net.au
Carmel Sepuloni makes history as first Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand with Pacific heritage
New Zealand MP Carmel Sepuloni becomes the first Pasifika person to hold the position of deputy prime minister. And, Fiji's prime minister makes ceremonial apology to Kiribati to repair fractured Pacific Islands Forum.
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