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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • March 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
Robodebt: five years of lies, mistakes and failures that caused a $1.8bn scandal
The royal commission ended on Friday, having heard shocking testimony from officials and politicians, and heart-rending accounts of the impact of the botched scheme
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • March 11, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Robo-debt final week: ‘It served them right, did it?’
In its last week of hearings, the robo-debt royal commission has found the moment when the scheme became an expression of unchecked political desire.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
Final word on Robodebt, for now. Ministers demanded fealty and got it. They argued that poor people never did anything for the country and then sought to burnish their already fraudulent money management credentials off the misery of those same poor people thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime…
March 11, 2023
The Guardian • Helena Horton • March 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ‘rightwing backlash’
Exclusive: Decision to make episode about natural destruction available only on iPlayer angers programme-makers
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The Guardian • Jim Waterson • March 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
Match of the Day to air without presenter or pundits after Gary Lineker’s suspension
BBC commentators also refusing to appear after corporation takes its highest-paid presenter off air over impartiality concerns
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Craig Foster@Craig_Foster
The problem is not that ⁦@GaryLineker⁩ challenged the demonisation of asylum seekers and the normalisation of the language of dehumanisation that has always preceded and legitimised hate and exclusion, but that too few have. theguardian.com/football/2023/…
March 11, 2023
ABC News • Adam Holmes • March 11, 2023 • abc.net.au
Newspaper caught out over fake letter about trans change room incident at pool
The letter, published in a major city newspaper, describes how a man had started to undress in front of children in the female change rooms at a busy aquatic centre and was forcibly removed by another patron. The trouble is, the incident did not happen.
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ABC News • Alexander Lewis • March 11, 2023 • abc.net.au
Robodebt broke the law and ruined lives. But will its architects be held to account?
More than 100 witnesses, including two former prime ministers, have faced the Robodebt inquiry and sworn to tell the truth.
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The Guardian • George Monbiot • March 10, 2023 • theguardian.com
I once admired Russell Brand. But his grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading
In an age of distortion, public figures have powerful tools and a responsibility. This is an object lesson in how that can go wrong, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Ronni Salt@RonniSalt
For the record, I've loathed Russell Brand for decades, long before it was fashionable to do so.
A self-important, verbose flog, his mouth has always run 10 levels above his intellectual ability.
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March 11, 2023
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • March 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
Australian Catholic order accused of waiting for paedophile to die and using death to shield it from abuse claims
Marist Brothers approach in seeking to halt a survivor’s case over a clergy member’s death would be ‘absolutely perverse’, court hears
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Patrick Keneally@patrickkeneally
This is an absolute scandal - up there with some of the worst treatment of abuse victims and survivors by the church in the last few decades. Great reporting by ⁦@knausc⁩ theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…
March 11, 2023
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • March 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
Young Australians are struggling, but improving their lives doesn’t come at the expense of older generations | Alison Pennington
Millennials and Gen Z only know their country as harsh and self-interested. We must extend the ‘golden years’ of decent work and secure housing to them
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Alison Pennington@ak_pennington
Notice how any change to tax settings are always attacks on “average mums & dads”? My latest in @GuardianAus on tricks deployed by the richest to naturalise big wealth & how a new intergenerational politics can create a new fair go for its youth. #auspol
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March 11, 2023
The Australian • Michael McKenna • March 10, 2023 • theaustralian.com.au
Aboriginal death in custody: Queensland man died after cop used choke hold
A young Aboriginal man died ­resisting arrest after a Queensland police officer used a controversially endorsed stranglehold banned across the rest of Australia, according to an autopsy ­report and evidence given to ­an internal police investigation.
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The Guardian • Patrick Greenfield • March 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
Biggest carbon credit certifier to replace its rainforest offsets scheme
Verra will phase out programme by mid-2025 after Guardian investigation found it was flawed
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Steve Douglas • March 11, 2023 • smh.com.au
BBC stands down highest-paid presenter Gary Lineker over Twitter posts
The former England football captain has been stood down as host of Match of the Day after likening language around Britain’s asylum policy to language used in Nazi Germany.
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ABC News • Marian Faa • March 10, 2023 • abc.net.au
Micronesian president accuses China of bribery, espionage and attempts to undermine his country's sovereignty
In a scathing 13-page letter to Congress, David Panuelo says China has committed espionage in Federated State of Micronesian waters, bribed local politicians and attempted to undermine the nation's sovereignty.
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Stephen Dziedzic@stephendziedzic
Absolutely explosive letter here from FSM President David Panuelo alleging "political warfare" by China and signalling a possible switch to recognise Taiwan instead of the PRC abc.net.au/news/2023-03-1…
March 10, 2023
The Australian • Peter van Onselen • March 11, 2023 • theaustralian.com.au
Peter van Onselen: Why I’m increasingly concerned the voice referendum will fail
As someone who wants to see an Indigenous voice to parliament successfully implemented, I’m growing increasingly concerned that the debate is becoming divisive and the push for change might fail. At the heart of such concern is the pursuit of constitutional rather than simple legislative reform.
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Crikey • Jackie Turner • March 10, 2023 • crikey.com.au
Anti-trans disinformation is rife in Australia — and it’s being spread by a small group of organisations
An alliance of pseudo-scientific organisations is working to undermine the rights of trans people everywhere — and they're becoming active in Australia.
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The Guardian • Paul Karp • March 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
Peter Dutton believes he has found Labor’s weak spot – but can he move beyond defending millionaires?
The Coalition sought to embarrass Stephen Jones as it tried to construct a broader narrative about broken promises
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The Saturday Paper • Behrouz Boochani • March 11, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Living in Australia’s invisible prison
In my recent two-month travels across Australia, my most painful experience was the meetings with the refugees. People from all backgrounds and legal statuses, long after release from offshore camps, are still grappling with the Australian asylum system.
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Australian Financial Review • Michael Pelly • March 10, 2023 • afr.com
Top silk Bret Walker attacks ‘doomsday’ take on Voice
Bret Walker has denounced lawyers who are picking holes in the referendum proposal for the Voice to parliament as purveyors of “doomsday scenarios”.
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The Guardian • Lindy West • March 10, 2023 • theguardian.com
The Whale is not a masterpiece – it’s a joyless, harmful fantasy of fat squalor
The Oscar nomination for The Whale must mean it’s great, right? Wrong! It is a shallow and stigmatising reflection of thin people’s assumptions about fat bodies
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The Guardian • Ed Pilkington • March 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
‘Lachlan’s in the mire’: Fox News case spells trouble for Murdoch heir
Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son, who oversaw the network’s slavishly pro-Trump line, features prominently in evidence revealed in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit
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