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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • April 8, 2023 • theguardian.com
‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high
Scientists warn of more marine heatwaves, leading to increased risk of extreme weather
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
Australia is worlds 3rd largest fossil fuel exporter…we spend $12 billion per year subsidising fossil fuels…& we have 116 new fossil fuel projects seeking approval…it doesn’t matter where in the world our fossil fuel exports get burned #auspol #climate theguardian.com/environment/20…
April 8, 2023
The Saturday Paper • April 8, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Plastic spiders
Peter Dutton knew before he called his colleagues to Canberra that he would oppose the Voice. The party room meeting was a stunt, like almost everything else in his career.
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The Australian • Greg Bearup • April 7, 2023 • theaustralian.com.au
Aboriginal art champion Skye O’Meara in ‘white hands’ controversy over APY Collective artists’ claims of interference
The young white studio staffer kneels down in her splattered overalls holding a bucket of paint at the edge of a massive canvas. She’s in the compound of a remote artists’ studio 1400km from Adelaide in the tiny desert settlement of Amata.
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The Washington Post • Matthew Cappucci • April 8, 2023 • washingtonpost.com
Earth has second-warmest March even before arrival of planet-heating El Niño
It was the 529th consecutive month to feature temperatures above the 20th century average
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Bill Hare@BillHareClimate
Earth experienced its second-warmest March on record.
March represents the 529th month in a row with temperatures exceeding the 20th-century average. That’s more than 44 years straight without a single comparatively cool month. washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/0…
April 8, 2023
The Saturday Paper • John Hewson • April 8, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The Liberal Party is tragically broken
What happened in Aston is simple. Peter Dutton had said that the Aston byelection would be a verdict on leadership, evidently hoping for a win, or expecting one. Virtually all the major significant political issues were addressed in the public and political discourse, both in Aston and in Canberra, during the campaign period, and he danced around them. The voters of Aston
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The Guardian • Khaled Al Khawaldeh • April 8, 2023 • theguardian.com
Coal seam gas waste plan risks washing ‘5m tonnes of salt into the Murray-Darling Basin’
Critics say a proposal to dispose of salt from waste brine by burying it in lined landfill is ‘not a long-term solution’
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The New Daily • Julia Banks • April 7, 2023 • thenewdaily.com.au
What next for the Liberals and will Frydenberg ride to the rescue
If Scott Morrison was the self-described ‘bulldozer’, Peter Dutton’s Liberal Party is like an out-of-date steamroller. Julia Banks writes.
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The Saturday Paper • Jon Kudelka • April 8, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Jon Kudelka cartoon, April 8, 2023
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The Saturday Paper@SatPaper
This week’s cartoon, by @jonkudelka… satpa.pe/cart0a80
April 8, 2023
The Saturday Paper • Karen Middleton • April 8, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Aston, we have a problem…
Following the loss in Aston, some Coalition MPs believe Peter Dutton’s announcement on the Voice was a distraction from the party’s real issues.
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The Saturday Paper • Amy Coopes • April 8, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Covid-19: Inside the shifting vaccine strategy
As the government declares an end to the latest wave of infections, it has also quietly moved away from vaccine targets and is depending on hybrid immunity.
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Chris Wallace😷@c_s_wallace
Disappointing to see this Paul Kelly herd immunity BS run in my fave newspaper, on the front page too.
Fact: In one week in January this year, more Australians died from #COVID19 than died in the entire Vietnam War. That’s success?
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/… via @SatPaper #auspol
April 8, 2023
The Saturday Paper • Michelle Arrow • April 8, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Elizabeth Reid’s world first as Whitlam adviser
Fifty years ago, Elizabeth Reid became the first women’s affairs adviser, and embarked on a visionary project to reimagine the roles and ambitions of half the population.
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The New York Times • Jim Rutenberg • April 6, 2023 • nytimes.com
How Fox Chased Its Audience Down the Rabbit Hole
Rupert Murdoch built an empire by giving viewers exactly what they wanted. But what they wanted — election lies and insurrection — put that empire (and the country) in peril.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Tim Barlass • April 8, 2023 • smh.com.au
Bruce Haigh, diplomat who helped anti-apartheid activists, dies aged 77
Haigh assisted in the escape which was portrayed in the Richard Attenborough film Cry Freedom.
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The Saturday Paper • Jo Dyer • April 8, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The political persecution of Julian Assange
Even as Stephen Smith paid a concerned visit to Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison this week, the new high commissioner to Britain said firmly that Australia was not “lobbying for a particular outcome”. Concerned Australians might ask, “Why the hell not?”
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The Guardian • Michael Mann • April 8, 2023 • theguardian.com
Australia’s climate battle has moved on – leaving deniers behind
Notwithstanding some absurd outbursts from the fringe, the fight is now over what form climate change action should take
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The Sydney Morning Herald • George Megalogenis • April 8, 2023 • smh.com.au
The two-party system is cooked, and the Liberals are leftovers
The dominance of the two parties, as we knew it in the 20th century, is officially over. But it is Liberals who are now facing an existential crisis.
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ABC News • Andrew Greene • April 8, 2023 • abc.net.au
Defence spends $110 million on second-hand commercial vessel for undersea military operations
A 10-year-old Norwegian ship bought by Australia for $110 million will soon be converted into a defence force vessel, dedicated to supporting future undersea military operations.
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The Australian • HELEN TRINCA • April 8, 2023 • theaustralian.com.au
Marcia Langton’s fight to be heard reaches its crescendo with Indigenous voice to parliament
Over more than 50 years as an academic and activist, Marcia Langton has never been known to mince her words. But now the Melbourne University professor, Boyer lecturer, public intellectual and co-author of a landmark report on the Indigenous Voice to parliament and government has really had enough. When Australians go to the polls to vote on the Voice later this year, Langton wants them to think hard about what’s at stake. “I imagine that most Australians who are non-Indigenous, if we lose the ­referendum, will not be able to look me in the eye,” she says. “How are they going to ever ask an I…
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Magda Szubanski AO@MagdaSzubanski
The adamantine endurance, laser intelligence and redoubtable resilience of Marcia Langton is something we should all be proud of and grateful for 🙏
She’s had enough: Marcia Langton’s fight reaches its crescendo - The Australian apple.news/AANE4EWZvTd-qR…
April 8, 2023
The Guardian • Nino Bucci, Christopher Knaus • April 8, 2023 • theguardian.com
Coalition warned of problems with tool to predict future terrorist crime but continued to use it on offenders
Exclusive: Morrison government used risk assessment tool known as VERA-2R on 14 occasions after receiving independent report
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The Age • Max Walden • April 7, 2023 • theage.com.au
Cancel culture: Why comedy is an extreme sport in India
Under the current government, comics risk jail time for offending the wrong people.
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Max Walden@maxwalden_
I'm mostly behind the scenes nowadays subediting others' reporting, but here's my first story for @theage.
"In India, you write jokes, then you write apologies": Why comedy is an extreme sport in Modi’s India theage.com.au/culture/comedy…
April 7, 2023

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