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The Guardian • Greg Jericho • April 13, 2023 • theguardian.com
Young Australians never stood a chance. For decades the controls have been set to favour older generations
When it comes to buying a home, millennials have it so much harder than those before them. And it’s changing the way they vote
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Vanity Fair • Gabriel Sherman • April 12, 2023 • vanityfair.com
Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama
With the $1.6 billion Dominion lawsuit threatening to hobble Fox News, the ink on his divorce to Jerry Hall still wet, and his broken engagement to Ann Lesley Smith even fresher, it’s been a chaotic 12 months for the 92-year-old conservative media baron. As Fox and family insiders tell it, this could just be the beginning.
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The Guardian • Lorena Allam • April 13, 2023 • theguardian.com
‘Dog act’: NT police minister reacts angrily to Peter Dutton’s claims of Alice Springs child sexual abuse
Traditional owners call opposition leader’s claims ‘insulting’ and Labor demands he stop using the town as ‘a political football’
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The Guardian • Amanda Meade • April 13, 2023 • theguardian.com
News Corp Australia publishes lottery promotions presented as news stories about winners
Media giant is paid for publishing the articles and receives a share of ticket sales through links on the page
The Guardian • Paul Karp • April 12, 2023 • theguardian.com
High court ruling casts doubt on hundreds of Australian visa refusals
Majority of judges find that bureaucrats cannot decide whether the minister should consider intervening, as department policy dictates
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Paul Karp@Paul_Karp
Funny thing about There Will Be Court Cases whinge against Voice: yesterday govt took a big L in a migration case (100s of visa refusals at risk) and nobody else reported it.
Is litigation the end of the world/very newsworthy? If so, why no coverage?
theguardian.com/australia-news…
April 13, 2023
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • April 13, 2023 • theguardian.com
Defence whistleblower David McBride to stand trial four years and eight months after being charged
Trial set down for 6 November for former military lawyer accused of leaking classified Australian defence information to journalists
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Kieran Pender@KieranHRLC
My comments to @knausc: 'This case should never have commenced; but it is not too late for @MarkDreyfusKCMP to end it. Rather than prosecuting whistleblowers, the govt should get on with fixing whistleblowing law & ensuring accountability' theguardian.com/australia-news…
April 13, 2023
The Guardian • Paul Karp • April 13, 2023 • theguardian.com
Albanese government axing external debt collectors in bid to prevent another robodebt
Welfare debt reform means citizens are no longer ‘guilty until proven innocent’, says government services minister Bill Shorten
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The Age • Rachael Dexter • April 13, 2023 • theage.com.au
Drag event for children cancelled after threats, harassment
An Easter event for children featuring drag performers was cancelled and a Melbourne cafe owner contacted police after receiving threatening messages.
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The Guardian • Tamsin Rose • April 13, 2023 • theguardian.com
‘Get out of the way’: Rose Jackson’s social housing warning for ‘anti-development’ Sydney suburbs
Exclusive: New minister for housing is ‘very motivated to just push through’ with ‘desperately needed’ developments
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Elias Visontay@EliasVisontay
New South Wales’ new housing minister wants to make one thing very clear: medium- and high-density social housing developments should be built in Sydney’s north shore and eastern suburbs. And if the residents there don’t embrace them? Too bad @tamsinroses theguardian.com/australia-news…
April 13, 2023
Crikey • Cam Wilson • April 13, 2023 • crikey.com.au
'Violence, fixation and harassment': internal AFP briefing reveals sovereign citizen concern
Months before the Wieambilla shooting, police internally raised the alarm about sovereign citizens.
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cameron wilson@cameronwilson
Scoop: I got my hands on an Australian Federal Police briefing on Australian sovereign citizens.
Months before the Wieambilla shootings, they warned of "violence, fixation and harassment"
I'm sharing the briefing so you can read it for yourself:
crikey.com.au/2023/04/13/sov…
April 13, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick Bonyhady • April 13, 2023 • smh.com.au
Coles to put 500 plus stores on Uber Eats in major gig economy expansion
The partnership will allow gig-economy workers, with no right to a minimum wage, to undertake key tasks, including picking and packing orders, for one of the country’s largest grocery retailers.
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Nick Bonyhady@nickbonyhady
Exclusive: massive expansion of the gig economy as Coles and Uber Eats ink deal to put 500+ supermarkets on the platform. Uber workers will be picking customers' orders from store shelves, putting them in effective competition with regular staff.
smh.com.au/technology/col…
April 13, 2023
The Washington Post • Shane Harris, Samuel Oakford • April 13, 2023 • washingtonpost.com
Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says
In interviews with a member of the Discord group where intelligence documents were shared, The Washington Post learned details of the alleged leaker, “OG.”
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The New York Times • Katie Robertson, Jeremy W. Peters • April 13, 2023 • nytimes.com
Judge Imposes Sanction on Fox for Withholding Evidence in Defamation Case
Judge Eric Davis also said an investigation was likely into Fox’s handling of documents and whether it had withheld details about Rupert Murdoch’s corporate role.
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The Guardian • Josh Butler, Paul Karp • April 13, 2023 • theguardian.com
Julian Leeser says Liberal proposal for symbolic Indigenous constitutional recognition ‘not enough’
Former shadow minister says ‘what’s the point of doing this if it’s not going to shift the dial on the ground?’
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ABC News • Nicholas Ward, Christian Cominos, Bill Ormonde • April 13, 2023 • abc.net.au
SA's last locally produced commercial regional news show axed
The ABC understands some Southern Cross Austereo staff were unaware that last night's broadcast was the final one.
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The Age • Sumeyya Ilanbey • April 12, 2023 • theage.com.au
Senior Liberal blames Scott Morrison’s unpopularity for historic Aston loss
Ian Quick identified three major reasons the party lost the seat of Aston: parachuting in the candidate Roshena Campbell, running a poor local campaign, and voters’ negative perceptions of former prime minister Scott Morrison.
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The Age • Jack Latimore • April 13, 2023 • theage.com.au
AFL great Eddie Betts backs the Voice: ‘It’s a small step, but the right step’
Betts is an influential figure and his backing is expected to lead to more First Nations players stepping forward to support the Indigenous Voice to parliament.
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NPR • David Folkenflik • April 12, 2023 • npr.org
NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
NPR's official Twitter feeds have gone silent. The news organization cites the social media platform's decision to question NPR's editorial independence through a series of inaccurate labels.
The Age • Rachael Dexter • April 13, 2023 • theage.com.au
Drag queen targeted by threats calls for tougher response from authorities
Drag queen Millie-Anne Problems said she was “sickened” by the threats to track her down.
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ABC News • Ryma Tchier • April 13, 2023 • abc.net.au
Tunisia has been condemned for 'unacceptable attacks and racist violence'. Here's how it all started
Tunisia's revolution was the spark that ignited the Arab Spring. But 10 years on, its economy is failing and observers say an increasingly authoritarian government is using black Africans as scapegoats, inciting a wave of racially motivated violence and rhetoric.
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