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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • April 14, 2023 • news.com.au
‘Never saw the money’: Bombshell exposed
She was the founder and public face of the Teach Us Consent movement that helped galvanise governments into sinking over $75 million into improving sex education in the nation’s schools.
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Ronni Salt@RonniSalt
I know you'll find this very hard to believe, but Scott Morrison made a huge announcement in March 2022, claiming he was granting $100M to the Teach Us Consent organisation
Then Scott did nothing
The money was never there, never organised
#shockedface
news.com.au/national/polit…
April 15, 2023
MSNBC • MSNBC.com • April 15, 2023 • msnbc.com
‘No individual alive has done more to divide America than Murdoch’ Fmr. Australian PM Turnbull says
On Monday, the trial begins in the Dominion defamation trial, which it is said will outline how Fox hosts lied to their audiences and riled up the MAGA base in the runup to the January 6 insurrection. That division and dishonesty created under Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch is discussed by the former prime minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, who joins Joy Reid. Turnbull says on The ReidOut that Murdoch has done more to undermine American democracy than any other individual alive.
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The Saturday Paper • Thomas Mayo • April 15, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The right side of history
Recently, speaking at a school, I asked the teachers to imagine how they would feel telling children in the future that in 2023 Australia voted “No” at the Voice referendum. I asked them to imagine how it would feel and it brought me to tears. In that moment, I thought about my children, my future grandchildren, all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, learning with
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Ronni Salt@RonniSalt
This moved me to tears.
Powerful, authentic, evocative writing from @thomasmayo23 on what the Voice truly means to many Indigenous Australians.
Read it - not just for your own understanding - but for your soul.
(Free link 👇🏽) #TheVoice
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/15846/hX…
April 15, 2023
Michael West • Jommy Tee • April 15, 2023 • michaelwest.com.au
Australian War Memorial artefacts melted for medals in English boat race
Governor-General's man, army generals, a former MP and a rowing promoter had Australian War Memorial artefacts melted for Henley Regatta.
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The Saturday Paper • John Hewson • April 15, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Dutton is leading in the wrong direction
This growing willingness to write off the Liberal Party is a sign of something dangerous. It’s fair to dismiss the party as out of touch after resounding defeats in the federal election and more recently in the Aston byelection. But these failures, and the apparent inability to learn from them, are deeply unsettling. Our democracy depends crucially on a strong and effective
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The Saturday Paper • Karen Middleton • April 15, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Inside story: How Peter Dutton set up the ‘No’ vote
When Julian Leeser spoke at the National Press Club last week, he had no idea Peter Dutton was going to fix the Liberal Party’s position on the Voice. In the days afterwards he decided he had no choice but to quit the frontbench.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Ben Schneiders • April 15, 2023 • smh.com.au
Inside Australia’s university wage theft machine
Casual and sessional workers tell their stories of being underpaid and exploited by some of Australia’s most respected and prestigious institutions.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • April 14, 2023 • theguardian.com
Voting yes to the voice is a liberal act to empower Indigenous Australians to take responsibility for their lives | Bridget Archer and Fiona Martin
Many Liberals want to walk with Indigenous Australians toward a future that rights the wrongs of the past
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola, Lisa Visentin • April 15, 2023 • smh.com.au
Dutton has staked everything on his stand against the Voice
Even if Australians vote No in the referendum, the opposition leader will be damaged. But he had little choice.
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The Australian • Greg Craven • April 15, 2023 • theaustralian.com.au
Greg Craven: Why I will join Julian Leeser in Indigenous voice to parliament Yes push
I am not a responsible or a reasonable man. I am a conservative constitutional lawyer. My opinions are like easily provoked German shepherds, released daily to savage my opponents.
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Paul Austin@PaulNAustin
Greg Craven has changed his mind
‘I will argue, campaign, and if necessary bleed for The Voice’
#auspol #VoiceToParliament
theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/greg-…
April 15, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • Charlotte Grieve • April 14, 2023 • smh.com.au
This man was almost murdered on Nauru as a refugee. He wants protection in Australia
Tamil refugee Rajeskuma Rajagopal was nearly killed when run over by a car and beaten on Nauru. He believes the Australian government failed to keep him safe and is now calling on Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil to use her powers to grant him protection.
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The Guardian • Ben Smee • April 15, 2023 • theguardian.com
‘Like a boiling broth’: concerns after video of gas seep in Queensland river emerges
Exclusive: Origin Energy says it has monitored the bubbling water since 2015, along with other seep locations
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The Saturday Paper • April 15, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Dutton’s grift
This is the grift. Peter Dutton flies to Alice Springs and says they should send in the federal police. He meets with a white bakery owner who is concerned about crime in the town. He says there are no consequences for “kids and adults”.
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The Saturday Paper • Jon Kudelka • April 15, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Jon Kudelka cartoon, April 15, 2023
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Bachelard, Nick McKenzie • April 14, 2023 • smh.com.au
Stuart Robert stood to gain financially from friends’ company, inquiry told
A parliamentary inquiry has heard a senior public servant met the owners of Synergy 360 at the home of a co-owner while the firm was advising clients on Services Australia contracts.
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The Age@theage
A series of multi-million dollar contracts linked to a friend of former Morrison government minister Stuart Robert will come under fresh scrutiny as new revelations emerge about a senior public servant allegedly involved in some of the contracts.
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
April 14, 2023
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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Stephen Mayne@MayneReport
Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama | Vanity Fair. There are about 50 cracking anecdotes on the Murdochs in this piece. So many insiders are talking. vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/r…
April 14, 2023
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • April 14, 2023 • theguardian.com
African journalists are dying. They need the world’s help to hold power to account
A politician being investigated for corruption in Ghana has called for me to be hanged, but with my colleagues I am determined to take on the kleptocrats
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The Guardian • Khaled Al Khawaldeh • April 15, 2023 • theguardian.com
‘We can’t afford to lose’: the campaign for a yes vote in north Queensland
Advocacy group Together, Yes is holding information sessions to help people hold conversations in support of the Indigenous voice
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The Guardian • Peter Hannam • April 15, 2023 • theguardian.com
Turning out the lights: what is the legacy of the Liddell power station?
In the first of a two-part report, we look at the successes – and the costs – of what once was Australia’s largest power station
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The Guardian • Lorena Allam • April 14, 2023 • theguardian.com
Kerry O’Brien gives impassioned defence of Indigenous voice to parliament at hearing
Former ABC journalist tells joint select committee on voice wording that it is a ‘simple and unambitious and unthreatening’ proposal
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Jane Caro@JaneCaro
I bloody love Kerry O’Brien and he is brilliant here. theguardian.com/australia-news…
April 14, 2023

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