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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter FitzSimons • April 16, 2023 • smh.com.au
‘From the beginning I felt the power of this thing’: One man’s epic journey for recognition
A key advocate for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, author and union official Thomas Mayo has spent years travelling the country lobbying for constitutional change.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
Urge you to read this. The Voice. Thomas Mayo is a hugely impressive figure, inspiring. The real deal. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
April 16, 2023
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 New York Times • Maureen Dowd • April 15, 2023 • nytimes.com
Opinion | When the Mad Lead the Blind
Lear, Murdoch, Trump and America’s gerontocracy.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • April 16, 2023 • theguardian.com
Australia must realise the best form of rent control is public housing | Alistair Sisson
Increasing private housing supply alone is not an adequate response to the urgent problem of rising rents
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jack Latimore • April 16, 2023 • smh.com.au
Dutton’s Alice Springs stance takes inspiration from NT intervention playbook
Peter Dutton is taking a real problem - that of violent alcohol-fuelled youth crime in Alice Springs - and twisting it for his own political ends.
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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
The Guardian • Robert Reich • April 15, 2023 • theguardian.com
The modern Republican party is hurtling towards fascism
We are witnessing the logical culmination of win-at-any-cost politics – and Donald Trump has encouraged it
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The Guardian • Catherine Bennett • April 16, 2023 • theguardian.com
As Charles is bestowed with mystical powers, so much for a secular coronation
The Church of England is doing its best to turn the new king and queen into latter-day deities
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The Guardian • James Tapper • April 15, 2023 • theguardian.com
Orient Express to axe UK section after 41 years due to Brexit
Luxury train operator cuts service ahead of biometric passport checks so passengers will have to join train in Paris
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The Australian • Paul Kelly • April 15, 2023 • theaustralian.com.au
Peter Dutton’s Liberal Party is in ciris: can it fight back?
The Liberal Party risks sleepwalking into decline and marginalisation. The issue facing the party is whether it grasps and is capable of responding to the multiple dilemmas it faces that surely constitute the party’s most serious crisis since its formation by Sir Robert Menzies.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jane Cadzow • April 15, 2023 • smh.com.au
‘What are you, a spy?’: When academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert met comedian Sami Shah
Kylie Moore-Gilbert spent two years imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges. She’s now expecting a baby with her partner, comedian Sami Shah.
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The Age • Jack Latimore • April 16, 2023 • theage.com.au
Revealing Naarm: Interactive map reveals hidden Indigenous histories of major sites
Some of Melbourne’s most recognised stadiums and buildings occupy sites that once saw Naarm’s Indigenous people gather to carry out ceremonial rites and corroborees.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • April 16, 2023 • smh.com.au
‘Domino effect’: Liberal supporters of the Voice preparing formal Yes campaign
In the days before Peter Dutton announced his party would oppose the Voice referendum, a WhatsApp group of pro-Voice Liberals popped up.
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The Saturday Paper • Hugh White • April 15, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Why Australia’s China strategy is dangerous
China’s military escalation over Taiwan this week shows the futility of the US’s plan for ‘guardrails’ to manage tensions, and the risk of Australia being led ever closer to war.
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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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ABC News • Victoria Pengilley, Charlotte King, Andy Burns • April 16, 2023 • abc.net.au
'He would have been afraid': Child abuse allegations in $170m ABSTUDY scheme
Providers from government-run hostels to elite boarding schools share in more than $170 million per year in ABSTUDY funding to support First Nations children going to high school away from home, however, stories of alleged abuse indicate better oversight is needed.
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Brisbane Times • Cloe Read • April 15, 2023 • brisbanetimes.com.au
‘Cruel and unusual’: Child held in jail for a month, unable to plead guilty
The boy was regularly detained in solitary confinement for 23 hours and 59 minutes per day, a judge said.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Georgina Mitchell, Laura Chung • April 16, 2023 • smh.com.au
Climate protesters charged after stopping coal train in Newcastle
More than a dozen protestors climbed atop a coal carriage with ladders at about 10am on Sunday, after flagging down the train.
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ABC News • Brett Worthington • April 16, 2023 • abc.net.au
'Too silly for words': Barrister hits back at criticism of two words in Voice proposal
To most, executive government seems a pretty straightforward notion: government ministers and the departments they oversee. But others are seeking to weaponise the phrase, writes Brett Worthington.
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Australian Financial Review • Joe Aston • April 16, 2023 • afr.com
Alan Joyce has had enough
The problem for people who surround themselves exclusively with sycophants is that they become ill-equipped to cope with negative feedback.
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