Sunday, April 23, 2023 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • April 23, 2023 • smh.com.au
Voters favour tax breaks, childcare subsidies for working women over JobSeeker raise
The federal budget will include additional funding to encourage more women to return to work, as new polling shows people favour tax breaks and childcare subsidies for female workers.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter FitzSimons • April 23, 2023 • smh.com.au
Sam Neill on life, love, lymphoma and his brilliant career
Neill’s memoir, spurred by a cancer diagnosis, delves into the twists and turns of an unusual life.
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The Guardian • Sian Cain • April 22, 2023 • theguardian.com
Barry Humphries, Australian comedian and creator of Dame Edna Everage, dies aged 89
Famed for personas that also included the vulgar Sir Les Patterson, Humphries became a household name in a seven-decade career
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Sarah McPhee • April 21, 2023 • smh.com.au
‘The disease got me’: Financial planner who gambled $3.3 million jailed for nine years
Gavin Fineff was motivated by his gambling addiction when he defrauded a dozen clients between October 2016 and March 2020.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Tawar Razaghi • April 23, 2023 • smh.com.au
Samantha’s son was stressed about a rent hike, so she bought him a house
The bank of mum and dad started off with cash gifts or going guarantor. But the housing crisis has prompted more parents to take matters into their own hands.
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NSW Teachers Federation • Jason Gerke • April 23, 2023 • nswtf.org.au
Urgent action required to address teacher shortages
New figures showing 2,172 permanent teaching positions were vacant in NSW public schools in February reinforce the urgent need for […]
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • April 23, 2023 • smh.com.au
Do we need 234 MPs? Labor open to expanding parliament
The number of MPs has not increased since the Hawke government, and they now represent triple the people they did at Federation.
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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • April 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
Larger-bodied airline passengers forced to pay for two seats prompts call for clearer anti-discrimination laws
Advocates say rules for ‘guests of size’ are inconsistent across Australian aviation, generating anxiety and unfair costs for those affected
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Sky News Australia • Andrew Clennell • April 21, 2023 • skynews.com.au
Marles makes surprise admission about time in shadow cabinet
Five years before Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles worked on the historic AUKUS deal with the US, he spent 24 hours aboard a submarine so he would know exactly what it was like to crew an Australian defence vessel.
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The Guardian • Henry Belot • April 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
Australian aged care providers accused of ‘crying poor’ to lobby for government funding
Analyst suggests some in the industry are misleading the public about their financial position to demand higher fees
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news.com.au • Ellen Ransley • April 20, 2023 • news.com.au
‘A bit rich’: Sign tax changes are likely
Industry Minister Ed Husic says it’s “a bit rich” for oil and gas companies to try to turn down the pressure ahead of suspected tax changes.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • April 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
Australia’s farmers call for backup plan after GPS tractor-steering system fails
A satellite that issues a correction signal to most Australian farm machinery went down this week, leaving farmers in the lurch
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Shane Wright • April 21, 2023 • smh.com.au
Reserve Bank overhaul has been a long time coming
The review of the RBA released this week is grounded in three key steps that have now led to the biggest shake-up of the central bank.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • April 22, 2023 • theguardian.com
Lachlan Murdoch’s decision to drop the Crikey defamation suit atones for the misjudgment of suing in the first place | Matt Collins
Discontinuation of defamation proceedings was no less remarkable than the decision to sue the minnow publisher
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Chris Barrett • April 23, 2023 • smh.com.au
Australian ties behind Malaysia’s shift on death penalty
His father tried to save Australian Kevin Barlow, now Ramkarpal Singh has ushered through reforms on the death penalty.
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Australian Financial Review • Sam Buckingham-Jones • April 23, 2023 • afr.com
AI should pay for news content: Rod Sims
Large language AI models such as Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine could be forced to pay millions to media firms.
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ABC News • Georgia Hitch • April 23, 2023 • abc.net.au
Labor considers single-parenting payment changes for budget
The finance minister says the government is looking seriously at a recommendation to expand the single-parenting payment to more mothers, acknowledging it is "hard" to live on the current JobSeeker rate.
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The Guardian • Dani Anguiano • April 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
A California journalist documents the far-right takeover of her town: ‘We’re a test case’
Doni Chamberlain’s been a journalist in Shasta county for nearly 30 years. Now she’s targeted by the extremists who are looking to reshape the region
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The New York Times • Margalit Fox • April 22, 2023 • nytimes.com
Barry Humphries (Dame Edna to You, Possums) Is Dead at 89
Bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, Mr. Humphries’s creation was one of the longest-lived characters ever channeled by a single performer.
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • April 17, 2023 • crikey.com.au
'Kochie lived a full and meaningful life': fake celeb death ads use hacked accounts to promote crypto scam
'Just for clarity I'm alive,' Sunrise host David Koch tweeted in response to a post about his death from an account promoting a crypto scam.
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cameron wilson@cameronwilson
There's an interesting story behind last week's 'Kochie is dead' tweets.
It looks like someone hacked a Twitter account, racked up $1k+ of ads on MuskNews.net fake news articles to promote a scam crypto trading platform.
(Kochie is OK AFAIK)
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April 17, 2023

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