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Yahoo News • Michael Dahlstrom • May 9, 2023 • au.news.yahoo.com
152 koalas killed in private forest by US company: 'Not good enough'
Alcoa assessed 348 koalas around its smelter in Portland and found many to be in poor health. Find out more.
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JON DEE (JonDee.com)@JonDeeOz
Is this a record for the most koalas killed by a single company at a single site?
US company ⁦@Alcoa⁩ has euthanised 152 koalas in a private forest near their facility in Victoria.
Words totally fail me. Why aren’t we doing more to protect koalas? au.news.yahoo.com/152-koalas-kil…
May 9, 2023
The New Daily • Alan Kohler • May 10, 2023 • thenewdaily.com.au
Alan Kohler: A beautiful, lucky, meaningless budget
Jim Chalmers has produced a budget document that beautifully navigates the difficult terrain of economics and politics.
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Crikey • John Buckley • May 10, 2023 • crikey.com.au
Rupert Murdoch could be forced to appear before royal commission, Greens say
The inquiry would set out to probe Australia’s regulatory framework and the effect of ownership laws on media concentration.
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Crikey@crikey_news
EXCLUSIVE: The Greens will introduce a bill to establish a royal commission into Murdoch-controlled media assets and media diversity in Australia, which could compel Rupert Murdoch to give evidence. @johnbuckley_ reports.
crikey.com.au/2023/05/10/rup…
May 10, 2023
ABC News • Laura Tingle • May 10, 2023 • abc.net.au
Chalmers's budget may only deliver one forecast surplus, but that's enough to bring on a political shift
Jim Chalmers's second budget delivers a shift in the politics of the last 15 years, which have been dominated by relentless Coalition attacks on Labor's economic and fiscal record as a result of the budget blowout in the global financial crisis, writes Laura Tingle.
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The Guardian • First Dog on the Moon • May 10, 2023 • theguardian.com
No complaining! Everyone is a winner with this Labor budget!
Oh you’d prefer the Morrison government would you??!
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Farrah Tomazin • May 10, 2023 • smh.com.au
Jury finds Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll, awards millions in damages
The New York court, however, found the ex-president did not rape the prominent writer in a lingerie dressing room in the mid-1990s.
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Vanity Fair • Dan Adler • May 10, 2023 • vanityfair.com
The Stunning Clarity of the E. Jean Carroll–Donald Trump Verdict
In returning a liable verdict in the civil trial, a federal jury decided the former president, who has so rarely faced consequences for his conduct, should pay $5 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation.
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Chris Wallace😷@c_s_wallace
Kaplan showed a chart of Carroll’s allegations alongside those of two other women who testified. The common elements: “Semi-Public Place,” “Grab Suddenly,” & “Not My Type.”
“Three different women, decades apart…but one single pattern of behavior.” vanityfair.com/style/2023/05/…
May 10, 2023
CNN • Mark Morales, Evan Perez, Gregory Krieg • May 10, 2023 • cnn.com
First on CNN: Rep. George Santos charged by Justice Department in federal probe
Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against New York Rep. George Santos, the Republican lawmaker whose astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications stunned even hardened politicos, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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ABC Alumni • May 9, 2023 • abcalumni.net
We don’t want to seem ungrateful, but…
The Federal Budget is in, and the news for the ABC is promising. No more cuts, no more freezes, and some modest improvements. But as Alan Sunderland writes, the biggest problem – the long-term sign…
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The Sydney Morning Herald • May 9, 2023 • smh.com.au
‘Institution’ Ross Gittins marks 50th federal budget for the Herald
Economics editor Ross Gittins has recorded another milestone and, in his own words: “I’ve got more things I’m bursting to say than I’ve ever had.”
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Shane Wright@swrighteconomy
The great @1RossGittins ... 50 budgets, not out. Every economics writer in this country is indebted to Ross .. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
May 10, 2023
The Guardian • Greg Jericho • May 9, 2023 • theguardian.com
Australia budget 2023: six graphs that explain this one-off surplus
From the one-time surplus to the budget’s impact on inflation, here’s what you need to know
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Greg Jericho@GrogsGamut
$20 a week extra for Jobseeker? Let's just say it isn't really making things all that easier
theguardian.com/australia-news…
May 9, 2023
news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • May 10, 2023 • news.com.au
Federal budget tax cuts for rich Australians worth five times handouts to the poor
High income workers earning $200,000 a year are set to score a $9000 tax cut next year, but you wouldn’t know it if you read the budget papers.
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • May 10, 2023 • theguardian.com
Knitting Nannas tell court NSW protest laws have left them ‘frightened’ to take climate action
Two members of the environmental group are challenging new laws which impose jail terms for demonstrations that disrupt major roads or public facilities
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Ross Gittins • May 9, 2023 • smh.com.au
This is the budget of a government that wants to be loved by everyone
Labor is doing as little as it can to annoy anyone, and in doing so is doing little to help with the many troubles we currently face.
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The Guardian • Laura Murphy-Oates, Lenore Taylor, Paul Karp, Anne Davies, Adam Morton, Peter Hannam, Miles Herbert, Miles Martignoni • May 10, 2023 • theguardian.com
A little help from Labor in a battlers’ budget – but is it enough?
Guardian Australia reporters break down the budget’s key features, plus chief political correspondent Paul Karp and editor Lenore Taylor explain whether the relief is enough for voters to keep the faith
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Jane Lee@JaneSYLee
Labor’s first full-year budget gets the Full Story treatment with @lauramoates speaking with @lenoretaylor and @Paul_Karp today theguardian.com/australia-news…
May 10, 2023
BBC News • https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews • May 10, 2023 • bbc.com
Cheng Lei: 1,000 days imprisoned in China for an unknown reason
Australian journalist Cheng Lei's partner tells the BBC he hopes for an end to her "awful situation".
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ABC News • Andrew Greene • May 10, 2023 • abc.net.au
Auditor's scathing assessment of $45b future frigates program
Australia's troubled $45 billion project to build future frigates is facing a significant blow-out, with the auditor-general slamming Defence for failing to properly consider value for money during the tender process.
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Andrew Greene@AndrewBGreene
"At January 2023 the project was forecast to exceed the whole of project budget approved by government by a significant amount” abc.net.au/news/2023-05-1…
May 10, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • Bruce Wolpe • May 10, 2023 • smh.com.au
Trump boasted he could shoot someone and not lose a vote. What about a sex abuse finding?
The former president is somehow able to defy political gravity that would claim other mortals. It is astonishing.
Australian Associated Press • watermark feed • May 9, 2023 • aap.com.au
Palmer simply wrong on Indigenous rights claim
Clive Palmer has claimed Indigenous Australians will lose several fundamental rights if the 'yes' vote succeeds in the voice to parliament referendum.
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ABC News • Julius Dennis • May 10, 2023 • abc.net.au
Queensland police arrested Hussein for hacking a university in 2013 — he would have been 12 years old
The 21-year-old student says he went to the Carina Police Station in February to pay a parking fine, but was soon surrounded by six officers. He's since appeared in court four times under another man's name.
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