Thursday, May 11, 2023 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Sydney Morning Herald • Shane Wright • May 10, 2023 • smh.com.au
GST deal to win WA voters blows out 45 per cent to $30 billion
It was supposed to cost $2.3 billion. But a special deal to help Western Australia is now on track to cost federal taxpayers $30 billion.
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Shane Wright@swrighteconomy
Imagine if a govt policy was 13 times more expensive than originally promised? No, not the NDIS. The GST deal for WA, penned by the Morrison govt, was supposed to cost $2.3b. The budget shows it's now on its way to $30b ... smh.com.au/politics/feder…
May 11, 2023
The Guardian • Jim Waterson • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
Piers Morgan knew of phone hacking when at the Mirror, high court hears
Barrister acting for Prince Harry and others says former editor must have known about illegal behaviour
The Australian • RACHEL BAXENDALE • May 11, 2023 • theaustralian.com.au
Moira Deeming serves John Pesutto with defamation notice ahead of Liberal party room meeting
Moira Deeming has served John Pesutto with a defamation concerns notice, 24 hours before the state parliamentary party is due to vote on a second motion to expel her.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
State governments forced to indemnify church bodies for child abuse due to insurance ‘market failure’
Exclusive: In Queensland alone, temporary agreements relating to 18 organisations guarantee to pay out survivors where institutions are financially unable to do so
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Miki Perkins • May 11, 2023 • smh.com.au
Black Summer bushfire smoke likely triggered record flooding
Smoke from the Black Summer bushfires increased cloud cover over the Pacific, cooled sea surface temperatures and likely influenced the formation of the rare triple La Nina weather pattern.
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Miki Perkins@perkinsmiki
New story from me today - this was SUCH an interesting story to cover. And yes, eVerYtHing is FinE 😶‍🌫️
Black Summer bushfire smoke likely triggered three-year La Nina and Australia's record flooding theage.com.au/environment/cl…
May 11, 2023
The Guardian • Amanda Meade • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
ABC announces job losses amid biggest restructure since 2017
Managing director, David Anderson, told staff ‘this in no ways diminishes the importance of what we do’
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
The labour shortage in regional towns forced our daughter out of childcare | Lucy Jones
The email from the childcare centre said they were closing the nursery and toddler rooms due to lack of staff – leaving our 18-month-old without a place
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The Guardian • Tamsin Rose • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
NSW government moves to ban political donations from clubs with poker machines
Exclusive: Proposed changes to the state’s electoral funding act will treat some venues similar to developers
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Tamsin Rose@tamsinroses
Exclusive: The political influence of clubs in New South Wales will be curtailed under proposed laws banning donations from venues with poker machines that are being introduced to the state parliament today. theguardian.com/australia-news…
May 11, 2023
The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy, Marni Cordell • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
How a leaked USB stick became the Nauru files – a tale of brutality and despair told in 160,000 words | Ten years of Guardian Australia
A huge cache of reports from the heart of Australia’s immigration detention regime led to a Guardian scoop – and lasting change to how the country treats asylum seekers
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The Guardian • Donna Lu • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
Black summer bushfires may have caused rare ‘triple dip’ La Niña, study suggests
Smoke aerosols from the fires interacted with clouds to cool the south-eastern Pacific, helping the wet weather pattern to form, scientists believe
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The Age • Annika Smethurst, Broede Carmody • May 11, 2023 • theage.com.au
Deeming fires off defamation threat to Pesutto
Opposition Leader John Pesutto’s office confirmed a letter had been received, saying its contents foreshadowed legal proceedings.
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James Massola@jamesmassola
Episode 473 of the long-running series "the Victorian Liberal Party setting itself on fire" has just dropped. theage.com.au/politics/victo…
May 11, 2023
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
How The Good Guys got it wrong on the risks of gas cooktops, and Bob Katter’s new vest | Temperature Check
The sales pitch for new cookers ignored concern about the danger of burning fossil fuel in your home, and the move towards electric induction hobs
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lisa Visentin • May 11, 2023 • smh.com.au
Wong in full flight on housing attack as Labor, Greens scramble for moral high ground
The foreign minister disposed of the diplomatic gloves as she lashed Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather over his party’s blocking of the government’s signature housing bill.
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Stephanie Peatling@srpeatling
Some dirty politics - my favourite kind - on display in the Senate today including the return of killer Penny Wong. Read this take by @LisaVisentin with some typically excellent @ellinghausen pictures.
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May 11, 2023
The Guardian • Greg Jericho • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
Instead of winning plaudits, why did Jim Chalmers’ budget surplus leave pundits nonplussed?
There’s a glorious irony that a surplus, after so many deficits, attracted such little attention
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The Age • Ross Gittins, Rachel Clun • May 10, 2023 • smh.com.au
Your top budget questions answered: Our experts explain the details
From energy prices to housing affordability, here’s what you wanted to know about the federal budget.
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The Guardian • Paul Karp • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
Clive Palmer’s company plans to sue Australia in fresh claim, budget papers reveal
Exclusive: Palmer’s Zeph Investments could receive compensation if successful in second and potential third dispute beyond existing $296bn case
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The Guardian • Fleur Connick • May 11, 2023 • theguardian.com
NSW announces $2m to research regional motor neurone disease hotspot
Rates of the disease in Griffith, Wagga Wagga and Leeton are seven times the national average and researchers suspect a link to blue-green algae
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The Monthly • Rachel Withers • May 11, 2023 • themonthly.com.au
Home fires burning
Today’s Senate antics over the housing bill do away with any notion that we are seeing a “new politics” from Labor
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Colin Kruger • May 11, 2023 • smh.com.au
Treasury weighs criminal case against former PwC partner
Treasury is reviewing whether a criminal investigation should be pursued against Peter Collins, the former PwC partner who masterminded the tax avoidance scandal engulfing the firm.
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
Given the willingness of the Commonwealth to prosecute public interest whistleblowers for releasing government information it is hard to imagine why they wouldn’t prosecute a private contractor who leaked government information for private gain #auspol
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May 11, 2023
ABC Radio National • Patricia Karvelas, Fran Kelly, Lara Heaton, Julia Holman • May 11, 2023 • abc.net.au
Is Labor's Budget fair, and will it add to inflation?
This week, Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down the Albanese Government's second Budget. And alongside a surprise $4 billion surplus, it promised $14.6 billion in cost-of-living relief, which the Government claims won't add to inflation. The Opposition and the crossbench have been critical of the measures, so does the Budget provide enough for Australians? Danielle Wood, CEO of the Grattan Institute joins Patricia Karvelas and Fran Kelly to crunch the numbers.
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