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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • June 25, 2023 • smh.com.au
Former federal Labor leader Simon Crean dies, aged 74
Simon Crean, a key figure in the union movement and the Australian Labor Party over four decades, died suddenly in Germany while undertaking trade and business meetings.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • June 25, 2023 • smh.com.au
Every word of Crean’s defining counter to John Howard on Iraq
Simon Crean excoriated John Howard’s decision to commit Australia troops to Iraq, in an address to parliament that helped shaped his legacy.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
"I believe that political leaders should always tell the truth. This is especially so when committing troops to war. The prime minister failed that test."
Every word of Simon Crean's address to parliament on February 5, 2003.
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June 25, 2023
Australian Financial Review • Edmund Tadros, Neil Chenoweth, Kylar Loussikian • June 25, 2023 • afr.com
Allegro to pay just $1 to save PwC’s government business
About 130 PwC partners and about 1750 staff from the firm’s embattled government consulting arm will join a new company codenamed Bell under the cut-price deal.
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Mark Di Stefano@MarkDiStef
Wild scoop: After being caught using leaked tax plans, PwC is flogging its lucrative government consulting business - rebranding it “Bell” - to a private equity firm for $1
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June 25, 2023
Australian Financial Review • Edmund Tadros, Neil Chenoweth • June 25, 2023 • afr.com
PwC global seizes control of Australia firm, replaces CEO
PwC’s global leaders parachuted in the network’s global clients and industries leader Kevin Burrowes to take over from Kristin Stubbins after selling its government operations for $1.
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Edmund Tadros@edmundtadros
Massive developments in the PwC Australia tax leaks saga:
PwC global seizes control of Australia firm, replaces CEO
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> Kevin Burrowes to become CEO, replacing acting CEO Kristin Stubbins AM
June 25, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • Sherryn Groch • June 25, 2023 • smh.com.au
The universities spending millions on consultants like PwC
UNSW spent $38 million on consultants in 2022, while the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland each paid out more than $37 million.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • June 25, 2023 • theguardian.com
‘Cathedral of the Wimmera’: the wartime grain storage putting a small Victorian town on the map
The Stick Shed, a water tower taxidermy museum, and the silo art trail are drawing 20,000 tourists a year to Murtoa
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The Age • Andrew Wu • June 25, 2023 • theage.com.au
The Asian-Australians forging the way forward in football
A common thread in their stories is their family’s greater emphasis on education over sport, how rare it was to encounter other people with similar cultural backgrounds, and their experiences of racism.
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ABC News • Gareth Hutchens • June 25, 2023 • abc.net.au
The Reserve Bank wants more unemployment. It should be applauded for admitting it
The Reserve Bank says it needs unemployment to rise to bring inflation down, and we should welcome their plain speaking, writes Gareth Hutchens.
ABC News • Natasya Salim, Erwin Renaldi • June 25, 2023 • abc.net.au
Maya had 'the best six months' of her life in Indonesia, but it wasn't in Bali
For these Australians, studying abroad opened their eyes to the colour and complexity of life in a close neighbouring country.
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mirror • David Dubas-Fisher, Tim Hanlon • June 23, 2023 • mirror.co.uk
UK's sewage hotspots mapped as Brits warned to avoid these beaches and rivers
Brits can use this map tool to see the hotspots for sewage spillages around the country including treated and untreated waste so that they can be avoided this summer
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the Guardian • https://www.theguardian.com/profile/helen-livingstone,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tombryant,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nadeembadshah… • June 26, 2023 • theguardian.com
Wagner uprising ‘a direct challenge to Putin’ and shows ‘real cracks’ in Russia’s military direction, US says – Russia-Ukraine war live
US secretary of state Antony Blinken says aborted Wagner uprising creates greater openings for Ukrainians to succeed on ground
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty, Eden Gillespie • June 25, 2023 • theguardian.com
Last refugee on Nauru evacuated as Australian government says offshore processing policy remains
Decention centre on Pacific island ‘ready to receive and process’ any new unauthorised maritime arrivals at an annual cost of $350m
The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy • June 25, 2023 • theguardian.com
Australia’s international students cry foul over demands to take $400 English test multiple times
Students claim conflict of interest because universities have financial interests in language tests, while Greens argue system has ‘xenophobic undertones’
The Saturday Paper • Thomas Mayo • June 24, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
A very simple ‘Yes’
With the fearmongering tactics from sections of the “No” campaign intensifying, the referendum later this year is becoming a question of courage. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have demonstrated courage. As merely 4 per cent of the population, we are bravely inviting our non-Indigenous fellow citizens – 96 per cent of the population, many of whom have never met
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ABC News • Norman Hermant • June 25, 2023 • abc.net.au
'Van life' is glamorised on social media. Here's the reality for one woman whose car is now home
The rise in homelessness is easy to see across Australia, with more rough sleepers on streets and tent cities in parks. But there's a group experiencing homelessness who prefer to go unnoticed — the growing number of people living in vehicles.
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Australian Financial Review • Mark Di Stefano, Nick Bonyhady • June 25, 2023 • afr.com
The West news: Kerry Stokes jewel faces internal revolt
“It’s become a toxic environment,” reads one response to a staff survey circulated internally and leaked to The Australian Financial Review.
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The Washington Post • Louisa Loveluck, Elinda Labropoulou, Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Siobhán O'Grady, Rick Noack • June 24, 2023 • washingtonpost.com
They knew the boat could sink. Boarding it didn’t feel like a choice.
The story of how as many as 750 migrants came to board a fishing trawler and end up in one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks off the coast of Greece.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Paul Sakkal • June 25, 2023 • smh.com.au
White hot: The political brawl that has Albanese losing his cool
The feud between Labor and the Greens over housing exploded in Parliament last week and could define their relationship.
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The Guardian • Van Badham • June 24, 2023 • theguardian.com
The millions of Australians in the survivor community are asking: what does justice look like for us?
To have our experience retried near-daily in the kangaroo courts of leaks, political expedience and sloppy journalism looks nothing like justice
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Van Badham ✊@vanbadham
Thank you to everyone has commented and written to me about this piece. I’m sure people understand, given the content, that I can only deal with so much engagement before I just can’t.
But to all fellow survivors - and the people who love them - you have my solidarity. Always. twitter.com/vanbadham/stat…
June 25, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • James Kilner • June 25, 2023 • smh.com.au
Even if he survives the coup, this is the end of the road for Vladimir Putin
The Russian president’s aura of invincibility and control, badly fractured by his misguided and failed invasion of Ukraine, will now be shattered.
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