Monday, March 20, 2023 to Sunday, March 26, 2023 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Sydney Morning Herald • Sean Kelly • March 20, 2023 • smh.com.au
The end of Albanese’s (other) honeymoon
Inconvenient facts exist in a universe parallel to the one in which Australian politics is actually conducted. But there are signs that the time for deluded consensus is running out.
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The Guardian • Fiona Harvey • March 21, 2023 • theguardian.com
Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late
IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world
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ABC News • Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Mark Willacy • March 20, 2023 • abc.net.au
Australian SAS veteran charged with war crime in historic first
Police charge a decorated former SAS soldier who was shown in a Four Corners program shooting an Afghan man in a wheat field. He is the first Australian serviceman or veteran to be charged with a war crime under Australian law.
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Mark Willacy@markwillacy
SAS veteran Oliver Schulz arrested as part of war crimes investigation into killing of Afghan man in field abc.net.au/news/2023-03-2… via @ABCaustralia
March 20, 2023
The Guardian • Lorena Allam, Josh Butler • March 24, 2023 • theguardian.com
Ken Wyatt warns Liberals that opposing Indigenous voice could add to ‘perceptions’ party is ‘racist’
Exclusive: Former Coalition minister says of Dutton’s calls for detail: ‘if [he] was given [the answers] in tablet form from Moses, he still would not accept them’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe, Nick McKenzie • March 26, 2023 • smh.com.au
Contracts linked to consultant and Liberal MP warrant investigation, review finds
Federal officials spent $374 million on contracts tainted by concerns over conflicts of interest and inadequate records, according to an internal review.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
19 contracts
$374 million
Questions over conflicts of interest, value for money, proper process.
Our exclusive today on the federal report on these deals.
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
March 26, 2023
The Guardian • Adam Morton • March 21, 2023 • theguardian.com
The latest IPCC report makes it clear no new fossil fuel projects can be opened. That includes us, Australia
The politics is fraught but what we do as the world aims to limit global heating to 1.5C matters
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Malcolm Turnbull, Sharan Burrow • March 21, 2023 • smh.com.au
Murdoch succeeded where Putin failed. Time for a Fox hunt
We believe a royal commission into media concentration is now needed to defend our democracy. For the Coalition parties, this is a crucial moment.
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The Guardian • Gareth Evans • March 21, 2023 • theguardian.com
The three big questions Australia’s leaders must answer about the Aukus deal
The public has a right to know why we are making such a drastic shift in our defence strategy and spending, writes Australia’s former foreign minister
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The Monthly • Rachel Withers • March 21, 2023 • themonthly.com.au
Labor vs science
It is demoralising watching Labor reject the findings of the global scientific community
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Rachel Withers@rachelrwithers
After nine years of Coalition government, we are used to watching our leaders respond pathetically to these UN reports. But there is something especially disheartening about watching Labor reject the findings of the world’s top climate scientists.
themonthly.com.au/the-politics/r…
March 21, 2023
The Guardian • Elias Visontay • March 24, 2023 • theguardian.com
Early career essential workers unable to afford house prices anywhere in Sydney and Melbourne
Study shows workers forced to commute huge distances, live in overcrowded housing or suffer rental or mortgage stress
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Elias Visontay@EliasVisontay
There is no longer a single local government area across metropolitan Sydney or Melbourne where houses are affordable for early career essential workers, with a growing number of police commuting huge distances and nurses living in cramped share homes theguardian.com/australia-news…
March 24, 2023
The Saturday Paper • Nyadol Nyuon • March 25, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How News Corp captured the Liberal Party
Australia’s political right is having another crisis. The Victorian Liberal Party is in the process of expelling one of its parliamentary members, Moira Deeming, over her involvement in an anti-transgender rally that attracted the support of neo-Nazis. The fallout from that event has reached federal parliament, with the attorney-general, Mark Dreyfus, accusing the opposition
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Nyadol Nyuon OAM@NyadolNyuon
I wrote something:
News Corp has captured the Liberal Party. Shifting it from a political organisation and remaking it in the image of its ideological and corporate interests. It has done to the Liberals what it has done to journalism.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/… via @SatPaper
March 25, 2023
ABC News • Patricia Karvelas • March 22, 2023 • abc.net.au
Federal senator pressures Victoria's Liberal leader not to dump controversial MP Moira Deeming
Federal Liberal senator Sarah Henderson has personally intervened to try to persuade Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto not to expel controversial MP Moira Deeming.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • March 22, 2023 • theguardian.com
‘It crucifies you every time’: the ‘crushing’ new tactic the church uses to block claims by abuse survivors
Exclusive: Strategy used to deny compensation is a ‘stark example’ of Catholic clergy prioritising the advice of lawyers over moral leadership
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • March 23, 2023 • crikey.com.au
Christian Lives Matter doxxes LGBTQIA+ protesters as the group seeks to shift blame for violence
Mark Latham claimed after the event that the attack was 'set up' by the Community Action for Rainbow Rights protesters.
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cameron wilson@cameronwilson
CW: violence
Another video circulating online shows people punching LGBTQIA+ protesters, spitting and yelling slurs at an event promoted by Christian Lives Matter on Tuesday.
Here’s the latest on what happened: crikey.com.au/2023/03/23/chr…
March 23, 2023
The Guardian • Ben Doherty • March 23, 2023 • theguardian.com
Almost 90% of children brought from Nauru suffered physical health problems
Nearly 80% reported one or more mental health symptoms, research shows, with 45% reporting a suicide attempt or self-harm
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The Sydney Morning Herald • The Herald's View • March 24, 2023 • smh.com.au
Both leaders are decent, smart and capable but one offers a more ambitious vision for NSW
NSW voters face a genuinely difficult decision over who should lead Australia’s largest and most important state.
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ABC News • Ahmed Yussuf • March 21, 2023 • abc.net.au
It was one of the darkest moments in South Africa's apartheid history. Australia calls it Harmony Day
March 21 is known around the world as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a solemn reminder of a brutal massacre that took place on this day more than 60 years ago. In Australia, it's called Harmony Day.
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Ahmed Yussuf@ahmedyussuf10
New from me: From a massacre in apartheid South Africa to 'feel good' multiculturalism: The dark history of Harmony Day
Australia’s the only country in the world that calls the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Harmony Day.
abc.net.au/news/2023-03-2…
March 21, 2023
The Guardian • Damian Carrington • March 21, 2023 • theguardian.com
Humanity at the climate crossroads: highway to hell or a livable future?
The choice in the new IPCC report is stark: what we do in the next few years will determine our fate for millennia
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • March 22, 2023 • theguardian.com
Majority of Australians on jobseeker and parenting payments live in poverty, study finds
Report on 3 million people living below the breadline shows welfare payments are ‘totally inadequate’ and action is needed in May budget, Acoss says
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The Australian • John Stensholt • March 22, 2023 • theaustralian.com.au
Australia’s Richest 250 list: Gina Rinehart on top, Canva’s Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, Atlassian founders drop $25 billion
Forget the technology sector – there is plenty of life left yet in old-fashioned industries like mining, property and manufacturing.
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