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ABC News • Laura Tingle • January 21, 2023 • abc.net.au
COVID is still wreaking havoc across Australia but when it comes to pandemic politics … crickets
The Albanese government finished 2022 having achieved significant legislative reform. But it is starting 2023 looking like it hasn't really thought through what it has to say about COVID, let alone what it might do about it, writes Laura Tingle.
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Laura Tingle@latingle
This week’s column: COVID "eats your heart, and kills your brain" … well,at least that’s what it seems to do to the body politic abc.net.au/news/2023-01-2… via @ABCaustralia
January 21, 2023
The Guardian • Patrick Greenfield • January 19, 2023 • theguardian.com
Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows
Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating
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The Guardian • Sian Cain • January 17, 2023 • theguardian.com
This Is Australia: First Nations dancers remake Childish Gambino’s This Is America
Dance company Marrugeku has put together a blistering Australian take on the hit song and video, taking in our colonial past and our treatment of refugees
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steph harmon@stephharmon
This is so good: theguardian.com/music/2023/jan…
January 17, 2023
The Guardian • Tim Costello • January 17, 2023 • theguardian.com
The rest of the world is in disbelief at what the gambling industry has pulled off in Australia. We need real reform
Gambling does the most harm to the people and communities of NSW that Labor is supposed to represent
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Mark Di Stefano@MarkDiStef
Incredible stat -- 35% of the world's pokies are in NSW theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
January 17, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • Ken Henry • January 22, 2023 • smh.com.au
Dutton presumes to know what voters want on the Voice. They told him at the election
Australians have had enough of contrived political game-playing for self-serving, personal advantage.
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Michael Pascoe@MichaelPascoe01
"contrived political game-playing for self-serving, personal advantage" - straight shooting by Ken Henry doesn't miss.
And an excellent example of how a constitutional clause works smh.com.au/politics/feder…
January 22, 2023
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • January 15, 2023 • theguardian.com
A school principal gave up everything to blow the whistle on a paedophile priest. George Pell hung up on him
Graeme Sleeman resigned in disgust after complaining about Father Peter Searson in the 1980s and suspects he was then blacklisted
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Gabrielle Jackson@gabriellecj
Between 1984 and 1986, while Sleeman was principal, he said he complained so many times to parish and diocesan officials that they described him as “obsessed”.
“Well, wouldn’t you be?” he told the Guardian.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
January 16, 2023
The Verge • Zoe Schiffer, Casey Newton, Alex Heath • January 17, 2023 • theverge.com
Inside Elon’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter
Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego
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The Guardian • Tess McClure • January 19, 2023 • theguardian.com
Jacinda Ardern resigns as prime minister of New Zealand
Labour leader to stand down no later than 7 February, saying she ‘no longer had enough in the tank’ to do the job
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The Age • Nick McKenzie • January 20, 2023 • theage.com.au
War crimes investigators narrow focus to three key targets, including Roberts-Smith
The ramping up of investigations comes as former special forces soldiers and their supporters have mounted an online campaign to smear those they suspect of co-operating with investigators.
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The Guardian • Laura Murphy-Oates, Megan Davis, Allison Chan, Camilla Hannan, Gabrielle Jackson • January 20, 2023 • theguardian.com
The details on the Indigenous voice to parliament with Megan Davis
Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to Prof Megan Davis about the road to the referendum
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Caitlin Fitzsimmons, Jack Latimore • January 20, 2023 • smh.com.au
Raising Indigenous voices on a Voice to parliament
What do First Nations people think about the proposed Indigenous Voice to parliament? We spoke to dozens of Indigenous people from all walks of life to hear their voices.
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Caitlin Fitzsimmons 🧜‍♀️@niltiac
This was months in the making with my colleague Jack Latimore (Birpai man and Indigenous affairs journalist at @TheAge). It involved a unique collaboration with @FNMediaAust to hear from Indigenous people around the nation. I'm proud to be part of it.
theage.com.au/national/raisi…
January 20, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • January 21, 2023 • smh.com.au
Halfway across the Nullarbor, Mad Ted and a busted charger ran us off the road
We’re five days in to a 5000km drive across Australia. It’s scorching hot. The battery on our electric car’s near flat. And we’re being followed.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Tom Rabe • January 16, 2023 • smh.com.au
Perrottet blasts Carr over pokies legacy after Nazi uniform jibe
Dominic Perrottet has launched an attack on former NSW premier Bob Carr, blaming him for the proliferation of poker machines across Sydney.
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Stephen Mayne@MayneReport
It was Bob Carr's government that allowed virtually every pub in NSW to install 30 pokies with the highest intensity in Australia - a $10 maximum bet. The late Wayne Goss expressed regret for his QLD pokies roll out. Where is Carr's apology & conscience? smh.com.au/national/nsw/p…
January 16, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • Paul Sakkal • January 16, 2023 • smh.com.au
‘Silencing dissent by threatening family’: Iran cracks down on family of Australian protester
The arrests and interrogations provide the most emphatic proof yet that the Iranian government is threatening families of prominent voices in the Iranian-Australian diaspora.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
The mother of a leading Iranian-Australian protester has been jailed in Tehran and interrogated about her Australian relatives - the first known example of Iran taking action against relatives of participants in the Australian anti-regime protests
theage.com.au/national/silen…
January 16, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • Ashleigh McMillan • January 16, 2023 • smh.com.au
‘We’re all vulnerable’: One in 10 people will end up with long COVID, new study says
Around half of the people living with long COVID meet the criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome, according to the report.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Tom Rabe, Lucy Cormack • January 17, 2023 • smh.com.au
Former Labor MP switches to One Nation weeks before NSW election
Bankstown MP Tania Mihailuk will run as a One Nation candidate despite previously calling its NSW leader Mark Latham a buffoon with an ugly mug.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • January 19, 2023 • smh.com.au
Patrick Elligett appointed editor of The Age
The Age has promoted its news director to lead the masthead.
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The Age@theage
#BREAKING: The Age has appointed Patrick Elligett as its new editor. “It is an incredible honour to be entrusted with the leadership of such a significant institution,” he says. theage.com.au/business/compa…
January 19, 2023
The Saturday Paper • Richard Ackland • January 21, 2023 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How Cardinal George Pell seduced News Corp
George Pell spent decades cultivating the Murdoch press, duchessing editors and senior journalists. The impacts of that political manoeuvring are clear in the coverage since his death.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Tom Rabe • January 16, 2023 • smh.com.au
Labor to slash pokie numbers and back a mandatory cashless gaming trial
NSW Labor has vowed to reduce the number of pokies across the state and enforce a mandatory cashless gaming trial on hundreds of machines in pubs and clubs.
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Stephen Mayne@MayneReport
"Minns said a Labor govt would also reduce cash feed-in limits in new machines from $5000 to $500 from July 1."
Yes, but the existing Aristocrat machines can still accept up to $10,000 via the world's biggest note acceptors outside of bank branches.
smh.com.au/national/nsw/l…
January 16, 2023
The Guardian • Stephanie Kirchgaessner • January 15, 2023 • theguardian.com
Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use
Court documents reveal reasons for Awad Al-Qarni’s arrest – even though rulers are major investors in social media platforms
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Craig Foster@Craig_Foster
This is the ‘progressive’ State that sport, engorging itself on Saudi cash, football to golf, from Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to Greg Norman argue has an ‘inspiring vision’ for the future.’
A vision that doesn’t include free speech, evidently. theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…
January 16, 2023

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