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[Link] When confronted by his inaction on the Brereton reforms, Peter Dutton attempts to shoot the messenger
Read: 6/5/2022 www.theguardian.com
Peter Dutton attempted to shoot the messenger on Thursday, branding the Guardian a trashy publication and denying he had ever hung the chief of defence out to dry on the Brereton inquiry reforms.
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[Link] George Christensen announces intention to run for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party
Read: 13/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
Rogue former Coalition MP George Christensen has prompted one of the early shocks of the 2022 election campaign, announcing he will run for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party at the May 21 election.
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[Link] Teen climate activist subjected to sexist and racist abuse amid federal court climate case
Read: 13/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Teenage climate crisis campaigner Anjali Sharma has revealed the torrent of sexist and racist abuse she has received while fronting a legal case against the Morrison government’s approval of a New South Wales coal project.
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[Link] Morrison is caught on his own wedge, as some on his own side abandon controversial bill
Read: 11/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
Most Australians would happily live their lives ignoring the political games that are so often played in the federal parliament.
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[Link] Facebook appeal over Cambridge Analytica data rejected by Australian court as ‘divorced from reality’
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Facebook has lost a major battle with the Australian regulator over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after a court dismissed the social media giant’s claim that it neither conducts business nor collects personal information in the country.
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[Link] Michaelia Cash shelves pledge on federal Icac as Liberal MP urges debate
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
The government will abandon an election promise to establish a commonwealth integrity commission, with the attorney general, Michaelia Cash indicating there is not enough time to legislate before voters return to the polls.
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[Link] ABC welcomes ‘funding certainty’ as Morrison government responds to media reform paper
Read: 7/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Morrison government will restore ABC funding to 2018 levels, when Malcolm Turnbull imposed an $84m indexation pause, with the public broadcaster to be given $3.3bn for the next three years. The communications minister, Paul Fletcher, has also announced SBS will receive $953.
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[Link] AEC preparing to combat Trump-style misinformation in 2022 election
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Social media companies should commit to taking down unauthorised political material in agreed timeframes to combat misinformation in elections, according to the Australian electoral commissioner, Tom Rogers.
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[Link] Company that retains exclusive rights to make Aboriginal flags says government has ‘misled’ community
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
The federal government’s announcement that it has “freed” the Aboriginal flag is misleading and has been seriously misinterpreted, according to the company which still holds the exclusive licence to make Aboriginal flags for sale.
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[Link] ‘It’s really scary’: welfare recipients forced to attend in-person appointments despite Omicron surge
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
A woman with chronic illnesses and an immunocompromised partner and the single mother of a toddler are among those being told they’ll have their benefits cut if they don’t attend face-to-face job agency appointments, despite an unprecedented surge of Covid cases.
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[Link] Exploitation complaints almost nil: Coles
Read: 2/12/2021 7news.com.au
Supermarket giant Coles says the rate of work exploitation complaints in its supply chain has dropped to almost zero over the past year.
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[Link] Australia’s Future Fund invested in weapons manufacturers that have sold arms to Myanmar military
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has invested in a Chinese state-controlled weapons manufacturer that has sold combat aircraft to the Myanmar military, which is accused of crimes against humanity.
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[Link] Should politicians like Peter Dutton suck up Twitter’s hot-gives and -takes or pursue vindication?
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
You’ve got to wonder how Peter Dutton, one of the most wealthy and overstretched members of federal parliament, fathoms up the wherewithal to sue for defamation an unemployed, crowdfunded refugee advocate who called him something nasty on Twitter. Busy? You bet you are.
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[Link] Omicron 'may already be here in Australia'. Experts say there's more we can do to stop COVID
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Just weeks after Australia declared it was opening its borders to the world, some restrictions have been reimposed in response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19, first detected in South Africa.
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[Link] ‘Keep the bastards honest’: former Australian Democrats leader joins high-profile group backing independents
Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
As Scott Morrison comes to the end of a ragged parliamentary week, the organisation bankrolling independents challenging Liberal incumbents in their urban heartland has amassed an election war chest of more than $4m, and bolstered its advisory body.
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[Link] Australian cryptocurrency investors can’t be trusted to keep transaction records themselves, the ATO says
Read: 24/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com.au
As first-time investors continue their rush on cryptocurrencies, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) says it can no longer rely on taxpayers to navigate the complex world of income tax, capital gains, and blockchain record keeping on their own.
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[Link] The deadly new risk Afghan women face: It starts with a strange phone call and can end with murder
Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Her body was found riddled with bullets alongside three other women who had also been killed. Ms Ayoubi is a journalist and activist who left Afghanistan over concerns for her own safety.
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[Link] Scott Morrison’s approval rating at lowest point since aftermath of black summer bushfires
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Voter approval of Scott Morrison is at its lowest level since before the outbreak of the pandemic, while the government’s handling of international relations has taken a hit over the past month, the latest Guardian Essential poll suggests.
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[Link] ‘You may bring shame to your family’: Australia launches campaign to stop seasonal farm workers absconding
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has launched an aggressive campaign to prevent Pacific Islander farm workers from fleeing their jobs as new figures reveal more than 1,000 seasonal pickers absconded in the past year.
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[Link] Cracks in food system driven by year-round hunger for fresh produce begin to show
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
As you consider your Christmas table – a bowl of cherries, a plump roasted bird and the cream on your pudding, you may spare a thought for the way the food gets to your table. Because three things this week signal cracks in our food production systems.
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[Link] Uber drivers tell Senate inquiry of abuse, false complaints and suspensions during Covid
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Uber drivers in Sydney and Melbourne have been temporarily suspended from the service for asking customers to wear face masks in their cars, a Senate committee has been told.
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[Link] Australia puts fossil fuel company front and centre at Cop26
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has been criticised for prominently hosting a fossil fuel company at its pavilion at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
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[Link] NSW premier orders grants review as it’s revealed $20m school solar program went mostly to Coalition seats
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet ordered a review of grants funding in the state at the same time it was revealed more than 90% of schools selected as part of a $20m pilot to fund solar power systems were in Coalition-held seats.
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[Link] Indonesia and Malaysia 'worried' AUKUS will start a regional arms race with China
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Malaysia and Indonesia have said they share strong reservations over Australia's decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, even though nuclear weapons were not part of the plan.
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[Link] Northern Territory chief minister and US senator Ted Cruz in Twitter spat over Covid vaccines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory’s vaccine policy, telling the firebrand Texan conservative “you know nothing about us”.
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[Link] Facebook says Craig Kelly’s content on United Australia Party page OK after banning MP
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Facebook says the United Australia Party’s page does not violate the social media giant’s community standards despite carrying prominent content from Craig Kelly, whose accounts have been banned for breaching the social media company’s misinformation policy.
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[Link] Climate change is a national security issue, but not in the way Scott Morrison imagines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison describes climate change as a national security issue. He’s right – but not in the way he imagines. If global heating exacerbates conflict, conflict also exacerbates heating, in a dialectic that fundamentally links decarbonisation to the struggle for peace.
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[Link] ‘It needs more work’: Liberal MPs call for tougher federal integrity commission
Read: 17/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A growing number of Liberal MPs are pushing for the government to toughen up its proposed federal integrity commission, amid criticism from the crossbench and experts that the draft bill is too weak.
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[Link] Australia seeks to overturn landmark ruling preventing deportation of Aboriginal people
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The federal government is seeking to overturn a landmark high court decision that deemed Aboriginal Australians cannot be aliens and cannot be deported.
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[Link] Australia expresses ‘sorrow’ after Afghan army deserter Hekmatullah, who killed three ADF soldiers, set free
Read: 11/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has expressed “sorrow” after a former Afghan soldier convicted of murdering three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan was released from custody in Qatar.
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[Link] ‘Not above the law’: warning for Australia’s Department of Social Services over threat to ignore tribunal
Read: 7/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Department of Social Services has been warned it is “not above the law” after a tribunal heard government officials threatened to ignore an order to reinstate a man’s jobseeker payments.
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[Link] Australia to stop processing asylum seekers in PNG
Read: 6/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
After that, PNG will assume full responsibility for refugees and asylum seekers in the country.
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[Link] Domestic violence services still waiting on ‘landmark’ federal funding months after it was promised
Read: 23/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Promised domestic violence funding to help combat a rise in demand for services during the pandemic is yet to be released more than four months after it was announced by the federal government with fanfare.
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[Link] Peter Dutton to be sole witness in defamation case against refugee activist
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
The defence minister Peter Dutton intends to take the stand in his defamation trial against a refugee activist that begins next month.
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[Link] Services Australia defends use of Excel in rectifying robo-debt errors
Read: 2/9/2021 www.zdnet.com
The remarks were made on Friday during a hearing held by the Community Affairs References Committee as part of its ongoing probe of Centrelink's compliance program.
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[Link] China moves to protect personal data form misuse by tech companies
Read: 25/8/2021 the-pen.co
There is considerable interest in efforts by the Chinese government to impose greater control over major private enterprises operating in the country. Critics see this as an attack of freedom to do business. Supporters see it as a justified crackdown on corporate greed.
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[Link] Australian military rescue mission to Afghanistan launched
Read: 18/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An urgent and dangerous Defence Force mission to evacuate Australians and Afghans from Kabul’s besieged international airport has begun, with an RAAF transport aircraft flying out of the capital this morning.
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[Link] Coalition accused of being too slow to organise evacuation mission to Afghanistan
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has been accused of waiting far too long to organise a military evacuation mission to Afghanistan, as it sends 250 defence force personnel to the region in a last-ditch bid to help people flee the Taliban.
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[Link] With few forms delivered, many residents in this remote community knew nothing about the census
Read: 15/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Local worker shortages and COVID restrictions preventing fly-in census staff have been blamed for forms not reaching many people in Western Australia's north.
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[Link] Attorney general’s department advised Coalition Toondah Harbour development could breach wetlands convention
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Coalition government decided a controversial apartment complex and marina proposed for Queensland’s Moreton Bay should proceed to the next stage of the assessment process, despite legal advice from the federal attorney general’s department warning it was unacceptable because of the risk it p
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[Link] Afghan refugee may lose permanent residency in Australia – for supplying identity document
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apermanent resident of Australia – an Afghan refugee who has lived in Brisbane for a decade – has been threatened with having his visa cancelled, and possible deportation, over an identity document the Australian government asked him to produce.
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[Link] Morrison government battling to keep commuter car parks scandal documents a secret
Read: 9/8/2021 www.9news.com.au
The federal government is battling to keep documents at the centre of its commuter car parks scandal secret.
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[Link] Centrelink pauses welfare and childcare debt repayments during lockdowns
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Centrelink will no longer issue or recover welfare and childcare debts during lockdowns, including in parts of New South Wales and Queensland currently under stay-at-home orders.
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[Link] Sky News Australia to face Senate inquiry after week-long YouTube suspension
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Sky News Australia will face a Senate inquiry next week after the broadcaster was suspended for seven days for posting numerous videos which violated YouTube’s Covid medical misinformation policies.
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[Link] Australians who live overseas now unable to leave country if they return for visit
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has quietly expanded its ban on Australian citizens leaving the country to include people who are ordinarily residents in another country, meaning that even people who live overseas may not be allowed to leave Australia.
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[Link] ‘Australians are the winners’: Scott Morrison defends controversial commuter car parks fund
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison has declared Australians are the “winners” from a controversial funding program excoriated by the auditor general that has only delivered two of 47 commuter car parks the Coalition promised in the run-up to the 2019 election.
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[Link] Bullying claims at army’s Sydney University regiment referred to defence force inspector general
Read: 6/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Allegations of bullying and harassment at the Australian army’s Sydney University regiment have been referred to the inspector general of the defence force for potential investigation.
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[Link] Australia Post pays former CEO Christine Holgate $1m in settlement after Cartier watch saga
Read: 6/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia Post will pay its former chief executive Christine Holgate $1m to settle claims relating to her departure from the organisation during the Cartier watch controversy.
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[Link] Swallow hard reality pill on virus deaths
Read: 5/8/2021 www.afr.com
Each life saved by the Sydney lockdown costs $330 million. It’s an unjustifiable expense that imposes large and disproportionate burdens on small business and the less well off.
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[Link] After 'very, very long fight', NT Stolen Generations survivors to be compensated
Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The head of the Northern Territory's Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation has welcomed the Commonwealth's new $378 million redress scheme for people forcibly removed from their families as children.
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[Link] Rex Patrick wins FoI case to release national cabinet records
Read: 5/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The parliamentary committee scrutinising the Morrison government’s handling of the pandemic will demand a trove of secret documents after an extraordinary judgment finding national cabinet records can be accessed under the freedom of information regime.
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[Link] ATO matches insurance info on luxury goods with declared incomes to catch out tax cheats
Read: 30/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
About 300,000 Australians who may have made purchases of luxury cars, private jets, yachts, thoroughbred horses and artwork are being warned by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to declare all their income or they could face a review or audit.
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[Link] Sexual harassment training for politicians will run for one hour and be optional
Read: 15/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
Training to deal with sexual assault, bullying and harassment in Parliament will not happen until September at the earliest, will go for as little as an hour and will be optional for MPs.
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[Link] Female Coalition MPs ‘fire up’ after party room told working women are ‘outsourcing parenting’
Read: 23/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
Labor has slammed the Coalition for holding “completely archaic” views on childcare after a fierce debate erupted among government MPs about subsidies, with one suggesting working women were “outsourcing parenting”.
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[Link] 'Rushed' welfare overhaul will cost JobSeeker recipients up to $457
Read: 14/6/2021 thenewdaily.com.au
More than 140,000 JobSeeker recipients will be up to $457 worse off under a planned job services crackdown, a Senate hearing has heard. The Morrison government is trying to save $191.
[Link] Canberra considers its digital ID for use in verifying age before accessing porn
Read: 2/6/2021 www.zdnet.com
The federal government has responded to a report on age verification for online wagering and online pornography, saying it is considering, at least in principle, if the nation's digital identity system could be extended to help with protecting children from online harms.
[Link] ‘I don’t care whether you’re happy’: Speaker slaps down PM in heated question time
Read: 27/5/2021 thenewdaily.com.au
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Speaker Tony Smith have squared off in a particularly rowdy question time, with MPs from both sides of politics booted from the chamber. “I’d just say to the Prime Minister – he needs to be relevant to the question. He’s had a preamble.
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[Link] Christian Porter’s barrister Sue Chrysanthou tries to override her own precedent in the Geoffrey Rush case to get interim suppression orders for Porter
Read: 15/5/2021 kangaroocourtofaustralia.com
The only thing that prevented Christian Porter’s barrister Sue Chrysanthou from being humiliated in court on Friday (7/5/1) is the fact that she has no shame.
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[Link] Environment department tried to bury research that found huge underspend on Australian threatened species
Read: 15/5/2021 www.theguardian.com
The federal government tried to stop the publication of an academic paper that found it needed to drastically increase its spending on threatened Australian wildlife.
[Link] Barnaby Joyce says purchase of shares for son in company he quizzed at public inquiry ‘was reasonable’
Read: 11/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Barnaby Joyce has said the purchase of shares in a space company for his young son, just weeks after the MP had quizzed the firm over its ownership structure in his capacity as chair of a federal parliamentary inquiry, was a “reasonable thing”.
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[Link] Labor accused of imitating popular petition platform change.org for political page
Read: 9/4/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Change SA site is a Labor Party operated domain, which encourages people to sign and create petitions about various issues, through entering their name, email address, mobile phone number, and suburb. Change.
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[Link] 'Not going to waste my time': Mental health chief blasts SA Health on way out door
Read: 7/4/2021 indaily.com.au
Adjunct Professor John Mendoza has resigned from his position as executive director of mental health and prison health services at the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN), a year into his three-year contract.
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