News update for Fri 5 April 2024
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Australian neo-Nazis must be monitored better, Senate inquiry told - The Guardian
Australian white supremacists and neo-Nazis who are creating crowdfunding campaigns and “active clubs” to train members in combat must be monitored more closely, a prominent global counter-extremist organisation has told a Senate inquiry.
Read more from Josh Butler for The Guardian
Israel divided: Netanyahu’s coalition crisis – The Guardian Full Story podcast
A cabinet split over military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews and large street protests demanding the release of hostages are threatening Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power who also faces pressure from within his ruling coalition.
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Also listen to > The killing of Zomi Frankcom - 7am Podcast
Also read > Future Fund falls mute on financing Elbit weapons reportedly used to murder Gaza aid workers - Michael West Media
Without community support, the green energy transition will fail. Here’s how to get communities on board - The Conversation
Connecting cheap, clean energy from renewables comes with a hidden cost and challenge: building 5,000 kilometres of new transmission lines this decade, and another 5,000km after that. This sounds like a lot, but 5,000km is only around 10% of the existing grid network, and unlocks more than 32 gigawatts of new clean energy capacity by 2030.
The problem is, communities are often not sold on having to host new transmission lines.
Read more from The Conversation
Also read > The majority of fossil fuel companies produce more emissions after Paris Agreement than before: report - The ABC
The disintegration of party politics in contemporary Australia - Pearls and Irritations
The world today is disastrously misgoverned by a paranoid generation of ageing political leaders. There’s not a statesman among them, let alone a stateswoman. Meanwhile, the once dominant mainstream political parties are retreating into their bunkers, fearful of the exposure of corruption that has remained hidden in their ranks, terrified of malevolent media moguls, and scared of losing the support of big-monied backers whose identities they conceal. They are blind to the emerging generations of young people who are fed up with how the old generation is wrecking their futures.
Read more in Pearls & Irritations
Tweet Raiders – The West Report
Terror police raid peace activist for tweeting. Que?
On his regular West Report, Michael speaks about a recent raid by counter terrorism police on a person who sent a single tweet - and also sees this as a pattern which indicates a broader societal decay and a clear problem with the administration of justice.
Cartoon by Matt Golding for The Age
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A ‘small target’ government in a big moment - The Shot
Under this government, Labor now represents appeasement and disappointment: appeasing the US on security; appeasing the foreign owned press with vapid and incrementally inadequate policy; appeasing the business class by preserving the economic status quo and entrenching record profits; appeasing the polluting mining giants by granting unmitigated access to new coal and gas; and disappointing millions of voters that feel trapped in a major party nightmare with nowhere to go.
Read more from Joel Jenkins for The Shot
Not quite a marriage made in heaven - Inside Story
How will the Murdoch media approach the 2024 election, and what role will its ninety-three-year-old “semi-retired” “chairman emeritus” play? Trump’s dominance of the Republican Party means that many of its candidates and apparatchiks have to face a loyalty test by embracing the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. With one party strongly committed to a baseless fiction, the election presents unique challenges for all the news media, but especially for a network whose ratings are tied to whether it satisfies Trump’s constituency.
No doubt Rupert was and is keen to divorce Donald, but Trump looks likely to get custody not only of the Republican Party but of Fox News as well.
Read more from Rod Tiffen for Inside Story
Also read > Listening to America: If democracy falls in a desert, does it make a sound? - Sarah Kendzior
Turning point for student visas and net migration now confirmed - Independent Australia
A record number of student visa holders has left the Government with some decisions to be made regarding policy changes where they will be hoping that its policy tightening, including greater use of the “no further stay” condition on visitor visas, will temper strength in onshore student applications. But that may not be sufficient.
Read more from Dr Abul Rizvi for Independent Australia
Also read > Did Dutton and Tehan disagree on immigration levels? - Pearls and Irritations
Spies Like Us: why the Government is still backing Woodside over Timor-Leste - Michael West Media
Two decades after the Howard Government spied on Timor-Leste’s seabed boundary negotiating team, for oil company Woodside, the Albanese Government is still fighting against the truth coming out.
The sausage factory - The Politics
There is plenty of reputational damage to go around, but at the end of this saga, coming not long after the Ben Roberts-Smith affair, it would seem the Seven Network (which, let’s remember, is not even a party to this litigation) may come out with as diminished a reputation as any of the others. Sadly, it’s just another nail in the coffin of our flagging fourth estate, and another tawdry episode that makes the public feel that, once again, they’ve been duped.
Read more from Daniel James for The Politics
Also read > Chequebook journalism is nothing new, but allegations in court about Spotlight’s practices have left insiders ‘gobsmacked’ - The Guardian
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Australia should prepare for 20-year megadroughts as the climate crisis worsens, study finds - The Guardian
‘Slapped together overnight’: Government fails to meet Yoorrook’s justice call - The Justice Map
“No feasible pathway:” Kean quits Coalition-based charity because of its obsession with nuclear - Renew Economy
Robotax: why the ATO’s controversial tax debt clawback scheme deserves media scrutiny - The Guardian
Prolonged Tas election count comes down to a single seat - The New Daily
How Andrew Tate’s messaging is driving sexism against female teachers in schools - Women’s Agenda
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