News update for Tue 1 Oct 2024
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Adam Morton: Australia’s ‘immoral’ coalmine decision akin to drowning its Pacific neighbours, Tuvalu’s climate minister declares - The Guardian
Tuvalu’s climate minister says Australia’s decision to approve three coalmine expansions calls into question its claim to be a “member of the Pacific family”, and undermines the Australian case to co-host the 2026 UN climate summit with island nations.
Dr Maina Talia said last week’s mine approvals that analysts say could generate more than 1.3bn tonnes of carbon dioxide across their lifetime once the coal is shipped and burned overseas was “a direct threat to our collective future”.
Read more from Adam Morton for The Guardian
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New research reveals why the mighty Darling River is drying up – and it’s not just because we’re taking too much water - The Conversation
Amid Australia’s chaotic climate politics, the rooftop solar boom is an unlikely triumph - The Guardian
'See the greenhouse gas impact of Labor’s decision to expand three NSW coalmines - The Guardian
Revealed: Peter Dutton’s campaign to kill Labor’s multinational tax reforms - Michael West Media
Opposition leader Peter Dutton is trying to kill off Labor’s multinational tax avoidance reforms, already watered down as they are. Mark Zirnsak with the state of play in the Senate.
In the wake of the PwC scandal, it might be expected that measures to tackle multinational tax avoidance – and to rein in the tax advisors that facilitate this profit shifting – would sail through the Australian Parliament.
However, the Albanese government is facing strong headwinds in the Senate for its tax reform proposals, with the Peter Dutton-led Coalition putting significant effort into seeing them watered down.
Read more in Michael West Media
Jenna Price: The electorate is turning left. Why is the PM facing the wrong way? - Pearls and Irritations
It must be so disappointing to be in the left faction of the Australian Labor Party.
First, its guy, the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is not being very left of anything. Second, a progressive agenda seems to have popped off the list of anything important. Third (wimps), members of the left faction aren’t criticising their guy, at least not in public.
Read more from Jenna Price in Pearls and Irritations
Also read > If we can’t have vision, let’s have boldness and strength of purpose - Jack Waterford for Pearls and Irritations
A report from the border of Lebanon and Syria - 7am Podcast
When Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in Beirut over the weekend, Michelle Jasmin Dimasi felt the blast from her apartment. Michelle’s an Australian journalist and she’s been based in the city for a few months. Now, as Israeli airstrikes continue, she is preparing to leave, likely by plane. But for a million displaced people within Lebanon, that calculation of where to go, and how to get out, is much more complicated. Today, Michelle Jasmin Dimasi on the reality of life in Lebanon right now and why thousands of people, including Syrian refugees, are fleeing back into Syria.
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Israel’s goal: less defence, more domination - Pearls and Irritations
Who is Labor’s new anti-Islamophobia envoy? - Crikey (paywall)
Abul Rizvi: Implications of student visa boom from Philippines - Independent Australia
After an extraordinary surge in offshore student visa applications from the Philippines in 2022-23, these have now completely collapsed in 2024.
This is having a major impact on Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers, many of whom now face financial ruin, but will also have an impact on long-term visa management.
Read more from Abul Rizvi for Independent Australia
Today’s cartoon by Fiona Katauskas for The Guardian
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Adele Ferguson: Retirement villages are billed as worry-free independence for Australians but many have few options once they move in - The ABC
No pets without permission, no smoking in your own home, no visitors for more than a month and no garden decorations without consent.
Mandatory medical examinations and big but hard-to-understand financial consequences.
Welcome to life inside some of Australia's retirement villages, which hawk themselves as offering residents a worry-free life of independence, low maintenance and security.
Read more from Adele Ferguson for The ABC
Cam Wilson: Who owns your medical data? - Webcam
Do you know who owns your medical data? I’m talking about scans of your body, your doctor’s scribbled notes, information about what you’ve contracted and which specialists you’ve seen. Everything that’s required to know intimate details of your life that you don’t even share with your friends and family.
What are companies are allowed to do with your data? And, even more importantly, do you know what they’re actually doing with it?
Read more from Cam Wilson for Webcam
‘I served my country, but I never felt so discarded in my life’: how the ADF pushed its own witness to the brink of suicide - The Guardian
The ‘key witness’ in the royal commission into defence and veteran suicide tells how the process itself retraumatised them.
A former Royal Australian Navy officer who alleges a colleague’s bullying led to them feeling suicidal was further traumatised – and pushed to the brink of suicide again – after appearing as a special “key witness” in the royal commission into defence and veteran suicide.
Stephen Mayne: Another year, another mountain of cash for the Murdochs and their friends - Crikey
Rupert's Fox Corp executive pay came in at a staggering US$21.2 million. And he wasn't even the biggest winner.
When it comes to the Murdochs, there really is never a dull moment.
At the same time as the family is consumed by the secret litigation in Nevada over control of the Murdoch Family Trust, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch remain firmly in control of Fox Corp while Fox News tries to balance slavishly backing an increasingly wild Donald Trump with clinging to some semblance of fact-based journalism.
Read more from Stephen Mayne for Crikey (paywall)
Angela Priestley: The fuel of collective rage and the fear for Australian boys - Women’s Agenda
Last year, researchers interviewed 30 female teachers across Australia and outlined an alarming trend of sexual harassment and misogynistic language and behaviour being used in boys by schools . The Monash University study said that the anti-feminist “manfluencer” Andrew Tate was having an influence, with teachers reporting seeing images of Tate on computer desktop backgrounds, and students using common body language and gestures made by Tate.
Read more from Angela Priestley for Women’s Agenda
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David McBride and the Alexander Maconochie Centre prison in Canberra - Pearls and Irritations
Jimmy Carter at 100: how his life outside the White House proves he’s long been ahead of his time - The Conversation
Gambling companies gifted hospitality to 19 Australian politicians for major sports events - The Guardian
The Australian Human Rights Commission release handbook to shake up reporting on race - Mumbrella
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TODAY’S BREAKING NEWS: See all the breaking news of the day through The Guardian here - and through 6 News here