News update for Tues 13 Feb 2024
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TODAY’S BREAKING NEWS: See all the breaking news and events of the day through The Guardian here
7am Podcast: Why Peter Dutton believes he can win
Since becoming opposition leader, Peter Dutton has clawed back in the polls by relentlessly attacking the Labor government – now that approach is being tested. During the first major political battle of the year, over the stage three tax cuts, Peter Dutton’s instincts to fiercely attack the government didn’t seem to work as planned and resulted in the Coalition facing unwanted scrutiny when they eventually backed the changes.
Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton, talks on how Peter Dutton plans to win the next election.
Listen to Karen Middleton for the 7am Podcast here
The Conversation: The world’s spectacular animal migrations are dwindling. Fishing, fences and development are fast-tracking extinctions
‘In 1875, trillions of Rocky Mountain locusts gathered and began migrating across the western United States in search of food. The enormous swarm covered an area larger than California. Three decades later, these grasshoppers were extinct.
‘This fate is all too common for migratory species.
‘Today, we get a global glimpse of how migratory species are faring, in the first-ever stocktake produced by the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species,’ explain Richard Fuller, Daniel Dunn and Lily Bentley from the University of Queensland.
Read more in The Conversation here
Crikey: Right-wing group Advance begins Dunkley by-election attacks with fake news Facebook page
‘The right-wing lobby group behind the No campaign for the Voice to Parliament has turned its attention to the March 2 federal by-election in Dunkley by repurposing its faux neutral “news” social media account to run thousands of dollars of negative advertisements against the Albanese government, reports Cam Wilson.
More from Cam Wilson for Crikey here
The Guardian: Woodside dramatically expands oil and gas exploration spend despite net zero pledge
‘Australia’s largest oil and gas producer, Woodside Energy, has expanded its focus on fossil fuel exploration and increased its direct greenhouse gas pollution since announcing it had an “aspiration” of reaching net zero emissions,’ writes Adam Morton,
Read more in The Guardian here
American Crisis: The media's circular logic and destructive obsession with Biden's age
‘The media's circular logic and destructive obsession with Biden's age is fast becoming the 2024 version of the media's obsession with Hillary's emails.
‘The New York Times was, of course, just asking questions.
‘Why, oh why, do Joe Biden’s age, memory failures and gaffes seem to hurt him so much more than Donald Trump’s age, memory failures and gaffes hurt him?’ asks blogger and media writer Margaret Sullivan.
More from media writer, Margaret Sullivan for her American Crisis blog - here
Cartoon by Fiona Katauskus for The Guardian
TODAY’S BREAKING NEWS: See all the breaking news and events of the day through The Guardian here
The Klaxon: Failing Mundine mining company must repay investors
‘A mining exploration company chaired by Warren Mundine has failed to raise even one-fifth of the $10 million sought from the public and must return money to investors.
‘After missing, for the second time, its deadline to complete its initial public offering, Fuse Minerals must now return all funds to those investors seeking to exit.
‘Chaired by Mundine, who has heavily spruiked the capital raising, Fuse Minerals has never earned a cent in revenue or conducted any substantial minerals exploration,’ writes investigative journalist Anthony Klan.
More from Anthony Klan in The Klaxon here
The New Daily: Why now is not the time Labor will talk tax concessions
Paul Bongiorno comments: ‘Whatever the merits of the Greens arguments to curb negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts, Labor is not prepared to tempt fate before the byelection in the outer Melbourne seat of Dunkley.
‘Voters trudge to the polls in three weeks’ time and while opinion surveys suggest the government will survive a swing against it, there is no appetite to throw housing affordability, rental and supply issues into the cauldron of yet another election contest.’
More Paul Bongiorno in The New Daily here
Rachel Withers for The Politics: A dox on both our houses?
The situation in Gaza has become impossible to bear.
So what is the Albanese government currently focused on? Rushing out a vague, kneejerk proposal to outlaw “doxxing”, following the leak of a “Jewish creatives” WhatsApp chat, in which members had encouraged each other to seek to have pro-Palestinian voices silenced.
There is certainly something alarming going on here, with death threats flying both ways.
More from Rachel Withers for The Politics
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TODAY’S BREAKING NEWS: See all the breaking news and events of the day through The Guardian’s live blog here