Lachlan Murdoch dropps his defamation claim against key figures behind online publication Crikey.
But Why……?
via #TheNewDaily #Auspol

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/04/24/lachlan-murdoch-crikey-lawsuit/

The two extremes of the climate debate are defined by the denialists who would do nothing and the defeatists who will agree to anything. But regardless of the urgency of the climate crisis, our democratic systems can’t work if we are too afraid to use them.
Via #thenewDaily #RichardDenniss #Auspol
https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/03/01/richard-denniss-climate-crisis-legislation/

The army has been deployed to help with urgent evacuations as heavy rain continues to batter the Northern Territory and people’s homes become “uninhabitable”.
Via #thenewDaily #Auspol #ClimateCrisis
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/nt/2023/03/02/remote-nt-communities-isolated-by-tropical-low/

Pollution from motor vehicles could be killing thousands more people than road accidents, with new research finding more than 11,000 Australians die prematurely every year from transport emissions.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2023/02/24/car-pollution-kills-11000-aussies-hospitalises-more/
Via #thenewDaily #AirPollution #auspol

A United Nations committee for the prevention of torture has cancelled a delayed visit to Australia, citing “obstacles” gaining access to places where people are being held against their will.
Via #thenewDaily #Auspol
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2023/02/21/un-torture-prevention-committee-cancels-australia-visit/

Queensland Ambulance confirmed in a tweet that paramedics had assessed “multiple patients” after the suspected gas leak in the rural town of St George on Tuesday morning. #BanGas #Auspol #Fracking Via #thenewDaily
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/qld/2023/02/21/st-george-school-gas-leak/

One of Australia’s largest transport companies plans to take more trucks off roads as part of a $1.8 billion deal to move more goods by rail.
Via #thenewDaily #Auspol https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2023/02/20/aurizon-team-global-express-agree-billion-dollar-rail-deal-to-take-trucks-off-the-road/

Rural fire service strike teams have been deployed on Queensland’s Western Downs to help ground crews trying to contain a major blaze.
Via #thenewDaily #Auspol
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/02/15/residents-prepare-to-leave-western-downs-fires-rage/

Environment groups have criticised a new #CSIRO report looking at offsetting emissions from proposed gas extraction in the Northern Territory.
Via #thenewDaily #auspol
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2023/02/13/environment-groups-carbon-capture-beetaloo-fracking/

Woolworths and Coles will be forced to send tonnes of stockpiled REDcycle plastic waste to landfill in NSW.
Via #thenewDaily #Auspol
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/consumer/2023/02/03/redcycle-landfill-coles-woolworths/

Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro’s office effectively excluded Labor electorates from urgent bushfire recovery funding in a Black Summer grants program. #Auspol #thenewDaily
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/nsw/2023/02/02/barilaro-bushfire-funds-labor-seats/

As New South Wales schools grapple with a chronic teacher shortage, resignations are for the first time outstripping retirements and principals are clocking up to 70 hours work a week, MPs have been told. Via #thenewDaily #Auspol
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/02/01/mps-told-teachers-burning-out-as-chronic-nsw-shortage-deepens/

Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia wants Novak Djokovic’s father banned from the Australian Open for posing with supporters of Russian president Vladimir Putin outside Melbourne Park.
Via #thenewDaily #auspol
https://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/tennis/australian-open/2023/01/27/ban-djokovics-dad-from-open-ukraine/

A senior official involved with robodebt admits the unlawful welfare recovery scheme was underpinned by “flawed assumptions”.
via #TheNewDaily #Auspol
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/01/24/flawed-assumptions-underpinned-robodebt/

Who'd have thought that if we handed control of our entire gas resource to a bunch of global resource giants, they'd evade tax, mercilessly price gouge us for our own resources, then withhold supply when we tried to stop them!?! Via #TheNewDaily By #DominicGiannini
#auspol #gas
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2023/01/19/woodside-energy-denies-withholding-supply/

Richard Marles is backing Industry Minister Ed Husic after he said Australian gas companies are “addicted” to huge war-driven profits.
The Deputy Prime Minister was quizzed about Mr Husic’s comments as companies claim they’re struggling to deal with the government’s temporary $12 per gigajoule price cap.
Via #TheNewDaily By #PoppyJohnston
#auspol
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/01/18/profit-addicts-get-price-cap-guidelines/

How long will we use human misery to control inflation?
Via #TheNewDaily By #Alan Kohler
#auspol
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/01/16/inflation-cost-of-living-alan-kohler/

The cost of repairing damage caused by unprecedented flooding in Western Australia’s north will be massive, #AnthonyAlbanese says
Via #TheNewDaily
By #MichaelRamsey
#auspol #ClimateCrisis
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/wa/2023/01/09/massive-cost-repair-wa-flood-damage/

Facebook has rejected claims by Tony Abbott that it and other social media companies are trying to control how Australians think and vote because they declined to run ads for the ‘no’ side of the Indigenous Voice referendum.
#Auspol #VoteYES
Via #TheNewDaily By #JamesRobertson
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/2023/01/05/big-tech-tony-abbott/

An emergency situation has been declared in Western Australia’s Kimberley and Top End as extreme rainfall brings record CLIMATE CHANGE INDUCED* flooding.
*more accurate copy
Via #TheNewDaily #Auspol #ClimateCriais
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/01/04/fitzroy-crossing-kimberley-flooding/?breaking_live_scroll=1