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Uber admits misleading Australian riders, agrees to pay $19M

Uber has agreed to pay a $19 million fine in Australia for misleading riders by falsely warning they could be charged a cancellation fee and for inflating estimates of comparable taxi rides

The Independent UK

Scott Morrison is setting up another fake fight on a carbon ‘tax’

With Australia’s lived experience of global heating, you would think we’d have moved past grown men staging hyperbolic encounters with invisible things

The Guardian - AU

Irish people offered trip of a lifetime as Australia aims to lure young workers with €10 flights

A lucky few will be handpicked to jet off from Dublin on Qatar Airways to Adelaide, the coastal capital of South Australia

Irish Mirror

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Labor’s Pacific plan is underdone and risks further politicising foreign policy

The news China has negotiated and signed a defence cooperation agreement with the Solomon Island has exposed the Australian government to a barrage of criticism.

The Conversation

Liberal candidate for Bennelong Simon Kennedy voiced vaccine mandate concerns at anti-vax meeting

The Liberal Party candidate for the Sydney seat of Bennelong has appeared in a video opposing vaccine mandates and acknowledging there may be concerns about the safety of mRNA vaccines at an event organised by Australia’s anti-lockdown movement.

ABC News

Election 2022: these maps show exactly where Scott Morrison is targeting his slick video ad campaign

Exclusive: See where the parties are pitching their digital campaigns – from the Liberals’ Why I love Australia to Labor’s WA focus and Clive Palmer’s blitz

The Guardian - AU

4 ways we can change our behaviour to adapt to the climate crisis

Only four months into 2022, and Australians have already watched several climate disasters unfold across the continent, from coral bleaching to devastating floods and bushfires. These are stark reminders of how climate change can wreak havoc on communities – destroying homes, lives and ecosystems.

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Australia PM trails in poll amid criticism over handling of China-Solomons deal

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is struggling to close the gap with the main opposition ahead of an upcoming general election, a poll showed on Tuesday, amid criticism over his handling of a security pact between China and Solomon Islands.

Reuters

Australian opposition party vows to train Pacific armies

Australia’s opposition party has promised to establish a Pacific defense school to train neighboring armies in response to China’s potential military presence on the Solomon Islands

The Independent UK

Labor promises to counter Chinese influence in the Pacific with $525 million step up in foreign aid

Labor will boost foreign aid to the Pacific by more than half a billion dollars, establishing climate and defence training programs and overhauling visa programs, as part of an effort to counter China's influence in the region.

ABC News

America’s lopsided China strategy: all guns and no butter

Facing criticism that its approach focuses too much on defence, the administration is preparing an economic plan for the Indo-Pacific

Financial Times

Global oilseed shortages push canola prices up, bringing good tidings for Australian growers

Australian oilseed growers are optimistic off the back of a record harvest as global prices boom amid worldwide supply issues.

ABC News

China dismisses speculation about plans for Solomon Islands military base

China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson says claims that Beijing intends to build a military base on Solomon Islands after signing a security agreement with the Pacific nation are "completely fabricated".

ABC News

Agriculture visa to be ditched, Labor says, looking to Pacific to fill worker shortage as election looms

An Albanese government would ditch the scheme before a single foreign worker arrived on the Coalition's visa, the party has announced.

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The Guardian - AU

‘Systemic failures at every step’: the Indonesian children Australia sent to adult jails for years

Six children jailed as adults for acting as crew on people-smuggling boats have had their convictions quashed. But Australian authorities had been told before they were jailed of doubts about the wrist X-ray technique used to prove they were over 18

The Guardian - AU

Indonesian children jailed in Australia as adult people smugglers win court battle to clear their names

Six teens lured to crew boats from their impoverished villages repeatedly told officials they were children – 12 years on, a court has finally believed them

AAP

Aussies more vulnerable to flu this winter

Australians are being warned they are particularly vulnerable to flu this winter, as COVID-19 measures, which also suppressed circulation of flu, are eased.

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The Guardian - AU

Temper tantrums and invasion threats over Solomon Islands deal with China will push Pacific allies away

Behaving like the security deal is a catastrophe lessens our standing in a region sick of being seen as a geo-strategic chessboard

Salon

The dingo's mysterious genetics

Scientists know humans domesticated dogs during the Neolithic, but didn't know where dingoes fit in — till now

The Conversation

How can more people be on unemployment benefits than before COVID, with fewer unemployed Australians? Here's how

So low is Australia’s unemployment rate, the official count says there are now just 580,300 people unemployed – the least since 2009, when Australia’s population was one-sixth smaller than it is today. Compared to just before the start of the pandemic, 184,800 fewer Australians are now unemployed.

AAP

Boxer Rahimi to make history at Games

Tina Rahimi is among four women in the Australian Commonwealth Games boxing team and the first Muslim woman to fight for this country at the Games.

ABC News

Federal election: Major parties target northern Australia as national security dominates campaign—as it happened

National security continues to be a key election issue as both major parties target the north of the country in the third week of campaigning.

Daily Record

Keanu Baccus pens St Mirren pre contract as Stephen Robinson seals Western Sydney Wanderers coup

The Australia under-23 cap had attracted interest from several sides in Scotland and England.

ABC News

Australian share market suffers $55 billion loss on China lockdown fears

Plunging commodity prices dragged the ASX lower, while the Australian dollar fell to a two-month low, despite a stunning rebound on Wall Street as Twitter agreed to be taken over by billionaire Elon Musk.

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