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Andrew Bolt gloats as News Corp columnists delight in Donald Trump’s victory

‘Good riddance to woke,’ Peta Credlin says, while Tim Blair urges country to ‘Drill, Australia. Drill’

The Guardian - AU

2GB’s Ben Fordham pulls out of Liberal event, saying he didn’t realise it was fundraiser for party

Nine radio star says he speaks to political organisations, Scouts, charities and preschools but draws the line at political promotion

The Guardian - AU

Fight or flights: the six days it took Albanese to deny he contacted Alan Joyce for Qantas upgrades

Over the course of nearly a week, the prime minister batted away questions about the Qantas upgrade scandal before eventually comprehensively denying contacting Joyce for upgrades

The Guardian - AU

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Anthony Albanese says he didn’t seek flight upgrades from anyone at Qantas

Prime minister’s office says it took six days to respond clearly because they had to check decades of communications between Albanese and airline

The Guardian - AU

Fake X accounts fool Sky News Australia – twice

Two corrections and an apology are posted after an error by Rita Panahi and a tweet was wrongly attributed to Andrew Forrest. Plus: headfirst into the Queensland election campaign

The Guardian - AU

The Oz’s unfortunate pic, Social Services (finally) asks what people think, and an old fashioned Fordham farrago

The Department of Social Services calls on an old friend, Grover joins the (inevitable) CPAC circuit, and plenty more in this weeks Tips and Murmurs.

Crikey

2GB’s Ben Fordham breached rules by spruiking his Uber driving ‘side hustle’, Acma finds

Fordham, who reportedly earns $1.5m to host the Nine Radio breakfast show, has a commercial agreement with Uber

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A(nother) gong for a fossil fuel CEO, the inevitable Raygun conspiracy and a huge Liberal screwup

Meg O’Neill must be delighted to be ‘energy person of the year’, and the media has a short memory on ambassador parties.

Crikey

Trump’s ‘nasty’ jibe and Sky’s Paul Whittaker – was it all part of News Corp’s war of revenge on Kevin Rudd?

Former PM’s campaign for a royal commission into the media giant ‘has come back to bite him on the bum’, one broadcaster suggests. Plus: a new star of the right

The Guardian - AU

Ford in the firing line

Clementine Ford’s involvement in a Sydney festival is being questioned by NSW Libs, Anthony Albanese is getting married, and Barnaby Joyce doesn’t have a drinking problem, he says.

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Karen Chester and James Shipton secret call: Do you have a right to not be recorded?

You could have your private conversations recorded in a host of ways — but what are your rights when you are recorded?

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‘The Defence Force is too woke in 2024’: Military recruitment and the new culture war

The Australian Defence Force has struggled with recruitment for well over a decade. But it’s all the fault of Labor, says the opposition.

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Victoria’s blackout had nothing to do with renewables. Claiming that it did won’t fix the system

Even as the weather emergency was still unfolding, some commentators and politicians couldn’t resist the urge to blame renewable energy

The Guardian - AU

Alan Jones may sue Nine newspapers over ‘demonstrably false’ allegations of indecent assault

Lawyers for the broadcaster say allegations he assaulted young men, made in the Sydney Morning Herald, are defamatory

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Defensive ABC to pay damages to defamed platoon leader

Former army commando Heston Russell has been awarded $390,000 in damages over allegations reported by the ABC about an executed prisoner in Afghanistan.

The Guardian - AU

Phone hacking scandal just a ‘mishap’ in The Australian’s tribute to their boss Rupert Murdoch’s ‘creative mind’

Paul Kelly praises ‘massive work ethic’ of Murdoch but newspaper not tipped off.

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The lie that brought down Gladys Berejiklian

Investigative reporter Paul Farrell explores how the former NSW premier’s deception about her relationship snowballed into a career-ending scandal.

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Ancient tennis club under threat from native title claim

And just how would the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Councils of this world like it if that kind of thing was done to them?

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The Guardian - AU

Fare go: Ben Fordham’s side hustle revealed as Uber sponsorship deal

The 2GB presenter begins new career as an Uber driver, according to tabloid articles that didn’t mention his commercial arrangement. Plus: Kyle Sandilands reprimanded again

The Guardian - AU

Q+A on life support as executive producer joins Stan Grant and heads for the door

Q+A’s executive producer, Erin Vincent, quits the ABC. Plus: News Corp staff told to pay for print copies of SMH and AFR

The Guardian - AU

Albanese says it’s ‘dumb’ to expect change without Indigenous voice in talkback radio clash

PM tells 2GB radio’s Ben Fordham that media have a responsibility not to ‘raise red herrings’ after being repeatedly questioned over impacts of voice proposal

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Police Are Reportedly Investigating If A Cooked TikTok Trend Is What Caused The Sydney CBD Fire

Four schoolboys have come forward in relation to the blaze.

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Stan Grant, sad and sorry

Q+A host Stan Grant bids an emotional farewell — but not forever: ‘I will get back up’, and the police watchdog in NSW has never been able to be present during interviews with officers being investigated.

Daily Mirror

Police chief shares reason she won’t watch video of gran, 95, being tasered in care home

The initial statement released by police failed to mention tasering and only revealed there had been an "interaction" between the great-grandmother Clare Nowland and officers in Australia

The Guardian - AU

Death of MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo sparks frenzy of tabloid intrusion

Relentless speculation and paparazzo at funeral as family and colleagues mourn. Plus: ‘dole bludgers’ hounded after federal budget

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