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Labor to prioritise new asylum seeker claims as part of $160m package to tackle backlog

Shift to ‘last in, first out’ processing aims to break the business model of those making unmeritorious claims, immigration minister says

The Guardian - AU · Oct 4, 2023

Media is winning war against “fake news"

Why “factual truth” matters so much in fraught times

Salon · Aug 23, 2023

A crisis of lawyering: DOJ must act now

The legal field is in need of serious redemption

Salon · Aug 11, 2023

The New York Times worried that publishing the Pentagon Papers would destroy the newspaper — and the reputation of the US

The late Daniel Ellsberg was a former government contractor who leaked the classified history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times.

The Conversation · Jun 28, 2023

Like Daniel Ellsberg, others who leaked US government secrets have been seen as traitors and heroes

Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak the Pentagon Papers made him an instant hero to opponents and a traitor in the eyes of the White House

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2023

60-day freeze on prices imposed in U.S.

Fifty years ago, U.S. President Nixon ordered a 60-day freeze on all prices, including those of food, in a bid to arrest the nation’s worst bout of peacetime inflation in 25 years

The Hindu · Jun 14, 2023

Michael Pascoe: The heartbreak of losing a beloved dog like Nixon

On Monday I tested positive for COVID. On Tuesday my dog died. It sounds like the start of a country and western song.

The New Daily · Jun 9, 2023

Richard Snyder, ‘warrior-king’ of publishing who presided over rise of Simon & Schuster, dead at 90

Richard Snyder, a visionary and imperious executive at Simon & Schuster who presided over the publisher’s exponential rise during the second half of the 20th century and helped define an era of growing corporate power, has died

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2023

Language app Feed the Monster the latest tool in battle to save endangered Warumungu language

A language app designed to help children in Syria learn Arabic is now preserving an endangered First Nations language. As a cartoon monster in the app grows, so too do children's literacy skills — and the number of people who speak Warumungu.

ABC News · Jun 3, 2023

White House Plumbers review: Woody Harrelson is terrific company but fails to lift buddy comedy out of Watergate fatigue

In the pantheon of American political calamities of the 20th century, Nixon’s scandal looks increasingly quaint

The Independent UK · May 30, 2023