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Who's holding back electric cars in Australia? We've long known the answer – and it's time to clear the road

New analysis this week found strong fuel efficiency standards would have saved Australia A$5.9 billion in fuel costs and emissions equal to a year’s worth of domestic flights if the policy was adopted in 2015.

The Conversation

Liberals’ election post-mortem offers ‘no shit, Sherlock’ level insights

Why did the Liberal Party lose at the May election? The factors were all obvious, and it was repeatedly warned about them.

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Zed admits 'deep sense of dread' before election loss

In his first media interview since losing his Senate seat, Zed Seselja said he believed voters had made up their minds about the Morrison government before the election.

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A farewell to apps … the art of the raid … Serena Court short

We bid a fond farewell to COVIDSafe, the app that cost millions and detected 17 cases. Also, fun fallout from the FBI raiding Trump’s resort, and more tips from the bunker.

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Australia retires $21m CovidSafe contact-tracing app that found just two unique cases

Users offered an update of app that ‘removes functionality … so no information is stored or collected’

The Guardian - AU

FOI documents show Peter Dutton’s ‘captain’s call’ to make senior Liberal head of defence thinktank

Documents obtained by Guardian Australia show the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s choice of candidate was overruled by then defence minister

The Guardian - AU

Serious question: can we trust politicians to make any decisions properly?

Are appointments to office too important to be left to politicians, or should democratically elected people hold sway? The Barilaro scandal illuminates that tension.

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Soldier who shot dead three unarmed men treated as 'returning hero' by Taliban

The source said: "The person I met is a dangerous terrorist, a dangerous man. He is not repentant, not regretful. He is a threat, he can cause harm to the world. He should not have been released.”

Daily Mirror

Can Dominic Perrottet ride out the storm? The Liberal brawl giving him hope

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has become hostage to a public inquiry that now eclipses his government while his authority has sapped away.

The New Daily

Grace Tame Went The Fk In On Anthony Albanese And The Labor Government Which Is Fair, TBH

“Must be such a slog for these poor old, elected, ableist toffs to breathe in there, for all the privilege stifling the parliament."

Pedestrian.tv

‘I will continue killing foreigners’: soldier who shot dead unarmed Australians treated as ‘returning hero’ by Taliban

Exclusive: Hekmatullah, who killed three Australian soldiers, is living in a heavily protected luxury Kabul home after being freed from prison

The Guardian - AU

'Lack of vision' led to Lib election loss

The Liberals' youth wing has cited failures on integrity, climate and women in a submission to the party's review of its federal election defeat in May.

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‘Lack of vision’ led to Lib election loss

The Liberals’ youth wing has cited failures on integrity, climate and women in a submission to the party’s review of its federal election defeat in May.

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Young Liberals blame election defeat on climate inaction and ‘coordinated attack’ on net zero target

Party’s youth wing also cites failure to recruit women and to deliver national integrity commission as factors in Coalition loss

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The Conversation

Friday essay: a slave state - how blackbirding in colonial Australia created a legacy of racism

In July 2021, Jack Dempsey, the mayor of Bundaberg, delivered an official apology for Northern Queensland’s past reliance on the indentured labour of Pacific Islanders, many of whom were kidnapped (or “blackbirded”) and forced to work on the state’s cane plantations. “To say sorry,” explained Dempsey, “is a start in…

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Why do politicians think they can get away with whatever they want?

Why did the Perrottet government think they could get away with appointing John Barilaro? They’d fallen into a trap common to long-term incumbents.

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Greens clear the air

The Greens are torn over whether to push Labor to a 75% reduction in emissions targets by 2030, and Dan Andrews’ government has asked the state’s corruption watchdog to investigate Matthew Guy and his former chief of staff.

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Why the f*** does Stuart Ayres still have a job in the Perrottet government?

It’s unclear exactly what standards Dominic Perrottet is applying when it comes to misconduct by his ministers. Either way he looks weak.

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The Guardian - AU

Warren Entsch may support Labor’s climate target if he can be shown it’s not a ‘brain fart’

Liberal MP says he is open-minded on bill but doesn’t want it to become an ‘impost on the community’ amid high inflation

AAP

Pork barrelling could be corrupt: ICAC

The NSW corruption watchdog says the targeted spending of taxpayer cash for political purposes could amount to corruption, and has recommended new guidelines.

Crikey

Workers’ paradise lost? Biggest beer tax hike in 30 years serves up the ‘$15 pint’

It’s claimed that Australians are already taxed on beer more than almost any other nation in the world, and the price of a pint is about to take another big leap.

Crikey

Albanese’s top of the pops

Anthony Albanese has recorded the highest satisfaction rating of any new prime minister, according to a new poll in The Australian. And the ACCC has warned that Australia faces an “alarming” shortage of gas next year.

The Conversation

Albanese wants to change the way politics is done. This means the way politics is reported will have to change too

If politics really is to be done differently, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised, then the way politics is reported will need to be done differently too.

The New Daily

Anthony Albanese has recorded the highest satisfaction rating for an incoming Prime Minister in the first post-election Newspoll released on Sunday night.

The Guardian - AU

Jim Chalmers is a storyteller, but will Australians want to listen to a grim economic forecast?

With inflation yet to peak, the treasurer and the new government are taking out political insurance against bad news

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