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Two Black Star Pastry Employees Claim They Were Sacked For Wearing Keffiyeh While On Shift

The women are now taking their former employer to court.

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Elon Musk’s X threatens laid off employees over a major mistake

Social media platform X, which is operated by Elon Musk, has sent out a stern warning to a group of former employees.

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Labor to allow foreign citizens to join ADF

Labor will loosen entry requirements for the ADF to allow permanent residents from the US, UK, New Zealand, Canada and Pacific Island nations to serve. And two-thirds of voters support increasing the age limit for social media use.

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News Corp is ailing. How long will the Murdochs care about propping it up?

News Corp’s mish-mash of legacy media assets once made sense, delivering cash flows and political clout. Now they’re just hard work.

Crikey

‘Race suicide’: Sir William Walkley’s unearthed report on apartheid South Africa reveals birthrate fears

Exclusive: The founder of Australia’s most prominent media awards visited the apartheid state in 1958 and judged it ‘a grand country with a great future’

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News Corp editors try to impress as Rebekah Brooks and Lachlan Murdoch land in Sydney

The editor-in-chief of the Australian rolls out questionable readership figures and plugs for its new true crime podcast. Plus: Seven news boss rallies the troops

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‘Conspiratorial’: News Corp staff in a panic amid rampant restructure rumours

Staff at News Corp Australia are on high alert as the company’s biggest names descend on Sydney to hash out a major restructure.

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If there’s no reason to ‘fear’ Trump will scuttle AUKUS, why do we need to be told over and over?

Over the years, we’ve been treated to numerous stories about how people in Trump’s orbit believes he’ll support AUKUS if reelected. But there’s a reason fears to the contrary remain.

Crikey

A Sydney Children’s Book Author Has Been Charged With Allegedly Grooming A 13-Year-Old Girl

Author Oliver Phommavanh, who is 41 years old, was arrested at a home in Old Guildford in the city's west on Friday morning.

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Australian Ballet blasts newspaper review for describing dancers as ‘unusually thin’

Company’s artistic director David Hallberg says he was ‘shocked’ by critic’s review and that critique of dancers’ bodies is ‘not acceptable’

The Guardian - AU

Bettina Arndt passed hat around for accommodation, cash and new friends for Bruce Lehrmann

So-called men’s rights activist claims Lehrmann is a victim but says she stopped short of chipping in for his legal defence. Plus: SMH columnists at war

The Guardian - AU

Bruce Lehrmann case sends Seven, Nine and Ten into internecine TV warfare

The spats continue among Australia’s media outlets in the wake of the all-consuming defamation case

The Guardian - AU

Media bosses clash over AI, News Corp set for pale and stale Olympics, and TikTok’s US ban

This week in Media Briefs: News Corp’s Olympics coverage looks awfully one-note, and executives go head to head over artificial intelligence.

Crikey

No laughing matter: the context missing from a Sky News report on Steven Miles and youth crime

A combination of persistent questioning and an inexperienced premier sparked a media feeding frenzy in Queensland. Plus: end of an innings for Peter Lalor

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation appeal: no evidence ‘blooding the rookie’ could only mean procuring a murder, court told

Lawyer for Roberts-Smith argues phrase did not necessarily indicate illegitimate killing and casts doubt on evidence from Afghan locals

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith appeal: defamation trial evidence was ‘speculative’ and contradictory, court hears

Soldier’s barrister argues federal court justice made errors in reasoning when he found Roberts-Smith complicit in murder of Afghan men

Crikey

The office commute: The journalists that went to the dark side

Katharine Murphy’s departure from Guardian Australia ruffled feathers, but she’s not alone in crossing over to politics from the media.

Crikey

Aunty gets a new boss, while Aussies look abroad for news

Briefs this week sees a new boss christened at the ABC, while the national broadcaster remains in turmoil over the sacking of Antoinette Lattouf.

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Lattouf crowdfunds, while Nine gets a new boss and pays out a class-action

New bosses and payouts start a busy year at Nine, while the ABC continues to grapple with its sacking of presenter Antoinette Lattouf.

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The NRL And AFL Just Signed Massive Gambling Sponsorships Despite Calls For It To Be Banned

Tabcorp has signed on to sponsorship agreements with clubs in the NRL and the AFL despite the CEO's claims that gambling advertising "has gone too far"

Crikey

Wake up and smell the fossil fuels in mining-controlled WA

Governments, media, even local sporting organisations have been wooed and won over by mining largesse, write Crikey readers.

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

Crikey

Australian newsrooms make different calls on journalists taking Middle East trips

Media companies have come under scrutiny for editorial positions on covering the Israel-Hamas war — but what are their actual policies?

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A Sydney Renter Received An Eviction Notice One Day After Speaking Out About Her 50% Rent Hike

A Sydney woman was issued an eviction notice after talking about her $300 rent increase in the media.

Crikey

Which Australian journalists and politicians have gone on junkets to Israel and Palestine?

A number of the most powerful people in the Australian media have been on free tours of the Middle East — and disclosure obligations vary from outlet to outlet…

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