| | 06/12/2024 Firm with fossil fuel links advises on climate policy, teen radicalisation warning, (not) the Christmas weather forecast |
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| | | Good morning. The consultancy firm McKinsey undertook work for the federal government on climate change policy, despite its known links to fossil fuel clients. The company was paid $1.6m by the climate change department as the government lacked the “technical capacity”. The Five Eyes countries have put out a rare joint warning about online radicalisation as Asio and the AFP reveal two Australian teenagers have been convicted under counter-terrorism laws. Plus: you may already have read a forecast of the weather for Christmas Day. Could it be right? |
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 | World | | Rifle grab | A South Korean party spokesperson seen grappling with a rifle-wielding soldier in a video that went viral as a symbol of defiance against martial law has insisted that she is not especially brave. | United States | The New York police department has issued a fresh image clearly showing the face of a man they suspect of shooting and killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, in Manhattan. | France | President Emmanuel Macron has addressed the country in the wake of the government’s historic collapse, insisting he will stay for his full term. Michel Barnier has resigned as prime minister but will stay in a caretaker role until a new government is appointed. | Middle East | Amnesty International’s Israel branch has distanced itself from the rights group’s allegation that Israel was committing “genocide” in Gaza but said “serious crimes” were potentially taking place that needed investigation. In Syria, Islamist rebels have seized the strategic city of Hama. | Trump | Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, is the latest tech mogul to offer a support for Donald Trump’s incoming presidency, endorsing the former president’s plans to reduce government regulation and signalling a willingness to collaborate. |
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| Full Story | | Newsroom edition: News Corp’s gas splash and the mining industry’s election agenda Bridie Jabour talks to Guardian Australia’s editor, Lenore Taylor, and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about how the mining industry – and the media – are trying to shape the election agenda. | |
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| In-depth | | A social media post from an Australian embassy claimed that no one knows why streets in the South Sudanese capital of Juba were named after Queensland State of Origin players. Kieran Pender’s quest for the truth sent him down a rabbit hole of old News Corp articles and Google Earth satellite images. |
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| Not the news | | With the movie musical Wicked’s run time at two hours and 41 minutes, Rebecca Shaw speaks out against ridiculous movie runtimes. “With long beautiful movies or long boring movies about men doing stuff, you know what you are in for,” she writes. “You are ready for it, willing, prepared, organising your pee breaks. I am not ready for that with Wicked, especially when the stage version (which I looked up in a huff) is two and a half hours in its entirety.” |
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| What’s happening today | Supermarkets | The Fair Work Commission will hearWoolworths’ bargaining order application over warehouse strikes. | Auckland | Richard Marles and Penny Wong will attend an Anzmin meeting. | Sydney | Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson will speak at Doltone House. |
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The course of world history has taken a sharp and disturbing turn in 2024. Liberalism is under threat from populist authoritarianism. Americans have voted to install a president with no respect for democratic norms, nor the facts that once formed the guardrails of public debate.
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