UNCOVERED: 4 - Caught on Camera

Aboriginal community police officers sue NT authorities over alleged racial abuse and discrimination

Class action claims Indigenous staff were called slurs, exposed to racist language and paid less for doing the same work

The Guardian - AU · Aug 4

Media and political complacency is letting Pauline Hanson re-write the rules on accountability

“Disappointing” was the best Guardian Australia could muster when Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banned it from a press conference, this time called to announce the party’s candidates for the forthcoming Victorian state election.

The Conversation · Aug 4

Newspaper space for political cartoons is shrinking – but we need these artists as much as ever

It is a sad day for Australian cartooning when an artist as good as Fiona Katauskas has not had her contract renewed. But that is what has happened at the Guardian Australia.

The Conversation · Aug 3

Pauline Hanson’s no ‘good Muslims’ comment don’t breach hate speech laws, Australian federal police finds

One Nation leader’s ‘how can you tell me there are good Muslims?’ remarks were the subject of complaints, but police say the matter has now been finalised

The Guardian - AU · Jul 31

Anthony Fauci’s diaries take aim at News Corp journalist Sharri Markson’s ‘nonsense’ Covid-19 investigation

US former top health official, who was subpoenaed to appear at a Senate hearing into Covid-19, says Markson’s reporting about virus’s origin ‘does not make any sense’

The Guardian - AU · Jul 30

Mooted WA oil refinery ‘dinosaur technology’ amid clean energy transition, experts say

A feasibility study for the Western Australian project will show the project is uneconomic and requires government subsidies, experts say

The Guardian - AU · Jul 29

‘Prioritising profit’: Australians regularly prescribed medicinal cannabis with very high THC levels

Exclusive: Of more than 1,000 medicinal cannabis products available, only two have been evaluated by the drug regulator

The Guardian - AU · Jul 29

I noticed a customer review I think might be fake. In Australia, are businesses allowed to do this?

False testimonials are prohibited under Australian consumer law, writes policy professional Kat George, but they are also very hard to police

The Guardian - AU · Jul 28

AusAlert blared around parks, libraries and cinemas for a few seconds, but some didn’t get the alert at all

Federal government touts emergency warning alert test as a success and says no approach works 100% of the time

The Guardian - AU · Jul 27

Barnaby Joyce backs One Nation’s ‘monocultural’ vision of Australia. But the reality in his NSW electorate is very different

New England MP previously supported Armidale becoming a refugee resettlement site. Now he’s flagging a possible exception to his new party’s strict English-language requirement

The Guardian - AU · Jul 26