Rick Morton
@SquigglyRick
Senior Reporter: The Saturday Paper. Author: Mean Streak out now, One Hundred Years of Dirt and more. Country kid from QLD. [email protected]
This all-consuming book has been out for a month & is off to be reprinted. Have been too scared to ask for numbers, but I know people are buying and reading it. Thank you. The best feedback is a review like this one because it was my exact hope for this thing. Don't stop now!
The curious case of the disappearing smoking data. The Roy Morgan release was unequivocal: smoking rates among young adults are up after vaping ban which had "demonstrably failed". And then it disappeared and was replaced with something more amenable. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/20…
A disabled woman, limited English, was cut from welfare for 6 MONTHS due to comedy of errors starting with private, $1.3bn job service 'provider' and ending with govt getting their law wrong. Six days after she appealed, dept acted. To protect themselves. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime…
I’m in a different time zone but feel the need to reiterate, as if anyone should have to, that the ABC of all places does not need to, indeed shouldn’t, platform the former Prime Minister and lobbyist Scott Morrison am I going fucking insane
Australian National University says it will refer VC Genevieve Bell's LinkedIn account to authorities for investigation after I told them it had liked some posts about how Julie Bishop is a CCP-backed dictator enabler and Fauci trutherism. linkedin.com/posts/australi…
University of Technology Sydney asked KPMG to analyse researchers by income generated and produce a master Excel list of productivity at the individual level as part of its $360m restructure. The EBA might have something to say about that. Revealing docs. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education…
Is Sky actually going to do anything about this whatsoever? Laughed at it at the time but even more hilarious given what happened.
The $3m ANU consulting contracts designed to ensure 'profit' began life just 17 days after new VC Geneveive Bell started. Was Council ever told the restructure plans were being designed in haste by a private firm? Council minutes don't suggest so. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education…
Out of money and looking for revenue, BoM executive planned to start charging for some raw climate data until its people sounded the alarm. Meanwhile, the Australian Climate Service it essentially runs is languishing. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environme…
The role? Cultural Attaché to Nauru (prisoner)
I swear - these people are nuts. Dutton says sacked Home Affairs boss Pezzullo ‘should have a role to play’ in nation’s future smh.com.au/politics/feder…
Labor axed cashless debit card... and renamed it the SmartCard. Almost 30k people on compulsory income control at end of its term, Indue receiving another $21m, consultations reject "humiliating" and "suffocating" policy. Dutton could do what he wanted. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…