News Tweets Archive COVID-19

•••• The Monthly • Martin McKenzie-Murray • 1 day ago • themonthly.com.au
Grace notes
Grace Tame’s sexual abuse as a child, also experienced by the author, makes policing her manners misguided at best
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••• ABC News • Laura Tingle • 16 hours ago • abc.net.au
After the world's most awkward photo-op, Morrison is being haunted by a string of other unfortunate images
The events this week which have leapt out of the Prime Minister's calendar all come with the sound effects of someone smacking into unfortunate reminders of the recent past, writes Laura Tingle.
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••• NZ Herald • Charlotte Bellis • 18 hours ago • nzherald.co.nz
Exclusive: Pregnant TV reporter Charlotte Bellis' full, open letter on MIQ - 'NZ said you're not welcome'
'When the Taliban offers you a safe haven, you know your situation is messed up.'
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••• The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Mike Bowers • 15 hours ago • theguardian.com
Labor’s lone wolf: Anthony Albanese embarks on the fight of his life
Is Albanese ready to be prime minister? And, if he is, can he win? On the road with the stubborn, headstrong and sentimental Labor leader
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••• The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • 15 hours ago • theguardian.com
Prime minister, as a refugee I have done everything Australia has asked. Nine years on, why am I still in detention? | Mehdi
I came to this country at fifteen looking for help. How does keeping me locked up help to heal the trauma I have experienced?
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•• The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • 21 hours ago • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Hospital plan: ‘Try very hard to avoid getting Covid until March’
In October, the government made a new plan for hospitals – but it was never updated and one of the key drugs it was based on still hasn’t arrived.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
If you can think of an element of the health system, it has been affected by Covid-19. This isn't just about people who become infected. Almost two years into the pandemic, there is still a head-scratching approach to planning. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
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• Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • 1 day ago • afr.com
Independents threaten upheaval in key Lib seats: poll
Liberals in two key seats are under threat from independents campaigning for more action on climate change.
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💧simon holmes à court@simonahac
latest polling has #independent challengers @spenderallegra & @KyleaTink above 20% primary in #wentworth & #northsydney respectively.
excellent news… if spender & tink receive 25%+ primary in may, they're highly likely to win… and join the crossbench.
afr.com/politics/feder…
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• The Age • Greg Baum • 1 day ago • theage.com.au
We’re entertaining you, whether you like it or not
The so-called special Ks and their cheer squad seem to think they’re fixing something that isn’t broken in tennis.
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Neil McMahon@NeilMcMahon
Amen to this from @GregBaum.
There is no #AusOpen popularity problem that needs to be solved by the Ks. In non-COVID times, the Open is the most successful of the four Slams. The only problem it has is not having enough tickets to meet demand.
theage.com.au/sport/tennis/w… #AusOpen
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•• The Shot • 1 day ago • theshot.net.au
Because we could not stop for death
Living, and dying, with Covid
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🕯 RonniSalt 🕯@RonniSalt
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Sometimes, writing hurts.
This one hurt.
My latest piece in @shot_au on "living alongside the virus".
On loss and life (and coffee shops) in our time of covid.
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theshot.net.au/general-news/b…
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• The Guardian • Michael McGowan, Benita Kolovos • 15 hours ago • theguardian.com
‘They text each other all the time’: Perrottet and Andrews embrace the benefits of a united front
The close relationship between the New South Wales and Victorian premiers is a jarring shift from the political pandemic theatre of the last two years
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Predrag Milic • 8 hours ago • smh.com.au
Fresh doubts over Novak Djokovic ‘positive’ COVID test used to enter Australia
Senior Serbian health officials have previously said that Djokovic’s test was valid and issued by a relevant institution.
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• news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • 1 day ago • news.com.au
Albanese claimed $17k to stay in his own flat
Labor leader Anthony Albanese claimed $17,169 in travel allowance from taxpayers to stay at his mortgage-free Canberra apartment for 59 nights during Sydney’s marathon lockdown while staging “guerilla” campaign missions into Queensland and Tasmania.
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•••• news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • 1 day ago • news.com.au
$37,000 bill for MP to leave Vic lockdown
Liberal frontbencher Tim Wilson claimed $37,494 from taxpayers in travel allowance after leaving Melbourne’s brutal lockdown for 95 nights over 2021.
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The Australian • STEPHEN RICE • 23 hours ago • theaustralian.com.au
Insidious blackfishing in anti-vax message
On an encrypted social media site, a man who claims to be Indigenous sends out instructions to Aboriginal women on how they should identify themselves in selfie videos so his message will perfectly target the remote communities he wants to infiltrate.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Wendy Tuohy • 16 hours ago • smh.com.au
Inclusive language risks ‘dehumanising women’, top researchers argue
While well-intentioned, a trend to remove words including “women” and “mothers” from language used in maternity information risks dehumanising women, researchers say.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Sean Parnell • 2 hours ago • smh.com.au
‘Rage’: Christensen threatened TGA official over worming tablets
Morrison government backbencher George Christensen rallied public health sceptics to bombard the Therapeutic Goods Administration with protest calls.
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BBC News • https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews • 1 day ago • bbc.com
Novak Djokovic: Doubts over timing of Covid test
The BBC has uncovered fresh evidence questioning the timing of Novak Djokovic’s positive Covid test used to enter Australia.
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Ben Rothenberg@BenRothenberg
Back on this thread briefly to share a BBC report with further scrutiny of Djokovic's positive test document.
The identification number on the document he submitted doesn't align up chronologically with the numbers on other tests from Serbia last month.
bbc.com/news/59999541
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• The Guardian • Kieran Pender • 1 day ago • theguardian.com
Should Australia’s major sports stars really be defined by fossil fuel companies trying to look good?
What is the cost to athletes and sports of accepting money from an influential denier of global warming? And what is the cost to our planet?
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Kieran Pender@KieranPender
In recent months, I have been investigating Gina Rinehart's growing ties to Australian sport & the tension between athlete climate activism & Rinehart's global warming denial for @GuardianAus. Today, @AUSOlympicTeam announced a partnership with Rinehart theguardian.com/business/2022/…
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • 15 hours ago • theguardian.com
My partner died. Then my brother. Here’s what not to say to someone who is grieving
In an effort to help – and to protect themselves – people try to shrink the loss with empty platitudes. But that can make grief even more painful
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• The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick O'Malley • 1 day ago • smh.com.au
‘Band-Aid on a broken leg’: Experts say Great Barrier Reef plan won’t save it
Government spending money on water quality and illegal fishing is useful, but experts and activists say it will not address the reef’s key threat: climate change.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Chris Harrison • 15 hours ago • smh.com.au
I was clinically dead for two minutes. This is what I saw
There are so many clichés around death. There was nothing unique about mine, apart from the fact I came back from it.
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The Guardian • Nino Bucci • 15 hours ago • theguardian.com
‘Colonial document’: Victorian justice department reports raise concerns about welfare of Indigenous young people
Independent review into ‘serious problem with systemic racism’ needed to safeguard Aboriginal Victorians, critics say
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The Australia Institute • Anna Chang • 14 hours ago • australiainstitute.org.au
Polling: Vast Majority of Wentworth & North Sydney Voters Want More Funding for ABC
New Australia Institute polling in the federal seats of Wentworth and North Sydney show strong support for the ABC. The polling in the blue-ribbon Liberal seats in NSW shows overwhelming support for increasing ABC funding and for a more independent ABC board appointments process. 853 residents of NSW federal seat of Wentworth and 850 residents
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The Saturday Paper • Margo Kingston • 21 hours ago • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How independent Kate Chaney plans to win Curtin
The scion of one of Perth’s most powerful families, Kate Chaney is the independent candidate who may yet take Curtin back from the Liberal Party.
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The Saturday Paper • John Hewson • 21 hours ago • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
A mosquito in a nudist colony
We have finally arrived. After an almost daily campaign since the 2019 federal election, we are just a few months short of the next one. Naturally, attention is turning to focus on Anthony Albanese and his opposition. From one perspective – namely that governments usually lose elections and oppositions don’t win them – many feel Albo should be a shoo-in. He is, after all,
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news.com.au • Andrew McMurtry • 3 hours ago • news.com.au
‘Why in the hell?’: Legend calls out Novak Djokovic
A BBC report which casts doubt over Novak Djokovic’s positive Covid test at the centre of his Australian Open drama has raised plenty of eyebrows, including tennis legend John McEnroe.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Chip Le Grand • 15 hours ago • smh.com.au
Power of Two: The partnership that changed our pandemic response
If you had suggested last year that Daniel Andrews and Dominic Perrottet would unite our pandemic response, you would have been checked for evidence of a COVID fever.
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Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide • Aidin Vaziri • 18 hours ago • datebook.sfchronicle.com
Spotify loses $4 billion in market value following Neil Young controversy
Spotify took a tumble on the market after rock icon Neil Young called out the company for spreading vaccine misinformation.
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ABC News • Virginia Trioli • 14 hours ago • abc.net.au
It's only January 29 and I've never felt so tired. I know I'm not alone
The year hasn't even started and it's hard to find a person who doesn't feel completely cooked, writes Virginia Trioli.
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The Guardian • Bernadette Carreon, Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson • 16 hours ago • theguardian.com
Fear and dread: Covid-free for two years, Pacific islands experience explosion in case numbers
The virus has swept into remote island countries, sowing panic and confusion
The Guardian • Paul Karp • 15 hours ago • theguardian.com
Industry stakeholders strike deal that could lead to pay rise for Australian aged care workers
Consensus statement lodged in support of case arguing for pay rises across the sector, though health department declined to participate
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • 2 hours ago • theguardian.com
Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in demanding Spotify remove her music
Mitchell is the first prominent musician to join Young’s protest against the platform over Covid misinformation concerns
news.com.au • James Matthey • 9 hours ago • news.com.au
Dylan Alcott hits out over huge prizemoney gap after Australian Open final
Dylan Alcott has hit out about the lack of prizemoney on offer for wheelchair tennis players ahead of this weekend’s Australian Open finals.
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ABC News • 5 hours ago • abc.net.au
Joni Mitchell to remove songs from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young's stance against COVID 'misinformation'
The legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell says she will take her songs off the streaming service, saying "irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives".
The Wall Street Journal • Charles Edel • 11 hours ago • wsj.com
Australia Takes the Initiative in the Pacific
The deteriorating security environment and more pressure from Beijing aren’t only U.S. concerns.
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The Saturday Paper • 21 hours ago • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Hand-to-hand combat
Scott Morrison wears a lot of make-up. He understands cameras: not how they work but what they do. In front of the press he never stops moving. They are small moves, back and forth, to make sure everyone has the shot. He understands politics is obligation and opportunity and that his skill is the latter.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jeff Sparrow • 1 day ago • smh.com.au
Why we always look on the bright side of life
Andrew Leigh says we struggle to process concepts such as extinction.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • 8 hours ago • smh.com.au
‘It doesn’t matter who you are, they’re the rules’: Scott Morrison’s vaccine warning to Kanye West
Kanye West will have to adhere to Australia’s rules if he wants to enter the country, according to Trade and Tourism Minister Dan Tehan.
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ABC News • Tim Fernandez, Claudia Jambor • 13 hours ago • abc.net.au
'Never thought I'd be homeless': Garry sleeps in his van because his pay doesn't cover rent and food
Instead of driving home from work, Garry Wallis sets up his van in a suburban car park and settles in for the night. The 59-year-old says despite working all his life, he's homeless.
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The Advertiser • Patrick McDonald • 1 day ago • adelaidenow.com.au
Tame booked in for Adelaide #MeToo ‘revival’
Controversial Australian of the Year 2021, advocate and artist Grace Tame, will join actor Bryan Brown and Julian Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson at Adelaide Writers’ Week.
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The Saturday Paper • Paul Bongiorno • 21 hours ago • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Send in the clowns
The Australia Day holiday is now behind us. By convention, this signals that the nation is back at work. It also sets the clock ticking down for a federal election within four months. The sense of foreboding within the Morrison government is palpable. Likewise, excitement is mounting within the Labor Party that this time it will not be thwarted.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
This is not happening.
Everyone needs to stop drinking the bong water now on this one. twitter.com/satpaper/statu…
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The Sydney Morning Herald • George Megalogenis • 15 hours ago • smh.com.au
It might be too late for Morrison to change course
Scott Morrison has greeted 2022 with the worst side of his character. He has been both passive and aggressive, shifting blame and snapping at anyone who dares suggest he takes responsibility for the mess we’re in.
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Australian Associated Press • watermark feed • 13 hours ago • aap.com.au
Omicron a wrecking ball to hot vax summer
After two years of COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, many singletons had hoped for a 'hot vax summer' but the Omicron wave wiped out those plans.
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Climate Council • 1 day ago • climatecouncil.org.au
A Band-Aid on a broken leg: Reef cash useless without deep emissions cuts this decade
With an election and UNESCO’s ruling on the Great Barrier Reef looming, the Federal Government has announced $1 billion for the Reef, which the Climate Council has labelled as more “golden Band-Aid” spending.
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The Saturday Paper • Dechlan Brennan • 21 hours ago • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Inside Roebourne, Australia’s hottest prison
In a boiling prison in WA, there is airconditioning in the guards’ toilets but not in the cells. After a 50.5 degree day this month, former prisoners warn someone will die from the heat.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lucy Cormack, Tom Rabe • 16 hours ago • smh.com.au
‘Liberal out of central casting’: The man who wants Gladys Berejiklian’s seat
Tim James is vying for the seat of Willoughby in next month’s NSW byelection that will choose a successor to the outgoing MP and former premier, who resigned amid a corruption inquiry.
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The Guardian • First Dog on the Moon • 1 day ago • theguardian.com
During a pandemic the healthcare system needs some effort and money YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT THAT IS YOUR JOB
There were holes but the health system mostly sort of worked. All they had to do was keep it going
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The Guardian • Sam Jones, Kim Willsher • 18 hours ago • theguardian.com
‘Killed by indifference’: France shocked by death on busy Paris street
Swiss photographer René Robert died from hypothermia after falling and being ignored for nine hours
The Sydney Morning Herald • Kerri Sackville • 1 day ago • smh.com.au
At 50, I finally figured out what Grace Tame knows in her 20s
Men are not entitled to our smiling niceness simply because they are men.
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ABC News • Matt Garrick • 23 hours ago • abc.net.au
NT senator Sam McMahon resigns from CLP, set to sit on crossbench
Northern Territory senator Sam McMahon has resigned from the Country Liberal Party, a spokesman confirms. The Morrison Coalition government will lose a sitting senator to the crossbench.
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