July 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

ABC News • Laura Tingle • July 11, 2021 • abc.net.au
Days before Scott Morrison announced earlier Pfizer vaccine supplies, Kevin Rudd met with the Pfizer chairman
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd contacted Pfizer chairman and chief executive Albert Bourla directly at the end of June to see if anything could be done to expedite the delivery of vaccines to Australia.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • July 13, 2021 • smh.com.au
Niki Savva joins The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
Award-winning political commentator and author Niki Savva is joining The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald as a columnist.
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin, Amanda Meade • July 18, 2021 • theguardian.com
Far-right commentator Katie Hopkins dumped by Big Brother after Australia hotel quarantine claims
Seven terminates contract and British far-right figure expected to leave country after joking about plans to breach quarantine rules
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Australian Government Department of Health • July 24, 2021 • health.gov.au
ATAGI Statement, Response to NSW COVID-19 outbreak 24th July 2021
A statement from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) in response to the NSW COVID-19 outbreak.
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James Massola@jamesmassola
NEW ATAGI advice on AZ: All individuals aged 18 years and above in greater Sydney, including adults under 60 years of age, should strongly consider getting vaccinated with any available vaccine including COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca bit.ly/3iLkRp0
July 24, 2021
The Age • Anthony Galloway • July 27, 2021 • theage.com.au
‘Wrong morally’: Official photo of Ben Roberts-Smith was altered to hide Crusader’s cross
Former special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith displayed a Crusader’s cross on his uniform while on duty in Afghanistan. Many Muslims find the symbol offensive.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Bevan Shields • July 30, 2021 • smh.com.au
AstraZeneca creator says Australia’s mixed messages on vaccine may cost lives
Dame Sarah Gilbert made the intervention amid a heated debate over whether the wider use of the vaccine could have prevented lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne.
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Bevan Shields@BevanShields
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, the Oxford scientist who created the AstraZeneca vaccine and was given that amazing standing ovation at Wimbledon, says mixed messaging in Australia may cost lives smh.com.au/world/europe/a…
July 30, 2021
The Guardian • Sarah Martin • July 27, 2021 • theguardian.com
Major delay in Australian government’s Novavax deal, with 51m doses not expected until 2022
Initially touted as a ‘primary’ vaccine to help immunise Australia by the end of this year, Novavax will now form part of the booster strategy
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The Guardian • Amy Remeikis • July 9, 2021 • theguardian.com
From the front to the back of the queue: how Australia’s vaccine rollout unravelled
Morrison government’s vaunted vaccination targets dropped amid Pfizer delays and AstraZeneca rare blood clot risk in favour of allocation ‘horizons’
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Australian Financial Review • Aaron Patrick, John Kehoe • July 14, 2021 • afr.com
NSW Treasurer suggested top doctor take pay cut for needless lockdowns
Dr Kerry Chant should consider a salary reduction if she imposed unnecessary lockdowns, Dominic Perrottet said during an earlier outbreak.
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The Age • David Crowe, Shane Wright • July 22, 2021 • smh.com.au
Former judge labels $660 million car park fund ‘corruption’
A leading former Victorian Supreme Court judge says the Commuter Car Park fund meets “any appropriate definition of corruption”.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
"On any appropriate definition of corruption, this is an instance of it."
-- former Supreme Court judge David Harper on the commuter car park scheme.
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
July 22, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Julia Banks • July 3, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Shut up and take your HRT’: ex-MP Julia Banks on Canberra’s boys’ club
When Julia Banks transitioned from a successful corporate career into federal politics, she was shocked to find sexism and backroom skulduggery still running rife. The best antidote? Channelling Helen Mirren.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Nick Evershed • July 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Stuffed’: how Australia’s ‘unconscionable’ gamble on Covid vaccines backfired
The prime minister jumped the gun in November 2020 when he declared ‘we can look forward to a much better 2021’
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
I spoke with former @pfizer global president John LaMattina, who described Australia's small and belated first order of 10m doses as "unconscionable", given what was known at the time about efficacy and safety. Our allies had made huge orders of the vaccine four months earlier twitter.com/knausc/status/…
July 10, 2021
Australian Government Department of Health • July 13, 2021 • health.gov.au
ATAGI statement on use of COVID-19 vaccines in an outbreak setting
A statement from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) on the use of COVID-19 vaccines in an outbreak setting.
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • July 21, 2021 • theguardian.com
Coalition believes it has numbers to stop Great Barrier Reef being listed as ‘in danger’
Exclusive: Diplomatic email suggests whirlwind lobbying trip by Sussan Ley has won over at least nine of 21 members on World Heritage Committee
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Kate McClymont • July 19, 2021 • smh.com.au
Eddie Obeid, Ian Macdonald and Moses Obeid found guilty over rigged tender
Former Labor minister Eddie Obeid set to return to prison after guilty finding over his role in a rigged tender which delivered his family $30 million windfall.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker, Natassia Chrysanthos • July 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
Year 12 students at St Joseph’s College given Pfizer vaccination
While older Australians wait for their jabs, NSW Health arranged for Pfizer jabs for 160 year 12 students at St Joseph’s College in Hunters Hill.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Samantha Hutchinson • July 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
A Bigger Picture on Turnbull memoir superspreaders
A long-running investigation into the leaking of Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir has netted thousands in settlement payments and drawn in top ranking Coalition leaders in a “family tree” revealing who received the manuscript and forwarded it on.
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ABC News • Annabel Crabb • July 9, 2021 • abc.net.au
One of Australia's most experienced legislators alleges she was sexually assaulted at Old Parliament House
Kate Sullivan, the second-longest-serving woman in federal parliamentary history, says she was sexually assaulted at Old Parliament House while the Senate was in session.
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Annabel Crabb@annabelcrabb
Inspired by Brittany Higgins, one of Australian parliament's longest-serving women comes forward with sexual assault allegation abc.net.au/news/2021-07-0…
July 9, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Nick Evershed, Rafqa Touma, Natasha May • July 9, 2021 • theguardian.com
Coalition’s proposed anti-corruption commission would have no power to investigate recent controversies
Guardian analysis finds body lacks power and threshold too high to begin investigations, meaning car parks and sports rorts, and questions about expense claims would avoid scrutiny
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The Guardian • Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Paul Lewis, David Pegg, Sam Cutler, Nina Lakhani, Michael Safi • July 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests
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Edward Snowden@Snowden
Stop what you're doing and read this. This leak is going to be the story of the year: (LINK: theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…)
July 19, 2021

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