Tuesday, July 6, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

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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The Australian • BEN PACKHAM • July 5, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Hundreds of Afghan angels left for dead
Hundreds of Afghans linked to Australian-funded hearts and minds projects will be left vulnerable to advancing Taliban forces after being denied access to a special visa program for those who supported Australias two-decade presence in the country.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • July 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
Women swing against the Coalition since the 2019 election
Women have swung against the Coalition, cutting the government’s primary vote from 41 to 37 per cent among female voters since the last election.
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The Guardian • Anne Davies, Naaman Zhou • July 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘An error’: health department says Sydney private school students given Pfizer vaccine by mistake
NSW Health agreed to vaccinate Indigenous boarders at St Joseph’s College but ‘through an error’ all year 12 boarders were inoculated
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The Guardian • Lorena Allam • July 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
No more welcome to country for Rio Tinto, Indigenous owners say
Eastern Guruma people refuse to meet with miner for at least three months in protest over dumping of sacred site artefacts
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Laura Murphy-Oates@lauramoates
Aboriginal traditional owners have told mining giant Rio Tinto they will no longer do “welcome to country” for events & are refusing to meet with the company until it demonstrates it is “serious” about modernising agreements with them, via Lorena Allam
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
July 6, 2021
The Guardian • Paul Karp • July 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Ludicrous’: Coalition paid $115,000 a space for car park in Melbourne
Industry body chief says no ‘logical reason’ Berwick commuter car park should cost nearly three times the benchmark price
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Latika Bourke • July 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
Airlines warn arrival caps will bump 18,000 Australians from flights home
“It will be a very stressful situation for everyone,” says the head of The Board of Airline Representatives of Australia, bracing for six weeks of cuts to arrivals.
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Latika M Bourke@latikambourke
NEW from me.
Airlines say 18,000 Australians are about to be bumped from flights in the next six weeks as Australia shuts the door on it's own, again.
(and that's just the start)
latika.me/3Avayh5
#FortressAustralia
July 6, 2021
ABC News • Andrew Probyn, Matthew Doran, Jack Snape • July 6, 2021 • abc.net.au
'Significant risk': Concerns raised about $5 million pool for a suburb barely on the map in marginal WA seat
Funding was promised for the pool in the WA electorate of Pearce, which the Liberals feared might be taken by Labor in the May 2019 election, instead of going toward female sports programs.
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Andrew Probyn@andrewprobyn
SPORTS RORTS RETURNS...
How about shelling out a cool $5 million to build a pool that'll cost up to 12 times that amount, without a plan and in a suburb so new it's barely even on the map?
@MattDoran91 @jacksongs
abc.net.au/news/2021-07-0…
July 6, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • July 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
Guardian Essential poll: Scott Morrison approval drops six points during latest Covid lockdowns
Poll finds support for government handling of health crisis down nine points in a month, from 53% to 44%
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ABC News • Steve Cannane, Kyle Taylor • July 6, 2021 • abc.net.au
'I haven't got a job to lose anymore': These casino inspectors know Crown's dirty secrets
The gambling watchdog was meant to keep Crown Casino crime-free. Five former inspectors tell Four Corners how it failed spectacularly.
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Kyle Taylor@KylesTaylor
The untold story of five casino inspectors who knew Crown’s dirty secrets but say they were stonewalled and silenced.
Until now.
‘Watching the Crown’
#4corners ⁦@SteveCannane⁩ ⁦@4corners⁩ abc.net.au/news/2021-07-0…
July 6, 2021
The Guardian • Peter Lewis • July 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison is the Billy Joel of Australian politics – a hollow master of pastiche
The PM doesn’t even pretend to try to build his own coherent body of work. From the vaccine shambles to hotel quarantine Covid leaks, the bum notes are growing louder
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Crikey • Bernard Keane • July 6, 2021 • crikey.com.au
Banks is right: Scott Morrison is the gaslighter-in-chief. We've got the proof
Scott Morrison portrayed a female critic as emotionally unstable in a deliberate tactic to distract from her serious allegations of bullying in the Liberal Party.
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The Age • Michael Fowler, Cassandra Morgan • July 6, 2021 • theage.com.au
Australian Grand Prix cancelled again due to COVID-19
Sports Minister Martin Pakula said it was going to be too difficult to establish special quarantine arrangements for up to 1600 people associated with Formula One teams given low vaccination rates and reduced arrivals from overseas.
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Latika M Bourke@latikambourke
YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS UP.
Victorian government is blaming lowering arrival caps, WHICH IT PUSHED FOR LAST WEEK, as one of the reasons why it's cancelled the Australian Grand Prix.
DED.
theage.com.au/sport/motorspo…
July 6, 2021
Australian Financial Review • John Kehoe • July 5, 2021 • afr.com
Big investors warn Australia on climate change
Foreign funds warn they could blacklist Australia and cut billions in investments if the federal government fails to commit to a net-zero emissions target.
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The Guardian • James Colley • July 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
Who has the better lockdown, Sydney or Melbourne? Apparently the global pandemic isn’t about this competition?
Sydney has great weather to be locked down in and Melbourne’s came with culture. But let’s just shut up and get through it
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The Atlantic • Caitlin Flanagan • July 5, 2021 • theatlantic.com
You Really Need to Quit Twitter
How could I have succumbed to this common, embarrassing habit that just about everyone on Earth knows is a scourge?
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Mark Scott@mscott
Terrific read. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
July 6, 2021
The New Daily • Josh Butler • July 5, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
'Humanitarian disaster': Pleas to help Indonesia's spiralling COVID disaster
Human rights organisations are begging the federal government to deliver urgent COVID help to Indonesia, with hospitals full and death tolls rising.
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Sophie McNeill@Sophiemcneill
‘Humanitarian disaster:’ Why #Australia must help fight #Indonesia’s spiralling COVID catastrophe. "Hospitals are full, they’re using parking lots as the ICU. Oxygen is running low" says @hrw's @andreasharsono thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/07/0…
July 6, 2021
NITV • Sarah Collard NITV News • July 6, 2021 • sbs.com.au
Aboriginal peak health body left out of national vaccine task force meeting
The head of Australia's peak body for Aboriginal Health has hit out at the commonwealth's COVID-19 task force for failing to invite them to high-level talks.
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7.30 • July 5, 2021 • abc.net.au
Liberal MP Julia Banks speaks on the toxic culture at Parliament House
Former Liberal MP Julia Banks has alleged she was subjected to an unwanted sexual advance at work from a cabinet minister in the Turnbull government, and she says entering politics had felt like "stepping back in time" to the 1980s
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