Sunday, July 11, 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 Guardian • Amy Remeikis, Daniel Hurst • July 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
General confusion: who is John Frewen, and what is his role in Australia’s vaccine rollout?
An increasingly public role for the Lt Gen as the face, and uniform, of the beleaguered program begs the question: why call in the military?
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The Guardian • Paul Daley, Ben Doherty • July 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘A tragic and wasted opportunity’: Australia’s inglorious exit from Afghanistan
Was two decades of war worth the price in human life, enduring suffering and monetary cost? It depends who you ask
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • July 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Not like Tony Abbott’: what kind of PM would Anthony Albanese be?
Albanese has been attacked for seeking to win by attrition, but could he just be Australia’s Joe Biden?
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
The race call question is can Labor win? I don’t know the answer. But I know there’s another question we should ask less than 12 months out from an election: what would an Albanese government be like? @AlboMP⁩ ⁦@InsidersABC⁩ #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 11, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • July 11, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Arm Yourself’: Military chief launches new vaccination advertising campaign
A new campaign to encourage Australians to get the jab will finally be launched on Sunday, with a distinctly military feel.
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Financial Times • The editorial board • July 11, 2021 • ft.com
Fatal flaws in Australia’s hermit nation strategy
Canberra squandered its early Covid victory with a glacial vaccine rollout
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick Bonyhady • July 11, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Meant to be graphic’: New ad tells Sydneysiders to stay home
The federal government prepared the ad last year but has not needed to use it until now because of the accelerating NSW outbreak.
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LA Progressive • Julia Conley • July 7, 2021 • laprogressive.com
After Key Witness Recants, Assange Supporters Demand Release
Assange Supporters Demand Release - The Wikileaks founder's family attended a rally in London to mark Assange's birthday.
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Peter Cronau@PeterCronau
The case against Assange has collapsed, but the media won’t report it.
“The family of Julian Assange demand his release after a key witness in the case against him admitted his testimony was false.”
laprogressive.com/assange-suppor… #auspol
July 11, 2021
The Guardian • Josh Taylor • July 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Censusfail’ hangs over Australian Bureau of Statistics as it prepares for 2021 survey
Statistics agency has rebuilt its cyber security ‘from ground up’ to prevent repeat of 2016 census debacle
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Josh Taylor@joshgnosis
I spoke to the chief information security officer at the ABS about how they're going all out to hopefully prevent another Censusfail. theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 11, 2021
ABC News • Gareth Hutchens • July 11, 2021 • abc.net.au
If we stop using the unemployed to control inflation, will we all be better off?
Wouldn't it be better to say "full employment" is a situation in which everyone who wants a job has a job, and everyone is working the hours they want, asks Gareth Hutchens.
The Australian • GARY RAMAGE • July 11, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Last Diggers exit Kabul under shroud of secrecy
Little more than a century after the last remaining Anzacs stepped off the Gallipoli peninsula under the cover of darkness, the final Australian Diggers have withdrawn from Afghanistan under a blackout of a different kind.
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ABC News • Paul Johnson • July 11, 2021 • abc.net.au
‘I just hope I made Evonne proud’: Four decades after Goolagong Cawley’s Wimbledon win, Barty gives emotional tribute on same stage
Australia's Ash Barty wins Wimbledon, defeating Czech Karolína Plíšková in three sets. She is the first Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 to win the title.
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ABC News • Jeremy Story Carter • July 10, 2021 • abc.net.au
'We're making a lot of noise': the loud movement disrupting Australian wine
Is natural wine having an outsized influence in reshaping our wine culture, or just the latest plaything for trend-chasing, virtue-seeking millennials?
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Jeremy Story Carter@jstorycarter
Here’s a story I put together about Australian natural wine (or whatever folk might prefer to call it), and why it hasn’t gone away despite being dismissed as a fad
abc.net.au/news/2021-07-1…
July 10, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • July 11, 2021 • smh.com.au
Travel bubble with Singapore delayed until end of 2021: Tehan
The Morrison government is now targeting the end of 2021 for a Singapore-Australia travel bubble.
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NSW Government • December 3, 2021 • nsw.gov.au
NSW COVID-19 rules and restrictions
Learn about the rules and restrictions in NSW and what you can do to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
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NSW Health@NSWHealth
NSW Health is aware of incorrect public health advice circulating in the community and on social media regarding Greater Sydney restrictions.
Please use trusted and credible sources of information.
Visit: nsw.gov.au/covid-19/rules…
July 22, 2021
The Guardian • Tumaini Carayol • July 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
Ashleigh Barty battles past Karolina Pliskova to clinch first Wimbledon title
Ashleigh Barty has won her first Wimbledon title with a 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 victory over Karolina Pliskova in the women’s singles final
The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • July 12, 2021 • smh.com.au
Nine CEO Mike Sneesby reshuffles ranks after senior exec Janz resigns
One of the key players in the revival of newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age has resigned from Nine Entertainment Co.
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New Statesman • Tim Soutphommasane • July 10, 2021 • newstatesman.com
How failure on Covid-19 has exposed the dangerous delusion of “Fortress Australia”
The country’s complacency on vaccines reflected the false belief that it could cut itself off from the world.
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Tim Soutphommasane@timsout
The hubris of Fortress Australia: @mds49 and me on how Australia’s zero Covid strategy has unravelled thanks to a failed vaccine rollout, the trashing of AstraZeneca and remarkable political complacency newstatesman.com/world/australa…
July 10, 2021
ABC News • July 11, 2021 • abc.net.au
'So proud': Australian tennis legend Evonne Goolagong Cawley says she knew Ash Barty was a champion
Tennis legend and Wiradjuri woman Evonne Goolagong Cawley has paid a heartfelt tribute to "little sister" Ash Barty, saying she just sensed it was "her time" to win Wimbledon during NAIDOC week.
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The Guardian • Emma Graham-Harrison • July 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
Forget the geopolitics. Let’s focus on the human cost of the exit from Afghanistan
As the Taliban exploits the hasty US withdrawal, the fallout on the ground could be disastrous, especially for women
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