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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • July 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
The Delta variant has shown Fortress Australia to be a house of cards due to the Coalition’s vaccine stroll-out
In the past week, when the country was looking desperately for some leadership, Scott Morrison shrank to the occasion
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ABC News • Patricia Karvelas • July 17, 2021 • abc.net.au
Dan Andrews's piercing zinger will come to haunt Morrison with elections decided on handling the pandemic
Every now and then, you hear a line that is so piercing, you know it will be repeated over and over. Dan Andrews had a belter this week, writes Patricia Karvelas.
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Patricia Karvelas@PatsKarvelas
New analysis from me, filling in the enormous and excellent shoes of ⁦@latingle⁩ Andrews's killer line will come to haunt Morrison as the returned Premier takes no prisoners #covid19 #auspol abc.net.au/news/2021-07-1…
July 17, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • July 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
ClubsNSW seeks court order to stop pokies whistleblower speaking to media
Exclusive: Gag application comes as the lobby group sues Troy Stolz over his allegations of money laundering through state’s poker machines
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • July 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
Liberal-led committee raises concerns about Morrison government’s charity crackdown
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells fears the regulations could curb political protest and freedom of speech
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Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • July 16, 2021 • afr.com
Chances of supporting net zero are net zero: Barnaby Joyce
The Nationals leader’s total opposition to a net zero target all but puts paid to Scott Morrison taking the policy to the next election.
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • July 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
Three countries, eight years: one refugee’s nightmare odyssey through Australia’s detention system
From Christmas Island, to Manus, Port Moresby, Fiji and now Brisbane, 25-year-old Loghman Sawari still waits for the one thing he craves: freedom
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Elaine Pearson@PearsonElaine
“Freedom is all I want. It is simple: freedom. I only ever wanted to be free.”
Loghman Sawari's story sums up everything that is wrong & inhumane about the past 8 years of Australia's offshore processing policy.
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July 17, 2021
The Guardian • Paul Karp • July 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison accused of ‘misrepresenting’ Atagi advice to shift blame for botched vaccine rollout
Labor says more than half of Australians are in Covid lockdown because of the prime minister’s failures
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The Age • Waleed Aly • July 17, 2021 • smh.com.au
Fool’s gold: NSW ignored lockdown lessons
New South Wales’ much-lauded “gold standard” ability to contain a COVID-19 outbreak has been shattered. Now, every Australian government must finally learn from the mistakes.
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mat_dunckley@mat_dunckley
Waleed Aly is so so so very good today.
Invest a cuppa and five minutes - you’ll be glad you did
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July 17, 2021
The Guardian • Ben Quinn • July 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
England’s Covid unlocking is threat to world, say 1,200 scientists
International experts say ‘unethical experiment’ could allow vaccine-resistant variants to develop
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news.com.au • Rebekah Scanlan • July 17, 2021 • news.com.au
Fury as ‘most hated woman’ flouts Sydney quarantine rules
A British celebrity currently in Sydney’s hotel quarantine has labelled lockdown “bulls**t” and is openly mocking safety rules.
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Tim Soutphommasane@timsout
Katie Hopkins: serial racist agitator, banned from Twitter for hate speech, welcomed with open arms by Australian commercial TV. Nothing surprises me any more. But what happened to the character test for visas? news.com.au/entertainment/…
July 17, 2021
The Canberra Times • Karen Barlow • July 17, 2021 • canberratimes.com.au
Albanese attacks Seselja 'roadblock' to territory rights
Anthony Albanese has taken a position on the issue of territory rights in taking a shot at one of the main opponents of change - Senator Seselja.
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ABC Radio National • July 17, 2021 • abc.net.au
Nordic policies
A new book argues that on a range of policy fronts, Australia could think more boldly and adopt some of the admired social, environmental and tax policies of the Nordic countries. Margot Wallstrom, Sweden’s former Foreign Minister 2014-2019, and Andrew Scott, from Deakin University and the Australia Institute, discuss.
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Ben Oquist@BenOquist
Terrific discussion from @ascottnlights @NordicPolicyCtr and @margotwallstrom on @RadioNational this morning. So many big ideas for Australia contained in their (with @R_o_d_C @TheAusInstitute & others) new book “The Nordic Edge”. Out now. abc.net.au/radionational/…
July 17, 2021
The Mandarin • Melissa Coade • July 15, 2021 • themandarin.com.au
Australia’s EV policy miles behind Nordic nations, researcher says
How Australia’s electrical vehicle industry can take a leaf out of the Nordic policy playbook.
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The Canberra Times • Jasper Lindell • July 17, 2021 • canberratimes.com.au
ACT to open vaccination registrations to people aged 30 and over
But newly eligible Canberrans will need to wait until September to receive their vaccines, when Pfizer supplies are set to increase.
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news.com.au • Benedict Brook and Sam Clench • July 16, 2021 • news.com.au
Caitlyn Jenner jets into Australia
Getting into Australia is nigh impossible at the moment. Except, it seems, if you are Hollywood royalty.
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Sam Clench@SamClench
My wife's flight home to Australia was cancelled today due to the arrival caps but nice to see Caitlyn Jenner (who's supposedly running for governor of California) managed to get into Sydney to appear on Big Brother news.com.au/entertainment/…
July 17, 2021
Australian Financial Review • John Kehoe • July 17, 2021 • afr.com
Australia’s great COVID-19 dilemma - when to stop locking down?
Australia was a country lulled into complacency by its own virus-fighting success - but as state after state falls into lockdown, the options are looking limited.
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The Guardian • Marina Hyde • July 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
What a week for England, when arse-flare guy looks like our brightest spark
The security meltdown at Wembley was topped only by the prime minister’s ‘levelling-up’ gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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The Australian • Peter van Onselen • July 17, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Are we ready to make the hard decisions?
At some point soon the Australian population is going to have to come to terms with the realities of the new Covid-19 world that is, in the context of full availability of vaccinations.
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Medium • Saul Griffith • August 20, 2021 • saulgriffith.medium.com
One Billion Machines
Decarbonization, demystified
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The Guardian • Anne Davies • July 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Secret weapon’: unflappable Kerry Chant faces toughest challenge yet as NSW Covid outbreak grows
Immersed in facts, the chief health officer has ignored politics, criticism and even broken glasses to guide Gladys Berejiklian’s pandemic response
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