Tuesday, July 20, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • July 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
Mathias Cormann’s flights to win OECD job cost Australia $11,000 a day
Exclusive: Cost of former finance minister’s month crisscrossing Europe and South America in RAAF jet revealed
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
Mathias Cormann’s flights aboard a Royal Australian Air Force special purpose aircraft over the course of 34 days cost a total of $380,000, @GuardianAus can reveal after analysing the defence department’s quietly released flight records. #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 20, 2021
ABC News • Andrew Probyn • July 20, 2021 • abc.net.au
Less than a month after abandoning its Kabul post, Australia considering future return to Afghanistan
The ABC has been told the government is considering re-establishing a presence in Afghanistan to monitor the resurgence of the Taliban.
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Andrew Probyn@andrewprobyn
EXCLUSIVE:
Australia looking to head back to Afghanistan
abc.net.au/news/2021-07-2…
July 20, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • July 20, 2021 • smh.com.au
Voters mark down Morrison, Joyce’s popularity extraordinarily low
Voters have revealed their frustration with the Prime Minister in a new survey after weeks of argument over the vaccine rollout and new virus outbreaks.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
"It's all about COVID." Voters mark down Scott Morrison and government in latest @smh @theage survey.
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
July 20, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • July 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
Voter confidence in Scott Morrison’s ability to manage a crisis dives as three-quarters say he plays politics
An increasing number also believe he shirks responsibility and is out of touch with ordinary people, poll suggests
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • July 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Torturous’: Australian family fights to free refugee held for eight years without charge
Loghman Sawari was 17 when he was placed in a men-only centre on Manus Island. Nearly a decade on, and another child refugee wants to know why he’s still in detention
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Moz (Mostafa Azimitabar)@AzimiMoz
Loghman has been approved for resettlement to the US for more than a year, but has not been allowed to go. He is locked up in BITA prison in Brisbane for no crime.
#GameOver
theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 20, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • July 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
Aged care workers keen for Covid jab are being hampered by Australia’s ‘messy rollout’
Anglicare says the federal government is trying to shift blame for low vaccination rates to workers
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Sarah Holland-Batt@the_shb
It’s now 16 weeks past the deadline the federal government set for fully vaccinating aged care workers.
60% of workers have still not had a single shot.
Hard to imagine a more vivid illustration of the government’s utter disregard for aged care. #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 20, 2021
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • July 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
Joanna Lumley and Jason Momoa join prominent group backing Great Barrier Reef ‘in danger’ listing
Exclusive: Stars, activists, conservationists and Prince Albert of Monaco unite in support of Unesco’s recommendation to world heritage committee
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox, Naaman Zhou, Matilda Boseley, Nino Bucci, Michael McGowan, Calla Wahlquist, Ben Smee, Daniel Hurst, Anne Davies, Ben Butler, Christopher Kn… • July 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
Victoria extends lockdown; SA announces shutdown – as it happened
This blog is now closed
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Lenore Taylor@lenoretaylor
Duelling press conferences...they are all on the blog....Australia Covid live update: NSW records 78 new cases, Victoria 13; SA announces lockdown after two new Delta cases theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 20, 2021
The Age • Paul Sakkal • July 20, 2021 • theage.com.au
‘Serious misconduct, illegal conduct’: Crown’s ‘flagrant’ breaches laid bare to royal commission
Crown has been accused of repeated legal and ethical failures and labelled unfit to run a Melbourne casino in final submissions to a high-level probe into the gaming giant’s Victorian operations.
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Raf Epstein@Raf_Epstein
Massive
"it would be open to find.. the misconduct has been so flagrant & so well-publicised & detrimental to Crown's overall reputation.. that NO AMOUNT OF RESTRUCTURING can restore confidence in it as ..fit & proper.. to hold a licence."
theage.com.au/national/victo…
July 20, 2021
Inside Story • Peter Browne • July 20, 2021 • insidestory.org.au
The Great Divide • Bill Gammage
The debate about Dark Emu is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of The Biggest Estate on Earth
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Frank Bongiorno@fbongiornoanu
Read Bill Gammage on the Dark Emu debate. This is what a great historian can do. The Great Divide, on Inside Story inside.org.au/the-great-divi… @historyANU @ANUHistSoc
July 20, 2021
ABC News • Fatima Olumee • July 20, 2021 • abc.net.au
'We're not uneducated and rebellious lawbreakers,' say south-west Sydney residents
When Zahra first heard lockdown restrictions would see police presence increased in her region of south-west Sydney, her initial reaction was dread rather than surprise.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Chris Barrett • July 20, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Now is not the time to risk it all’: Singapore returns to lockdown
Three weeks after it outlined its much-publicised road map for living with COVID-19, the city-state is on the defensive again.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • July 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
Life or death for Hazaras: Australia has a moral obligation to act, now | Sitarah Mohammadi and Sajjad Askary
The Taliban killings have ramped up again in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, refugees wait in limbo in Australia and other western countries
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Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • July 20, 2021 • afr.com
Investment ban a bigger threat than carbon tariffs
Australia is more concerned at being sanctioned by financial markets, investors and lenders, than being hit with European carbon tariffs.
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The Guardian • Peter Lewis • July 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
With NSW’s pandemic strategy in tatters, Australians are piling on the state they love to hate
The rest of the country is reeling from the fallout of the Delta outbreak. We need a fresh national game plan based on safety and trust
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The Guardian • Damian Carrington • July 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Reckless’: G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report
Support for coal, oil and gas remains high despite pledges to tackle climate crisis
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Adam Morton@adamlmorton
Australia increased fossil fuel subsidies by 48% between 2015 and 2019 - the biggest rise in the G20 - according to Bloomberg report.
By ⁦@dpcarrington⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…
July 20, 2021
ABC News • Andrew Probyn • July 20, 2021 • abc.net.au
Why would Australia want to help Telstra buy a Pacific telco from an Irish billionaire?
No-one wants to talk about it until it's inked, but the deal's all about China and making sure that Beijing doesn't get its mitts on a key strategic asset in the Pacific, writes Andrew Probyn.
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Crikey • Amber Schultz • July 20, 2021 • crikey.com.au
'If you have a mobile phone, you can call yourself a funeral director'
The lack of regulation in the funeral services industry means procedures are sometimes carried out by unqualified personnel, and there's even a line in 'funeral broking'.
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Amber Schultz@AmberMaySchultz
I've taken a 4-part deep dive into the funeral industry, looking at funeral providers subcontracting out services for the cheapest price, the lack of competition and staff carrying out invasive procedures on bodies with little to no training.
crikey.com.au/2021/07/20/mob…
July 20, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick Bonyhady • July 20, 2021 • smh.com.au
Company loses appeal over $200,000 payout for ‘humiliating’ poster
A court has found the fact a health and safety company didn’t intend to humiliate a Sydney Water employee with a “sexually suggestive” poster doesn’t matter.
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Special Treatie • Alex McClintock • July 20, 2021 • specialtreatie.substack.com
Thank god we aren't the rest of the world
I’ve been thinking about putting together this dumb little newsletter for a while. I’m finally writing it now because I have nothing better to do. Perhaps you have nothing better to do than read it. I read Jan Morris’ Sydney the other week and one of its final paragraphs stuck with me. Morris is sitting in a Kings Cross café, observing how young and happy everyone looks, when:
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Alex McClintock@axmcc
I regret to inform you I'm a newsletter guy now. Share and subscribe etc specialtreatie.substack.com/p/thank-god-we…
July 20, 2021

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