Friday, July 23, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

ABC News • Dan Conifer • July 22, 2021 • abc.net.au
$4.6b in JobKeeper went to businesses that increased their turnover at the height of the pandemic last year
Billions of dollars in JobKeeper payments went to businesses that increased their turnover between April and June last year, 7.30 can reveal.
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The Guardian • Ben Jenkins • July 23, 2021 • theguardian.com
All the trains in my son’s train podcast ranked by how much I hate them
Living in lockdown with small children means distracting them with the same thing, over and over again, until you – like Ben Jenkins – are driven insane
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steph harmon@stephharmon
fairly self-explanatory piece here from @bencjenkins theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
July 23, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Dr Nick Coatsworth • July 23, 2021 • smh.com.au
Unqualified and dishonest: the ‘experts’ who undermined confidence in AstraZeneca will cost Australians’ lives
A section of the medical and scientific commentariat has peddled extreme risk aversion to Australia’s detriment. The most egregious examples have amounted to anti-AstraZenecism. It’s not academic freedom. It’s academic dishonesty - and it will cost lives.
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • July 23, 2021 • theguardian.com
Whether or not the Great Barrier Reef is listed as ‘in danger’ won’t alter the fact it is at risk from climate change
The Australian government pushed back fiercely against Unesco’s recommendation – and the world is watching
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The Guardian • Donna Lu • July 23, 2021 • theguardian.com
Cockatoos in Sydney learning from each other to bin-dive for food, study finds
Sulphur-crested cockatoos’ ability to pry open bins has spread across 44 suburbs in only two years
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Donna Lu@donnadlu
Cockatoos can get in the bin (literally): they’ve learned how to open wheelie bin lids and the behaviour has spread across Sydney, with different techniques in different suburbs arising from “local subcultures” theguardian.com/environment/20…
July 23, 2021
The Canberra Times • Lucy Bladen, Jasper Lindell • July 23, 2021 • canberratimes.com.au
ACT holds off on creating regional bubble, for now
The worsening situation in NSW means the ACT may be forced to introduce additional restrictions.
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Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy
Canberra bubble canberratimes.com.au/story/7354181/
July 23, 2021
The Guardian • Paul Karp • July 23, 2021 • theguardian.com
Morrison has finally embraced ‘informed consent’ for AstraZeneca. What took him so long to take Atagi’s advice?
Despite government rhetoric, Atagi had always advised that adults wanting to be vaccinated could choose either vaccine
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Gabrielle Jackson@gabriellecj
Bravo ⁦@Paul_Karp:⁩ ‘The nuances of the advice were lost – perhaps because Morrison and the health minister, Greg Hunt, fronted a press conference just 15 minutes after they received it’ theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 22, 2021
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • July 24, 2021 • theguardian.com
World Heritage Committee agrees not to place Great Barrier Reef on ‘in danger’ list
Unesco says ‘the facts are the facts and the science is the science’ after its recommendation is ignored
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The Conversation • Lesley Russell • July 22, 2021 • theconversation.com
We're paying companies millions to roll out COVID vaccines. But we're not getting enough bang for our buck
Expensive, opaque and in duplicate. Why company contracts to help the COVID vaccine rollout are such a concern.
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Malcolm Turnbull 💉💉@TurnbullMalcolm
Sounds like the consultants have had a good pandemic. Let’s hope the ANAO has a close look at this. theconversation.com/were-paying-co… via @ConversationEDU
July 22, 2021
Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • July 22, 2021 • afr.com
Morrison’s salvation is tied to the nation’s
All the government can do is get the vaccines out in the coming months - and avoid fights with premiers that can never be won.
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ABC News • Jake Evans • July 23, 2021 • abc.net.au
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine found to be safe for children aged 12 to 15, ATAGI considers approval
The Therapeutic Goods Administration approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 12 to 15 — though they won't be part of the rollout for a while.
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ABC News@abcnews
#BREAKING: Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says the medical regulator has approved the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 12 to 15 ab.co/3hVyxif
July 23, 2021
The Guardian • Nick Evershed • July 23, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian government’s Covid vaccine rollout forecasts don’t add up
Government forecasts are more than double the amount of doses CSL is able to produce per week when operating at maximum capacity
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • July 23, 2021 • crikey.com.au
Major Australian news sites are showing hardcore porn because someone stopped paying some web fees
Major news organisations have been left red faced after a once-widely used video embedding platform began rerouting to a porn company.
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Crikey@crikey_news
The Herald Sun, BuzzFeed Australia and other Australian publications currently have hardcore pornographic videos embedded into their articles because someone let their domain registration expire, writes @cameronwilson
crikey.com.au/2021/07/23/maj…
July 23, 2021
ABC News • Michael Slezak • July 23, 2021 • abc.net.au
Great Barrier Reef avoids UNESCO 'in danger' tag after Australia says it makes 'no sense'
The Great Barrier Reef will not be added to UNESCO's "in danger" list this year, after environment minister Sussan Ley's whirlwind diplomatic effort won enough support to override the UN body's scientific advisers.
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin, Michael McGowan • July 23, 2021 • theguardian.com
NSW government has only used 15% of its allocation of the AstraZeneca vaccine
Exclusive: Just 145,000 of the almost 1m doses allocated by federal government have been taken up, leaving jabs to stockpile or be donated overseas
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@nature • Nature Editorial • July 21, 2021 • nature.com
How the Delta variant achieves its ultrafast spread
Viral load is roughly 1,000 times higher in people infected with the Delta variant than those infected with the original coronavirus strain, according to a study in China.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Greg Baum • July 22, 2021 • smh.com.au
Outdated Coates goes too far after old boys’ club put-down of Premier
John Coates and his bluster have worked for Australia’s benefit for a long time, but his put-down of Annastacia Palaszczuk was beyond the pale.
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The Guardian • Lenore Taylor, Mike Ticher, Miles Herbert, Camilla Hannan, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson • July 23, 2021 • theguardian.com
As climate disasters unfold worldwide, can Australia resist change? – with Lenore Taylor
Editor Lenore Taylor and head of news Mike Ticher discuss Australia’s laggard approach to the climate crisis, and why losing hope is not an option
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Gabrielle Jackson@gabriellecj
Today on Full Story, I'm talking to @lenoretaylor and @mikewsc1 about a week of worldwide climate disasters, the pressure on Australia to act and how not to lose hope theguardian.com/australia-news…
July 23, 2021
Axios • July 23, 2021 • axios.com
U.S. buys additional 200 million doses of Pfizer vaccine
The purchase includes an option to acquire an updated version of the vaccine to fight new variants.
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ABC Radio • July 23, 2021 • abc.net.au
Sydney's Delta outbreak a 'national emergency'
Sydney's Delta outbreak is only continuing to worsen, and now the NSW Government has declared it a national emergency.
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