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The Sydney Morning Herald • Bevan Shields • July 30, 2021 • smh.com.au
AstraZeneca creator says Australia’s mixed messages on vaccine may cost lives
Dame Sarah Gilbert made the intervention amid a heated debate over whether the wider use of the vaccine could have prevented lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne.
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Bevan Shields@BevanShields
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, the Oxford scientist who created the AstraZeneca vaccine and was given that amazing standing ovation at Wimbledon, says mixed messaging in Australia may cost lives smh.com.au/world/europe/a…
July 30, 2021
The Guardian • Ben Doherty • July 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Kurdish refugee sues Australian government for alleged unlawful imprisonment in Melbourne hotels
Mostafa ‘Moz’ Azimitabar seeks damages for detention over 14 months in case that could carry implications for hundreds of asylum seekers
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Sarah Danckert • July 30, 2021 • smh.com.au
US man pleads guilty over attempted $430m COVID fraud on NSW
Plea agreement shows that NSW came perilously close to handing over $430 million to a Texan man who was offering to sell 50 million COVID-19 protective masks he did not have.
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Lisa Visentin@LisaVisentin
Incredible yarn. The NSW govt was close to paying almost half a billion dollars to an American dude using the email address iyke14@yahoo.com for 50 million masks. Turns out it was a scam.
smh.com.au/business/banki…
July 30, 2021
Australian Government Department of Health • July 30, 2021 • health.gov.au
ATAGI update following weekly COVID-19 meeting – 28 July 2021
An update from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) following their weekly meeting on 28 July 2021.
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • July 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Clive Palmer disregards TGA call to stop spreading ‘misleading’ vaccine material
Labor has complained to the Australian Electoral Commission about the mining magnate’s latest pamphlet, which is being distributed across the country
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan • July 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Nobody in ICU fully vaccinated: how one small mistake became fodder for conspiracy theorists – video
How one small mistake turned into fodder for global anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists – video
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Apoorva Mandavilli • July 30, 2021 • smh.com.au
Delta Variant as contagious as chickenpox: CDC internal report
An internal report from the Centres for Disease Control found the Delta variant is more transmissible than SARS, Ebola, the cold, the flu and smallpox.
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Pearls and Irritations • Geoff Raby • July 30, 2021 • johnmenadue.com
China grievances conflated into demands.
Peter Hartcher on the ABC presented China’s list of grievances as if they were some kind of official demarche made on the Australian Government. He intones repeatedly about these ‘demands’ as if they had the status of Martin Luther’s 95 theses nailed to the chapel door at Wittenberg University which started the Reformation. That is Continue reading »
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Antony (Tony) Walker@tonywalker1
Australia 'generational foreign policy crisis' driven significantly by a deeply-compromised national security policy establishment whose views amplified daily basis credulous media. Couldn't agree with Geoff Raby more @johnmenadue johnmenadue.com/geoff-raby-aus…
July 30, 2021
The Age • David Crowe, Katina Curtis • July 30, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Special rules’: Vaccinated Australians to avoid lockdown restrictions once 70% target hit
Vaccinated Australians will be able to avoid some lockdown restrictions and international border rules will be loosened once enough people get both doses of a vaccine.
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skynews • July 29, 2021 • skynews.com.au
Alan Jones: ‘I have never in my life opposed vaccination’
Sky News host Alan Jones says he has “never opposed vaccination” and – despite having seven blood clots on his lung – has received his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. “I got the best advice, from a variety of doctors at St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney and they said since I had several comorbidities, cancer and God knows what else, there is always a risk, but I should cop the risk,” he said. “I’ve had my first jab of AstraZeneca, and I will have my second. “Since I was a child I have been taught to take the vaccinations for everything, mumps, measles, the lot.”
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ABC News • Johanna Marie, Stephanie Doole • July 30, 2021 • abc.net.au
Australian first as Queensland mayor apologises for blackbirding
It's "the start of healing" hopes the mayor of a region that thrived on the slave labour of South Sea Islanders as one of their descendants recalls the harsh conditions.
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The Guardian • Kieran Pender • July 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia’s secret weapon at the Tokyo Olympics – good coffee, of course
The AOC had meticulously planned every aspect of the Games, right down to how to get a decent strong flat white
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ABC Radio • July 30, 2021 • abc.net.au
AstraZeneca: how expert advice has shifted as Delta threat grows
The shifting expert guidance around AstraZeneca has caused some confusion for Australians, and now the vaccine's developer says the mixed messages may cost lives.
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Gavin Coote@GavinCoote
Mixed messages, or merely evolving guidance as the situation changes? Here's a bit of a timeline I've put together on where the AstraZeneca advice stands and how did we got to this point abc.net.au/radio/programs…
July 30, 2021
ABC Radio • July 30, 2021 • abc.net.au
Ethical minefields around COVID vaccines: what's in the public's interest?
The criticism of "mixed messages" around the safety or otherwise of the AstraZeneca vaccine is being directed not just at the Government, but increasingly at the expert panel of advisors ATAGI as well.
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David Lipson@davidlipson
Interesting chat here with bioethics Professor Jackie Leach Scully about ethics of vaccination, need for more public debate and push to think of community wellbeing
abc.net.au/radio/programs…
July 30, 2021
The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • July 29, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘So relieved’: belated Covid support welcomed by welfare recipients in Sydney lockdown
After weeks of resistance, Scott Morrison announced a rise in the disaster payment as well as a top-up for those on welfare payments
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
I spoke to people excluded from the Covid disaster payment this week.
They told me bills were been piling up, some were considering moving back in with their parents, one was eating less.
Another single mum talked of hiding her despair from her kids.
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July 29, 2021
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • July 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Ryegrass, fire ants and feral cats: major Australian study identifies costliest pests in past 60 years
The study identifies each state’s most economically damaging species and warns costs could rise further without investment
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The Guardian • First Dog on the Moon • July 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
First Dog on the Moon is going to solve all of your problems*
*Important – if you are in actual agony please see a medical professional
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The Guardian • Gabrielle Jackson, Lenore Taylor, Mike Ticher, Miles Herbert, Joe Koning, Miles Martignoni • July 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Are the NSW Covid disaster payments too little too late? – with Lenore Taylor
Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor and head of news Mike Ticher discuss the expansion of Covid financial support in NSW
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Laura Murphy-Oates@lauramoates
Today's Full Story is an infuriating & comprehensive assessment of how the the federal government has structured covid support payments throughout the pandemic, including (much awaited) payment for NSW @lenoretaylor @mikewsc1 @gabriellecj
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July 30, 2021
The Age • Jason Steger • July 30, 2021 • theage.com.au
The Age Book of the Year: It’s coming back and here’s the shortlist
After a hiatus of a few years, The Age is bringing back its prestigious literary award.
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The Age • The Age's View • July 29, 2021 • theage.com.au
Nation pays cost of NSW leadership failure
The idea that Gladys Berejiklian and her government had some kind of exceptional handle on this crisis has proved nothing but hubris.
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