August 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • August 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
Centrelink orders jobkeeper recipients to pay back $32m, while profitable businesses allowed to keep funds
Exclusive: Government accused of double standards after issuing 11,771 welfare recipients with debt notices due to Covid wage subsidy
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter Hartcher • August 28, 2021 • smh.com.au
Even Gladys Berejiklian is fed up with PM, who she privately regards as ‘evil’ and a ‘bully’
Scott Morrison has a problem with Australia’s premiers. Even NSW’s Liberal Premier has told colleagues she’d have preferred that Peter Dutton won the federal leadership. But the PM’s big electoral risk is in confronting popular Labor leaders.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • August 5, 2021 • smh.com.au
Damaged not destroyed: PM in trouble but could again land on his feet
Morrison’s skill at triple backward somersaults could save him, unless it reaches the point where people no longer believe his smudging of fact and fiction.
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The Guardian • Amanda Meade • August 1, 2021 • theguardian.com
Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over Covid misinformation
Digital giant issues strike after channel posted videos denying the existence of disease and encouraging people to use discredited medication
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • August 12, 2021 • smh.com.au
Prime Minister Scott Morrison a cranky man in need of a plan
A tired and cranky prime minister allowed his temper to get the better of him. But Morrison’s aggressive streak inhibits his ability to forge consensus when the country is crying out for leadership.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker • August 20, 2021 • smh.com.au
Wealthy people calling for a tougher lockdown got what they wanted, at no cost to them
In my part of Sydney, police drive up our streets and check on us from helicopters. The new lockdown restrictions have our neighbours feeling stigmatised and abandoned.
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ABC News • Mark Willacy • August 25, 2021 • abc.net.au
Our journalist in Afghanistan has an Australian visa, but he can't get into Kabul airport
An Afghan journalist who has been crucial to ABC Investigations stories on alleged war crimes has an Australian visa, but can't get into the airport at Kabul.
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The Guardian • Lorena Allam • August 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Wilcannia Covid outbreak: leaked letters show federal government was warned last year of potential catastrophe
Exclusive: Scott Morrison told response by his government to the crisis in Indigenous town has been ‘substandard’, ‘chaotic’ and services are ‘vulnerable to collapse’NSW Covid restrictions; NSW hotspotsVaccine rollout tracker;Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing
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The Sydney Morning Herald • A western Sydney doctor • August 10, 2021 • smh.com.au
NSW is almost certainly on the precipice of a massive deterioration
We need leadership and we need to pay people more to stay home.
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The Guardian • Kate Banville • August 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
Afghans who worked with Australian forces wait for death at the hands of the Taliban
Many former interpreters whose visa applications have been held up by Australian bureaucracy are now trapped by the Taliban advance, as the RAAF mounts a last-minute evacuation effort
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Mike Ticher@mikewsc1
.@katebanville has been talking to Afghans who worked with Australian forces, and now await their fate at the hands of the Taliban. The bureaucratic hoops they have been made to jump through for even a chance of a visa have all but condemned them to death. theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 15, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • August 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Horribly exposed’: ACT chief minister attacks Gladys Berejiklian’s handling of NSW Covid crisis
Exclusive: Andrew Barr says NSW premier is not just making decisions for her own state, but for Australia’s entire east coast
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James Glenday@jamesglenday
Strong words from the ACT Chief Minister, ahead of today’s national cabinet meeting. “I just see young people being horribly exposed by the decision of another government and I don’t know what I can do to protect my community against that.” theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 20, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Fergus Hunter, Laura Chung, Alexandra Smith • August 5, 2021 • smh.com.au
Hillsong pastor Brian Houston charged for allegedly concealing child sexual abuse by his father
Brian Houston was charged following a two-year investigation into allegations he had failed to report the alleged abuse of a young male in the 1970s.
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The Guardian • Lorena Allam, Nick Evershed • August 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Indigenous communities being left behind in NSW vaccine rollout, leaked figures show
Exclusive: Aboriginal community-controlled health services say the data shows there is an urgent need for governments to work with them
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Nick Evershed@NickEvershed
Exclusive: leaked government data obtained by @GuardianAus shows a huge gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Covid vaccination rates in every region of NSW theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 28, 2021
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Please pray for me’: female reporter being hunted by the Taliban tells her story
A young female journalist describes the panic and fear of being forced into hiding as cities across Afghanistan fall
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Sarah Malik@sarahbmalik
"Last week I was a news journalist. Today I can’t write under my own name or say where I am from or where I am. My whole life has been obliterated in just a few days.
theguardian.com/global-develop…
August 15, 2021
ABC News • Nakari Thorpe • August 14, 2021 • abc.net.au
'No protection': Aboriginal elders fear COVID deaths in Walgett outbreak
Indigenous communities in western NSW say there are "a lot of anxious people" who fear their population’s low vaccination rates and chronic health conditions will mean COVID-19 fatalities are inevitable.
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Bridget Brennan@bridgeyb
Walgett has a four-bed hospital and next largest hospital is 3 hours away. "The government don't even look upon these small little communities, it's like we don't even matter.” abc.net.au/news/2021-08-1…
Story from @nakarithorpe
August 14, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • August 17, 2021 • smh.com.au
Australia dipped into COVAX Pfizer stockpile intended for poor nations
Australia received about 500,000 Pfizer vaccine doses out of the global COVAX facility in June – double what the entire continent of Africa received in the same month.
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The Guardian • Amanda Meade, Josh Taylor • August 3, 2021 • theguardian.com
Six videos by Sky News Australia hosts Alan Jones, Rowan Dean and Rita Panahi removed from YouTube
Sky News videos advocating the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin as Covid treatments deleted as broadcaster suspended from video sharing platform
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Josh Taylor@joshgnosis
Neither YouTube or Sky News were saying which videos were pulled but I figured out a very manual workaround by going through their playlists, finding videos deleted by YouTube for breaking rules and then looking up those videos on archive dot org.
theguardian.com/media/2021/aug…
August 3, 2021
The Guardian • Amanda Meade • August 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
Sky News Australia deletes dozens of videos promoting unproven Covid treatments
Broadcaster has deleted more than 30 videos, including those featuring Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt, ahead of Senate inquiry
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • August 22, 2021 • theguardian.com
The Tampa affair, 20 years on: the ship that capsized Australia’s refugee policy
When a Norwegian freighter rescued 433 asylum seekers from a sinking vessel en route to Christmas Island, it sparked a crisis that led to hardline border policies and indelibly shifted the response to boat arrivals
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The Age • Niki Savva • August 26, 2021 • smh.com.au
Morrison’s election plan? It’s as easy as A, B or C
The path to re-election for the Prime Minister has hit a few bumps, many of his own making.
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Michael Rowland@mjrowland68
Another great column this morning by Niki Savva.
She reckons the vaccine rollout could qualify as the greatest policy failure since Federation.
#auspol #COVID19Aus @theage
@smh
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
August 26, 2021

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