.@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…

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…


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…

"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.

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


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.



Another great column this morning by Niki Savva.
She reckons the vaccine rollout could qualify as the greatest policy failure since Federation.
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