Saturday, August 7, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Denis Muller • August 7, 2021 • theguardian.com
Where was the broadcasting regulator when Sky News Australia was airing misinformation about Covid-19?
The fact YouTube had to step in and do what Acma should have done a year ago is an indictment of a broken system
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ABC News • Laura Tingle • August 7, 2021 • abc.net.au
The COVID crisis is burning across Australia, and someone needs to grab and hold the hose
There were so many fires to put out this week, yet never has it felt quite so much like no-one was holding the hose, writes Laura Tingle.
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The Age • Jack Latimore • August 7, 2021 • theage.com.au
Taylor Walker should learn from racism incident, says Betts
Champion AFL player Eddie Betts says more people need to understand the extent of racism in Australia.
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Jack Latimore@LatimoreJack
“People shy away from it, from knowing Australia is a racist country. No matter who you are or what you do, when it comes to racism, everyone should be held accountable. I don’t care if you’re a CEO of a company or a janitor of a toilet.” Eddie Betts theage.com.au/sport/afl/eddi…
August 7, 2021
ABC Radio • August 6, 2021 • abc.net.au
Bacchus Marsh teacher who contracted COVID-19 urges Australians to get vaccinated to save lives
Bacchus Marsh Grammar teacher Richard says he thought he was going to die from COVID-19 after contracting it at the MCG. He got out of ICU on Monday but remains in hospital – even standing up is now exhausting.
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Rachel Baxendale@rachelbaxendale
Richard is the previously fit, healthy 51yo teacher who went to the footy with his mate from the Ariele apartments, then spent weeks in ICU w Covid. Could happen to any of us, or someone we love. His interview ⁦@Raf_Epstein⁩ is riveting. abc.net.au/radio/melbourn…
August 7, 2021
Special Treatie • Alex McClintock • August 6, 2021 • specialtreatie.substack.com
Lockdown 2021 hit kinda different
Why this sucks even more than last time
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Bridie Jabour@bkjabour
“… our leaders betrayed us. They wasted our sacrifice, made it meaningless. Now we’re being asked to repeat the sacrifice, but the meaning has gone and so too has the hope” Far out this is good, on why this lockdown is so hard by ⁦@axmcc⁩ specialtreatie.substack.com/p/lockdown-202…
August 7, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • August 7, 2021 • theguardian.com
As some Coalition MPs court constituents who think the pandemic is a beat-up, Scott Morrison remains elastic
At some point, the cohort of Australians willing to be vaccinated will top out, and the prime minister will need to turn the vaccine-hesitant into conscripts
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
We’ve been focussed on the cities during the pandemic, but if we turn the camera around and look at the regions, MPs see a wave building against the government that some think is like the wave that took out Labor in 2019. Here’s that story #auspol 👇 theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 7, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Tim Elliott • August 7, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘He’s very nice. The only problem is ...’: chef Marco Pierre White on Jock Zonfrillo
“Hot Scot’“and celebrated chef Jock Zonfrillo has a fascinating, drug-fuelled backstory to rival that of Anthony Bourdain. But not all the subjects in his new memoir share his memories.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Fergus Hunter, Laura Chung • August 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘God is in control’: Hillsong comforts the flock after founder charged by police
The board of the megachurch has offered comfort to members and criticised media coverage of Brian Houston’s handling of his late father’s sexual abuse of children.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
If “God is in control” then he’s making a fucking big mess of it at the moment. smh.com.au/national/nsw/g…
August 7, 2021
The New Daily • Dennis Atkins • August 7, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Atkins: From rorts to rollout failures, Australia needs a political reckoning
A reckoning has to come to show everyone that shameless vote-buying, abuse of spending public funds and corruption of public administration has a price.
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Dennis Atkins@dwabriz
“(Morrison) twists facts, tells flat untruths & storms off sulkily when confronted with anything he doesn’t like. He hates transparency. He hates accountability. The campfires are going out quicker & the pounding hooves of the posse are getting louder.” thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/…
August 7, 2021
The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • August 7, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Morrison’s figures do not predict an end to lockdowns
As Scott Morrison leans on ‘optimal’ vaccine modelling, the epidemiologists he commissioned say they can’t predict a return to normal.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
Covid-19 roadmap: some signposts missing. Modelling doesn't touch on promises made for Phase C (80 per cent vax) and there is no modelling for Phase D at all. It's too far away, the researchers say. One thing is clear: without vaccinations we are cooked. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
August 7, 2021
The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • August 7, 2021 • theguardian.com
Waiting for Jason: ‘Our hearts break a little bit more as time goes on’
Thousands of Australians are classified as long-term missing. Families live in hope that age-progressed images might bring new information to light
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ABC News • Virginia Trioli • August 7, 2021 • abc.net.au
'I'm not doing it. I'm not': Another lockdown nearly broke my son, but we found solace where I didn't expect it
When the nine-year-old says no, flat-out no, to lockdown number six, to home learning, to social distancing, to staying away from his friends – what do you do? Virginia Trioli writes.
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Virginia Trioli@LaTrioli
The three questions my son asks me every day that show how the pandemic now lives deep within him. ⁦@abcmelbourne⁩ abc.net.au/news/2021-08-0…
August 7, 2021
ABC News • Gareth Hutchens • August 6, 2021 • abc.net.au
Reserve Bank governor says we'll suffer less economic damage if everyone gets vaccinated faster
RBA governor Phil Lowe says Australia's economy will contract in coming months, and much depends on our rate of vaccination nationally.
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Andrew Leigh@ALeighMP
In July 2020, Pfizer would’ve sold us 40 million doses for $1 billion. But Morrison thought it was too expensive.
Now the economy is paying that price every few days. abc.net.au/news/2021-08-0… #auspol
August 6, 2021
The Guardian • Andrew Stafford • August 7, 2021 • theguardian.com
Eagle Rock: your parents probably had sex to it. No one wants to think about that
Fifty years on, the Daddy Cool song’s mammoth influence on rock music is clear, so why don’t more people appreciate it?
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Chip Le Grand, Eryk Bagshaw • August 7, 2021 • smh.com.au
Japan counts cost of the Games we all needed
As the Tokyo Games come to a close, we couldn’t have asked for more from these Olympics.
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Eryk Bagshaw@ErykBagshaw
Australians who found some joy in watching the Tokyo Games unfold should thank our athletes. They should also thank the Japanese people. The cost to them may be severe. @Melbchief and I in today's @smh and @theage on #Tokyo2020. smh.com.au/sport/japan-co…
August 7, 2021
The Canberra Times • Jasper Lindell • August 7, 2021 • canberratimes.com.au
'It makes you feel helpless': Canberran's pain at father's loss to COVID-19
The son of Kat Ditthavong, 80, who caught COVID-19 in Liverpool Hospital, has hit out at the NSW health system and told of his family's regret.
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The Age • Liam Mannix, Michael Fowler, James Massola • August 7, 2021 • theage.com.au
Victorians warned to expect months of rolling lockdowns
Medical experts say the dual threats of Sydney’s worsening outbreak and the infectiousness of the Delta variant mean Victorians are likely to spend a large portion of 2021 in lockdown.
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The Australian • SHARRI MARKSON, ADAM CREIGHTON • August 6, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Plea to US for excess Covid-19 vaccines
The Morrison government has made urgent appeals to the Biden administration for access to its estimated 26 million vaccine doses that are sitting unused in warehouses and about to expire.
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The Age • Margaret Simons • August 7, 2021 • smh.com.au
Freedom of speech or promotion of lies? Who gets to decide what’s true?
Whatever you think of YouTube’s decision to suspend Sky News, it is clear social media platforms can control the message while being accountable to no one.
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The Saturday Paper • Paul Bongiorno • August 7, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Morrison plays the other race card
The setting for the government parties room meeting back in Canberra after the winter break was depressing. It wasn’t hard to see it as a metaphor for the deep hole in which the Morrison government finds itself. Held in the cavernous, almost empty Great Hall, with lockdowns in New South Wales and Queensland meaning numbers were substantially depleted, and those there wearing
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