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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
We’re being held hostage. PM should set a date for freedom
It might very well be argued we are now burning down the village in order to save it.
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Michael Koziol@michaelkoziol
Column: we’ve had enough of shifting goalposts and changing plans - and we can’t be held hostage to people who aren’t in a rush to get vaccinated smh.com.au/politics/feder…
August 8, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Ross Gittins • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
Blame the lockdown on business urgers trying to wish the virus away
Business feeling the pain of NSW’s protracted lockdown have no one to blame but the short-sighted, self-centred voices on their own side.
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • August 8, 2021 • theguardian.com
Afghan refugee may lose permanent residency in Australia – for supplying identity document
Exclusive: Hazara man faces potential deportation after home affairs told him a document it asked him to obtain for his citizenship application could not be verified
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter FitzSimons • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
Police Minister unloads on Hillsong leader, missing in action
Minister David Elliott has a candid five minutes with Fitz.
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Peter FitzSimons@Peter_Fitz
If I might say, I reckon my best column of the year.
Police Minister seriously unloads on Hillsong leader, MIA
Barnaby Joyce in full flight . . .
@MikeCarlton01 wins Tweet Of the Week. (Settle @JaneCaro, settle, I say!
Best quotes.
And good joke.
smh.com.au/national/polic…
August 8, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
One of the government’s most vocal ABC critics admits he doesn’t watch it
Liberal senator Alex Antic told a Christian lobby group he does not watch the broadcaster, despite leading a campaign against it.
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • August 8, 2021 • theguardian.com
Attorney general’s department advised Coalition Toondah Harbour development could breach wetlands convention
Josh Frydenberg’s office allowed proposed Queensland development to go to assessment despite legal advice it was ‘unacceptable’
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The Australian • SIMON BENSON • August 8, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
PM’s Newspoll ratings slump to Delta low
Scott Morrisons personal approval ratings have plunged into negative territory and the government faces its worst electoral position since the Black Summer fires amid growing frustration over the vaccine rollout and lockdowns across the three most populous states.
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The Guardian • Andrew Stafford • August 8, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘We are going to lose these birds’: the quiet fight to save the golden-shouldered parrot
Nearly a century after the extinction of the paradise parrot, a tiny team is trying to protect its cousin – by using land clearing
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The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
No more talk of ‘gold standard’: How NSW and federal relations have cooled
The two Liberal governments are increasingly reading from different scripts. Each argues, implicitly, that the other is to blame for Sydney’s mess - because of either a vaccine shortage, or an insufficiently tough lockdown.
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The Guardian • Fiona Harvey • August 8, 2021 • theguardian.com
We’re on the brink of catastrophe, warns Tory climate chief
Cop26 meeting is last chance, says Alok Sharma as he backs UK’s plan for new oil and gas fields
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Caitlin Fitzsimmons • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
Daily life in Sydney’s COVID-19 hotspots
Most COVID-19 transmission in south-west and western Sydney is occurring in workplaces and households. Susan Samana is a typical example because she caught the disease at work and then passed it on to her children.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jacqueline Maley • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
Why is Morrison so afraid of Albanese’s $300 cash for jabs? It’s the populism, stupid
Labor may have touched a chord – and the Prime Minister should see it. But Labor, too, has much work to do to rediscover its common touch.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Caitlin Fitzsimmons • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
They were promised financial aid, but six weeks later many are still waiting
More than 125,000 businesses across Greater Sydney are waiting on financial assistance to deal with lockdown.
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ABC News • August 8, 2021 • abc.net.au
The key to ending lockdown is vaccinating young men — and we're going about it all wrong
For years people have put young guys into the too-hard basket when it comes to health promotion, but it doesn't have to be that way, writes Zac Seidler.
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Dr. Zac Seidler@zacseidler
My opinion piece out today via @abcnews urging that we seek to engage young men in the vaccine rollout on their own terms if we’re to get this critical group over the line. Take a read. #COVID19Aus #vaccine abc.net.au/news/2021-08-0…
August 8, 2021
The Age • Paul Sakkal, Aisha Dow • August 7, 2021 • theage.com.au
Victorian lockdown likely to be extended as cluster sources remain unknown
Government sources and epidemiologists say it could take weeks to put a ring around Victoria’s growing Delta outbreak.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Caitlin Fitzsimmons • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
Skilled workers locked out of Australia as ‘global talent’ visas surge
The federal government has issued more than 12,000 of its controversial new “global talent” visas during the pandemic, while nearly 19,000 existing holders of previously issued skilled visas have remained stuck offshore.
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ACT Policing Online News • August 8, 2021 • policenews.act.gov.au
Man to face court for COVID-19 breach and drug offences
On Sunday morning (8 August 2021) ACT Policing arrested a 29-year-old Carramar (NSW) man who was allegedly in the ACT from a COVID-19 hotspot and in possession of drugs.
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Andrew Greene@AndrewBGreene
A suspected cocaine dealer from a Sydney COVID hotspot has been arrested in Canberra, charged with failing to comply with a direction by the chief medical officer, failing to stop a motor vehicle, drug possession, and unlawful possession of stolen property policenews.act.gov.au/news/media-rel…
August 8, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Sarah Newey • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
COVID variant names written in stars after Greek alphabet is used
New coronavirus variants are to be named after star constellations when all the letters in the Greek alphabet are used, a senior World Health Organisation official has said.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Mary Ward, James Massola • August 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
Hazzard rejects calls for harder lockdown as cases climb
“The real problem remains: it doesn’t matter what orders you put in place if people ignore them,” the Health Minister said.
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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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