Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Mostafa Rachwani • August 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
Hundreds queue for hours and some camp overnight at pop-up vaccine clinic in Sydney’s Lakemba
There’s frustration about the short supply of Pfizer but a realisation vaccination is the only way to get back to work
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Mike Ticher@mikewsc1
People in western Sydney are queuing *overnight* to get vaxxed. But there are hardly any Pfizer doses. So tell us again who is the problem in this outbreak? Story from @Rachwani91 theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 11, 2021
ABC News • Sabra Lane • August 11, 2021 • abc.net.au
Finding the news too depressing? Sabra Lane might just have a solution
AM host Sabra Lane is a news junkie but even she has to switch off at times, so she's at the forefront of a new journalism initiative to balance out the gloom and doom.
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ABC Communications@ABCMediaComms
Finding the news too depressing? Research shows the numbers of "news avoiders" is growing. Join AM host @SabraLane in a fortnightly look on The Brightside - solutions, not just problems. abc.net.au/news/backstory…
August 11, 2021
The Guardian • Ben Butler • August 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
More than $500k in jobkeeper given to Margaret Court’s Pentecostal church
Federal government payments to Victory Life Centre included $280k in financial year when revenue barely decreased
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • August 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
Fact check: Barnaby Joyce on Australia’s emissions reduction strategy
The deputy prime minister has weighed in on the government’s approach in light of the latest IPCC report. Katharine Murphy looks at how his claims stack up
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Barnaby Joyce unleashed a stream of absolute nonsense on @RNBreakfast this morning, which might be amusing or diverting if he wasn't the deputy prime minister of Australia. Here are some facts theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol
August 11, 2021
Australian Financial Review • Joe Aston • August 10, 2021 • afr.com
Frydenberg fires JobKeeper missile at himself
The Treasurer has completely missed the point, as he so often does.
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Bernard Keane@BernardKeane
Must-read from @mrjoeaston who gives @JoshFrydenberg an absolute belting about his Jobkeeper bullshit afr.com/rear-window/fr…
August 11, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker • August 11, 2021 • smh.com.au
Back-to-school plan: NSW scopes hotspots, vaccine targets and who returns first
The NSW Department of Education has hired consultancy firm KPMG to help design a back-to-school plan that will look at different approaches for hotspot areas, the vaccination rates that could trigger a return and which year groups should come back first.
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • August 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
Private employment services forced to pay back $1m in wrongfully claimed bonuses in 2020
Exclusive: FoI documents reveal more than 5,000 government payments for placing clients into jobs or education have been recouped since 2015
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
New from me: Millions of dollars of faulty claims from Jobactive and ParentsNext providers clawed back by the government theguardian.com/business/2021/…
August 11, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • August 11, 2021 • smh.com.au
Labor announces inquiry into East Timor bugging operation if elected
Senator Katy Gallagher said the party would conduct an inquiry into the ASIS operation to bug East Timor’s cabinet rooms during sensitive oil and gas treaty negotiations.
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The Guardian • Mostafa Rachwani • August 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
I’ve lived in western Sydney my whole life – and right now it’s at breaking point
We all tune into Gladys Berejiklian’s 11am press conference for any sign of hope. The worry chews into your nerves, like a virus all on its own
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Mostafa Rachwani@Rachwani91
I tried to put into words how people are feeling in western syd, the sense of despair, anger, fear and anxiety that’s made life out here so tough. theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 11, 2021
The New Daily • Josh Butler • August 11, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
George Christensen is launching a 'patriotic' news website
Controversial Nationals MP George Christensen will move from politician to publisher, launching a "pro-freedom" news website.
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Josh Butler@JoshButler
new: George Christensen is starting his own "pro-freedom, patriotic and conservative" news outlet, modelled on The Drudge Report
It hasn't been officially launched yet, but I think I managed to find it online #auspol thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/08/1…
August 11, 2021
The Guardian • Lorena Allam • August 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
Family of missing Aboriginal man Gordon Copeland demand NSW police ramp up search
A month after disappearance of 22-year-old, family continue the search, saying they believe police chased him into Gwydir River outside Moree
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • August 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
UN urges Australia to release dangerously ill refugee who has ‘given up on living’ after eight years
UN human rights committee says Kaveh, who lies emaciated in a Melbourne hospital, should be moved to community detention
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Rob Harris • August 11, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘I am ashamed’: Fraser government minister slams lack of progress towards Indigenous reconciliation
The former minister says Australia will continue to be diminished unless it confronts its troubled past and faces the injustices it has inflicted on Indigenous Australians.
nine • A Current Affair Staff • August 10, 2021 • 9now.nine.com.au
'Everyone wants to do the jab now it's too late'
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Rashida Yosufzai@Rashidajourno
Absolutely tragic. A Bankstown family lost their mother and father to COVID, only to discover they had been waiting in the backlog to get their vaccination.
"They're supposed to have it this week the jab, what do we do … they're in a coffin."
9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affa…
August 11, 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
The Australian • LIAM MENDES • August 10, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
As case numbers rise, Covid and culture clash head-on
Sheik Azzam Mesto is blunt. Having close-knit families and communities change how they have lived for generations was always going to be difficult.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Alexandra Smith • August 10, 2021 • smh.com.au
No Minister, the government does not get to avoid lockdown scrutiny
Health Minister Brad Hazzard made his annoyance abundantly clear at an inquiry into his government’s handling of this COVID-19 outbreak.
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Michael Koziol@michaelkoziol
"Health Minister Brad Hazzard sent a very clear – and concerning – message to millions of voters locked down across the state on Tuesday. The NSW government is too busy to be held to account." @AlexSmithSMH smh.com.au/politics/nsw/n…
August 10, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Michaela Whitbourn • August 11, 2021 • smh.com.au
Louise Milligan agrees to pay Andrew Laming $79,000 in damages over tweets
Milligan’s employer, the ABC, was not sued over the defamatory tweets but is expected to pick up the bill.
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ABC News • Stephen Dziedzic, Andrew Greene • August 11, 2021 • abc.net.au
Marise Payne, Peter Dutton planning diplomatic visits to US, India and Indonesia
Australian officials are working on an ambitious diplomatic plan which would see Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Peter Dutton travel to three countries for meetings with their counterparts.
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The Age • Ben Schneiders, Royce Millar • August 10, 2021 • smh.com.au
Steph Lentz was sacked this year for being gay. It was perfectly legal
LGBTQ people who work at religious schools can be sacked for who they are, and they fear the federal religious discrimination bill could make things worse.
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Dr Jenna Price@JennaPrice
Read this. Share it. Gay teachers at religious schools are subject to discrimination, including being sacked: and it’s all legal smh.com.au/national/steph…
August 10, 2021

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