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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • August 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘I pray for her’: Australian broadcaster Cheng Lei no closer to release a year after being detained in China
Friends rally support from Canberra to Washington to ask Chinese government to show compassion to Lei who is separated from her children
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • August 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
Pensioner slugged with jobkeeper debt accuses Coalition of double standards
Jan Raabe says it’s ‘highly immoral’ large companies who got the subsidy and turned a profit are not being chased by Centrelink
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
“I’m just a little person, I don’t have a very large income,” said Jan, 70. “I don’t own my house. When I heard that certain churches and Harvey Norman and many other people pocketed millions, I feel it is disgusting they just won’t pay it back." theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol
August 13, 2021
The Atlantic • Ed Yong • August 12, 2021 • theatlantic.com
How the Pandemic Now Ends
Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.
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Josephine Tovey@Jo_Tovey
“the pandemic ends when almost everyone has immunity, preferably because they were vaccinated or alternatively because they were infected and survived.”
V good piece on what the long road out of here looks like theatlantic.com/health/archive…
August 13, 2021
The Guardian • Lenore Taylor, Mike Ticher, Miles Herbert, Karishma Luthria, Camilla Hannan, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson • August 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
The science is clear on the climate crisis but is the PM? – with Lenore Taylor
Lenore Taylor and Mike Ticher unpick the climate rhetoric of the prime minister and his deputy
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Laura Murphy-Oates@lauramoates
If you've ever listened to a press conference & thought 'that made no sense and sounded like spin' (or if you're reeling after the IPCC report) - today's pod where @lenoretaylor & @mikewsc1 fact check the government's comments on climate change is for you
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August 13, 2021
Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey, Andrew Tillett • August 13, 2021 • afr.com
Government in ‘mad scramble’ to source extra vaccine doses
Scott Morrison, senior ministers and diplomats are all involved in ‘a mad scramble’ for extra supplies of Pfizer and other doses.
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Phillip Coorey@PhillipCoorey
Australia scours the globe for surplus vaccines afr.com/politics/feder…
August 13, 2021
The Guardian • Mostafa Rachwani • August 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
Fear and loathing in western Sydney: how NSW’s Covid response failed migrant communities
Tough policing, constant rule changes and health messaging that isn’t cutting through have created a perfect storm of misinformation and paranoia in Sydney’s most diverse areas
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Mostafa Rachwani@Rachwani91
For the past couple of weeks, I've been thinking about why compliance continues to be an issue in western Sydney. Why don't some people follow the rules? The answer is a complicated one, about race, class and history. My latest piece: theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 13, 2021
The Guardian • Lorena Allam, Nick Evershed • August 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Anger as slow vaccine rollout leaves western NSW Aboriginal communities exposed to Covid
Indigenous elders fear Delta variant could take hold in the state’s far west, where vaccination rates are among the lowest in Australia
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The New York Times • Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Helene Cooper, Lara Jakes, Eric Schmitt • August 13, 2021 • nytimes.com
U.S. Is Sending 3,000 Troops Back to Afghanistan to Begin Evacuations
With the Taliban sweeping across the country, U.S. officials say Kabul could fall in 30 days.
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Antony (Tony) Walker@tonywalker1
Q will now become. Who lost Afghanistan? Tell you who did: those politicians prepared to send young men and women into harms way in a futile nation-building exercise at $1TR and counting. Marines to Begin Evacuating Americans in Afghanistan @nytimes nytimes.com/2021/08/12/us/…
August 13, 2021
SBS • Rashida Yosufzai • August 13, 2021 • sbs.com.au
As the Taliban's power grows, advocates for Australia's Afghan interpreters warn evacuations must happen now
Advocates for Australia's former Afghan interpreters and staff say now is the government's last chance to get them out of the war-torn country safely.
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Rashida Yosufzai@Rashidajourno
As Australia signals it is working closely with the US to rescue more Afghans, @SBSNews can reveal there are around 300 interpreters and embassy staff still waiting to apply for visas, despite Home Affairs saying they've got fewer than 50 applications left sbs.com.au/news/as-the-ta…
August 13, 2021
MEAA • August 13, 2021 • meaa.org
Release Cheng Lei and bring her home to her family
Sign the open letter in support of the Australian journalist detained in China.
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Australian Financial Review • Angela Macdonald-Smith • August 12, 2021 • afr.com
AGL CEO calls for coal power shutdown plan
Graeme Hunt says a national framework is needed for the phase-out of coal power even though coal generators will be needed for “many years to come”.
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Michael Slezak@MikeySlezak
Boss of Australia’s biggest coal-fired power generator calls for national plan to shut down coal power. afr.com/companies/ener…
August 13, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • August 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian government warned two weeks ago fake Covid check-in apps being used to bypass contact tracing
A public tip-off alerted the police and health departments in three states but the apps still remain online
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
Federal and state authorities were warned two weeks ago that an online app hosted on Russian servers was being used to generate fraudulent Covid check-in confirmations and bypass Australian government contact-tracing systems.
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August 13, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • August 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
MPs urge Nine and News Corp to reject Clive Palmer ads they claim amplify Covid misinformation
Crossbenchers ask media outlets to live up to their ‘civic duties’ and not publish ads misrepresenting scientific advice from the Therapeutic Goods Association
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
Nine newspapers and News Corp Australia have been urged by five federal crossbenchers to stop publishing advertisements from Clive Palmer that they say amplify misinformation during the pandemic, writes @murpharoo theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 13, 2021
The Age • Bianca Hall, Chloe Booker • August 13, 2021 • theage.com.au
Council drives possums out of park, installs holographic possum projection
The City of Melbourne embarked on a three-year campaign to drive possums out of a Carlton park, before commissioning an artist to create a holographic projection of a ghostly possum in one of the remaining trees.
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ABC News • Melissa Clarke • August 13, 2021 • abc.net.au
Some employers want to make COVID vaccination mandatory. Can they?
COVID-19 vaccines are mandatory for aged care workers and most people working on the quarantine front line, but what about everyone else? Can your boss make it mandatory for you to get immunised?
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ABC News • Nassim Khadem • August 13, 2021 • abc.net.au
'Huge controversy' around JobKeeper abuse: ATO could be forced to name and shame overpaid companies that pocketed the cash
Tax commissioner Chris Jordan has defied a Senate order calling on him to out the large companies that received JobKeeper, but senators determined to get hold of the information may challenge him.
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Rex Patrick@Senator_Patrick
The @ato_gov_au Commissioner is misguided to think that the amount of public money given to a company is a private matter. Grant funding and Govt contract values are published, and so too should JobKeeper amounts. We have a right to know. #auspol @ALeighMP abc.net.au/news/2021-08-1…
August 13, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Waleed Aly • August 12, 2021 • smh.com.au
If we don’t have a climate policy, the world will give us one
Despite its alarming predictions, the IPCC report failed to elicit anything approaching a new political response.
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Crikey • Amber Schultz • August 13, 2021 • crikey.com.au
My lockdown diaries: Home improvement, games night and looking for advice
The diary of a recently single extrovert locked down, stuck inside and trying to not let the existential dread set in.
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Amber Schultz@AmberMaySchultz
It's Friday so it's another edition of my lockdown dairies. This week it's unfinished embroidery kits, being told to avoid the news and eating habaneros just to feel alive
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August 13, 2021
ABC News • Mollie Gorman • August 13, 2021 • abc.net.au
'Like a bomb going off': Call for rapid COVID-19 testing in prisons after community exposure
It took four days for a prison swab of a COVID-positive man on bail to be returned this week, and by that time he left Bathurst to visit Dubbo and Walgett in the remote north-west of NSW.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter Hannam • August 13, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Call to honesty’: NSW committee calls for coordinated exit from coal
NSW won’t make an orderly transition to a low-carbon economy without a coordinated effort to get communities off fossil fuels, diversify the economy, and cut the amount of energy wasted in homes and businesses.
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