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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’
A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women’
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • August 16, 2021 • news.com.au
Gladys ‘loses her sh*t’ over PM
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian “lost her sh*t” over claims that she ignored the Prime Minister’s advice to lockdown the entire state days ago according to senior colleagues.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Exclusive: Gladys Berejiklian furious at claims she ignored Scott Morrison’s lockdown advice
Gladys lost her sh*t’,” a NSW minister told ⁦@newscomauHQ⁩
“She said, ‘If they want to start backgrounding on stuff like this, maybe it’s time I started.” news.com.au/national/polit…
August 16, 2021
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
What it’s like as a contact tracer to tell someone they have Covid – and what happens next | Anonymous
When people learn they have coronavirus, they feel shocked and guilty, but most have been doing the right thing
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Bridie Jabour@bkjabour
What struck me in this diary of a contact tracer was how guilty people felt about contracting covid - i think that’s where our current political discourse has taken us, people feeling guilty about getting sick in a freakin’ global health pandemic theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
August 16, 2021
The Guardian • Kate Banville • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘We see silence filled with fear’: female Afghan journalists plead for help
Women in media in Kabul tell of trying to destroy traces of their identity as they brace for Taliban retribution
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kate.banville@katebanville
‘We see silence filled with fear’: female Afghan journalists plead for help |
Through a scratchy phone connection, Fereyba recalled the moment she heard that the Taliban were entering the gates of Kabul.
As my 📞 gets quieter, I am more fearful for them theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…
August 16, 2021
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst, Ben Doherty • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian government accused of being too slow to organise evacuation mission to Afghanistan
Australia sends 250 troops for rescue mission but ex-defence force chief says ‘we’ve just left it far too late’
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
Ex embassy workers anxious: "They have secure folders protecting their documents, luggage packed and ready to go and they have stocked their houses with a couple of weeks of food. They are sheltering in place, but they are shit-scared." theguardian.com/australia-news… @BenDohertyCorro
August 16, 2021
The Guardian • Paul Daley • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
Morrison says troops died ‘for a great cause’ in Afghanistan. To quote a grieving father, that’s bullshit
It’s time we told the truth about ‘the fallen’ of our wars, and stopped hiding behind their memory
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The Age • Anthony Galloway • August 16, 2021 • smh.com.au
Australia negotiating landing spot at Kabul airport for rescue mission
Australia is desperately trying to negotiate a landing spot at Kabul airport to rescue hundreds of Australians and Afghans after the Taliban captured the capital.
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The Guardian • Mostafa Rachwani • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australians with family in Afghanistan tell of despair, survivor guilt
The Afghan diaspora has been aghast watching the events in their home country unfold from afar, and talk of their fear, helplessness and disappointment
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
“They’re just hiding in their own homes, like hostages. They can’t go anywhere. They won’t leave even for basic things, like water, milk or bread. My cousin said everybody is just wondering when they’re going to die.” @rachwani91 theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…
August 16, 2021
The Guardian • Kate Banville • August 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
Afghans who worked with Australian forces wait for death at the hands of the Taliban
Many former interpreters whose visa applications have been held up by Australian bureaucracy are now trapped by the Taliban advance, as the RAAF mounts a last-minute evacuation effort
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Mike Ticher@mikewsc1
.@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…
August 15, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
Rex Patrick launches bid to make government reveal long-secret cabinet documents on Timor-Leste
Documents likely to reveal Australia’s strategy for bartering on Timor Sea maritime boundary prior to the bugging operation revealed by Witness K and Bernard Collaery
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ABC News • Ian Verrender • August 16, 2021 • abc.net.au
The NSW Government's failure to act swiftly and contain the Delta outbreak has cost our state heavily
As a health strategy, the soft lockdown approach has been an abject failure. From a national economic viewpoint, the ongoing apprehension about total lockdown has come at enormous cost, writes Ian Verrender.
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The Age • Nick McKenzie, Joel Tozer • August 16, 2021 • theage.com.au
Inside Racism HQ: How home-grown neo-Nazis are plotting a white revolution
Infiltrating a nest of Australia’s far-right radicals revealed they are angry, armed and training for societal collapse. Uncovering their identities came next.
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Michael Bachelard@mbachelard
Australia's neo-Nazis: middle-class, educated, average age 25. White. Bigoted. Racisit. In our suburbs. #60mins theage.com.au/national/insid…
August 15, 2021
The Conversation • Frank Bongiorno • August 16, 2021 • theconversation.com
Right out there: how the pandemic has given rise to extreme views and fractured conservative politics
Great crises have historically given impetus to right-wing mobilisation, and the COVID pandemic is no exception. However, it’s not always to the right’s benefit.
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ABC News • August 16, 2021 • abc.net.au
Taliban declare 'war is over' as President and diplomats flee Kabul
Taliban fighters seize control of Afghanistan, taking over key government buildings in Kabul hours after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
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Mariam Veiszadeh@MariamVeiszadeh
I’ll be on The Drum tonight discussing #Afghanistan twitter.com/ABCthedrum/sta…
August 16, 2021
Daily Telegraph • Angira Bharadwaj, James O’Doherty, Josh Hanrahan • August 15, 2021 • dailytelegraph.com.au
Teen dies in hospital while infected with Covid
A smiling teen has become the youngest Australian to die while having Covid-19.
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Antoinette Lattouf@antoinette_news
Osama Suduh was just 15. The teen from south west Sydney had both meningitis and COVID-19 when he died. Rest In Peace beautiful young man. dailytelegraph.com.au/coronavirus/15…
August 16, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Mike Foley • August 15, 2021 • smh.com.au
Siblicidal kookaburras, truffle-snuffling potoroos: Why did Australia’s wildlife astonish even Charles Darwin?
The “father of evolution” was stunned by what he saw on a visit to Australia in 1836. How did our plants and animals get to be so uniquely quirky?
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BBC News • https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews • August 15, 2021 • bbc.co.uk
Afghanistan: Taliban carrying out door-to-door manhunt
Militants are searching for government employees and those who worked with US forces, the BBC is told.
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BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
“I might face consequences… I guess that’s the price we pay for trying to make the world a little better”
Afghanistan’s Minister of Education Rangina Hamidi says she is fearful "like every woman in Afghanistan"
bbc.in/3CNqkoB
August 16, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Katina Curtis • August 16, 2021 • smh.com.au
Canavan says Taliban tweet was ‘meant to provoke’
But Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has told the outspoken senator his comment was an “unnecessary conflation” of the events in Afghanistan and action on climate change.
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@IFJGlobal • August 12, 2021 • ifj.org
Afghanistan: IFJ launches international solidarity campaign as Taliban violence threatens journalists / IFJ
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today launched an international solidarity campaign with Afghan journalists as the threat of violence grows and media are forced to close in the wake of the Taliban taking control of large parts of the country.
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MEAA@withMEAA
MEAA stands with journalists in Afghanistan who are being targeted because of the work they do and urges the Australian government to include media workers in any humanitarian visa offerings.
#MEAAmedia
ifj.org/media-centre/n…
August 16, 2021
ABC News • Andrew Greene • August 16, 2021 • abc.net.au
Australian troops to be sent to Afghanistan but no clarity on ability to land in Kabul
Cabinet's National Security Committee has approved a military evacuation plan to rescue Australians in Afghanistan, as well as Afghans who once served with the ADF.
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Rashida Yosufzai@Rashidajourno
Former defence chief Admiral Chris Barrie, who led Australia into a war in Afghanistan, said Australia was far too slow to evacuate those who helped Australian troops.
"For all of those people who helped us — God help them. God help them."
abc.net.au/news/2021-08-1…
August 16, 2021

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