Thursday, August 19, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian bird of the year 2021: nominate your favourite for the #BirdOfTheYear shortlist
This year there will be a special focus on the species many of us are likely to see in lockdown
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Patrick Keneally@patrickkeneally
Because we all need something to spark joy in lockdown, we're opening the 2021 bird of the year shortlist for nominations now. Tell us what birds should be included #BirdOfTheYear theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 19, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • August 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
Coalition ‘unlawfully’ blocking freedom of information requests
FoI system is ‘broken’, review finds, with agencies and ministers’ offices ‘gaming the system’
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Yep, yep, yep theguardian.com/australia-news… @knausc #auspol
August 19, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • August 19, 2021 • smh.com.au
Albanese stands to benefit from PM’s failings
The Labor leader wants to render Morrison’s government unelectable by making it look incompetent and corrupt.
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BBC News • https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews • August 19, 2021 • bbc.com
Covid vaccines still effective against Delta variant
But the jabs were more effective against the Alpha variant, the largest study of its kind suggests.
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Donna Lu@donnadlu
Some good news for anyone who's had the AstraZeneca vaccine: a UK study has found the efficacy of Pfizer wanes over time, and that AZ offers the same protection against the virus around 4.6months after the second jab bbc.com/news/health-58…
August 19, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Adam Morton • August 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘We can’t begin in 2049’: Labor signals more ambitious target for emissions cuts
Chris Bowen will make a clear statement that the Coalition’s 2030 emissions target is insufficient
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The Age • Nick Miller • August 19, 2021 • theage.com.au
The eternal truths as Melbourne clocks up 200 days of lockdown
We crunched the data on our lockdown double-century to see what it has meant: 100 days of home-schooling, 93 wedding-less days, 56 curfewed nights.
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • August 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Immediate risk’: nearly 150 childcare centres closed across Australia over Covid threat
The closures are predominantly in New South Wales, where authorities are worried about transmission among children
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Bridie Jabour@bkjabour
I do not understand why there are not figures being provided about transmission in childcare. Great reporting from @msmarto on an issue the NSW govt& fed govt are being weirdly obtuse about theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…
August 19, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter Hannam • August 18, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Negative value’: BHP struggles to offload NSW’s biggest coal pit
Mining giant BHP would pay a bidder about $275 million to take the biggest coal mine in NSW off its hands even as prices of the fossil fuel soar to levels not seen since 2008.
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Malcolm Turnbull 💉💉@TurnbullMalcolm
BHP should clean this up itself. Otherwise it will sell the mine to a smaller, less responsible company that will not comply with the rehabilitation obligations. smh.com.au/environment/cl…
August 19, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Adele Ferguson, Matt O'Sullivan • August 19, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Harebrained idea’: Secret plan to commercialise state’s public transport, roads
A highly confidential report for the government by consultancy giant PwC reveals that corporatising the state’s transport networks was deemed the best option to plug a multi-billion dollar budget black hole from a shell corporation it had created.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Rachel Clun, Shane Wright • August 19, 2021 • smh.com.au
What it will really take to get regions to 70 per cent vaccinated
Health experts say it’s crucial to know which areas are falling behind so concerted efforts could be made to increase vaccination rates, but also to know where future outbreaks could occur.
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Stephanie Peatling@srpeatling
Morning, morning (especially to my mother who is devoting her lockdown to mastering Latin). A wealth of stories about including this by @rachelclun @swrighteconomy on what it takes to get to 70% vaccinated given the large regional differences.
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
August 19, 2021
The Guardian • Donna Lu, Calla Wahlquist • August 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
Experts say Delta variant spread among Australian children is concerning in absence of Covid vaccine
With data showing children can be vulnerable to long Covid, a former AMA president says the lack of an approved vaccine for the young is troubling
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The Australian • STEPHEN RICE • August 19, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Female journalists take on the Taliban
This is what courage looks like in Afghanistan: female journalist Beheshta Arghand grilling a Taliban leader about why his men are conducting house to house searches in the city they now own. Her city.
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The Australian • YONI BASHAN, GEOFF CHAMBERS • August 19, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Revealed: NSW freedom plan for fully vaccinated
Bars, restaurants and gyms would reopen to the fully inoculated once vaccination coverage across NSW reaches 70 per cent, under a proposal drawn up by government ministers and awaiting sign off from Gladys Berejiklian.
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The Canberra Times • Karen Barlow • August 19, 2021 • canberratimes.com.au
Labor leader puts department heads on notice
If Labor wins power, there are no guarantees for the top of the public service
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Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy
Albanese reserves right to clean out APS top ranks: “There’s been too much contracting out. And we need to value independent quality public service advice. It’s an honourable profession and it hasn’t been treated that way in recent times.” by @KJBar⁩ canberratimes.com.au/story/7392561/
August 19, 2021
The Guardian • Lorena Allam, Laura Murphy-Oates, Karishma Luthria, Ellen Leabeater, Miles Herbert, Joe Koning, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson • August 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia’s failure to vaccinate Indigenous people
Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to Lorena Allam about the worst outbreak among Australia’s Aboriginal population in the pandemic so far
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • August 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
Swimming superstar Ellie Cole on diversity, accessibility and bringing people joy
The six-time gold medallist is campaigning for WeThe15 – a global human rights movement that will feature at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
Even more excited for the #Paralympics after speaking to star swimmer @ellievcole about how sport can create change.
Today marks the launch of #WeThe15 – a new human rights movement for the world's 1.2 billion people with disabilities theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug…
August 19, 2021
ABC News • Danielle O'Neal • August 19, 2021 • abc.net.au
City sisters take over outback roadhouse, find love and help bring a small town back to life
When sisters Mary and Laura Josey took over the Morven Truck Stop in 2018 they had no idea they would almost double the roadhouse's annual turnover — and find love.
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Kath Sullivan@KathSully
Great story -city sisters move to outback town and take over truck stop with great success. abc.net.au/news/2021-08-1…
August 19, 2021
Australian Financial Review • Joe Aston • August 18, 2021 • afr.com
Millennium Services Group uses JobKeeper to repay debt
Another day, another JobKeeper shocker, and we know about this one only because of the transparency involved.
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The Australian • Angelica Snowden • August 18, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Watchdog: Young are ‘overwhelmed’
Young peoples mental health is not a priority in pandemic decision making and data that shows the effect of Covid-19 restrictions on their psychological state should be made public, a Victorian watchdog says.
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The Guardian • Kate Banville • August 18, 2021 • theguardian.com
Interpreter for Australian military shot amid chaotic scenes at Kabul airport
Messages from Australian officials warn of gunshots and danger at airport as man is treated for wound to his leg
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
A former Afghan interpreter for the Australian military has been shot in the leg as he tried to pass a Taliban checkpoint outside Kabul airport, in an attempt to board an Australian evacuation mission out of Afghanistan. theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 19, 2021

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