Sunday, August 22, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Ben Doherty • August 22, 2021 • theguardian.com
The Tampa affair, 20 years on: the ship that capsized Australia’s refugee policy
When a Norwegian freighter rescued 433 asylum seekers from a sinking vessel en route to Christmas Island, it sparked a crisis that led to hardline border policies and indelibly shifted the response to boat arrivals
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SBS • Rashida Yosufzai, Anna Henderson • August 22, 2021 • sbs.com.au
Australia grants visas for former Kabul embassy guards a day after rejecting them
The Australian government told more than 100 former security guards who worked at the Australian embassy in Kabul they could not apply for a special refugee visa and encouraged them to consider the humanitarian stream. A day later, it says they've already been approved.
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Rashida Yosufzai@Rashidajourno
More than 100 fmr employees of Australia's Kabul embassy have been told they can't apply for special staff visas.
“We hope this not happen to us. We serve with loyalty and honesty and we do not deserve the Australian govt to turn their backs on us."
sbs.com.au/news/australia…
August 22, 2021
ABC News • Rory Callinan • August 22, 2021 • abc.net.au
Australia denies At Risk Afghan Employees visas to Afghans who helped guard embassy in Kabul
The federal government denies visas to a group of more than 100 Afghan contractors who guarded the Australian embassy, telling them to "contact a migration agent".
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The Age • James Massola • August 22, 2021 • smh.com.au
People with disabilities ‘not safe’ as NDIS jab rollout lags
Just a quarter of NDIS participants have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
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James Massola@jamesmassola
The roll out of coronavirus jabs to people with disabilities is so behind schedule it’s actually lagging the general roll out. Shocking. People with disabilities are ‘not safe’ says @criprights. It’s negligent says @Kavanagh_AM theage.com.au/politics/feder…
August 22, 2021
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • August 22, 2021 • theguardian.com
German ambassador joins calls for Morrison government to take more ambitious climate action
Exclusive: Thomas Fitschen says Glasgow summit a ‘decisive moment’ with current international commitments insufficient to limit global heating to 1.5C
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
“We will need more ambitious climate targets from as many states as possible – that should include Australia,” Germany’s ambassador to Australia tells @GuardianAus #insiders theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 22, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • August 22, 2021 • smh.com.au
Former 7:30 host Kerry O’Brien alarmed by Australia’s authoritarian drift
Renowned journalist Kerry O’Brien has labelled a drift towards authoritarianism as the most serious threat to the free press.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Angus Thompson • August 22, 2021 • smh.com.au
Rescue dogs shot dead by NSW council due to COVID-19 restrictions
Several impounded dogs have been shot by a rural council under its interpretation of COVID-19 restrictions.
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The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • August 22, 2021 • theguardian.com
Rex Patrick, accidental senator: ‘I do cause trouble. But it’s public interest trouble’
He’s a gadfly, obsessive, a dog with a bone. The bureaucrats who face his relentless grilling might be surprised to know he isn’t always so headstrong
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Wendy Tuohy • August 22, 2021 • smh.com.au
Working mothers on the brink as pandemic burdens collide
Working women carrying extra care and home-schooling are going to the wall in the latest lockdowns, but experts say much can be done to support their wellbeing.
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The Guardian • Calla Wahlquist • August 22, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘So fluffy they’re like teddy bears’: thousands of native bees emerge in Western Australia
Higher than average rainfall and growth of the bees’ two favourite flowers could account for the larger than usual colony
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan • August 21, 2021 • theguardian.com
Vaccination rate of 70% won’t end lockdowns if Covid case numbers are too high, Doherty Institute expert says
Separate modelling suggests NSW unlikely to achieve single digit case numbers before it reaches vaccination benchmark
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Ellen Fanning:Journo@ellenmfanning
PM says after 70% vaccination rates lockdowns are “highly unlikely and targeted”. Test, trace and isolation still necessary at that stage. At 80% PM says COVID can be tested as a normal virus with other precautions. However …. 👇🏼 twitter.com/normanswan/sta…
August 22, 2021
The Guardian • Matilda Boseley, Justine Landis-Hanley • August 22, 2021 • theguardian.com
Anti-lockdown protest on Queensland-NSW border; ACT records 19 Covid cases – as it happened
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Josephine Tovey@Jo_Tovey
2 out of 3 of the Covid deaths in NSW today acquired their infection in hospital.
What a double tragedy for families already dealing with illness. We need far greater transparency about how this is happening and what is being done to protect patients. theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 22, 2021
The Australian • BEN PACKHAM, AMANDA HODGE • August 22, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
200 Kabul embassy guards good to go
Nearly 200 Afghan security guards who protected Australian diplomats in Kabul have been approved for asylum visas in a last-minute reprieve after they were told as recently as Saturday to contact a migration agent.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol, James Massola • August 22, 2021 • smh.com.au
Church leaders urge Morrison to take more Afghan refugees
“Opening up your heart and your home ... is a feature of human compassion,” said Anglican Archbishop Kanishka Raffel.
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Julia Gillard • GOffice • August 22, 2021 • juliagillard.com.au
Statement on Afghanistan
The Hon Julia Gillard AC Chair of the Board of the Global Partnership for Education 27TH Prime Minister of Australia...
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Paul Sakkal, Aisha Dow • August 22, 2021 • smh.com.au
Ventilation ‘revolution’ needed for path out of lockdown
Building design could be overhauled and employers would be required to ensure clean air under ventilation overhauls that some believe could be as important as vaccines to Australia’s pandemic response.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick McKenzie, Joel Tozer • August 22, 2021 • theage.com.au
Fears of neo-Nazis in military ranks after ex-soldier’s passport cancelled
A former soldier was prevented from travelling to fight for a far-right paramilitary group in Ukraine, according to authorities, amid warnings some extremists are trying to join the armed forces by concealing their views.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 21, 2021 • theguardian.com
NSW records 825 new Covid cases, the worst total of any Australian state since pandemic began
ACT reports eight new coronavirus cases and cancels Floriade while Queensland records zero
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Kevin Rudd@MrKRudd
A disaster of her own arrogant making,urged by Murdoch’s Lib-Nat protection racket & Morrison not to lock down early. Result: record cases; NSW economy, a third of the country’s, now crippled; & a Delta spread from NSW to Vic. Yet she still keeps her job? theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 21, 2021
The New Daily • Alan Kohler • August 19, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Alan Kohler: Modern conservatism offers few answers for a pandemic
The pandemic is challenging the underpinnings of modern conservatism and if right-wing parties can’t adapt, they’ll be doomed.
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The Age • James Massola, Aisha Dow • August 22, 2021 • smh.com.au
Morrison backs NSW in war of words over lockdown targets
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has reassured NSW the state can reopen based on current vaccination targets regardless of its daily COVID-19 case numbers, despite a pushback from other states about living with the virus.
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