Tuesday, August 24, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Age • David Crowe • August 24, 2021 • smh.com.au
Coalition gains on pandemic management as Morrison holds ground, Labor vote falls
Latest data from the Resolve Political Monitor shows the Coalition’s primary vote back to the level that won it the 2019 election.
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ABC News • Rory Callinan, Josh Robertson • August 24, 2021 • abc.net.au
Ex-Australian embassy guards, families stood in sewage outside Kabul airport before being denied entry amid visa confusion
Hundreds of former guards and their families were left standing in a moat for hours outside Kabul airport, before being told they did not have the right paperwork.
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ABC News • Dan Conifer • August 24, 2021 • abc.net.au
Report finds federal government failings likely contributed to Ruby Princess COVID-19 disaster
A scathing audit has exposed further errors when the virus-plagued ship returned to Sydney last March and passengers were allowed to disembark.
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The Age • Rob Harris • August 24, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Deserve our recognition’: Three political trailblazers immortalised in bronze
The first two women and the first Indigenous man elected to federal parliament will be immortalised in bronze statues in Canberra’s parliamentary triangle.
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Katina Curtis@katinacurtis
This is great news from Rob Harris: Dorothy Tangney, Enid Lyons and Neville Bonner are coming to the parliamentary triangle. Rob reported in March there were more statues of kelpies in the triangle than Indigenous Australians or Australian women. theage.com.au/politics/feder…
August 24, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • August 23, 2021 • theguardian.com
Why is Australia at odds over the Doherty report and what does it say about opening up the country?
PM repeatedly cites the institute’s modelling of 70-80% Covid vaccination rates as Australia’s path to freedom. But what do those numbers really mean?
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
I've spent today head down in the Doherty report & the Treasury advice to produce an explainer helping you cut through the BS. Here is what the Doherty work actually says about whether lockdowns end if/when we hit vax rates of 70-80%. The detail matters theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…
August 23, 2021
ABC Radio National • August 23, 2021 • abc.net.au
Have we misunderstood the Doherty modelling?
Who would have thought pre-pandemic that the intricacies of mathematical modelling would become part of people's everyday conversation and widespread media coverage.
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Norman Swan@normanswan
This explains what the Doherty model really states. Nothing like what we’re being told by Canberra. A must listen. Have we misunderstood the Doherty modelling? abc.net.au/radionational/…
August 23, 2021
The Guardian • Stuart Heritage • August 23, 2021 • theguardian.com
A few good massaman: Tom ‘two curries’ Cruise shows us how it’s done
Tom Cruise doesn’t just have a single chicken tikka masala when he goes to Birmingham – he has another one straight after. Has any man ever been more on-brand?
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Catherine Bennett • August 24, 2021 • smh.com.au
NSW’s extraordinary vaccination rates give it a fighting chance against Delta
Vaccination is the most powerful lever in our efforts to control the Delta variant.
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The Guardian • Kieran Pender • August 24, 2021 • theguardian.com
Innovation and inner strength: the stories behind Australia’s Paralympians
Guardian Australia spent time with some of the athletes, coaches and staff collectively going for gold in Tokyo. Here are their stories
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Kieran Pender@KieranPender
This was one of my favourite features to work on this year, with @mpbowers for @GuardianAus. Super excited to watch these and other incredible, inspirational Australian Paralympians from tomorrow onwards #Toyko2020 #Paralympics theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug…
August 24, 2021
ABC News • August 24, 2021 • abc.net.au
Doherty Institute director says once 70-80 per cent vaccination rate reached cases don't have to be at zero to reopen
Recent modelling used by the federal government has found easing restrictions would be safe when 70 per cent of the population was vaccinated, the head of Doherty Institute says.
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The Guardian • Steph Harmon • August 24, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘A right good piss-up’: Kyle MacLachlan has a crack at Australian accent from Sydney quarantine
Twin Peaks star, who is in Australia to film Joe Exotic, employs local lingo during a monologue about life locked in a hotel
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steph harmon@stephharmon
i regret to inform the public that i have coined the term MacLachdown theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
August 24, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter Collignon • August 24, 2021 • smh.com.au
Zero COVID: when is the time to change our mindset?
We need to shift from chasing zero cases to looking at how many people are being hospitalised and dying.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Kate McClymont • August 24, 2021 • smh.com.au
Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo slapped with restrictions after urgent hearing
The controversial neurosurgeon has been prevented from performing certain operations until he obtains written approval from a fellow neurosurgeon.
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Kate McClymont@Kate_McClymont
Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has been slapped with restrictions after an urgent hearing of the Medical Council. Until a full investigation by the HCCC is completed, he has to get written approval from another neurosurgeon before performing some surgeries. smh.com.au/national/nsw/n…
August 24, 2021
The Australian • GREG BEARUP • August 23, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Outbreak front and centre in outback
The distances are vast but the virus is a seasoned traveller — I drove 1000km across the NSW outback in a day and covered only a fraction of the country Covid-19 had been in a week.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Daniella White • August 24, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Hearts are breaking’: Sydney mother identified as woman who died with COVID-19
Family and friends are mourning the death of Ianeta Isaako, while her husband fights for life in hospital.
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ABC News • David Lipson • August 24, 2021 • abc.net.au
Doctor working on Australia's COVID front line sentenced to jail in Lebanon
Doctor Jamal Rifi, who has been working to vaccinate patients in south-west Sydney, says a military tribunal in Lebanon has sentenced him to 10 years in prison. He says it's evidence of a "corrupt" system.
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The Canberra Times • Dan Jervis-Bardy • August 24, 2021 • canberratimes.com.au
Behind the plexiglass screen, an eerie Federal Parliament presses on
See our photographs taken inside the deserted halls of Federal Parliament.
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Dan Jervis-Bardy@D_JervisBardy
"Nothing in my experience in this place matches what we are going through now"
Inside Federal Parliament amid #canberralockdown
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canberratimes.com.au/story/7400243/… via @canberratimes
August 24, 2021
ABC Radio • August 23, 2021 • abc.net.au
Artist Ben Quilty spearheading push to support Afghans in crisis
Australian Forces have managed to evacuate about a thousand people from Kabul, but the situation there is becoming increasingly dire, with thousands of locals and foreign workers still trying to escape capital a week after the city fell to the Taliban.
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SBS • Rashida Yosufzai, Anna Henderson, Tom Stayner • August 24, 2021 • sbs.com.au
Afghan interpreter's family asks Australia for help after ending up in German refugee camp
EXCLUSIVE: The family of a former interpreter for Australia's military has recounted to SBS News the harrowing story of how they ended up in a German refugee camp after being evacuated from Kabul last week, and what they want to happen next.
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7.30 • August 23, 2021 • abc.net.au
Gladys Berejiklian speaks to 7.30
The New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks to Leigh Sales about the COVID crisis in New South Wales.
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Leigh Sales@leighsales
NSW Premier @GladysB on @abc730 last night - why she thinks covid zero as a long-term strategy is a fantasy and what post-lockdown life will look like in terms of deaths & cases
abc.net.au/7.30/gladys-be…
August 24, 2021

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