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ABC News • Mark Willacy • August 25, 2021 • abc.net.au
Our journalist in Afghanistan has an Australian visa, but he can't get into Kabul airport
An Afghan journalist who has been crucial to ABC Investigations stories on alleged war crimes has an Australian visa, but can't get into the airport at Kabul.
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ABC News • David Campbell • August 25, 2021 • abc.net.au
We fact checked Gladys Berejiklian on Sydney's 'harsher' lockdowns. Here's what we found
In defending NSW's lockdown strategy, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said Sydney's lockdown conditions were harsher than those which had been imposed in any other state in the past. Is she correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
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ABC News • Ruby Cornish • August 25, 2021 • abc.net.au
Asad risked his life for Australian forces but when the Taliban came, he was refused protection
The Drum has seen evidence that interpreters who worked with ADF personnel had their visa applications rejected — despite promises from government that Afghan translators would be accommodated.
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Norman Swan@normanswan
We should hang our heads in shame. Afghan interpreter rejected for protection visa evacuated to the Netherlands abc.net.au/news/2021-08-2…
August 25, 2021
The Guardian • Lorena Allam, Nick Evershed • August 25, 2021 • theguardian.com
Gap between Indigenous Covid vaccination rates and overall population widens in almost every state
In Western Australia, the Indigenous vaccination rate is just 8% for fully vaccinated people – three times smaller than the state’s total vaccination rate
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Nick Evershed@NickEvershed
So me and Lorena have compiled figures from our reporting for almost one month of the Indigenous Covid vaccination rollout, and the gap between Indigenous vaccination rates and the overall rate is increasing theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 25, 2021
Crikey • Cam Wilson • August 25, 2021 • crikey.com.au
Spywhale: the AFP’s April Fools' joke that never made it off the ground
A gag by the Federal Police about turning an artistic hot-air balloon into an eye in the sky didn't take flight.
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CAMWILSON@cameronwilson
NEW: Internal emails released released from a FOI request reveal how six AFP staff over two months created a surveillance-themed Skywhale parody originally called "Spywhale" for April Fools Day 2021 that was ultimately nixed.
crikey.com.au/2021/08/25/spy…
August 25, 2021
The Guardian • Sarah Martin, Nick Evershed • August 25, 2021 • theguardian.com
Only one in five aged care homes close to vaccinating all staff against Covid as deadline looms
A government mandate for workers in the aged care sector is due to come in to force in three weeks, but some centres are yet to have 10% of staff given one dose
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Angus Thompson, Natassia Chrysanthos • August 25, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘What do you think you’re doing?’: Sydneysiders stung for eating outside
James Adcock and his partner were standing in a corner of the Potts Point markets on Saturday, each eating noodle soup, when a suited man approached them.
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Hannah Ryan@HannahD15
Fined for doing something NSW Health says is within the rules smh.com.au/national/nsw/w…
August 25, 2021
The Guardian • Ben Doherty, Daniel Hurst • August 25, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian citizens and visa holders turned back from Kabul airport despite having evacuation letters
Hope has turned to despair for hundreds due to a lack of coordination between Australian agencies and bureaucratic processes, sources say
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ABC News • Mark Willacy, Josh Robertson, Clare Blumer • August 25, 2021 • abc.net.au
'Getting away with it', nude Twister with strippers: How the drinking culture of the SAS eroded its reputation
Candid videos of how some of the SAS spent recreational time during the Afghanistan war reveals the culture of excessive drinking, public nudity and a theme song that summed it all up. WARNING: This story contains nudity.
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Mark Willacy@markwillacy
These videos & photos were given to me by SAS insiders for my book ROGUE FORCES. “Inside SAS drinking culture: Nude Twister with strippers, guns and ‘getting away with it’” abc.net.au/news/2021-08-2…
August 25, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Mary Ward • August 25, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘It’s not a game’: COVID-19 patients’ plea from hospital beds
Fawaz, a 50-year-old construction worker from Putney, said he did not know how he contracted the virus which has now infected his entire family.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • August 25, 2021 • smh.com.au
Voters back national vaccination targets to ease restrictions
Most Australians want political leaders to stick to a national cabinet deal to ease restrictions when the vaccination rate hits key targets.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Majority support for national plan on easing rules at 70 and 80 per cent.
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
August 25, 2021
Rolling Stone • Andrew Quilty • August 25, 2021 • rollingstone.com
'Once the World Looks Away, We Are All Dead'
On the ground in Kabul during week one of the Taliban takeover
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Andrew Quilty@andrewquilty
Impressions from one of the most soul-rattling weeks I've ever experienced. The week the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. For @RollingStone
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
August 25, 2021
The New Daily • Richard Denniss • August 25, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Richard Denniss: Scott Morrison's COVID plan is more spin than science
The same PM who spruiks ‘technology not taxes’ as a climate strategy is now championing ‘pharmaceuticals not physical distancing’ to fight COVID.
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
At some point fires gets too big to be put out. Likewise, there’s a maximum number of #covid19 cases that contract traces can follow up. Morrisons modelling is based on the assumption that tracing is as effective at 10,000 cases as it is at 1,000 #auspol thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/…
August 25, 2021
The Guardian • Paul Karp • August 25, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian powers to spy on cybercrime suspects given green light
Coalition bill to create powerful new warrants, allowing authorities to modify and delete data and even take over accounts, passes Senate
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • August 25, 2021 • theguardian.com
Sydney mother turns to Twitter in desperate bid to get daughter with Down’s syndrome vaccinated
Parents of eligible children say it has been almost impossible to make a Covid vaccine appointment and are urging governments to improve access
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
Zoe's doctor says she will die if she gets Covid. The 14-year-old's journey to get a vaccine appointment is just horrible. It shouldn't be this hard.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 25, 2021
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 Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios • August 25, 2021 • smh.com.au
Murdoch’s Fox News issues ABC with legal threat over ‘Four Corners’ Trump episode
A legal letter was fired off by Fox News to the ABC’s chairman Ita Buttrose before a Four Corners episode went to air on Monday. A complaint is now expected to be formalised.
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ABC Radio • August 23, 2021 • abc.net.au
Australians and Afghan visa holders still trying to escape Afghanistan
More than 550 Australians and Afghan visas holders have been evacuated from Kabul since the middle of last week.
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Henry Belot@Henry_Belot
Some more good news. The terrified mother and women's rights activist who spoke to AM on Monday has made it into the Kabul airport and is waiting for an evacuation flight. abc.net.au/radio/programs…
August 25, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Paul Karp • August 25, 2021 • theguardian.com
Senate committee wants Beetaloo gas grants investigated as Labor refers matter to auditor general
Almost half the funding from the fracking program awarded to Empire Energy, which shares connections with the Liberal party, inquiry finds
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The Guardian • August 25, 2021 • theguardian.com
Covid-19 sewage testing causes stink between ACT and NSW – video
'I don’t think the sewage detection is quite that sophisticated it is able to tell whether it was a Canberran’s poo, or someone else’s'
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