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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter Hartcher • August 28, 2021 • smh.com.au
Even Gladys Berejiklian is fed up with PM, who she privately regards as ‘evil’ and a ‘bully’
Scott Morrison has a problem with Australia’s premiers. Even NSW’s Liberal Premier has told colleagues she’d have preferred that Peter Dutton won the federal leadership. But the PM’s big electoral risk is in confronting popular Labor leaders.
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The Guardian • Lorena Allam, Nick Evershed • August 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Indigenous communities being left behind in NSW vaccine rollout, leaked figures show
Exclusive: Aboriginal community-controlled health services say the data shows there is an urgent need for governments to work with them
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Nick Evershed@NickEvershed
Exclusive: leaked government data obtained by @GuardianAus shows a huge gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Covid vaccination rates in every region of NSW theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 28, 2021
The Canberra Times • Sarah Basford Canales • August 28, 2021 • canberratimes.com.au
Government ignored warnings on Covid app
A report hidden by government has revealed its COVIDSafe app has failed to provide contact tracers the helpful tool it promised.
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Sarah Basford Canales@sbasfordcanales
I finally got a more complete version of a COVIDSafe report the govt seemed to be desperately hiding. It showed warnings about the app's ineffectiveness as early as Dec '20 in a draft report and March '21 in the final. Story below 👇🔓 v @canberratimes
canberratimes.com.au/story/7405628/…
August 28, 2021
The Guardian • Naaman Zhou • August 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Golden Century remembered: ‘Can you think of any other restaurant that defines Sydney?’
Tales of mateship and betrayal, of falling in love and falling asleep – politicians, chefs, artists and eaters share their stories of the restaurant that hosted it all
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Naaman Zhou@naamanzhou
Quite proud of this one. I compiled an oral history of Golden Century, featuring Neil Perry, Dan Hong, @jessaroo, @RemyHii, @pekingduk, former NSW premier Bob Carr – and a couple who met on a blind date there and have been married for 30+ years
theguardian.com/food/2021/aug/…
August 28, 2021
ABC News • Laura Tingle • August 28, 2021 • abc.net.au
Daily COVID press conferences are creating an illusion of accountability
The COVID imagery of coming months looks dangerously like it could be one of a continuing and increasing unravelling of the authority of our leaders, and the community's willingness to abide by their daily pleas, writes Laura Tingle.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • August 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Morrison’s ‘safe plan’ for living with Covid may be necessary, even sensible. But it won’t be safe
What’s coming is a huge (politically risky) dismount from a public health strategy labelled suppression but more like elimination
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The Age • Martin Flanagan • August 28, 2021 • theage.com.au
Thanks for bringing finals to Launceston, but the AFL owes Tasmania
The movement for a Tasmanian AFL team is better organised than ever before, and it has a leader like it’s never had before.
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Martin Flanagan@Martin_Flanagan
My thoughts on the future of Tasmanian footy, the Carter report and Launceston getting two AFL finals
theage.com.au/sport/afl/than…
August 28, 2021
The Guardian • Ben Doherty • August 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Family of Australian man beaten by Taliban plead for government to help evacuate him
The man, who posted video online of his injuries, is in hiding in Afghanistan and terrified of further attacks, his brother says
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ABC News • James Oaten, Stephen Dziedzic • August 28, 2021 • abc.net.au
Stranded Australians plucked from the suburbs of Kabul in daring rescue mission
Dozens of Australian nationals and visa holders stranded in Afghanistan were plucked from the suburbs of Kabul this week as part of a tense multinational extraction effort to get foreigners to the airport, the ABC reveals.
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The Australian • DAMON JOHNSTON • August 27, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Teen mental health crisis worse than feared
More than 340 teenagers a week have been admitted to hospital suffering mental health emergencies, according to a confidential Andrews government report that reveals Victorias pandemic and lockdown-fuelled youth crisis is worse than previously feared.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lucy Cormack, Lucy Carroll • August 27, 2021 • smh.com.au
Bars, eateries out of bounds for unjabbed under reopening plan
Unvaccinated people will not be able to enter hospitality venues once NSW opens up after reaching a 70 per cent vaccination rate, under a plan being considered.
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ABC News • James Gordon Meek • August 27, 2021 • abcnews.go.com
US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies
At least 13 service members were killed in an attack at the Kabul airport on Thursday.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Shepparton’s multicultural community ‘on the brink’ in Covid lockdown
A third of the city’s roughly 60,000 people are locked in their homes in isolation and the streets, supermarkets and cafes are empty
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The Guardian • Paul Daley • August 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Is it bin night again, already? Lockdown has done something strange to our sense of time
The days seem to be dissolving into one another, like we’re snared in one of Salvador Dali’s melting clocks
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Andrew Taylor, Linda Morris • August 28, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Generosity has been astounding’: Ben Quilty raises $4 million for Afghan people
A fundraising campaign led by artist Ben Quilty has raised $4 million thanks to pledges from Atlassian billionaires Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes.
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ABC News • Xanthe Gregory, Mollie Gorman, Danuta Kozaki • August 28, 2021 • abc.net.au
'The whole system is broken': COVID exposes regional health staff crisis
Sydney hospital staff will be deployed to help fight the COVID outbreak in the state's west, amid calls for urgent changes to border rules to allow fly in, fly out staff.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy, Karishma Luthria, Miles Martignoni • August 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
Josh Frydenberg on nation’s Covid response and climate change action – Australian politics podcast
Katharine Murphy speaks to federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg about Australia’s Covid-19 recovery and climate record
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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • August 28, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: States unable to staff ventilator capacity
Analysis prepared for national cabinet shows that although states have built up surge capacity for ventilators during the pandemic, they do not have the medical staff to operate them.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
National cabinet has been told the country could expand its intensive care beds by 944 places – but at best it has the staff to operate 346 of these. Pressure on the two biggest state hospital systems in Australia is growing. My piece: thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
August 28, 2021
The Age • Melissa Cunningham, Aisha Dow • August 28, 2021 • smh.com.au
Opening up: Living with COVID in Australia
There is now widespread recognition that we’ll need more than just a high rate of vaccination to live more freely in Australia. So what might life look like?
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Michael Bachelard@mbachelard
Are we there yet? How we might go about opening up in Australia. Top piece by @MeljCunningham and @aishamae theage.com.au/national/openi…
August 28, 2021
ABC News • Virginia Trioli • August 28, 2021 • abc.net.au
A little girl's simple question: Are we going to die?
The answer was going to be complicated, and that was the problem: because it turns out we may have spent the last 18 months of this pandemic seriously underestimating the capacity of young Australians, writes Virginia Trioli.
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Virginia Trioli@LaTrioli
They’ve given up everything we’ve asked of them - now it’s past time to hear the needs of younger Australians. ⁦@abcnews⁩ ⁦@abcmelbourne⁩ abc.net.au/news/2021-08-2…
August 28, 2021

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