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The Sydney Morning Herald • Caitlin Fitzsimmons, James Massola • August 29, 2021 • smh.com.au
Mental health crisis as self-harm presentations surge in NSW
NSW’s Chief Psychiatrist said the ongoing lockdown, while necessary for public health reasons, was especially hard for teens.
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Kate Aubusson@Kaubo
The COVID pandemic and prolonged lockdown are severely damaging the mental health of young people in NSW, with ED visits for self-harm and suicidal ideation up 31 per cent for children and teenagers compared with last year smh.com.au/national/nsw/m… @niltiac @jamesmassola
August 29, 2021
ABC News • Tracey Holmes • August 29, 2021 • abc.net.au
The grassroots, brazen rescue of almost 100 Afghans
Working out of two rooms in Sydney, a quarantine hotel room in Brisbane and an office in London, this is how four people guided a large group of at-risk female athletes and their dependents to Kabul airport and onto RAAF planes.
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Tracey Holmes@TraceyLeeHolmes
'Operation dust in the eyes': The grassroots, brazen rescue of almost 100 Afghans operating out of two rooms in suburban Sydney, a hotel quarantine room in Brisbane & a home office in London ab.co/3Drufb6
August 29, 2021
The Guardian • Gabrielle Chan • August 29, 2021 • theguardian.com
Farmers manage more than half of Australia. We all have a stake in them getting it right
If you eat, you have an interest in farming. If you care about the environment, you have an interest in farming. Yet Australia has no national agriculture strategy
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Gabrielle Chan@gabriellechan
A short version of a much bigger picture. On Why You Should Give A Fuck About Farming. ⁦@PenguinBooksAus⁩ in stores on Tuesday. theguardian.com/environment/20…
August 29, 2021
ABC News • Gary-Jon Lysaght, Bridget Brennan • August 29, 2021 • abc.net.au
There's fear and frustration in this tiny town where 11 per cent of locals have COVID-19
Aboriginal leaders began raising the need for their communities to be vaccinated last year. Now the Delta strain has infected hundreds and many remain exposed.
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Laura Tingle@latingle
More than 10 per cent of Wilcannia has COVID-19, and locals are now cleaning up the 'mess' - ABC News abc.net.au/news/2021-08-2…
August 29, 2021
The Guardian • Rafqa Touma • August 29, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘I wasn’t certain I was going to leave hospital’: Sydney teenagers tell of terrifying Covid experience
Celebrating a birthday, within Covid guidelines, was enough to put three 18-year-olds in quarantine. Then one ended up in hospital unable to breathe or walk
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Rafqa Touma@At_Raf_
Sam and Donna shared with me their trauma of surviving Covid.
I’m only a bit older than the teens. Their story of survival was a confronting one to write.
They want young Aussies to know: ‘Don’t underestimate it. You can get Covid too.’ theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 29, 2021
ABC News • August 27, 2021 • abc.net.au
We're investigating unfair work practices and we want to hear your story
The ABC is investigating work and we need your help. Whether you're a worker, manager or employer, we want to hear your story.
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🦄 Flip Prior 🦄@FlipPrior
Today ⁦@abcnews⁩ investigations & our Asia Pacific Network team have launched a collaborative project examining unfair work practices in Australia: in an exciting first, we’re collecting stories in Bahasa Indonesian, simplified Chinese & English. abc.net.au/news/2021-08-2…
August 29, 2021
ABC News • Ahmed Yussuf • August 29, 2021 • abc.net.au
Abukar lost his father-in-law to COVID in Melbourne's second wave, so for him supporting those in isolation is personal
As outbreaks in Melbourne's western and northern suburbs put hundreds of Victoria's Muslim community in isolation, businesses and community services swing into action to provide culturally appropriate food deliveries.
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Ahmed Yussuf@ahmedyussuf10
New from me: In partnership with local Muslim community groups, Abukar helped over hundred families with halal food supplies.
“They call us and the community leaders give us the fund. So we give them what they want. We don't give what we want," he said.
abc.net.au/news/2021-08-2…
August 29, 2021
The Age • Sumeyya Ilanbey, Jack Latimore • August 29, 2021 • theage.com.au
‘The moment you walk in through those doors your healing starts’: Victoria leading the race on Indigenous vaccination
“In mainstream, you go in and you get your swab and it’s very clinical. With us, you’re coming in and you’re having a yarn and we’re dealing with your mental health, we’re dealing with your social health, we’re dealing with your spiritual health, as well as giving the swab-test,” said Shannon Drake from the Rumbalara Health Service in Shepparton.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter FitzSimons • August 29, 2021 • smh.com.au
A nurse on Sydney’s COVID frontline tells it like it is
Michelle Rosentreter is a senior ICU nurse, and she says her team is just holding on.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Rachael Dexter • August 28, 2021 • smh.com.au
Australian Christian Lobby says believers should push for COVID freedoms, not ‘fear death’
In an email to members, the group’s managing director Martyn Iles said the coronavirus was here to stay and that he was “not afraid to face the inevitable”.
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Rachael Dexter@rachael_dexter
The Australian Christian Lobby has called on its supporters not to “fear death” and instead push state governments to end COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions. theage.com.au/national/austr…
@theage @smh
August 28, 2021
ABC News • Pat McGrath, Dan Harrison, Danielle Bonica • August 29, 2021 • abc.net.au
'This is just no way to live': What it's like delivering parcels for Amazon
When internet shoppers want their items yesterday, who pays the price? This is what it's like to deliver parcels for the world's biggest online retailer.
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Max Chalmers@maxchalm
Amazon Flex is bringing the gig economy to parcel delivery in Australia. Drivers say they can be 'terminated' with little explanation.
Spent some time with the ABC investigations team recently and worked on this story with @pjmcgrth and @martysmiley abc.net.au/news/2021-08-2…
August 29, 2021
New York Daily News • Joe Erwin • August 29, 2021 • nydailynews.com
Texas anti-mask ‘Freedom Defender’ Caleb Wallace dies at 30
An anti-mask advocate is dead of COVID-19.
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The Australian • SIMON BENSON • August 29, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Coalition’s fortunes fall as the PM rises
Popular support for the federal Coalition has fallen to its lowest level this term with a swing to fringe minor parties amid record Covid-19 cases and debate over bringing an end to lockdowns.
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • August 29, 2021 • theguardian.com
The black summer bushfires took life and property. Centrelink is now taking hope
Doug Reidy was physically and mentally traumatised by those catastrophic fires but has been knocked back for the disability support pension
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Calla Wahlquist@callapilla
Such an important, devastating story by ⁦@lukehgomes⁩ theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 29, 2021
The Age • Bianca Hall • August 29, 2021 • theage.com.au
Jeroen Weimar: From ‘trainspotter’ to Victoria’s COVID-19 commander
So ubiquitous has this public servant become, Jeroen Weimar is now one of the most recognisable faces of the 2021 edition of this long-running pandemic.
ABC News • Nick Wiggins, Brigid Andersen, Harriet Tatham • August 29, 2021 • abc.net.au
Caroline Jones was a woman breaking new ground. The headlines called her 'girl'
A woman being hired for a job like the host of Four Corners was so rare in the 70s it was splashed across newspapers. The stories the program told at the time show how far we've come, and the problems that persist.
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Reuters • August 23, 2021 • reuters.com
Reuters photographer died after being left behind, Afghan general says
Danish Siddiqui was with soldiers on the front line of an Afghan Special Forces clash with the Taliban. New reporting, and his final photographs, cast light on his final hours.
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Meanjin • Meanjin Editor • August 27, 2021 • meanjin.com.au
Free the Journalists. Or Maybe Not
In the beginning, the reporters crept tentatively onto social media, like gazelles at a waterhole, gazing round nervously before lowering their heads. Slowly at first, they drank from the vast pool, always watchful for the predators lurking in the shadows. They tentatively shared links to their work and asked shyly for leads and story ideas. They were content with that. The loud aggressive displays of attention were for others: for the lions of industry, the policy shapers and the politicians; the kinds of people they would observe and report on. Fast forward a decade or so, and the gazelles …
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🦄 Flip Prior 🦄@FlipPrior
A thoughtful piece from former ABC ed pols head ⁦@asunderland⁩ about the thorny relationship of journos & Twitter. I would love Twitter to just be a citizen-led wire service, as that’s where its power lies: not in endless self referential “hot takes” meanjin.com.au/blog/free-the-…
August 29, 2021
The Age • Stephen Brook • August 29, 2021 • smh.com.au
How I learnt to love man’s best friend
I was not a dog person. Once mauled by rabid street dogs, I had my reasons. This is the story of my conversion.
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The Guardian • Ben Butler • August 29, 2021 • theguardian.com
Meet the Batistas: the global beef barons battling for control of Australia’s meat
JBS, which is trying to take over pork producer Rivalea, now finds itself in a stoush with Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest over Tasmanian salmon farmer Huon
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