Wednesday, September 1, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Australian • RICHARD FERGUSON, GEOFF CHAMBERS • September 1, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Feds muscle up over opening state borders
Attorney-General Michaelia Cash has warned state governments that their constitutional power to shut borders will diminish once the nation hits an 80 per cent vaccination rate, as premiers with low Covid-19 infections defend the need to lock out interstate arrivals.
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • September 1, 2021 • theguardian.com
Letter reveals what Scott Morrison told John Frewen when he gave him vaccine role
Exclusive: Prime minister hails ‘direct command and control structure’ in document obtained under freedom of information
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
PM assured Lt Gen Frewen “the necessary resources and assets will be put at your disposal” when he was appointed to role to boost confidence in govt’s vaccine rollout. Letter obtained under FOI shows PM also outlined “direct command and control structure”: theguardian.com/australia-news…
September 1, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Lisa Visentin, Zoe Samios • September 1, 2021 • smh.com.au
SBS board member Warren Mundine apologises for expletive tweet
SBS board member Warren Mundine is taking a social media break after he labelled a journalist a c--- for publishing Craig Kelly’s phone number.
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The Guardian • Patrick Lenton • September 1, 2021 • theguardian.com
My radical love experiment shows there is light at the end of pandemic dating – and it isn’t a laptop screen
As I slid into her DMs, I entered the dystopian nightmare of romance across hard borders. But love can grow in the most infertile and unlikely soils
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Calla Wahlquist@callapilla
This is disgustingly sweet, ⁦@PatrickLenton⁩. But as someone who also fell in love during lockdown, mainly because the pandemic scuppered my usual strategy of running away and dating someone else when things get scary, I agree. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
September 1, 2021
thepulse.org.au • September 1, 2021 • thepulse.org.au
Westmead Hospital toxicologist warns: “Don’t rely on online sham cures for COVID-19”
Ivermectin is a generic anti-parasitic medication that has not been proven to treat COVID-19. Have you heard about the drug that’s 100 per cent effective against COVID? That one that you’re not all…
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Western Sydney Health@WestSydHealth
A COVID-positive person is recovering at home after presenting to Westmead Hospital’s ED with vomiting and diarrhoea recently – not due to COVID but from an overdose of the drug ivermectin and other supposed COVID “cures” they ordered online.
thepulse.org.au/2021/09/01/wes…
September 1, 2021
The Guardian • Paul Karp • August 31, 2021 • theguardian.com
Coalition MPs want more school chaplains to help children suffering mentally due to ‘alarmist’ climate activism
MPs ask Scott Morrison to fund chaplains in every school, saying global warming alarmism is causing ‘mental health problems’ in young
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Mark Humphries@markhumphries
My next @abc730 sketch will just be me reading this story out verbatim. twitter.com/Paul_Karp/stat…
August 31, 2021
The Guardian • Calla Wahlquist • September 1, 2021 • theguardian.com
Pat Dodson condemns ‘rogue’ Christian groups spreading anti-vax propaganda in remote WA
Senator calls on religious leaders of all faiths to help stamp out ‘evil’ actions fuelling vaccine hesitancy in the Kimberley
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The Guardian • Amanda Meade • September 1, 2021 • theguardian.com
Calls for Warren Mundine to leave SBS board after abusing journalist on Twitter
Labor says government should consider removing Mundine for using an obscenity during conflict over publication of Craig Kelly’s phone number
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The Guardian • Adam Morton • August 31, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian greenhouse emissions down 5% in a year of Covid, but rebound expected
Angus Taylor says Australia on track to meet Paris agreement climate commitments but analysts say data largely reflects impact of pandemic
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Adam Morton@adamlmorton
Fun fact: if you exclude changes in land-clearing + forest destruction (neither driven by federal policy) the cut in Australia's greenhouse gas emissions since 2005 across electricity, industry, mining, transport, agriculture and waste is less than 3%.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
September 1, 2021
The Age • Broede Carmody, Michaela Whitbourn, Nick Bonyhady • September 1, 2021 • smh.com.au
As it happened: NSW records 1116 new local COVID-19 cases, four deaths; Daniel Andrews details roadmap out of lockdown as Victoria records 120 new ca…
Victoria plans a modest easing of coronavirus restrictions, the Prime Minister says he’s secured another 500,000 Pfizer vaccines and US President Joe Biden labels the Afghanistan evacuation a success.
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Sumeyya Ilanbey@sumeyyailanbey
Presser around midday. Ban on playgrounds set to be overturned and 5 kilometre travel limit to be eased but curfew remains in place. theage.com.au/national/austr…
September 1, 2021
The New Daily • Josh Butler • September 1, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Scores of arrests, fines as anti-lockdown rallies shut down Qld parliament
Anti-lockdown and anti-vaxxer protesters swarmed the nation on Tuesday, with police issuing hundreds of fines and arresting more than 150 people.
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Josh Butler@JoshButler
Don’t think we should underestimate what impact this growing anti-lockdown crowd could have on politics or the next election. Thousands of people swarmed government buildings nationwide yesterday, with huge silent crowds even at relatively smaller cities thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/…
September 1, 2021
The Age • The Age's View • September 1, 2021 • theage.com.au
Victoria can’t go on like this
The point has been reached where the damage caused by the harshest and longest lockdowns in the country needs to be more seriously factored in.
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The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • September 1, 2021 • theguardian.com
Real-life Man From Snowy River was Aboriginal, new book argues
Anthony Sharwood, author of The Brumby Wars, says all the stockmen were Indigenous where the legendary ride is thought to have happened
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ArtsHub News & Jobs - The Home of the Australian Arts Industry • Giselle Bueti • September 1, 2021 • artshub.com.au
Stranded art workers call on government help | ArtsHub Australia
Stranded in NSW with no work and no way to get home, arts workers plead for the VIC and SA Governments to take urgent action.
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Caroline Overington@overingtonc
This is mind-boggling
Actors who came to Sydney for Hamilton and other shows now can’t leave. They’ve been here for weeks - unemployed, How can it be legal to prevent people from returning to their own homes ?! What even is this country anymore?
artshub.com.au/2021/09/01/str…
September 1, 2021
The Age • Chip Le Grand • September 1, 2021 • theage.com.au
Reality bites as Victoria’s doughnut dreams turn to fantasy
The state government’s zero-case obsession has been consigned to the epidemiological dustbin.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
"Victoria has joined NSW in accepting we cannot protect life by keeping it on hold forever." By @Melbchief here:
theage.com.au/national/victo…
September 1, 2021
Australian Financial Review • Joe Aston • September 1, 2021 • afr.com
Gerry Harvey is everything that’s wrong with JobKeeper
Gerry would prefer not to talk about JobKeeper. He has that much in common with Josh Frydenberg.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • September 1, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia’s Covid reopening: are our leaders really at war and can they reach consensus?
As a ‘Covid-normal’ Christmas looms as a potential milestone, Scott Morrison workshops some fusion language with the premiers
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
If you are struggling to keep up with the slugfest in the federation about reopening: let me walk you through it. Here’s an explainer 👇 #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
September 1, 2021
ABC News • Mridula Amin • September 1, 2021 • abc.net.au
NSW has reached 100 Delta deaths — here are some of their stories
Australia's most populous state has reached a grim COVID-19 milestone — here are the stories behind some of those who have died during the Delta outbreak.
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The Guardian • Emma Kemp • September 1, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia’s Olympians got a $20,000 bonus for a gold medal, our Paralympians get nothing
The stark disparity of the money awarded to able-bodied Olympians has been highlighted during the Tokyo Games
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The West Australian • The West Australian, Jenna Clarke • September 1, 2021 • thewest.com.au
‘They won’t let me in’: McGuire denied entry to WA for grand final
Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has been denied entry to WA for the Perth-based AFL grand final - along with his two sons.
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