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The Saturday Paper • September 4, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: Covid-19 hospitalisations three times higher than reported
Victoria and NSW are at a crisis point, with Covid-19 hospitalisations being underreported and cascading impacts on ambulance services and medical staffing.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
Rate of hospitalisations from the Delta outbreak in NSW is 3x what has been reported. Hospital system is pushed to the brink. 80 per cent of staffed ICU beds occupied in NSW. In Victoria, it is 91 per cent. Ambulance service cannot keep up with demand. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
September 4, 2021
The Age • Farrah Tomazin, Aisha Dow, Melissa Cunningham • September 4, 2021 • theage.com.au
System overload: Why Victoria’s health network is on its knees
Even with limited COVID-19 cases, almost every aspect of the system is already deteriorating: ambulance responses, mental health, urgent treatment. What’s going on?
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Leigh Sales@leighsales
Excellent deep dive from @theage on the state of Australia’s hospitals - under-resourced & deeply stretched before covid and under increasing pressure now in every state.
theage.com.au/national/victo…
September 4, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • September 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
Political posturing has turned Australia’s Covid plan into an idiotic parable of the premiers
In the parable of good and bad premiers, lockdowns must end as soon as we hit 70% vaccination because the Doherty modelling says so. That’s bollocks
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Herald Sun • John Dagge • September 3, 2021 • heraldsun.com.au
Luxury giant Louis Vuitton collected $6m in JobKeeper as profit surged
Luxury fashion giant Louis Vuitton picked up $6m in JobKeeper while almost doubling its profit as it rolled out pandemic products including a $3600 pair of dumbbells for home workouts.
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Andrew Leigh@ALeighMP
Four facts about Louis Vuitton:
* They sell a face shield costing $1350
* Their profits just doubled
* Their CEO is one of the world's richest people
* They got $6 million in JobKeeper
That's your taxes at work, thanks to the Morrison Government
heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/… #auspol
September 4, 2021
ABC News • Laura Tingle • September 4, 2021 • abc.net.au
Christmas puts the pressure on Morrison
Perhaps there has never before been so much information that doesn't really help anyone thrown around with such gay abandon by our political leaders. Let's reduce it to a few different timelines to see if that helps, writes Laura Tingle.
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The Guardian • Paul Daley • September 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
Covid, Twitter, and Dan Murphy’s opening hours: Peter Doherty on his not-so-restful retirement
He has the most evoked name in Australia thanks to the Covid-19 modelling that bears it. He talks politics, books, misinformation, and that tweet
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter Hartcher • September 4, 2021 • smh.com.au
The pandemic lays bare our confederacy of dunces
Political opportunism is clouding the hard truth: we need to open up, but higher vaccination rates alone will not be enough to allow it; some measure of social and population control will be required for a long time, possibly years.
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ABC News • Casey Briggs, Maani Truu • September 4, 2021 • abc.net.au
Indigenous vaccination rates are well behind the overall average in most parts of Australia, but one region is bucking the trend
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were included in the priority groups for a COVID-19 vaccine, but new data shows the vaccination rate for Indigenous Australians is 20 per cent behind the national average.
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casey briggs@CaseyBriggs
My latest for @abcnews: a look at the huge gap between Indigenous vaccination coverage and the national average.
Nationally, the is about 20 percentage points.
In some places, it's much worse.
abc.net.au/news/2021-09-0…
September 4, 2021
The Guardian • Michael McGowan, Elias Visontay • September 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
Covid vaccines earmarked for NSW prison inmates diverted to HSC students
Exclusive: the Parklea jail cluster is nearing 100 cases and prisoners have had access to phone calls suspended
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Michael McGowan@mmcgowan
Vaccines earmarked for New South Wales prisoners were redirected to HSC students in Sydney despite inmates, who were meant to be prioritised under the rollout, making persistent requests to be vaccinated. w/ ⁦@EliasVisontay⁩ theguardian.com/australia-news…
September 4, 2021
The Guardian • Melissa Davey • September 3, 2021 • theguardian.com
AstraZeneca vaccine: if I get my second dose sooner, how protected will I be against Covid?
We ask Australian health experts about the implications, if any, of getting fully vaccinated earlier
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Ellen Leabeater@EllenLeabeater
Have been asking this question all week @MelissaLDavey with the answer! theguardian.com/australia-news…
September 4, 2021
The Saturday Paper • Hannah Ryan • September 4, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
What can the world teach us about opening up with Covid-19?
As the federal government pushes towards reopening on the back of high vaccination numbers, the nation can learn its biggest lessons from other countries that have exited harsh lockdowns in a bid to establish Covid normal.
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Hannah Ryan@HannahD15
The silver lining to falling behind in the vaccination race is that we can see what's happened in places that are ahead of us. For @SatPaper, I looked at how opening up is working overseas. What I found was a little scary, but it also gave me some hope. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
September 4, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Shane Wright • September 3, 2021 • smh.com.au
Louis Vuitton puts $6 million of JobKeeper in its handbag
The luxury brand received $6 million in JobKeeper while recording a lift in sales, profits and dividends.
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Michael Pascoe@MichaelPascoe01
Yet another Frydenberg success smh.com.au/politics/feder…
September 4, 2021
The Canberra Times • Karen Barlow • September 4, 2021 • canberratimes.com.au
'I was scared': Katy Gallagher opens up on family's COVID-19 battle
The family of Labor frontbencher Katy Gallagher is surviving a "traumatic" experience in Covid quarantine.
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Karen Barlow@KJBar
Senator Katy Gallagher and her family are coming out the other side of a traumatic battle with COVID-19. Both her daughter and partner got the virus and she was running a home hospital. She tells @CanberraTimes we all need to be more prepared #covid19aus canberratimes.com.au/story/7415841/
September 4, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker • September 4, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Sleight of hand’: Public schools get $3.5b less than original Gonski plan intended
A change to the way states could calculate their Gonski targets means NSW public schools are getting $600m less this year than under the original plan.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick Galvin • September 4, 2021 • smh.com.au
Rebel with a million-dollar cause: Wilson donates $1m to theatre that gave her a start
Hollywood star Rebel Wilson will have a new theatre named after her in Sydney’s Walsh Bay after a game-changing act of generosity.
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The Guardian • Royce Kurmelovs • September 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
WWF Australia admitted Tasmanian salmon farms ‘not sustainable’, campaigner says
Geoff Cousins says head of WWF made the comments privately, despite the organisation having certified a major operator in the past
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The Guardian • Melissa Davey • September 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
Covid treatment improving as doctors learn to fight the disease and access new drugs
Coronavirus patients with high-risk comorbidities are being given a newly approved antibody drug which limits the virus’s ability to replicate in the body
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The Canberra Times • Dan Jervis-Bardy • September 4, 2021 • canberratimes.com.au
Andrew Barr and the spotlight of the pandemic press conference
What have we learnt about a politician hailed as a highly intelligent, progressive powerhouse by his supporters, and considered by his detractors as stubborn, arrogant and out-of-touch with average people?
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ABC News • September 3, 2021 • abc.net.au
WA cracks down on truckies entering from high-risk states
Truck drivers will have to test negative to COVID-19 before entering Western Australia from high or extreme-risk states. Premier Mark McGowan has also suggested a deadline could be set for reopening the border when more than 80 per cent of the population is vaccinated.
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Mary-Louise McLaws@MarylouiseMcla1
Congratulations, this is a safe way to open up. Rapid antigen tests (RATs) have been available to us for months. Should be used to screen & safeguard our boundaries/borders, venues, schools & institutions. Best RATs match PCR, take 10-15mins & cheaper.
abc.net.au/news/2021-09-0…
September 4, 2021
The Age • Farrah Tomazin, Aisha Dow • September 4, 2021 • theage.com.au
‘Stressed’ Victorian hospitals brace for COVID’s third wave
Victorian hospitals are preparing for another wave of seriously ill coronavirus patients, with staff shortages, workforce burnout and overrun emergency departments fuelling a crisis across the state’s public health system.
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