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The Age • David Crowe • September 10, 2021 • smh.com.au
PM’s culture of creeping secrecy: how a flight to Sydney confirmed his aversion to disclosure
Scott Morrison’s trip to Sydney for Father’s Day was not the problem. The reluctance to disclose it reflects a bigger concern.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Whether the government is spending $88 billion on JobKeeper or negotiating vaccine deals with Pfizer, it recoils from scrutiny.
It behaves as if disclosure is an outrage, when the secrecy is the scandal.
Column:
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
September 10, 2021
ABC News • Nassim Khadem • September 10, 2021 • abc.net.au
How a company controlled by one of Singapore's richest families legally pocketed JobKeeper
A private company controlled by one of Singapore's richest families — construction machinery and equipment supplier Tutt Bryant — legally pocketed $5.4 million of JobKeeper while it increased its revenue and profits.
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Australian Financial Review • Laura Tingle • September 10, 2021 • afr.com
Berejiklian rides roughshod over the Doherty plan
The NSW Premier is playing fast and loose with the meaning of the Doherty vaccination thresholds. And now she won’t be taking questions either.
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The Guardian • Lorena Allam • September 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Government has a lot to answer for’: 30% of Indigenous NSW community struck down by Covid
The remote town of Enngonia is mourning a beloved elder and the local Aboriginal medical service is stretched
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Josephine Tovey@Jo_Tovey
‘It has been just three weeks since Covid first came to the far north-west NSW community of Enngonia.
But already it has claimed the life of a beloved elder and infected 21 – or 30% – of the Indigenous population of the town.’
By Lorena Allam
theguardian.com/australia-news…
September 10, 2021
The Guardian • Amanda Meade • September 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
How the Australian and the IPA’s attack on the ABC went horribly wrong | The Weekly Beast
A report into how many times the ABC mentioned News Corp or Murdoch had some embarrassing flaws. Plus: campaign to release Myanmar fixer
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick McKenzie, Chris Masters, Anthony Galloway • September 10, 2021 • smh.com.au
How a Liberal defence minister tried to promote his staffer to a top military post
The move by former minister Kevin Andrews was quickly thwarted, but defence chiefs are concerned that upcoming appointments must be free of political taint.
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Samantha Crompvoets@SCrompvoets
This is alarming, to say the least. #auspol #warcrimes smh.com.au/politics/feder…
September 10, 2021
The Australian • YONI BASHAN • September 10, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Berejiklian bombshell a departure from reality
A bit like exercise, teeth-brushing and other necessary morning evils, the Premiers 11am press briefings have quickly become regarded as a dull but immensely important daily ritual.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
It is right and proper for these press conferences to eventually come to their natural conclusion. But Ms Berejiklian’s decision, on a day when the state recorded more than 1500 cases landed as a stunning & grossly premature turn of events theaustralian.com.au/commentary/cor…
September 10, 2021
ABC News • Stephanie Dalzell • September 10, 2021 • abc.net.au
There's a key risk factor in whether you'll die from COVID-19 — how much you earn
Poorer Australians were four times more likely to die of COVID-19 last year — and that has implications for how we should respond to the pandemic.
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Michele O'Neil@MicheleONeilAU
The hard truth of inequality. 4 times the number of people have died from COVID in low income communities than higher income ones. abc.net.au/news/2021-09-1…
September 10, 2021
The Guardian • Elias Visontay • September 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
Pregnant Sydney woman with Covid gives birth by caesarean section so she could be ventilated
The woman’s 12-weeks premature baby was then taken to a separate hospital with better neonatal care resources
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Bridie Jabour@bkjabour
There is so much in this story. Covid postitive woman had to have emergency caesarean at 28 weeks so she could be ventilated, baby had to be transferred to different hospital. Liverpool hospital turning non-Covid children away from emergency theguardian.com/australia-news…
September 10, 2021
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • September 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
Born to run: meet Skyblue Jack, the hardest working dog in two countries
The six-year-old kelpie from western Victoria ran an astonishing distance to be crowned the best sheepdog in Australia and New Zealand
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The Age • Paul Sakkal • September 9, 2021 • theage.com.au
Secret vaccine doses for NSW? Well, not exactly
NSW has been given more COVID-19 vaccines than Victoria, but claims of clandestine deals look off the mark.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • September 10, 2021 • news.com.au
‘Are you going into hiding?’: Fury at Premier
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is under fire over a shock decision to suspend daily press conferences declaring: “I will turn up when I need to”.
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The Guardian • Gabrielle Jackson, Lenore Taylor, Mike Ticher, Miles Herbert, Camilla Hannan, Karishma Luthria, Miles Martignoni • September 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
Why the Morrison government must increase transparency around jobkeeper – with Lenore Taylor
Lenore Taylor and Mike Ticher speak to Gabrielle Jackson about the need for transparency in the $89bn jobkeeper program
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Andrew Leigh@ALeighMP
If you're keen to understand the ecomics & politics of how the Morrison Government ended up giving $13 billion of your money to firms with rising revenues, this @GuardianAus podcast is an excellent overview theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol @lenoretaylor @gabriellecj @mikewsc1
September 13, 2021
The Guardian • Sarah Martin • September 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
Labor contender in blue-ribbon Liberal seat of Higgins courts voters concerned about climate
Michelle Ananda-Rajah says climate change and Covid will be front and centre in a ‘watershed election’
The Australian • Greg Brown, Richard Ferguson • September 10, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Keneally seat grab sparks union split
The parachuting of Kristina Keneally into the safe ALP seat of Fowler has split the NSW Labor Right, with the powerful Health Services Union leaving the faction on Friday.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Angus Thompson • September 9, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Smells like rent control’: Housing affordability inquiry chair rubbishes affordable housing
A Sydney Liberal MP leading the Commonwealth’s inquiry into housing affordability has equated social housing with “housing commission” and criticised affordable schemes as rent fixing that drive up prices and limit supply elsewhere.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Carrie Fellner • September 10, 2021 • smh.com.au
Woman’s leg stump ‘rested on rubbish bin’ after amputation at NSW hospital
A doctor is alleged to have said ‘I’m not into amputees’ to the family after they complained about the woman’s treatment.
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7NEWS • September 10, 2021 • 7news.com.au
‘We can’t just stand by’: ALP split over Keneally move
7NEWS can reveal a major NSW union will now vote as independent in the upcoming ALP state conference, ending the right’s majority on the floor.
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Jennifer Bechwati@jenbechwati
Exclusive: Union splits from the right faction of the Labor Party in protest at Kristina Keneally nominating to run for Western Sydney seat of Fowler next federal election. Members say the candidate should be culturally diverse. Story here: 7news.com.au/politics/healt… #7NEWS #auspol
September 10, 2021
9News • Mark Jessop • September 10, 2021 • 9news.com.au
From a morning walk to unfolding terror: On the ground with John Howard on 9/11
9News Canberra bureau chief Mark Jessop relives September 11, 2001, when he was travelling with Prime Minis...
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Daily Telegraph • Linda Silmalis and Clare Armstrong • September 10, 2021 • dailytelegraph.com.au
Union revolt over ‘lazy’ Labor deal to install Keneally
A backroom deal allowing Senator Kristina Keneally a shot at the safe Western Sydney Labor seat of Fowler at the expense of a local Vietnamese-Australian candidate is set to cost the powerful Right faction the support of one of its biggest union backers.
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