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The Age • Sumeyya Ilanbey, Melissa Cunningham • September 26, 2021 • theage.com.au
How coronavirus closed in on the City of Hume
Melbourne’s north has borne the brunt of the latest outbreak, and frustration now runs deep within this community that witnessed a slow-moving train wreck, as risk factors compounded and then crippled the region.
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Ben Schneiders@benschneiders
This is some more excellent and important reporting looking at inequality, disadvantage and the unequal spread of the pandemic. Feature today by @sumeyyailanbey and @MeljCunningham theage.com.au/national/victo…
September 26, 2021
Australian Financial Review • Hans van Leeuwen • September 24, 2021 • afr.com
In vaccinated Britain, all my friends are getting COVID-19
Having your population double-vaxxed to the max doesn’t stop the virus from being rife, it just stops people worrying about it.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter FitzSimons • September 26, 2021 • smh.com.au
Simon Holmes a Court is sitting on a $1.4 million election war chest, here’s how it will be spent
He’s co-founded an initiative to back candidates who will change the political agenda.
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The Guardian • Isabelle Oderberg • September 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Just a miscarriage’: has anything improved in NSW since Jana Horska’s shocking experience in 2007?
More than a decade after a parliamentary inquiry promised to overhaul the management of early pregnancy complications, underfunding, understaffing and insensitivity continue to fail women in their darkest hour
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Isy Imutetrolls Oderberg@yodaberg
I’ve been working on this story for some time. Thank you to all the people who spoke to me for it. It’s a really important read. Please share widely! theguardian.com/society/2021/s…
September 26, 2021
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • September 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘I haven’t even begun to fight’: Matt Canavan to defy Nationals party room if majority back net zero
Senator ‘deadset’ against 2050 pledge as his Victorian colleague Darren Chester, who supports target, announces break from Nationals
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • September 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison will return home to a fight on two fronts – and one could prove ruinous
Replacing Christian Porter is just the start of the PM’s problems, as climate jostling in the National party over net zero threatens to spill into all-out warfare
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The Guardian • Josh Taylor • September 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
Anti-vaccine flyers banned from being posted by some Australian mailing services
Industry body updates code to stop delivery of misinformation, such as flyers sent by United Australia party
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The Guardian • Anne Davies • September 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
NSW frontline medical staff gagged as health system braces for Covid peak
NSW Health and hospital codes of conduct restrict staff from speaking to media, leading to scarce insight into their experiences
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Australian Financial Review • Tom Burton • September 26, 2021 • afr.com
Vaccines capped NSW’s hospitalisations. It’s Victoria’s turn next
The smaller and sooner-than-expected peak in severe COVID-19 infections in NSW should be replicated in Victoria as a result of the vaccines, health experts say.
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Josh Butler@JoshButler
Before the latest silly “NsW iS hIdInG cAsEs” Twitter talk takes hold again, worth reading this:
Why are NSW’s hospitalisations slowing?
“That’s almost entirely due to the vaccine rollout,” Melbourne University biostatistics professor James McCaw said.” afr.com/policy/health-…
September 26, 2021
ABC News • Bridget Brennan • September 26, 2021 • abc.net.au
Dennis has worked since he was 10, he's fighting for a fair go to get the pension
Indigenous men and women do not live as long as non-Indigenous Australians, and many will die before they finish working. That is why Uncle Dennis is taking on the fight to get earlier access to the age pension.
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Bridget Brennan@bridgeyb
"Now I just want to enjoy life to the fullest. I want all the elders to enjoy life, a peaceful life."This is Dennis' story. A tremendous person, I feel privileged to share this one.
Den is also on at 7pm tonight on the telly. abc.net.au/news/2021-09-2…
September 26, 2021
ABC News • September 25, 2021 • abc.net.au
Hobart wakes to low-elevation snow after icy overnight showers
Elevated areas of Tasmania were blanketed in snow overnight, but snowfalls in central Hobart that had been hoped for did not come to pass.
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ABC Hobart@abchobart
How awesome is this?! These highland cows are loving the snow! 🐮❄️😍
These were the conditions at Tarraleah in Tasmania's Central Highlands yesterday.
🎥: Katy Morgan. MORE ON THE TASSIE WEATHER: ab.co/3kHe7ek
September 26, 2021
The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • September 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
Keen spirit: Australian cyclist uses GPS to recreate Nirvana’s Nevermind cover
Enthusiast marks album’s 30th anniversary with 150km ride around Adelaide using Strava to sketch naked baby
Pearls and Irritations • Mike Scrafton • September 26, 2021 • johnmenadue.com
Distracted by the submarine bauble, Labor and the media miss the point
Australia is about to become home to American bases, and potentially a nuclear target, and this seems to have escaped the attention of the Opposition and the media. The plan is “to bring rotations of US fighters and bombers to northern Australia” and potentially “acquire more rotational basing for its submarines in Perth, Western Australia”. Continue reading »
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
It’s not just nuclear subs. It’s Australia as a nuclear target. Some sobering truths here, not least for the ALP. johnmenadue.com/distracted-by-…
September 26, 2021
ABC News • September 26, 2021 • abc.net.au
Second Melbourne anti-lockdown protester tests positive to COVID-19
The Geelong man in his 30s tested positive earlier in the week, COVID commander Jeroen Weimar says, and may have been infectious while at the protest.
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Pearls and Irritations • Vacy Vlazna • September 26, 2021 • johnmenadue.com
Review: The shock, horror and rage of Mark Willacy's Rogue Forces
Respected journalist Mark Willacy’s Rogue Forces is imperative reading for its detonating exposé of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan and the systematic cover-ups at varying levels of the Australian Defence Force operations. Willacy’s window on war crimes is narrow, focusing on three Special Air Service (SAS) members of Squadron 3; Soldier A, Soldier B and Soldier C who are accused Continue reading »
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Mark Willacy@markwillacy
"The ultimate merit of ROGUE FORCES is Willacy’s going beyond the crimes to explore complicity in the code of silence and its high personal cost to decent soldiers." A review of my book... johnmenadue.com/review-the-sho…
September 26, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Rachel Clun • September 26, 2021 • smh.com.au
Prime Minister challenges state leaders to reopen before Christmas
But Queensland does not want to ‘give in’, its deputy Premier said on Sunday.
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • September 24, 2021 • crikey.com.au
Real Rukshan: the live streamer who took Melbourne’s protest to the world stage
The wedding photographer-turned-journalist has become the unlikely hero of Melbourne's anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown protests.
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CAMWILSON@cameronwilson
NEW: Who is the Real Rukshan? His livestreams of the protests have been viewed by millions of people.
His fans his streams are unfiltered "truth" — but the Trump loving wedding photographer has a track record of making misleading and one-sided content.
crikey.com.au/2021/09/24/rea…
September 24, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • September 26, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Deadset against’: Morrison confirms talks under way on net zero amid pushback from Nationals
Scott Morrison has confirmed he is developing a plan to achieve net zero emissions but the Prime Minister still faces considerable pushback from some Nationals MPs with one saying he is “deadset” against the move.
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The Guardian • Else Kennedy • September 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
Is there a link between motor neurone disease and blue-green algae? NSW expert calls for closer look
A neurology professor wants MND to be listed as a notifiable disease to help investigate suspected environmental links
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Inside Story • Peter Browne • September 25, 2021 • insidestory.org.au
The many selves of Gillian Mears • Drusilla Modjeska
A new biography captures the enigmatic Australian writer
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