New from me & @Jess_Longbottom: The grief of Victoria's COVID-19 pandemic is not being shared equally
Somalis made 7% of COVID deaths outside of aged care in 2020, despite making less than 0.2% of Melbourne's pop.
One of them was Muheden Elmi.
abc.net.au/news/2021-10-1…

New from me: Thousands of people with cancer are left on $44 a day because of the way the disability support pension is designed. Campaigners say it’s time for change. theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol


This is absolutely gripping. A blow-by-blow account of a south coast town during Black Summer theguardian.com/australia-news…



"It's a humanitarian response and when it's coming from your own people you feel safe and you feel you're able to talk and ask as many questions as you want.”
Amazing work from sisters Shanaz and Naz Rind vaccinating people at their doorsteps #gippsnews abc.net.au/news/2021-10-1…

Another day, another example of why we need serious defamation reform in this country. It's not just something media companies need to be worried about, miss an apostrophe on Facebook and you could be next theguardian.com/law/2021/oct/1…

Editorial: The Nationals' $250 billion loan is not for farmers. It is not even for their own seats. It is for companies whose damage to the environment is so great that the world’s banks will no longer finance it. #Insiders #SatPaper satpa.pe/edito82e8b

New from me: “We should decide as a planet – and Australia especially – not to allow threatened species to become extinct”
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The cost of speaking truth to power. It’s not me who’s divisive, it’s the federal government. By refusing to absolutely condemn sexual misconduct & abuse of power within its own ranks, they’ve tactfully left these issues in the grey zone of permissibility.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/grace…


Targeted restoration of degraded ecosystems on less profitable ag land has enormous potential to alleviate these problems. Farmers can cont. to produce valuable crops on their prime land, while rebuilding habitat+ sequestering carbon on more marginal land theconversation.com/australia-coul…