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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Delta deaths expose Australia’s great disadvantage divide
Experts say the spread of coronavirus among lower socioeconomic communities in NSW and Victoria was ‘utterly predictable’
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
New from me: Nearly 60% of people who have died during the NSW Delta wave lived in the south-western or western Sydney local health districts.
In Melbourne, about a third of Delta wave deaths have been in Hume, one of the city’s most disadvantaged LGAs. theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 12, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Bevan Shields • October 12, 2021 • smh.com.au
Prince Charles urges Scott Morrison to attend climate summit to help avoid global ‘catastrophe’
The future king said it would be a “disaster” if next month’s COP26 summit collapsed, and appeared taken aback when told Morrison still did not know whether he would go.
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Stephanie Peatling@srpeatling
Told the Prime Minister was concerned about quarantining for another two weeks upon return to Australia if he attended the COP26 summit, Charles stopped walking, looked at the interviewer and replied: “Is that what he says, is it?”
Story by @BevanShields
smh.com.au/world/europe/p…
October 12, 2021
ABC News • October 12, 2021 • abc.net.au
Are you a young, aspiring journalist?
ABC News welcomes your ideas that explore the issues young people are facing — and possible solutions — as we find a path forward from the challenges of COVID-19.
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Gavin Coote@GavinCoote
Calling all 18-30yo journalism students and recent graduates! @abcnews wants your pitches about how COVID-19 has changed the lives of young Australians. Great opportunity here abc.net.au/news/2021-10-1…
October 12, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Antoinette Lattouf • October 12, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Segregation’ and ‘apartheid’: Strange bedfellows are misusing the language of oppression
When it comes to the rhetoric around vaccines and lockdowns, something odd has happened.
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Antoinette Lattouf@antoinette_news
From me: Using words like “segregation”, “lynch mobs” and “medical apartheid” in the context of vaccines, regardless of intention, is not only inaccurate – because individuals have a choice – its also offensive to the suffering endured by actual victims.
smh.com.au/national/segre…
October 12, 2021
ABC Radio • October 12, 2021 • abc.net.au
"Stench of death" as COVID haunts PNG, just 1 per cent vaccinated
Papua New Guinea is in the depths of a new COVID crisis, with just one per cent of its people vaccinated, despite high vaccine availability. The country is struggling to overcome misinformation and deep hesitancy, some fuelled by fringe religious elements. Some believe vaccines will kill those who take them.
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The Guardian • Brigid Delaney • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘The only place like it in the world’: why the Nicholas Building is the creative heart of Melbourne
Built in 1926 by a pharmaceutical company, the heritage-listed building has since become a hub for artists – who now fear it may be under threat
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The Guardian • Paul Karp • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Coalition MPs given chance to lobby for projects set to miss out on $300m regional funding, National reveals
Anne Webster says MPs were able to push for projects that ‘don’t quite’ make the cut – prompting Labor fury
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The New Daily • Paul Bongiorno • October 12, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Paul Bongiorno: Hot air and slogans are masking government falling apart
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is giving every impression he is paralysed by the fear that his government is disintegrating.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Guardian Essential poll: most Australians want Morrison to set a higher emissions reduction target
As Liberals and Nationals consider strategy ahead of Cop26 talks, poll suggests nearly 70% of respondents support net zero by 2050
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The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • October 12, 2021 • thenewdaily.com.au
Michael Pascoe: Unrepentant, the Coalition pork barrel rolls on
Exposure will not weary them, nor shame condemn – the giant pork barrel that is the federal government’s web of grants and rorts rolls on regardless. With
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The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Tiny Victorian town could lose its only post office as operator refuses Covid vaccine
Angela Spedding says Australia Post told her she will have to close Merrigum post office if she does not book in for a jab by the end of the week
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Australian Financial Review • Jacob Greber • October 12, 2021 • afr.com
Australia needs ‘explosive’ surge of 2 million migrants
Dominic Perrottet is being urged by his top bureaucrats to seize the national leadership by pushing for a staggering boost in net migration over five years.
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Double standards’: Australia failing to protect its ecosystems while backing global diversity target
A WWF-Australia report reveals more than 1,500 of the country’s unique ecosystems are lacking protection
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • October 11, 2021 • smh.com.au
Barnaby Joyce preparing to back net zero, with conditions
The Nationals leader has cleared the way for a goal to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 in return for a better deal for regional Australia.
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The Guardian • Fiona Harvey • October 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
What is Cop26 and why does it matter? The complete guide
Everything you need to know about the Glasgow conference seeking to forge a global response to the climate emergency
The Guardian • Laura Murphy-Oates, Luke Henriques-Gomes, Joe Koning, Rafqa Touma, Karishma Luthria, Ellen Leabeater, Camilla Hannan, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jac… • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
How Australia’s vaccine rollout overlooked people with disabilities
Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to disability advocate David Belcher and inequality editor Luke Henriques-Gomes about the failures of the Australian government to protect some of its most vulnerable populations
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Katina Curtis • October 12, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘I don’t care what they call it’: Joyce will push on with regional cash splashes
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has added $100 million to a $200 million grants program that has disproportionately gone to projects in Coalition seats.
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Pearls and Irritations • Stephen Charles • October 12, 2021 • johnmenadue.com
A strong federal integrity commission requires public hearings
The Coalition parliamentarians who don’t want a federal integrity commission to hold public hearings are among the very people that should be required to answer questions from an integrity commission. NSW’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) was established by Nick Greiner as premier of New South Wales in 1988. NSW was then riddled with corruption. Continue reading »
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Brisbane Times • Cloe Read • October 11, 2021 • brisbanetimes.com.au
‘Police asked her what sort of underwear she was wearing’
Several submissions to the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce have detailed how the police response was failing female victims of violence, including one instance where police informed a victim that because she was wearing a G-string she would ‘lose her case’.”
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Sean Parnell@seanparnell
A woman was asked by Queensland police what kind of underwear she was wearing when she was sexually assaulted by her boyfriend, and was later told by officers she would “lose her case” because she had been wearing a G-string. brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queen…
October 11, 2021
The Guardian • Ketan Joshi • October 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
News Corp’s turnaround on climate crisis is a greenwash
The company won’t change until it understands the grave damage it has done with its ugly legacy of denialist reporting
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