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ABC News • Laura Tingle • July 11, 2021 • abc.net.au
Days before Scott Morrison announced earlier Pfizer vaccine supplies, Kevin Rudd met with the Pfizer chairman
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd contacted Pfizer chairman and chief executive Albert Bourla directly at the end of June to see if anything could be done to expedite the delivery of vaccines to Australia.
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The Guardian • Amy Remeikis • July 9, 2021 • theguardian.com
From the front to the back of the queue: how Australia’s vaccine rollout unravelled
Morrison government’s vaunted vaccination targets dropped amid Pfizer delays and AstraZeneca rare blood clot risk in favour of allocation ‘horizons’
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Nick Evershed • July 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Stuffed’: how Australia’s ‘unconscionable’ gamble on Covid vaccines backfired
The prime minister jumped the gun in November 2020 when he declared ‘we can look forward to a much better 2021’
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
I spoke with former @pfizer global president John LaMattina, who described Australia's small and belated first order of 10m doses as "unconscionable", given what was known at the time about efficacy and safety. Our allies had made huge orders of the vaccine four months earlier twitter.com/knausc/status/…
July 10, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker, Natassia Chrysanthos • July 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
Year 12 students at St Joseph’s College given Pfizer vaccination
While older Australians wait for their jabs, NSW Health arranged for Pfizer jabs for 160 year 12 students at St Joseph’s College in Hunters Hill.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Samantha Hutchinson • July 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
A Bigger Picture on Turnbull memoir superspreaders
A long-running investigation into the leaking of Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir has netted thousands in settlement payments and drawn in top ranking Coalition leaders in a “family tree” revealing who received the manuscript and forwarded it on.
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ABC News • Annabel Crabb • July 9, 2021 • abc.net.au
One of Australia's most experienced legislators alleges she was sexually assaulted at Old Parliament House
Kate Sullivan, the second-longest-serving woman in federal parliamentary history, says she was sexually assaulted at Old Parliament House while the Senate was in session.
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Annabel Crabb@annabelcrabb
Inspired by Brittany Higgins, one of Australian parliament's longest-serving women comes forward with sexual assault allegation abc.net.au/news/2021-07-0…
July 9, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Nick Evershed, Rafqa Touma, Natasha May • July 9, 2021 • theguardian.com
Coalition’s proposed anti-corruption commission would have no power to investigate recent controversies
Guardian analysis finds body lacks power and threshold too high to begin investigations, meaning car parks and sports rorts, and questions about expense claims would avoid scrutiny
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • July 7, 2021 • theguardian.com
Nationals’ top NSW Senate pick was subject of apprehended domestic violence order application
Ross Cadell, who was endorsed for guaranteed Senate spot despite senior figures being aware of the 2014 AVO application, denies any wrongdoing and confirmed the application was withdrawn
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ABC News • Ahmed Yussuf, Max Walden • July 8, 2021 • abc.net.au
Victoria is the only state in Australia to be collecting ethnicity data as part of the vaccination rollout
Experts say collecting data about diverse communities is key to fighting COVID-19 and a successful vaccination rollout, but Australia's strategy for doing so is patchy.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Chris Uhlmann • July 7, 2021 • smh.com.au
The lie at the heart of Australia’s de facto COVID-19 strategy is about to be exposed
The problem with the nation’s default elimination strategy is that the disease cannot be eliminated.
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Chris Uhlmann@CUhlmann
The inconvenient truth is that one day our international border will be reopened and disease will circulate here. Some people will catch it and some people will die. We should protect as many as we can but we can’t hide forever. smh.com.au/national/the-g…
July 7, 2021
The Guardian • Amy Remeikis, Daniel Hurst • July 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
General confusion: who is John Frewen, and what is his role in Australia’s vaccine rollout?
An increasingly public role for the Lt Gen as the face, and uniform, of the beleaguered program begs the question: why call in the military?
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The Australian • BEN PACKHAM • July 5, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
Hundreds of Afghan angels left for dead
Hundreds of Afghans linked to Australian-funded hearts and minds projects will be left vulnerable to advancing Taliban forces after being denied access to a special visa program for those who supported Australias two-decade presence in the country.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • July 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
Women swing against the Coalition since the 2019 election
Women have swung against the Coalition, cutting the government’s primary vote from 41 to 37 per cent among female voters since the last election.
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NZ Herald • David Fisher • July 9, 2021 • nzherald.co.nz
Exclusive: Emails show how 'taking the trash out' broadcast on Australian news was set up
Emails show Channel 9 fed names of Kiwi deportees by Australian Border Force.
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Stephen Dziedzic@stephendziedzic
NZ Herald has obtained emails between Border Force + Channel 9 journo who harassed NZ deportees on the tarmac for the "taking the trash out" Dutton story. ABF provided full names of those filmed to Ch 9, but they were excised from FOI for privacy reasons nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/ex…
July 9, 2021
The Guardian • Josephine Tovey • July 8, 2021 • theguardian.com
Young Australians don’t need a Covid ‘wake-up call’. We need to be vaccinated
The dangerous complacency that threatens Australia is coming from politicians who have bungled the vaccine rollout
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • July 8, 2021 • theguardian.com
Call for Nationals to reinvestigate sexual harassment allegation against Barnaby Joyce
Revelation concerning figure who oversaw initial inquiry means new probe is needed, says friend of Joyce’s accuser
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • July 5, 2021 • theguardian.com
US urges Australia to adopt ‘more ambitious climate goals’ as pressure mounts on Morrison to act
Top US diplomat in Canberra says US and Australia have a shared obligation to protect the planet
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The Guardian • Anne Davies, Naaman Zhou • July 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘An error’: health department says Sydney private school students given Pfizer vaccine by mistake
NSW Health agreed to vaccinate Indigenous boarders at St Joseph’s College but ‘through an error’ all year 12 boarders were inoculated
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The Guardian • Lorena Allam • July 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
No more welcome to country for Rio Tinto, Indigenous owners say
Eastern Guruma people refuse to meet with miner for at least three months in protest over dumping of sacred site artefacts
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Laura Murphy-Oates@lauramoates
Aboriginal traditional owners have told mining giant Rio Tinto they will no longer do “welcome to country” for events & are refusing to meet with the company until it demonstrates it is “serious” about modernising agreements with them, via Lorena Allam
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
July 6, 2021
The Guardian • Paul Karp • July 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Ludicrous’: Coalition paid $115,000 a space for car park in Melbourne
Industry body chief says no ‘logical reason’ Berwick commuter car park should cost nearly three times the benchmark price
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