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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • August 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
Centrelink orders jobkeeper recipients to pay back $32m, while profitable businesses allowed to keep funds
Exclusive: Government accused of double standards after issuing 11,771 welfare recipients with debt notices due to Covid wage subsidy
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • August 12, 2021 • smh.com.au
Prime Minister Scott Morrison a cranky man in need of a plan
A tired and cranky prime minister allowed his temper to get the better of him. But Morrison’s aggressive streak inhibits his ability to forge consensus when the country is crying out for leadership.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • A western Sydney doctor • August 10, 2021 • smh.com.au
NSW is almost certainly on the precipice of a massive deterioration
We need leadership and we need to pay people more to stay home.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Please pray for me’: female reporter being hunted by the Taliban tells her story
A young female journalist describes the panic and fear of being forced into hiding as cities across Afghanistan fall
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Sarah Malik@sarahbmalik
"Last week I was a news journalist. Today I can’t write under my own name or say where I am from or where I am. My whole life has been obliterated in just a few days.
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August 15, 2021
ABC News • Nakari Thorpe • August 14, 2021 • abc.net.au
'No protection': Aboriginal elders fear COVID deaths in Walgett outbreak
Indigenous communities in western NSW say there are "a lot of anxious people" who fear their population’s low vaccination rates and chronic health conditions will mean COVID-19 fatalities are inevitable.
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Bridget Brennan@bridgeyb
Walgett has a four-bed hospital and next largest hospital is 3 hours away. "The government don't even look upon these small little communities, it's like we don't even matter.” abc.net.au/news/2021-08-1…
Story from @nakarithorpe
August 14, 2021
The Guardian • Amanda Meade • August 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
Sky News Australia deletes dozens of videos promoting unproven Covid treatments
Broadcaster has deleted more than 30 videos, including those featuring Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt, ahead of Senate inquiry
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The Guardian • Adam Morton • August 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Senior US climate official says Australia’s climate targets are ‘not sufficient’
Exclusive: US deputy presidential climate envoy suggests Australia should aim for a 50% cut in emissions by 2030
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ABC News • Michael Slezak, Penny Timms • August 9, 2021 • abc.net.au
One of the most comprehensive climate reports ever was released last night. Here's what you may have missed
The Earth could be just 10 years from heating by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius since industrialisation — a global warming threshold beyond which even more serious and frequent fires, droughts, floods and cyclones are expected to wreak havoc on humanity.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Nick Evershed • August 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian conspiracy theorists and anti-lockdown groups share fake Covid check-in apps
Exclusive: Spoof software likely to cause difficulties for contact tracers in the event of outbreaks
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Christopher Knaus@knausc
A fake check-in app is being used by Covid-19 conspiracy theorists and anti-lockdown groups to dupe business owners and keep location data out of the hands of contact tracers in at least three states. theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 12, 2021
ABC News • Linton Besser • August 12, 2021 • abc.net.au
'Dead white man's clothes': The dirty secret behind the world's fashion addiction
For decades, the West's unwanted fashion has made its way to used-clothing markets in Africa. Now it's fuelling an environmental catastrophe.
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The Guardian • Kate Banville • August 15, 2021 • theguardian.com
Afghans who worked with Australian forces wait for death at the hands of the Taliban
Many former interpreters whose visa applications have been held up by Australian bureaucracy are now trapped by the Taliban advance, as the RAAF mounts a last-minute evacuation effort
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Mike Ticher@mikewsc1
.@katebanville has been talking to Afghans who worked with Australian forces, and now await their fate at the hands of the Taliban. The bureaucratic hoops they have been made to jump through for even a chance of a visa have all but condemned them to death. theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 15, 2021
The Age • Ben Schneiders, Royce Millar • August 10, 2021 • smh.com.au
Steph Lentz was sacked this year for being gay. It was perfectly legal
LGBTQ people who work at religious schools can be sacked for who they are, and they fear the federal religious discrimination bill could make things worse.
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Dr Jenna Price@JennaPrice
Read this. Share it. Gay teachers at religious schools are subject to discrimination, including being sacked: and it’s all legal smh.com.au/national/steph…
August 10, 2021
The Guardian • Mostafa Rachwani • August 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
Hundreds queue for hours and some camp overnight at pop-up vaccine clinic in Sydney’s Lakemba
There’s frustration about the short supply of Pfizer but a realisation vaccination is the only way to get back to work
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Mike Ticher@mikewsc1
People in western Sydney are queuing *overnight* to get vaxxed. But there are hardly any Pfizer doses. So tell us again who is the problem in this outbreak? Story from @Rachwani91 theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 11, 2021
The Guardian • Lorena Allam, Nick Evershed • August 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
Anger as slow vaccine rollout leaves western NSW Aboriginal communities exposed to Covid
Indigenous elders fear Delta variant could take hold in the state’s far west, where vaccination rates are among the lowest in Australia
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The Guardian • Fiona Harvey • August 9, 2021 • theguardian.com
Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet
Report warns temperatures likely to rise by more than 1.5C bringing widespread extreme weather
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The Guardian • Adam Morton • August 10, 2021 • theguardian.com
Coalition’s misleading tactics will no longer cut it – the IPCC report shows our future depends on urgent climate action
The Morrison government’s ‘technology, not taxes’ mantra ignores the fact that taxes pay for technology, and affordable technology can make a difference
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Adam Morton@adamlmorton
One of the points I tried to make here that seems missing from some of the global coverage is that the IPCC report makes clear this is not binary/game over - scientists stress what happens now matters, that every fraction of a degree matters.
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August 10, 2021
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • August 13, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘I pray for her’: Australian broadcaster Cheng Lei no closer to release a year after being detained in China
Friends rally support from Canberra to Washington to ask Chinese government to show compassion to Lei who is separated from her children
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The Australian • Will Glasgow • August 11, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
How China ‘disappeared’ Aussie
Cheng Leis colleagues were horrified.
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Will Glasgow@wmdglasgow
A year ago Cheng Lei — a CGTN anchor and one of the highest profile Aussies in China — was detained by secret police in Beijing. To this day, CGTN’s official slogan, “See the difference”, is the winning entry she made in an all-staff competition theaustralian.com.au/nation/how-chi…
August 12, 2021
ABC News • Stephanie Dalzell, Gavin Coote • August 12, 2021 • abc.net.au
Out of date COVID-19 information 'should have been updated sooner', government concedes
Critical public health information targeting diverse communities at the centre of the latest COVID-19 outbreak was almost two months out of date until the ABC raised the issue. The government now conceds it took too long to fix.
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • August 12, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘I’m listening to her’: meet Scott Morrison’s favourite climate change protester
Frances, who stands near Parliament House in a Pokemon outfit with placards, says prime minister must ‘do whatever it takes’ to make a difference
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Amy Remeikis@AmyRemeikis
The protester Scott Morrison says he is "listening to" is also a member of Extinction Rebellion, @danielhurstbne reports:
theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 12, 2021

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