Monday, August 16, 2021 to Sunday, August 22, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker • August 20, 2021 • smh.com.au
Wealthy people calling for a tougher lockdown got what they wanted, at no cost to them
In my part of Sydney, police drive up our streets and check on us from helicopters. The new lockdown restrictions have our neighbours feeling stigmatised and abandoned.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • August 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Horribly exposed’: ACT chief minister attacks Gladys Berejiklian’s handling of NSW Covid crisis
Exclusive: Andrew Barr says NSW premier is not just making decisions for her own state, but for Australia’s entire east coast
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James Glenday@jamesglenday
Strong words from the ACT Chief Minister, ahead of today’s national cabinet meeting. “I just see young people being horribly exposed by the decision of another government and I don’t know what I can do to protect my community against that.” theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 20, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • August 17, 2021 • smh.com.au
Australia dipped into COVAX Pfizer stockpile intended for poor nations
Australia received about 500,000 Pfizer vaccine doses out of the global COVAX facility in June – double what the entire continent of Africa received in the same month.
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • August 22, 2021 • theguardian.com
The Tampa affair, 20 years on: the ship that capsized Australia’s refugee policy
When a Norwegian freighter rescued 433 asylum seekers from a sinking vessel en route to Christmas Island, it sparked a crisis that led to hardline border policies and indelibly shifted the response to boat arrivals
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The Guardian • Catherine Bennett • August 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
It might not feel like it as cases rise, but NSW is controlling Delta
Vaccination has kept hospital numbers relatively low and virus reproduction is 1.2 to 1.4, when it could be as high as 9
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The Guardian • Mariam Veiszadeh • August 17, 2021 • theguardian.com
As an Afghan Australian, I watch in despair as the west cuts and runs
To witness Taliban perched in Kabul’s presidential palace feels very much like a western abandonment of Afghanistan on mass scale
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Mariam Veiszadeh@MariamVeiszadeh
My op ed
I find myself reflecting on the privilege lottery - how each of us had no choice over the place or circumstances of our birth and yet because of it, some of us may never have to face the harsh realities my fellow Afghans are facing today.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
August 17, 2021
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian bird of the year 2021: nominate your favourite for the #BirdOfTheYear shortlist
This year there will be a special focus on the species many of us are likely to see in lockdown
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Patrick Keneally@patrickkeneally
Because we all need something to spark joy in lockdown, we're opening the 2021 bird of the year shortlist for nominations now. Tell us what birds should be included #BirdOfTheYear theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 19, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Fenella Souter • August 20, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘A shout-out to all the step-parents out there’: Fran and Marion on 30 years of love
ABC RN Breakfast show host Fran Kelly and Marion Frith, a former speechwriter and journalist turned novelist, discuss love, luck and weathering “really friggin’ serious” moments.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’
A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women’
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst, Ben Doherty • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian government accused of being too slow to organise evacuation mission to Afghanistan
Australia sends 250 troops for rescue mission but ex-defence force chief says ‘we’ve just left it far too late’
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Daniel Hurst@danielhurstbne
Ex embassy workers anxious: "They have secure folders protecting their documents, luggage packed and ready to go and they have stocked their houses with a couple of weeks of food. They are sheltering in place, but they are shit-scared." theguardian.com/australia-news… @BenDohertyCorro
August 16, 2021
The Guardian • Naaman Zhou • August 21, 2021 • theguardian.com
Meet the man behind Tveeder, the no-frills live TV transcript that became an Australian media hero
Beloved by journalists and increasingly used by a wider public, Tveeder is still run from Franco Trimboli’s Melbourne bedroom, in his spare time, out of his own pocket
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
What it’s like as a contact tracer to tell someone they have Covid – and what happens next | Anonymous
When people learn they have coronavirus, they feel shocked and guilty, but most have been doing the right thing
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Bridie Jabour@bkjabour
What struck me in this diary of a contact tracer was how guilty people felt about contracting covid - i think that’s where our current political discourse has taken us, people feeling guilty about getting sick in a freakin’ global health pandemic theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
August 16, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Chris Uhlmann • August 18, 2021 • smh.com.au
Scott Morrison has little control over Australia’s destiny or his own
It is the premiers and chief ministers who will decide how Australia charts its course out of this crisis.
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The Australian • GREG BEARUP • August 17, 2021 • theaustralian.com.au
‘Brother, we’re ’roos in the spotlight’
Battery low, says the text message as we approach Dubbo. Am at River. You can take me to get jab and record it if you like.
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Tash Robinson@NC_Robinson
Riverbank Frank, a Dubbo Indigenous elder, rocks up to a vaccine centre but staff tell him he can't get a vaccination without making an online booking. He doesn't even have a phone. This bureaucracy needs to stop! Just give people the vaccine @gbearup
theaustralian.com.au/nation/wiradju…
August 18, 2021
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • August 19, 2021 • theguardian.com
Coalition ‘unlawfully’ blocking freedom of information requests
FoI system is ‘broken’, review finds, with agencies and ministers’ offices ‘gaming the system’
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Yep, yep, yep theguardian.com/australia-news… @knausc #auspol
August 19, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • August 19, 2021 • smh.com.au
Albanese stands to benefit from PM’s failings
The Labor leader wants to render Morrison’s government unelectable by making it look incompetent and corrupt.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • August 20, 2021 • theguardian.com
Energy company that won $21m in grants paid for Liberal party fundraiser’s trip to Beetaloo fracking site
Exclusive: Empire Energy, beneficiary of Coalition’s gas-led recovery, organised charter flight for Ryan Arrold, Angus Taylor and others
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • August 16, 2021 • news.com.au
Gladys ‘loses her sh*t’ over PM
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian “lost her sh*t” over claims that she ignored the Prime Minister’s advice to lockdown the entire state days ago according to senior colleagues.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Exclusive: Gladys Berejiklian furious at claims she ignored Scott Morrison’s lockdown advice
Gladys lost her sh*t’,” a NSW minister told ⁦@newscomauHQ⁩
“She said, ‘If they want to start backgrounding on stuff like this, maybe it’s time I started.” news.com.au/national/polit…
August 16, 2021
The Guardian • Kate Banville • August 16, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘We see silence filled with fear’: female Afghan journalists plead for help
Women in media in Kabul tell of trying to destroy traces of their identity as they brace for Taliban retribution
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kate.banville@katebanville
‘We see silence filled with fear’: female Afghan journalists plead for help |
Through a scratchy phone connection, Fereyba recalled the moment she heard that the Taliban were entering the gates of Kabul.
As my 📞 gets quieter, I am more fearful for them theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…
August 16, 2021
The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • August 18, 2021 • theguardian.com
Peter Dutton suggests some former Afghan guards and interpreters could pose security risk to Australia
Defence minister’s extraordinary attack follows Scott Morrison ruling out permanently resettling 4,200 Afghans in Australia on temporary visas
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