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The Saturday Paper • September 4, 2021 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: Covid-19 hospitalisations three times higher than reported
Victoria and NSW are at a crisis point, with Covid-19 hospitalisations being underreported and cascading impacts on ambulance services and medical staffing.
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Rick Morton@SquigglyRick
Rate of hospitalisations from the Delta outbreak in NSW is 3x what has been reported. Hospital system is pushed to the brink. 80 per cent of staffed ICU beds occupied in NSW. In Victoria, it is 91 per cent. Ambulance service cannot keep up with demand. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
September 4, 2021
The Guardian • Lorena Allam • August 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Wilcannia Covid outbreak: leaked letters show federal government was warned last year of potential catastrophe
Exclusive: Scott Morrison told response by his government to the crisis in Indigenous town has been ‘substandard’, ‘chaotic’ and services are ‘vulnerable to collapse’NSW Covid restrictions; NSW hotspotsVaccine rollout tracker;Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick McKenzie, Chris Masters • August 30, 2021 • theage.com.au
As Australia’s war crimes investigations drag on, misinformation is catching up
Soldier X confessed to murder. Now, in a concerted media campaign to obscure evidence of war crimes, even testimony like his is at risk of being obscured by half-truths, lies and spin.
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Mark Willacy@markwillacy
Important piece by @Ageinvestigates about the dirty war of misinformation and media spin being waged to undermine the Brereton Inquiry, whistleblowers, war crimes witnesses and future investigations smh.com.au/national/as-au…
August 30, 2021
Herald Sun • John Dagge • September 3, 2021 • heraldsun.com.au
Luxury giant Louis Vuitton collected $6m in JobKeeper as profit surged
Luxury fashion giant Louis Vuitton picked up $6m in JobKeeper while almost doubling its profit as it rolled out pandemic products including a $3600 pair of dumbbells for home workouts.
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Andrew Leigh@ALeighMP
Four facts about Louis Vuitton:
* They sell a face shield costing $1350
* Their profits just doubled
* Their CEO is one of the world's richest people
* They got $6 million in JobKeeper
That's your taxes at work, thanks to the Morrison Government
heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/… #auspol
September 4, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Dominic Powell • August 31, 2021 • smh.com.au
Gerry Harvey mum on why he repaid JobKeeper as profits pile up
Harvey Norman founder Gerry Harvey will not reveal why his company chose to repay $6 million in JobKeeper subsidies but warns letting lockdowns drag on risks tipping the economy into a recession.
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The Age • The Age's View • September 1, 2021 • theage.com.au
Victoria can’t go on like this
The point has been reached where the damage caused by the harshest and longest lockdowns in the country needs to be more seriously factored in.
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Australian Financial Review • Peter Ker • August 30, 2021 • afr.com
Forrest reads riot act to Taliban on Afghan investments
Billionaire Andrew Forrest says he is willing to “meaningfully engage” with the Taliban on projects in Afghanistan if they outlaw all forms of modern slavery.
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Tom Rabe@Rabe9
this headline has absolutely sent me
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August 30, 2021
The Guardian • Elias Visontay • August 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Sydney ICU nurses sedating patients more to manage workload as Covid outbreak strains hospitals
Exclusive: nurses say ‘hellhole’ conditions and staff shortages are forcing them to ‘knock patients out’ with increased sedative doses as the safest way to manage patient load
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Elias Visontay@EliasVisontay
Exclusive: Overworked Sydney intensive care nurses are increasing sedative doses for some patients in order to manage their workload, claiming pressure from the Delta outbreak makes it impossible to monitor all of their patients theguardian.com/australia-news…
August 30, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick O'Malley, Miki Perkins • August 30, 2021 • smh.com.au
Australia’s biggest climate poll shows support for action in every seat
The survey of 15,000 Australians conducted by YouGov on behalf of the ACF found 67 per cent of voters believed the government should be doing more to address climate change, including a majority in all 151 national seats.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • September 4, 2021 • theguardian.com
Political posturing has turned Australia’s Covid plan into an idiotic parable of the premiers
In the parable of good and bad premiers, lockdowns must end as soon as we hit 70% vaccination because the Doherty modelling says so. That’s bollocks
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Australian Financial Review • Joe Aston • August 30, 2021 • afr.com
Josh Frydenberg’s incoherent JobKeeper logic
The Treasurer passed a law for free money under an honesty system without recourse. What did he think would happen?
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Hugh Riminton@hughriminton
Ouch! ⁦@mrjoeaston⁩ takes the boning knife to the Big Fail built into #JobKeeper afr.com/rear-window/jo…
August 30, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • A western Sydney doctor • August 30, 2021 • smh.com.au
The serious shortfalls in our COVID response give me no confidence our hospitals will cope
The government needs to stop backslapping about vaccination rates and gear up properly for COVID.
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The Guardian • Paul Karp • August 31, 2021 • theguardian.com
Coalition MPs want more school chaplains to help children suffering mentally due to ‘alarmist’ climate activism
MPs ask Scott Morrison to fund chaplains in every school, saying global warming alarmism is causing ‘mental health problems’ in young
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Mark Humphries@markhumphries
My next @abc730 sketch will just be me reading this story out verbatim. twitter.com/Paul_Karp/stat…
August 31, 2021
The Age • Aisha Dow • September 2, 2021 • theage.com.au
Thank you, Victoria, your sacrifices have not been in vain
It has not been a waste. Our collective efforts have saved many thousands of lives and those Australians still living in relative freedom in other states can thank Victorians for that.
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Aisha Dow@aishamae
My piece for the @theage today:
Thank you Victoria, for everything theage.com.au/national/victo… #CovidVic
September 2, 2021
The Age • Farrah Tomazin, Aisha Dow, Melissa Cunningham • September 4, 2021 • theage.com.au
System overload: Why Victoria’s health network is on its knees
Even with limited COVID-19 cases, almost every aspect of the system is already deteriorating: ambulance responses, mental health, urgent treatment. What’s going on?
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Leigh Sales@leighsales
Excellent deep dive from @theage on the state of Australia’s hospitals - under-resourced & deeply stretched before covid and under increasing pressure now in every state.
theage.com.au/national/victo…
September 4, 2021
thepulse.org.au • September 1, 2021 • thepulse.org.au
Westmead Hospital toxicologist warns: “Don’t rely on online sham cures for COVID-19”
Ivermectin is a generic anti-parasitic medication that has not been proven to treat COVID-19. Have you heard about the drug that’s 100 per cent effective against COVID? That one that you’re not all…
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Western Sydney Health@WestSydHealth
A COVID-positive person is recovering at home after presenting to Westmead Hospital’s ED with vomiting and diarrhoea recently – not due to COVID but from an overdose of the drug ivermectin and other supposed COVID “cures” they ordered online.
thepulse.org.au/2021/09/01/wes…
September 1, 2021
ABC News • Dan Conifer • September 1, 2021 • abc.net.au
JobKeeper went to thousands of companies whose turnover tripled at the height of the pandemic in 2020
New data reveals nearly 20,000 companies tripled their turnover yet accrued nearly $370 million in JobKeeper during the first three months of the wage subsidy program.
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Dan Conifer@DanConifer
Story from me: Hundreds of millions of dollars in JobKeeper wage subsidies went to businesses that doubled or even tripled their turnover. abc.net.au/news/2021-09-0… #auspol @ABC730 #abc730
September 2, 2021
ABC News • Leigh Sales, Kirsten Robb, Laura Francis • August 30, 2021 • abc.net.au
Lyn retired with little super and unable to pay the rent. Her story is not uncommon
Lyn Bailey lived a comfortable life before her divorce, travelling overseas and putting her four children through private school. She never expected to be staring down the barrel of homelessness.
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💥Dr💥 Julia Baird@bairdjulia
Why women in their 50s and 60s are the fastest growing cohort of the homeless. The @abc730 series on women and anger by @leighsales promises to be excellent.
abc.net.au/news/2021-08-3…
August 30, 2021
The Guardian • Josh Taylor • August 31, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian imports of ivermectin increase tenfold, prompting warning from TGA
The drug, used to deworm livestock, has been touted among rightwing media as a Covid treatment, prompting the US FDA to tweet ‘You are not a cow’
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The Guardian • Adam Morton • August 31, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australian greenhouse emissions down 5% in a year of Covid, but rebound expected
Angus Taylor says Australia on track to meet Paris agreement climate commitments but analysts say data largely reflects impact of pandemic
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Adam Morton@adamlmorton
Fun fact: if you exclude changes in land-clearing + forest destruction (neither driven by federal policy) the cut in Australia's greenhouse gas emissions since 2005 across electricity, industry, mining, transport, agriculture and waste is less than 3%.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
September 1, 2021

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