Monday, September 6, 2021 to Sunday, September 12, 2021 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Sydney Morning Herald • Rachel Clun • September 8, 2021 • smh.com.au
‘Millions of doses’: Pfizer approached Australia first for vaccine deal
Documents obtained under freedom-of-information laws show the Health Minister did not take up Pfizer’s invitation for a first meeting.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Zoe Samios, Rob Harris • September 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
Murdoch newspapers, TV to champion net zero emissions
News Corp’s local outlets are set to begin a company-wide campaign promoting the benefits of a carbon-neutral economy.
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news.com.au • Ellen Ransley • September 8, 2021 • news.com.au
Emails between Pfizer and Australia released
Newly released emails between Pfizer and the federal government have been made public under freedom of information.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Pfizer Australia: Emails with Greg Hunt’s office revealed news.com.au/lifestyle/heal… via @newscomauHQ
September 8, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • September 9, 2021 • smh.com.au
Are we really ‘all in this together’, Prime Minister?
When unveiling JobKeeper last year Scott Morrison said it was only fair that everyone got the same level of support, but it has not turned out that way.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • September 6, 2021 • news.com.au
ScoMo’s Father’s Day dash to Sydney
Scott Morrison secured a travel exemption to return to Sydney for Father’s Day over the weekend despite prohibitions that require anyone visiting Sydney to isolate on return to Canberra for 14 days.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
In a Father’s Day social media posts on Sunday, the Prime Minister did not refer to his trip to Sydney to spend time with his family.
In the caption on an Instagram post he said: “this photo was taken of our family together earlier this year.” news.com.au/travel/travel-…
September 6, 2021
The Age • David Crowe • September 10, 2021 • smh.com.au
PM’s culture of creeping secrecy: how a flight to Sydney confirmed his aversion to disclosure
Scott Morrison’s trip to Sydney for Father’s Day was not the problem. The reluctance to disclose it reflects a bigger concern.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Whether the government is spending $88 billion on JobKeeper or negotiating vaccine deals with Pfizer, it recoils from scrutiny.
It behaves as if disclosure is an outrage, when the secrecy is the scandal.
Column:
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
September 10, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • September 6, 2021 • smh.com.au
Morrison back in Canberra after crossing border to visit Sydney
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has returned to Canberra from a brief visit to his family in Sydney after gaining an exemption from health authorities to cross the border.
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James Massola@jamesmassola
Millions of Australians haven’t seen family interstate or overseas for months or years. The PM’s Canberra-Sydney jaunt to see his might be within the rules but it will - like Hawaii & UK side-trip - infuriate people who hate different rules 4 politicians smh.com.au/politics/feder…
September 7, 2021
Sky • Sam Coates • September 8, 2021 • news.sky.com
Exclusive: Ministers bowed to pressure to drop key climate commitments for UK trade deal with Australia
Ministers agreed to bow to pressure from Australia to drop binding commitments to the Paris climate change agreement from the UK-Australian trade deal, a leaked government email obtained by Sky News has revealed.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • September 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
Platitudes and sentiment at women’s safety summit won’t cut it: when will PM learn?
Scott Morrison has tried to reset himself as a listener. But his keynote address to a summit on women’s safety has left some underwhelmed and others furious
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Morrison seemed to grasp that a number of women were still angry. But the PM seemed to think the solution to the tempest was he should be forgiven. A column on the #WomensSafetySummit #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…
September 6, 2021
The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • September 8, 2021 • theguardian.com
Daughter’s anger as late mother hit with decade-old $1,600 welfare bill, but jobkeeper companies keep cash
Exclusive: The debt issued to Tarnya Widdicombe’s mother was later wiped and blamed on a ‘mistake’ after inquiries from Guardian Australia
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
I've covered a lot of Centrelink debts in my time but this was one of the more baffling and enraging
theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol
September 8, 2021
The Guardian • Ben Doherty • September 6, 2021 • theguardian.com
As the Taliban overran Afghanistan, Australia told asylum seekers they should expect to return
For some Afghans, the trauma of watching their homeland descend into civil war has been compounded by the fact they might have to go back
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The Guardian • Paul Daley • September 11, 2021 • theguardian.com
Declassified documents show Australia assisted CIA in coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende
Former Liberal PM Billy McMahon approved spy agency request to conduct covert operations in Chile, a move later overturned by Gough Whitlam
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Patrick Keneally@patrickkeneally
What a shameful episode in Australia’s history theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
September 11, 2021
RenewEconomy • Ketan Joshi • September 6, 2021 • reneweconomy.com.au
News Corp hasn’t seen the light on climate – they’re just updating their tactics
Is News Corp really seeing the light on climate? More likely it’s pivoting to a modern style of greenwashing and delay, just like Morrison.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • September 7, 2021 • news.com.au
ICU nurses warn Berejiklian about staffing levels
Hundreds of ICU nurses across NSW have signed an open letter to Premier Gladys Berejiklian warning the hospital system is “in crisis” and demanding the standard ratio of one nurse to each patient in ICU be guaranteed.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • September 7, 2021 • theguardian.com
Grace Tame calls Morrison government’s pick as human rights commissioner a ‘grave mistake’
The Australian of the Year criticises the appointment of Lorraine Finlay, who has expressed concern about affirmative consent laws
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Grace Tame@TamePunk
‘Senior figures [within the commission itself] have expressed unease that Finlay was appointed by the Coalition without the position first being advertised, and that could jeopardise the AHRC’s “A status” with the United Nations.’
Blatant abuse of power:
theguardian.com/australia-news…
September 8, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • David Berger • September 7, 2021 • smh.com.au
Underlying health conditions? That’s almost all of us
We are being indoctrinated into believing that the increasing COVID-19 death toll is confined to the infirm. It’s a cynical fiction, and a dangerous one.
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ABC News • Nassim Khadem • September 10, 2021 • abc.net.au
How a company controlled by one of Singapore's richest families legally pocketed JobKeeper
A private company controlled by one of Singapore's richest families — construction machinery and equipment supplier Tutt Bryant — legally pocketed $5.4 million of JobKeeper while it increased its revenue and profits.
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ABC News • Laura Tingle • September 11, 2021 • abc.net.au
Berejiklian steamrolled the national plan. Now we all need her state to succeed
Did you hear something snap this week? It was the sound of the last vestiges of any national policy coherence being tossed aside, writes Laura Tingle.
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@abcnews • September 11, 2021 • abc.net.au
'Huge failure for Labor on diversity': Anne Aly slams own party over Kristina Keneally lower house move
There's substantial anger among members of the Labor Party in Western Sydney that former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally is being parachuted into a very safe seat, pushing aside a promising local candidate in the process.
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Jamie Travers@JamieTravers
"Multiculturalism can't just be a trope that Labor pulls out and parades, while wearing a sari and eating some kung pao chicken to make ourselves look good."
The first Muslim woman elected to Parliament, Labor MP Anne Aly, slams the situation in Fowler.
abc.net.au/radio/newsradi…
September 11, 2021
ABC News • Laura Tingle, James Elton • September 6, 2021 • abc.net.au
NSW got 45 per cent of the Pfizer vaccines allocated to GPs last month, data shows
An analysis of publicly available data raises more questions about the way COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed in Australia since the rollout started to ramp up in the middle of the year.
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