January 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Guardian • Sarah Martin, Ben Doherty • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
PM accused of ‘outright lie’ after claiming detainees in Melbourne hotel are not refugees
The Park hotel, where Novak Djokovic was also detained, holds 25 refugees and seven asylum seekers
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Barrie Cassidy@barriecassidy
How can the PM of this country not know that most of the detainees being held in cruel conditions at the park hotel are genuine refugees? Not asylum seekers. We have totally lost our moral compass. twitter.com/GuardianAus/st…
January 17, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Doherty • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Everyone asks about Novak’ but Mehdi has languished for nine years in Australian immigration detention
Iranian was 15 when he arrived by boat in Australia seeking sanctuary. Despite formal recognition as a refugee he hasn’t been free since – he turned 24 on Friday
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • January 25, 2022 • theguardian.com
Young women like Grace Tame weren’t socialised to shut up when authority figures speak – and it feels like progress
Australians like to think of ourselves as rebels but culturally we love rules, and aren’t always kind to rule-breakers
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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • January 24, 2022 • theguardian.com
Nauru offshore regime to cost Australian taxpayers nearly $220m over next six months
Brisbane firm Canstruct International awarded eighth contract extension to provide ‘garrison and welfare services’ on the island
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The Monthly • Martin McKenzie-Murray • January 28, 2022 • themonthly.com.au
Grace notes
Grace Tame’s sexual abuse as a child, also experienced by the author, makes policing her manners misguided at best
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The Age • Paul Sakkal • January 6, 2022 • theage.com.au
Novak Djokovic threatens legal action after visa refusal leaves him stranded
Djokovic will mount a legal challenge to the last-minute rejection of his visa, after spending eight hours in detention at Melbourne Airport pleading his case to border officials overnight.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
Breaking: Novak Djokovic's visa has been cancelled. He's been told to leave the country today, two sources confirmed to @theage. His Lawyers are in the process of appealing. He's not demonstrated to Border Force sufficient evidence for his exemption theage.com.au/national/visa-…
January 6, 2022
The Age • Mathew Dunckley, Tammy Mills • January 11, 2022 • theage.com.au
As it happened: Novak Djokovic wins court case to play in 2022 Australian Open after visa cancellation overturned
The world number one is arguing his case to remain in the country to defend his Australian Open crown in the federal court.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
Novak Djokovic has not been arrested
Reports of his arrest inaccurate, according to the Australian government and tennis sources
The Immigration Minister is still deciding whether to re-cancel his visa @theage
theage.com.au/sport/tennis/n…
January 10, 2022
news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 5, 2022 • news.com.au
ScoMo cornered by awkward question
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed he’s never personally bought a rapid Covid test and gets taxpayer-funded tests at work for free or his wife to find them.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Scott Morrison cornered by question over who does get ‘free’ covid tests without a concession card. Spoiler alert: him. news.com.au/world/coronavi…
January 5, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jack Latimore • January 8, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘Blackfishing’: Alt-right pushes to co-opt Aboriginal Tent Embassy to cause
The fire at Old Parliament House emerged from a dispute at the world’s oldest protest site, which faces a hostile takeover by anti-vax and “freedom” groups in the lead-up to its 50th anniversary.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 28, 2022 • news.com.au
$37,000 bill for MP to leave Vic lockdown
Liberal frontbencher Tim Wilson claimed $37,494 from taxpayers in travel allowance after leaving Melbourne’s brutal lockdown for 95 nights over 2021.
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The Guardian • Amy Remeikis • January 24, 2022 • theguardian.com
Women’s anger is not dissipating – and politics as usual won’t solve it
Women asked their leaders to listen. They were told, repeatedly, to listen to how much they were not being listened to
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Amy Remeikis@AmyRemeikis
For those interested, here’s an edited chapter from my essay -On Reckoning It’s available from ⁦@HachetteAus⁩. Incredibly grateful for the kind words, pre orders and support ❤️ theguardian.com/australia-news…
January 24, 2022
The Guardian • Amy Remeikis • January 26, 2022 • theguardian.com
On The Project my rage bubbled to the surface. That’s what happens when women are no longer willing to make nice
As Grace Tame knows, orders to smile and be polite are just orders to stay quiet
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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • January 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Covid-positive nurses are working in NSW hospitals due to severe staffing shortages
Exclusive: Infected nurses recalled from isolation in breach of state health protocols ‘working with healthy staff and non-Covid patients’
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The Guardian • Richard Denniss • January 12, 2022 • theguardian.com
As the election draws closer, Scott Morrison is caught in a Covid dilemma of his own making
If he doesn’t provide support soon the economy will spiral, but if he does he must admit the cost of living with the virus
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The Guardian • Josh Taylor • January 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
Returning travellers made to hand over phones and passcodes to Australian Border Force
Sydney man says he doesn’t know what officials looked at on his phone or what happens to his data
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • January 14, 2022 • smh.com.au
How Scott Morrison lost the RAT race
Politicians hate good advice from their rivals, but the Morrison government was getting good advice from its friends. And they ignored it.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 24, 2022 • news.com.au
Leaked RAT messages put heat on PM
When Prime Minister Scott Morrison raged at rapid antigen test suppliers to “tell the truth” and stop claiming the government was stealing their stock on Friday, at least one furious retailer realised vital evidence that could explode those denials was on his mobile phone.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Exclusive: Leaked WhatsApp correspondence between a retailer and a major importer of rapid antigen tests reveals one importer confessed in early January that he was “sorry” but capacity was now being redirected to big government orders news.com.au/national/polit… via @newscomauHQ
January 24, 2022
ABC News • Laura Tingle • January 8, 2022 • abc.net.au
Perrottet made an expensive mistake — and it's hardly the only one made by a political leader in Australia
Despite everything COVID-19 has thrown at us, it seems our political leaders are incapable of anticipating, of getting proactive. Instead, they wait to find out what the mob thinks, writes Laura Tingle.
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Laura Tingle@latingle
This week’s column: Our political leaders haven't learnt from past COVID mistakes, they just wait to listen to … abc.net.au/news/2022-01-0…
January 8, 2022
The Guardian • Ranjana Srivastava • January 13, 2022 • theguardian.com
My bile rises as I’m asked to move my dying cancer patient out of ICU to make room for an unvaccinated man with Covid
I understand that for a chance at survival, the Covid patient needs a ventilator, but in a career filled with ethical dilemmas, this one really tugs at me
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Deborah Snow • January 15, 2022 • smh.com.au
Nothing off limits: Scott Morrison on his bruising years as Prime Minister
With the election fast approaching, Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a rare one-on-one interview reflects on a tumultuous three years shadowed by crisis and self-inflicted political wounds.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
There’ll be a lot of shouting at this piece by @DeborahSnow. But I think it’s very good. She has asked all the right questions. Read it carefully. It reveals Morrison as the shallow, narcissistic poseur we know him to be.
smh.com.au/national/nothi…
January 15, 2022

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