Monday, January 3, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

The Sydney Morning Herald • Steven Hamilton, Richard Holden • January 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
Our COVID rear-vision isn’t pretty, but we can’t ignore the oncoming threat in our windscreen
This isn’t about “hindsight heroism”, as the Prime Minister puts it; there has been a foresight failure.
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ABC News • Jake Evans • January 3, 2022 • abc.net.au
Rapid tests should be 'as affordable as possible', Chemist Warehouse director says as PM refuses to fund free kits
Scott Morrison continues to resist pressure to make free rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 widely available, as state testing regimes buckle and rapid tests remain scarce.
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Kevin Rudd@MrKRudd
Morrison is RATf*cking Australians.
This is American-style health policy, putting private profits ahead of public safety. It’s a recipe for massive undetected spread among those least able to pay. Mass-testing saves money by taking pressure off hospitals.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-0…
January 3, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Ben Grubb, Mary Ward • January 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
‘It’s giving people anxiety’: Sydneysiders confused by vague COVID check-in app alerts
The state government has confirmed that the Service NSW app is sending a new push notification alert every time an additional person who attended a venue later tests positive, but without detailing which venues the additional cases attended.
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Hannah Ryan@HannahD15
This is so frustrating - why can't they just tell us how the case notifications actually work smh.com.au/national/nsw/i…
January 3, 2022
The Guardian • Johann Hari • January 2, 2022 • theguardian.com
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • January 1, 2022 • theguardian.com
100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying
Whether it’s taking fruit to work (and to the bedroom!), being polite to rude strangers or taking up skinny-dipping, here’s a century of ways to make life better, with little effort involved …
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ABC Radio • January 3, 2022 • abc.net.au
The NSW coal town at a crossroads
There's already heated debate about energy and the future of coal in the lead up to the election, with both major parties spruiking their net zero plans while hoping not to alienate blue-collar voters.
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Gavin Coote@GavinCoote
Spent a morning driving around Lithgow in Jeffrey Smith’s taxi for AM. The ex-coal miner reckons politicians are avoiding talking about the reality of coal’s future: “I have a saying. I'd rather be smacked with the truth than kissed with a lie.” abc.net.au/radio/programs…
January 3, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Rachel Clun • January 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
PM warns rapid tests won’t be free for all as experts slam delays
Labor leader Anthony Albanese labelled the handling of the rapid antigen test rollout a public policy failure while public health experts said it was “astounding” a plan was not already in place this far into the pandemic.
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Steven Hamilton@SHamiltonian
Of course I agree with this great thread. But the whole free-testing thing is very simple. In July, the government should have put out a tender for 1 billion rapid tests. That’s it. That’s all they needed to do. Instead they dropped the ball because they have no foresight at all. twitter.com/profholden/sta…
January 3, 2022
The New Daily • Andrew Brown • January 3, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Rapid COVID tests won't be made free: PM
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has brushed off growing calls to make rapid antigen tests freely available in the wake of rising Omicron cases.
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ABC News • Dannielle Maguire • January 3, 2022 • abc.net.au
'Numbers we've never seen before': One in five PCR tests are positive in Victoria
Victoria's COVID commander Jeroen Weimar says there has been a tenfold increase in the COVID test positivity rate in the past few weeks.
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ABC News@abcnews
Live: PM resists calls to subsidise RAT tests because 'you can't make everything free' abc.net.au/news/2022-01-0…
January 3, 2022
ACT Policing Online News • January 3, 2022 • policenews.act.gov.au
Man charged following fire at Old Parliament House
A 30-year-old Victorian man has been charged in relation to a fire that police will allege was deliberately lit at Old Parliament House on Thursday (30 December 2021).
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ABC Radio • January 3, 2022 • abc.net.au
Indigenous leaders demand closure of Don Dale detention centre
A group of Darwin indigenous community leaders and a local QC are promising to maintain a weekly protest outside the city's notorious Don Dale youth detention centre until it's closed.
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ABC Radio • January 3, 2022 • abc.net.au
PM rejects push for free rapid tests
The Prime Minister resists growing calls for rapid tests to be made free nationally, but even those willing to pay can't get their hands on them; We speak with an ICU nurse who's suspected COVID-positive, but under pressure to return to work; And, a warning the economy could be stunted long-term - unless the door is opened more widely to skilled migrants.
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ABC Radio • January 3, 2022 • abc.net.au
Symptomatic ICU nurse pressured to return to work amid staff shortages
Hospital workers around the country are already exhausted and increasingly short-staffed as more and more of them are isolated due to COVID.
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The New York Times • The Editorial Board • January 2, 2022 • nytimes.com
Opinion | Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now
Though we yearn for peace and quiet, things in America are far from normal.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Daniella White • January 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
NSW records 20,794 COVID-19 cases and four deaths as hospitalisations rise
There are 1204 people in hospital, including 95 in ICU after more than 1000 admissions were recorded on Sunday for the first time since the peak of the Delta outbreak.
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SBS • January 1, 2022 • sbs.com.au
France has brought in free contraception for women aged 18-25
The scheme covers the pill, IUDs, contraceptive patches and other methods composed of steroid hormones.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • January 3, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australian teenager Josh Giddey makes NBA history with record triple-double
The Oklahoma Thunder rookie has overtaken LaMelo Ball’s record for youngest player to achieve the statistic
The Guardian • Peter Hannam • January 3, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘People will die’: doctors warn Covid surge is filling up NSW hospitals
Urgent routine treatment is being cancelled, with capacity closer to limit than officials admit, medics say
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The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • January 3, 2022 • theguardian.com
Super poo: the emerging science of stool transplants and designer gut bacteria
As more people turn to faecal transplants for their health benefits, researchers in Adelaide are harnessing the power of high-quality poo in new treatments that can simply be swallowed
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Axios • Yacob Reyes • January 3, 2022 • axios.com
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter account permanently suspended for COVID misinformation
Greene is an outspoken critic of COVID-mitigation measures and has posted a slew of false tweets throughout the pandemic.
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