Thursday, January 6, 2022 Tweets Archive Recent news

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
news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 6, 2022 • news.com.au
PM admits he gets rapid antigen tests for free
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 Guardian • Peter Hannam • January 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Falling over in a screaming heap’: overworked staff quit under-resourced NSW regional hospital
Tweed hospital has no Covid diagnosis equipment, is operating a makeshift triage tent and has nurses doing ‘double shifts every day’ as local cases triple
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The Guardian • Tumaini Carayol • January 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open hopes dashed after visa cancelled at airport
Novak Djokovic will not play at the Australian Open after having his visa cancelled amid spiralling outcry over his controversial ‘medical exemption’ to play in the tournament
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The Age • Anthony Galloway • January 6, 2022 • theage.com.au
Why Novak Djokovic’s visa was rejected
Quite apart from whether there is a valid health reason for not getting vaccinated, Djokovic’s reasoning doesn’t appear to stack up on practical grounds.
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Katina Curtis@katinacurtis
Here's @Gallo_Ways on the simple reason why Novak Djokovic’s visa was rejected: "The Australian Border Force does not accept that previously contracting COVID-19 – even in the past six months – qualifies as a valid exemption to not be vaccinated." smh.com.au/politics/feder…
January 6, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • January 6, 2022 • smh.com.au
I’m no fan of Novak Djokovic, but it’s madness not to let him play
The fact this Djokovic decision will probably be popular just shows how subservient to Rule Culture we have all become.
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Michael West Media • https://www.facebook.com/michaelwest.journo/ • January 5, 2022 • michaelwest.com.au
They 'let her rip', and she ripped; government collapses in Australia
It’s a good thing we’re winning the cricket because the government has collapsed, the virus is out of control and corporate mates are profiteering.
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Jo Dyer - an independent voice for Boothby@instanterudite
Have we ever known a bigger abrogation of leadership in this country? @MichaelWestBiz hones right in. #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/they-let-her-r…
January 5, 2022
The Canberra Times • Jasper Lindell • January 6, 2022 • canberratimes.com.au
Young, double-vaccinated Canberra man dies of COVID-19 in Sydney
A fully vaccinated Canberra man in his 20s has died in a Sydney hospital with COVID-19.
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Canberra Times@canberratimes
A Canberra man in his 20s has died from COVID-19 in a Sydney hospital, despite being fully vaccinated and having no underlying health conditions, @jclindell reports
canberratimes.com.au/story/7571947/…
January 6, 2022
The Conversation • C Raina MacIntyre • January 5, 2022 • theconversation.com
From COVID control to chaos – what now for Australia? Two pathways lie before us
The public has been left to their own devices as all our previous safeguards collapse around us. We urgently need a “vaccines-plus” strategy to flatten the curve.
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Ben Eltham@beneltham
Very good from Raina Macintyre: the let it rip strategy has pretty much destroyed testing and tracing as working strategies for epidemic control. "The public has been left to their own devices as all our previous safeguards collapse around us."
theconversation.com/from-covid-con…
January 6, 2022
The Guardian • Malcolm Farr • January 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘So-called border vigilance’: PM’s tough guy act on Djokovic won’t distract from failed Covid response
Scott Morrison will wring as much political gain as he can from this, but deporting the tennis No 1 won’t make any Australian feel safer
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The Guardian • Mostafa Rachwani, Tory Shepherd, Cait Kelly, Peter Hannam, Ben Smee, Paul Karp, Tumaini Carayol • January 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Novak Djokovic wins interim injunction against deportation; more than 72,000 new cases nationwide – As it happened
All the day’s news as it unfolded
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The Guardian • Melody Schreiber • January 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Covid hospitalizations among US children soar as schools under pressure
Average of 672 children being hospitalized every day in the US as of 2 January, fueled by the Omicron variant and the holidays
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The Australian • SIMON BENSON, MAX MADDISON • January 5, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
We must ride out Omicron wave, PM urges
Scott Morrison says Australians have no choice but to ride out the current Covid wave with case numbers expected to spiral past 100,000 a day by the end of the week as the national cabinet agreed to lift a raft of testing rules, offer free rapid antigen tests to the disadvantaged and threatened jail for anyone seeking to profit from the pandemic.
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Rex Patrick@Senator_Patrick
.@ScottMorrisonMP says that Australia must now "ride the wave" of Omicron #COVID19 infection. It's a wave he and @Dom_Perrottet have managed to turn into a tsunami. #snafu #auspol theaustralian.com.au/nation/we-must…
January 6, 2022
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • January 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
The foundations of our healthcare system have been washed away | NSW emergency nurse
Working conditions have deteriorated, staff are calling it quits, and our leaders ignore us. I worry for my colleagues and the profession I have grown to love
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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • January 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Covid outbreak at Sydney nursing home leaves residents ‘petrified’
Son of infected resident fears ‘an unmitigated disaster’, condemning Sydney facility’s response as ‘damage control’
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The Guardian • Royce Kurmelovs • January 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australian researchers baffled as endangered purple-crowned fairy wrens breed outside season – again
Romancing in the dry season for a second year upends much of what the experts thought they knew about the bird
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The Guardian • Harriet Sherwood • January 6, 2022 • theguardian.com
Choosing pets over babies is ‘selfish and diminishes us’, says pope
Pontiff laments ‘denied parenthood’ and people who ‘substitute cats and dogs for children’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Garry Maddox, Billie Eder • January 6, 2022 • smh.com.au
Gene Simmons, Emile Sherman among big names opposing Sydney Festival boycott
An open letter says the action turns the festival from “an opportunity for unity into a weapon of division”.
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Australian Financial Review • Julie Hare • January 5, 2022 • afr.com
The stories behind the research grants Stuart Robert vetoed
Judge for yourself: are these research projects in the national interest?
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SBS • Ellie Mitchell, Akash Arora • January 6, 2022 • sbs.com.au
Novak Djokovic's visa debacle throws spotlight on plight of detained asylum seekers
Advocates for refugees and asylum seekers hope Novak Djokovic’s visa debacle will draw global attention to “Australia’s harsh immigration policies".
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