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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 • Mostafa Rachwani, Ben Doherty • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Novak Djokovic: refugees hope tennis star’s hotel detention will cast light on their ‘torture’
‘We came for safety, not to play tennis’. Refugees and asylum seekers speak out against their harsh treatment
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Donna Lu@donnadlu
“Everyone wants to ask me about Novak, what the hotel is like for him. But they don’t ask about us: we have been locked up in this place for months, for years.” @Rachwani91 @BenDohertyCorro theguardian.com/australia-news…
January 7, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol, Mary Ward • January 7, 2022 • smh.com.au
Nightclubs to close, surgery restricted as ‘safety measures’ return to NSW
The decisions were made following a state government’s economic recovery committee meeting on Thursday morning.
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The Sydney Morning Herald@smh
Exclusive: The NSW government is preparing to announce a major reversal on COVID-19 restrictions, including shutting nightclubs and pausing major events | @michaelkoziol @marywardy smh.com.au/national/nsw/n…
January 7, 2022
The Conversation • Billie Bonevski, Hossein Haji Ali Afzali, Jonathan Karnon • January 7, 2022 • theconversation.com
Free rapid antigen tests makes economic sense for governments, our analysis shows
Even minor reductions in COVID transmission rates due to early isolation would justify the additional costs associated with the policy.
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australian government was warned about Covid testing overburden almost a year ago
High virus spread could see ‘testing demand exceeding laboratory and public health capacity’, officials said in February 2021
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Mary Ward • January 7, 2022 • smh.com.au
Delivery of kids’ doses to GPs delayed due to ‘unprecedented demand’
Sydney GPs have been forced to reschedule or delay the start of children’s COVID-19 vaccinations after authorities said there had been “unprecedented demand”.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
“Unprecedented demand…”
Who could have thought that parents (and teachers) might want their kids vaccinated before they go back to school ?
Yet another abject failure by this Morrison rabble.
smh.com.au/national/nsw/d…
January 7, 2022
ABC News • Anne Connolly • January 7, 2022 • abc.net.au
While many of us have been focused on ruined holidays, what's happening to our elderly in Australia right now is flying under the radar
Today, there are tens of thousands of elderly people sitting alone in their bedrooms in nursing homes — some with COVID, more being tested, others stuck there because of management's well-founded fears, writes Anne Connolly.
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Duska Sulicich@DuskaSulicich
For years ⁦@anneconnollyabc⁩ has exposed the disgrace of our aged care sector. Her work led to a royal commission. Once again she shines the light — our most vulnerable exposed again in the Omicron disaster. abc.net.au/news/2022-01-0…
January 7, 2022
The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘We have no doses’: Australian GPs say they will struggle to vaccinate children before school year begins
Covid vaccine rollout for children 5-11 is set to begin on Monday, but dose allocations are too low for widespread coverage
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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Very vulnerable’: first Covid outbreak in Norfolk Island raises concerns about health system
Medical evacuations to Queensland possible if cases rise, with more than 10% of population in isolation and tourism suspended
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Elias Visontay@EliasVisontay
Norfolk’s only hospital has just 7 beds and is joined to the island’s only aged care facility. Only 1 GP on the island. First case last week, now more than 30. 10%+ of island isolating. Medevacs – which can cost $80k a pop – may be needed as Covid spreads theguardian.com/australia-news…
January 7, 2022
The Guardian • Peter Hannam • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW hospitals bracing for tripling of Covid patients
With case records broken daily ‘it’s currently very alarming in the medical world’, a senior doctor says
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Daniella White, Sarah McPhee • January 7, 2022 • smh.com.au
Talented powerlifter and scientist identified as young man who died with COVID
James Kondilios, who was double vaccinated and had no significant underlying health conditions, died at St Vincent’s Hospital this week.
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The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Entirely predictable’: experts accuse Dominic Perrottet over Omicron surge as NSW premier backflips on restrictions
NSW government ‘basically accelerated into the Omicron wave’, say AMA as premier bans dancing and singing in pubs and clubs and pauses non-urgent elective surgery
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ABC News • Paige Cockburn • January 6, 2022 • abc.net.au
Former world-class power lifter and award-winning scientist dies of COVID aged 23
Science graduate and former sportsman James Kondilios dies at St Vincent's Hospital. He was double-vaccinated and had no underlying medical conditions.
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Lisa Divissi@lisadivissi
James is my sister’s partner. If you had the chance to meet him you’ll know how wonderful and irreplaceable he is. We are all devastated and miss him so much. abc.net.au/news/2022-01-0…
January 7, 2022
The Guardian • Brigid Delaney • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
In this strange summer it feels like the wheels are falling off faster in 2022
Between Christmas and New Year’s, time seems to stretch and purposelessness pervades – and Omicron gives this baggy week a sinister edge
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Newly released royal letters reveal governor general’s breaches of protocol ahead of 1975 Whitlam dismissal
John Kerr wrote to Queen’s secretary more than Australia’s previous five governors general combined
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The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • January 6, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Michael Pascoe: Morrison’s Novax serve aces his RATs disaster, for now
You don’t have to be cynical to suspect the PM jumping on the “Novax Djokovid” bandwagon is more about creating a distraction than border security.
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BBC News • https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews • January 7, 2022 • bbc.com
Ethiopia civil war: Tigray hospital running out of food for starving children
The hospital treating Surafeal in Ethiopia's Tigray region is also running out of food.
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Kumi Taguchi | 田口久実@kumitaguchi
Meanwhile, in Ethiopia:
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January 7, 2022
The Age • The Age's View • January 6, 2022 • theage.com.au
Twists and finger-pointing over question of Djokovic’s eligibility
It should have never come to this where Australia’s fractured bureaucracy is front-page news all over the world and the Serbian President is publicly condemning us.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
Today's @theage editorial
"A possible explanation is the political one: the federal govt was ready to let Djokovic in until the public backlash and seized the chance to claim moral high ground ... diverting attention from problems over the lack of RATs"
theage.com.au/sport/tennis/t…
January 7, 2022
The Age • Paul Sakkal • January 8, 2022 • theage.com.au
Czech tennis player Renata Voracova detained by Australian Border Force
Renata Voracova’s visa has been cancelled and she has been taken to the same hotel where Novak Djokovic is being detained.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
Australia cancelled the visa of another player who used same exemption as Djokovic. Czech Renata Voráčová's been told to leave the country and is in same hotel as Djokovic. 3rd person who used the exemption, an official, still being pursued @theage
theage.com.au/sport/czech-te…
January 7, 2022
The Washington Post • Maite Fernández Simon • January 7, 2022 • washingtonpost.com
Tennis star Novak Djokovic draws renewed attention to Australia’s ‘detention hotels’
The Park Hotel has been used to host refugees and asylum seekers and for coronavirus quarantine, and it has been at the center of protests over the treatment of migrants.
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