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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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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 • Sarah Martin • January 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Living with Covid’ has turned Scott Morrison’s promise sour before the summer is out
The PM says he wants governments out of the lives of Australians, but in a raging pandemic that has left them feeling abandoned
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The Saturday Paper • Jon Kudelka • January 8, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Jon Kudelka cartoon, January 8, 2022
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Martin McKenzie-Murray • January 8, 2022 • smh.com.au
Fringe parties, white supremacists and other grifters are mining the paranoia of our times
The pandemic has ruptured Australian society and made it ripe for political exploitation.
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Jack Latimore@LatimoreJack
This read by Martin McKenzie-Murray on the provenance and threat of the SovCit movement and how and why it is flourishing here is precise and sharp. Please read and share around smh.com.au/national/fring…
January 8, 2022
The Saturday Paper • January 8, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Because I said
Scott Morrison’s smile is like a measuring tape. It lengthens as he decides what it is he can get away with. The calibration is sometimes off but this does not affect his confidence. Before he speaks, he sucks air hard through his nose: one last assessment, as if to smell the credulity of the room.
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The Age • Paul Sakkal, Anthony Galloway, Sam Phillips • January 8, 2022 • theage.com.au
We need them: Tennis Australia pleaded for vaccine exemption for players
Without naming Novak Djokovic directly, tournament boss Craig Tiley’s letter says the treatment of unvaccinated players “goes to the heart of the viability of the tournament”.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
Craig Tiley asked Australia's top vaccination body if players (like Djokovic) w prior infection would be exempt and was told "no" twice in November. Tiley in leaked letter said approving these players "went to the heart of the Open's viability" @theage
theage.com.au/sport/tennis/w…
January 8, 2022
The Saturday Paper • Mehdi Ali • January 8, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
‘I grew up in this cage’: Life inside the Park Hotel
The darkest months in detention are always December and January. In these months, from the windows of our rooms at the Park Hotel, we see people celebrating with their loved ones another year that we’re away from ours. This past Christmas and new year has been my ninth spent in detention. Two days before Christmas, around 1.30pm, I was lying on my bed watching a film when the
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Mehdi Ali@MehdiAli98
The law tells us that children must only be detained for the shortest period of time, yet I grew up in this cage. Justice is all I ask for. I don’t want to survive anymore. I just want to live. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/…
January 8, 2022
The Age • Marta Pascual Juanola • January 8, 2022 • theage.com.au
Djokovic claims immigration cleared vaccine exemption
Court documents released Saturday night also claim Djokovic contracted COVID on December 16 for a second time, which his lawyers will use to form part of his case to stay in Australia.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
"Djokovic received a letter from Australia’s immigration department days before his arrival saying he met the requirements for quarantine-free travel."
Says he tested positive December 16 @theage
Home Affairs told Djokovic he met requirements theage.com.au/sport/home-aff…
January 8, 2022
The Saturday Paper • Geoff Kitney • January 8, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
‘This is just about politics’: Scott Morrison redraws the pandemic
The prime minister believed the reopening of NSW would mark a swing in positive sentiment. He is now rushing to cover testing failures and redefine close contacts and hospital admissions.
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Ben Eltham@beneltham
‘This is just about politics’: Good background piece here by Geoff Kitney on how the let-it-rippers gained the ascendancy in Perrottet's cabinet. Morrison then decided to just go along with them thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
January 8, 2022
The Conversation • Denis Muller • January 7, 2022 • theconversation.com
As COVID rips through Australia, is Scott Morrison's media strategy starting to fail as well?
The prime minister’s media strategy, focusing on selling his message through ‘friendly’ outlets, is showing signs of unravelling.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • The Herald's View, The Age's View • January 8, 2022 • smh.com.au
Australia no longer has a credible way of calculating how many people have COVID-19
The use of rapid antigen tests is now the preferred strategy – a move that takes pressure off the PCR public testing sites – but authorities are only just starting to put in place mandatory reporting systems for positive RAT results.
The Australian • STEPHEN RICE, REMY VARGA • January 7, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Smoking out the truth about parliament blaze
Minutes before flames rip through the ornate 95-year-old doors of Australias Old Parliament House, two of the protesters who have laid claim to the building climb to the ceiling of the portico.
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The Guardian • Andrew Pulver • January 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
Sidney Poitier, Black acting pioneer, dies aged 94
The first Black person to win a best actor Oscar gave a string of groundbreaking performances on screen that helped combat social prejudice
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The Guardian • Peter Hannam • January 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
Byron Bay Covid patients left behind curtains as hospital ‘crippled’ by depleted resources
Lack of isolation rooms left one patient waiting almost two days to be moved to the region’s designated coronavirus facility
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The Guardian • Peter Hannam • January 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Turn them over faster’: the bleak reality inside NSW’s hospitals
The state’s health system is reaching crisis point as overworked staff are diverted and patients miss out on care
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The New York Times • William Grimes • January 8, 2022 • nytimes.com
Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94
The first Black performer to win the Academy Award for best actor, for “Lilies of the Field,” he once said he felt “as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with every move I made.”
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The New York Times@nytimes
Sidney Poitier, who has died at age 94, was modest about his career, despite his role in changing American perceptions of race and opening the door to a new generation of Black actors. nyti.ms/3f14nrK
January 8, 2022
Global Circulate • Sahil • January 8, 2022 • globalcirculate.com
PM urges workers: keep pushing through
Advertisement A week ago, bosses were wondering how to manage a hybrid and reluctant workforce returning from a summer break. Now they’re counting who they have left. NAB economist Taylor Nugent says the current Omicron wave is proving highly disruptive to activity and supply chains both in Australia and beyond. “Case numbers are in excess […]
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
Man who spent the day joking at the cricket urges workers to ‘push through’…its quite a strange approach to leadership isn’t it #auspol #covid19 #covis_19 globalcirculate.com/pm-urges-worke…
January 8, 2022
NPR • Shannon Bond • January 6, 2022 • npr.org
Kicked off Facebook and Twitter, far-right groups lose online clout
In the year since the January 6th Capitol attack, far-right influencers and extremists are taking new approaches to organizing online.
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn • January 8, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘A Rosetta Stone’: Australian fossil site is a vivid window into 15m-year-old rainforest
Likely to contain dozens of undiscovered species, the site is so well-preserved that the contents of fish stomachs and breathing apparatus of spiders can be seen
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