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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • January 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
Too late now, but ‘let it rip’ might prove tricky for Scott Morrison come election time | Hugh Riminton
In hindsight, opening up like we did seems nuts. As experts point out, you can’t run a healthy economy without healthy people
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Jim Stanford@JimboStanford
Thank you @hughriminton for putting it so clearly: you can't run a healthy economy without healthy workers. The 'let it rip' crowd should have known this. In @GuardianAus: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
January 9, 2022
The Age • Paul Sakkal • January 9, 2022 • theage.com.au
Djokovic met junior tennis players maskless day after infection
The tennis champion may have picked up the virus at a basketball match where he met with a player who later tested positive to COVID-19.
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The Age • Paul Sakkal • January 9, 2022 • theage.com.au
Leaked letters: Federal authorities advised vax exemptions were Victoria’s responsibility
New leaked correspondence shows Morrison government officials told Tennis Australia vaccine exemptions would be handled by Victoria.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
New leaked TA/Djokovic letters:
-Federal officials said vax exemptions would be approved by Victoria
-CHO Brett Sutton said prior infection was valid exemption
-TA warned feds about Djokovic-style airport fiasco if docs weren't checked in advance @theage
theage.com.au/sport/tennis/l…
January 9, 2022
The Age • Paul Sakkal • January 9, 2022 • theage.com.au
Tiley says Tennis Australia was caught in a conflict of advice between state and Commonwealth
Tennis chief Craig Tiley says he was given conflicting advice from state and federal authorities about vaccination exemptions and that requests to the Commonwealth for help with the process were rejected.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
If Tennis Australia seriously thought that a state government approved a medical exemption for quarantine also meant magical visa approval for a separate federal process with different rules they are dead set idiots or have poor governance/legal advice theage.com.au/sport/tennis/t…
January 9, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Rachael Dexter • January 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Extremism experts warn of lone-actor attack risk among ‘freedom’ protesters
Extremism experts have raised the alarm about the potential for volatile individuals radicalised by talk of executions and martyrdom to carry out lone-actor attacks, as the ‘freedom’ movement aims to stay relevant in 2022.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 9, 2022 • news.com.au
Leaked docs reveal Djokovic visa bombshell
Leaked correspondence has revealed Tennis Australia begged the Department of Home Affairs to check the visa paperwork of Novak Djokovic and other players before they boarded planes — a move that could have prevented the visa debacle.
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The Age • Rachel Eddie • January 8, 2022 • theage.com.au
Victorians waiting seven days for COVID test results told samples ‘no longer suitable’
Coronavirus testing labs facing a “tsunami” of demand have sent text messages to people waiting for results that their swabs can no longer be processed.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • January 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
It’s not Covid that’s broken our health system, it’s years of neglect | A Victorian doctor
Exhausted health workers are shouldering the burden not only of the pandemic but the lack of structural reform
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker • January 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
NAPLAN analysis shows no difference between public, private schools
Researchers followed students’ progress in NAPLAN and found there was no difference between the three school sectors.
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The New York Times • Lindsay Crouse • January 9, 2022 • nytimes.com
Opinion | Novak Djokovic, Great at Tennis and Bad at Science, Awaits His Fate
Some star athletes seem to think you don’t have to follow public health policy — as long as you win.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • January 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Albanese accuses Morrison and NSW of pursuing ‘let it rip’ approach
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has accused the NSW and federal governments of pursuing a “let it rip” approach in opening up from the COVID-19 pandemic, saying there were now major issues with the hospital system.
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ABC News • Tracey Shelton • January 9, 2022 • abc.net.au
Park Hotel detainees housed alongside Djokovic speak out
The detention of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic at Melbourne's infamous Park Hotel has inadvertently highlighted the plight of refugees and asylum seekers that have been locked away for up to nine years with no end in sight.
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The Age • Paul Sakkal • January 9, 2022 • theage.com.au
Federal government loses bid to delay Djokovic case
Novak Djokovic’s bid to overturn his deportation is due to be heard on Monday, despite a bid by Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews to have it delayed.
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The Sydney Morning Herald@smh
Breaking: The Morrison government has failed in a bid to gain two extra days to ready its case against Novak Djokovic | @paulsakkal smh.com.au/national/victo…
January 9, 2022
ABC News • Maani Truu • January 9, 2022 • abc.net.au
One in 12 test positive: The age group at the top of the Omicron wave
Darcy is one of many of his friends to catch COVID-19 at a birthday drinks for a friend. Epidemiologists aren't surprised.
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casey briggs@CaseyBriggs
In NSW, More than 8 per cent of people in their 20s have tested positive in the past four weeks.
That's just positive PCR tests.
Here's @maanitruu's look at how young adults are experiencing this wave
abc.net.au/news/2022-01-0…
January 9, 2022
The Saturday Paper • Chris Wallace • January 8, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Morrison and Perrottet's laissez-faire pact
If you think a day is a long time in politics, try a week. This one started with Scott Morrison showing off his massive barramundi. It finished with Australia’s uncontrolled Omicron outbreak likely finishing off his government’s chance of re-election. In between, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese showed the difference between him and his predecessor, Bill Shorten, in the
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Mark Kenny@markgkenny
Read this why don’t you. The always compelling @c_s_wallace at her finest thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/…
January 9, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Mary Ward, Lucy Carroll • January 8, 2022 • smh.com.au
COVID outbreaks lock down nearly 500 aged care homes nationally
Tens of thousands of elderly residents are in lockdown after the number of aged care facilities with active outbreaks more than quadruped in a fortnight.
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Anne Connolly@anneconnollyabc
Almost 20 per cent of nursing homes have a #COVID19 outbreak. Over 3000 infected. Staff in #agedcare tell me it's a total disaster. Do old people not deserve attention? smh.com.au/national/covid…
January 9, 2022
The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy, Justine Landis-Hanley, Paul Karp • January 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
More than 99,000 new cases nationwide on NSW’s deadliest day of pandemic
Follow all the day’s news live
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Prof Marc Tennant@MarcTennant
HOW SMART IS THAT!! Well done ACT.
That is so so smart.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
January 9, 2022
The Guardian • Caitlin Cassidy • January 9, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Haven’t seen anything like it’: Queensland braces for Cyclone Tiffany as rescuers search for missing teen
A 14-year-old girl is missing after the car she was travelling in was swept away, while far north Queensland prepares for category one storm
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The Australian • Chris Kenny • January 8, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
It’s shame, set and match … and the Djoke is on us
It is not about Novak Djokovic.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • The Herald's View • January 9, 2022 • smh.com.au
Governments can’t wing return to school plan
State and federal governments need to outline now what the start of the school year will look like.
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