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The Guardian • Sarah Martin, Ben Doherty • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
PM accused of ‘outright lie’ after claiming detainees in Melbourne hotel are not refugees
The Park hotel, where Novak Djokovic was also detained, holds 25 refugees and seven asylum seekers
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Barrie Cassidy@barriecassidy
How can the PM of this country not know that most of the detainees being held in cruel conditions at the park hotel are genuine refugees? Not asylum seekers. We have totally lost our moral compass. twitter.com/GuardianAus/st…
January 17, 2022
The New Daily • Alan Kohler • January 17, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Alan Kohler: Neoliberalism is at the heart of the Omicron shambles
There seems to have been no planning of any sort for the increase in COVID cases that was always going to result from Omicron, writes Alan Kohler.
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘It’s really scary’: welfare recipients forced to attend in-person appointments despite Omicron surge
People are being told they will have their benefits cut if they don’t attend job agency appointments, as government resists calls to pause ‘mutual obligation’
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The Guardian • Peter Hannam • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
WA’s offshore gasfields pay almost no royalties and stoke carbon emissions, report finds
Australia Institute report finds state received only $430m of its revenue from industry that generated $27bn in exports last year
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Liam Carter@liamcarter_au
NEW: @TheAusInstitute research shows that WA is giving away 2/3rds of it's LNG for free and charging a pittance for the remaining third. This is a gas-fired robbery of wealth that should belong to the WA people. Instead it is given to Woodside, Chevron etc theguardian.com/environment/20…
January 17, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Natassia Chrysanthos • January 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
NSW private schools reaped $72 million in JobKeeper payments
New data contained in private schools’ annual reports reveals the majority of that funding was received by just 10 schools, while all 33 schools that received the wage subsidy also posted a surplus in 2020.
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The Guardian • Kate Lyons • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘It’s excruciating’: brother of UK woman swept away in Tonga tsunami waits for news
There has been no update on the fate of Angela Glover who is missing after a tsunami following a volcanic eruption
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Kate Lyons@MsKateLyons
I spoke with Nick Eleini, the brother of Angela Glover, who was swept away during the Tonga tsunami and hasn't been seen since despite rescue efforts. Heartbreaking.
‘It’s excruciating’: brother of UK woman swept away in Tonga tsunami waits for news
theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…
January 17, 2022
The Guardian • Sarah Martin • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Barnaby Joyce proposes to Vikki Campion four years after headline-making affair
Deputy PM says Campion said ‘yes’ at Coffs Harbour restaurant and if she hadn’t ‘I would still be at Latitude 30 getting smashed’
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Crikey • Bernard Keane • January 17, 2022 • crikey.com.au
Why is Scott Morrison so bad at his job?
Why does Scott Morrison keep stuffing up so badly? Is it just him, or are there deeper problems in Canberra that mean we can't rely on our government to serve us?
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Bernard Keane@BernardKeane
Amid all the criticism of yet more Morrison failures, few journalists -- @MichaelPascoe01 & @AlanKohler honourably excepted -- are actually exploring what has gone wrong within the government. There are structural problems as much as personnel ones crikey.com.au/2022/01/17/sco…
January 17, 2022
The Age • Margaret Simons • January 15, 2022 • theage.com.au
Novak Djokovic didn’t have to be the biggest news story in the nation this week
The pandemic could provide a moment for journalists and the community to question long-standing news values.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Nick O'Malley • January 16, 2022 • smh.com.au
South Australia breaks record by running for a week on renewable energy
Analysts believe South Australia’s more than six-day run on green energy may be a global first for a power grid supporting an advanced economy.
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The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • January 17, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Aged care out of emergency staff as outbreaks more than double
The number of aged care homes with COVID outbreaks more than doubled again last week. Authorities must soon make an invidious choice, writes Michael Pascoe.
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The Guardian • Calla Wahlquist • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Like a lockdown’: in 2022, Australians are still feeling the fear and anxiety of Covid
Most of the population is vaccinated and harsh restrictions have ended. But for the 40 people Guardian Australia spoke to, it doesn’t feel like it’s over
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • January 16, 2022 • theguardian.com
Imagine if Australia applied its new no-dickhead policy on Novak Djokovic to government troublemakers
A messy week for the government proved one thing: Australia’s immigration laws are as harsh in design as they are in execution
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • January 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
Barnaby Joyce: ‘We’ve got anti-vaxxer MPs, but what can you do?’
Senior ministers faced accusations of hypocrisy for their hard line against Novak Djokovic while government MPs continue to spread anti-vaccination messages.
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Michael Koziol@michaelkoziol
Barnaby Joyce: “What can [we] do? As much as [Immigration Minister Alex] Hawke would like, he can’t send any of our politicians to Serbia.” smh.com.au/politics/feder…
January 17, 2022
The New York Times • Damien Cave • January 16, 2022 • nytimes.com
How the ‘Djokovic Affair’ Finally Came to an End
Novak Djokovic lost to a government with powerful laws, determined to make an example out of him.
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Julia Holman@JulesHolman
Smashing piece from ⁦@damiencave⁩: “Djokovic lost to a Govt determined to make him a symbol of unvaccinated celebrity entitlement; to an immigration law that gives godlike authority & to a public outcry in a nation of rule-followers” ⁦@nytimes⁩ nytimes.com/2022/01/16/wor…
January 17, 2022
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘He said, I’m in Canada’: the doctor will see you now – but not from Australia
Australian-trained doctors living overseas are treating patients in rural and regional New South Wales, to curb the bush doctor shortage
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Sean Kelly • January 17, 2022 • smh.com.au
Prime Minister resurrects old fantasies as he focuses on world where pandemic hardly exists
Some are still experiencing the pandemic in consequential ways, but the government does its best to pretend COVID is all but behind us.
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Michelle Grattan@michellegrattan
And further to this, while there are significant daily deaths (not all unvaccinated) gov leaders and health officials seem to be glossing over the death numbers in a way they certainly didn't before twitter.com/michellegratta…
January 17, 2022
The Guardian • Sarah Martin • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Outrageous’: retailers referred to AFP for price gouging rapid antigen tests
ACCC take action on price markups after reports of retailers charging more than $30 for a single Covid-testing kit
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The Guardian • Natasha May • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Praying it won’t happen’: how Omicron could cut off Australia’s rural towns from essential services
An outbreak in a small regional community could leave locals unable to access pharmaceutical and banking services
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • January 17, 2022 • theguardian.com
Novak Djokovic deported for breach of Australia’s border rules, PM says, at odds with government’s legal case
‘It’s as simple as that,’ Scott Morrison says, despite immigration minister not disputing tennis star’s belief he had valid vaccination exemption
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Hannah Ryan@HannahD15
To be clear, the immigration minister said he cancelled Djokovic’s visa because he might excite anti-vaxxers by being here. NOT because he’d breached any rules at all. twitter.com/paul_karp/stat…
January 17, 2022

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