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The Saturday Paper • Rick Morton • January 22, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The sweetheart deal that caused testing to collapse
A deal that allowed private pathology labs to claim government rebates up to 20 times for one procedure has contributed to the startling collapse of the testing system.
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The Saturday Paper • Mike Seccombe • January 22, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Tracing the ‘nightmare’ reality of the shadow lockdown
As supply chains collapse, government policies have created a situation where as much as 40 per cent of the trucking and freight workforce has Covid-19.
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The Saturday Paper@SatPaper
“It should be obvious that a healthy economy requires healthy people," @CntrFutureWork's Jim Standford tells Mike Seccombe. "That's a no brainer. But our politicians forgot that. They forget the human dimension of all economic activity.” #AusPol #SatPaper satpa.pe/shado17sb
January 22, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Frank Bongiorno • January 22, 2022 • smh.com.au
Next-level uncertainty may be pandemic’s most poisonous sting
We may have to live alongside the virus for some time yet, so it’s crucial that we don’t let fear and doubt elicit significant shifts in our social and personal behaviour and attitudes.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 22, 2022 • news.com.au
Australia hesitates on new mask advice
Australian officials have declared there’s “no evidence” to suggest moving towards using N95 filtering masks in daily use despite US advice that they provide better protection against Omicron.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Australia hesitates on new mask advice.
They are hard to find too - just like RATs. Is that one of reasons that government isn’t urging people to buy them? ⁦@newscomauHQ⁩ news.com.au/world/coronavi…
January 22, 2022
ABC News • Mark Doman, Alex Palmer, Katia Shatoba • January 22, 2022 • abc.net.au
Seafloor data reveals the true extent of Tonga's enormous underwater volcano
As disaster response teams work to deliver aid, scientists are also scrambling to piece together an unprecedented cascade of events that led to and followed an enormous volcanic eruption in Tonga.
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The Guardian • Sian Cain • January 22, 2022 • theguardian.com
Julia Gillard: ‘There have been many takes on the misogyny speech. This is a truly special one’
Yolŋu artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr has been waiting a long time to get Gillard’s attention. On Friday at the National Gallery of Victoria, they finally met
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The Guardian • Ben Smee • January 22, 2022 • theguardian.com
George Christensen ramps up conspiracy theory and anti-vaxx commentary as signs suggest possible media brand launch
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Malcolm Knox • January 22, 2022 • smh.com.au
Leadership is a sober business, it takes more than a bloke with a beer
In a campaign year, Australians can brace themselves for a season of irresponsible use of alcohol.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
The idiocy of male politicians endlessly posing with beer in hand to flaunt their matey ordinariness. I betcha none of the new breed of women independents feels the need to be seen scarfing a schooner at the local blood house.
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January 22, 2022
The Guardian • Josh Nicholas, Nick Evershed • January 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australia has had its deadliest day yet of the pandemic – here’s what we know about who is dying
As the nation reaches the deadliest stage of the entire coronavirus pandemic, the protective effects of the vaccine remain clear
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Nick Evershed@NickEvershed
Important chart from our datablog on Friday: NSW health publishes death and ICU numbers by age and vaccination status. As a proportion of cases the numbers clearly show the importance of vaccination theguardian.com/australia-news…
January 22, 2022
Business Insider Australia • businessinsiderinternational • January 14, 2022 • businessinsider.com
CDC: Ditch your cloth mask and get a NIOSH-approved N95 for the best protection against Omicron
The CDC says N95s offer the best protection against the virus, but still stresses "any mask is better than no mask."
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Interesting even US telling families to get better masks. By not Australia: CDC: Swap Your Cloth Mask for N95 to Protect Against Omicron businessinsider.com/cdc-swap-cloth…
January 22, 2022
The Guardian • Devi Sridhar • January 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
Now that science has defanged Covid, it’s time to get on with our lives
As with any other ineradicable disease, prevention and treatment can be integrated into society, says public health expert Devi Sridhar
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The Guardian • Royce Kurmelovs • January 21, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Just a new fossil fuel industry’: Australia to send first shipment of liquefied hydrogen to Japan
Morrison government hails engineering milestone but researchers raise concerns and say it could increase emissions
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The Australian • KRISTINA KENEALLY • January 22, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Djokovic saga exposes the government’s border farce
In his book Serve to Win, Novak Djokovic describes how he was diagnosed with gluten intolerance.
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The New York Times • Annie Roth • January 21, 2022 • nytimes.com
Love Triangle Challenges Reign of Japan’s Monkey Queen
Yakei became a rare alpha female of a macaque troop in a nature reserve, but a kind of simian love triangle may endanger her grip on power.
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The New York Times@nytimes
Yakei, a female macaque in a nature reserve in Japan, violently overthrew the alpha male of her troop to become its first female leader in the reserve’s 70-year history.
She presides over 677 monkeys, but a messy love triangle could endanger her status. nyti.ms/3KyneIS
January 21, 2022
The Klaxon • January 22, 2022 • theklaxon.com.au
$41,000 debt "waiver" illegal: Treasury expert
The Federal Government was warned waiving senior official’s $41,000 debt was likely illegal and the opposite of the “many examples” of recovering “Centrelink overpayments”. It fully waived the debt anyway.
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Works in Progress • January 21, 2022 • worksinprogress.co
Parenting as a public good
Society has free-ridden on women for millennia, benefiting from the children they've had while bearing few of the costs. But as women have gained other options, birth rates have fallen.
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The Guardian • Ben Butler • January 22, 2022 • theguardian.com
Employers ‘rushing’ to terminate enterprise agreements, Australian unions say
ACTU president suggests companies seizing moment before election after Qantas attempts to unilaterally end agreements
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Haaretz • Adam Raz • January 21, 2022 • haaretz.com
There's a mass Palestinian grave at a popular Israeli beach, veterans confess
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Australian Financial Review • Tom McIlroy • January 21, 2022 • afr.com
The obsession that helped this gallery boss get through the pandemic
There’s one face the head of the National Portrait Gallery can’t get out of her mind.
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Pearls and Irritations • Peter Hughes • January 22, 2022 • johnmenadue.com
Long-term immigration detention has again become a pointless exercise in cruelty
The Howard government released long-term detainees into the community, but the current Coalition government refuses to do so for political reasons. Novak Djokovic’s few days at the Park Hotel in Carlton briefly shone light on the ongoing horrific plight of long-term immigration detainees. The most publicised case at the Park Hotel was that of Mehdi, Continue reading »
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