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The Age • Sam Phillips • January 23, 2022 • theage.com.au
‘Hypocrisy is an understatement’: TA confiscate ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’ shirts, banners
Shirts and a banner were confiscated by Tennis Australia at Melbourne Park on the grounds they were prohibited political statements.
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Sophie McNeill@Sophiemcneill
Tennis Australia confiscate ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’ shirts, banners at @AustralianOpen
Not cool @TennisAustralia
Hope athletes like @ashbarty @naomiosaka @andy_murray use their spotlight this week to highlight #WhereIsPengShuai
theage.com.au/sport/tennis/t…
January 23, 2022
The Guardian • Royce Kurmelovs • January 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Tennis Australia ends partnership with Santos after one year
The multiyear deal with the fossil fuel company had been the target of a campaign against ‘sportswashing’
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Laura Chung@Laura_R_Chung
Tennis Australia appears to have dumped Santos one year into a “multiyear” partnership deal after a campaign targeting the fossil fuel company for “sportswashing” theguardian.com/sport/2022/jan…
January 23, 2022
The Guardian • Anne Davies • January 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Right stuff: why shellshocked NSW Liberal moderates are fearing factional fights
Tim James’s preselection in Gladys Berejiklian’s former NSW seat shows the growing influence of the hard right in the state
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The Age • Wayne Thorpe • January 23, 2022 • theage.com.au
How a young fella named Boonjil Noorook discovered Captain Cook
When Cook arrived in Australia there were two laws, two ways of seeing things. Nothing much has changed. Now Uncle Wayne Thorpe thinks about how his people want to approach Truth telling.
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Jack Latimore@LatimoreJack
Had the honour of spending a bit of time with Uncle Wayne Thorpe and this is the most suitable article for Invasion Day/Day of Mourning that I can think of this year. Be sure to watch the embedded video theage.com.au/national/how-a…
January 23, 2022
Pearls and Irritations • Paul Keating • January 23, 2022 • johnmenadue.com
Herald indulges UK Foreign Secretary’s demented remarks on China
Australia’s foreign and defence ministers are giving respectability to Britain’s lunge for old-time glory. Remarks by the British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss that China could engage in military aggression in the Pacific, encouraged by Russia’s contingent moves against Ukraine, are nothing short of demented. Not simply irrational, demented. And this piece of nonsense by Truss Continue reading »
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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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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
How Morrison’s incompetence and the greed of private pathologists broke the Covid testing system. A big story. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/… via @SatPaper
January 22, 2022
internet princess • rayne fisher-quann • January 23, 2022 • internetprincess.substack.com
west elm caleb and the feminist panopticon
read this all the way to the end
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Tiger Webb@tfswebb
“we are building the panopticon every day, and feminism is being commodified and bastardized to support it” internetprincess.substack.com/p/west-elm-cal…
January 23, 2022
The Guardian • Emma Kemp • January 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Tennis Australia defends banning ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’ T-shirts at Australian Open
Australian Open officials call police on protesters supporting the tennis player who disappeared after accusing top Chinese official of sexual assault
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The Guardian • Ed Pilkington • January 22, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘House of Trump is crumbling’: why ex-president’s legal net is tightening
Some Trumpland observers are convinced that he is in serious legal trouble as New York’s AG investigation of Trump Organizations’s finances intensifies
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ABC News • January 23, 2022 • abc.net.au
Djokovic saga was a result of 'miscommunication', Australian Open boss says
Tennis Australia chief executive Craig Tiley reveals deported star Novak Djokovic is not suing the governing body for his treatment and will likely return next year.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lucy Cormack, Natassia Chrysanthos, Lisa Visentin • January 23, 2022 • smh.com.au
NSW schools to hand out millions of RATs under twice-a-week testing regime
A huge operation is under way to get millions of rapid antigen tests to schools before the school year begins.
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SBS • Eden Gillespie • January 21, 2022 • sbs.com.au
Australia to allocate 15,000 places for Afghans in humanitarian and family visa program
Australia will allocate 15,000 humanitarian and family visa places to Afghan nationals, following the release of a report detailing failures in Australia's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Jo Dyer - an independent voice for Boothby@instanterudite
Alex calls this an "increased allocation".
This is risible.
Every single place in this announcement comes from within our existing humanitarian quota.
To date, not a single visa has been issued to fill the previously announced 3000 places.
#auspol
sbs.com.au/news/australia…
January 22, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • The Herald's View • January 23, 2022 • smh.com.au
Era of remote learning must end – our children have sacrificed too much
One of the toughest aspects of the myriad COVID-19 restrictions over the past two years has been the impact on children.
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ABC News • Luke Pentony • January 23, 2022 • abc.net.au
Tennis Australia defends decision to confiscate 'Where is Peng Shuai?' T-shirt, banner at Australian Open
Tennis Australia says Peng Shuai's safety is its "primary concern", despite police and Melbourne Park security confiscating a T-shirt and banner featuring messages in support of the Chinese tennis player.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Melissa Cunningham • January 22, 2022 • smh.com.au
Psychiatric beds closed as mental health crisis worsens under Omicron
Psychiatric wards at Melbourne’s major hospitals are being forced to close beds and specialist 24-hour response teams for mental health emergencies are struggling to respond to a rise in callouts amid crippling staffing shortages.
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The Age • Latika Bourke • January 23, 2022 • theage.com.au
‘Novak is like Christ’: Belgrade’s poster boy still adored back home
Those who know the Djokovics say there are two Novaks: the globalist and philanthropist; and the uneducated product of his “chauvinistic” father.
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ABC News • January 23, 2022 • abc.net.au
Samoa and Kiribati go into lockdown after international arrivals bring COVID-19
The countries enter lockdowns after having avoided the worst of the pandemic for two years.
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The Guardian • Martin Pengelly • January 23, 2022 • theguardian.com
Fox News host Tucker Carlson compares vaccine mandates to ‘Nazi experiments’
Influential host calls measures imposed by Biden administration ‘unethical’ and ‘immoral’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Lisa Visentin • January 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
Google doing ‘everything’ to stop Clive Palmer misinformation while accepting $5m for ads
Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party has spent almost $5 million on political advertising on YouTube, which has subsequently removed four ads for breaching its policies.
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Australian Financial Review • Jonathan Shapiro, Carrie LaFrenz • January 21, 2022 • afr.com
The devastation wrought by Dixon Advisory
For NSW couple Jan Smith and Ida Vincent, not only has their trust in the financial services industry disappeared, they have to rethink their retirement.
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