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The Guardian • Ben Doherty • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘Everyone asks about Novak’ but Mehdi has languished for nine years in Australian immigration detention
Iranian was 15 when he arrived by boat in Australia seeking sanctuary. Despite formal recognition as a refugee he hasn’t been free since – he turned 24 on Friday
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The Age • Paul Sakkal • January 6, 2022 • theage.com.au
Novak Djokovic threatens legal action after visa refusal leaves him stranded
Djokovic will mount a legal challenge to the last-minute rejection of his visa, after spending eight hours in detention at Melbourne Airport pleading his case to border officials overnight.
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Paul Sakkal@paulsakkal
Breaking: Novak Djokovic's visa has been cancelled. He's been told to leave the country today, two sources confirmed to @theage. His Lawyers are in the process of appealing. He's not demonstrated to Border Force sufficient evidence for his exemption theage.com.au/national/visa-…
January 6, 2022
news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 5, 2022 • news.com.au
ScoMo cornered by awkward question
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed he’s never personally bought a rapid Covid test and gets taxpayer-funded tests at work for free or his wife to find them.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Scott Morrison cornered by question over who does get ‘free’ covid tests without a concession card. Spoiler alert: him. news.com.au/world/coronavi…
January 5, 2022
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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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • January 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
Covid-positive nurses are working in NSW hospitals due to severe staffing shortages
Exclusive: Infected nurses recalled from isolation in breach of state health protocols ‘working with healthy staff and non-Covid patients’
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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 Sydney Morning Herald • Steven Hamilton, Richard Holden • January 3, 2022 • smh.com.au
Our COVID rear-vision isn’t pretty, but we can’t ignore the oncoming threat in our windscreen
This isn’t about “hindsight heroism”, as the Prime Minister puts it; there has been a foresight failure.
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The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • January 3, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Michael Pascoe: The Great Golf Rort where Labor seats need not apply
The Morrison government has handed out tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to golf clubs in Coalition seats, writes Michael Pascoe.
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Michael Pascoe@MichaelPascoe01
Michael Pascoe: Fore! Morrison has given $22.3 million to golf clubs over the past four years.
Magically, only 2.2 per cent of that money has gone to Labor seats.
Yes, more rorting, more corruption.
| The New Daily thenewdaily.com.au/finance/financ…
January 4, 2022
Australian Financial Review • Andrew Tillett • January 3, 2022 • afr.com
Morrison’s penny-pinching on COVID tests doesn’t add up
A rapid antigen test costs just $15 at the shops, yet taxpayers are now paying $85 for PCR tests at private companies and $42.50 for state-run tests.
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Andrew Tillett@andrewtillett
Prediction: RATs will be free for all within a week or two.
afr.com/politics/feder…
January 4, 2022
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
ABC News • Jake Evans • January 3, 2022 • abc.net.au
Rapid tests should be 'as affordable as possible', Chemist Warehouse director says as PM refuses to fund free kits
Scott Morrison continues to resist pressure to make free rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 widely available, as state testing regimes buckle and rapid tests remain scarce.
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Kevin Rudd@MrKRudd
Morrison is RATf*cking Australians.
This is American-style health policy, putting private profits ahead of public safety. It’s a recipe for massive undetected spread among those least able to pay. Mass-testing saves money by taking pressure off hospitals.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-0…
January 3, 2022
The Guardian • Kerryn Phelps • January 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘A shambolic mess’: the only example Australia is giving the world now is how not to manage Covid
We thought the government would develop a Covid strategy for post-lockdown life. Instead, they have chosen to ‘let it rip’
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • January 5, 2022 • theguardian.com
The foundations of our healthcare system have been washed away | NSW emergency nurse
Working conditions have deteriorated, staff are calling it quits, and our leaders ignore us. I worry for my colleagues and the profession I have grown to love
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The Guardian • Mostafa Rachwani, Ben Doherty • January 7, 2022 • theguardian.com
Novak Djokovic: refugees hope tennis star’s hotel detention will cast light on their ‘torture’
‘We came for safety, not to play tennis’. Refugees and asylum seekers speak out against their harsh treatment
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Donna Lu@donnadlu
“Everyone wants to ask me about Novak, what the hotel is like for him. But they don’t ask about us: we have been locked up in this place for months, for years.” @Rachwani91 @BenDohertyCorro theguardian.com/australia-news…
January 7, 2022
The Saturday Paper • Jon Kudelka • January 8, 2022 • thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Jon Kudelka cartoon, January 8, 2022
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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 Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • January 4, 2022 • theguardian.com
With Sydney hospitals in freefall, I’ve been forced to make an impossible decision about my sick, elderly dad | Anonymous
When my father fell ill on New Year’s Eve, we had two choices: admit him into an understaffed hospital riven with Covid or try to keep him alive at home
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Josephine Tovey@Jo_Tovey
A powerful piece - and one that will be relatable to people who are medically vulnerable or who love someone who is.
Situations to keep in mind when the next smug young commentator suggests the pandemic is a doddle at this point. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
January 4, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • The Herald's View • January 4, 2022 • smh.com.au
Rapid antigen test chaos casts doubt on Morrison’s competence
The federal government has made a mess of managing the availability and affordability of rapid antigen tests. Like its “vaccine stroll-out”, the current debacle casts a serious shadow over its competency.
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The Australian • SIMON BENSON • January 4, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
PM pushes cash handouts for Covid tests
Low-income earners, welfare recipients and pensioners will be given direct cash payments to buy up to five rapid antigen tests through the same mechanism as Covid disaster payments under a proposal Scott Morrison will take to national cabinet.
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Rachel Baxendale@rachelbaxendale
They *could* just supply the tests to those groups directly, but that sounds a bit too much efficient use of taxpayers’ money 🤷‍♀️ twitter.com/rachelbaxendal…
January 4, 2022

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