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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 Guardian • Josh Taylor • January 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
Returning travellers made to hand over phones and passcodes to Australian Border Force
Sydney man says he doesn’t know what officials looked at on his phone or what happens to his data
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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 • Daniel Hurst, Sarah Martin, Ben Doherty • January 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison says he never said there were no refugees in Melbourne’s Park hotel
Prime minister refuses to apologise for radio interview in which he cast doubt on the status of refugees held in immigration detention
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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 Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • January 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
Woman living with muscular dystrophy forced to spend $1,300 on rapid antigen tests for in-home carers
Carolyn Campbell-Mclean says NDIS won’t let her claim back test costs, but it allows people living in group homes to do so
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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 Sydney Morning Herald • Lucy Carroll, Mary Ward • January 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
RPA department head lashes ‘politically-driven’ management of crisis
In an internal video to staff, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital executive clinical director Professor Paul Torzillo has called out the decisions being made by state and federal governments.
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The Age • Erin Pearson • January 18, 2022 • theage.com.au
My nightmare in hospital as COVID stressed the system
I’m a seasoned patient. I’ve spent significant periods of time in hospitals. But my week in hospital with COVID in January was like nothing I’d ever seen.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • January 18, 2022 • news.com.au
‘Dangerous’: ScoMo unleashes on anti-vax MP
Scott Morrison has slammed a Liberal Nationals MP’s calls for parents to stop vaccinating children as “dangerous”.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Prime Minister ⁦@ScottMorrisonMP⁩ faces fresh anti-vax nightmare after his own MP urged parents not to vaccinate kids ⁦@newscomauHQ⁩ news.com.au/finance/work/l…
January 18, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • January 19, 2022 • smh.com.au
The PM’s apology that was not an apology
Scott Morrison’s press conference showed classic blame-shifting, something voters have seen time and again in this pandemic.
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Michael Pascoe@MichaelPascoe01
"He spent the first 21 minutes of the press conference in a monologue on the government’s achievements" - it's always someone else's fault smh.com.au/politics/feder…
January 20, 2022
The Guardian • Peter Hannam • January 20, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘The opposite of planning’: how Australia put the economy before health of the nation
When governments ditched Covid health advice, people might have assumed there were carefully honed policies to handle the surge in cases. That is not what is being revealed
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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 Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • January 21, 2022 • smh.com.au
Furious ‘youthquake’ may rock political foundations
Young Australians have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, and they are understandably angry. But will they mobilise to deliver an electoral backlash?
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David Crowe@CroweDM
Last in line for vaccines and left behind in the pandemic wealth surge. Younger voters have good cause to vent their anger at this election. Column:
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
January 21, 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 • 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
ABC News • January 18, 2022 • abc.net.au
As the BBC turns 100, it faces the biggest threat yet to its existence
As its centenary approaches, the BBC is facing sweeping cuts to its programming — and it could have profound effects on fledgling democracies around the world.
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Jonathan Yerushalmy@JYerushalmy
I wrote something about the threat to the BBC's future, and why all of us - not just those in the UK - have something to lose. abc.net.au/news/2022-01-1…
January 18, 2022
The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • January 18, 2022 • theguardian.com
On Australia’s deadliest day of Covid pandemic, experts say we don’t know enough about who is dying
Doctors say Australia must coordinate Covid-19 data nationally and pick up the game on testing, tracing, isolating and quarantining
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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

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