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[Link] Protests break out at Covid-hit iPhone factory in China
Read: 23/11/2022 www.theguardian.com
Large-scale protests broke out at Foxconn’s vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, central China, images circulating on Weibo and Twitter appeared to show.
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[Link] Sky News claims Alan Jones’s misleading commentary balanced by covering daily Covid press conferences
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Sky News sought to justify misleading Covid commentary then-host Alan Jones put to air, saying it was balanced by coverage of the daily Covid press conferences, according to a letter sent to the broadcasting regulator.
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[Link] Park lands hub helps Aboriginal rough sleepers return to Country
Read: 9/12/2021 indaily.com.au
Puti on Kaurna Yerta in the southern park lands. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDailySince opening in October, the Puti on Kaurna Yerta hub has helped 75 Aboriginal people – approximately half of whom came from the Northern Territory – to travel from Adelaide back to Country.
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[Link] Normal Island: UK Loses It Over ‘Illegal’ Christmas Party at Boris Johnson’s House
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Work Christmas parties are usually just a bit of fun – a chance to drink on the company buck and catch your married colleague kissing the office manager.
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[Link] Have you asked for an Airbnb refund during COVID? Ross was refused one – and then told to break lockdown
Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
So when they booked a night at a Victorian country home for a getaway with friends, the Melbourne-based couple didn't pay too much attention to their Airbnb host's cancellation policy.
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[Link] The ‘backbone’ of regional Australia under strain as volunteer groups suffer pandemic burnout
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The cumulative effect of natural disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic has increased fatigue and stress among volunteers in regional Australia, making it harder for them to provide essential support within the community, a study has found.
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[Link] The COVID-19 pandemic positives for Australians living with disabilities
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The pandemic has brought with it different challenges for everyone. But for some Australians with a disability, it's been a chance to find joy, independence and new passions.
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[Link] Dozens arrested in Netherlands in second night of Covid protests
Read: 21/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five police officers have been injured and at least 40 people arrested in a second night of violence in the Netherlands, as tougher Covid-19 restrictions to curb the resurgent pandemic led to angry protests in several European countries.
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[Link] Inside a Booming Black Market for Heroin in the Shadow of the Himalayas
Read: 19/11/2021 www.vice.com
We spoke to a dealer who dodges Indian soldiers and checkpoints to sell drugs in the world’s most militarised zone. Srinagar, KASHMIR – Javed has been looking over his shoulder more often than he'd like.
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[Link] Terror detectives charge Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Terror detectives have charged a Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives, as police continue to investigate threats against Victorian MPs who supported the state's controversial pandemic legislation.
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[Link] ‘We got it wrong’: SA Health boss concedes failures on border exemptions
Read: 17/11/2021 indaily.com.au
Appearing before state parliament’s budget and finance committee this morning, SA Health CEO Dr Chris McGowan conceded SA Health was not initially prepared for the volume of South Australians wanting to come home.
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[Link] Bizarre Images of New Zealand Protesters Wearing Trump Masks Evoke Capitol Riot
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Thousands of anti-vaccine mandate protestors gathered in New Zealand’s capital of Wellington on Tuesday, Nov. 9, blocking roads and rallying outside of the country’s Parliament to denounce state-enforced COVID-19 vaccination requirements and government lockdowns.
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[Link] More than 60% of people visiting Melbourne vaccination hub did not have Medicare card
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
More than 60% of people who visited a Melbourne vaccination centre targeting those facing disadvantage did not have a Medicare card, while about 5% were probably homeless, figures show.
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[Link] SA Police investigate how COVID-positive woman who sparked NT lockdown entered state
Read: 8/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Police is investigating if a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 and sparked the Northern Territory's lockdown had the relevant travel permits into South Australia from Victoria.
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[Link] China's COVID death rate is curiously low. An anonymous Beijing doctor told us how they’re doing it
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
If accurate, the official figures highlight the benefits of the world's strictest zero-tolerance policy, which involved keeping borders closed and moving quickly to suppress small outbreaks.
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[Link] Five police officers injured in clashes with protesters in Parliament Square
Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five police officers have been injured after clashing with hundreds of anti-establishment protesters in Parliament Square on Bonfire Night. Demonstrators wearing Guy Fawkes-style masks had gathered at nearby Trafalgar Square at the annual Million Mask March with some throwing fireworks at officers.
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[Link] California town declares itself a ‘constitutional republic’ to buck Covid rules
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to Covid-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of ongoing strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions.
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[Link] Police try to identify flare-wielding protesters
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police are trying to identify three people involved in the setting off of flares at an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne on Saturday.
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[Link] Adelaide emergency doctor withdraws legal challenge against mandatory vaccinations
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide emergency doctor who sought to challenge the state's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has withdrawn his legal challenge in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.
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[Link] Uber drivers tell Senate inquiry of abuse, false complaints and suspensions during Covid
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Uber drivers in Sydney and Melbourne have been temporarily suspended from the service for asking customers to wear face masks in their cars, a Senate committee has been told.
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[Link] Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
According to addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
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[Link] The People Who Left Their Offices to Work From Boats
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The future of work isn’t work from home; it’s work from wherever you want. For some people, that’s an apartment; for Brad Abbott, that’s a boat. Abbott starts his day in the historic Vineyard Haven Harbor, waking up on the boat he lives on with his family.
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[Link] Australians to be able to travel to the UK, US, Italy, Greece and more without having to quarantine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.9news.com.au
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has provided a list of countries in which Australians can travel to without having to spend time in mandatory isolation.
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[Link] Techies demand top dollar as skills shortages bite
Read: 27/10/2021 www.afr.com
Australian tech companies are turning down new business because soaring pay rates being charged by workers with in-demand skills are making projects unprofitable, instead turning to training and other non-financial strategies to try to lure and retain staff.
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[Link] 10,000 tickets confirmed for Melbourne Cup, but only 500 available to the public
Read: 22/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Organisers have confirmed crowds will be back at the Melbourne Cup for the first time since 2019, with 10,000 allowed at Flemington, including 500 members of the general public.
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[Link] Northern Territory chief minister and US senator Ted Cruz in Twitter spat over Covid vaccines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory’s vaccine policy, telling the firebrand Texan conservative “you know nothing about us”.
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[Link] Illegal House Party During NZ Lockdown Pisses Off Just About Everyone
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
As Auckland approaches its eleventh consecutive week of lockdown, a viral house party filled with dry humping Instagram models has caused outrage.
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[Link] Women Who Dressed as Couriers With Pink Backpacks to Deliver Drugs Over Lockdown Jailed
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Each of the women, all Brazilian nationals aged 24 to 33, wore a courier uniform, with distinctive pink backpacks, each with a “team” number written on (1, 2, 3 and 4), and a different coloured wallet inside with the driver’s name on.
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[Link] Police investigate after car set alight in driveway of Mount Gambier home
Read: 10/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police are investigating a suspicious car fire at Mount Gambier overnight, in what appears to be a targeted attack on a woman who tested positive to COVID-19 earlier this week.
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[Link] Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a computerised contact tracing system and screening for foreign travellers, the Guardian can reveal.
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[Link] Incredible find on 173km/hr P-plater’s phone
Read: 9/10/2021 www.news.com.au
The young tradie was spotted speeding in a white Toyota HiLux on the M1 Motorway near Berowra in northern Sydney at 5.40pm on Monday. The 19-year-old P-plater driver was travelling 173km/hr in a 110km/hr zone.
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[Link] ‘Save Australia’ protest erupts in New York
Read: 5/10/2021 www.news.com.au
Australia became the surprising focal point of an American anti vaccine mandate protest march for teachers in New York City overnight, with hundreds of demonstrators chanting “Save Australia” and some waving Aussie flags.
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[Link] Rikers Island Inmate Calls Into Radio Show to Talk About How Bad It Is
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. “The only way you get a medical appointment is by laying on the floor, and they have to come get you in a stretcher.
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[Link] ‘The only way’: Australians stranded in New Zealand charter private jets to get home
Read: 28/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australians desperate to get home from New Zealand are going to extreme lengths to do so, forking out tens of thousands of dollars to charter private jets.
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[Link] Gang Members Busted Trying to Smuggle a Carload of KFC Into a Locked Down City
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
New Zealand police were patrolling the backstreets just south of Auckland on Sunday night when they saw it: a “suspicious looking” car travelling down a gravel road near the city’s southern border.
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[Link] Two week shutdown of construction industry expected following violent Melbourne protests
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Victorian government is expected to forcibly shutdown all construction sites across the state in response to violent protests outside the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union's Melbourne office today.
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[Link] Arrest warrant issued for man charged over house parties during SA lockdown
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide court has issued a warrant for a man accused of holding multiple house parties during South Australia's last COVID-19 lockdown. Bitanya Sibeko failed to appear for a hearing on his charge of failing to comply with a health directive.
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[Link] Age photographer pepper-sprayed at anti-lockdown protest
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The conduct of some Victoria Police is being investigated after a newspaper photographer was pepper sprayed and video was published online showing a woman being pushed to the ground and sprayed by an officer at a violent anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne at the weekend.
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[Link] South Australians, including a couple in their 60s, arrested after entering the state without a permit
Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Six people, including a couple from Kangaroo Island and another pair who crossed fields to enter the state from Victoria, have been arrested and charged after separate breaches of South Australia's COVID-19 restrictions.
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[Link] NSW business slams Australia Post’s parcel pause after $60k spend on express fees
Read: 6/9/2021 www.news.com.au
A NSW business has slammed Australia Post over a sudden announcement to pause their parcel post collection service after shelling out nearly $60,000 for express post and claiming some parcels took up to 13 days to arrive.
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[Link] Scott Morrison granted Covid lockdown exemption to visit Sydney for Father’s Day weekend
Read: 6/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison travelled to Sydney over the Father’s Day weekend and returned to Canberra on Monday after receiving an exemption from ACT Health.
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[Link] ‘I believe it’s a mental health issue’: the rise of Zoom dysmorphia
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
The effects of staring at ourselves for hours at a time during video conference calls has resulted in a breakdown of how we perceive our own self image.
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[Link] Costco 'caught out' by COVID, regrets decision to open new store
Read: 26/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Boolaroo warehouse at Lake Macquarie was set to open tomorrow after eight months of preparation, but is now at the centre of a COVID cluster.
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[Link] The FDA Just Fully Approved Pfizer's COVID Vaccine
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
The landmark moment could convince some vaccine-hesitant people to get their shot—and may foreshadow a jump in new vaccine mandates to battle the pandemic. “The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] Wealthy people calling for a tougher lockdown got what they wanted, at no cost to them
Read: 22/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
I live in a local government area “of concern”. The news from Friday’s press conference ricocheted around my community like a bullet. There were tears, disbelief, anger.
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[Link] NSW police fine 600 people on first day of Covid crackdown blitz
Read: 18/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales police issued nearly 600 infringement notices to people flouting tough new health orders on the first day of a three-week crackdown designed to get the state’s escalating Covid crisis under control.
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[Link] Supreme court rejects Victorian anti-lockdown protester’s legal challenge
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
A legal challenge to Covid-19 stay-at-home orders brought by a woman who protested against Victoria’s second wave lockdown has been dismissed.
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[Link] Police arrest dozens of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne's CBD
Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Victorian police arrested dozens of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne's CBD last night. Officers appeared to outnumber a handful of protesters who came into the city's centre to protest hours after Premier Daniel Andrews announced a seven-day extension to the city's lockdown.
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[Link] Victorian couple desperate to return from NSW hear nothing a week after applying for Covid travel pass
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Victorians Carla Styles and Stuart Annand were just past the Queensland border, near Goondiwindi, when their mad scramble home began to unravel.
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[Link] Grieving family of man who died after getting COVID at Liverpool Hospital want more transparency
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The grieving family of an 80-year-old man who is among five deaths linked to a COVID-19 cluster at a hospital in south-west Sydney, say they have a right to know what's going on at the facility.
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[Link] A woman who refused to check in at a Canberra store claims to be a 'sovereign state'
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Elvira Shagabuddinova, who told the court her last name was actually Useinova, is facing three charges, including trespass and failing to comply with a health direction without a reasonable excuse.
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[Link] Centrelink pauses welfare and childcare debt repayments during lockdowns
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Centrelink will no longer issue or recover welfare and childcare debts during lockdowns, including in parts of New South Wales and Queensland currently under stay-at-home orders.
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[Link] As paramedics in south-west Sydney we are pushed beyond exhaustion – and into a dystopian world
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
It’s been nearly 18 months since I wrote about Covid-19 first hitting our shores and spreading to our suburbs. The transmissibility and virulence of the Delta strain has pushed the ambulance service beyond the brink of exhaustion.
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[Link] Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than COVID. A mental health crisis is looming
Read: 7/8/2021 theconversation.com
As we write this article, the Delta strain of COVID-19 is reminding the world the pandemic is far from over, with millions of Australians in lockdown and infection rates outpacing a global vaccination effort.
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[Link] ‘The Pied Piper leading us off a cliff’: Florida governor condemned as Covid surges
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Florida governor Ron DeSantis earned a new moniker this week as the resurgent coronavirus continued to wreak havoc on his state: the “Pied Piper of Covid-19, leading everybody off a cliff”.
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[Link] Hundreds protest against Victorian COVID lockdown, leading to clashes with police
Read: 6/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Hundreds of protesters have taken to Melbourne's streets hours after Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced a statewide lockdown from 8:00pm on Thursday.
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[Link] Swallow hard reality pill on virus deaths
Read: 5/8/2021 www.afr.com
Each life saved by the Sydney lockdown costs $330 million. It’s an unjustifiable expense that imposes large and disproportionate burdens on small business and the less well off.
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[Link] Extroverted, self-centred men less likely to comply with Covid restrictions, study suggests
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
People who do not comply with Covid-19 pandemic restrictions are mostly male, more extroverted and more likely to put their own self-interests above those of others, suggests a new study of behaviours internationally.
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[Link] Who’s behind Australia’s anti-lockdown protests? The German conspiracy group driving marches
Read: 27/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
A German-based conspiracy group helped to drive a series of anti-lockdown protests across Australia which saw dozens of people arrested and hundreds fined after violent clashes with police.
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