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COVID-19 VARIANTS

Astra Zeneca vaccine not effective against new Covid strains as African variant spreads to Indonesia

New studies show the Astra Zeneca vaccine, the workhorse of Australia’s vaccine program, is just 10% effective against the virulent South African Covid strain, which reached Indonesian shores this week. Callum Foote investigates.

The Mad Max films depict a world increasingly degraded. Furiosa will be far from comforting

For Furiosa, the film-makers will jump back in the timeline and break the linear narrative. We will not be able to do that in our real-life treatment of the climate crisis. The Mad Max series began with a B-movie about lead-footed yahoos causing carnage on the road. It now embodies a powerful political message that seems to say: “don’t let the real world get like this one”. Let us interpret it as a clarion call to fight for a better future.

 

Protest Can Free the Refugees Imprisoned by Australia’s Government

For decades, Australian governments have kept refugees locked up in detention centers on offshore islands and the mainland. But refugees and their supporters have shifted public opinion by exposing cruel conditions and challenging the racist government policy.