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One country is holding back the Delta surge with measures Australia can't fully copy

As Sydney Covid infections spiral out of control, the efficiency of NSW’s lauded “gold standard” contact tracing system has become ever more critical. Cracks are appearing. Luke Stacey reports.

NSW Contact Tracing: “gold standard” or just more Covid spin?

 

  

If it were only Bezos who thought like this, we could ground him, tax him, and be done with it. But he is only the crassest manifestation of a logic that pervades our ruling class: from Sen. Ted Cruz jetting off to the five-star Ritz-Carlton in Cancún, Mexico, while Texas froze to Peter Thiel planning his luxury bunker in New Zealand. And so long as the rich and powerful continue to believe that there is an “out there” to absorb their messes, they are going to fiercely protect the business-as-usual machine that will keep the rest of us burning down here.

 How Symbolic

Climate CrimesStuck in the Smoke as Billionaires Blast Off

Date looming for James Ashby debt decision

How slowly things move when the LNP were in the thick of things.

HOW IMPORTANT are the repercussions of the Ashbygate conspiracy, the one that brought Tony Abbott to power and set in train a series of disastrous coalition governments, to today’s LNP?

Does anybody care anymore?

We are about to find out.

A decision will be made soon as to whether or not the already massive legal debt accumulated by One Nation's James Ashby will increase.

 

 

Guaranteed not the News on Sky

Sky News agreed to pay $40,000 plus legal costs, to air an apology during Ms Panahi’s program on Friday evening, and to publish an apology on its Facebook page and a separate corrections page on its website.

In a statement, Senator Hanson-Young said: “To use my family, including my 7-year-old niece, to launch a political attack is gutter politics.

The money will be donated to the Australian Youth Climate Commission after Sky News wrongly aired claims the Greens senator involved her niece in a dangerous anti-logging protest.

Sky News pays $40,000 plus costs to avoid Hanson-Young defamation suit