August 7 – 13, 2021
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Cassandra Goldie
The true story of Morrison’s tax cuts for the rich
“Last week we learnt that regardless of which major party wins the federal election, tax cuts of $180 a week are locked in for the top 5 per cent of taxpayers. Following that revelation, it was rumoured that Labor would pay for the tax cuts by reducing services for cancer patients and older people with sore teeth, although it denied the former. For the government’s part, it plans to slowly starve our essential services and the safety net. ”
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Paul Bongiorno
Morrison plays the other race card
“The setting for the government parties room meeting back in Canberra after the winter break was depressing. It wasn’t hard to see it as a metaphor for the deep hole in which the Morrison government finds itself. Having spent the first four months of the year assuring Australians the vaccine rollout was not a race, Scott Morrison is now in the race of his political life.”
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Culture
Profile
Gonzo director and actor Dasha Nekrasova
Director, podcaster and Succession cast member Dasha Nekrasova’s debut film is a genre mash-up that reflects the hallucinatory age of conspiracy theories.
The Influence
Andrew Ford
Broadcaster and composer Andrew Ford discusses how Luciano Berio’s O King showed him how to start with the simple.
Fiction
Game theory
“When he left last time and he told her they’d likely be apart a month, she kissed him and said Why don’t you move here and let us see if we can make this a life? And these words are with him on the plane, they are with him as he lands, they are with him as he opens the store and greets people by their name. He looks at the market as if to farewell it. It is the place he has known his entire life, and Khaled does not believe he is ready to walk away.”
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Health
“We will be working as hard as we can to make sure that come 8pm next Thursday we can be out of this.”
The Victorian premier announces the state’s sixth coronavirus lockdown. One more and he gets a free coffee.
Law
“Police will allege in court the man knew information relating to the sexual abuse of a young male in the 1970s.”
New South Wales Police Force confirms Hillsong founder Brian Houston has been charged with allegedly concealing information related to child sexual offences. Houston’s father, Frank, has been accused of abusing nine boys.
Gaming
“If I was a car thief and went to the criminal court and said, ‘I’m not going to steal a car again, don’t worry about it, take my word for it’, and they just let me go – it’s really not how the system works, is it?”
Victoria’s gaming royal commissioner expresses his doubts about Crown Resorts’ capacity for self-regulation. In fairness to car thieves, they hurt fewer people.
Sport
“He’s a winner to us.”
The cousin of Australian Olympian Peter Bol celebrates Bol’s fourth place in the 800 metres final at the Tokyo Olympics. Bol is still faster than anyone else in Australia.
Television
“He had a warmth that he brought into the living rooms of millions of Australians.”
The Nine chairman announces the death of Brian Henderson, who read the news to Sydney from 1957 until his retirement in 2002. That’s the way it is.
Trauma
“The scheme ... includes a one-off payment in recognition of the harm caused by forced removal.”
The minister for Indigenous Australians announces that survivors of the Stolen Generations in the Northern Territory and the ACT will be eligible for compensation payments of $75,000. It follows a specific objection to such payments.
