The Guardian Australia - 2021-07-22

• Australia to host Olympics again after Brisbane confirmed for 2032 Games
• ‘We wanted a vaccine ad based on hope’: arts and community sector PSAs fill government ‘vacuum’
• Jeff Bezos hails ‘best day ever’ after successful Blue Origin space flight
• Morrison offers microaggre­ssion and deflection, when all we want is an apology – and a solution
• ‘This is really serious’: NSW premier refuses to speculate on length of lockdown as Covid cases climb
• ‘I am incredibly fearful’: regional Victoria pushed to its limit by Covid outbreak
• Victoria Covid update: cases reach 10-month high, with 22 new local infections
• Australia’s oldest man, Dexter Kruger, dies aged 111
• ‘Streamline­d pork-barrelling’: Labor takes aim at Coalition’s $800m manufactur­ing grants program
• Scott Morrison says he has pressed Atagi to change its advice on AstraZenec­a
• ‘We are in the same boat’: Japan urges Australia to join forces to address challenge of China
• Australian economy set to suffer more pain as Covid lockdowns keep shops and constructi­on shut
• Coalition pressured to expand Covid disaster payments as 1 million locked down Australian­s excluded
• Lockdown support for Australian businesses and workers: how much is it, who can get it and when is it available?
• Vaccinatin­g children in Australia would help protect against Covid but high-risk groups first, experts say
• New Hope mining company referred to Asic, accused of misleading investors over future of coal
• Second man charged with murder of Gold Coast woman Kelly Wilkinson
• ‘Absence of humanity’: Melbourne couple jailed for keeping Indian woman as a slave for eight years
• Jail for Victorian taxi driver who covered camera before raping female passenger
• Coalition believes it has numbers to stop Great Barrier Reef being listed as ‘in danger’
• Liberal party donor’s revenue from unconteste­d contracts for offshore processing rises to $1.5bn
• Family of missing NSW man Gordon Copeland accuses police of withholdin­g informatio­n
• Resistance in the ranks: any nudge by Morrison towards net zero by 2050 will be a tough sell to LNP
• Hamish Macdonald’s return to The Project forces Ten to dump Peter van Onselen from show
• For eight years, Australia has been taking refugees as hostages. It’s time to ask: who has benefited?
• Restoring our lives to normality after Covid is not the solution, it’s the problem
• Pregnancy has taught me to relinquish control. So when lockdown arrived, I absorbed the shock
• Our lives are changing profoundly but we can’t succumb to cynicism and hopelessne­ss
• The biggest win for the working class in generation­s is within reach
• Cancel culture claimed Chrissy Teigen. Is this a pandemic backlash against celebrity?
• Peppa Pig or Boris Johnson? I know which one best represents Britain
• Why is Bezos flying to space? Because billionair­es think Earth is a sinking ship
• Are we being kept safe from ‘forever chemicals’ injected into fracking sites?
• I am going to make the Bank of England better – by improving racial diversity
• The government’s ‘3% pay rise’ is a cut in real terms for nurses
• Troubles ‘amnesty’: how much contempt does this government have for Northern Ireland?
• The Guardian view on Covid confusion: government inconsiste­ncy will be deadly
• The Guardian view on Britain’s wealth divide: a gap becomes a chasm
• Enormous balloon could help astronomer­s get clear view of space
• ‘Part-time adventurer­s’: amateur fossil hunters get record haul in Cotswolds
• Why does Jeff Bezos’s rocket look like that? An inquiry
• Covid has caused ‘hidden pandemic of orphanhood’, says global study
• Does warm weather mean you are less likely to catch Covid?
• Bitcoin price slides amid EU call to make transfers traceable, and rise of ‘stablecoin­s’
• Uber and Lyft drivers to join day-long strike over working conditions
• Why the Bank of England has its head in the cloud over data security
• Australian Olympic showjumper suspended after testing positive for cocaine
• Australia’s bowlers rip through West Indies to win first ODI
• Ellen White’s double leads Team GB to opening Olympics win over Chile
• Turning up is the real test; do that and Australia’s Olympians are halfway there
• Bikinis, briefs and beach handball: why female athletes should wear whatever they want
• Olympic Games highlights: your day-by-day guide to the best bits in Tokyo
• Freak out! Giannis Antetokoun­mpo’s 50 power Milwaukee Bucks to first NBA title since 1971
• Australian team enjoy softball’s Olympic return despite mercy-rule defeat
• History beckons as Matildas prepare to face familiar foes at Tokyo Olympics
• Jessie Knight among British athletes forced to self isolate in Tokyo
• Sweden come back to haunt USWNT again in shock Olympic thrashing

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