The Guardian Australia - 2021-07-30

• Jess Fox a fitting victor in Olympics arena she has dominated for so long
• As Olympic athletics begins, the data suggests we are at the peak of human ability
• NSW Covid update: army to help enforce Sydney lockdown as state reports record 239 local cases
• Five weeks into the greater Sydney lockdown, the rules are eye-glazingly complicate­d
• China ‘propped the doors open’ for criminals in Microsoft hack, Australian spy agency boss says
• Citizen scientists capture spectacula­r footage of endangered southern right whales off NSW coast
• Australian lawyer arrested for third time in Papua New Guinea over alleged $100m fraud
• Australia can’t dump zero Covid strategy until 80% of people vaccinated, Grattan Institute warns
• Coalition to pay consultant­s McKinsey $2.2m for two months’ work but won’t reveal nature of job
• Alan Jones column ended by Daily Telegraph amid controvers­ial Covid and anti-lockdown commentary
• From ‘it’s not a race’ to ‘go for gold’: how Scott Morrison pivoted on Australia’s Covid vaccine rollout
• Beetaloo Basin fracking: court bid launched to stop Coalition giving company $21m in grants for project
• Australian athletics team dragged into Covid scare after American tests positive
• Will Sydney’s Covid lockdown work and how different are restrictio­ns to Melbourne’s ‘ring of steel’?
• National Gallery of Australia to return 14 artworks worth $3m to India
• Prolonged Sydney lockdown could tip Australia into another recession, economists say
• Director of public prosecutio­ns says Brittany Higgins investigat­ion is with AFP, contradict­ing Karen Andrews
• Police officer accused of murder of Kumanjayi Walker seeks to argue he was acting in ‘good faith’
• Climate crisis cuts Australian farm profits by a quarter over past 20 years
• ‘So relieved’: belated Covid support welcomed by welfare recipients in Sydney lockdown
• ‘Rigidly flexible’: Peter Dutton’s office directs department to answer media inquiries in three paragraphs
• Tax cuts backed by Labor will give men $2 for every $1 women get, Greens modelling shows
• Australian advocacy groups push for government investment to stop sexual violence
• Man v food: is lab-grown meat really going to solve our nasty agricultur­e problem?
• The crushing mental toll of studying for the HSC in lockdown is sapping our motivation and hope
• The best way to watch Olympic dressage? On TikTok, with commentary from Finland
• Dead, shrivelled frogs are turning up across eastern Australia. What’s going on?
• Bolsonaro’s 1,000km Amazon railway will cause climate chaos. It must be stopped
• Crime always pays for the Tories – that’s why they turn to it again and again
• The Guardian view on women and the Olympics: the athletes caught up – now the IOC must
• I am a messy eater – and it is mortifying
• The Guardian view on Channel migrants: people, not political props
• Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
• ‘Wiggly’ fossils found in Canada may be oldest known sign of animal life
• Extreme weather will be the norm and UK is not prepared, scientists warn
• Genetic engineerin­g test with mosquitoes ‘may be game changer’ in eliminatin­g malaria
• Richard Lewontin obituary
• The useful illusion of Covid incompeten­ce
• CEOs told to ‘think before they tweet’ after Just Eat spat with Uber
• ‘Disinfo kills’: protesters demand Facebook act to stop vaccine falsehoods
• Fiji’s sevens triumph is symbolic of their ‘work together, love one another’ spirit
• Concerns raised over how football clubs will enforce new heading restrictio­ns
• Ange Postecoglo­u rues transfer failings after Celtic exit Champions League
• ‘We wish that was real life’: USA and Iran unite on Tokyo basketball court
• Conor Murray: ‘South Africa’s Twitter gameplan is a funny, weird subplot’
• The ‘LeBron James of weightlift­ing’ knows the sport’s Olympic future is murky
• Dutch skateboard­er Jacobs calls Olympic quarantine conditions ‘inhuman’
• ‘Bitterswee­t’: Kyle Chalmers falls achingly short at his brilliant best
• Zac Stubblety-Cook wins swimming gold for Australia after stunning last lap
• Caeleb Dressel fills US swimming’s postPhelps void with 100m freestyle gold
• West Ham close to signing goalkeeper Alphonse Areola on loan from PSG
• Matt Coward-Holley wins bronze for Great Britain in men’s trap shooting
• Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy win Ireland’s first Olympic rowing gold
• Team GB disappoint­ed after television commentary gets players’ names wrong

The Guardian Australia - 2021-07-29

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