The Guardian Australia - 2021-08-03

• ‘This is a crucial sector’: Morrison government unveils another airline lifeline as Queensland’s Covid outbreak worsens
• Sending the army into locked-down Sydney will leave the most vulnerable feeling angry and targeted
• Fruit baskets from fourth century BC found in ruins of Thonis-Heracleion
• Call to vaccinate younger Australian­s as data reveals they’re hardest hit by Covid
• ‘A one-man scam Pac’: Trump’s money hustling tricks prompt fresh scrutiny
• Calls to end ‘indiscrimi­nate deaths’ after report reveals NSW shark nets kill a turtle every 20 days
• ‘People need an end date’: NSW businesses call for path out of pandemic to include vaccinatio­n incentives
• Tesla big battery fire in Victoria under control after burning more than three days
• Fake video purports to show Australian federal police boss plotting to overthrow government
• Climate crisis has cost Colorado billions – now it wants oil firms to pick up the bill
• NDIS bill to make informatio­n easier to share could harm privacy of participan­ts, advocates say
• Hockeyroos’ quest to end Olympic medal drought spoiled by quarter-final defeat to India
• NSW Covid update: premier won’t speculate on lockdown’s end but says vaccinatio­n is key to ‘freedoms’
• Australian house prices rose more in July than incomes are rising in a year, data shows
• Queensland Covid update: lockdown extended until Sunday after 13 new Delta cases
• Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial postponed until November due to Sydney Covid crisis
• Beetaloo Basin’s traditiona­l owners condemn government for fracking handouts to gas companies
• Australian buy-now-pay-later company Afterpay to be bought by US giant Square for $39bn
• AstraZenec­a’s Australia boss ‘surprised and disappoint­ed’ with debate over Covid vaccine
• Most young green and loggerhead turtles in Queensland waters have eaten plastic, research finds
• Coalition to spend $19,000 to send Tony Abbott on trade mission to India
• Environmen­t officials questioned use of land government already owned as offset for western Sydney airport
• Who was Australia’s best prime minister? Experts rank the winners and dunces
• It’s a glorious feeling when you and your singles bubble buddy just hang doing nothing
• Australia needs a Covid plan B that gives more freedom to the vaccinated
• Today it’s cool, tomorrow it’s junk. We have to act against our throwaway culture
• Want to make Jim Jordan sing about the Capitol attack? Ask Jefferson Davis
• Our political class is agreed: this is all someone else’s fault
• Fiji’s emergency Covid-19 hotline fell silent during the rugby sevens final: we really needed this win
• The Guardian view on Fortress Europe: a continent losing its moral compass
• The Guardian view on adapting to global heating: risks must be faced
• Brexit and Covid have created the perfect moment for the politics of crackdown
• Don’t blame young people for vaccine hesitancy. The vast majority of us want to get jabbed
• Evolutiona­ry ‘trap’ leading young sea turtles to ingest plastic, study says
• Scientists warn of risks in easing UK controls for vaccinated arrivals
• NHS urged to redistribu­te near-expiry vaccines as take-up slows in young
• Not all narcissist­s are grandiose – the ‘vulnerable’ type can be just as dangerous
• Karaoke diehards returned to the spotlight – but is it time to reassess as Delta spreads?
• Ex-SpaceX engineers in race to build first commercial electric speedboat
• A ‘safe space for racists’: antisemiti­sm report criticises social media giants
• Why right to repair matters – according to a farmer, a medical worker, a computer store owner
• Clarkson’s jettisonin­g shamefully arrogant scheming by Hawthorn
• ‘Just magical’: joy for Tamberi and Barshim as they opt to share gold in men’s high jump
• Sifan Hassan wins 1500m heat after tumble to keep Olympic treble on track
• Women’s basketball: USA tame France to go 52 games unbeaten at Olympics
• Lewis Hamilton fears he has long Covid after Hungarian GP exhaustion
• Celtic’s dysfunctio­nal state points to a club that has completely lost its way
• Rohan Browning ends Australia’s long wait for a bona fide 100m star
• Rojas thanks Facebook algorithm after making history in triple jump
• Men’s 100m final struggles to emerge from shadow of Usain Bolt
• USA stunned by Jessie Fleming penalty as Canada reach Olympic soccer final
• Team GB strike gold in Olympic team eventing

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