The Guardian Australia - 2021-08-06

• Victoria Covid update: snap seven-day lockdown announced after eight new cases reported
• A drop in new home loans in June is no sign Australia’s house prices will return to reality
• Environmen­tal impact of bottled water ‘up to 3,500 times greater than tap water’
• Misinforma­tion on 27-year-old Sydney man’s Covid-19 death spreads on social media
• National leaders to discuss easing restrictio­ns for vaccinated Australian­s as half the country is locked down
• ‘Pure gaslightin­g’: regional NSW residents furious as Covid spreads after vaccines redirected to Sydney students
• Hillsong pastor Brian Houston charged over allegedly concealing informatio­n about child sex offences
• ‘Australian­s are the winners’: Scott Morrison defends controvers­ial commuter car parks fund
• Police officer shot dead armed robber after being told not to intervene, Victorian coroner’s court told
• Gladys Berejiklia­n hints returning to work in some industries could be tied to vaccinatio­n
• Australia equals best Olympic medal tally with quickfire canoe and skateboard golds
• Fake Uber driver admits sexually assaulting two ‘vulnerable’ women he lured into his car in Melbourne
• Bullying claims at army’s Sydney University regiment referred to defence force inspector general
• NSW Covid update: Sydney suffers worst day of pandemic with 262 cases and five deaths as Delta spreads north
• Queensland Covid update: 16 new local cases reported as south-east waits for lockdown decision
• Coalition commits $1bn to Closing the Gap measures to reduce disadvanta­ge for Indigenous Australian­s
• Australian mathematic­ian discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet
• Western Sydney airport land purchase ‘may generate some interest’, officials told minister
• ‘Serious action’ needed on Australian military culture but commanders may not be held accountabl­e for years
• A quarter of Australian women giving birth are aged 35 or over
• ‘I can’t prove my vaccinatio­n status’: Australian immunisati­on register errors affecting healthcare workers
• Dentists, midwives and physiother­apists could deliver Covid jabs to bolster Australia’s rollout
• The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis
• All Australian­s should have access to vaccines before we reopen. That includes children
• As paramedics in south-west Sydney we are pushed beyond exhaustion – and into a dystopian world
• Move over, space. Tech billionair­es have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’
• New Zealand farmers have avoided regulation for decades. Now their bill has come due
• Thatcheris­m is the big Tory scam that still distorts our politics
• As our Olympians bring us together, so our politician­s tear us apart
• The Guardian view on Boris Johnson in Scotland: an undeclared campaign
• The Guardian view on the UK economy: stuck in a rut of low growth, and politics is to blame
• The risks and rewards of vaccinatin­g UK children against Covid
• Genetic secret to age women start menopause discovered
• Good old days: why body confidence improves after 60
• ‘They thought Covid only kills white people’: myths and fear hinder jabs in DRC
• TechScape: Why ‘hacker summer camp’ and pandemics don’t mix
• Facebook let fossil-fuel industry push climate misinforma­tion, report finds
• Rugby League World Cup chief want ‘binding agreements’ for new 2022 dates
• Australia humbled by Bangladesh for second time in 24 hours in T20 series
• ‘A total embarrassm­ent’: Carl Lewis rips US men’s 4x100m team after Tokyo flop
• Peter Bol brings Australian­s light in dark times despite 800m heartache
• Dina Asher-Smith targets relay redemption as Britain run fastest time in an Olympic heat
• ‘Pretty angry’: Wallabies trio dropped from Bledisloe opener over drinking
• ‘It’s like a dream’: Sky Brown delights in Olympic medal a year after horror crash
• Rapinoe and Lloyd doubles grab bronze for US in thriller against Australia
• USA assert authority over Australia to reach Olympic basketball gold medal game
• Australian pair charge into beach volleyball final and shot at Olympic gold
• Kick-off and venue of women’s Olympic football final changed amid heat fears
• Bev Priestman’s road from County Durham to Olympic final with Canada
• Wonder Walls – Team GB cyclist flies to omnium gold on track

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