The Guardian Australia - 2021-08-11

• NSW chief health officer sidesteps question of whether she told government to lock down earlier
• Which country really won the Tokyo Olympics – and at what cost?
• Study links women’s middle-age height loss with greater risk of death
• Scott Morrison walks back ‘end the weekend’ rhetoric on electric vehicles
• Drones, traps and snares: crocodile that attacked soldiers in Queensland is captured and killed
• Fact check: Angus Taylor’s response to the landmark IPCC report
• ‘Multibilli­on-dollar scheme to buy votes’: Senate inquiry to examine Coalition’s urban congestion fund
• NSW transport minister wants federal government to use electric vehicles in fleet
• Melbourne man stranded in NSW waiting for border permit after father’s funeral
• ICC prepares bid for cricket’s inclusion in 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
• China court upholds death sentence against Canadian Robert Schellenbe­rg
• Parents ‘tortured’ by death of baby after magpie swooped in Brisbane park
• NSW Covid update: record 356 new local coronaviru­s cases and three deaths reported
• NSW police investigat­e Covid-infected man who travelled from Sydney to Byron Bay
• ‘We’re not about to back down’: how climate experts hold hope despite the IPCC report
• Push for NSW Covid test payment as experts say long wait for results may discourage swabs
• Centrelink orders jobkeeper recipients to pay back $32m, while profitable businesses allowed to keep funds
• Sky News Australia deletes dozens of videos promoting unproven Covid treatments
• Josh Frydenberg’s office intervened in superannua­tion consultati­on paper, FOI documents reveal
• Aged care facing impending shortage of 110,000 workers, report finds
• Parliament­ary committee calls for changes to make it easier for skilled migrants to stay in Australia
• Australia census 2021: the two questions likely to cause the most controvers­y
• A dog’s inner life: what a robot pet taught me about consciousn­ess
• New movement of religious extremists push ultra-conservati­ve vision in US
• The world could hit 1.5C warming in a decade. That’s terrible news for the Pacific
• Coalition’s misleading tactics will no longer cut it – the IPCC report shows our future depends on urgent climate action
• Remember Obama’s drill, baby, drill, days? Democrats aren’t innocent on climate
• Predatory financial tactics are putting the very survival of the UK care system at risk
• We’ve forgotten the old rules of conversati­on – and that’s no bad thing
• Emojis aren’t debasing language – they’re enriching it
• The reform of prisons has been my life’s work, but they are still utterly broken
• The Guardian view on the IPCC climate report: the fierce urgency of now
• The Guardian view on post-Covid recovery: powered by the state not the market
• 1,000-year-old remains in Finland may be non-binary iron age leader
• MS charities decry UK postcode lottery for ‘life-changing’ drug
• Artificial intelligen­ce could be used to diagnose dementia
• ‘What is happening to me?’ The teenagers trying to make sense of long Covid
• Online therapy is not perfect, but has its benefits
• Hey fellas, consider yourself an ally to women? Consider a vasectomy
• ‘Our morgues are full’: Zimbabwe struggles with surge in Covid burials
• Beats Studio Buds review: Apple’s Androidlov­ing noise-cancelling earbuds
• Australia’s swimmers target Paris after record-breaking Tokyo medal haul
• Adelaide Crows give no guarantee Taylor Walker will stay with AFL club
• Highs, lows and burritos: the Guardian’s standout Tokyo moments
• Super Netball dress rehearsals fall short of informing how finals will play out
• Barcelona lawyers chucking spanners like Patches O’Houlihan in Dodgeball
• England confirm Moeen Ali’s return for second Test against India
• Dom Sibley’s inertia is costing England and could lose him his place
• Southampto­n sign Chelsea’s Broja and close on £15m Adam Armstrong

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