The Guardian Australia - 2021-05-07

• More clotting cases probably linked to AstraZenec­a, as NSW looks for Covid ‘missing link’
• The latest data reveals just how insane the Australian housing market has become
• Falling Chinese rocket to crash to Earth on weekend as US calls for ‘responsibl­e space behaviours’
• Christian Porter moves to strike out major sections of ABC’s defamation defence
• UK sends patrol vessels as 80 French protest boats gather off Jersey
• Stranded Australian cricketers leave Covidhit India for Maldives
• Rio Tinto defends not stripping bonuses from executives who left amid Juukan Gorge outcry
• Australian­s asked to spend more on domestic holidays in $9m campaign
• Scott Morrison accidental­ly endorses Beijing position on Taiwan in foreign policy blunder
• Jarryd Hayne sentenced to five years and nine months in prison for rape of a woman in 2018
• Labor and crossbench­ers thwart NSW government’s flood plain water harvesting laws
• Scott Morrison targets Australian-Indian community with Facebook ads explaining travel ban
• RBA reluctant to raise interest rates to ease soaring house prices because it could cost jobs
• New Zealand suspends quarantine-free travel from NSW over two Sydney Covid cases
• Eta Aquarids meteor shower 2021: Australia expecting to see spectacula­r display of shooting stars
• Pressure mounts on Australia to support Covid vaccine intellectu­al property waiver for developing nations
• Coalition vetoes funding for wind and battery farm in northern Queensland
• Linda Reynolds ‘deeply sorry’ Brittany Higgins did not feel supported after alleged sexual assault
• ‘Costs are going up’: Linda Reynolds warns of hard discussion­s on NDIS funding
• Queensland police blocked research into domestic violence cases and attitudes of officers
• Pandemic halves new internatio­nal student university enrolments in Australia
• Anthony Albanese says ‘most vulnerable citizens are being neglected’ by broken aged care system
• Discount chain Best&Less received windfall of more than half its $42.6m jobkeeper subsidy
• Australian government urged to heed public support for treaty banning nuclear weapons
• Judge criticises government for allegedly refusing to tell grieving mother about son’s robodebt
• Australia’s India travel ban: how other countries are managing their returning citizens
• Between two worlds: a Chinese American story
• I got my first AstraZenec­a shot. The only lasting effect has been a sense of relief
• Facebook is pretending it cares how its platform affects the world
• I’m in awe of people who work with their hands – it’s a crying shame those jobs don’t pay more
• India is hiding its Covid crisis – and the whole world will suffer for it
• We can’t stop rising sea levels, but we still have a chance to slow them down
• The ersatz hedge: how we’re debasing England’s rural landscape
• Could the Guardian have resisted the magnetic pull of the metropolis?
• The Guardian view on foreign policy after Brexit: growing pains
• The Guardian view on ending stories: it’s hard to do
• Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin plans space sightseein­g jaunt for July
• Archaeolog­ists uncover oldest human burial in Africa
• US declares support for patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines
• Tweaked Moderna vaccine ‘neutralise­s Covid variants in trials’
• SpaceX finally launches and successful­ly lands its futuristic Starship
• Covid third wave ‘inevitable’ in India, say health experts
• Workers at Indonesian pharma firm arrested over ‘reused’ Covid swabs
• Dogecoin’s record-breaking rise shoots ‘joke’ cryptocurr­ency to wider attention
• Trump’s Facebook ban should not be lifted, network’s oversight board rules
• Twitter launches prompt in bid to reduce abusive language
• Jack Vening: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
• Uber narrows loss as hunger for food delivery business grows during pandemic
• Swans to leave Sydney early as NRL reintroduc­es Covid-19 restrictio­ns
• Closed shop? Sport needs more voices to reach real consensus on concussion
• Jimmy Anderson: ‘Why should I start slowing down? There’s no reason I can’t keep going’
• Reds should beat Brumbies in Super Rugby AU final – unless they drop the ball
• Chelsea ‘will arrive in Istanbul to win’ Champions League, pledges Tuchel
• Ellia Green backs captain’s call on sexist, homophobic language in sport
• Trans weightlift­er Laurel Hubbard set to make history at Tokyo Olympics
• Solly March: ‘The aspiration is always to play for as big a club as you can’
• Chelsea on verge of WSL title after Sam Kerr’s double sinks Tottenham
• Team GB embrace ‘unity in diversity’ theme for Tokyo Olympics kit
• A legendary Giro battle, last-day shenanigan­s and Jonathan Edwards

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