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As Victoria reopens to more than 100 international travellers today, The Agereports that some hotel quarantine staff employed by Healthcare Australia are still working at more than one site across Melbourne, contravening a key recommendation from the state’s hotel quarantine inquiry. Emails obtained by The Age dated April 1 show Healthcare Australia told select staff their second jobs were a breach of their employment conditions “and subsequently a breach of the contract between HCA and [...

A STICKING POINT The Morrison government has accepted advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation that Pfizer should be the preferred COVID-19 vaccine for people under 50 (who have not already safely received the first AstraZeneca shot), with Guardian Australia explaining that the AstraZeneca vaccine will come with a warning that people under 50 may face extremely rare but potentially deadly blood clots. In an evening press conference, chief medical officer Paul Kelly...

Scott Ryan of a “incident” captured by CCTV footage taken on the night Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in March 2019, but says he only knew it involved a security breach, not an alleged crime. As news.com.au recounts, CCTV tracked Higgins’ and her alleged assailant’s movements on the night in question, and was the subject of negotiations between the AFP and parliamentary officers, who did not want it released without agreement. 7.30’s Leigh Sales noted that Ryan asked the ins...

It’s International Women’s Day. A day to celebrate women’s achievements. A day which male politicians will inevitably make about themselves. This year’s theme is “Choose to Challenge”: choose to challenge gender bias, gender inequality and men saying dumb things. Australian women have done spectacularly well at calling out the crap in recent months. Here at Crikey, women have stood up to the leaders of our country, demanding a better response to sexual violence — or in the case o...

Published March 3, 2021 To sign up for our daily newsletter filled with the latest news, goss and other stuff you should care about, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or, bookmark the PEDESTRIAN.TV homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses rape and suicide. Australia watched in shock as Attorney-General  Christian Porter reveled himself to be the person accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in 1988, allegat...

Journalists have rejected Christian Porter’s claim that no one from the media had ever contacted him about the specific allegations of historic rape before publishing details. At his press conference in Perth the attorney general said he had been subjected to a “public trial by media”, saying he had not been presented with the specific allegations that were made against him. “Something that I am just personally struggling to even wrap my head...

Crikey anonymously. The Prime Minister’s Office hasn’t had a good fortnight for public relations, but at least it’s handling it with tact and grace — just kidding, of course: as Kishor Napier-Raman wrote this week, the prime minister’s team has been relentlessly hassling and attempting to bully journalists out of reporting stories. Speaking of an absolute lack of tact, Georgia Wilkins took a look at big bonuses for the businesses raking in JobKeeper (while JobSeeker payments are set t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas may have paid $600 million worth of bogus claims for...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas may have paid $600 million worth of bogus claims for...

The Kansas Department of Labor and the Legislatures auditing division are at odds over how much money has been paid out in fraudulent unemployment claims, with a new estimate released Wednesday saying that as much as $600 million in bogus payments were made last year. Initial findings from a report issued by the Division of Post Audit used KDOL figures that showed 157,000 claims had been flagged as potentially fraudulent, roughly 24% of the total claims filed in 2020. The analysis showed rough...