Friday: Indigenous sites dating back to before the Ice Age can be destroyed by mining companies. Also, the inconveniences of fuel stoves.
by Emilie Gramenz
Hello, it is Emilie Gramenz who presents the main and must-see of Friday, August 28th.
More than a hundred ancient Aboriginal sites in Western Australia, some of which date back to before the last ice age, can be destroyed by mining corporations that have already been granted legal permission to do so. Guardian Australia has spoken to the classic owners of Pilbara, rich in iron ore, who are expressing their fears for sacred places, adding rocky shelters with painted walls and scarred trees. A federal investigation has been initiated in reaction to Rio Tinto’s destruction of a 46,000-year-old rocky shelter in Juukan Gorge, as it is of the greatest archaeological importance.
The UK has recorded the highest number of new cases of coronavirus since 12 June. The number of instances and the seven-day moving average are now higher than march 23, the day the lockouts were announced. France set a new record for instances after the blockade and Italy holds the highest record in the country since May 6. The World Health Organization warns that Europe is entering a “difficult time” as young people return to school, with Germany on the verge of banning primary events. The Italian fitness government is tracking visitors to the Sardinian nightclub of former Formula 1 team chief Flavio Briatore amid fears from a group after more than 60 instances were connected to the site.
Private nursing homes are guilty of devastating covid-19 infection rates among victorian fitness staff. Nurses would not be inflamed at such rates if more families had staffing plans in position and were checked to ensure that these plans were adequate, according to the nurses’ union. Australian Twitter users focused on panic shopping, while anti-Chinese-language tweets and hashtags came basically from the US, According to Monash University research of 2.5 million tweets from six countries in the early months of the pandemic. And Anthony Albanese says Australia’s senior care sector will want “structural changes” once the royal commission completes its work.
Business, industrial, agricultural and environmental leaders have come together to warn that Australia is “unfortunately unprepared” for the effect of climate change in the coming decades. He urges the government to do much more to reduce emissions and improve the country’s resilience.
Women in their late teens are more likely than other Australians to be victims of sexual assault, while young men in the same age organization are more likely to be the perpetrators. The effects come from a new report by the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare.
Google is pressuring Labour MPs and crusaders to oppose a proposed code that would force virtual platforms to pay media corporations for content. The generation giant’s lobbying efforts complement a primary virtual crusade to mobilize its massive base of users who oppose the proposal.
Research shows that pressure from the New South Wales mining industry to approve 21 new coal projects would carry Australia’s seven-year amount of greenhouse fuel emissions into the atmosphere, if all were developed.
Police in Kenosha, the city of Wisconsin, were rocked through protests and fatal violence since the shooting of Jacob Blake, appointing the officer who shot Blake several times in the back. Rusten Sheskey has been hired through the police section for seven years.
Walmart partnered with Microsoft to bid on the U.S. operations of the popular TikTok video sharing app. The world’s largest store needs a force in the developing virtual media sector.
Anti-war activists in the UK are calling on the military to reduce the rates opposed to a soldier arrested after organizing an individual demonstration against Britain’s involvement in the Saudi bombing of Yemen near Downing Street.
The appointment of former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott as envoy of British industry is a bewildering election, writes Malcolm Farr: “His lack of sales skills is revealed by the fact that he dismissed his own party as prime minister in 2015, and through his constituents as a member in 2019. True, he won the post of prime minister, but it is a Labour party that had replaced its leader three times in six years. The ALP begging to be defeated. Abbott is the variety of negotiators with the hairy chest, who prefer excavator tactics to delicacy.
Do you have to give up the fuel to cook? Fuel stoves, appreciated through chefs and home cooks, have drawbacks to human, monetary and global health. A long period without fuel stoves is already very likely for some Australians. In the ACT, plans are being made to phase out the use of domestic fuel.
If you’re looking for something new to read this weekend, The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey is a meditative and sprawling novel to lose yourself in. The Patrick White literary award-winner’s latest book is ideal for the meandering uncertainties of 2020. The characters who wander the pages are searching for meaning beyond the various trappings of their lives.
Unlike beyond recessions, it has decimated women-dominated tasks. Women also bear the burden of education and home care. Some economists say the outcome can reduce gender equality over a generation. Gabrielle Jackson talks to Hex, who lost her job as a leader in Melbourne, and Emma Dawson of Per capita about what the government can do.
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Michael Hooper’s sabbatical in Japan next year will be a wonderful result for the Wallabies captain and the Australian team, but it will be a blow for Super Rugby and NSW Waratahs, writes Bret Harris.
The 2020 Tour de France, which will start in Nice on Saturday, is on the verge of collapse. The Maritime Alps region, from the early stages of the race, has been put on red alert for the spread of Covid.
Our cartoonist David Squire examines how Melbourne City and Sydney FC controlled to claim the A-League title.
Fewer than one in 3 travelers wear a mask on Sydney’s public transport system, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The Australian Financial Review discusses how to buy now and pay later. The Courier-Mail reports that next year the Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art will bring primary works by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Turner, Van Gogh, Goya, Vermeer, Renoir and Monet to Australia for the first time.
Scott Morrison will sign up for Anthony Albanese, Gladys Berejiklian and others at a bush summit in Cooma.
A Senate committee will hear testimony about Rio Tinto’s destruction of the former Juukan Gorge rock shelters in Western Australia.
There’s nothing to smile about for Dutch art lovers. Police reported that Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer, through old teacher Frans Hals, had been stolen for the third time.
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