Nick Kyrgios progresses in Wimbledon

KYRGIOS PROGRESSES IN WIMBLEDON

Tennis star Nick Kyrgios has made it into the semi-final of Wimbledon for the primary time in his profession, regardless of being charged with assault over an alleged incident involving his ex. Guardian Australia studies the match began badly for Kyrgios as he confronted off with Chilean Christian Garín — a number of occasions the Australian turned irate with the group and his workforce — however “received fortunate” on a few breakpoints to progress. He’ll face Rafael Nadal within the semi-showdown, ABC studies, in a “renewed rivalry” between the pair — Nadal has beat Kyrgios the final 3 times, however Kyrgios shocked Nadal on this very turf in 2014.

“Clearly I’ve a number of ideas and a number of issues I wish to say,” Kyrgios instructed reporters afterwards, when quizzed in regards to the Canberra courtroom summons, and “I perceive you need me to provide the solutions however I can’t converse any extra on the difficulty”. When requested how the “final 24 hours” affected his mindset, The Australian ($) studies, a sometimes brief Kyrgios stated in no way, however revised his reply to confess he’s “solely human” and “it was arduous to sort of simply concentrate on, sort of, the mission at hand”. However he stated his preparation paid off. He’ll go to courtroom on August 2.

JAB, ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR

Prepare for a fourth COVID jab if you happen to’re 30 and older, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) reportedly says, although it’s significantly essential if you happen to’re over 50. The Courier-Mail ($) studies the ATAGI made the decision yesterday, and that Well being Minister Mark Butler will affirm it immediately. In the meanwhile solely these over 65 (or with particular well being circumstances) can get the fourth dose. However our hospitals are beneath enormous strain, and the flu is nicely and really again. Medical knowledgeable Paul Griffin instructed The Australian ($) within the weeks after our fourth dose our safety in opposition to COVID is between 80-90%. In the meantime well being officers and leaders in Tasmania, NSW, and Queensland all urged folks to put on masks indoors, significantly if you happen to’re immunocompromised, as The New Day by day studies. Greater than 43,500 COVID circumstances had been reported in Australia yesterday.

Additionally this morning, a brand new report has discovered 30% of all COVID deaths have occurred in residential aged care, Guardian Australia studies. It additionally discovered there have been 3105 extra deaths than common in January and February — evaluate that to 2020, when there have been 205 fewer deaths than regular, and 2021, when there have been 94 extra deaths than regular. For folks born abroad, the demise fee was 2.5 occasions larger than Australian-born folks, with north African and the Center Japanese folks struggling essentially the most. Regionally, the speed of demise or ICU admission for First Nations Australians was seven occasions larger than the general inhabitants.

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JOHNSON AND FOES

Abroad now and as of 5:58am AEST, a minimum of 38 (!!!) UK ministers and aides have sensationally give up Boris Johnson’s authorities in protest of the PM’s dodgy dealing with of an alleged intercourse pest MP, as BBC studies. Residence Secretary Priti Patel has instructed the PM to resign, as has Transport Secretary Grant Shapps — a longtime ally of Johnson’s. Even Nadhim Zahawi, who was appointed because the UK’s finance minister simply yesterday — by Johnson, no much less — has instructed the PM he’s received to go. However Johnson is refusing. He has been assembly with MPs one after the other and stressing that “hundreds of thousands” of UK residents voted for him.

So what occurs now? Two choices, the British broadcaster says: both Johnson offers in, resigns, and there’s a management contest, or he digs his heels in. In that case, it’ll be as much as one thing referred to as the “1922 government committee” (a reasonably highly effective organisation representing the Conservative backbenchers) to determine whether or not to alter the “vote of confidence” guidelines, as Sky Information delves into. See, Johnson already survived a confidence movement not too long ago, as The Guardian studies, and the Tory guidelines state there can’t be one other for 12 months.

It’s good Tory-treachery leisure for certain, however it does include an actual value — invoice committees scheduled for tomorrow have been cancelled, that means key laws is “successfully suspended”, one Labour MP stated.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE

On the subject of popping the query, some folks relish the planning, execution, and recording of a grand (learn: public) romantic gesture. And it’s gone far past the classics, like paying a violinist as you kneel in entrance of the Eiffel Tower. Not too long ago I watched a video of a person bringing his girlfriend a cake as a protracted desk of friends sang her “comfortable birthday”. He journeys — the cake goes splat! on the bottom, inflicting a deafening silence — and she or he shoots him what is often generally known as a “demise stare”. Whereas he’s kneeling down there, he deftly pulls out a hoop with a smile. The desk realises what’s taking place and goes wild, whereas the woman covers her mouth with happiness. However it doesn’t all the time go off and not using a hitch (thoughts the pun).

In Taiwan, a 24-year-old named Yang decides to suggest to her girlfriend, Huang. However Yang is one for the grand romantic gesture. She hires two youngsters to stage a kidnapping of her girlfriend — they’d deliver Huang right down to the wedding registration workplace, the place Yang would come out, revealing the ruse, and ask her for Huang’s hand. Early one morning, the fellows burst into Huang’s flat, pop her into a giant suitcase, and thoroughly positioned her within the boot of the automobile, with a thrilled Yang sitting within the entrance. After they pull up, nonetheless, the workplace continues to be closed. Huang feels the automobile come to a cease, bursts from the boot and screams “Assist! I used to be kidnapped!”. A close-by cop arrests them, however when investigators look by means of the trio’s textual content messages, they realise: it is a romantic gesture that has gone very, very incorrect. They drop the kidnapping expenses.

Hoping your morning holds no sneaky surprises for you.

SAY WHAT?

The rolling common is 15 folks a day are dying, and I’d encourage the bureaucratic course of to steamroll by means of.

Brad Hazzard

With a lot else occurring — rising rates of interest, the NSW floods, the battle in Ukraine — it’s startling to be reminded simply how excessive the demise toll from the pandemic is in the meanwhile. It’s with this in thoughts that the NSW well being minister urged that the rollout of the fourth vaccine dose be accelerated.

Packer pockets $3.3 billion — subsequent cease Camp Murdoch?

“Lachlan and James are longtime buddies who skilled embarrassing losses at One.Tel and Ten Community Holdings collectively and collectively managed Foxtel for 15 years. They even briefly countenanced a $3.3 billion joint privatisation deal of Consolidated Media Holdings in 2008 earlier than the GFC disaster scuttled it …

“So long as Lachlan Murdoch is co-chair of Information Corp, don’t anticipate to learn a searing editorial in any Information Corp newspaper blasting ASIC for failing to take motion in opposition to Packer for his failings at Crown. As a substitute, from ASIC’s perspective, Packer is all clear to hitch the Information Corp and Fox Corp board, though playing regulators might have one thing to say about that given the Murdoch empire’s more and more aggressive strikes into the playing business.”

Demise comes for the Entertainer in Downing Road

“After which there’s Boris Johnson, who has by no means been something greater than an entertainer. A serial fabulist in life, his ‘journalism’ was a litany of invented tales, his ‘literature’ a glib facsimile of well-liked historical past and biography, and his fastidiously honed tv model that of a self-deprecating, bumbling, classically educated clown — a silly particular person’s concept of a sensible particular person — that he rode all the way in which to No. 10.

“Johnson has all the time been about leisure, not management — thus his till not too long ago profitable insistence that he by no means be subjected to the identical requirements round reality and competence that different politicians are. He’s simply pretending to be PM — you’re not taking him significantly, certainly?”

As Albanese globe-trots, Information Corp wastes little time making the case for regime change

“So, Information Corp and political opponents are being disingenuous with reference to a Labor prime minister — color us shocked. However the different factor this mini-saga demonstrates is why these confected outrages truly matter — Information Corp is such a giant participant within the Australian media panorama it naturally influences the dialogue throughout the nation.

“And so Albanese’s response turns into a narrative in its personal proper within the AFR and The West Australian, and the matter is a serious matter on ABC RN’s Breakfast present — the round logic that ‘persons are discussing’ this reinforces but extra protection. By the way, opposition chief Peter Dutton is at present on depart.”

READ ALL ABOUT IT

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‘I don’t wish to assist him’: Joe Rogan says he refused Trump as a podcast visitor (The New York Instances)

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World starvation rising as UN companies warn of ‘looming disaster’ (Al Jazeera)

Sri Lanka president asks Russia’s Putin to assist import gasoline (Al Jazeera)

Ukrainian Kiwis slam value, pink tape as simply 227 refugees given visas (Stuff)

[Canadian] actual property slowdown in Toronto and Vancouver continues, as costs inch down from pre-rate hike highs (CBC)

Latvia to reinstate obligatory army service as Russia tensions rise (The Guardian)

THE COMMENTARIAT

Albo simply could be the Labor PM for our occasions — Peta Credlin (The Australian) ($): “To this point, his success on the worldwide stage owes as a lot to the Coalition’s overseas coverage framework that he’s inherited, as a lot because it does his willingness, for now, to function inside it. Twice in our historical past, Labor prime ministers have damaged with their very own pasts and their colleagues’ preliminary expectations to steer the nation to a greater future: Hawke, clearly; but in addition John Curtin, the briefly imprisoned Nice Warfare conscientious objector, who ‘regarded to America’, launched conscription, and steered Australia to victory in World Warfare II. Is that this how Albanese will develop?

“Or will he be a trans-Tasman model of Jacinda Ardern, the previous president of the Worldwide Union of Socialist Youth, who’s attempting to show New Zealand into Aotearoa, now that she’s capable of govern in her personal proper; or an antipodean model of Joe Biden, the supposed centrist who’s turn into America’s most left-wing president?  Or, God-forbid, a nationwide model of Daniel Andrews who after a slender first-term win (like Albanese), went softly softly on his hard-left agenda till he elevated his majority at his second election, after which all bets had been off, as his redesign of Victorian society started. We are able to however hope that he’s extra Hawke and Curtin than Ardern, Biden or Andrews.”

How we are able to construct a brand new base for Indigenous wealth — Ben Wyatt (The AFR): “On this time of change and alternative, a key query dealing with all First Nations Australians is whether or not we have now the appropriate abilities and belongings to assist our aspirations for the long run. Some of the urgent questions is how can we obtain financial sovereignty? First Nations Australians nonetheless face the challenges of the previous — colonial dispossession and many years of failed coverage interventions which have hindered and never helped, no matter how well-intentioned they could have been. However now, like all Australians, we additionally face a rising tide of worldwide actions which might be reshaping our planet and lives on it.

“Change in Australia — social, industrial and business — is accelerating at a tempo not like any in historical past. The problem can be to make sure that Aboriginal persons are not additional distanced and marginalised by this variation, however are capable of establish and lead this adjustments. These are what some have referred to as megatrends. Aboriginal Australia can not merely profit on the margins of our success as a nation — we have to have the capability, the pace and self-discipline to establish these alternatives and act accordingly. What is evident is that these within the lowest earnings strata — and globally, virtually all First Nations folks occupy this house — will discover themselves essentially the most challenged by these adjustments until they’re able to harness the alternatives introduced. Inevitably, our political, social, financial, local weather and technological environments can be formed by 5 megatrends.”

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WHAT’S ON TODAY

On-line

• Philips ANZ’s Matt Moran, College of Melbourne’s Wendy Chapman, and Macquarie College’s Jeffrey Braithwaite will discuss how expertise can advance our healthcare system.

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• NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will ship an tackle to the Lowy Institute.

• NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will present remarks at New Zealand Commerce and Enterprise Funding Lunch.

• NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (jeez, she’s busy immediately!) and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will attend the Australia-New Zealand Management Discussion board Dinner.