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Edition No. 436

February 11-17, 2023

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NEWS

GONE WEST

Robert Drewe on Rio Tinto’s missing radioactive capsule

OPINION

A WINK AND A TUDGE

Paul Bongiorno on the resignation of Alan Tudge

NEWS

REVERSE SPLIT

Is the News Corp-Fox merger back on the table?

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EDITOR'S NOTE

Earlier this year, we published Karen Middleton on the Halton report. The review of the Covid-19 response had been released under freedom of information laws but significant sections were redacted. The Health minister, Mark Butler, said the report was protected by commercial-in-confidence. This week, Karen Middleton reports on those redacted pages. They do not reveal business dealings, as suggested, but huge mismanagement of vaccines.

More than 26.8 million doses were wasted. Even after changing government, nothing was done to properly coordinate the response to Covid-19

. Decision making and systems were ad hoc. The report warns that the country needs to be prepared for another “catastrophic” wave. It’s sobering reading and it should have been shared with the public in September when the report was written.

- Erik Jensen, editor-in-chief

OPINION

The NDIS should cover ADHD

Jordon Steele-John

“It is my view, and the position of the Greens, that the eligibility criteria of the NDIS should be expanded to include ADHD as a primary disability. Secondly, ADHD diagnosis and subsequent care should be free under Medicare. The issues around access require urgent intervention – not only because the principle of equity of care underpins our public health system, but because people with ADHD are over-represented in low-income and underemployed demographics.”

NEWS

Peter Hollingworth’s painful legacy

Mike Seccombe

Former governor-general Peter Hollingworth has been the subject of proceedings by the independent complaints body for the Anglican Church, Kooyoora, over his handling of sexual abuse matters, including one claimed to be the longest- running abuse case in the world. He could be defrocked. Moves are afoot to have him stripped of his generous ongoing entitlements, which are reckoned to have cost taxpayers $12 million since he quit the governor-general post in disgrace after less than two years.

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PROFILE

Actor/producer Claudia Karvan

Hannah Story

After a break of 25 years, the chance to work on one of her favourite plays, Edward Albee’s

The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?

, has lured actor, producer and director Claudia Karvan back to the stage.

“To describe someone as a mother is only one aspect of who they are,” she says. “I prefer the phase of playing mothers than playing love interests, that’s for sure.”

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FOOD

Sarde a beccafico

Andrew McConnell

This recipe is from Sicily. Like a lot of old recipes, it has a great story behind it. It is named after a small bird, similar to a finch, that feeds on wild figs. Sarde a beccafico is more than a snack or antipasti. It can be served as an entree or as a lovely plate at lunch, and is a dish best eaten at room temperature on a summer day. The combination of the gentle orange flavour, the pine nuts and the currants is about as exotic as a sardine can get.

REVIEW

Paramore’s

This Is Why

Shaad D’Souza

Paramore’s sixth album finds Hayley Williams and co returning to spiky, adrenaline-fuelled rock music. It’s not a pop-punk record, but it does play like an album seeking an answer to the question: what would it sound like if a songwriter who inspired an entire generation with urgent, soul-baring but undeniably juvenile rock as a 19-year-old tried to recapture a similar energy as a 34-year-old? Or: how does a pop-punk band grow up?

CARTOON

Jon Kudelka

QUIZ

According to the 1985 Jimmy Barnes song, what did the working-class man believe in?

ANSWER

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