Weighing up the real risks with AstraZeneca
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VACCINE HESITANCY
Weighing up the real risks with AstraZeneca
Twenty-nine per cent of adult Australians surveyed have reported they are unlikely to get the COVID-19 jab (The Age, 19/5). The sideeffects are the most commonly cited reason, but many people also believe there is no rush to be vaccinated. This is despite exhortations from experts who tell us that we are not done with COVID-19 yet and a level of herd immunity is essential for the safe opening of our borders.
This occupation dooms us to what we are seeing
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May 18, 2021 12.03am
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THE GAZA STRIP
This occupation dooms us to what we are seeing
The violent tragedy unfolding in Israel/Palestine is a vile stain on successive Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority, compounded by Hamas, whose refusal to recognise the reality of Israel is an act of wilful, obsessive and destructive blindness.
Even in our local Jewish and Muslim communities, the pain, anger and fear we feel for our sisters and brothers in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, render us unable to empathise with the same emotions experienced by the other. This is not to equate the suffering on each side, simply to acknowledge it.
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People will no longer be able to pop into Thames Valley Police s Kidlington headquarters for front desk services PUBLIC-facing desks at police stations across the county are being permanently closed as part of a force-wide cut to front counter services. The move, which comes after a consultation by Thames Valley Police, will see help desks close at Kidlington South HQ, Bicester and Witney police stations. The force will also reduce Oxford’s St Aldate’s police station opening hours by two hours and Abingdon station will open from 8am - 4pm from August 30. Thames Valley Police says the closures aim to adapt to the different ways people now want to make contact with officers, such as via telephone or online.
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by Attila the Stockbroker
(Cherry Red Books, £14.99)
REGULAR Morning Star readers need no introduction to Attila the Stockbroker. Performance poet, musician and staunch socialist, his bimonthly diary often bulletins from his shows in far-flung outposts and latterly, in the absence of gigs, his ruminations on music, poetry and life in lockdown has long been a favourite read of the people’s paper.
Already a bolshy young bolshie, in the late 1970s the advent of punk rock in general and the Clash in particular drew young John Baine to appreciate the DIY aspect of entertainment and its links with politics, first as organiser and master of ceremonies for Rock Against Racism gigs and, increasingly, as performer.