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Hello, and welcome to the Weekly Lamington! We’re three friends from Perth, Australia who follow the news, bringing you the stories that matter most from Australia and beyond.
This week,
(0:26) COVID update (1:24) ruby princess (2:15) Putin has the vaccine (2:28) government secures free COVID vaccine for all Australians (5:05) Google v Australian Government (7:06) Fortnite v Apple (8:00) USA politics update (8:35) Biden picks Kamala Harris as VP (10:08) postal vote debate (11:46) Britney Spears files against dad’s conservatorship (11:50) Xi Xingping facing internal CCP backlash (11:57) CCP attacks wine exports for price dumping (12:07) NZ boy sneezes out lego 12:19 Bill Shorten accuses Scomo of simping for Trump (12:37) Colorado introduces weed vending machines (12:42) HECS changes (13:09) QLD bans gay conversion therapy (13:17) Clive Palmer to sue Mark Mcgowan (14:00) Segway ending production
(00:38) COVID update
(2:34) Drew Pavlou suspended
(5:10) Whitlam Letters
(6:38) TikTok in trouble
(8:47) Basil Zempilas for Mayor of Perth
(18:59) China + Iran partnership
(20:17) Great Barrier Reef Foundation in hot water
(23:33) Trump commutes Roger Stone's sentence
COVID update - Victoria/Brazil/WHO/Bubonic Plague in China (0:27)
Seattle Autonomous Zone cleared by police (4:36)
China ratifies UN Arms Trade Treaty (5:24)
Hong Kong update (5:42)
350 Elephants mysteriously drop dead in Africa (7:15)
Pauline Hanson banned from Channel 9's Today Show (7:26)
Putin voted in until 2036 (7:45)
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann Resigns (8:00)
Labor's Kristy McBain wins Eden-Monaro by-election (11:10)
News Corp pays out 2.9 million defamation settlement to Geoffrey Rush (13:19)
Hundreds evacuated after Philippines oil spill (13:40)
Italy's alps turn pink - climate change? (13:43)
UK boycotts Thai coconut milk after PETA found evidence of monkey slavery (13:51)
Kanye West announces presidential candidacy (14:29)
Trump's July 4th speech at Mt Rushmore (19:50)
Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell detained by the FBI (20:25)
COVID Update (0:43) China strips Hong Kong of autonomy (3:46) Trump Update (4:34) Greg Hunt delays Vape Ban (5:22) ScoMo increases military spending to combat China in the Indo-Pacific (5:56) Companies boycott Facebook advertising (13:16) Mike Henry, John Wayne & Mel Gibson hit by cancel culture (14:03) Sacha Baron Cohen performs at right-wing event disguised as hillbilly (14:16) Central banks warn that climate change may cause 25% drop in global GDP by 2100 (14:38) Guy Sebastian in hot water (14:54) Women's FIFA World Cup to be hosted by Aus/NZ (15:42) ASPI tackles disinformation (16:06) AFP & ASIO raid home of NSW Labor MP over ties to China (21:52) Refugee rights protests in Brisbane (27:42) Iran calls for Trump's arrest over the assassination of Soleimani (31:44) Russia secretly offered Taliban militants bounties to kill coalition soldiers (33:12)
Hello, and welcome to the Weekly Lamington! We’re three friends from Perth, Australia who follow the news closely, bringing you the stories that matter most from the last seven days.
This week,
Facebook removes right wing accounts (0:46) China's barley tariffs backfire over beer (1:15) China tightens grip on Hong Kong, Taiwan extends an olive branch (1:34) North & South Korea's propaganda standoff (1:45) COVID - Worldwide (2:04) COVID - Australia (2:24) COVID - WA (2:55) Novak Djokovic tests positive (5:35) Greta Thunberg & the Pope make statements on COVID & Climate Change (6:02) Proposed changes to universities' Humanities & STEM funding (8:06) Boston Dynamics Robodogs available to buy (13:23) Ian Holm passes away from Parkinson's (13:42) Hundreds gather at Brisbane protest for Manus & Nauru asylum seekers (13:54) Woolworths cuts 600 jobs to make way for automation (14:17) Scomo makes an statement on cyberattacks (15:02) Foreign cyberattacks increased 330% in Australia over the last year (16:34) Trump delays Juneteenth MAGA rally (19:28) Tiktokers/KPop fans troll White/Blue Lives Matter & Trump (20:46) Trump whistleblower John Bolton's memoir (23:10) Mike Pompeo compared Bolton to Edward Snowden (26:23) Vapes & E-cigarettes need prescriptions from July 1st (29:24) Minimum wage raised to $19.84 (30:56) Frydenberg's Five Eyes Finance Plan (31:36) Tyson Vacher charged with fraud for posing as a psychologist (32:14)
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Coronavirus (0:32) Facebook ad revenue (1:40) Zuckerberg distances from Trump (2:16) Huawei CFO Cathy Meng (2:44) China-India border skirmish (3:00) Derek Chauvin to receive $1m pension (3:38) Black Lives Matter (3:47) Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone/CHAZ (4:16) Rayshard Brooks (5:29) ScoMo denies slavery existed in Australia (6:53) Greens staffers deface Captain Cook statue (7:59) Cancel Culture - Fawlty Towers/Chris Lilley/Gone with the Wind/Colonial/NASCAR (9:47) Akon City (15:54) ALP branch-stacking scandal (16:45) Julian Assange (23:48) Trump v LGBTQ+ (24:19) Bazooka seized in NSW (25:54) Marise Payne & the EU v China, Russia & Turkey (26:21) Twitter suspends government propaganda accounts (32:06) North & South Korea border tensions (35:02)
Welcome to Weekly Lamington #9! This week, we focus on BLM protests, foreign investment in Aus & the US election.
Contents - Coronavirus update (0:41) Robodebt update (1:13) G7 update (1:50) Black Lives Matter (2:02) Australian foreign investment overhaul (14:45) Joe Biden v Donald Trump (21:10) Celeste Barber's bushfire relief (34:26) Prince Andrew v US Department of Justice (35:01) North Korea splits from South Korea (35:35) Andrew Bolt breaches standards in mocking Greta Thunberg (35:44) United Nations report on Duterte's drug war (36:35) Keanu Reeves teases Matrix 4 (37:53)
Thanks to @gawrila for music
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00:42 Drew Pavlou
1:04 China grips Hong Kong
1:49 Trump defunded WHO
2:13 Black Lives Matter protests
14:44 Domestic violence inquiry
15:52 Australia invited to G7
30:26 Trump v Twitter
40:13 COVID Economy
40:32 Robo-debt
Hello! Welcome to The Weekly Lamington. We're three friends from Perth, Australia who follow the news.
Every week, we bring you the biggest stories from Australia and beyond.
This week we focus on:
- 0:33 ScoMo at the National Press Club
- 13:12 Daniel Andrews and the Belt & Road Initiative
- 24:22 China secures Hong Kong
Flash News
- 30:35 Joe Rogan moves to Spotify
- 30:47 The Trans-Tasman Bubble
- 30:55 Trump declares war on Fox & Twitter
- 31:16 Telstra v 5G Conspiracists
- 31:21 Scotland denies tax-dodging companies COVID bailout
- 31:27 NZ trials four-day workweek
- 31:37 More deaths from bushfires than COVID
- 31:49 Venezuela escorts Iranian fuel tankers
- 31:56 LeBron supports George Floyd against Minneapolis police
- 32:05 Ceasefire in Afghanistan
- 32:14 COVID Ship in Fremantle
We encourage our listeners to think for themselves and do their own research.
0:30 The WHA's COVID Origins Investigation & China's tariffs on Australian barley 11:09 Drew Pavlou & UQ 22:04 Obamagate 33:56 Flash News 34:08 AFL back June 11 UK in recession Discovery of new dinosaur - Elaphrosaurus Menthol cigarettes banned in UK Google pays tax in Australia Facebook's 'Shops' 5G, COVID-19 & Australian youth Fights in Hong Kong's Government Biodegradable Plastic Bottles No-deal Brexit Palestine voids Israel-US deals
00:19 COVID-19 update
4:16 Victoria Police clash with 99% Unite
10:56 Josh Frydenberg coughs up economic forecast
19:34 China bans Aussie beef & barley
26:17 Australia tries to block ICC investigation into Israel-Palestine war crimes
32:42 FLASH NEWS
32:43 US Supreme Court investigates Trump's finances
32:49 Iran-US prisoner swap
32:59 US-Russia tensions
33:11 Cardinal George Pell
33:21 Queen Elizabeth cancels duties
33:56 Jerry Stiller passes away
34:10 Robert Pattinson can't bulk for Batman
34:43 US Justice Department drops Michael Flynn case
35:11 Tara Reade wants to take a lie detector test
00:20 COVID-19
5:52 Fox News lawsuit
8:30 Greg Hunt & Trans rights
15:00 Joe Biden accused of sexual assault by Tara Reade
17:41 Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest and 'Wolf Warrior' diplomacy
22:25 Standoff in the South China Sea
27:27 Trudeau bans assault rifles
30:49 FLASH NEWS
30:50 Kim Jong-un alive
31:12 Everybody wants a mullet
31:31 Obama laughs about Gillard ripping Abbott
32:00 Taika Waititi directing next Star Wars
32:38 Nicholas Cage playing Tiger King
33:50 Michael Moore's "Planet of the Humans"
34:49 Qantas offering $19 flights
35:00 Elon, Grimes & X Æ A-12
36:00 Murder Hornets in Washington
Planet of the Human's doco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
Cheers to Zac Whelan for the music: https://www.instagram.com/gawrila_/
0:25 COVID-19
1:22 COVIDSafe tracking app
3:25 Pentagon declassifies 'UFO' footage
4:55 Pete Evans fined by the TGA
7:22 Australia-China tensions
14:16 Scomo talks with Trump about economic reform
19:16 Trump & Putin release a joint statement
28:29 Kim Jong-un update
Special thanks to Zac Whelan for the music! Check him out at https://instagram.com/gawrila_
00:39 Australia wants Google and Facebook to pay up
5:42 Malcolm Turnbull's Bigger Picture
12:28 COVID-19
15:35 COVIDSafe tracking app
19:03 Trump defunds the WHO
21:22 CCP updates Wuhan's death toll
24:12 WHO/Gates Foundation hack
26:16 USA's anti-lockdown protests
29:37 Democracy advocates arrested in Hong Kong
31:00 Where's Kim Jong-un?
33:10 Virgin airlines in trouble
1:44 How long til we're outta this mess?
3:29 Koala Killer & the Ruby Princess
5:39 Four-phase plan for COVID-19
8:51 Lockdown lifted in Wuhan
10:32 ScoMo's cross with China
11:39 The origin of COVID-19
16:21 Anti-vaxxers
18:04 5G conspiracies
21:54 Race for the White House
26:27 Google bans Zoom
29:00 Why is fuel so cheap?
32:30 The Great Barrier Reef
33:50 Tasmania's 'Battery of the Nation'