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Benzinga Before The Bell: More Amazon Workers Join Union Over Pay and Work Conditions, UK Inflation Highest In 40 Years, Sole Monkeypox Vaccine Maker Finds It Difficult To Meet Accelerating Demand And Other Top Financial Stories Wednesday, August 17

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Benzinga

‘Deeply negative’: Real wages plunge at fastest rate on record before jobs summit

Australian households are suffering under the sharpest decline in real wages on record as “sluggish” purchasing powercontinues to lag soaring prices.

The New Daily

Overseas travel bounces back as Aussies shrug off COVID-19 groundings

New data shows Aussies are coming down with a serious case of travel fever, with international departures inching closer to pre-pandemic levels.

The New Daily

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ICC Men’s FTP 2023-27 | India to play 38 Tests, 39 ODIs, 61 T20Is; more time for IPL

The Indian cricket team expectedly has a choc-a-bloc calendar but as usual there will not be any bilateral cricket series with Pakistan due to political reasons

The Hindu

Planning for COVID-19 vaccine rollout left too late, Commonwealth failed to adequately engage states, damning review finds

The former Morrison government's planning for Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout was not "timely", it underestimated how difficult it would be to protect aged care and disability residents and failed to adequately engage with the states and territories before the rollout began, a damning review has found.

ABC News

Man Utd board slammed over "idiotic" decision which has "killed" Erik ten Hag's start

Manchester United embarked on a far-flung tour of Asia and Australia over pre-season as Erik ten Hag's tenure got under way, but their preparations for the new campaign have so far resulted in two defeats

Daily Mirror

Men's FTP '23-'27: India to play 38 Tests, 42 ODIs, 61 T20Is in next cycle, no series vs Pakistan

NEW DELHI: The Indian men's team will be playing a whopping 141 bilateral international matches during the next five-year Future Tours Programme (FTP) Cycle between May, 2023 to April, 2027, the ICC said on Wednesday.

The Times of India

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Men's FTP '23-'27: India to play 38 Tests, 39 ODIs, 61 T20Is in next cycle, no series vs Pakistan

NEW DELHI: The Indian men's team will be playing a whopping 138 bilateral international matches during the next five-year Future Tours Programme (FTP) Cycle between May, 2023 to April, 2027, the ICC said on Wednesday.

The Times of India

Catholic priest claims he's been wrongly charged over Blockade Australia protest

Catholic priest Peter Murnane was presented with a charge sheet accusing him of being at the Blockade Australia protests in Sydney in June, but he says police have the wrong man.

ABC News

Santos profit rises three-fold amid energy insecurity as calls for windfall tax intensify

Greens say 300% increase in profits shows Australia is ‘being taken for a ride’ while other activists claim company is ‘burning our long-term future’

The Guardian - AU

Legal stoush brewing after Australian bureaucrats cancel Russian embassy's rebuild

Australian bureaucrats have scuttled the construction of a new Russian embassy building in Canberra, ordering a "premium" block of land near parliament house be vacated within 20 days.

ABC News

First Nations campaigner accuses Queensland government of ‘hypocrisy’ for voting down ‘raise the age’ bill

Labor voted against bill seeking to raise age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 shortly after committing to Indigenous treaty

The Guardian - AU

Fears for patient safety with hundreds of medicines in short supply

Doctors and pharmacists are warning there could be serious consequences for patients if the shortage of hundreds of medications isn't addressed soon.

ABC News

Summer shake-up as Aust-India series grows

Australia's summer of cricket is set for its biggest shake-up in five decades with home Tests to be split either side of a January tour of India in 2027.

AAP

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Irish Mirror

Comedy show in Australia takes swipe at Ireland AM in cheeky clip

The official Twitter account for the show The Cheap Seats brought the show to an international stage after joking that hosts Muireann O'Connell, Tommy Bowe and Alan Hughes were always tight on time

ABC News

Albany photographer Nev Clarke captures the canola landscapes of the Great Southern

Fields of yellow are not an uncommon sight for someone travelling through the Great Southern region of Western Australia, thanks to the growing canola industry.

The Conversation

Scott Morrison's veto of a gas-drilling plan off Sydney was strange – but it should not be overturned

Federal parliament has been rocked by extraordinary revelations that Scott Morrison secretly assumed control of numerous ministries, including the resources portfolio, in the last term of government. The then prime minister went further and used his new powers to knock back a gas-drilling proposal off the New South Wales coast.

The Conversation

Parliament must act to ensure Australia never has 'secret ministers' again

It was revealed this week that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison was secretly appointed in 2020 and 2021 by Governor-General David Hurley as a minister in the health, finance, treasury, resources and home affairs portfolios.

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The Conversation

Australia's inflation rate is about to go monthly. Be careful what you wish for

Australia’s consumer price index is about to go monthly, meaning Australia will join most of the developed world in getting an update on inflation at the end of every month, instead of once every three months as at present.

The Independent UK

Afghan Olympians resettle in Australia to start afresh

Olympic sprinter Kimia Yousofi has arrived in Australia to start afresh just over a year after carrying the Afghan flag into the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games and then having to watch from afar as the Taliban regained control of her country

Daily Mirror

Moment elderly brothers enjoy warm hug after being reunited after 40 years apart

A man, who turned 90 this week, was seen getting out of his wheelchair to hug his brother at Dublin Airport, who he had not seen for 40 years having emigrated to Australia in the 1950s

Reuters

Australia's Morrison says he secretly took five ministries because responsibility was his

Australia's former prime minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday he decided to be secretly sworn in to five key ministries during the coronavirus pandemic because he felt responsibility for the nation was his alone.

The Independent UK

Former Australia PM says secret powers were needed in crisis

Scott Morrison says giving himself extra powers when he was Australia’s prime minister was necessary during the coronavirus crisis as criticism rose the moves were deceptive and undemocratic

The New Daily

Unrepentant: Scott Morrison says Australians assumed he’d take on new jobs

A defiant Scott Morrison has denied his secret assumption multiple ministries was improper, saying Australians expected him to take extra responsibilities.

AAP

Doctors 'need a carrot' to stay rural

The Rural Doctors Association of Australia says Labor's health policies are making it hard to attract and retain medical staff in the bush.

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