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And as a new wave of COVID gathers pace, aircraft crews are being hit by sick leave, delays and cancellations.

Remote general store managers are stretched out, stressed and under-resourced. As a result, communities are hungry, traumatised and cut-off.

The Australian Fishing Trade Association says it’s non-partisan after a Greenpeace investigation found links to the Liberal Party.

When systems fail in a remote general store, the closest fix is 452km away. Until help comes, it’s on the store manager to come up with a solution.

General stores in remote communities control the quality, quantity, range and cost of what’s on the shelves. As the only shop in town, they wield a lot of power over Indigenous lives.

Crikey readers weigh in on paid trips to Israel for reporters, the actions of editors at News Corp and Nine, and coverage of the Gaza war in general.

Behrouz Boochani, who spent six years imprisoned in an offshore camp, has called for a royal commission into immigrant detention.

The Seven Network ‘assisted with accommodation as part of the filming of the [Spotlight] story’ by paying what could be a six-figure sum in rent for former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann, and First Peoples would probably have an enshrined Voice to Parliament if the referendum had had bipartisan support.

Dave Sharma is back in politics after winning preselection for the NSW Senate seat vacated by Marise Payne, and Australia needs 480,000 tradies over the next three years and the building industry says they should be brought in from overseas.

Edmund Tadros and Neil Chenoweth take home Gold Walkley while eight women honoured for outstanding contributions. Plus: Crikey job cuts

The Australian Accounting Standards Board chair says he does not believe restrictions were placed on what went into the report.