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The Morrison government has resisted a push to slap down Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly after the outspoken MP supported calls from a Brazilian medical association to use unproven drugs to treat COVID-19.

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On November 9, as the first week of election disputes started to wind down, Big Pharma giant Pfizer Inc. announced that its COVID vaccine had been tested and shown to be 90 percent effective. The timing was… fortuitous; cue the crazies. 

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Sunday that the Game Stop stock market drama is an indication that the Securities and Exchange Commission needs to "grow a backbone to enforce those rules."

There is "big money on both sides," Warren said on CNN’s "State of the Union" on Sunday. "That’s why we need an SEC investigation."

 

"We need a market that is transparent, that is level and that’s open to individual investors. It’s time for the SEC to get off their duffs and do their jobs," she said.

 

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The appointment of a new trade minister doesn’t appear to have cracked the ice in Australia’s troubled relationship with China.

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Joe Biden has hired an all-female senior communications team for his administration, including naming veteran Democratic spokesperson Jen Psaki as his White House press secretary.

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downerAlexander Downer has been a successful slippery fidgetty fudger who has not been able to stop himself from having his fingers in the pies of others… 

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There is no way to verify the twaddle that follows, but coming from The Guardian, it has to be taken with a large dose of salt. But, though it's not in the vein of a Le Carré novel, it is entertaining enough if you believe in fairies. 

covid chThe EU will impose export controls on Covid-19 vaccines made within the trading bloc, the European Commission said on Friday, in the wake of its huge row with manufacturer AstraZeneca over vaccine shortages.

Under the restrictions, in place until the end of March, vaccine manufacturers such as AstraZeneca and Pfizer must tell the EU where they are sending doses, and are required to get

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