Belinda Barnet
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Early unit of computing power: one "kilogirl" was equivalent to a thousand hours of manual computing labor
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What other kind of product is so *embarrassing* that people feel compelled to explain it? No, no I didn’t really buy this thing. Honestly I didn’t.
Twitter Blue will be a marketing case study for years to come
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Good morning Australia. Penny Wong will be our Foreign Minister.
This makes me inexplicably happy
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5yo: I am building a semi ominous vehicle out of cardboard
Me: You mean semi autonomous
5yo: You don't understand my technology
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If Gladys had locked Sydney down as soon as the first couple of cases emerged in Bondi—rather than waiting 12 days because it was a “too much of a burden”—the rest of Australia wouldn’t be in lockdown too.
NZ wouldn’t be in lockdown.
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I will never get used to these high daily death counts, nor will I accept them as a reasonable price for “living with covid”
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Katie Hopkins published a video where she explains how she’s deliberately exposing our quarantine hotel workers to risk—by not wearing a mask and not waiting 30 seconds to open the door.
Throw the book at her Australia. She’s taken the video down now but it’s archived.
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It’s really hard to listen to Frydenberg as he touts economic strength and more jobs etc: over 40,000 of my colleagues in higher education have recently lost their jobs due to the coalition’s absolute hatred of universities.
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The Berejiklian government GAVE US this outbreak. We owe them nothing.
They could have locked down when there were only a couple of cases in Bondi and kept Australia at covid zero. They didn’t. So here we are.
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Imagine if the Australian grid was *already* running on 100% renewables. We wouldn’t be at the mercy of global energy markets and supply.
It’d be cheaper too.
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Jo Hildebrand: See! lockdowns don’t work!!
Australia: you mean they don’t work in NSW. They’ve worked in every other state.
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The irony of a Silicon Valley guy tweeting “I got a higher credit limit on my Apple Card than my wife did” and it finally draws media attention to algorithmic bias is not lost on me
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Why are the images and names/identities of the Sydney removalists being published? Aside from the fact that they’ve just lost their mum and deserve privacy for that reason anyway, it’s just plain unethical.
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Must admit I do like Adam Brandt’s billionaire tax. The idea of not subsidising Clive Palmer and Gina is highly attractive
#npc
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Peter Dutton on radio right now war-mongering.
No, really, that is actually what our Defence Minister is doing.
On Anzac Day no less.
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If Melbourne goes into lockdown tonight we will do it properly. We will go in **hard and early** to protect the rest of Australia as well as ourselves. It’s not just about us.
If only NSW had extended us the same courtesy when cases first emerged in Bondi.
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The Oz is out again today eulogising Berejiklian—as though she died in battle rather than resigning because she was under investigation by NSW’s corruption watchdog.
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‘For any of you who may be thinking of abandoning the Oxford comma, I offer the following. And rest my case.
(Posted to the National Press Club of Canada by John Davidson)
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I’m really enjoying a series called Conservatives Having a Meltdown Over the Election Results—but the new season, If We Were Even More Conservative We’d Have Won, is even more fun
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I love the irony of Peter Dutton out there manufacturing an existential threat from China while there’s a new covid variant knocking on our door and Scott Morrison is “not concerned”.
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Andrew Bolt has just penned a story inciting NSW & Vic residents to *defy public health orders*—and the Herald Sun published it.
If your life has been impacted by extended lockdown, direct your anger at media outlets who are wilfully undermining our attempt to contain COVID.
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So is it just OK that a sitting Prime Minister has once again called the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in NSW a “kangaroo court”?
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Speed limits on Australian roads are restricting our freedom! It should be our individual choice how fast we go.
The state has no right to tell me how fast I go in my own car.
If other people are worried about my personal choice then stay off the road
#PersonalResponsibility
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Every time Berejiklian tells other states to follow NSW’s “lead” over coming months, to open borders when NSW gets to 70% or 80%, remember we are only in this current wave because she didn’t lock down fast enough in June.
She made a bad decision that impacted everyone else.
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NSW: we only have 25K cases!
Other states: keep telling yourself that, champ
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Misogyny *is* an ideation. It’s just so prevalent and so routinely practiced in Australia that we forget it is a set of made up and lethal ideas.
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All day today you will hear coalition MPs saying the Stage 3 tax cuts were designed to “benefit 95% of Australians”. Jane Hume just ran this talking point on
@abcmelbourne
. It is a lie.
Currently Stage 3 will overwhelmingly benefit wealthy men.
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That escalated quickly: the CDC is now advising against travel to Australia.
Remember when we were a covid-free safe haven? Before we sort of gave up I mean.
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Morrison: We have a plan. Hospitals will open surge capacity
Doctors: “I don’t want to alarm anyone, but there is no surge capacity. We are full everyday. We’ve been saying this for years..[If there were capacity] our ambulances wouldn’t be ramping”
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Bill Shorten posted (then deleted) this in response to Michaelia Cash being the new Attorney General.
Can I just say it was apt.
Every Australian is thinking this.
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On what actual planet could you publish the private journal entries of a dead girl in order to prove she was crazy/making things up, then construe yourself as the victim?
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This is how
@theheraldsun
chose to describe Dr Monique Ryan today. She’s also a professor, an MP, and a paediatric neurologist but I guess that’s too many words
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Perhaps we actually don’t want or need politicians who find it hard to do their job if an anti-corruption body exists? Just a thought.
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@realDonaldTrump
White guy Vegas kills 59 shoots500: "not the time" talk policy 🙏
Islamic guy kills 8: DEATH PENALTY! WALLS! EXTREME VETTING!
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Dear
@ScottMorrisonMP
- it’s a global pandemic, I’m stuck inside for six weeks homeschooling three kids because it’s lockdown, & the sight of my PM frolicking at the footy without so much as a mask makes me 😞
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As someone who watched the planning & then the “freedom” rally on their encrypted chats, I have to say something obvious:
The police just stopped thousands of people from congregating in our city. They know what they’re doing.
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It must be very hard to do it each time, but once again Peter Van Onselen has managed to portray a bloke he likes as the victim here
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Are we going to talk about how Penny Wong managed to *fix* a situation that was giving Australians a lot of anxiety? We could at least acknowledge how she did it in THREE DAYS.
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The Shrine of Remembrance is not the usual hangout for union members protesting something.
It is, however, precisely the place that nationalistic, right-wing “freedom fighters” who met on telegram would head to.
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On a macro level, there’s a sex scandal in Parliament House.
On a micro level, it distracts the news cycle away from politicians who may or may not have raped someone.
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@realDonaldTrump
Another one in Ohio just HOURS later. The border wall won’t fix this.
Thoughts and prayers won’t fix this.
Gun control will help.
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I really feel for the year 12 students this year who have carefully selected their subjects to do what they love eg Arts/Law/Commerce, been knocked for six by the pandemic lockdown, and are just now realising the degree has increased from $20K to $45K in a day
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11,000 scientists: Climate change is a global emergency that threatens the survival of our species. Stop using fossil fuels.
Australia: Yeah, nah.
WHO scientists: Coronavirus is a global emergency. There’s no need to change travel of trade.
Australia: STOP THE PLANES!!!!
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Active fires 🔥 in Australia.
At what point are we going to listen to our own scientists and the Bureau of Meteorology and admit this is climate change? When the entire land mass is covered?
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Remember when the COVIDsafe app was the magic pill that would end lockdown and protect us like sunscreen? I do. Carry on
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Dan Andrews was a great premier and got Victoria through a really damn hard period in history.
I’m sure The Oz will have a field day today with the “he left us in a financial mess” type articles—but most of Victoria are proud of him and will actually miss him
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How will Australia remember Alan Jones?
We’ll remember Cash for Comment.
We’ll remember gobsmacking misogyny.
We’ll remember him undermining Australia’s public health response to the pandemic.
We’ll remember YEARS spent rubbishing climate science & climate change.
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In the middle of a pandemic, with vaccination the only way to get back to normal life, MP Craig Kelly is right now spamming thousands of Australians with unsolicited antivax propaganda via SMS.
At what point are we going to say we’ve had enough?
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Melbournians: as you are sheltering under shop awnings in your gas masks from the pelting rain and marble-sized hailstones, remember to ADAPT 👍
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I’m being called a “fascist” for supporting vaccine mandates.
Is it also “fascist” to mandate seatbelts, and impose penalties on drivers who don’t wear them?
Is it “fascist” to say you can’t smoke in enclosed public spaces—or that you can’t drink and drive?
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Victoria: can we please shut the border to NSW now.
They are going to try and take on a Delta variant spike with just masks.
Can we have this experiment occur in isolation from us.
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4yo: Now I'm the mum
Husband: Ok go and cook dinner
4yo: No, no, I work at a university and I'm very smart
Me: I DID IT RIGHT
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@shannonrwatts
Dear America
It seems you're having a mass shooting every week. We got sick of mass shootings here and implemented gun control. It worked. No more mass shootings. Why don't you try it?
Love, Australia
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When someone mansplains the Web to the man who...really did, like, invent it
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Peter Dutton: The unions are revitalised. You could see it at the jobs summit. They are back in town.
Australians: Sounds good. Wait, is that meant to be scary or something
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[car trip]
6yo: Are black holes real?
Me: Yes. Some people think they’re in the middle of galaxies
6yo: That blows my mind
*20 minutes pass*
6yo [whispers]: We are all doomed
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Pardon my scepticism but the last time our government cried
#CyberAttack
it was lots of actual users were trying to access Centrelink at the same time
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Prue is getting ratioed—largely because Australians actually do want to tax billionaires.
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3 weeks ago, a few Delta cases emerged in Bondi and the NSW government had the chance to lock the area down immediately but decided instead to respond “proportionately”.
Conservatives in the media cheered them on. Maintained they’d contain it with contact tracing. They didn’t.
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Term “cisgender”= banned
Criticisms from X employees=banned
Journalists criticising X=banned
Kid posting plane locations=banned
Violent video depicting an Australian boy attacking someone with a knife =this is fine and actually it’s a meme now lol lol haha
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Is anyone else kind of loving this mass denial/confessional
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Gina Rinehart (billionaire mining magnate) has been appointed an Order of Australia.
For service to the LNP, I presume.
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Brutal. This is an accomplished entomologist giving honest advice young scientists.
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Just got asked for my vaccine certificate for the first time!
Businesses: don’t apologise for asking.
Most Melbournians are grateful that you care enough about the health of your community & all your customers/clients to do it.
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Content rules:
Kid posting location of Elon’s jet = banned
Graphic video of boy attacking someone with a knife = should not be not banned and you’re a commie for requesting we remove it
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Australian organisations that store your personal data, particularly identity documents, should be made to pay for it if they lose control of that data.
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What a gorgeous kid. He acknowledged his mistake in starting the fight, copped a retaliatory *beating* from an adult who couldn’t control himself, then donated $$ to charity.
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12 deaths. Real people with families and loved ones and plans for the future.
Sorry Gladys but that actually does feel like something to fear.
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I don’t like the pile-on against Van Badham occurring right now, which includes enthusiastic speculation on her family, her physical appearance & her socioeconomic background.
How much of this public dissection is because she’s a woman in media who has a strong public profile?
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@lauraolin
Dear Canada, can we please borrow him for a little while? We'll give you 10 Kangaroos, Malcolm, & eternal Vegemite
Love 🇦🇺
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I’m pretty sure the police are following telegram closely. But it would appear that certain sections of the media are still under the impression this these protests are being run by construction workers.
They are not.
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So BBC World News can say what News Corp in Australia can’t:
“Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that it is climate change causing all these problems the topic remains a controversial issue in Australia
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Gladys really emphasising that “no state” has avoided Delta.
No it hasn’t: but Victoria has *eliminated* it twice. We’re trying to do that again, a third time.
Gladys also telling people that elimination is not possible.
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Greens Senator: I'm sorry. I didn't realise. I take responsibility & will step down immediately.
LNP Senator: my mum did it
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Imagine if we had a government that stood up and said yes, this is devastating, we’re onto it.
We’re moving the billions we spend to prop up the coal industry & investing it in renewables, because that’s where the money is in the future.
Net zero emissions in a decade.
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I’ve logged off their chats and live feeds for now, but can confirm the telegram home of the Melbourne “freedom fighters” has passed 10K.
It was 6K on Friday, before the lockdown protest they organised.
So they’ve gained 4,000 people in 5 days. This is not the CFMEU kids.
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In Australia, for many years now:
-We’ve had universal healthcare
-The highest marginal tax rate is 47%
-We’ve have strong gun control
-We’ve abolished the death penalty
In America you seem to be calling this “socialism”. I disagree, but here’s what it’s like (thread)
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Goodness me, how surprising.
“Sky News presenters Rowan Dean, Alan Jones and Rita Panahi have pulled out of Monday’s Senate media inquiry, according to committee chair Sarah Hanson-Young…”
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Hi, my name is Belinda. I’m an academic. I read stuff, particularly about history, and care about facts.
Port Arthur is not a conspiracy.
There are no “questions” about it.
35 people died because a criminal shot them.
Thankyou for listening.
So,
@DavidLeyonhjelm
also has ‘questions’ about Port Arthur.
#auspol
@BreakfastNews
@InsidersABC
@smh
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Dan Andrews: 14,000 unclaimed Pfizer appointments next week, 12,000 AZ. Please honour the booking you’ve made or make a booking.
There are bookings available.
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It’s like you’ve been caught in the self-help aisle of a bookshop (or the porn aisle of the newsagent) and you’ve got to explain yourself
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@InsidersABC
@realDonaldTrump
@CUhlmann
Australian here: to people commenting below saying this is about "libtards" or "Marxists" - this is a conservative reporter
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[vic presser]
Journo: the evidence is that delta isn’t more severe in kids when will we see school back
Foley: Well, we’ve got a few kids in ICU right now. We’ve got a baby in ICU right now.
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I’ve stayed in a quarantine hotel. Those rules exist to protect the quarantine hotel workers. The rules are clearly explained.
What kind of selfish prat would deliberately flout them?
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That hawk looks as scared as any other sentient creature when there's 105mph winds around.
❤️ in surprising places
WATCH: A man in Houston claims a hawk would not leave his taxi cab as Hurricane Harvey barreled toward Texas Friday morning.
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If it really is an emergency, NSW, you could always adopt the restrictions Melbourne has used many times over to beat covid. You could put politics aside.
You could implement a ring of steel and stage 4 restrictions.
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Australians: We want you to act on climate change...and build an indigenous voice to parliament
PM: I am changing a word in the National anthem
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When you have our AG and PM saying ridiculous things like an independent inquiry would “threaten the rule of law” in this country, the NSW Bar Association has to issue a statement like this. Law 101.
Statement from the President of the New South Wales Bar Association regarding the rule of law
#auspol
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You need to watch the latest
@InsidersABC
episode - if only to see Annabel Crabb respond so articulately to Peter van Onselen (especially at the end, where he somehow makes it all about himself)
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**Stay out of Melbourne city** on Saturday if you can: some of these protesters are scary.
I really feel for the police who will have to be there.
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This is just insane. To think we could’ve ordered 40 million Pfizer doses last June and been an “example” for the rest of the world on vaccine rollout.
We were literally offered that chance. No, really.
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“Let’s be clear, had it not been for the failures of the Berejiklian government in managing Covid’s delta variant, Victorians would now most likely be enjoying the freedoms of Queenslanders, Western Australians, South Australians and Tasmanians.
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Can we stop for a minute to admire all the Australians who’ve hijacked the
#AustraliaHasFallen
tag to have a laugh. This one is my fave ❤️
#AustraliaHasFallen
to our penguin overlords in St. Kilda VIC, see them as they gaze upon Melbourne planning to put us all in camps
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Are we just going to accept the death of 30 or 40 people per day? Write it off as collateral damage?
Over 800 people have died of covid in the last few weeks since Morrison & Perrottet won their argument to let it rip.
NSW COVID-19 update – Sunday 23 January 2022
In the 24-hour reporting period to 8pm last night:
- 95.3% of people aged 16+ have had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
- 93.9% of people aged 16+ have had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine
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