Strong line up in this weekend's @SatPaper with @oz_f on how public health underfunding and reliance on outsourcing left Victoria with a bolted-together contact tracing system that was "totally challenged", by Brett Sutton's description. https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2020/09/12/leaked-sutton-call-reveals-failures-contact-tracing/159983280010402
And part one of @SquigglyRick's two-part magnum opus: How Australia's aged-care system was pushed to the brink of collapse. https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2020/09/12/the-collapse-aged-care-part-one/159983280010409
. @KarenMMiddleton talks to @CEPIvaccines chair Jane Halton about the Oxford vaccine trial pause this week. “It should be a reminder that this is not a game". https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2020/09/12/vaccine-trials-and-tribulations/159983280010407
. @MikeSeccombe on whether News Corp has plans to torpedo AAP and further concentrate Murdoch’s media influence. https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/2020/09/12/murdoch-grab-the-other-story-behind-aaps-sale/159983280010404
And @danielleiwood on why the government has a choice how much pain Australians feel once 2020's "recession we had to have" really starts to bite. https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2020/09/12/the-way-out-the-covid-19-recession/159983280010411
Plus @debbie_zhou on Disney's 'Mulan': "a watered-down adaptation, which appeases more than it excites". https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film/2020/09/12/mulan/159983280010414