todays news august 9 2021 monday

well it looks like there are more lockdowns with cairns now being inlockdown but the lockdown in se queensland might have been reduced a bit which is a bit crazy as there are sill cases in the south east. Regional expresses have used tax payers money to give money to their exsecitives instead of doing more for their workers or anything else that would help keep the airline going strong. Polling has labor ahead 53-47 which is great but even if that lead was on election day it wouldn’t be safe (as the 1998 election proved when the exit poll was the same but labor where robbed with a majority of the primary and two party prefered vote). in afl essendon have stunned ladder leaders bulldogs by 13 points. Hawthorn moved out of the bottom two with a 19 point win over collingwood and brisbane smashed freemantle by 64 for a confidence booster. in the nrl catebury look like wooden spooners after a 28-16 loss to west tigers and gold coast smash north queesland 36-14. There is still one afl game today to finish the round west coast host melbourne with the round 22 matches not annoouced when they will be.