FRI 20 JUL: SA lockdown ends again after lie exposed - a podcast by ABC Radio

A surprise early easing of lockdown for South Australians tonight .. but the cause and its implications are raising eyebrows. The state's decision to go into a 6-day hard lockdown was, it turns out, all based on a lie....told to contact tracers, by a man who works part-time in a pizza shop. Now it's been uncovered, greater freedoms will return from tomorrow night while SA police have set up a taskforce to investigate all of the information provided to the contact tracing teams. But why was the state's lockdown decision based on the testimony of a single person?

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* The scheduled increase to the superannuation guarantee is again in doubt with the Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg saying the government will make a decision next year.

* A day after the release of a report detailing shocking evidence about the misconduct of Australian special forces in Afghanistan, we speak to David Kilcullen, a military strategist and former soldier who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

* Thousands of building subcontractors are bracing for a hit with the demise of industry giant Grocon.

* Australians stepped up this week making a record number of appointments to give blood, after an appeal about a shortage of supplies – but just how self-sufficient is Australia when it comes to collecting blood during a pandemic?

* And.. after eight months of lockdown, visitors will be allowed back into New South Wales prisons from Monday. Advocates say it's been a long and lonely year for many inmates, but there's arguably been some good to come from it too.

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