Australia’s brightest scientific minds have joined forces to urge Australians to get vaccinated, arguing Covid is more insidious than the rare side ­effects attached to some of our vaccines.Pfizer executives and federal Health Minister Greg Hunt have rubbished news reports suggesting that former prime minister Kevin Rudd personally intervened to get the drug company to speed up its delivery of vaccine jabs to Australia.Up to 800 homes proposed for southwest Sydney could be blocked by local bureaucrats, leading to claims a planning “rejection” culture is fuelling the city’s housing affordability crisis.And in sport, Wimbledon Champion Ash Barty and NBA star Patrick Mills will light up the sky in some of the country’s most remote Indigenous communities as part of the Australian Olympic Committee live site tour for the Tokyo Games. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.au