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Dr Sassenach
3 years
Morrison: "You haven't seen me as focused as I can be yet" WHAT?!? WHY THE FUCK NOT?!?! WE’VE BEEN LIVING THROUGH A 2 YEAR LONG EMERGENCY, WHAT DOES IT TAKE, MAN???
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2 years
If I was in @AlboMP ’s media team, after this week’s behaviour from the media, I would set up daily community forums for him to speak at across the country. He would take and answers questions from community members. Journos can attend but wouldn’t get to ask any questions.
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2 years
Scott says he has no regrets about losing $5billion of Australia’s money on the cancelled submarine contract. No regrets. Imagine being that person.
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3 years
Why are there no headlines: “NSW Premier drops the ball as Covid cases soar”, “NSW Premier asleep at the wheel as people of NSW told to do their own Covid contact tracing”, “Disaster looms as NSW premier lets Covid rip”?
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@Dr_Sassenach
Dr Sassenach
2 years
Stop negative gearing of houses. That’s the only thing that will fix the supply and affordability issue.
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2 years
There is no place for the Australian school chaplaincy program in public schools. It’s also a disgraceful waste of tax money. Parents who want to have their children counselled by chaplains can choose to do it outside of school hours. Kids need real counsellors.
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2 years
I trust @abc730 will do a deep dive into the serious allegations of corruption that Senator F-W levelled against Scott yesterday.
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2 years
I think Craig McLachlan is about to Ben Roberts-Smith himself.
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2 years
A friend who is currently an in-patient at a Sydney hospital was served this for dinner tonight. #nswhealth
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3 years
Where is Australia’s disaster fund money? And why hasn’t any of it been expended on the disasters we’ve been experiencing?
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Dr Sassenach
3 years
My band is going to be called Grace Tame’s Bong.
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3 years
I hate Scott with the passion of a thousand suns
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3 years
Hillsong was always a Ponzi scheme. It has always been a scam and a lie. Brian Houston took the church created by his paedophile father and created into a mega church designed to financially prey on people who needed hope and community. 1/2
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2 years
Can someone explain to me why the ABC needs to get a Costello journalist on as a “guest” to discuss an issue? Why not get a subject matter expert? I reckon Australia has a few. Why do they insist on doing this? The ABC is infested with Costello/Murdoch “guests”.
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3 years
The new avengers: Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, John Hewson & Paul Keating.
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4 years
It may have dropped out of the headlines, but I have not forgotten that A-G Christian Porter was accused of rape and there has not been an investigation; have you? #ChristianPorterMustStepDown
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3 years
I have developed a disorder where every time I see Scott I have an overwhelming urge to yell: FUCK OFF! JUST FUCK OFF!
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2 years
@KamilMPoet @__BHB__ I genuinely thought this was a racehorse offspring chart
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3 years
It occurs to me today, based on his lawyers recent actions, that Christian Porter may have sued the ABC for defamation *because he knew* they had more information on him and he wanted to prevent it from coming out. Thoughts? #ChristianPorter
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3 years
I am the Moderna nano dart drone operator. #cookers
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
I’d really like journos who are playing gotcha games with Albo to understand that they are not part of a cheap reality TV show. They are engaged in an extraordinarily important & impactful process which will shape Australia’s future & need to treat it with proper respect. #auspol
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3 years
Apart from being a totally and wonderfully bonkers story, the other thing that’s great about KRudd taking the reigns with Pfizer is that Scovid will be completely livid! Being upstaged and outshone is a narcissists’ nightmare.
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5 years
Hello Australian journalists among us. Please don’t hold back. Morrison is openly and repeatedly talking about prayer in the context of policy & govt. It’s time to fully grapple with his religion of choice - it’s beliefs, practices and associations. Hold him to account.
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@CraigHill01 @ScottMorrisonMP Which means his religion is up for close scrutiny. He’s brought it into the public sphere.
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8 months
I ask again: why are Australians allowed to fight in the IDF?
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tim anderson
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Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor states that the South Africans serving in the IOF will be prosecuted. A number of soldiers have been identified and cases have been lodged. The South African government are not required to be "Pro-Palestine" to prosecute these mercenaries. It only
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2 years
HEADLINE: Explosive claims about Parliament’s Prayer Room, involving former and current LNP cabinet ministers and staffers, procuring and using sex workers on-site.
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
Medicare has been white anted. It wasn’t a scare campaign from Labor. The LNP have been implementing their privatisation: dismantle it, defund it, run it down, and once it’s not serving the public properly, sell it off.
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2 years
Matt Guy announces he will be appointing Sheriff of Nottingham to oversee Victoria’s law and order
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3 years
I grew up Christian. My childhood priest and my high school priest were both exposed as paedophiles. So spare me the religious tolerance bullshit. Morrison’s religion needs close scrutiny.
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3 years
Has anyone heard any media ask Morrison a question about Hillsong or Brian Houston this week?
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3 years
It was another of their grifts. Last year, the LNP made the decision to use the Covid crisis to funnel hundreds of millions into the coffers of business mates, like Gerry Harvey, instead of buying Pfizer vaccines for the country, and here we are. #MorrisonVaccineCrisis #LNPGrift
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Dr Sassenach
5 years
I ordered myself a ‘Lies & Propaganda’ stamp for when I have the misfortune to encounter The Australian or Daily Telegraph in a cafe. #lifehack #BoycottMurdochMedia
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Bruce Haigh
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Yes, do not sell The Australian.
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Dr Sassenach
3 years
Why do people feel the need to publicly wish their political enemies a healthy recovery? Rings false to me, Can’t we just ignore their suffering like they do when others are in peril?
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
Gerry Harvey wants us to live in an authoritarian regime; Gina Rhinehart wants us to work for $2/ day wages. Do you have to be awful human to be super rich, or does being super rich make you awful? 🧐
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3 years
Complained that there was a serious leak in our roof that is running into internal cavity, causing mould and flooding garage earlier in the week. Result = eviction notice.
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Dr Sassenach
5 years
Greens 10% of national vote = 1 seat. Nationals 8.4% of total vote = 23 seats. Thoughts on how we fix this problem? #AUSVote19 #auspol
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
On what basis is a royal commission into media ownership in Australia not warranted? WTF Labor?!?
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Dr Sassenach
3 years
Oh no! Has anyone checked in on Dave Sharma? How are his CSL shares faring today? 😭
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
@jenbechwati I remember you. You’re the one who thought the cooker Freedom rally in Canberra was the biggest rally Australia had ever seen. Hilarious 😂
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Dr Sassenach
8 months
Honestly, one thing the Australian Labor Party is consistent on: they never fail to disappoint. Why the hell are they dragging Australia into a conflict in Yemen? Both houses of parliament should have to sign off before we involve ourselves in any foreign wars @RichardMarlesMP
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Dr Sassenach
4 years
@coalsmom @TimmyTomsen @winstanley_ @ljkbennett It’s completely believable. He was retweeting Q conspiracies last week and just yesterday suggested an old guy faked his own head injury.
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This was served at St George Public Hospital. Staff didn't tell her what it was, and, upon looking at it, she wasn't prepared to try it, so what it is remains a mystery.
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
Has anyone in the media asked the Liberal backbencher why he is still occupying Kirribilli House when he is no longer entitled to it? #SquatMorrison
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Dr Sassenach
3 years
However, it is time now that his mate Brian Houston has been exposed (as was always his fate) as a fraud and a sex pest to properly interrogate Morrison and his religion. Here’s one: Have his religious beliefs about the rapture stopped him acting to prevent climate change? 3/3
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3 years
The real question is: why are people writing BONG in all caps?
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Dr Sassenach
3 years
Australia’s PM Scott Morrison used it to prop himself up because he too is a liar, a grifter, and a scammer. A match made in heaven. Morrison has used the church as prop. He used religion as a smoke screen to deflect questioning of his beliefs & to give him credibility. 2/3
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3 years
You know what Scott will never do cosplay as? A fireman.
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Dr Sassenach
5 years
@lifesafeast @realDonaldTrump @GOP @SenateGOP @HouseGOP How’s that Be Best cyber bullying campaign coming along @FLOTUS ?
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Dr Sassenach
3 years
Oh, the terrible temptation to put one’s foot on the accelerator…
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1 year
I’m sorry, but the Israeli government are not the good guys and I definitely do not stand with them. I stand only with those people who want a genuine resolution, freedom and peace for the peoples of Palestine and Israel.
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2 years
I’d prefer to see intelligent critique of Greens policy from Labor supporters, instead of calls for them to just roll over and submit. Greens MP were elected on their platform, not on the ALPs.
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1 year
@SenatorWong And what did you say to them about their decades long mistreatment and oppression of Palestinians?
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3 years
Morrison believes that he’s in a personal daily battle with the devil, he can be possessed by the Holy Spirit & talk in tongues, & he’ll be transported to heaven alive in physical form at the Rapture, but sure, his QAnon friend is a step too far #ScottyFromQanon
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10 months
Yes. The scales completely fell from my eyes this last month. We are the bad guys.
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Ashok Swain
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“You know what also died in Gaza? The Myth of Western Humanity and Democracy.”
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3 years
When did the position of Prime Minister morph into that of a cooking and lifestyle reality show contestant? Time to vote him off the island! 🏝 #MorrisonMustGo #MorrisonFailure #MorrisonLockdown
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@MarkDreyfusKCMP @Richard_D_Boyle Australia unreservedly condemns Israel’s attacks against multiple cities in Palestine, including Gaza.   We stand with Palestine and continue to call on Israel to end its illegal and immoral war. (See, it’s not hard)
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
Are you fucking kidding me @abcnews ? 6:35pm and you’re still rabbiting on about this non event. This is an election on (LNP) CORRUPTION, (LNP failure on) CLIMATE CHANGE a and (LNP failure on) COST OF LIVING.
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2 years
So, how’s the 24/7 pro-monarchy TV propaganda going so far?
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
@nick_coatsworth You’re the same guy whose been wrong about this every single step of the way, aren’t you?
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2 years
@perno_cindy @donwinslow You get as much ‘justice’ as you can pay for
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Dr Sassenach
5 years
I’ll say it again: this government is a loosely linked cabal of deeply corrupt, lying, self interested narcissists looking for ways to funnel public money into their pockets via crony capitalism.
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Lenore Taylor
5 years
Few thing to note re Xmas Island story - it's $20m for the mining company contract - on top of the Serco contract - abut 30 staff ON TOP of the 96 employed by Serco (that figure from estimates last week) @InsidersABC #insiders
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
“To Ben Roberts-Smith”: is to bring renewed and amplified media attention and public scrutiny to your own highly dubious behaviour by starting defamation proceedings
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11 months
Surely no one takes this talking balloon-animal seriously?
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Dr Sassenach
3 years
Told the kids that at least we aren’t fleeing a land invasion on foot with a backpack (perspective)
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
@JElliotMP Justine - I can’t verify these claimed, but I have witnessed you spreading electoral disinformation here by saying that a vote for Greens is a vote for the LNP, and misrepresenting the way preferential voting works. That makes you a bad witness in my books.
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2 years
Today *is* the day for a conversation about Australia becoming a Republic. We don’t want to transition to another monarch. The Governor General has disgraced himself. That era of imperial colonists being in charge is done. #RepublicNow
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2 years
I should note that I was brought up Christian, went to a COE school and have a PhD in feminist philosophy of religion. My Sunday school chaplain and my high school chaplain were subsequently both convicted as pedophiles. So chaplains in schools gets a big NO from me.
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3 years
THE RING OF STEEL AROUND SYDNEY SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED A BLOODY MONTH AGO!
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
@Ollygolf73 She is in hospital for malnutrition. Not sure this has helped increase her appetite.
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Dr Sassenach
1 year
Just so we are all clear: Australia is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Under the convention, collective punishment is a war crime. But Australia is “standing with” Israel while they enact the war crime of collective punishment on a civilian population in Gaza.
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2 years
Just a reminder that “lil X” is the child Elon named 'X Æ A-Xii' … but it's a bridge too far for Elon to be asked to use the pronoun 'they'.
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Elon Musk
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Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood. Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to my family.
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I support the pro-Palestine protestors. The Israeli hostage families are here as part of Israel’s propaganda machine to bang the drums of war. I condemn the Australian govt’s ongoing murderous coalition with Israel. Shame on you @AlboMP and @SenatorWong
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Dr Sassenach
2 years
To be clear, when we are criticising the ABC, it’s because we value it. The LNP’s policy is to sell it off. Their privatisation plan is to grind it down and to lose public trust in it, so we don’t care once they sell it off. But we do care.
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@JulianBurnside @BrianCHouston @ScottMorrisonMP I’d also like to hear an explanation for why #Hillsong & Brian Houston have enough money to buy a multistory apartment in Manhattan but still have not signed on to the redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse (specifically to deal with Frank Houston’s abuse)
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@RonniSalt He can move into a hotel, with family, or a tent. We don't care. He needs to get out today.
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4 years
The Chaser really played a long game here
@chaser
The Chaser
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Pleased to announce our new slogan "Australia's only news site"
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The USA are not the good guys.
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🅹🅾️🅴🆈աrecκ ☭
10 months
BREAKING: The United States just vetoed a resolution by the entire world calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Our collective rage doesn’t seem to be enough to move these monsters.
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Dr Sassenach
10 months
Maybe you could help people distinguish between Jewish people and the state of Israel, for starters, rather than choosing to chastise people for rallying against genocide?
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Allegra Spender
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School protests for Palestine risk isolating Jewish children who are already so frightened by rising antisemitism that many are choosing to hide their identity. 2/3
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Looking into my crystal ball, I predict that Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation suits will meet the same inglorious ends as those of men of similar ilk who trod the path before him: Christian Porter, Kyle McLachlan and BRS.
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Bruce Lehrmann is Craig McLachlan’ing himself, just like Ben Roberts-Smith Christian Porter’ed himself
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5 years
@WarWraith @PaulineHansonOz Such good questions! When will white people get a go so they can have a go?!?
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3 years
Morrison owns all of these lockdowns. The LNP’s vaccine rollout has been a bungle, an absolute disgrace #COVID19nsw #MorrisonOutbreak
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@timburrowes Call me a nannystatist, but I think Speakerphones should be banned from public spaces.
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2 years
C’mon @AustralianLabor , We need a windfall tax
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1 year
We deport people who don’t support Israel now, do we?
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The guy who says the Voice is divisive.
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@SenatorHume Speak to these Q’s: why is the LNP paying out half a mill to a female ex-staffer? If related to behaviour by Tudge, why is he still an MP? Is it related to allegations of sexual harassment by Frydenburg? When will LNP investigate rape allegations against Christian Porter?
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3 years
Honestly, nothing would give me more pleasure than the Federal LNP suffering a devastating electoral defeat. #CallTheElectionDickhead #MorrisonNext
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@JulieMcCrossin Wow. You’ve really landed on the wrong side of history on this one, Julie. #FreePalestine #Ceasefire_In_Gaza_Now
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@naveenjrazik I’d walk out if I was met by a pack of hyenas screaming disingenuous memory quiz gotchas at me.
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Is this the result of some therapy he’s using at the immortality clinic?
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@Freya_J_Leach Last I checked, we don’t lock people up for running a cake stall, but maybe you can check in with some of your “free speech” mates and see if there’s been an update to the laws, eh?
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@JoshButler The real question is why he was invited in the first place
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@RonniSalt Also me. I have a PhD, but obviously lack the capacity to critically analyse the media’s agenda and messaging. I’ll see myself out.
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2 years
Can the ABC please stop giving Murdoch and Costello journalists a platform? They already have their own platform. Australia is full of intelligent, qualified people who don’t have a platform; let’s make more space to hear their voices.
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@abcnews Better question: Why is the ABC cosplaying as the Women’s Weekly?
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@SenatorWong Could we move from “deeply concerned” to “voting for ceasefire” now please?
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@thebettinaarndt A) Second last item: “not act macho” indicates the list is not only aimed at women B) the entire list presents good advice for young men and women about autonomy and boundaries C) you’re a nasty piece of work, Bettina.
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@DailyTelegraph0 And next stop should be Federal ICAC investigation into his role in the Au pair visa affairs and the mysterious lost billions that went to Palladin.
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@HumanHeadline Time to broadcast the unedited version @4corners
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