Kimberley Caines
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Senior Federal Political Reporter @westaustralian . Email: kimberley.caines @wanews .com.au …
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Can barely hear what Scott Morrison is saying at his first press conference in two days due to a protester using a megaphone to vent her frustration at the PM. I’m standing 2 metres away from him!
#auspol
#AusVotes2022
@westaustralian
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Australia and the world is moving on from COVID-19, but WA is stuck in a 2020 time machine. “Australians on the east are not afraid of COVID anymore.” Read my full column in today’s
@westaustralian
here:
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OPINION: In the 32 days Anthony Albanese has been the leader of our country, he has had some big wins. His next test is bringing Australian whistleblower Julian Assange back to home soil.
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🗞 Today I’m starting my next career chapter as the senior federal political reporter at the
@westaustralian
, based at Parliament House.
#politicalreporter
#thewestaustralian
#thewest
#parliamenthouse
#canberra
#politics
#auspol
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#BREAKING
: Former Liberal Senator Amanda Stoker alleges David Van touched her inappropriately during an informal social gathering in a parliamentary office in 2020. Here’s the statement I’ve just been sent.
@westaustralian
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Labor frontbencher
@Bowenchris
is putting pressure on the Federal Government to rethink its economic support package to assist with lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne – saying it “does not cut the mustard”.
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The Budget Tree is blushing ☺️🍂 Happy Budget Eve all 💰
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a royal commission into the failed Robodebt scheme, calling it a “human tragedy with very real consequences for its victims”.
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🎤 It’s my last day at
#Channel9
. I have so many fond memories - from working as a morning editor of , to producing on
@TheTodayShow
, and reporting for
@9NewsIllawarra
and
@9NewsCanberra
. Now to my next career chapter, which starts on Monday… ☺️
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Pinching myself at the moment with all the career goals I’m achieving. Today I sat down with Anthony Albanese for his first in person interview since becoming Prime Minister. Read about our one-hour exclusive sit down in The West Australian tomorrow.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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🎤🎥 Over the moon to announce I’m moving to the nation’s capital to be a reporter for
@9newscanberra
. Politics, sport and chilly winters here I come!
#movingtocanberra
#reporter
#9newscanberra
#9news
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🇦🇺🇺🇸🇯🇵🇮🇳 In the next 30 minutes, the four Quad leaders will be standing here for their family photo.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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#BREAKING
: WA's hard border will come to an end on March 3. FINALLY! Please don't change your mind this time Mark McGowan 🤞
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A small interruption in Albo’s press conference when this little guy wanted to say hello to the Labor leader.
#auspol
#AusVotes2022
@westaustralian
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A climate change activist has just been held back by the PM’s security detail as he left his local polling booth in Cook.
#AusVotes22
#auspol
@westaustralian
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@nswpolice
set off flash bang grenades in a Macquarie Fields house during a siege situation.
http://t.co/S2qM78v9Zg
http://t.co/12T1r3HWUd
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Woohoo! I can finally move to Canberra to start reporting for
@9NewsCanberra
.
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WA’s Anne Aly says she hopes her journey from being born in Egypt and the daughter of a bus driver to a Minister in Anthony Albanese’s Labor Government will inspire young Australians from diverse backgrounds.
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Behind the scenes of an interview with A Current Affair today, where I shared my egg freezing journey. I’m so happy to be asked to speak about my experience as that means more awareness is being raised and the stigma is starting to go away. The story will air in the New Year.
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Albo in Adelaide!!! We have just touched down in SA ahead of the Labor leader meeting
@PMalinauskasMP
later today. The pace of the campaign is picking up. We’re heading to a third state today.
#AusVotes2022
#auspol
@westaustralian
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A month into the job and I’ve already managed to get my photo in the paper 🙈 But in all seriousness, this is such an important topic for me -
#eggfreezing
! I did it when I was 28 to take control of my future
#fertility
.
#thewestaustralian
#genea
#geneahorizon
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Now Albo is visiting a pre-polling booth in Adelaide after early voting opened around the country today. He’s meeting voters - and pooches 🐶
#AusVotes22
#auspol
@westaustralian
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Such an eerie feeling working in the newsroom on the bushfire crisis across NSW and QLD this morning. Fingers crossed no more lives and homes are lost.
@TheTodayShow
@9NewsAUS
#todayshow
#9news
#nswfires
#bushfirecrisis
#specialcoverage
#extendedcoverage
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For those wondering why I’m in
#Melbourne
... I’m currently helping out in our
#GTV
newsroom after
#Channel9
was hit by a
#cyberattack
- impacting all our newsrooms around the country. As frustrating as it is, it has been really nice to see my former colleagues and friends.
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🇦🇺🇯🇵 It was so lovely to sit-down and interview Japanese Ambassador Shingo Yamagami in Canberra last week before he returned to Tokyo. He told me he spent his 2.5 years in Australia to “the fullest”, putting “120 per cent” into his job and wish he could’ve stayed longer.
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💉 Our ticket to freedom! One dose down, one to go and then home time🤞
#vaxxed
#letsgetvaccinated
#covid19protection
#covid19vaccinepassport
#vaccinepassport
#tickettofreedom
#sydneybound
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#BREAKING
:
#CanberraRaiders
coach
#RickyStuart
apologises for offending the
#netball
community, over comments the sport is not "tough".
#NRL
@9NewsCanberra
@9NewsSyd
@9NewsAUS
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🎤 And she’s back in
#Canberra
... reporting on Australia suspending flights from
#India
over the
#Covid
crisis... as
#9NewsLocal
properly returns to your TVs tonight following the
#cyberhack
.
#9newscanberra
#9news
#parliamenthouse
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#BREAKING
: ACT to lift travel restrictions to Sydney’s Northern Beaches from 3pm today.
@9NewsCanberra
#9NewsLocal
#9News
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#BREAKING
: Federal Parliament on alert after Greens staffer tests positive to COVID-19 following sitting week in Canberra where politicians from WA and the rest of the country - including the Prime Minister - were in the building.
@westaustralian
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#BREAKING
: The
@AusElectoralCom
has just confirmed Fatima Payman as WA’s sixth Senator.
@westaustralian
#auspol
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#BREAKING
: Anthony Albanese says Cabinet has agreed to hold a further inquiry into Scott Morrison's secret portfolio appointments.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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Moderna's new vaccine manufacturing facility will be based at Monash University in Melbourne. Under a 10-year deal between the Federal Government and Victoria, up to 100 million mRNA vaccines will be produced for Australians every year.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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OPINION: Anthony Albanese has made a good start in the eyes of West Australians by promoting Anne Aly to his ministry, visiting Perth this weekend, and revealing he would be taking his entire Cabinet to WA twice in his first 12 months as Prime Minister.
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V for vaccinated or 2 for second dose… this girl is on Pfizer. I’m fully vaccinated. It feels good to have done my small part to protect my family, friends, colleagues, community and myself. A lot is out of our control at the moment so let’s focus on what we can control 💉
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TONIGHT: The
@9NewsCanberra
team takes to the sky for
#BalloonSpectacular
on
#CanberraDay
.
#9NewsCanberra
#9NewsLocal
#9News
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❄️⛄️ First day of winter means a day at the snow for work 😁
@thredboresort
#thredbo
#piecetocamera
#toughdayattheoffice
#9newscanberra
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🏏 I had the pleasure of recently being the MC of the annual ACT Cricket awards. Congratulations to all the recipients. It was such a great night!
@CricketACT
#mc
#emcee
#actcricket
#cricketact
#yearofcricket
#awardsnight
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🎤 My first live cross. I stumbled, we had technical issues and I was battered with heavy rain and strong winds 🌧💨🌊 Onwards and upwards I say.
#9NewsIllawarra
#9News
#livecross
#reporter
#wildweather
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#BREAKING
: All Sydney LGAs - except Cumberland - will be allowed to travel into the ACT from 3pm today.
#9NewsCanberra
#9NewsLocal
#9News
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Boost-ed! 💉 Get your booster shots friends. We need the extra dose right now to protect ourselves as the virus runs rampant across the country. Look after your health and the health of those around you.
#boostershot
#vaxxed
#pfizer
#letsgetvaccinated
#covid19protection
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PM: "All of this self-congratulation that we heard should be dismissed. He came up with a different explanation today. If only he was asked! To
blame the media and everyone else. Why didn't we come in here and ask if he'd been sworn in as Treasurer or Finance Minister?"
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EXCLUSIVE: Here's my sit-down with Foreign Minister Penny Wong ahead of her trip to China today.
Penny Wong is heading to China to try to repair Australia’s fragile relationship with the superpower in possibly the most important visit since Gough Whitlam established ties with the Communist regime.
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Thank you for having me on the panel
@GregJennett
to discuss the week in politics on ABC’s Friday Briefing.
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Protesters have just arrived at the PM’s first event in Alice Springs with one yelling “ScoMo, I want to have a chat”.
#auspol
#AusVotes2022
@westaustralian
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Albo’s cheat sheet:
RBA cash rate: 0.35 per cent
Inflation rate: 5.1 per cent
Unemployment rate: 4 per cent
You’re welcome!
#auspol
#AusVotes2022
@westaustralian
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I never thought I’d say these words but just look at the cases today - 21,151 infections in NSW 😳 “I know I’m going to get COVID. I’ve accepted that. I can’t avoid it. It’s everywhere.” Read my full opinion piece in today’s
@westaustralian
here:
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Labor is leading in 76 seats, reaching a majority government, says the AEC.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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#BREAKING
:
#ACT
to impose stay-at-home orders from 4pm today for people returning from 7 Sydney LGAs.
@9NewsCanberra
@9NewsSyd
@9NewsAUS
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Albo tells us on the plane to Japan that Shark One will become Toto One.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has wished Peter Dutton all the best on replacing him as Liberal leader.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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🇦🇺🇨🇳 Chinese Ambassador Xiao Qian today revealed Australian timber is now allowed back into China, that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been offered an invitation to visit Beijing, and the importance WA will play in future plans on clean energy.
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Live in 3, 2, 1… 📺 Getting ready to talk all things egg freezing on Weekend Today this morning 🥚🧊
#eggfreezing
#futureproofing
#takingcontrolofmyfuturefertility
#fertility
#genea
#geneahorizon
#weekendtoday
#channel9
@lexiesvillage
@TheTodayShow
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📺 Joining the panel with these legends today for a wrap-up of the last parliamentary sitting week of the year. We made it 👏
#fridaybriefing
#abc
#panelist
#politicalreporter
#theweekinpolitics
#auspol
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Here's the first edition of The Nightly. It just went live!
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#BREAKING
: Anyone entering the
#ACT
from
#GreaterSydney
from 4pm today will have to abide by stay-at-home orders until July 2.
@9NewsCanberra
@9NewsSyd
@9NewsAUS
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My sit-down interview with Premier Mark McGowan in Tokyo.
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#BREAKING
: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is planning to take his entire Cabinet to Port Hedland on February 20 or 21 after the meeting was postponed in September last year due to the death of The Queen.
@westaustralian
#auspol
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Chris Hipkins will travel to Australia for his first overseas trip as New Zealand’s new Prime Minister on February 7. He will visit Canberra for a meeting with Anthony Albanese.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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My last shift as a casual reporter at
@9NewsIllawarra
before moving to Canberra.
#9NewsIllawarra
#9NewsLocal
#9News
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👀 Just having my billboard moment in Martin Place as part of the Sydney Film Festival. Stop by and check out the ads from Genea on the big screen this week, where many fertility stories are being shared, including mine on egg freezing 🥚🧊
#eggfreezing
#genea
#sydneyfilmfestival
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Another budget completed ✔️ Out of lock-up now after spending the past six hours going through these fiscal papers with a fine tooth comb.
#budgetday
#auspol
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The first thing on my bucket list to do as a senior federal political reporter is to throw a question to the Prime Minister ✔️
#politicalreporter
#thewestaustralian
#notevenamonthintothejob
#primeminister
#pm
#scomo
#canberra
#auspol
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OPINION: Please don’t come at me but Perth water tastes so bad.
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Live cross outside
#ParliamentHouse
on the
#ACT
#Covid
travel breach 🎤
#9NewsCanberra
#9NewsLocal
#9News
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📺 The Voice debate has dominated Federal Parliament again this week. Here’s a snippet of my views on Afternoon Briefing today.
#abc
#afternoonbriefing
#theweekinpolitics
#auspol
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Starting to think I could be Albo’s bad luck charm 🤔 Every time I’ve been at his press conferences during the election campaign, he’s had a major stumble.
#auspol
#AusVotes2022
@westaustralian
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A dramatic influx of illegal vapes into Australia is distracting border force officials from stopping guns and illicit drugs from entering the country.
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Wheels down in the Red Centre. The Morrison camp has just landed in Alice Springs - the first trip to the Northern Territory by either leader on the election campaign so far. Just look at that red dirt. Gosh, I love our country! 🇦🇺
#auspol
#ausvotes2022
@westaustralian
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Just arrived at our next event in Alice Springs and the protesters are here to confront Scott Morrison again!!!
#auspol
#AusVotes2022
@westaustralian
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❤️🎅🏻🎄🦌⛄️🌟
Matching outfits for Christmas Eve seems fitting for our last official shift together. I’m going to miss seeing you everyday
@KimberleyCaines
💕
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I’m in Perth this week. My first story here is Fatima Payman being elected as WA’s newest Senator.
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#BREAKING
: Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will be Australia's new ambassador to the US, starting in the role early next year.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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It looks like it will all come down to WA.
#auspol
Based on only counted (could change) Hasluck will be Labor, Moore will be Labor, Pearce Labor, Swan Labor and Perth and Burt retain (massive swings). Could be highest number ever held by Labor in WA
#auspol
@westaustralian
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Sunday marks one year since the Federal Government announced its experts to work out how and when to phase out the live sheep export trade — and it still doesn’t have a plan.
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I’m so incredibly proud of this!!! I was interviewed by the lovely
@zoeyoungmummy
for her United in Motherhood podcast about my egg freezing journey 🥚🧊 The episode dropped today and is in my bio. Please listen and share with anyone who may benefit from it 🙏
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The Morrison campaign has just arrived in Perth 🙌 Woohoo! I may be a little bit bias. A big day for the PM and travelling media today - four states in one day. Three states and one territory for me.
#AusVotes22
#auspol
@westaustralian
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Seven West Media today launches Australia’s new national digital newspaper - The Nightly.
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The last time we saw inflation this high - 7.3 per cent - was the same month I was born in 1990 😳
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Brand MP Madeleine King has just been sworn in as the Resources and Northern Australia Minister at Government House in Canberra.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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US President Joe Biden made a cheeky joke to Anthony Albanese at the Quad summit, saying “it’s OK” if he falls asleep during high-level security talks.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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WA’s fear of a new GST battle with the nation’s biggest State is now a reality with Dominic Perrottet to become the next NSW Premier.
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#BREAKING
: David Littleproud has been elected the new leader of the Nationals.
#auspoI
@westaustralian
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March is my favourite month in Canberra 🎈
#balloonspectacular
#balloonfestival
#enlighten
#canberra
#act
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OPINION: The NSW Liberal Party made a smart move last week by putting women front-and-centre of its election campaign with a $2000 egg freezing rebate promise. This has never happened in Australia. So if NSW can do it, why can't every other jurisdiction?
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Protesters are waiting for the PM to arrive, holding flags and signs with one reading “thin blue line”. I asked one why he is here today and he says the “media are not telling the truth”. Another has a megaphone.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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Burt MP Matt Keogh is now the Veteran Affairs and Defence Personnel Minister after being sworn in at Government House this morning.
#auspol
@westaustralian
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