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Spent more than 8 months on this, and it’s the wildest story I’ve ever worked on.
The Tasmanian government covered up literally thousands of cases of child abuse over two decades. The cover up continues to this day.
#politas
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Funny, I thought the 18 months we spent in various forms of lockdown was for govts to prepare systems of testing, tracing, treatment, etc.
But no: suddenly it’s every person for themselves.
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So RATs are unavailable in large part, the PCR test system is closed to all but closest family & symptomatic cases, test nos are falling, results are taking days, case nos & hospitalisations are skyrocketing, no financial support is available, and the PM is cooking curry. Got it.
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It would be great if we had some kind of independent national broadcaster to host democratic debates properly and fairly.
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It is very strange to me that while Labor has an experienced, competent and generally trusted shadow cabinet (Wong, Plibersek, Gallagher, Bowen, Butlers, Chalmers, Burke, Husic etc) and they're up against a rabble of a govt, the entire focus of their campaigning is on Albanese.
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Only 3.5 million vaccinations left to hit the government’s 4 million target by tomorrow.
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The unions are so militant they sent polite warnings requesting action on RATs in June, Aug and December, and now they're seriously requesting it again, this time even claiming the right to take stronger action. They are out of control.
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I can’t believe this needs to be said: the journalists who are longtime acquaintances of Christian Porter need to recuse themselves from writing or talking about this issue, unless they declare their potential bias each and every time.
They cannot be regarded as objective.
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You wouldn’t know it from Australian news sites, which are unreadable atm, but there’s been a major shift in the Ukraine war.
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Someone please leak the Tourism Australia and Tourism NZ docs about Morrison’s rapid departures. They’re still at large.
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Treasury secretary admits in
#estimates
that Treasury hasn't done any modelling on the economic costs or benefits of net zero by 2050, or indeed any modelling of climate change-related impacts on the Australian economy. None at all, in the past several years.
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I don’t understand why they didn’t just get the military in to wash women’s hair
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The other pleasing result from last night was the complete repudiation of News Corp as a political force.
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Using ADF for photo opportunities for your own Facebook page during a national emergency is a pretty low act, Prime Minister.
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If the Porter controversy rolls on for another day, you just know what Morrison's thinking: There's only one man who can not get to the bottom of this, and take months doing it. This is a job for the master. Phil Gaetjens.
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With AZ now only for over-60s, and orders for Pfizer and Moderna only arriving in bulk in a few months, and outbreaks in Melbourne and now Sydney (due to unvaccinated worker dealing with intl arrivals), and only 2% fully vaccinated, we can safely say the rollout is Not Going Well
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Morrison says he has asked his office to investigate whether it told him about the Brittany Higgins revelations. Seriously.
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After 8 years of doing nothing, the Coalition parties have agreed in a secret deal to do nothing for the next 8 years.
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Unions: We need RATs and PPE
Health sector: We need RATs and PPE
Teachers: RATs and PPE
Hospitality: RATs
Transport: RATs
Retail: RATs
Morrison: How about children driving forklifts?
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I’ve tried to capture the scale of political ineptitude and negligence from the Morrison government over the past few weeks (and months)
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I'm not sure "A vote for Albanese is a vote for higher wages" is going to turn off voters as much as the Coalition and Important Commentators think it is.
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Encouraging people to use RATs when there are none available is a new level of incompetent bastardry imo
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Porter walks off scot free while the man he put through hell for no good reason, the heroic Bernard Colleary, languishes under prosecution after years of harassment.
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“Australia always stands up to bullies” says PM, before going back for another shot at trans kids.
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I thought maybe Morrison was giving a press conference to announce he was doing something on climate change.
It turns out he called a press conference to criticise those wanting him to do something about climate change.
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“Net zero is dead”
How many times do Coalition politicians need to tell us they will do nothing about climate change before we believe them.
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Journalists need to back away from the Kitching "story".
What they're doing is gross.
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Fun fact:
Former Liberal minister Helen Coonan is currently the chair of both Crown Resorts (accused of facilitating money laundering) AND the Australian Financial Complaints Authority!
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Testing broken, infections out of control and impossible to measure, RATs unavailable, hospitals & ambulance stretched to extremes, supply chains breaking, labour shortages everywhere, no financial support anywhere, and he gets involved in the visa situation for a tennis player.
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It's official then. No-one has a duty of care for Australian children and their future.
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Pause and process this for a moment: Under the cover of the rape allegation controversy, the govt is trying to ram through its bill abolishing the family court, with all that entails for the safety of vulnerable women and children
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Surely Porter needs to step down as Attorney-General now.
How can he be looking after defamation reform while he’s suing for defamation?
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It’s been weeks and still not a single person has been officially stood down, formally disciplined or reprimanded or even investigated in relation to the Brittany Higgins, Christian Porter or Frank Zumbo cases
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“If you know there’s no debt, and you’re sending a debt notice, isn’t that stealing?”
Bless you, Colleen. They ignored you but there is more decency in your little finger than every DHS boss put together. If only the dept hadn’t promoted the nasty ones.
#RobodebtRC
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Morrison has now made personal enemies of Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull and Paul Keating, so good luck to him because he will need it.
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Kevin Andrews’ career cruelly cut short before he could achieve anything significant for the public, in just his third decade in parliament
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After the bushfires, sports rorts, Brittany Higgins, Christian Porter, the botched vaccine rollout, Cop26, the France/Aukus debacles, robodebt, JobKeeper, and billions in promised or rorted grants schemes, Morrison is planning to run on “trust”. 🤯
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It's remarkable. The PM's office has been exposed by multiple civil servants to be directing the flow of public money to ineligible projects for its own political benefit.
And the PM lied about it openly. Yet no mechanisms to bring anyone to account.
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Still astounded that the govt would put $500m into the war memorial (already over-funded) while allowing the actual national archives (which needs a fraction of that) to rot through lack of funds.
They're not interested in history; they're interested in honouring militarism.
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The govt that is waiting on fighter jets that don't fly, and submarines that won't sail for decades, and which leased Darwin port to Chinese interests, is trying to provoke a defence scare. Over China, our biggest trading partner.
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Large parts of the media are obsessed with what independents might do after the election (ummm, their independence is the whole point…), yet are completely uninterested in the secret Liberal/Nats arrangement under Morrison, which has given Joyce the whip hand on climate etc
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Stuart Robert is in big trouble.
Side note for fans of modern conservative politics: the company getting the Centrelink contracts after paying for meetings with Stuart Robert - Infosys - is owned by British PM Rishi Sunak’s wife’s family. Neat!
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If a Commonwealth minister is receiving private support to sue the ABC, the public needs to know.
Gifts need to be declared. Otherwise this is a recipe for corruption.
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Looks like the Labor conference is going to end with strong support for the Coalition’s major policies: stage 3 tax cuts, Aukus submarines and offsets-based climate policy.
Well done, everyone.
(No sign yet of what Albo is going to do when he runs out of Coalition policies.)
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So I guess it's time for a proper independent inquiry into the allegations against Porter, and his suitability to remain in cabinet. These accusations remain unaddressed in any substantive way.
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It’s funny how willingly the entire Coalition leadership got stuck into Katy Gallagher and Brittany Higgins, while sitting mute on multiple allegations against their own colleague.
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The headlines should read: “National media outlets defame Marcia Langton on behalf of No campaign”
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So to summarise: the full dossier of Kate's allegations against Porter is now public, and Ben Roberts-Smith's reputation is irretrievable.
Both are consequences of the defamation actions they initiated.
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The chair of the Climate Change Authority is also the chair of the largest private carbon developer in the country.
Do people know this? Do we need to start asking more questions about conflicts of interest? Yes we do.
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There’s a very real undertone to a lot of the responses to Berejiklian’s resignation: what’s a little corruption, really?
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The govt has just voted to suppress an inquiry about the anonymous donation of a million dollars to a sitting MP.
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Another 4 million doses! That takes us to, what, 158 million doses announced by the Morrison govt?
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I love how the Australian and News Corp decide what is and isn’t news in this country.
Opposition leader Dutton oversaw billion-dollar govt contracts to corrupt entities without any processes, ignoring all warnings?
Not news, sorry.
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Strange that it's the Labor premiers getting the death threats, isn't it, even though NSW, Tas and SA Liberal premiers have matching policies.
News Corp, the federal Coalition and their freaky friends will have blood on their hands if they keep this up.
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One of my fav genres - colleagues unload after a loss - and this doesn’t disappoint.
“He fucked us and his fingerprints are absolutely fuckin’ everywhere on that,” a moderate Liberal MP says. “The bloke thinks he is a master strategist. He is a fuckwit.”
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What’s the bet a failed egging gets more coverage than a new report explaining that all natural life on earth is at threat
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The fed government defends George Christensen’s right to free speech, but is trying to take the same right away from ALL charities in Australia. Let that sink in.
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They rorted EVERY federal grant program
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A couple of weeks ago, Morrison was congratulating Berejiklian on not locking down. Now he says lockdown is the only solution.
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I had almost given up on the ALP, but fixing this deserves big congrats.
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The Berejiklian government spent $200m of bushfire recovery funding without opening applications, and only $2.5m went to Labor seats. Blue Mountains missed out altogether.
But poor Gladys, unlucky in love etc
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Cabinet minister accepts secret $1mil donation.
That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Pretty funny that Frydenberg thought his personal negotiations with Zuckerberg were going well, and then Facebook just turned Australia off
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Far out. So imagine the effect of being locked down for 7 years. In a detention camp. Simply for seeking asylum. You fucking hypocrite.
New data reveals the devastating impact of lockdown on mental health:
🔺30% increase in accessing a mental health service in the last 4 weeks.🔺61% increase in calls to Kids Helpline. 🔺Beyond Blue 77% higher.🔺Lifeline - 16% higher. 🔺33% increase in eating disorder calls.
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Not even exaggerating: We have heard more from Morrison about barre and the length of hairdressing appointments than about rent assistance, eviction moratoriums, wage subsidies and industry rescue packages.
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This is very concerning. The episode had already been produced, legalled and approved by head of investigations, only to be spiked by the MD
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My piece for the new
@TheMonthly
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1700 new cases in NSW today.
On Sunday it was 500.
Wear a mask.
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World leaders: Glasgow is our last and best chance to save the world from runaway climate change.
Morrison: Yeah, but two weeks in quarantine, dunno...
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Honestly how many times do they get to announce the vaccine before delivering a single dose
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lol.
He has literally no shame.
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You can't go to a concert, gig, show, footy, gallery, church.
But Crown Casino is sending buses to bring in pensioners.
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I call this look “600 refugees dying at our hand on Manus Island”
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Let me guess, Dutton’s nuclear power plants will be contracted to a small QLD firm that’s never constructed them before; KPMG audits the wrong company; 5 yrs later the plans are shelved after billions are skimmed in fees; 10 yrs later the NACC announces an investigation.
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Mike Pezzullo has a lot to answer for. Here's a thread, just from the past few years, of bad deals by Home Affairs under his leadership. (There's a longer thread tbc of human rights abuses during this period.)
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The Oz hagiography of Dutton is HILARIOUS.
"There’s this hard guy image, but he’s an incredibly warm and engaging bloke," says "a source close to Dutton".
They couldn't find someone to say it on the record. 😂
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The government has learnt nothing from Robodebt. How can someone fairly fight a debt that’s from 15 years ago? The tax department has said that tax receipts and financial records don’t need to be kept this long. Where are the checks and balances here?
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McBride only pleaded guilty because the judge ruled he couldn’t use his primary line of defence - that he had a public interest duty.
Disgraceful to put him in this position. Shame on you, Dreyfus.
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Might be a good time to revisit the Coalition’s last Barrier Reef funding idea:
In April 2018, the Coalition govt announced $444 million for the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, an org with just six full-time staff. There had been no tender process and they had no plans for it.
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The great Mungo MacCallum has left us. After years battling ill-health, he passed away this afternoon. He was a legend of Australian political journalism. We will remember him for his irreverence and humour, his humanity and his insight. Mungo, you will be missed.
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Pezzullo didn’t reach the top of the bureaucracy despite his arrogance and failure to observe basic probities.
He reached the top because of them.
The same way Kathryn Campbell did.
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Gaetjens is a disgrace to the public service.
Covering up for the PM, stonewalling on spurious grounds, refusing to answer senate estimates questions.
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Kudos to Bruce Lehrmann for organising his own rape trial
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What would Dutton’s pitch to Australia be? I’m the guy who couldn’t get the ADF into flood zones but I’m going to start a war with China when our nuclear subs arrive in 2045?
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Looks like the corporate media has nailed it again today: the real issue is not that our government just contracted submarines worth 368 billion dollars. It’s that a former PM used uncivil language against us.
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Joyce: The independents won't tell us what deals they'll do
Journalist: In the event of a hung parliament, what deals will the Nats do, and will they honour their Coalition agreement?
Joyce: Not telling.
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Hard to express my complete disgust at Labor this week.
In a way they’re worse than the Coalition - harvesting votes by pretending to be in favour of climate action. They never intended real action, & still have no real emissions reduction plan. Their dishonesty is breathtaking.
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