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Phillip Adams

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@PhillipAdams_1
Phillip Adams
1 year
Massacred. Raped. Poisoned. Enslaved. Their children stolen. Their lands taken. Their religions, their culture and their languages destroyed.. yet there’s a No campaign?
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As the Chair of the National Australia Day Council during the Keating Years I’ve long wanted to move the day. All those in favour?
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2 years
We are now enduring our 9th day under the brutal heel of socialism
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Four installers died during Rudd’s home insulation plan. Huge scandal. 2000 died during Morrison’s Robodebt?
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2 years
In his latest column Gérard Henderson attacks Norman Swan’s credentials as a doctor by saying he hasn’t practiced medicine in years. This from a commentator who hasn’t thought a new thought in decades
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2 years
Biloela family. All those years of cruelty. Shame on us
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2 years
The question is not whether he has ever told a lie but whether he has ever told the truth
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2 years
Alan Joyce. You force to repeat myself. I’m the author of ‘the spirit of Australia’.Then deserved, now tragically inappropriate. My slogan is hereby vetoed. Please remove it from all fuselages, tickets and advertising.
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1 year
I campaigned for homosexual law reform in the 60’s.Worked in the Treaty campaign before most of you were born.Fought for refugees.Have spent my life fighting bigotry in all its forms. Hence I was awarded the highest relevant honour- the Human Rights Medal. Apologies accepted
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Meanwhile a real Australian hero - someone who reported war crimes rather than committing them - remains in prison
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2 years
Today is Malcolm Fraser’s birthday. He’d be voting Labor
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3 years
Margaret Court gets an AC - Australia’s top gong - in next week’s Honours List? Far worse than Bettina Arndt’s AM. Or Tony’s knighthood for the Duke. A disgraceful, shameful, tone deaf decision
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2 years
Farce. Fuck-up.Fraud. Fiasco. Total failure. Shmozzle. Disaster. Disgrace.Monumental mess.Utter chaos. Idiocy. Incompetence. Couldn’t raffle a chook in a country pub. Have I missed anything?
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2 years
Repeat after me. “Close down all casinos”
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2 years
Impressive
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Week one and Albo has already been a better Prime Minister than his three predecessors.Koala Stamp
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Anning was created by Hanson ...Hanson was unleashed by Howard. Never forget she began her political career as an endorsed Liberal candidate
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NRA. America’s worst terrorist organisation.
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2 years
Having given Qantas the “the Spirit of Australia’ slogan I hereby withdraw it. Hasn’t been deserved for years
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3 years
Barry Jones, nigh Ninety and In good health otherwise, is having a heart op tomorrow. Can I pass on your best wishes?
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4 years
kangaroos are laying down and dying in the garden. Unharmed by fires they’re simply giving up - like scores of beautiful old trees that have shaded the homestead for many decades. Drought is a bushfire in slow motion
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2 years
Sorry Albo.Turning 83 in a few weeks so perhaps a tad too old to be your GG. But I could do light duties - eg. replace Brandis in London.
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2 years
All those who think Mark Dreyfus is an improvement on Christian Porter say ‘aye’.
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4 years
Please treat (and tweet) Peta Credlin with more respect. Don’t forget she was our Prime Minister
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4 years
When a President enourages armed mobs to threaten State Govenors it is time for all living Presidents - especially GWB - to call for his removal from office - under the 25th amendment
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1 year
Let’s bring Julian Assange home for Xmas
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1 year
Jacinda. Reconsider. The world needs you - not just New Zealand
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2 years
Albo? Please tell us you and Penny are intervening in the Assange horror story.
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3 years
Today is the 89th birthday of my oldest friend- the truly Honourable Barry Jones. I’ll pass on any greetings.
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4 years
I hereby announce impeachment of government’s climate change. denialists Please tweet support
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2 years
It’s not atheism that’s destroying religion. It’s religion
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4 years
As Chair of the National Australia Day Council it was my duty to announce the Australian of the Year. When we selected Mandawuy Yunupingu Alan Jones had an on-air tantrum. From that day on I instructed the NADC panel to always choose someone who’d infuriate Alan Jones
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3 years
Can Labor parachute Keating into a safe seat? He’s only 77. Younger than Biden
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Remember when Barnaby was described as “Australia’s best retail politician “? I never quite understood what they meant. Now I realise the retailer was Dan Murphy
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Many years ago I devised ‘the Spirit of Australia’ motto for Qantas. I’ve long since rescinded their right to use it. Under Joyce? The spirit of greed and cynicism. Shame on you Joyce - and your duplicitous cohorts in the company and in government.
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1 year
Vale Barry Humphries …I’ve known you since 1956 and we did lots of things together- including three significant films - parting company because of politics differences . But I still regard you as the cleverest person I’ve ever known
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2 years
Once again three cheers for Four Corners.Tonight’s episode-The Butchers from Brazil -reveals the global scale of corruption criminality and environmental destruction of JBS - company now encouraged to dominate our meat industry.Beef, pork,Tasmanian salmon.This is a HUGE scandal
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Phillip Adams
4 years
Talking about pulling the plug. Tomorrow a great many of my colleagues at the ABC will lose their jobs. Shame on our powerful enemies.
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2 years
ScoMo was never my Prime Minister
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2 years
Long overdue to lower the voting age to 16. It’s young lives we’re destroying with criminal climate change policy. Give them a say in their own future.
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Phillip Adams
5 years
In an act of collective madness Australia has given its malevolent,ignorant and corrupt version of the Trump administration a third term
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4 years
40 years ago I chaired a huge Save the ABC rally in Melbourne and had the odd experience of introducing odd-bedfellow protestors - together for the first time since the coup.Gough Whitlam AND Malcom Fraser. We need bipartisan support now.Rudd and Turnbull?Gillard and Bishop?
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2 years
I apologise
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5 years
I nominate Greta Thunberg as Australian of the Year
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4 years
Alan Joyce runs Qantas, the dying kangaroo and ‘national airline’. Gets paid $25,000,000 a year.David Anderson runs the ABC-the national broadcaster- and get $24,000,000 less. Which one does the better job?
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1 year
With Opus Dei and Hillsong now out of power can we claim the separation of church and state?
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4 years
It’s still the old conservative mantra of ‘privatize the profits socialize the losses’. If major enterprises like Qantas are to be bailed out by government they should be nationalised
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12000 Londoners died due to 1952’s “Great Smog’ forcing govt to pass a Clean Air Act banning burning coal for domestic heating.I’ve just driven for 4 hrs from Sydney to the farm through our Great Smog.Learn from history you murderous clowns masquerading as leaders
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2 years
There’s something inexpressibly sad about Terence Kelly. The kidnapper is himself a lost child
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3 years
High treason. Impeachment. Arrest. Imprisonment. Now
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3 years
Like the PM Margaret Court is a hyperactive Pentecostal. A White Australian who endorsed Apartheid. An ardent homophobe who who insulted gay players and opposed same-sex marriage.This upgrade from her AO is calculated to outrage
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Phillip Adams
3 years
I implore you to watch…and weep.
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Shadia Edwards-Dashti
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Every MP must listen to this speech by Tony Benn as Parliament is recalled tomorrow morning to debate #Afghanistan History must not be repeated. Goose bumps
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4 years
As a longterm supporter of voluntary euthanasia- so vehemently opposed by the Vatican- I’m puzzled that Pell’s pal Abbott now supports involuntary euthanasia. Economics trumps theology?
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We suffered from anxiety while he was PM.
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#Auspol Morrison reveals he suffered from anxiety while PM: reports
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2 years
That’s your bloomin’ lot my old commo comrade. Vale Peter
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3 years
On observing Jones up close and personal in my 2UE days it was painfully clear that Alan suffered from self-hatred. And completely understandable
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Phillip Adams
4 years
Email from Barry Jones this morning - “the postponement of parliament puts more power - total power- in the hands of the executive - and nobody questions it, least of all the Opposition. It is in fact a coup”.
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I’m sick of the US
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Joyce’s Qantas. The Spirit of Failure
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Tonight’s my last LNL. Accepted $500,000 job in New York for NSW. Vacancy at RN to be filled by John Barilaro. Thanks for listening over the past 35 years
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3 years
My Federal Goverment isn’t working properly. Will try a reboot
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5 years
Bob Hawke told me a joke. “There are two pieces of road kill on the Hume Highway - one’s a dead wallaby and the other’s a dead politician.What’s the difference?” “I dunno Bob”. “There are skid marks before the wallaby” He was PM at the time
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In two weeks well know if Australia is a failed state - a state that fails it’s first peoples
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3 years
Her partner? You grubs
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2 years
Having resigned from the ALP over the coup against Kevin I’m finally tempted to rejoin.
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Israel is not only destroying Gaza. Israel is destroying Israel
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The GG has Covid? Clever of it to find him.
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3 years
Nothing’s within 5 kms of my home. The shops, PO, medical centre and hospital (etc) are 20 kms . Living on a farm it’s almost 5 kms to the front gate. But not to complain - Barnaby’s our local member. Good night
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5 years
Simple question. Of all the possible replacements for Shorten which one would the LNP most fear. Simple answer. Penny Wong
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Amy Coney Barratt - the latest of the Pro-Life Supremes - approves the first execution of a woman in many years. Pro life and pro death .....
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Thank you Geoffrey Robertson KC for reminding us that Charles gave back-slapping approval to the Kerr for sacking Gough
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Media reports say the lethal leprechaun may be leaving Qantas. To lose Alan Joyce and Alan Jones? That’s more than my pacemaker’d ❤️ could bear
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2 years
In the US you need a licence for fishing . And a licence to hunt animals. But no need for a licence to hunt children
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If there was a Victoria Cross for bravery in journalism Chris Masters deserves to receive it.
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2 years
For years I longed to see Lowitja O’Donahue as our first President. Now retired at 90 (with the Republic is yet again delayed) let’s have Marcia Langton as GG. No one has worked longer or more effectively on First Nation and bridge building issues All those in favour say ‘aye’
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We do Dean. We do
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#auspol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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If any Australian deserves a State Funeral/Memorial it’s John Pilger. Sadly it won’t happen - for fear of right wing outrage over a left wing warrior
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Phillip Adams
4 years
Through the drought, bushfires and now the pandemic our GG has been MIA. (Did I miss his state funeral?)
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Phillip Adams
2 years
On this day in 2008 PM Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations. One of the most significant days in Australian history - boycotted by John Howard.A great speech by my friend Kevin - up there with Paul Keating’s Redfern oration
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We’re told that very recently G Pell, T Abbott and A Jones had dinner at the Australian Club. That’s what I’d call an unholy trinity
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1 year
Dear PM. Can we please have a new GG for Christmas?
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4 years
His decision to resign?
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Can anyone name one thing that Mathias Cormann has done, said, thought or promoted that made Australia a better place?
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Red Kerry. Another ABC commo
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Veteran journalist Kerry O'Brien on The Voice referendum: “If this fails, we are a failure as a nation... gullible, uninformed and ultimately stupid.”
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Hillsong. Bringing the money changers back into the temple
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Happy birthday 🎂 to Barry Jones. My oldest friend is 88 tomorrow. Long may he refuse to pick that final box.
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Unlike Malcolm Turnbull both Paul Keating and Kevin Rudd refused the top gong Goodonyer comrades
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Now that she’s climbed Uluru might I suggest Hanson climb Hanging Rock? And like Miranda disappear?
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In the early 90’s I tried to persuade Keating to lower the voting age to 16. Yesterday demonstrates it was a good idea.
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I joined the Communist Party and communism collapsed. I joined the ALP and now it’s stuffed (See a pattern here? I’m going to join the LNP)
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The Commission for the Future was established by Hawke’s Science Minister Barry Jones. I was its Chair.We made the Greenhouse Effect our focus - organising the first national and international conferences. Our warnings were dire and 100% accurate.That was 1985.Repeat. 1985
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Australia rhymes with failure. And if we reelect the Coalition because of another scare campaign on refugees we will join the US as a failed state
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Julian Assange. Speak out Australia
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A refreshing difference between the current PM and his Prime Ministerial predecessors - going back decades - is Albo’s seeming lack of ego.
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Says the clown being protected by a secret trial
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2 years
Happy birthday dearest Laura
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