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"We have a major change in direction with people being asked to go get their own rapid antigen tests, these tests aren't available... there is the issue of affordability, it's just not good enough, this government always responds too little too late"- Opposition Leader
@AlboMP
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"It's quite extraordinary that on the day in which pensioners are eligible to receive a rapid antigen test so many of them won't be able to find one"- Labor Leader
@AlboMP
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Trucking tycoon Lindsay Fox on Daniel Andrews and the harsh Melbourne lockdown:
"To the Premier's credit, he's had the balls to stay through the problem that started, and he's carried it through."
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The ABC has learned that a former Afghan army officer who worked as an interpreter for the ADF was executed just a day or two ago.
His wife and children are still in hiding, but his sister who lives in Australia had been trying for months to secure humanitarian visas for them.
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Paul Keating on what should be done to stimulate the economy and lift it out of the recession: "We could be building public housing til the cows come home"
#auspol
#recession
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"I, the AMA and other groups asked the government about the testing strategy several months ago...it was put to us that the government would not intervene when the private market could take over" - Dr Chris Moy,
@ama_vice
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Ten's
@vanOnselenP
tells RN Breakfast: "I'm working on a story today. I need to verify a few things and fact check what I've got. But I do now have written evidence of the Prime Minister's office being more involved in the Sports Rorts saga than what the Prime Minister has said"
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"I am very confident the current Solicitor General will explain to the PM that his excuses about the rule of law are absurd, that an independent inquiry [into a rape allegation against Christian Porter] is no threat to the rule of law." - Shadow Attorney General
@markdreyfusQCMP
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Dr
@NormanSwan
says it won't be a normal Christmas for Sydneysiders... And he says if health officials and the Government doesn't lock down the city to try to stop the spread "they will rue that day"
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With experts predicting the northern hemisphere winter will produce a new variant and hundreds of thousands of people expected to develop long COVID, Independent MP Dr Monique Ryan
@Mon4Kooyong
has called for a rethink of our approach to the pandemic.
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"[Linda Reynolds] needs to be able to turn up to the parliament and answer questions, and if she is not well enough to do that, then we have to seriously ask, is she available to do the job as Defence Minister?" - Shadow Home Affairs Minister
@KKeneally
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Today the 2nd week of the COP26 climate talks begins.
"There's a long way to go but a great deal has happened. I don't think it's been helped by the Australians, which is a great disappointment to the rest of the world."
- Lord Deben, Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change
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"Aboriginal women barely report [domestic violence] nowadays because of the real risk that their children will be taken from them and they'll be subjected to processes that are culturally unsafe," says human rights lawyer Hannah McGlade.
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"We're talking about sexual assault, sexual abuse of women - a lot of which happens behind closed doors, as it did in Parliament House. It's really important that we start getting some transparency in that." -
#March4Justice
organiser
@janine_hendry
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"He is paid nearly $1 million a year, Phil Gaetjens, and this is how he is using his position: to fix up, cover up and hide problems in the Prime Minister's office," says
@KKeneally
, Shadow Minister for Home Affairs and Government Accountability.
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On France's response to the AUKUS deal:
"I think what you can see here is again Mr Morrison has been so focused on making the announcement that he doesn't take responsibility for doing the whole job."
-
@SenatorWong
, Shadow Foreign Minister
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"The idea that the problem was not sending in the Army to control the vaccine rollout earlier completely glosses over the fact that the problem we had was the Prime Minister didn't order the vaccines when he should've."
-
@Mark_Butler_MP
, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing
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Fran Kelly asks Paul Keating about the $32bn that's been withdrawn from Australia's superannuation balances:
"Those people should not have been called upon for income support by raiding their own savings.This should have been paid for by JobKeeper right from the start"
#auspol
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'We've got the best savings systems in the world and these monkeys want to destroy it': Paul Keating
@RNBreakfast
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"Our advice was that we needed to do something about the number of positive cases coming into our hotel quarantine system," says Professor Paul Kelly, Chief Medical Officer.
He says there was no advice given in relation to fines and jail sentences for people returning from India.
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The Minister for Women
@MarisePayne
is refusing to go to the
#March4Justice
rally outside Parliament House, but veteran political journalist
@michellegrattan
says Scott Morrison should ask her to attend: "She might get booed, but she's a politician, that's life!"
#auspol
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"The timeline is all wrong. If it's a matter that was taken to Mr Dutton on the basis that it was politically sensitive, why did it take 2 years to recognise that it was politically sensitive?"
- Barrister Geoffrey Watson, Director of the Centre for Public Integrity.
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"I hold the Prime Minister responsible for failing to call out unequivocally, the violent and extreme comments that are made, the taking of gallos, the threatening of Labor MPs and Premiers and Independents."
@AlboMP
, Opposition Leader
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Shane Fitzsimmons, NSW RFS Commissioner: "People have criticised me for using language like "unprecedented". But you won't find history books in NSW where you've seen nearly a quarter of our forested country consumed"
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"The problem is relying on the private market during a health crisis and there is a market failure... we have...inability to supply [RATs] at a critical moment, lack of equity of access... and also there is poor communication about when people should be using them" -
@ama_vice
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"The treatment that Christine Holgate was given in comparison to the backing that the PM has given men who have behaved badly in his own government is just so stark," says Greens Senator
@sarahinthesen8
.
"It's hard not to understand the arguments...that gender was at play here."
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"As much as I want to be hopeful about this summit, which the Government is claiming is its platform for change on women's issues, unfortunately in the background, actions are still proving they don't get it."
-
@TamePunk
, Australian of the Year; survivor of child sexual abuse
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It's been revealed that Morrison also took control of the Modern Manufacturing Initiative, approving 17 projects right before the federal election - more than half in Coalition seats
Ed Husic, Minister for Industry and Science & joins us soon.
Listen:
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Concerns are growing for the safety of a prominent Turkish dissident who is reportedly being held inside a Turkish embassy in the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan.
@abdbozkurt
on Religion and Ethics
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Former Labor Senator
@DougCameron51
says that the Labor rank and file are uncomfortable about the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal.
He agrees with Former PM Paul Keating's assessment of the minimal risk of China invading Australia,
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Independent Senator
@Senator_Patrick
has asked the Auditor General to investigate the appointment of former coalition MPs and staffers to well paid jobs in agencies such as the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
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"I welcome an election on the economy because an election on the economy is an election about 8 long years of wage stagnation and flat living standards and weak business investment."
-
@JEChalmers
, Shadow Treasurer
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On the ICAC investigation into Gladys Berejiklian:
"Of course it can't wait. You can't turn a blind eye to matters of corruption, probity or maladministration. You can't turn your back on that because there's some other pressing demand."
- Geoffrey Watson SC,
@cpi_aus
director
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"The budget would be in much better nick if it wasn't riddled with these partisan rorts - sports rorts and dodgy land deals - and if it wasn't weighed down with the kind of waste we've seen with the botched implementation of the JobKeeper program."
- Shadow Treasurer
@JEChalmers
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@JEChalmers
What do you say to Angus Taylor's claims the PM is missing in action?
"I think Angus Taylor is as responsible as anyone for the mess we're trying to clean up.. we would prefer not to have to fix these relationships around the world that our predecessors ran down"
-
@JEChalmers
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#ICYMI
, tomorrow is
@frankelly08
's last time presenting RN Breakfast.
And
@TamePunk
and
@BrittHiggins_
will join Fran on air after 8am.
#JenkinsReview
📷AAP/ABC
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"We had the Treasurer last night on another program saying hotel quarantine has been largely effective. Well, that's news to all those Australians who are waking up in lockdown cities today," says Shadow Treasurer
@JEChalmers
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Happy birthday to our fearless leader
@FranKelly08
! She’s been awake since 3.30am and not even halfway through this morning’s show... but still time for cake while she finishes getting through the newspapers! 🍰 🎈 🎙
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"17,000 job losses, student fees up, student debt up, emergency research funding cut off," says Labor education spokesperson
@tanya_plibersek
"I think our university sector is actually in crisis."
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Wearing masks outside might need to be compulsory, says
@normanswan
, if we see a second wave of infection here in Australia. He says there's anecdotal evidence Australians are forgetting the messages about social distancing
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Abul Rizvi, Former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration says it's not unusual for a minister to use ministerial discretion 1000-2000x a year.
"Those 2 famous examples where Minister Dutton intervened within 24 hours to grant visas to 2 au pairs is an example."
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Former Liberal member for North Sydney, Trent Zimmerman, will advocate for a Yes vote on the Voice referendum.
He says the Liberal Party's decision to campaign for a No vote risks an even greater backlash from voters under 40, who already feel alienated.
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"Only about 14% of aged care facilities have been fully vaccinated. They were supposed to complete the entirety of the aged care sector last week," says
@Mark_Butler_MP
Shadow Minister for Health & Ageing.
He says that there is no data available on aged care workforce.
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“It shouldn’t take the prime minister of Australia to be the father of daughters to understand that rape is wrong and victims need to be supported.” - Labor Senator
@KKeneally
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"The hospitals in Sydney at the moment are really struggling and that's a real concern... It's exposed some of the longer term issues that are there as well with skill shortages, particularly amongst nursing staff."
- Labor Leader
@AlboMP
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Sky News has launched a new channel, dedicated to covering the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament 24-7.
But Former Prime Minister
@TurnbullMalcolm
has raised concerns about the Murdoch organisation's approach, which he calls "anger-tainment."
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Lt General Frewen is in charge of developing an Indigenous vaccination strategy.
"I actually thought there was one, because we had 18 months to prepare and strategise... I think it's just ridiculous that we're just now sitting around the table."
- Epidemiologist Dr Peter Malouf
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"Aged care was already in crisis before COVID hit...we had a Royal Commission that uncovered horrendous things happening in this critical sector... now we have the pandemic and Omicron layered over the top"-
@ClareONeilMP
Shadow Minister for Aged Care Services
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We've waited 2 years for the Commonwealth Integrity Commission, the Government released the draft legislation yesterday.
"Was it worth the wait?",
@frankelly08
asks Geoffrey Watson... "No. It's terrible. It will be worse than not having one at all."
#auspol
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Preliminary results show Kenya's presidential election is still a two horse race between Deputy President William Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga.
That means the Kenya could see a presidential runoff for the first time in history.
@Odangaring
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"It should never be the case that the CSIRO, or the the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, have to go to a small private foundation to get permission to get tax payers funds.”
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RN Breakfast has been breaking news for years, but this morning we've got some breaking news of our own.
After an unparalleled 17-year-stint,
@frankelly08
has announced that she will be stepping away from the Breakfast mic at the end of this year.
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"They're choosing to not investigate this matter and the PM is choosing to allow this sort of behaviour to occur in one of his ministers and not condemning him."
#AngusTaylor
Clover Moore is the Lord Mayor of the City of
#Sydney
and she joined RN.
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"We have come to you. All we're asking is you to walk out the door and come and join us," says
@janine_hendry
to
@ScottMorrisonMP
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"They shouldn't be surprised about the fact that the reef has encountered 3 bleaching events in the last 5 years and their complete response has been to gift almost half a billion dollars to an unaccountable charity," says
@Bowenchris
, Shadow Minister for Climate Change & Energy.
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"When Scott Morrison tried to explain what he was going to do between now and 2030, it was just a whole series of words. You cannot go forward without signing up to eliminating coal."
- Lord Deben, Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change
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The RBA has called for wages growth to be capped at 3.5% - just half the forecast inflation rate of 7%.
ACTU Secretary
@sallymcmanus
says the RBA is out of touch and living in boomer fantasy land if it thinks workers can afford real cuts to their wages.
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Over 30 refugees remain detained in Melbourne's Park Hotel where tennis star Novak Djokovic was held.
The Djokovic case has brought worldwide visibility to Australia's treatment of people in immigration detention but there's concern this will fade quickly.
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"What we have here is a government that has failed to prepare, it has moved away from PCR testing because of the debacle when it came to people queuing for hours on hours...but without putting in place access to rapid antigen tests for the population" - Opposition Leader
@AlboMP
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"[The Coalition]'s falling apart before our very eyes (...) It doesn't have a plan for jobs post-pandemic. All it's got is a very tired, old trickle-down economics ideology which doesn't work in the modern economy," says
@SwannyQLD
, former Treasurer & ALP National President.
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The best and brightest minds in Australian science have been honoured at the annual Eureka Awards.
The 2022 winners list was led by Prof. Raina MacIntyre for her Leadership in Science and Innovation.
@Globalbiosec
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"I think Victorians have got every right to be filthy at the petty politics being played by Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg," says
@JEChalmers
, Shadow Treasurer.
He says when Victoria had their "hour of need", the Federal support package looked very different to NSW's.
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"this is more about [Dutton's] calculations of Liberal v. Labor, rather than what's good for the country. And he doesn't mind chucking Indigenous Australians and the future of the country under the bus to preserve his miserable political hide.. and it's sad"
- Noel Pearson
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National Cabinet has been found to not be a committee of the Federal Cabinet and is therefore subject to FOI laws.
"It's a huge win for transparency and accountability and basically brings the Prime Minister back in compliance with the law," says Independent
@Senator_Patrick
.
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Christian Porter has told Federal Parliament a blind trust has made a contribution to his legal fees in the defamation case against the ABC and journalist Louise Milligan.
"Well, this is not really a blind trust."
- Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
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"You do wonder if she would have been better off never going near politics. But you don't know. All you can do is think about the good things," Labor's
@billshortenmp
reflects on his friendship with Senator Kimberley Kitching
#auspol
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@simonahac
"Truthfully, Australia only needs to get 3 more
@zalisteggall
's into Parliament and we wake up on the morning after election and it's a different country."
-
@simonahac
, convener of Climate 200
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Crossbench
@Senator_Patrick
has uncovered documents about a $79 million water deal done in 2017 which shows that the Government paid nearly twice as much for the water than was recommended by an independent valuation. He's speaking to Fran now
#auspol
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"We should enshrine a voice [in Parliament] so that First Nations people can have that certainty going forward," says Labor Leader
@AlboMP
.
"And then, of course, we should move to truth telling, to a Makarrata Commission, and to treaty."
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has claimed child sexual assault is rampant and going unaddressed in Alice Springs.
@CatherineLiddl4
, CEO of
@SNAICC
says that while there's a need for more service delivery, there's no evidence that rates are escalating.
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Warren Mundine says the 'idea that Aboriginals do not have a voice is a lie, and nonsense'
Listen back to his full interview with Hamish Macdonald on
@RadioNational
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We asked
@BradHazzard
why he hasn't made masks mandatory... He told us that it's based on medical advice, and that "We've answered that question at least a few hundred times."
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Indigenous leader
@thomasmayo23
and acclaimed journalist Kerry O'Brien are set to release 'The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need'.
They joined
@RNBreakfast
to discuss.
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Founder of the Cape York Partnership and Uluru Statement from the Heart activist Noel Pearson says he fears the Opposition's demand for detail on the Voice is a diversion.
He says the chance for reconciliation is at stake.
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"Gerry Harvey has made more money during the pandemic and he took JobKeeper and somehow we're all supposed to sit back and say, that's okay, that's just the rules that apply to big business in this country."
@sallymcmanus
, Secretary ACTU
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"He's actually poured more fuel on the fire"
@PatsKarvelas
and
@andrewprobyn
review the former Prime Minister Scott Morrison's first press conference since the secret ministry revelations.
@ChildsRos
@abcnews
#auspol
#RNBreakfast
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.
@TamePunk
"doesn't have to smile at anyone" says Liberal MP
@BridgetArcherMP
"I don't think any of us have to smile for other people's comfort or for the sake of civility"
@PatsKarvelas
#RNBreakfast
#auspol
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Former CEO of Australia Post,
@C_Holgate
says she's disappointed Scott Morrison was secretly appointed as Finance Minister.
She questioned the independence of an investigation into her conduct, as Morrison was head of the department running it.
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Energy Minister Angus Taylor told
@InsidersABC
that "total emissions are coming down right now". This was the Climate Council's response on RN Breakfast. 📻
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A former Nationals MP who quit his party over its decision to oppose enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Constitution, says the issue will damage the Coalition at the next election.
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Greens Leader
@AdamBandt
says a Federal ICAC must be established. "There is a very long list of scandals that should and could be referred to a federal corruption watchdog."
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Geoffrey Watson SC says ACT Chief Prosecutor Shane Drumgold was denied procedural fairness, following the Sofronoff Inquiry leak.
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@TurnbullMalcolm
"What Porter is saying is that it is ok for an Australian Cabinet Minister, a former Attorney-General, to take a large donation, a large gift, to himself without disclosing who the donor was and apparently without him knowing who the donor was."
- Former PM
@TurnbullMalcolm
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Never one to mince words,
@JacquiLambie
tells us: "To hear that Scott Morrison might be in government again, that scares the hell out of me to be honest with you [...]
I don’t trust the libs as far as I can put a boot up their clacker."
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As Vic and NSW flag going to Stage 3 lockdowns, shadow health minister Chris Bowen says stronger measures and simpler messages are needed nationwide. "The more people who stay at home, the fewer people will die, that's got to be the message."
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The brutal conflict between Indigenous Australians and Europeans in the first 140-years of British settlement has had little recognition by the Australian War Memorial
New Chairman, Kim Beazley wants the institution to do more to mark the Frontier Wars.
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There's growing evidence we're on the cusp of another COVID wave.
New infections are up around 10 per cent in Victorian and 9% in New South Wales, hospitalisations in both States have also jumped.
Hear from
@normanswan
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On the $660 million commuter car park program:
"77% of the car park funding went to seats held by the Coalition and the other 10% went to seats they wanted to win," says Shadow Finance Minister
@SenKatyG
.
"This audit is absolutely damning of the Government."
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.
@PatsKarvelas
on Stan Grant: "A lot of the language we've heard so far has been about trolls... but a bigger issue is the role that the media itself plays."
Watch Patricia's
@abcnews
recap of comments from Deputy PM
@RichardMarlesMP
& Liberal MP
@JulianLeeser
on Stan Grant.
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@TurnbullMalcolm
"I am staggered that Porter thought he could get away with it and I will be even more staggered if the Prime Minister allows this to stand. It is a shocking affront to transparency."
- Former PM
@TurnbullMalcolm
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