Nothing to see here, move along.
Still here? OK here goes...mum, wife, part-time academic. Fearless LGBTQI advocate and proud leftie. My views are my own.
I don't begrudge NSW getting extra vaccines. I am however annoyed that Australia has a secret stockpile of Pfizer that is available for Scotty to dole out when politically expedient. So now in Australia we have
#VaccineRorts
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South Australian CHO on radio right now saying SA's close contact definition and exposure site definitions have not changed. It's 15 minutes exposure NOT 4 hours.
#auspol
Here in South Australia I don't think the rest of the country would notice if we never opened our borders again. They seemed to have forgotten we exist, Covid free and getting on with life.
#auspol
So no free RAT's in Australia because it stops business making a profit.
Liberals don't give a flying fuck about Australians only corporations.
#auspol
Living in SA and it feels like we are the Gen X state, ignored and forgotten. We're coming out of lockdown today to after successfully squashing a Delta outbreak!
#auspol
We have thousands of homeless people in Australia but instead of boosting the economy and building lots of new social housing Scott Morrison wants to help people who already own a home to renovate their bathrooms FFS
#auspol
Tomorrow's Press Club appearance by Morrison will be more a test of our 4th estate than of Morrison. If he's allowed to get away with lies and obfuscation we're pretty much screwed!
#auspol
Dear Brad Hazzard,
We're not opening our borders to NSW even if you reach 80% vaccinated with hundreds of cases a day and your health system severely compromised.
Kind regards,
South Australia
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Kerry Stokes November last year:
“Ben Roberts-Smith is innocent, deserves legal representation and that it’s scumbag journalists who should be held to account and quote me on that”.
🤣
#RNBreakfast
Senator Birmingham: 'the Prime Minister has extended an invitation .. it would be in their best interests to meet with him"
Because women love being told by men what's in their best interests.
#auspol
#March4Justice
Andrews no longer had confidence that private aged care homes could provide appropriate care to keep residents safe. "We don't run this sector, but the residents in these homes are all Victorians," he said.
Nowhere to hide now Scotty
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Phil Coorey: What is it in your view that Labor needs to do over the next three years to get that primary vote up and to win it in your own right ?
Erickson: We did win in our own right.
Ahahaha Phil still not happy with the election result.
#auspol
#npc
Pentecostals don't handle real suffering well do they. Their faith relies on the belief that is people's own fault they aren't rich or successful, so when Morrison encounters real suffering he can only think they brought it on themselves.
#auspol
"I conclude, Mr Speaker, by thanking the Australian people for the privilege of being able to serve my country in so many roles"
He's just taking the piss now..
#auspol
#censure
Alex Hawker said the government may charter flights to deport some Christmas revellers. So the Morrison govt is happy to charter flights to remove tourists but not repatriate Australian citizens stranded overseas!
#auspol
Just remember folks when Frydenberg and Birmingham get served up as the next leaders of a more female friendly, less rapey Liberal party, they sat back through this whole time and did nothing but contribute to the lies and cover up.
#auspol
How many RATs do you think a family of 4 need? Two per person in the house? How many people are there in Australia? And Morrison is bragging about ordering 6 million!
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Question for a journo to ask: "With the genomic sequencing, have you found that the virus circulating in Melbourne and now NSW is the same one found in Ruby Princess passengers?".
#auspol
So Speers asks Albo, hypothetically, what he'd do if someone laid an accusation against a Labor MP and miraculously several hours later an accusation is laid against a Labor MP.
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So Karen Andrews hints at releasing the Biloela family into community detention on Christmas Is. 24 hours later Alex Hawke squashes her flat, says I'm the boss, and again demonstrates how LNP men will always walk all over LNP women.
#auspol
OMG do we have to go through this 'boats scare campaign' again FFS. How about the MSM stop amplifying this ridiculous pantomime because we are all well and truly sick of the politics of it!
#auspol
So forget the risks on AZ for under 60's because we've protected the GP's from being sued if you have a bad reaction. Way to go on the messaging again!
#auspol
Can someone please leak Australia's Stage 3 pandemic plans please. Apparently we aren't allowed to know or worse, they are making this shit up as they go along!
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Morrison: “By the end of the year ... everybody who has had the opportunity [vaccine] will have had it,” he says. This means lockdowns will “become a thing of the past” by Christmas, he says.
Like that time he said all stranded Aussies would be home by Christmas?
#auspol
Whybrow is trying to query if the professional lip reader, with his professional equipment, knows the resolution of the video he watched. And we're back to old white men not understanding technology.
Question Frydenberg get called anti-semetic, question Liu get called anti-Chinese...anyone else see a pattern here? Apparently if you question any LNP member you are racist.
#auspol
@RonniSalt
Problem for Scotty and Joshie is all their previous bagging of lockdowns and Victoria are preserved in media files to be used in the next federal election by Labor or the Greens or a savvy independent. You can't erase the past easily any more.
Has anyone heard from Guy Sebastion lately? You'd think he'd have something to say about the fact that ZERO dollars have flowed from his mate Scott Morrison since their love fest media event.
#auspol
So hypothetically let's say the cabinet minister alleged to have sexually assaulted a 16 year old girl resigns from parliament. If he is a lower house MP this would trigger a by-election and plunge the Morrison govt into minority yes?
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Independent member for Indi Helen Haines has commended Peter Dutton for the “fast action” he has taken in banning Senator David Van from the Liberal Party room.
Yes it only took 3 years for the Libs to do something about him...."super fast".
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Just trying to understand this whole
#AUKUS
nuclear submarine deal.
Correct me if I am wrong but we just signed up to PAY America to become a US nuclear submarine forward base in the pacific?
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Reynolds being exposed by Lisa Wilkinson. LW repeats the claim Reynolds is lying though her teeth and misled parliament. Omph!
His Honour refocuses on LW identifying the exact lie in Hansard and how she knew she was lying at that specific point in time.
@GrogsGamut
And how they managed to convince thousands of retirees that they would be denied franking credits when they didn't have any and wouldn't get any in the first place is a testament to the gullibility of sections of the general population.
"The foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, has vowed to counter the “malicious activity” of politically motivated arbitrary detention." The Guardian
Except in Australia where we will continue to lock up toddlers for political gain.
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Hey Labor why didnt you vote to increase Newstart by $75 today? Are you now surprised the Libs are shouting across the chamber at you when you ask what the govt are doing about Newstart? FFS it isn't that hard, stop giving them free kicks and grow a spine!
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So the
#insiders
panel thinks someone earning $250k a year needs reassurance from Bill Shorten that they'll be looked after. FFS only a bunch of people earning similar salaries could fail to notice what privilege is compared to people on Newstart.
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Ita Buttrose: "And if I’d known earlier, I would have spoken to see him about it. But I didn’t know and I don’t think many of us knew until fairly late in the piece."
Really expect us to believe that? What the actual? Do you live in a media free bubble FFS?
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“The MINOR has been receiving medical treatment and daily monitoring on Christmas Island... "
“As soon as the ABF was advised....that the MINOR required medical treatment in WA..."
Surprised they didn't just refer to her as 'prisoner 467-457-IMA'
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I don't want a tax cut in the budget. I want a decent lift in the aged pension and other social security payments. I want more money for health as well.
#Auspol
The Federal government is allowing Covid infections to spread out of control in aged care. Remember aged care is a commonwealth responsibility. Staffing, infection control all governed by the Feds!
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Dutton said O'Neil is an "angry woman" and accused the federal government of never seeing "national security as a priority". 👀
Full story and interview 👉
But he didn't choke up when he starved the NDIS of millions to give tax cuts to his rich mates.
#auspol
'This is so above politics': Morrison chokes up announcing disability royal commission via
@ABCNews
Newsflash: drunk woman can't remember every tiny detail of what she and everyone else did in the pub the night before she was raped. FFS what an annoying line of questioning
#BruceLehrmann
Today I have the attention span of your average house brick. This afternoon we discover if our research unit is going to be de-funded 😪 all of us are on soft funded contracts because that's the lot of a modern academic.
ALP are seemingly terrified of losing votes to the Greens. They are failing to recognise that demonising the Greens and playing besties with the LNP is driving people away from Labor to the Greens. Most of us want the Greens and ALP to work together against the LNP!
#auspol
So
#insiders
discuss blaming the media, Gerard blames New Zealand, and no-one points out it was our own government stoking islamaphobia, Morrison the head cheerleader.
#auspol
@AlanMurrell10
@10NewsFirstAdl
I'm embarrassed on behalf of my state. South Australia should be apologising profusely to Victoria and doing whatever they can to help but of course it's a Liberal run state and they NEVER apologise and NEVER accept responsbility.
Interesting to note Hunt's distraction by loudly proclaiming "don't blame the aged care staff". We're not actually blaming the staff mate, we blame you!
#auspol
@reardon_shaun
Crikey! Never heard of a candidate for a political party disavowing herself of her parties policies! Here's an idea... join a party whose policies you actually support!
@TamePunk
Note she pulled out the 'some of my friends are gay and trans' defence today. Has anyone asked her trans friends how they feel about being called mutilated?
@PaulBongiorno
Who is making these decisions and how? Why do I keep reading about people unable to travel to see a dying parent or child but a quick trip to a Covid hot spot to go to a wedding is fine? This is solely a Commonwealth responsibility and they are screwing up again!
#auspol
"it’s okay to be white" posters have been found at our University. Police said that in some cases razor blades have been embedded in the posters, presumably to injure those who would remove them.
Thanks LNP for making us more unsafe and threatened as a country
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Love the way Chant says just get tested on your way to work....the average wait is several hours. Are employers going to be happy with everyone turning up late?
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Hey
@JulieBishopMP
this is your chance to bury the odious race-baiting toad and make Australia a better place! I mean what have you got to lose??????
#auspol
.
@mjrowland68
: "Did you, in a shadow cabinet meeting in 2010, urge the Coalition to capitalise on anti-Muslim sentiment for political purposes?”
@ScottMorrisonMP
: “Absolutely not. It is a disgraceful smear and an appalling lie.”
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Hey Scott Morrison, did you know here in South Australia we have a LIBERAL premier who says you can only go to the cricket if you have been double vaxed.
Liberal premier mandating left, right and centre! Going to go on national news and slag him off? Didn't think so.
#auspol
Dear Santa,
All I want for Christmas is for Barnaby Joyce & John Alexander to lose their seats at the bi-elections. I have been very good and not at all naughty.
Love
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NS Commissioner Mick Fuller: "The Prime Minister didn’t ask me any questions that were inappropriate."
In the interests of transparency why doesn't Mick Fuller tell us exactly what questions Morrison asked and we can judge whether the questions were inappropriate?
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Rape of a 16 year old is not a crime against a woman, it's child abuse, it's child sexual assault. A cabinet minister has been accused of child sexual abuse and he's allowed to carry on as of it's nothing.
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Duchess Downer wastes no time in claiming credit for anything and everything in her
#MAYO
flyers. It's actually getting quite sad and pathetic now.
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So let me get this straight...Angus is under police investigation, there's even a taskforce name, Scott rings his old mate who happens to be the Police Commissioner, and says there'll be nothing to see here so no need to stand Angus down?
Yeah seems legit....
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I can't believe people are surprised that the women of the Liberal party are all supporting Laming. Faux outrage, claims of solidarity with women but in the end their naked ambition and blind loyalty trumps all.
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I get the impression Fiona Brown was told what not to ask by finance, how else can you explain not asking about a naked woman being found on her ministers couch!
#BruceLehrmann
So ASIO says a former MP was committing treason but ASIO couldn't find a single thing to charge him with until we got shiny new laws in 2018. So up until that point espionage was a free for all in Australia???? REALLY???