
Rick Morton
@SquigglyRick
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Senior Reporter: The Saturday Paper. Author: Mean Streak out now, One Hundred Years of Dirt and more. Country kid from QLD. [email protected]
Joined April 2010
@DineshDSouza @Polymathically Hi Dinesh, Australian here, it's really not you fucken nugget.
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Remember, the real crime is drawing attention to the atrocities being committed in Gaza and beyond. What a fucking joke. Solidarity @plalor
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omg have a fucken sook.
One of Sydney's oldest boys' schools is going co-ed, leaving some parents furious about what they call the "woke agenda" behind the move. #9News. READ:
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this is a bus.
Sydney's transport system could be about to make a new leap - here's the first look at the trackless trams that are set to take to Western Sydney streets, connecting up to the new airport at Badgery's Creek. @Natalia_Cooper9 #9News
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you have precisely zero shame.
SchMo referred the Robodebt Royal Commission as a lynching. I call it a missed opportunity to address the serious holes which now exist in welfare compliance. See my column in @SpectatorOz .
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In the end you write the book you can't stop thinking about. Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion dollar government fraud. Out next year. In the meantime: rickjamesmorton@protonmail.com
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For my sins, I am interrupting my extended sabbatical (work and Twitter) to cover Robodebt Royal Commission for @SatPaper. Will tweet thread Hearing Block 3 from here when it starts at 11am AEDT / 10am AEST. Can't promise the sort of volume I was managing end of last year!.
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Mum texted me and said I was “cranky.”.
Former PM Scott Morrison and Former Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews are in hot water this morning, accused of leaking the arrival of an asylum seeker boat on the day of the federal election. DETAILS: #9Today
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“hello yes I would like to buy one ticket on the very concept of air travel thank you”.
Qantas has filed its defence in the ACCC case alleging the airline sold seats on flights already cancelled. It includes an insane idea: Qantas doesnt sell you a ticket on a "particular flight", rather, you're buying a "bundle of rights".
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Greg Hunt gave an interview yesterday saying there were only 6 aged care facilities nationally that had yet to receive a Covid-19 vaccine dose. But evidence in estimates today says that figure is actually 21. @MurrayWatt asking where Hunt got figure 6 from. Dept: don't know.
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Gonna be that guy for two seconds. Just finished the edits on this weekend’s @SatPaper piece and I’m not sure I’ve written anything that has alarmed me quite so much, or that has more revelations in 2200 words. If you’re able, might be a good time to consider a subscription.
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This is an incredible episode. "The most dangerous form of Government power I've ever encountered." There was a behavioural insights document that predicted if people could be made to feel shame, they would pay up. This was designed.
How could #robodebt, an unlawful idea, ever make it into policy?. @DarrenODonovan joins @squigglyrick to dissect how things went so wrong within the bureaucracy. #RobodebtRC .
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