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If you’re a grown adult enraged by 16-year-old activist
@GretaThunberg
, satirist
@markhumphries
and his co-writer
@evanwilliams
have created a new service that could help.
#abc730
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"We tend to get really excited when Australians get noticed overseas ... so it would be really nice to see that kind of attention for these K-pop stars as well": Australians like
@ENHYPEN
's Jake Sim are making their mark in the competitive world of K-pop.
#abc730
#ENHYPEN_JAKE
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“Let me be as frank as I can be. Politics has never mattered less to me. Leadership is not about doing what's popular, it's about doing what's right.” - Victorian Premier
@DanielAndrewsMP
.
#abc730
@mjrowland68
#coronavirus
#vicpol
#auspol
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@leighsales
asks Treasurer
@JoshFrydenberg
: “How good does it feel to be a minister in the Morrison Government knowing that no matter what questions arise over your conduct your job’s safe?”
#abc730
#auspol
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@leighsales
asks
@ScottMorrisonMP
: “You've been PM now for nearly 3 years & so Australians have had a chance to observe how you've responded to various things … Doesn’t all that taken together add up to a tendency to blame shift & duck responsibility wherever possible?”
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Since the
#BrittanyHiggins
story broke a month ago,
@abc730
has invited Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
for an interview more than 13 times.
#abc730
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Journalist
@jamespomfret
reports from inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where anti-government protesters have barricaded themselves in.
@leighsales
#HongKong
#abc730
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#abc730
invited
@ScottMorrisonMP
,
@GregHuntMP
,
@Dom_Perrottet
@BradHazzard
on to the program tonight but they all declined. We will keep asking.
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Does former prime minister
@TurnbullMalcolm
know who leaked the text messages about Prime Minister Scott Morrison?
#abc730
#auspol
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“It shouldn't take having children to have a conscience.” - Australian of the Year Grace Tame was asked what she thought of Scott Morrison’s use of the phrase “as a father”, referring to a chat he had with wife Jenny, when he responded to allegations by Brittany Higgins
#abc730
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"You racked up a trillion dollars in debt Simon and you've got almost nothing to show for it. We're not taking lectures from you." - Shadow Treasurer
@JEChalmers
to Finance Minister
@Birmo
.
#abc730
#auspol
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"You are our best hope of stopping
#coronavirus
. Your individual behaviour is the most important thing to prevent it spreading." -
@leighsales
#abc730
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“I don't see why any particular group of Australians, however much they might be respected, should have their own special voice to the government into the parliament over and above the voice that every other Australian gets” —
@HonTonyAbbott
#ABC730
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Former prime minister
@TurnbullMalcolm
says the revelations about Scott Morrison secretly appointing himself to several ministries is “sinister stuff”, and “one of the most appalling things” he has ever heard in federal government.
#abc730
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"Kerry Stokes financed Ben Roberts-Smith, this defamation fight. This is a media proprietor who should believe in journalism, yet he was waging a huge war against investigative journalism." - Nick McKenzie
@Ageinvestigates
#abc730
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@anneconnollyabc
asks
@ScottMorrisonMP
which of the reports and recommendations from the
#AgedCareRC
his government would take onboard.
#abc730
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"The government needs to provide rapid antigen tests for free to the public." -
@MarylouiseMcla1
, UNSW epidemiologist.
#abc730
#auspol
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It’s been a long 5 weeks under lockdown for many Victorians and there’s still a long way to go. During this time
#abc730
captured images that show how much life in Melb & parts of Vic changed. George Stirling,
@AustBoysChoir
, sings Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air
@Chris_Gillett_
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“I have to ask myself, has PM Morrison read the IPCC report because it is important that every country steps up ambitiously now & in particular Australia is out of sync with other western industrialised countries.” - Mary Robinson, fmr President of Ireland & fmr UN climate envoy
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@leighsales
: “What does your premature rush to claim credit for a phantom surplus say about your political maturity and judgement?”
@JoshFrydenberg
: “We took the best possible advice and based on the forecasts at the time."
#abc730
#auspol
#coronavirus
#stimulus
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A single person on JobSeeker will receive a little over $300 a week to live on. A politician receives more than $280 per day in travel allowance when they are in Canberra on top of their salary.
@leighsales
asks Senator
@Anne_Ruston
why that is fair.
#abc730
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"What we have said is, we don't judge Scott Morrison for not taking responsibility for all of it. We judge him for not taking any responsibility for any of it." –
@JEChalmers
#abc730
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Former Liberal MP
@juliahbanks
says Prime Minister Scott Morrison “wanted me silenced” when she left the Liberal Party. Watch the full interview on 7.30 tonight.
@latingle
#abc730
#auspol
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Plenty of Australians have taken a real interest in the
#coronavirus
pandemic. A lot of them have become armchair experts and satirist
@markhumphries
and his co-writer
@evanwilliams
pay this tribute to them.
#abc730
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.
@SarahHuckabee
talks about her time as White House Press Secretary and working for
@realDonaldTrump
.
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When prime ministers announce major new policies, they don’t often get grilled about what they said on the subject two years before. But that was the case today when
@ScottMorrisonMP
did a spectacular U-turn on electric vehicles, as
@latingle
reports.
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“If I was an Australian, and I was seeing the rest of the world getting all these vaccine doses, and my country … was late to the party, I’d be a little disappointed to say the least. And it isn’t as if they were blindsided.” –
@John_LaMattina
#abc730
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“It’s no longer on us to change things, it’s on the majority. It’s up to non-Indigenous Australians to want to take up that labour. I can't make you do it.” Actor
@missmirandatap
and writer and actor
@nakkiahlui
on the Black Lives Matter movement.
#abc730
@jason_om
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"It's pretty extraordinary language of one former prime minister to use against a Prime Minister from his own side," says
@latingle
after
@TurnbullMalcolm
weighed in on the dumping of the French subs deal.
#abc730
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"The federal government is responsible for quarantine and the supply of the vaccine and they have let the population of Australia down." - Qld Premier
@AnnastaciaMP
.
#abc730
#auspol
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"Work til 70. Eat your house, and then basically find yourself at a certain point of your life where you just don’t have financial assets." Paul Keating slams the suggestion
#superannuation
should remain at 9.5%
#auspol
#abc730
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With the sports grants scandal dragging on into its third week, 7.30's satirist
@markhumphries
and his co-writer
@evanwilliams
felt there was a gap in the market for a new kind of sports show.
#abc730
#satire
#WideWorldOfRorts
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Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
returned to Sydney from the ACT on the weekend, even though both regions are locked down.
@latingle
has the details.
#abc730
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@leighsales
: Laura Tingle, can you think of an historic example where a government in this kind of position has been re-elected?
@latingle
No.
@leighsales
: And that's the program for tonight!
#auspol
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"I went dancing with my friends. I still don't think that was something terrible that I did." - Finland’s Prime Minister
@MarinSanna
.
#abc730
@FergusonNews
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invited Health Minister
@GregHuntMP
on to the program, but he declined. Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing
@Mark_Butler_MP
joined
@latingle
from Adelaide.
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“Let me be as frank as I can be. Politics has never mattered less to me. Leadership is not about doing what's popular, it's about doing what's right.” - Victorian Premier
@DanielAndrewsMP
.
#abc730
@mjrowland68
#coronavirus
#vicpol
#auspol
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Clinical immunologist Dr
@DanSuan2
says Australia should follow Singapore's lead on dealing with the
#coronavirus
, and says your home is the safest place to be.
#abc730
@leighsales
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7.30 invited former sport minister Bridget McKenzie for four interviews in the past fortnight and she declined. Here’s what we would have asked her on behalf of the Australian public.
#abc730
#auspol
#SportsGrants
@leighsales
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"When you get an income tax credit, when you haven't paid income tax - you're already on the public purse."
@BillShortenMP
defends
@AustralianLabor
's
#frankingcredits
policy.
#abc730
#auspol
#Ausvotes2019
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@FergusonNews
asks
@PeterDutton_MP
: Did the Coalition government delay getting information to the voters about increases in electricity prices until after the election?
#abc730
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The Liberals are doing plenty of soul searching after a by-election defeat, followed by high-level resignations over the decision to oppose the Voice to Parliament. To help with any further departures,
@markhumphries
and co-writer
@evanwilliams
have created a new service
#abc730
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Former boss of Australia Post Christine Holgate says PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
's Question Time spray was the "one of the worst acts of bullying I’ve ever witnessed".
#abc730
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To help the Liberal Party with its so-called ‘woman problem’, satirist
@markhumphries
and his co-writer
@evanwilliams
have prepared this helpful public service announcement.
#abc730
#auspol
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The Prime Minister wants to get on the front foot and win the support of Australian women. To help him, satirist
@markhumphries
and his co-writer
@evanwilliams
have put together this message.
#abc730
#auspol
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#Coronavirus
has made it impossible for some children to see their
#grandparents
in person. Hundreds of kids sent
#abc730
video messages of love to their grandmas and grandpas to help bridge the gap.
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During the
#bushfire
crisis, many politicians have been hesitant to answer questions about climate change. But now, there's a new program more willing to accommodate their unwillingness to address the issue.
#NotToday
.
#abc730
@markhumphries
@evanwilliams
@jonocoleman
#auspol
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"It was both [illegal and immoral] ... this was a war on people on welfare ... it was a poor-shaming, welfare-attacking, vicious attack and it was illegal." -
@billshortenmp
#abc730
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"I have no idea why they've taken so long. Myself & others have been asking for rapid antigen testing to be given to the public like the UK have been giving the public free rapid antigen tests because people want to know if they're safe to go to work." -
@MarylouiseMcla1
#abc730
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"It’s tempting to assume that because Victoria has gone into much more extreme lockdown, the previous strategy failed. But that’s actually not true," says Dr
@normanswan
.
#abc730
#coronavirus
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A bit of back story about how
@leighsales
is able to broadcast from home isolation.
#abc730
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“People calling for you to be beheaded, fired, thrown in the fire pit or whatever, that's just noise. You don't pay attention to that.” - Dr Anthony Fauci tells
@leighsales
that battling the pandemic with
@realDonaldTrump
as president has been “very stressful”.
#abc730
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In regards to the flood response,
@latingle
asks
@PeterDutton_MP
: "How should voters in Queensland feel about the fact that they are receiving $350 a week less in income support than people in Lismore?"
#abc730
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