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Dinner with neighbours tonight. They like
#ScottMorrison
because “he’s moderate.” She doesn’t like
#Albo
because “he’s snarky” and doesn’t seem to do anything. She had to be helped to remember his name. A reminder to us all that elections are decided by the unengaged.
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Completely offensive to run an ad like this when Australians in this age group are still waiting for their bloody vaccinations.
WARNING: Here is the GRAPHIC Australian Government
#COVID19
ad to run in Sydney.
#COVID19nsw
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And my best news of the day..? My wife has quietly changed her twitter profile from “Aspiring Breast Cancer Survivor”, dropping the first word. Been a long road. 🙏🏻 Welcome back.
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#DanielAndrews
on
#PeterDutton
saying he should “swallow his pride” and ask for more C’wealth support: “If I need something I don’t hesitate to ask - and I’ll tell you who I ask. I ask the Prime Minister. I don’t waste my time asking the bloke he beat in a party room ballot.”
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The best take on whether the PM should know the price of bread is that whether he does or not, he apparently feels fully able to declare $44/day sufficient to live on.
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Royal Air Force Flying Officer (Rtd) Jacqueline Donegan - later Riminton - 1930-2021. My Mum.
Rest In Peace.
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So just to be clear, in a post-midnight press release, the government is threatening to send Australian citizens to jail for five years if they try to get home from India - to protect Australian citizens. What an utter statement of failure of our quarantine arrangements.
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Spent a bit of extra time cooking dinner tonight. A Mary favourite. I built a good fire. The kids made dessert. After seven hard months (plus three major ops and countless minor procedures),
@MaryLloyd4
left the Kinghorn Cancer centre today.. this was the end of chemo..
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In other news, I have a grand-daughter!
Welcome Clementine - and thank you Cait and Ollie ❤️🥇🎉
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Twice when I worked at Nine, Alan Jones rang Kerry Packer demanding I be sacked. Once because I reported on his Cash For Comment hearing, the other when I was insufficiently laudatory (in his view) when introducing him to speak at a charity event. 1/2
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@sydney__watson
This white Australian guest in NZ felt so marginalised there that he destroyed lives and the sense of safety of an entire multicultural but largely white community. You’re a fuckwit.
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Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor calls a press conference to discuss today’s 0.50% cash rate rise. “Happy to take questions,” he says. No reporter asks a question. “Perfect,” he says, and walks off.
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RIP my beloved young colleague, Jesse. Happy with a new man - and that, it is being alleged, was the problem. Condolences also to the family and friends of Luke Davies. Many tears tonight.
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My hero.. sorry, wife...
@MaryLloyd4
not only pressed on with her chemotherapy today, she took part in the ABC editorial conference call while she was doing it. Now home and back into isolation upstairs.
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My gals...
Every day, at some point, she reaches over, rubs my head and tells me she loves my hair. She has no idea how much it helps to know she’s in my corner.
Happy International Women’s Day.
#IWD2020
#IWD
#womenbackingwomen
#chemo
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“Forcing taxpayers to renovate other people’s homes to aid some tradie, who probably earns more than the average taxpayer, is economic and political stupidity”, says
@Adam_Creighton
in the
@australian
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What on earth was
#HomeAffairs
thinking in granting a prized entry visa to a foreign racist? And surely a TV network is not so craven in its search for publicity at any cost to grovel quite so low..
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My wife and hero
@MaryLloyd4
- on the
@abcnews
editorial conference call as the
#GeorgePell
verdict breaks, while undergoing chemo. When it comes to
#Multitasking
this is
#Olympic
level.
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Ten years ago last weekend I married
@MaryLloyd4
. Together we have lived in six houses in three cities on two continents, raised three great kids. Mary has added a third degree, worked as a journo and an academic. Together we have fought cancers and worked too hard..
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By my count, 7 articles over 5 pages in today’s
@australian
lauding the late
#CardinalPell
. Like Pell himself, not much evidence of reflection or of room for other views. I feel like I’m back in church as a schoolboy with grim men laying down the truth.
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The Govt’s move to block
#ChristianPorter
from referral to the Privileges Committee over his secret donations was “stunningly stupid” says Niki Savva. It “trashed Parliament, undermined the Speaker and looked like the Govt was trying to hide something.”
#insiders
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In the name of heaven and all that’s decent, it is past time to end the persecution of Bernard Collaery, David McBride and Richard Boyle.
@markdreyfusQCMP
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Let me add my two cents: the most efficient way to get broadly informed on any weekday morning is to listen to the ABC Radio news at 7.45 followed by AM, while doing whatever you need to do. Axing it is daft.
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Good to know that in scoring Scott Morrison’s year, the Daily Telegraph reckons he turned alleged rape victim Brittany Higgins into a “net positive.”
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How it’s done...
Meanwhile, in NZ: Our Prime Minister just popped her toddler to bed and has pitched up on the couch in a sweater to do a
#covid19
Q&A, as the country enters its first night of lockdown.
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Well, white supremacists have achieved one thing this week - the Muslim call to prayer will be broadcast this Friday across NZ on TV and radio, on the orders of PM
#JacindaArdern
. I’ll have the latest from
#Christchurch
5pm
@10NewsFirst
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Liberal MP
#BridgetArcher
has broken ranks to join the government in censuring
#ScottMorrison
. “I do not accept any of (his) explanations,” she says. His secret multiple ministries were “an affront” to democracy.
#auspol
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#NeilYoung
got me thinking. But
#JoniMitchell
puts it beyond doubt. Just deleted my
#Spotify
app. Part of them pours out of me in these lines from time to time. So keep on rocking in the free world.
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How good are nurses?
Just bumped into Lucas, who in the darkest days of my wife
@MaryLloyd4
’s cancer treatment, was the encouraging face beside the chemo trolley. Thank you, Lucas, for everything.
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Indigenous journalist Bridget Brennan, on Jacinta Price’s view that colonisation did not have lasting negative effects on Aboriginal people: “Go and tell people like me who had parents who died 20 years earlier than they should have.”
#insiders
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A man I know, with two Masters degrees and a background in academia and finance, is unemployed. He points out
#MathiasCormann
’s hourly RAAF flight rate is almost two-months of his
#Jobseeker
rate of $824/fortnight.
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Completely irrelevant, and I welcome and accept any pile-ons, but the PM’s reference to the “A-Zee”vaccine feels like a further tiny loss from what we were.
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Final total $527.90. 👏👏
My daughter Coco and her mate Izzy were up all night baking cupcakes to raise money for the
@RedCrossAU
#bushfireappeal
and
#WIRES
. If you see them in your travels, it’s $2 a cupcake - all takings and donations matched by me.
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Should the ABC get more funding to enable it to cover increasing public emergency broadcasting costs? Discuss.
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Like many New Zealand women, Constable Michelle Evans of
@NZ
police has donned a scarf today as she guards funerals after the
#ChristchurchTerrorAttack
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It’s a plague year, so
@MaryLloyd4
and I are going in boots and all. I’ve decided to join Mary in the trendy cancer look with a fetching skin cancer treatment number. Rocking our looks 👀!
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The most distressing hostage video I’ve ever seen.
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Feeling a bit emotional today.
Just finished my chemo-day prep for the last time!
No more having to apply numbing cream to my port, before drawing my face on for my weekly outing to the Kinghorn Day Spa.
This is it. The
#chemo
finish line is in sight.
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If Australia’s national security truly matters to you, you should listen to this. If anything, Greg Sheridan is being too kind.
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#BREAKING
#BrittanyHiggins
will sue two former Coalition ministers and the Commonwealth for $3m compensation.
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Could there be a more fitting image for the lunacy of Trump’s last stand? Dye streaming from his temples, conspiracy theories spouting from his mouth. All dignity disgraced.
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Do yourself a favour.
Read this.
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This is my Australia. I am a white guy born in Asia,
#DengAdut
was born in South Sudan and trained to fight Muslims as a child; Talal Yassine is a Muslim born in Lebanon. In glorious, magnificent Australia, we are collaborators in noble projects and the best of mates.
#IamYouAre
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I have been cleared of
#COVID19
after being informed on Saturday a fellow Qantas passenger had tested positive. Results took 69 hrs - not bad under the circumstances, though not quite Peter Dutton’s heroic six hour result! Thank you
#StVincents
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Perhaps it is coincidental, perhaps not, but no Australian Prime Minister has served a full term since
#Twitter
was invented.
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PM - who now says his government has “always” seen the connection between
#climatechange
and
#bushfires
stands next to the DPM who said in November only “raving lunatics” took that view - announces new recovery funding.
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A telling moment, signalling the end of any pretence of bipartisanship. A standing ovation for
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
from the Labor and cross-benches and the gallery - stony silence from the Coalition benches - as the AG introduces the
#VoiceToParliament
constitutional bill.
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Our last Defence Force Chief from the
@Australian_Navy
was Admiral Chris Barrie. Today, he savaged the China -
#SolomonIslands
security deal: "I think, frankly, it's a failure of Australian Government policy."
#auspol
#ausvotes
@10NewsFirst
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Reminder: Nationals leader Michael McCormack said in November it was "disgraceful, disgusting" to link climate change with bushfires. "We've had fires in Australia since time began" he said, slamming "inner-city raving lunatics" for raising climate change.
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God awmighty! Hell of an intro...
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Interesting to reflect on what
#ScottMorrison
might have done next, had he been re-elected. 🤷♂️
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What is he thinking? The PM announces new rules limiting one person to every 4 sqm in enclosed spaces. But insists schools and pre-schools stay open. Every parent thinking - why is my life more important than my child’s? Completely daft.
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Went for a pre-chemo briefing with
@MaryLloyd4
today. Last chance for a photo with Mary with full hair. Grateful for the tremendous people at
@kinghorncancer
centre. Peace out to all those going through similar fun.
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NZ PM
#JacindaArdern
says reining in social media platforms “will need a global response.” She brushed off talk of
#Facebook
chief
#MarkZuckerberg
coming to NZ. “I am not interested in a PR exercise.”
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Seems my request to the nine year old to tidy up her room did not find favour...
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What a terrible look 😕
"The servant must clear my desk for me. I can't be expected to move things."
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Bill Shorten turns up with the paperwork - P72 of the 2018 federal budget, he points out, records an $83.7m cut to the ABC over the following three years.
#qanda
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The Coalition has ruled out extending the cashless debit card to pensioners - but Labor’s Jim Chalmers says they’re not to be believed. “We will not be stepping back from raising this important issue,” he says, pledging “Labor will abolish the cashless debit card.”
#auspol
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Question: is it better for retailers to have no business for a short time or almost no business for a lot longer?
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Vale
#FatherBob
. A favourite in my family and a special favourite with my late Mum. RIP old digger. I hope your rewards are sweet.
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Home Affairs Minister
#PeterDutton
buried an official climate risk action plan for 18 months, reports
@FinancialReview
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There will be a significant new development on a Canberra sex scandal tomorrow.
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Agreed.
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Sometime soon, not yet, someone in America will have to make a concession speech. May he muster the dignity, generosity and tone of one of the great Americans.
#JohnMcCain
RIP. 👇
Watch John McCain’s notable concession speech from the 2008 election
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison being quizzed on pork-barrelling.
JOURNO: "Are the voters there being punished for voting Labor?"
PRIME MINISTER: "I can tell you, if they support our candidates, the commitments I make will be delivered. "
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If true, hard to imagine the justification for keeping the Biloela family on Christmas Island.
Peter Dutton says refugees released from Melbourne hotel detention to save money
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There was a time when
#climate
science was not a left/right thing. It was just climate science.
The Greta Thunberg of the 1980s. (have I got this wrong?)
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Tried to think of a response worthy of the arsehattery of this tweet. Can't think of anything.
He burned his ex-partner and little children to death. Set them on fire.
What on earth is wrong with you.
Congratulations to the Queensland police for keeping an open mind and awaiting proper evidence, including the possibility that Rowan Baxter might have been “driven too far.” But note the misplaced outrage. How dare police deviate from the feminist script of seeking excuses...
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Extraordinary. This is One Nation NSW Leader
#MarkLatham
referring today to another elected politician who happens to be gay.
#auspol
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My American friends might be surprised to learn that this hangs in the Senate corridors of the Australian Parliament.
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The chant as maskless masses confronted police in Sydney - “you serve us.”
There’s just a touch of January 6 about all of this.
#sydneyprotests
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Packer told me once “if he was only the bad things about him, no-one could stand him.”
He suggested I take
a broader view. But my view, in the final analysis, is irrelevant even to me. Jones parlayed power in Sydney like few others - and that’s never pretty to watch.
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@Klaus_Arminius
@4_d888
Factually incorrect and inflammatory. Nothing Arab about him. A white Australian of European ancestry most recently living in Queensland.
Anyone following you needs to consider why they would.
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I have never seen a PM so openly disdained during a national disaster - check out the brush-off from this firefighter.
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Not to be out done, my youngest Holly and her mate Amiya set up a lemonade stall today. Another $550 for bushfire relief.
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Hate to make reflections on the Parliamentary Speaker, but he is hopelessly out of his depth.
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The prosecutor’s comments on the decision to call off a retrial in the
#BruceLehrmann
rape trial are worth hearing for yourself.
@10NewsFirst
#BrittanyHiggins
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Wiradjuri elder “Riverbank Frank” Doolan is a friend of mine. He lives simply on the banks of the Macquarie River on the outskirts of Dubbo. He’s a NO vote and he wants me to report it. “Altering the constitution along racial lines, to me that’s repugnant,” he says.
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Enough to say HM The King’s style differs a little from his mother’s.
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Proud of my beautiful wife
@MaryLloyd4
. Still asking the sharp questions
@QandA
#Qanda
#COVID19Aus
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Worth 7 minutes of your
#auspol
time.
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It is staggering that this Senator has put this car crash out in his own social media platform. Is it possible to be so stupid you don’t know you’re stupid..?
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Among the parents at the US school where a primary student shot a teacher, was a British mum. Ouch!
“The problem is the bloody guns. I’m only here because my husband is in the military. Otherwise I would not have chosen to come to this country.”
Outraged mother at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia after a 6-year-old shot a teacher
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Ah, those big energy companies - truly they are our friends…
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Scott Morrison’s religious discrimination bill also allows people who hold no religious belief to make a statement of that non-belief so long as that non-belief is held “in good faith.” What the actual…?
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They buried the lead: 3/4 of the political donations from this Chinese entity went to the Liberal Party, at events attended by unnamed premiers and treasurers.
A video has emerged of Anthony Albanese speaking Mandarin and urging closer ties between Australia and China, just 24 hours after a brutal sledge from the PM.
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I get the feeling the most powerful campaign ads this election will not be coming from the parties..
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This really is a chilling shot
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#BREAKING
: Actor
#CraigMcLachlan
has sensationally dropped his defamation action against the ABC, Nine and actor Christie Whelan-Browne. The first of 11 women was due today to give evidence against him. Costs will now be determined against the Gold Logie winner.
@10NewsFirst
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Don’t believe a word of it - NSW is not following the Doherty National plan. It is blowing it up, writes Laura Tingle.
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PM says people should not get medical advice from twitter (true) but listen exclusively to official advice from people like the Chief Medical Officer. Who, at 9.30am yesterday said handshakes we’re fine. By 2.45pm handshakes were off.
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