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OUCH! John Hewson on
@ScottMorrisonMP
"Morrison's problem is he's basically a marketing PR type guy. He's got a pocket full of slogans. You ask him a question he gives you a slogan. On a good day it's a 3 word slogan. On a more sophisticated day it's a four word slogan"
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Serious question.
At what point does the Governor General inform the Queen that the Prime Minister has began to covertly swear himself into multiple ministerial roles, subverting principals of the Westminster system.
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Without NSW’s constant heavy lifting, far fewer Aussies would be back enjoying Christmas with their families. But the lack of empathy & appreciation from other premiers says nothing of who we are as a nation. There’s a callous selfishness in all of this that’s unAustralian.
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Niki Savva is correct.
@ScottMorrisonMP
plays both sides of the fence on vaccine debate. Happy to declare govt has ‘no mandatory vaccine policy’ but demands journalist be double jabbed in line with state legislation to attend events.
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Five times I asked
@billshortenmp
what the cost of his emissions reduction target would be to the economy? And when Australia would know. Five times he refused to even try to answer. Frustrating.
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Stunned: The federal government has today announced its spending $4+billion of taxpayers' money to buy 29 US Apache helicopters WITHOUT going through an open tender process, and they now say there is no planned media conference....
#auspol
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Confused by the
@DanielAndrewsMP
presser on Victoria’s curfew. He says he is led by health advice. But Chief Health Officer said curfew wasn’t his idea. So who’s was it? Andrews was asked and wouldn’t explicitly say. 🤔
#COVID19Vic
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I’m sorry but I have a major problem leaving 9,000 Australians stranded in a India, a country without a health system.
Many of these ppl swore a pledge to Australian because they aspired to our egalitarianism. Our dignity. Our values.
We equally have a duty to get them home.
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BREAKING: Anthony Albanese will attend Bluesfest.
Albo will introduce the legendary Jimmy Barnes
#auspol
Will there be a duet …. 🎵
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Having pledged to take all questions, Anthony Albanese pulled the ripcord after 8min today, facing tough questions about his claimed experience, how he could pay for his health policy, ditching a rise to the dole, and a potential Labor greens alliance.
#auspol
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So...
Di Natale is resigning (Greens)
Katter is handing over (KAP) leadership to his son.
McCormack is trying to hang on as (NATS) leader.
McKenzie's dumped as deputy.
Barnaby wants his job back.
Morrison's unpopular (LIB)
I can't think why the ppl think politics is a circus.
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The small irony of Labor accusing the PM of going missing … while they keep the Opposition Leader away from the daily media conference despite being out of isolation.
#auspol
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Question: If the vaccines work - why do the vaccinated need to be kept away from the unvaccinated ?
“The more we can keep people who are not vaccinated away from those who are…then the safer we will be”, says
@DanielAndrewsMP
🤔🧐😳
#covid19vic
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The govt is being crafty in its messaging in saying it won’t send Afghans back, what it WON’T do is allow those on temporary visas to become permanent residents, which means they can’t buy homes, bring families or put down proper roots. It’s cruel.
@ScottMorrisonMP
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Today I asked numerous times if coal mines under Labor would have to buy carbon credits should they go beyond their baseline emission threshold.
@RichardMarlesMP
wouldn’t specify, nor say what the cost of a credit should be.
#auspol
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Australians aren’t being blocked from news or access to their union. They just need to go to the source instead of Facebook for it. Websites exist. Phones exist. Newspapers exist. Gosh, they’re even online for convenience. 🗞
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“I will not be lectured by you.”
@NicolleFlint
accuses
@AlboMP
of crawling into the gutter and politicising women’s safety.
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At what stage does
@ScottMorrisonMP
risk his popularity and threaten to reduce COVID support payments for states who refuse to open borders ? Clearly they don’t think ‘we’re all in this together’.
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Awkward,
@AlboMP
fluffs his punchline.
Says if the PM doesn't know where the Gov-General lives, he can give
@ScottMorrisonMP
a lift to The Lodge to call the election.
Note: The G-G doesn't live at The Lodge.
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@dan_mcternan
@BBL
In a game where victories and contracts are decided by millimetres batters are happy to take off early, merely on the supposition the bowler will be shamed if they run them out. Almost every rule is slanted in the batter’s favour. The tide is turning and it’s probably overdue.
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Rightly or wrongly, by injecting itself into the world of sponsorship, netball players will be asked whenever a sponsor - now the Vic Govt - does something mildly controversial. Laws, land acquisitions, alcohol policies. Borders. Does X reflect Netball Aust's values? Messy stuff.
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Politicians need to stop calling our rights, ‘privileges’.
Too many men and women have fought & died to protect them.
A driver’s licence is a privilege.
Not an extra hour of exercise in a park.
Politicians should be returning our freedoms, not providing privileges.
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You don’t have to be
@AustralianLabor
or
@LiberalAus
to find this staggering. Is this the Australia you want to live in ???
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The PM appearing via video link to Question Time… in what looks somewhere between a North Korean propaganda shoot and a proof of life video.
#auspol
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Serious question....why does
@ScottMorrisonMP
need Twiggy to buy $320m worth of testing kits from China which the Gov will reimburse him for? Why can't the gov buy them? Is it about making it look like China is in the diplomatic freezer?
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PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
denies calling
@samdastyari
'Shanghai' Sam. "I didn't use either of those phrases."
Except he did. In 2017 on
@BenFordham
"'Shanghai' Sam, who I have also christened today as 'Last Chance' Sam, has had his last chance..." he also repeated it on Sky
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One new case in Victoria.
A busy day for the 1700 strong team of contact tracers while businesses remain locked down.
#COVID19Vic
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Seriously. When did this become ok in Australia ???
Victoria police are out of control.
A 32 year-old mentally ill man is in an induced coma in hospital after being hit by a police car and head stomped by police in Melbourne.
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For the record. Campbell Newman’s staff called me anti-Liberal to my face. Shorten’s backers said I was anti-ALP. And the Chinese Ambassador thinks I’m a pest. 🤷🏼♂️ I’m just a journalist. Annoying politicians is what we’re supposed to do.
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Labor continues to articulate the Govt’s failure in the Pacific, but for 3 days it’s been unable to say what it would do differently other than pick up the phone and engage. ✈️🚌🚘
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The campaigning is done. And the thing I’ve been most impressed with are the journalists on both campaigns - from all bureaus - who’ve worked together, researched, battled Covid & tried their best to ask worthy questions & meet horrid deadlines. It’s easy to criticise
#auspol
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Kristina Keneally has detailed her fierce opposition to nuclear energy. When I asked why, the senator explained “because the future of energy is green. It’s renewable energy.”
#aupol
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Shush. The twitter-verse will erupt if you’re accusing Labor of hiring a NZ actor who can’t vote to declare ‘Australia can do better’ 😂🤣
#auspol
Getting
@russellcrowe
to do the voiceover is a great coup! It’s a superb voice. But isn’t there an irony if he’s not actually an Australian citizen and unable to vote?
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Dan Andrews says the decision to have 500 owners and connections at the Cox Plate was based on 'science and data' but has been overturned because it was unpopular.
So Is Victoria following science and data or popularity ?
#COVID19Victoria
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I see you
@johnyD69
I doubt you would have even made the footy team at my school mate. Which means you would have been cheering me on. Thanks for watching. 📺
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It’s uncool to say this but I agree. Those who consume drugs do so knowing the risks. We have a generation unaccustomed to being told no. A generation accustomed to the watering down of rules and authority. No means no - in all forms.
Now we've gone soft. Now we're being told that as a society, we have to sanction the illegal use of drugs because stupid kids can't stand aside from their peer group and just say 'no'…
MORE:
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Now
@ScottMorrisonMP
suggesting Australian couldn’t source Rapid tests before August because HE was busy sourcing extra vaccines from Poland at that time.
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Update: The NSW Treasurer has just ruled out a Sydney lockdown, declaring there needs to be a balanced proportional response.
@SkyNewsAust
#covidnsw
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Perhaps the single best piece of prose I’ve read all pandemic. Masterful.
“Seriously, what’s he got to be grateful for? We did as we were told, to avoid draconian fines for non-compliance. You might as well thank us for obeying the law of gravity.”
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Prince Philip has died.
My grandfather served with him during the war. They were the same rank, served together on the same ship & went through Dartmouth Naval College together. Would have eaten and saluted each other.
One of those family stories I grew up with.
What a loss.
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3 failed attempts.
2 years of trying.
1 open border.
Thanks
#samwyperphotography
. 📷 ☀️ 👰♀️🤵♂️🎻
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Currently
@Bowenchris
turning himself in knots to avoid criticising
@AnnastaciaMP
who won't allow a daughter to attend her father's funeral this afternoon. Will only say its heartbreaking. All on
@RUOK
Day. This country's lost the plot.
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There’s to be no campaigning tomorrow for Easter Sunday, so Labor releases a $118m announcement 35 minutes before midnight. Some would think they’re trying to capitalise on the news cycle without breaking the rules they asked for ... some might call that crass
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Scott Morrison has called BS on Macron's claims, detailing how he went to Élysée, had dinner with the President, relayed Aust concerns and likelihood of cancelling the contract. Maintains he also tried to phone him but Macron wouldn't take the call, fearing bad news.
#auspol
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Anthony Albanese has corrected Labor’s position on offshore processing. Having said at this morning’s media event that boats would be turned back but the centres would no longer be required, he has just told journalists he wouldn’t close the centres.
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Considering the NSW announcement, is it wise to spend millions on purpose built quarantine hubs in multiple states?
Are we past that point now ?
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Surprised at the outrage. Would have thought green minded voters would want to know what the cost/punishment would be for big emitters emitting beyond their allowed level. Businesses definitely have a right to know.
#auspol
Today I asked numerous times if coal mines under Labor would have to buy carbon credits should they go beyond their baseline emission threshold.
@RichardMarlesMP
wouldn’t specify, nor say what the cost of a credit should be.
#auspol
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Today was supposed to be our wedding day. Again. But you just dress up, set the table, order Uber and tell the family you love them.
Here’s to number 3. And This Girl ❤️
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Just interviewed a former senior US military advisor who warns if the West allows Taiwan to fall, the base means within 20 years China would be able to expand and potentially blockade Australia.
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Not sure how this is news
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The irony is so great, it’s almost a choking hazard. 💉
Qld Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young says it's time to "move on" and "regain our full lives again", so get vaccinated.
@abcnews
@abcbrisbane
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I’ve heard a few
@Joe_Hildebrand
sprays, few better than this. There’s no hyperbole or bullying. Just the truth.
"We've already done the right thing. We did the right thing the first time around, the people who didn't do the right thing, was you!"
@Joe_Hildebrand
on
@DanielAndrewsMP
's response to the COVID-19 crisis in Victoria.
#Studio10
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Some news: After a chunk of renovating & writing, I’m excited to announce I’m joining
@SkyNewsAust
. Looking forward to working alongside some tenacious journalists I’ve long admired. I’ll continue to work on my
@TheBackStory_au
series. But it’s time to get back to work
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So we now have the Prime Minister openly pressuring ATAGI to change its health advice on AstraZenca - this after stating at the start that the govt wanted the public to have confidence in the impartiality of authorities when it came to the safety of all vaccines.
#fedpol
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Anthony Albanese has been asked a number of times what the Tasmanian unemployment rate and RBA cash rate are. He appears not in know.
#auspol
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The criticism around
@ScottMorrisonMP
using Jenny to assist with his re-election got me thinking about the 2019 campaign. Here, Chloe Shorten is laying bricks in WA. She was likeable, relatable and popular. So remind me why all the outrage again?
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Update. Having said Labor’s signature $135m health clinic policy was fully costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office, Mr Albanese now says it’s “informed by work from the PBO” which is different thing (& often means it’s based on other previous workings).
#auspol
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Delivered for NZ’s ears by a PM who clearly has little personal regard for Australia’s PM.
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Today I say goodbye to
@10NewsFirst
. After 9 years it’s been one hell of a ride.
#auspol
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From the campaign.
Labor has just announced $14.8m in funding for melanoma nurses at a pic fac, that they didn’t want any journalists at, on a day they called for a federal integrity commission to stop financial mismanagement.
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...This is the same way the Super Hornets were bought, at great expense to fill a gap WITHOUT a tender process. The deal has clearly been done in final throws of the TRUMP Administration. That's fine, but to say no media planned, has hallmarks of a dictatorship. Not a democracy.
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Breaking: Duty of Care spray painted on The Lodge. Climate protestors in handcuffs and singing.
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In response to my question
@ScottMorrisonMP
says it’s undecided whether we will build & buy the British Astute Class Submarine or the US Virginia Class, but on the bigger issue of how much money we will spend on defence in coming years, “whatever it takes.”
#auspol
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At a time we’re looking to create jobs & rebuild the economy, imagine a unified parliament that wanted to actually catch this rain - and insure against future droughts.
We could assist our farmers, develop arid land, create wealth for communities, flush out rivers, feed Asia. 🤔
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This is a very important community message to pet owners.
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For years the world has avoided confronting the despots and tyrants out of our own self-interest.
We've become reliant on their goods.
And now they are strong. And intimidating. And dangeorus.
And we argue. And look weak.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
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Toppling colonial-era statues is a nonsense. We need to recognise our history. Take pride & learn from failures. Expunging moments is a fools game. Where does it stop? And which which popularist movement? Without colonialism almost none of us would be here apart from the obvious!
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@strongcap
@RichardMarlesMP
If asking the acting leader to explain the party’s position is a gotcha, you have a very low standard for what you accept as a politician.
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@Airbus
has been wanting a chance to compete in an open tender to show they could save taxpayers $3billion. There's no doubts the Apache is formidable, but if it wasn't in the top two options when the original tender was conducted in yr 2000 - the public has a right to know...
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After not answering how much Labor’s emission reduction target would cost the economy,
@billshortenmp
today says it won’t cost the economy because it will grow. The gov argues the figure is $472b /10 yrs
#AUSVote2019
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Australians are entitled to honest, accurate & timely information on the vaccine rollout.
It's appalling that during the WORST health crisis in a century - a crisis that's stripped liberties - government & health officials are unable or unwilling to publicise credible information
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Labor on the Tamil family. “Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
has the power to stop this today. I appeal to him as a father. I appeal to him as a Christian... show some leadership.”
@KKeneally
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@TigerRobin71
@bbctms
Maybe you might want to ditch the theatrics and play cricket. You’ve now lost 6 of the last 7 Ashes Tests.
What year did you last win one ?
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OL
@billshortenmp
continues to rebuff suggestions his emission reduction target will cost business. Also denies lifting wages will over burden businesses. Won’t reveal the cost of Labor’s electric vehicle target. Says if you don’t want one, don’t get one.
@10NewsFirst
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@deniseshrivell
@RichardMarlesMP
* It wasn’t a gotcha.
* Don’t you want to know if Labor is going to force big emitters to cut emissions ?
*And how ?
* Shouldn’t you and the businesses be clearly told what the cost of over exceeding their threshold ( which means over polluting) would be ?
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Only in 🇦🇺. A rogue dog invades
@ScottMorrisonMP
media conference. Wait for the owner 🏃♀️
#auspol
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How do you unite a country by dividing by race & gender ? Why not just help small business ... don’t they all pay the same tax ?? Hire the same workers ??
"Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild." — President-elect Biden
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(It’s not a question for or again action on climate change) but it goes to the heart of costs, how polluters will pay, and how competitive our exports will be. Also the transparency of Labor’s emission reduction policy.
#auspol
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Surprised NZ PM
@jacindaardern
refused to take questions from a small group of Aust journalists. Aust Foreign Minister
@SenatorWong
has made an effort to engage with local and international media at the Pacific Islands Forum. More power to her.
#auspoI
#PIF2022
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Interesting read but the press certainly wasn’t “sometimes feral”.
@billshortenmp
wasn’t chased. Travelling Journalists were merely asking q’s they’d long been denied answers to & Labor was dumbfounded! If that was too much I’d hate to see him on the phone to
@realDonaldTrump
🤷🏼♂️
Inside the team that lost it for Labor - the blow by blow of Labor’s campaign with notable mention of
@JonathanLea10
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Giving first home buyers money doesn’t solve the problem. It further fuels the market.
We have created a housing crisis, a system that’s so inequitable it requires ever increasing govt intervention.
Now any significant measure to make homes more affordable (reduce their value)👇
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What’s extraordinary about Qld’s trashing of AZ today is experts now say they’re better at identifying & treating the clotting. It’s not to say there isn’t a risk, but it was the abandonment of all nuance for calculated political gain.
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@hughriminton
Equally true that she wasn’t filmed upon her father’s death having to attend a merry-go-round of civic events. It again looks irascible. But impossible to fathom the pressure. I’ve erupted over pens with greater fury on lesser days.
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WOW! Bait & switch. ALP candidate for Dawson, Belinda Hassan is secreted into a car with
@billshortenmp
preventing questions on Adani. Then 2 shadow ministers return for a doorstop to kick George Christensen on his record. Media blows up. “Where is she!”
#AusVotes19
@10NewsFirst
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OUCH! Two workers refuse to shake
@billshortenmp
’s hand. A message for politicians.
#ausvotes19
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OUCH.
@SenatorWong
slams the
@Greens
"I don't agree with the Greens. I think they're a virtue signalling protest party."
#auspol
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A must watch.
A young, fit-and-healthy gym-goer has warned people about the deadly coronavirus - "Don't take any chances, just look at me."
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Every bushfire season I look at the Hercules stationed at Richmond RAAF base in western Sydney & wonder how we haven’t come up with a way to retrofit their enormous cargo bays to drop water.
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In 2021 I passed Jim Molan receiving a quilt from charity, Aussie Hero Quilts. In good spirits I captured this knowing perhaps soon, he wouldn’t be in parliament to debate and discuss what he cared for. Sadly, today is that day. Vale Jim Molan. A man proud, passionate & astute.
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30,000 people here. Albo says Bluesfest has also given tickets to flood volunteers and victims in the Northern Rivers. Money also going to those impacted.
#auspol
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...why its the best option now? Why was it originally too heavy, used too much fuel, not suited for working at sea? The Apaches are being bought off what's called US Foreign Military Sales, which means there is no technology transfer to Australia and a loss of Aussie jobs...
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In Sydney’s wealthy Eastern suburbs democracy comes at quite the price. $5 a sausage !
#auspoll
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16 days ago the PM declared the pandemic over. 👇(see video)
Today I asked why he didn’t support a Royal Commission into the handling of the disaster.
His answer: “Well, I’ve said all along we are still in the pandemic…”
So has it passed. Or are we in it ?
#auspol
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