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Christine Holgate seems like CEO material.
She could probably run a vaccine rollout.
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The
#insiders
panel spreads the lie that Daniel Andrews cut out the media.
Dan fronted up for 120 days straight and answered every question. Neil Mitchell was too lazy to get off his arse and turn up.
#ThanksDan
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David Speers to Albo on
#Insiders
: "A lot of people are talking about Negative Gearing".
Are they David? Are they really? Who's talking about negative gearing exactly?
It's a manufactured talking point from Murdoch and the LNP, parroted by ABC journalists.
#journalism
#auspol
"Although this government has not mentioned negative gearing, capital gains tax or franking credit reforms, the opposition leader, aided and abetted by the Murdoch media, has pretended those policies are back on the agenda." |
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Peter van Onselen in The Australian:
“Labor’s word is shown to be utterly worthless”.
Narrator: PVO’s employer
#Murdoch
had to pay out $787 million to Dominion Voting Systems for spewing LIES about the 2020 US election.
#chutzpah
#gaslighting
#Stage3
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Scientists are predicting a future where humans no longer need to travel in brightly lit one-way tunnels via Tesla.
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Jason Clare is skilfully turning journalists' anti-Labor gotcha questions into attacks on the LNP.
Journalists were hoping Albo's offsiders would crash and burn. They're not happy.
#AlboForPM
#ausvotes
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#ABC
producers go into a panic when Jacqui Lambi starts attacking the Liberal Party over integrity and transparency, abruptly shutting down the interview.
#elections
#Tasmania
#TasmaniaVotes
#journalism
#insiders
#auspol
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Liberal Party spokesperson and former Murdoch journalist David Speers lies about Kay Gallagher misleading parliament.
Still no mention of
#MichaeliaCash
's lies.
It's clear the
#ABC
redundancies haven't cut deep enough yet.
#journalism
#KatyGallagher
#BrittanyHiggins
#auspol
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1/2. It's the day after the release of explosive evidence from
#BrittanyHiggins
about
#MichaeliaCash
, so what does the ABC do?
It ignores the Cash revelations and continues to attack
#KatyGallagher
.
#SackButtrose
#SaveTheABC
#journalism
#auspol
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New poll for
#TheVoice
shows
#YoteYes
/
#VoteYesAustralia
with a huge lead over
#VoteNo
/
#VoteNoAustralia
.
Chew on that Rinehart and IPA trolls.
#polls
#auspol
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I have an issue with 'journalists' who think it's their job to hold 79-year-old former Labor Prime Ministers to account (he's not in power) while being asleep at the wheel for nine years under successive Liberal Party Prime Ministers.
They got what they deserved.
#NPC
#auspol
Journalists went to the press club today to hold an influential public figure and former prime minister to account. They should hold their heads high. Personal attacks on reporters don’t address the highly consequential questions our nation is facing
#npc
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Mark Dreyfus to interrupting
#SkyNews
journalist Olivia Caisley:
"Do not interrupt"
Paul Keating to Olivia Caisley:
"The question is so dumb it's hardly worth an answer".
She's not having a good run.
#journalism
#auspol
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Professor Mary-Louise McLaws attempts to answer one of journalists' most tiresome questions:
"Why does this keep happening to Victoria?"
Note: Luck is also a big component.
#afternoonbriefing
#melbournelockdown
#journalism
#MorrisonLockdown
#IStandWithDan
#auspol
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@goldman
Shocked that a billionaire loud-mouth/salesman who falsified his education records would be an a-grade gaslighter.
I'm not talking about Trump by the way.
Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/
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#Dutton
: "Interest Rates are higher in our country than in the G7 nations."
This
#gaffe
should lead to a
#LibSpill
, eh Fran?
🇦🇺Australia: 4.35%
G7 nations:
🇯🇵Japan: -0.1%
🇩🇪Germany: 4.5%
🇫🇷France: 4.5%
🇮🇹Italy: 4.5%
🇨🇦Canada: 5%
🇬🇧UK: 5.25%
🇺🇸USA: 5.5%
#insiders
#auspol
#afternoonbriefing
1/3.
The ABC's answer to Peta Credlin, Fran Kelly, launches an unhinged tirade against Labor leader Anthony Albanese over a gaffe, parroting Morrison's propaganda word for word.
#ThisisNotJournalism
#AlboForPM
#auspol
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Compare the media's attacks on Albo for a 'broken promise' on the
#Stage3
tax cuts with the staggering deference given to Scotty Morrison over his LIES about the alleged rape of
#BrittanyHiggins
.
Morrison lied to win the 2019 election. Where's the rage?
#journalism
#auspol
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Annabel Crabb discusses her interview with Adolf Hitler at Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat in Bavaria.
"Hitler was a vegetarian and by the end of his life ate only mashed POTATOES and broth."
#KitchenCabinet
#auspol
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Annabel Crabb, promoting
#KitchenCabinet
, refers to Peter Dutton's brand of
#racism
as 'muscular'. 🧐
#Spud
in 2018: "Victorians are “scared to go out to restaurants” because of “African gang violence”".
#TheVoice
#VoteYes
#Paladin
#corruption
#auspol
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Australian journalists have demanded that we remember Labor's 'broken promise' on the
#Stage3
tax cuts until the next election, but they never remember the corruption scandals of the LNP.
Angus Taylor ⬇️
#insiders
#journalism
#auspol
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#Insiders
briefly discusses the massive
#corruption
in the Department of Home Affairs under the reign of Peter
#Dutton
.
🔫 Arms Dealing
💉Drug Smuggling
💰Money Laundering
No discussion on how this will hurt Dutton, cos he's not Labor.
#auspol
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Paul Keating vs Matthew Knott of Costello's The Age/The SMH at the National Press Club.
Knott: "You have a tremendous skill for invective and criticism. Could I ask you now to turn some of that to the Chinese Communist Party...".
Keating: 🔥🔥🔥
#NPC
#journalism
#China
#auspol
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Michael Rowland blames Daniel Andrews for being divisive.
Rowland ignores the appalling
#DictatorDan
coverage from Murdoch, Costello, Stokes and the
#ABC
during
#COVID19
#lockdowns
.
#HotelQuarantine
#antivaxxers
.
#IStandWithDan
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#abc730
#springst
#auspol
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Feb 2021: "Former Liberal staffer Chelsey Potter says she "cried a lot" after reaching out to her former boss senator Simon Birmingham to discuss her experiences of a
#SexualAssault
(in 2015)."
"He told her to call 1800Respect."
#LNP
#auspol
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Rachel Baxendale on the
#ABC
(WTF): "He made a point of circumventing the mainstream media if he could... speaking to people directly through social media... avoiding any criticism whatsoever."
A LIE.
Dan Andrews answered EVERY question for 120 days straight.
#ThanksDan
#auspol
Sad to see the ABC go down the toilet with Murdoch.
The love-in continues with a special guest and running the Herald Sun front page as their "top pick".
🙄
They run this garbage every day yet Rachel makes the laughable claim of Dan "avoiding any criticism whatsoever"
#auspol
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In a press conference held to discuss the report into Scott Morrison's multiple ministries, Anthony Albanese is a attacked by a journalist for not doing enough press conferences. Albo sets the record straight.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#MorrisonMinistries
#LNP
#corruption
#auspol
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I'm old enough to remember when Leigh Sales bullied Dan Andrews at a Victorian press conference.
It was hostile. It was partisan. It was unprofessional.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#abc730
#auspol
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Why did Peter
#Dutton
award Canstruct International a $1.8 billion contract?
#Spud
#corruption
#auspol
From the Senate Estimates late shift last night.
Peter Dutton awarded Canstruct International a $1.8 billion contract despite having:
- No staff
- No assets
- No revenue
They did, however, have a rich history of political donations to the Liberal Party.
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Will
#ScottyFromMarketing
release the Biloela family from Christmas Island in time for Christmas?
#auspol
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Andrew Probyn is very concerned about Greens senator Lidia Thorpe's links to criminal elements.
What about Scotty's links with Hillsong's Brian Houston Andy?
Who paid into Christian Porter's blind trust?
#corruption
#auspol
Australia needs more love and prayer: that's the message
@ScottMorrisonMP
gave in his address at the
@hillsong
Conference. Tens of thousands of people travelled to Sydney from around the world for the week-long celebration.
@amberlaidler7
#HillsongConf
#7NEWS
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@acnewsitics
@NikkiHaley
Nikki Haley on Trump: "A man that chooses not to disavow the KKK"
This is amazing. At the end of an interview in which she pulled out all the stops to defend Trump, Wolf Blitzer played Haley a bunch of clips of her trashing Trump during the 2016 campaign and asked, "what happened since then?"
"Nothing happened since then!" she says. 🙃
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Patricia Karvelas: "The Coalition will still be trying to hammer the Government on the broken promise element".
The Coalition doesn't have to hammer. They've been at the pub for 2 weeks getting sh*tfaced while the ABC journos do their job for them.
#Stage3
#journalism
#auspol
A "negative and nasty" Lisa Millar parrots the 'broken promise' talking points of the LNP/Murdoch over Labor's
#Stage3
tax cuts.
LNP stooge Millar ignored the lies of the LNP for 9 years, and Dutton's lies about energy and The Voice.
#ABC
#SaveTheABC
#journalism
#auspol
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Samantha Maiden attempts to protect Walter Sofronoff and Janet Albrechtsen by claiming that the ACT government is so corrupt it would 'nobble' the findings had there not been a leak (an illegal leak).
An outrageous slur from a Murdoch 'journalist'.
#auspol
2/2. In a press conference where
#Murdoch
journalist Samantha Maiden only takes a break from knifing Shane Drumgold to change hands, a defence of Walter Sofronoff's illegal (?) leak to Janet Albrechtsen, to stop the findings being 'nobbled'.
#BrittanyHiggins
#actpol
#auspol
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A hostile Lisa Millar interviews South Australia's Labor leader Peter Malinauskas, using the LNP's talking points.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#NewsBreakfast
#elections
#sapol
#auspol
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Jan 24th: The
#ABC
's Patricia Kavelas assures us we'll be talking about Peter Dutton's corruption for months, or even years.
Just kidding. She was talking about Labor's 'broken promise' for the
#Stage3
tax cuts.
#journalism
#TheNarrative
#qanda
#auspol
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For journalists such as Patricia Karvelas & David Speers who demand Labor produce a climate policy immediately, before
#COP26
starts, just stop.
Labor doesn't have a deadline of
#COP26
, they're not in power. The LNP is power, they have the deadline.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#auspol
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IS YOUR WORD YOUR BOND?
IS YOUR WORD YOUR BOND?
IS YOUR WORD YOUR BOND?
Australia's media wanted to make the next election about Albo's integrity. It was a lay down misère they said.
Will they go after Dutton over
#Paladin
, or will they ignore LNP
#corruption
(again).
#auspol
A report released today shows that under Peter Dutton, contracts by Home Affairs funnelled millions into companies that were allegedly to be involved in serious criminal wrongdoing.
What did Peter Dutton know and why didn’t he do anything to stop this from happening?
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The Right to Disconnect:
David Littleproud doesn't want the government interfering with businesses' operations, but he's ok with businesses interfering in employees' personal lives.
#LNP
#employment
#auspol
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But Rupert
#Murdoch
assured us he never interfered with editorial policy. What a liar.
Comments, David Speers?
#insiders
#journalism
#MurdochRoyalCommission
#auspol
@mark_melbin
Speers used to meet L Murdoch with Sky and GB RW-knobs at Lachlan's house to talk tactics for LNP pushes.
David Crow book....Venom
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Leigh Sales is suddenly concerned about workers wages after 10 years of LNP neglect.
#abc730
#AlboForPM
#budget
#Budget2022
#auspol
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If Antoinette Lattouf has been sacked by the
#ABC
for breaching standards relating to impartiality, why haven't Fran Kelly, David Speers and Patricia Karvelas been sacked yet?
They always push the Liberal Party's propaganda.
#journalism
#auspol
#afternoonbriefing
1/3.
The ABC's answer to Peta Credlin, Fran Kelly, launches an unhinged tirade against Labor leader Anthony Albanese over a gaffe, parroting Morrison's propaganda word for word.
#ThisisNotJournalism
#AlboForPM
#auspol
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@TheRickWilson
Australia's Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton, pictured here with Ivanka Trump and Bill Barr, has
#coronavirus
.
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The biggest cause of the spread in Victoria?
Public disobedience due to the undermining of the public health message AND public health leaders by the Murdoch media.
#4Corners
#IStandWithDan
#auspol
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#Murdoch
's Samantha Maiden complains that Albo's PMO isn't spoon-feeding her stories like
#ScottyFromMarketing
used to.
Crowe: "Some of their spin is quite cynical.".
They forgot
#ScottyThePathologicalLiar
already?
I guess they're not
#insiders
any more.
#journalism
#auspol
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David Speers' only contribution in March 2023 on
#insiders
following blockbuster revelations in the
#RoboDebt
Royal Commission about a conspiracy between the Morrison Government and
#Murdoch
's The Australian?
"A good look at how the sausage is made".
#RoboDebtRC
#auspol
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The media running with the 'mean girls' angle have forgotten Linda Reynolds called Brittany Higgins a lying cow, and forgotten her NDIS comments.
#auspol
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❌ Journalist: Gotcha question on Tanya Plibersek.
✅ Jason Clare: Flips the script and educates the public on the Alan Tudge scandal/coverup.
#WitnessProtection
#corruption
#ICAC
#ausvotes
#AusVotes2022
#auspol
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Congratulations PM Anthony Albanese & Jodie.
My advice to Greg Jennett. Don't say everything that comes into your head. This is why we can't have nice things.
#afternoonbriefing
#auspol
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Lisa Millar after interviews with Angus Taylor, then Bill Shorten, with respect to
#superannuation
.
- "I suspect we're going to be talking about it (Labor's 'broken promises') for a lot longer".
Why is that Lisa? Stop pushing the LNP's spin.
#super
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#auspol
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The
#LNP
didn't listen to Julia Gillard in 2010 and they're still paying the price 13 years later:
🔹️ Christian Porter
🔹️ Barnaby Joyce
🔹️ Tony Abbott
🔹️ Alan Tudge
🔹️ David Van
They need a mirror.
#insiders
#misogyny
#BrittanyHiggins
#auspol
Ten years ago today, Julia Gillard became Australia's first female Prime Minister. This speech against misogyny directed at Tony Abbott was one of the most defining moments of her leadership.
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The Kristiana Keneally story has now had a two week run on
#insiders
, more coverage than Christian Porter's
#BlindTrust
.
#auspol
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Is Tim Wilson shedding a tear for the hundreds of thousands of people who had to clear out their super because the LNP Government refused to provide COVID-19 assistance (Gerry Harvey got plenty).
#PrayerRoom
#super
#goldsteinvotes
#afternoonbriefing
#auspol
3m people took $36B out of super, with 455K under 30. And 724K wiped their accounts out completely. 😮😮😮
#auspol
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Peter van Onselen presents text exchange between
#Gladys
Berejiklian and an unnamed LNP cabinet minister for
#ScottyThePsycho
.
#PVO
#NationalPressClub
#npc
#auspol
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The Donald
#Trump
#indictments
over the
#Jan6th
#insurrection
.
#TrumpIndictment
#TrumpIndictments
#conspiracy
#ObstructionOfJustice
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During the first Victorian lockdown no other jurisdiction had traced more than 50 contacts.
Victorian contact tracers had just tracked over 10,000 contacts yet they're still under attack from incompetent journalists.
#IStandWithDan
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#COVIDVic
#auspol
There it is, first question is first STUPID question: "Have you lost faith in CoNtAcT tRaCeRs?"
Seriously?! They've found 10,000 contacts in record time - nowhere else even comes close!
#CovidVic
#MorrisonLockdown
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Does Lisa Millar know quarantine is a federal responsibility?
#NewsBreakfast
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#ScottyDoesNothing
#auspol
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2023: Lisa Millar rudely attacks
#Labor
over minor changes to
#super
.
Millar never attacks the Liberal Party. She’s in clear breach of the
#ABC
’s editorial policies. Why hasn’t she been sacked?
#journalism
#Stage3
#auspol
Bleeding-heart lefties Lisa Millar and Mads Morris of the
#ABC
go in to bat for the hardest done by Aussies, those with more than $3 million in
#super
, and those unfortunates about to fall into that bracket.
#ThoughtsAndPrayers
#superannuation
#auspol
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David Speers thinks ok to politicise
#SexualAssault
and migrants as long as you don't do it "too much".
As with all things LNP, the media quickly wipes the slate clean for the likes of Sussan Ley.
#insiders
#xenophobia
#Dunkley
#DunkleyVotes
#auspol
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Leigh Sales is requesting expert advice on epidemiology from a restaurant.
Next up: Catherine Bennett who's attacked Victoria's health team for the last year.
#abc730
#ThisisNotJournalism
#auspol
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David Speers wants to know the contents of the sealed section of the
#RoboDebtRC
report in the interests of transparency.
This is the same David Speers that's actively covering up the role of Murdoch journo Benson who conspired with Scomo over
#RoboDebt
.
#insiders
#auspol
‘The Australian’s Simon Benson was provided with information & the paper published an article headlined “Centrelink debt scare backfires on Labor”.’
@lenoretaylor
eviscerates the
#Murdoch
press & its collusion with Alan Tudge about
#robodebt
.
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@BenFordhamLive
"Exclusive: Scott Morrison's high-flying $3.1 million travel and accommodation costs revealed".
"Mr Morrison embarked on more overseas trips
in his first year in office than each of his predecessors." But...
#AirbusAlbo
?
#auspol
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1/3. Albo clearly explains why the sealed section of the
#RobodebtRC
report needs to remain sealed, to preempt stupid questions from journalists.
"... so as not to prejudice the conduct of any future civil action or criminal prosecution."
#RoboDebt
#journalism
#auspol
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The pressure is getting to Peter
#Dutton
. He's losing it.
#afternoonbriefing
#PaladinPete
#LibSpill
#Dunkley
#DunkleyVotes
#auspol
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The disgraceful backgrounding against Brittany Higgins and her partner by the Liberal Party.
#auspol
Here come the PM's political fixers with a report that says — surprise surprise — the PM's office has done nothing wrong, there's nothing to see here and any backgrounding was the journalists' fault....
All tabled in the parliament without Ms Higgins' consent.
#auspol
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Feb 2nd 2024: Peter
#Dutton
claims that Australian
#InterestRates
are higher than the G7 Nations.
Was he lying or ignorant? Either way he's unfit to lead.
#LNP
#PaladinPete
#DuttontheThug
#abc730
#auspol
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Hamish blames the Greens for Tony Abbott's axing of Julian Gillard's Carbon Tax.
A cheap shot that rewrites history.
#qanda
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@EmmaKennedy
@JamesCleverly
@bendepear
@realDonaldTrump
@BorisJohnson
@Conservatives
It was a leaders debate. Gove isn't a leader. THE END.
PS. Johnson isn't a leader either. THE END.
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It wouldn't be an election without dirty tricks from the Libera Party.
This time it's lies about a Labor 'GP Tax' in the SA state seat of
#Dunston
. The Liberals 'apologised' with just 40 minutes of voting remaining.
#elections
#dunstanvotes
#corruption
#insiders
#auspol
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Most Australians don't know much about the 'real' Peter Dutton thanks to a compliant media and they still won't after his episode of
#KitchenCabinet
airs.
Hopefully the NACC will shed some light.
Note:
#3
not unconstitutional.
#auspol
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Michael Rowland just spent 5 minutes interviewing Bill Shorten but didn't mention the
#RoboDebtRC
once. The fix is in
@mjrowland68
?
#auspol
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If Walter Sofronoff goes down for
#corruption
I hope he takes Janet Albrechtsen down with him.
#NACC
#journalism
#Lehrmann
#BrittanyHiggins
#auspol
BREAKING: Walter Sofronoff has been referred to the Integrity Commission
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@LesStonehouse
Karvelas protege Baxendale is paid by Murdoch to attack Labor. It's not journalism.
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🔹Albanese starts a press conference to discuss neglected women.
🔹10 minutes later
#SlipperyScotty
starts a press conference for a pointless announcement.
Of course,
@abcnews
cuts from Albanese to Morrison, reinforcing the neglect of women.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#ABC
#auspol
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Jenny Mikakos has fallen on the sword for imperfections in a once-in-100-year hotel quarantine response, meanwhile the feds responsible for quarantine & aged care have escaped scrutiny.
#DanMustGo
?
#DanLiedPeopleDied
? No.
#corruption
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#IStandWithDan
#auspol
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