Michael Koziol
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Sydney editor, The Sydney Morning Herald | Redleaf Beach bureau chief | Tips, ideas and feedback: michael.koziol @smh .com.au
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Morrison says of Deves she no longer feels comfortable with the way she has expressed herself “in the past”. Her tweet claiming half of all trans women are sex offenders was posted in January.
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I hate to say it as a lifelong Federer fan, but banning Novak Djokovic is madness
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The Cronulla Sharks are considering revoking No.1 ticketholder status from former prime minister Scott Morrison as a result of the adverse findings made against him by the robo-debt royal commission
@MichaelChammas
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If you’re not bound by the rules, you can’t understand their impact
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Story by
@latingle
: “Senior Pfizer executives told one senior Australian businessman that former prime minister Kevin Rudd could have some influence in Scott Morrison's absence.”
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Biden: “Thank you Boris. And I want to thank that fella down under. Thank you pal. Appreciate it Mr Prime Minister.”
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Great question from a journalist to the PM: how many rapid tests have you personally paid for?
Morrison says he gets some for free through his job and for any personal tests he'd have to ask his wife Jen as she buys them.
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WA Premier Mark McGowan just now: "I remind everyone: while lockdowns and border closures save lives and jobs, they are not the long-term solution. Vaccination is. It's our best and only way out of this pandemic."
#COVID19Aus
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Breaking: The Supreme Court has ruled IN FAVOUR of NSW Liberal Party state executive member Matthew Camenzuli in his challenge against Alex Hawke and the party's legal advice - the state exec will continue in office for now. More to come
@smh
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Berejiklian and Hazzard absolutely going to town against the federal government's handling of the vaccine rollout right now - Hazzard says he's "as angry as I've ever been"
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ABC staff hold meeting, demand meeting with managing director David Anderson and threaten walkout over Antoinette Lattouff sacking
@calumjaspan_
@mbachelard
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Tomorrow’s
@smh
editorial: Sydney’s gay community is rightly hurt and angry. Police should not march in this year’s Mardi Gras
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Scott Morrison says Afghans who came by boat and are in Australia on temporary protection visas "will not be offered permanent residence in Australia"
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Danny Lim protest outside Surry Hills Police Station this evening
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“There comes a point, and The Age believes that point has been reached, where the damage caused by the harshest and longest lockdowns in the country needs to be more seriously factored in.”
@theage
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NSW is ending the daily COVID-19 press conference. Updates will be delivered by video from NSW Health. Berejiklian or Hazzard will hold pressers "on a needs basis".
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The Sydney Opera House will be lit in blue and white tomorrow night in solidarity with the Jewish communities of NSW
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Mood: sitting at home on a Saturday night refreshing a TikTok comedian’s page thinking “how did it come to this”
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Michaelia Cash has announced a new phone line for employers to dob to the government that a jobseeker has turned down a job offer, "and if they don't have a valid reason they will be breached"
#auspol
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Bruce Springsteen says he’ll move to Australia if Trump wins re-election - via
@Independent
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Elaine causes a scene at the IGA by removing her mask to sniff the fresh bread. Kramer tries to cut the queue at a drive-in COVID testing site. Jerry and George argue over whether a RAT is positive. “That’s a line, Jerry!” “No way is that a line.” “A faint line is still a line!”
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Scott Morrison says Katherine Deves will make a great member of Parliament. "I’m not going to allow her to be silenced. I’m not going to allow her to be pushed aside as the pile-on comes in to try and silence her."
#auspol
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I reckon this heatwave is a sign we need to declare it summer holidays and end the working year early. Thanks 2020, it’s been real.
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One of the government’s most vocal ABC critics admits he doesn’t actually watch it
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One of the changes to the NSW roadmap is that nightclubs can open at 80 per cent vaccination but with NO standing and NO dancing
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The federal government will begin officially referring to Israel’s settlements in the West Bank as “illegal” and the territories as “occupied”
@jamesmassola
@KnottMatthew
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Politicians get exemptions while average people are forced to spend Father’s Day trying to hug across a barricade
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Scott Morrison’s favourite singer Tina Arena, appointed to a government arts board, fails to attend most meetings two years in a row
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In the most Double Bay development possible, the purported Michel’s Patisserie was actually a Michael’s Charcuterie
CORRECTION - please note the venue name Michel’s Patisserie is incorrect.
The correct venue of concern is *Michael’s Charcuterie*, Double Bay, Shop 17 Cosmopolitan Centre Bay Street, 2/22 Knox St: Tuesday 22 June, 1.30pm – 2pm.
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Scott Morrison secretly swore himself in as joint health minister in March 2020 as COVID-19 began to take off
@australian
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Communications Minister Paul Fletcher says he has spoken to the administrator of North Shore Mums, whose Facebook page has also been blocked, "and that is of significant concern"
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Kimberley Kitching in action at Senate Estimates was a joy to behold. It is so shocking and sad that she is gone. RIP and condolences to her family and friends.
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Daniel Andrews: “I don’t know I’ll be drinking beer tonight - I might go a little higher up the shelf.”
#CovidVic
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Column: we’ve had enough of shifting goalposts and changing plans - and we can’t be held hostage to people who aren’t in a rush to get vaccinated
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Sydney Palestine rally currently filling the entire length of College Street, and they’re still coming out of Hyde Park
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Most Melbourne story ever: A Richmond woman was caught on CCTV doing yoga outside a bakery before she allegedly broke in and stole almond croissants
@9NewsMelb
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Doherty Institute boss Sharon Lewin is very clear on the modelling: “Whether you start at 30 cases or 800 cases you can still open up safely.”
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hey kids - no matter what your ATAR, you'll never afford property in Sydney
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Thank you
@JordsBaker
, who has nailed it: "People in wealthy suburbs calling for a tougher lockdown have got what they want, at no cost to them."
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My thoughts tonight are with the friends and families separated by these scandalous border closures
@WAtoday
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Perspective: My child has started transitioning, but I feel the system makes it too easy
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Breaking: NSW government minister Natalie Ward - the most senior female Liberal in parliament - has failed to win preselection for the seat of Davidson. Beaten by former Mike Baird staffer Matt Cross 95-85.
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Gladys Berejiklian tells
@tracygrimshaw
there will be “at least one thing” fully vaccinated people can do when NSW reaches 6 million jabs that they can’t do now
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Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has lost his temper with a reporter in Canberra. “Do not interrupt! I will not be apologising ... for acting in accordance with a High Court decision. Your question is an absurd one!”
@jamesmassola
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Berejiklian concedes "no strong evidence of outdoor transmission" and the crackdown on exercise is to help police. "Not only will the police commissioner receive what he wants in terms of additional powers or additional resources but more than what he needs and wants," she says.
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Kerry Chant: 57 of 62 people in ICU were unvaccinated. Five had one dose. "We haven't got anyone in ICU who has received two doses of the vaccine."
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Scott Morrison tells
@2GB873
it was an error and an “oversight” that he didn’t tell Mathias Cormann he made himself joint Finance Minister. “None of us are perfect.”
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper describes Trump as “like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realising his time is over”.
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New: Top male players have refused to engage with questions about the looming domestic violence trial of world No. 6 Alexander Zverev, and his position on the ATP players’ council, to which he was elected just this month
#AO24
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Exclusive: Liberal Party vice-president Teena McQueen told colleagues "I would kill to be sexually harassed at the moment" at a party meeting, according to three other women present
@nickbonyhady
@jamesmassola
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Malcolm Turnbull to
@PatsKarvelas
on the vaccine rollout: "We are way behind from where we need to be, and really it is inexcusable ... I can't think of a bigger black-and-white failure of public administration than this."
#auspol
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“The media conference felt like a reunion of ageing former Young Liberal blokes who failed to realise that an absence of any females on such a significant day was tone deaf.”
@AlexSmithSMH
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Scott Morrison suggests Gladys Berejiklian won't run for Warringah. "That's a decision for Gladys ultimately and she may choose not to go ahead here, I suspect. That's a matter for her, and I respect her choice."
#auspol
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Thrilled to be starting a new role as Sydney editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. With the team of
@Mattonews
@natassiazc
@MeganGorrey
and
@juliepower
I want to celebrate and advocate for our city and tackle its problems frankly and constructively. Please get in touch with ideas!
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Morrison is asked if he can envisage opening overseas travel to NSW unilaterally once it reaches 80 per cent vaccination coverage. "Yes. I can," he says.
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Lifeline chair John Brogden tells
@RNBreakfast
JobKeeper literally saves lives and should be brought back. “The answers to people’s mental health are not simply about the mental health budget, it’s about giving people housing and financial security.”
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Kevin Rudd backs FriendlyJordies as serious “broadcaster” despite controversial acts
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NSW from tomorrow:
- singing and dancing back
- no QR codes except nightclubs and large music festivals
- work from home direction ends
- no density limits
From next Friday:
- no indoor masks except on public transport, airports, hospitals
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Dr Kerry Chant: Three-day lockdowns don't do anything except to buy time to catch up on contact tracing. "We are not in that situation."
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I have an idea…
Israel will destroy up to a million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine due to expire by the end of the month unless another country capable of administering them is found
It comes after a plan to transfer them to Britain seems to have fallen through
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Breaking: the Liberal Party official who took Scott Morrison to court over NSW preselections has been expelled from the party
@AngusGthompson
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The arts portfolio was left off the Coalition’s initial shadow ministry list. It has been allocated to Paul Fletcher.
#auspol
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BREAKING: from November 1, ALL quarantine requirements will be abolished in NSW for people who are fully vaccinated. No hotel quarantine, no home quarantine. Pre-departure PCR test. Unvaccinated will still need to do hotel quarantine.
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Exclusive: Tony Abbott strongly backs embattled Katherine Deves to remain as the Liberal candidate for his former seat of Warringah, says he “admires her” for her stance
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SMH editorial: The cowardly limitations of this COVID inquiry make it negligently short-sighted and seriously undermine Australia’s ability to fully learn from the pandemic years
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Nationals whip Damian Drum says the Nationals are the “most democratic party in Australia”, is immediately asked by a journo “what was the margin of the vote?” and says “next question”
#auspol
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So happy for my friend
@samanthamaiden
who is the most thoroughly deserving winner of the Gold Walkley tonight
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Niki Savva: "During the conference call, Morrison became increasingly belligerent with Perrottet’s questioning of elements of the package and focusing on the flaws. Morrison let loose, hurling the F-bomb at Perrottet."
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Greg Hunt has preemptively released the full transcript of his
#4corners
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CMO Paul Kelly says it’s now very clear Omicron is much less severe than Delta
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Breaking: Perrottet announces mandatory masks indoors and a limit of one person per 2sqm at hospitality venues until January 27 in NSW.
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From New York, Miranda Devine condemns Dominic Perrottet for “disrespecting” the Cahill Expressway, “one of the most beautiful urban roads in the world”
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Scott Morrison is asked about a proposal to install a "big ute" in Geelong: "I love utes. How good are utes? And how good would a big ute be? That’s what I’d say."
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Berejiklian: "When I get questions about curfews or exercise or whatever else, the facts are that will not change the dial. That will not reduce the number of cases ... I'm not going to put any imposition on the community which is not going to have the desired effect."
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The election drive to Yarralumla is exhibit A in “meetings that could have been emails”
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Berejiklian: "We have the most transparent information of any state."
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Yesterday the Morrison government reappointed Tina Arena to the board of the Australia Council
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Breaking: Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman tells the chamber he will cross the floor to support amendments on the religion bill and Sex Discrimination Act
#auspol
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Letter to the AFR: forget about ACT and NT statehood, just make Tasmania a territory
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Berejiklian: "Our GPs are as frustrated as we are ... there is is no point in delivering something to us a day ago or two days ago and saying 'you haven't rolled them out'."
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“The problem with the term ‘ceasefire’ is that it is both highly charged and vague: it is often unclear what those demanding one are actually asking for beyond the naive, if understandable, desire for the war in Gaza to magically stop.”
@KnottMatthew
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Comment from me: If only the PM's anger was about Nauru, not the census
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Breaking: the Court of Appeal has dismissed the legal challenge to Liberal preselections in NSW
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Mal Meninga, who is out supporting the Yes campaign today, was asked if he might consider another tilt at a political career. “I lasted 16 seconds and that was enough to be honest,” he said.
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On The Drum yesterday Professor Catherine Bennett said the modelling showed it was not Victoria’s stage 4 rules that made any difference, it was stage 3 and the addition of mandatory masks, and the reason it looked like stage 4 worked was because of the lag
"People in NSW don't know what is essential retail or who is an essential worker. They're allowed to travel 10km for exercise. It is not a proper lockdown."
@normanswan
said if NSW don't go into stage 4 lockdown, based on what happened in Victoria, this could go until Christmas.
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Hot mic moment: Queen caught on camera expressing annoyance with “irritating” world leaders who won’t attend next month’s crunch climate summit in Glasgow
@BevanShields
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