Susan Metcalfe
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the question should be, how was this vile trade allowed to continue for so long?
(images: Animals Australia)
#banliveexport
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everyone getting excited about the Van Onselen headline grabbing distraction question at the Press Club yesterday but the question that came after from
@murpharoo
is what we should be talking about. Devastating that so many in aged care are dying every day from covid
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seriously over people saying they're shocked to discover so many women have been raped, abused, harassed. We have been publicly sharing our deeply traumatic experiences for years & years & years. We haven't been silent you just haven't been listening
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lies don't get much bigger than the boats will start again if the Biloela family is allowed to return home to Biloela
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how lucky are women to have Van Onselen and other men splaining to us every day how we're going wrong
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so for years Barnaby was "half crazed", drunkenly sleazing around Canberra hitting on women, allegedly sexually harassing women, while he was married, while he was moralising about the decadence of same sex marriage, while he was the deputy prime minister of Australia. Right.
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wallaby meets kookaburra at the water
(from Thanes Creek Trail Camera)
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Hadley is a nasty piece of work. If it was someone else's son he'd be calling for the book to be thrown at them. If the person was a migrant or refugee he'd be demanding they be deported. His teary media conference trying to influence his son's case is vomitous
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NSW govt has really stuffed things up for the whole country
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"Your politics and media campaign against the Queensland Premier have made an absolutely devastating time for my family even harder," she wrote.
A woman whose sister was barred from attending their father's Queensland funeral has accused the PM of using the death to "advance his political agenda".
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how fast have they been to start trying to tear down Grace Tame
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I don't feel "loyalty" to Australia, I feel completely betrayed by the lies that we've been told to construct our identities around. And I haven't felt "Australian" (whatever that means) for a very long time. Have never felt so displaced in my country of birth as i do now
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Kevin Andrews has lost - what a great bloody day for all of us
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questions Daniel Andrews must answer before he comes back to work:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Is she really going out with him?
Dude Where’s my Car?
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Djokovic (interview 6 Jan): So you’re giving me legally 20 minutes to try to provide additional information that I don’t have? At 4 o clock in the morning?
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In Queensland we are still wearing masks outdoor with no community transmission. Is this seriously a new measure for Sydney?
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“I say to Penny Wong, I say to the Australians, aid must be restored because you are now complicit in a slow motion massacre” - former UNRWA chief spokesperson Chris Gunness
@SenatorWong
@AlboMP
#Gaza
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"what would happen if President Biden said thousands and thousands of civilians have been killed in Gaza, the bombing's indiscriminate, as of tomorrow I'm cutting off the supply of bombs?"
Nathan Thrall: "the war would end"
#4corners
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just watched first 2 episodes of the Murdoch doco running on BBC. Why hasn't the ABC or any other Aus broadcaster picked it up? Essential viewing for Australians
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from a 1977 ABC report
John Allen fed the magpies on his property every day. They repaid him by singing along with his harmonica playing
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the tongue!
Take a yawn: an endangered Numbat in Western Australia
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The secret lives of cows - "they seek out and nurture relationships with other individuals in the herd - often forming cooperative grooming partnerships. When separated from their best buddy, they become stressed"
#banliveexport
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"I was really shocked when I exited the crematorium and saw the media hiding in the scrub... Scott Morrison provided the time and the location of the funeral, which facilitated a lot of the media coverage" - Alexandra Prendergast
Grieving daughter criticises Prime Minister for revealing father's Brisbane funeral details
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Harry on Murdoch
"I couldn’t think of a single human being in the 300,000-year history of the species who’d done more damage to our collective sense of reality"
#SparebyPrinceHarry
#Spare
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if you don't want to listen to the whole tape just do this bit
The audio of Trump demanding the Georgia secretary of state “find” enough votes so his loss to Biden can be overturned needs to be heard to be believed
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I find Morrison so aggressive, in hand gestures, the way he talks, interrupts, the way he's walking into Shorten's space
#leadersdebate
#peoplesforum
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so according to Morrison and rest of government if someone is elected for 3 years it doesn't matter what they do (including rape or murder can only assume) they still get to serve out their term because the people voted
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Parks Australia said anyone who chose to ignore the closure would be pursued and that extra patrols of Uluru would be conducted over the weekend.
"If a serious offence is pursued by Parks Australia it could attract court-ordered fines of up to $10,000."
#Uluru
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"As an advocate for Palestinians, I have been doxxed repeatedly. But no one has done anything about it... We are all scared to some degree, & some are silenced now. Some have sustained irreversible damage to their careers" - neurologist Dr Kate Ahmad
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seems Latham has now deleted that tweet so some of his fans now saying it was fake. Can assure you it was not fake, many people saw it on his account, and my notifications have since been full of disgusting homophobic replies from his fans. Also getting hate directed at me now
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'She was not allowed to sit with her daughters Kopika, 4, and Tharunicaa, 2, even though the youngest girl was highly distressed on the flight from Melbourne to Darwin...“This is just cruel and barbaric stuff”'
#hometobilo
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"In forty years in journalism, I’ve dealt with some smart and powerful lobby groups. But none compares to the pro-Israel lobby in Australia" - John Lyons in Dateline Jerusalem
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jesus. He's using the death of this young woman to push his racist agenda. I don't think it gets much lower
Peter Dutton says the murder of 19 year old woman is indicative of a "major law and order problem" in Melbourne.
@LanaMurphy
will have the latest at 6
@9NewsMelb
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goanna takes a long bath
from Thanes Creek Trail Camera (November 2019)
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what a monumental fck up that has been by the NSW govt and police
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"at the high prices, people still bought the products en masse, and Amazon took a cut of roughly 15 percent and eBay roughly 10 percent, depending on the price and the seller"
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Malcolm Fraser on Morrison back in 2011: "I hope Scott Morrison is just a fringe element in the party. But he certainly exhibits a very unsympathetic, a very hard-line harsh view of people trying to seek a better life. He certainly appeals to the fears of Australians"
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Kangaroo Island resident Brenton captured this footage of a "fire twister"
#safires
#KangarooIsland
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'police arrest environmental scientist Martin Wolterding placing a wrist lock on the 75-year-old who lives in the Blue Mountains'
“Leave me alone, you’re hurting me, I’m 75 years old for god’s sake,” he said as officers lifted him by the arms'
#ExtinctionRebellion
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horrible stuff. Why don't you mention the "Caucasian appearance" of offenders? Surely that would help police find the thugs they haven't arrested yet? And shouldn't you be calling them a "gang"?
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every time I see that capped compensation figure of $50,000 for abuse survivors, I think of Pell's legal team reportedly costing $50,000 PER DAY
'Ms Foster said the conviction should spell the end of the controversial Melbourne Response compensation scheme, devised by Pell, which capped payments to abuse survivors at $50,000. "George Pell has attempted to shut down and silence victims for decades. That must end today."
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'Asked why in her opinion the opposition leader had repeated the claim, Professor Langton said: "I think he thinks he can get away with lying and he'll be thinking all these nice Australians will believe him and they won't believe us."'
#abc730
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Bill Shorten: "The Biloela community wants these people ... The two little girls are born in australia... The bush is crying out for good people who want to be hard working"
#hometobilo
#HomeToBiloela
#bringthemhometobiloela
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Daniel Andrews: “very few people I think take Mr Dutton seriously now. He’s part of a government that is a shambles, and he’s irrelevant to the work that we’re doing.”
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'Another Republican poll watcher complained about the public address system. Workers were using it to make announcements. It was loud. “This was very distracting to those of us trying to concentrate"
NEW:
@realdonaldtrump
's campaign promised "shocking" proof of fraud in Michigan.
Instead, they provided a list of small-bore complaints from GOP poll-watchers about the ballot-counting room in Detroit, including:
--Loud noises
--Mean stares
--A big man
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“If Aboriginal men held down a white man until he was dead, where do you think those men would be? In jail for life. I’m his mother and I want justice. I am going to fight until I live in a country where black lives matter” - David Dungay’s mother, Leetona
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Murdoch media and Libs really don't get or don't care about violence against women. This kind of shit makes all women unsafe
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don't understand
@abcnews
- there's a fire in Bundoora and multiple other fast moving fires, people evacuating, emergency warnings, and they're showing an episode of Compass...
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did Josh Frydenberg say most of the people offshore are not refugees?
would be updates to these, but stats from October
#estimates
* of 626 in Manus or PNG - 495 have refugee status
* of 652 in Nauru - 541 refugees, 88 are still in the RSD process
#manus
#nauru
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"convicted criminals Blair Cottrell & Neil Erikson" - thank you
#stkildapicnic
St Kilda Protest: Police have been at the popular beach for hours in the lead-up to a rally of far-right extremists organised by convicted criminals Blair Cottrell & Neil Erikson. The group claim to be meeting to "discuss" Melbourne's youth crime problem.
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Pat Dodson: "the First Nations have asked the Government for a voice and we get Tony Abbott"
@PatsKarvelas
@SenatorDodson
Listen back:
@SenatorDodson
talks to
@PatsKarvelas
about Tony Abbott has special envoy on Indigenous Affairs and deaths in custody
#auspol
#rndrive
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you need to listen to this butcher bird singing
(credit to Andrena Forrest - will post link to full 6 minutes in the next tweet)
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Morrison has turned out to be a bigger dill than Abbott, didn't see that one coming
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Port Phillip Mayor Richard Gross
"There is not a moral equivalence between the people who turned up today. The far right’s views are repugnant. They nauseatingly drape themselves in our nation’s flag to try & gain legitimacy, & I condemn their views and their behaviour”
#stkilda
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just imagine if a "hysterical" "emotional" female was on telly crying all the time like Morrison
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What would happen if Australians now arrived on a boat from India? I'm sure I (& others) have written numerous times in past that if our governments are willing to treat refugees the way they do, pushing them away, it won't be long until citizens are treated in the same way
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Waleed quietly asking questions trying to get straight answers, Morrison condescending, shouty, shrill, so so smug
#TheProjectTV
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Bruce Pascoe: "There is nothing postcolonial about Australia. It still has a Raj mentality and a vindictive adherence to colonial myth. Our country has never really investigated the colonial legacy..."
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"Those kids are not Hamas. Those kids are not Hamas. And they should not have had to have borne the brunt of that military action"
- Ed Husic on RN Breakfast
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could "fuck" just not be a swear word anymore... Is anyone still offended by it?
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I find Morrison's absent style of "leadership" completely bizarre. Have we ever had such a disconnected prime minister ?
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my common sense judgement is that our government is generally incompetent, vindictive, politically motivated, populist, often cruel, insensitive, ridiculous, deceitful, destructive, a risk to our health, has too much power, has no common sense
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Priya: "It was a terrible time for us. They would not let me see my daughter. I had to sit at the back of the plane. She was screaming for nearly three hours before she fell asleep."
#hometobilo
#Biloela
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@TheKennyDevine
Marcia Langton: "we have been saying for 50 years that there's government waste and the money is going to the wrong places, and you need to take our advice..."
#VoiceReferendum
#Referendum2023
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"Some of us have always had a voice. Now it's time for all of us to have a voice. And to be heard" - Kerry O'Brien
#WalkForYes
#Referendum2023
#Yes23
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Van Onselen "holds a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in political science". Well I hold a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in women's studies and women say fuck you to you and your politics
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if you think twitter is a sewer wait til you see what some of our newspapers publish
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fuck - fuckwit Neil Erikson filming "youths of African appearance" playing soccer, trying hard to provoke them into violence - "if they can't control themselves they should leave" the pathetic racist creep says
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'One of the supporters, Simone Cameron, said she saw officers "forcibly" drag Priya onto the plane. "The officers came down and didn't care, they just dragged her. She was screaming, both girls were screaming. It was very, very traumatic"'
#hometobilo
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voters have bombarded the offices of many Victorian Liberal MPs with emails and phone calls warning they could not vote for a Peter Dutton-led government
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“I have been alarmed by your prime minister’s record on LGBTQ rights, which seems backward in all senses... A government should protect its people, not make it unclear whether they will be accepted.” - Anna Wintour
'Intolerance has no place in tennis': Vogue editor Anna Wintour slams Margaret Court
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the "I know him and he's a good bloke" men sound very much like "he was a nice bloke" headlines every time a man murders his wife and children
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so KAK is going to spend a night in an Aboriginal town camp so she can 'stop rape of Aboriginal women and children' ? Mind blowing.............. Just imagine, one night and then she will know fucking everything!
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"by jailing a cardinal for these sordid crimes Australia has demonstrated once again that the rule of law runs in this country. Getting here hasn’t been easy but no other country stares down the Catholic church as we do now." - David Marr
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"the former stripper" - are they suggesting that is why her breasts were made larger? Get the fuck out of here all of you
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Daniel Andrews: "'there are many complex things in the world, this is not one of them - stay at home"
#COVID19
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and Christians have such a great record of coming forward to report abusive people
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Morrison says he is comforted by the fact that Australians want him to be here..... Now giving a sermon on how we all need to be kind to each other and not argue
**********!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*&(*&(&*(^&%^$^%$#$@#@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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can't remember Batman ever complaining about wearing a mask
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imagine if everyone on twitter tweeted I WON THE ELECTION
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does anyone really think they can change the views of Uhlmann or Van Onselen by engaging in rational argument with them? Not a chance
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Anthony Albanese has spoken directly to Scott Morrison, urging him to stop the deportation of the Biloela family, and called it “publicly funded cruelty"'
#hometobilo
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if union members are so mentally unwell they can't cope without shooting ducks, why aren't unions doing more to help them? Instead they are spending MILLIONS of dollars to threaten the government over this violent and cruel form of recreation that should have been banned long ago
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utterly utterly shameful and disgusting that "allegations" of child abuse are being used to push a nasty political agenda. This is not about genuine care for children and creating change, just the opposite
#insiders
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