Hey
@abcnews
how about pointing out to viewers that you have failed to include independents in your
#votecompass
before pushing more people to participate? With record amounts of voters anticipated to NOT vote for old parties, your compass is flawed.
#auspol
#independents
I’m shocked that for the 2nd night
@abcnews
has just brushed over the issue of how messages have been leaked to media from police evidence. The message this sends to any victims thinking of coming forward to police is chilling & irresponsible. This is wrong.
Seriously? We know more about the timeline of Djokovic’s movements & visa application than we do about why
@ScottMorrisonMP
& the Govt didn’t order RATs, manage risks to supplies & bolster health capacity as they pushed for everyone to live with covid!
#auspol
#Accountability
I am absolutely disgusted with Dutton, Ley & co as they continue to insult First Nations people with demeaning questions on possible next steps in reconciliation in
#QT
Continuing to use our most disadvantaged to look for political points is just morally bankrupt.
#auspol
Tonight, we saw a bully in action. The PM and every Coalition MP made a mockery of due process for legislation and bulldozed environmental and water protection. And they were laughing while doing it. This is how they represent you. If you care, contact your MP.
#auspol
Quite concerned at double standard that the police and/or NSW health have released the names & photos of the removalists at time of great personal tragedy but didn’t reveal the identity of the travellers responsible for Northern Beaches outbreak or limo driver.
#auspol
I don’t usually support opposition motions to condemn the PM but the answers provided to date by the PM are unsatisfactory and not befitting the office or serious allegations being made.
#qt
#auspol
Incredible watching
@InsidersABC
break down of issues covered by media this week & climate change action is not even listed‼️Communities are at risk & Govt is ignoring the biggest challenge & opportunity of the decade & media says nothing
#auspol
#ClimateActionNow
#Independents
Each Liberal candidate should honestly and transparently disclose what deal they have done with Clive Palmer and what they will agree to give Barnaby Joyce and the Nationals to form a coalition.
#auspol
#independent
Appalling thuggish conduct in
#qt
by pharmacists in the gallery today, interjecting & yelling & threatening the chamber. They were clearly being encouraged by coalition MPs. No protesters are permitted that kind of behaviour. The same standards need to apply to all.
#auspol
Reflecting on how MPs that I thought had some ethical compass block investigation into Porter’s blind trust & ignore the Speaker. It seems Govt MPs don’t think they will be judged individually by their communities for the actions they take as a collective. 🤷♀️
#Integrity
#auspol
PM won’t build and pay for quarantine facilities, a Commonwealth Govt responsibility under our Constitution, so international borders can reopen, but will waste public $ to build gas power station that is not needed?
#Priorities
#ClimateAction
#auspol
@MikeCarlton01
🙏 for calling out the misogynistic & patronising rubbish from Stan Grant. Seriously, suggesting voters turned to women of strong character & professional qualifications, highly accomplished in their fields, out of ‘sense of disillusionment & desperation’?! 🤬
Crossbench have written to PM for a short suspension of business in the House to attend March & listen to participants on Monday. No response. Deputy Leader McCormack on
@InsidersABC
& Minister for Women Marise Payne can’t even find 10 mins to come out & listen. 🤷♀️
#auspol
Outrageous‼️It appears in
#qt
that the PM has instructed the solicitor general, paid by the public, to act in the internal Liberal party factional fight before the High Court‼️
#auspol
When some NRL players protest wearing a pride jersey, the media piles on the club & defends the players’ right to be prejudiced…but when athletes take an ethical stance on what values they stand for & who their sport should endorse,different story for some in the media.
#diamonds
Joyce’s claims on
#insiders
that climate policy will increase costs of energy is complete rubbish. How about the increase in cost of living from climate impacted events like insurance, mortgages, food, safety, the list goes on.
#coalkingBarnaby
is just behind the times.
#auspol
How appalling that protecting Australian children from climate change harm is not considered to be part of the role of the Environment Minister. Sussan Ley appealed the original court decision that there was a duty of care. Sad day for young people.
#auspol
#climateactnow
EVERY Coalition MP is voting in support of Andrew Laming MP remaining chair of Education parliamentary committee. Never mind that he was supposed to have resigned in April and all those coalition backbenchers said they wanted better standards.🙄
#auspol
What Hunt did was simply wrong. The vaccine announcement should not have carried any party logo. It is a govt announcement, paid for by public funds, not a party announcement. Good governance requires a distinction.
#auspol
The hypocrisy of
@sussanley
is breathtaking. She has been in govt for years & didn’t do anything about constitutional recognition. When pressed for details on any policy or whose advice she relies on, she just skips to Dutton’s next
#fearandsmear
. No substance.
#insiders
Disappointing that
@JoshFrydenberg
prefers slurs and political games to focussing on the plight of our local businesses. For someone vying for the top job, it’s not good relationship building. 🤷♀️
#qt
#auspol
I can’t in good conscience support Higher Education Bill that disadvantages students from affording the same studies that I had the privilege to study: arts and law. This is rushed legislation that needs more consultation and is not in the best interest of young people.
#auspol
Liberal MPs yesterday were waxing lyrical about democracy while voting against democratic debate & today want to ram through last minute legislation that risks preventing people from being able to vote at next election. This is authoritarianism, not liberalism.
#auspol
Is it because I am new to this place that I find it unacceptable for the toxic behaviour to continue a moment longer? I asked the PM to commit to implementing all the recommendations in full before the next election.
#auspol
#qt
#jenkinsreport
The premier has condemned the actions of one of his MPs who's circulated pornographic images of women in parliament. Upper house Liberal
@PeterPoulosMLC
has admitted to spreading naked photos of the MP as part of a political 'get square'.
#7NEWS
100s of staff members at Parliament were kept back until 5am. I asked the Speaker to consider how disrespectful that was & to adopt recommendation
#27
of the Jenkins report - review Parliament's hours of operation to enhance wellbeing. Here’s his response 🤔
#auspol
#JenkinsReport
So disrespectful, immature and embarrassing of
@ScottMorrisonMP
to all Australians who want leadership and solutions. He admires a 'smart Drive-Thru while world leaders discuss emissions. What a legacy to be remembered for!
Govt MPs have just voted repeatedly against Christian Porter’s blind trust being referred to privileges committee. Is there ever any question of integrity or principle that they will take a position on?
#auspol
#integrity
So exciting to launch Team Zali 2022! Warringah is turning turquoise again to put forward sensible solutions to today's challenges. From integrity to business, climate, inclusion and health - opportunities abound. Let's catch the new wave, Warringah!
#newwave
#auspol
Such contempt and disregard for proper governance & spending public money in the public interest! It is staggering & will cost everyone in the long term as funds are not being invested on the basis of need but to shore up political support. This is corruption.
#integrity
#auspol
Finding it incredibly hard to listen to
@GladysB
& Kerry Chant talk about avoiding super spreader events but a crowd at the SCG is ok! They have lost all credibility. Please listen to the community & cancel the crowd.
@CricketAus
this also your responsibility.
#COVID19nsw
#auspol
The coalition’s political pursuit of this matter at the expense of the wellbeing of those involved, innuendo & calls for referral to NACC is inappropriate as the Gaetjens Report & details of who knew what, when in the PMO in 2019 hasn't been released.
#enoughisenough
#auspol
Important
#abc730
report exposing links between No campaign and right-wing group Advance Australia.
The referendum has been hijacked by a campaign of fear & disinformation by shadowy groups who aren't who they seem.
Australia needs truth in political advertising!
#Yes23
#auspol
✅Please read this piece and share widely. It lays bare the truth of Dutton’s no campaign. It’s all
#fearandsmear
. The Voice can’t be silenced by Dutton’s Trumpian tone.
On the advice of
@MarylouiseMcla1
I have been raising use & availability of RATs for over 18 months!🤬The mess Australia is now in is a direct reflection on Scott Morrison. Time to call election or change leadership team.
#auspol
#goodgovernance
#newwave
🌊
The hypocrisy of
@DanTehanWannon
talking of bipartisanship when Dutton’s no campaign has been political from the start. The coalition are focused on misinformation to
#fearandsmear
, prepared to sacrifice a historic moment for our nation for their own political ambition.
#qanda
Is anyone asking
@JoshFrydenberg
how is Govt paying for $15billion payout to Nationals for fake Net Zero by 2050 announcement? $7billion for dams with no business case? But only $210 million for climate resilience‼️
#insiders
#Budget2022
#auspol
‼️Escalating covid numbers & no masks or restrictions is a mess for local businesses: staff don’t want to work & risk infection and customers are cancelling bookings in droves out of fear of infection. Govt is failing businesses by taking no responsibility.😷
#auspol
Australia was just singled out as a climate "holdout" by UN secretary General
@antonioguterres
. It's rare to see him single a country out like this. What does he mean? 🧵⬇️
Seriously, Australians produce 67 million tonnes of rubbish per year, only about a third is recycled. Do we need more plastic crap made in China? How about worrying about the cost of essential items like food? That’s what I want headlines about.
#auspol
#dutton
New analysis shows the huge Scarborough gas project approved by the Morrison Govt will emit 1.37 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases, far more than the 878 million tonnes Woodside claims. This makes a mockery of signing the COP26 agreement & Australians concerns re: global warming
I asked the Prime Minister to support my bill or introduce legislation without delay to provide voter protections in political advertising consistent with existing consumer protections.
I look forward to working with the PM and govt to ensure this happens without delay.
#auspol
A lot of yelling in
#qt
from PM today. Looking very defensive about having no plan and no control over Australia’s climate policy. Barnaby and Nationals are calling the shots. The Climate Change bill fixes the problem. Time for an open debate & vote. No more secret deals.
#auspol
It would be good if the focus was also on the context of when Barnaby’s text calling the PM a liar was sent: after Morrison claimed he didn’t know of
@BrittHiggins_
ordeal in a minister’s office weeks before the 2019 election. I didn’t believe him either.
#auspol
#EnoughIsEnough
This is my letter to the ABC concerning the exclusion of Independents and a Federal
#ICAC
in
#VoteCompass
. I'll let you know when I receive a response.
#auspol
#ausvotes
Interesting watching such resistance to progressing past the two major party politics & actually prioritising issues & policies, not wedge politics. Stan doesn’t get it. 🙏
@spenderallegra
It doesn’t have to be a binary choice. It’s time for more mature politics.
#QandA
#auspol
Are we surprised - Men get labelled a ‘larrikin’ & media's slow to condemn, but if this was a woman? Secondly, workplace culture in Parliament needs to radically change. It's fair to expect elected representatives to be responsible with alcohol.
#Auspol
I strongly reject the changes the Libs are pushing. They are playing politics when the Uluru statement & Voice is an invitation to the Australian people, it’s above party politics. They had years to do it, now either get on board or get out of the way.
PM thinks that ‘Australian way’ is do nothing really, keep emitting & hope that technology & the rest of the world will sort out 50% of emission reductions …no 2030 target, nothing legislated &eventually they will release the modelling! PM calls this an ‘authentic plan’🤨
#auspol
There is something seriously wrong with
@ScottMorrisonMP
’s moral compass if he doesn’t just instruct
@karenandrewsmp
to immediately allow this family to go home to Qld.
#auspol
Coalition keeps saying show us the cost of Net Zero, we need a plan first. They have been in govt for 8yrs. What are you waiting for? If you don’t know the cost yet, what have you been doing? You are in charge of the menu Barnaby!
#insiders
#climateisarace
#auspol
Time to call things out! I’ve voted in the chamber surrounded by MPs who have no idea what they are voting on, they are just following their pager, saying the lines they have been told to say! Govt MPs have even asked me what the Govt’s position on an issue is! It’s lazy & wrong.
Howard slams ‘anti-Liberal groupies’. Appalling sexist language by John Howard. It explains a lot of the culture of the Liberal party & it’s problem with women. Women in politics shouldn’t be denigrated with this type of language.
#enoughisenough
#auspol
“This opposition leader makes things up regularly, sometimes several times a day, with growing confidence.”
Peter Dutton is Australia's figurehead of fear and fake news, like Trump but without charisma | Katharine Murphy on politics.
#auspol
🚨Woolworths store vandalised‼️Dutton needs to call out this unacceptable behaviour or be held responsible for it as he stokes division & culture wars for perceived political gain. This is what dangerous & divisive Trump style politics encourages.
#auspol
🚨Scam Alert!
Voters need the same protection as consumers from lies or we will all be scammed!
Elections will be taken over by shady millionaire backed Advance Australia without My Voter Protection Bill.
#stopthelies
#fearandsmear
#auspol
I know the PM doesn’t have a law degree, can someone tell us who has a law degree in the PMO that outranks the Solicitor-General to give legal advice to the Govt?
#qt
🚨Ex-LNP president oversaw transfer of $500,000 in Morrison govt grant money to brother’s offset account, court hears.
🤬And some media are worrying about a dog on an aeroplane‼️
No surprise the Coalition resisted a Federal ICAC‼️
With respect, Australians need more. It’s time to take that meeting with the fire chiefs and listen to their advice. Time to have a plan to cope with the hotter climate and act to prevent the further warming that is going to come if we don’t start acting now.
Oh boy! There is an identity crisis in the Liberal party! Check out the colours they are using to try and deceive! What do you think? 🤦♀️It takes more than a colour to show you care about your community & the environment.
#voteindependent
#auspol
The line has well and truly been crossed many times. He is a serial offender and any politician or advertiser that has anything to do with him or 2GB if they fail to sack him are supporting this conduct.
#TimesUpAlan
#auspol
Advertisers have begun pulling their ads from 2GB today as the backlash reaches fever pitch over Alan Jones’ comments yesterday about “shoving a sock down” Jacinda Ardern’s throat.
#TheProjectTV
Gaslighting on Aus climate policy in full flight in
#qt
today by PM and Minister for Delaying Emissions Reduction. It’s a farce & every MP is complicit. PM keeps yelling as if it will make any of it any more believable.😵💫So much $ opportunity at stake! 😑
#auspol
#ClimateAction
This is not about media protecting sources. This about media wilfully undermining confidence in the judicial system by publishing leaked documents obtained from a victim under compulsion of legal proceedings. Who will ever produce docs under subpoena now?
Does this racist trope reflect your values
@FinancialReview
? With media freedom comes responsibility and this is unacceptable. It highlights the deeply racist beliefs of Advance Australia & should never be accepted for publication.
#auspol
Independents registered high Yes votes because engaged volunteers and community were able to cut through the disinformation.
We have laws to protect consumers against misleading advertising yet we don't protect voters when it comes to misleading political advertising.
#auspol
🧵It is disappointing that
@smh
won’t publish my response to
@Matt_KeanMP
’s desperate plea to voters not to abandon so-called moderate Liberals, because the “ramifications for the Liberal Party and Australia are significant”…
#auspol
#ausvotes
@barriecassidy
The interview reeked of pre vetted questions & pre drafted answers. Where were the questions about existing rules & laws for participation in sport? Or real issues of women’s rights like domestic violence, equal pay, homelessness? Instead, the victim card…
#ThisisNotJournalism
@AmyRemeikis
😣We are limping our way to the end of this sitting. The heckling, sledging, ridiculous answers, smirks… it’s all offensive when there are genuine important issues that need to be addressed.
#qt
The Coalition are politicising the condolences motion about the QLD police murders tragedy in Parliament today because it wants to drag out debate on the energy prices intervention bill. Disgusting.
Going to be a great summer of cricket, and for our firefighters and fire-impacted communities, I’m sure our boys will give them something to cheer for.
@GabbaBrisbane
@CricketAus
#AUSvPAK
The Prime Minister is refusing to denounce his MP calling for social disobedience. It’s disgraceful & bringing the parliament into disrepute. This is the people’s house, not a party frat room.
#qt
#auspol
Seriously, what 🤬! How about asking her why as Minister for Environment, she didn’t fund restoration of Sydney Harbour Trust sites or protect the GBR or consent to a duty of care to future generations for the environment they will inherit?🤨
#auspol
Another day in the Parliament and yet another day of Teals voting with the Greens and with Labor.
People in these communities are learning the hard way when you vote Teal you get Green.
The Greens are pushing Labor to come for your money, raising your tax is just the start.
💕These smart, qualified, experienced & dedicated women are giving up professional careers to also give their electorates a choice of a committed independent voice, putting communities 1st. Let’s be the change we want to see. 🌏
#EnoughIsEnough
#ClimateCrisis
#Independent
#auspol
‼️SPOT THE DIFFERENCE‼️ Misleading & unauthorised posters put up around Warringah. This was an organised & expensive tactic across many electorates. I’m committed to cleaning up political advertising & will re-introduce my “Stop the Lies” Bill to the next Parliament.
#auspol
@ScottMorrisonMP
Lack of trust in and transparency by Govt is a major hurdle to people accepting contact tracing ap. Govt needs to show good faith by establishing strong National Anti Corruption Commission and Independent oversight committee. Give and take is important.
#COVID19Aus
#auspol
@murpharoo
It’s time for an open conscience vote on Climate Change Bill to take Australia’s climate policy out of the National’s hands. Otherwise, every Liberal MP will face a campaign that a vote for them is a vote for Barnaby & Barnaby is the fossil we can’t afford.
#auspol
#ClimateCrisis
PM says he will work with Biden on climate but won't change policy. Digging the hole deeper is not going to help the Morrison Govt or Australians. The call for change is coming from every sector. Good leadership is to listen and adapt.
#auspol
The move to rubber stamp Adani before the election needs to be called out and stopped. It could result in a huge cost to the Australian people. Let’s protect the Great Barrier Reef and all the jobs that come with it.
#auspol
#stopadani
#savethereef
Last year, I tabled my Stop the Lies Bill to legislate against misleading & deceptive political & referendum advertising.
The Government failed to support it for the referendum.
Will they act now?
#auspol
Count on Kerry O'Brien to speak sense. In his speech at the Friends of the ABC event, he too questioned the attacks on Independents. The powerful want to preserve the status quo. Australians want to preserve the planet. Time to vote for change.
#ausvotes
Very hard to celebrate a decade where Govts had all the facts on the risks ahead and failed to act. As we head in to 2020, if there is one resolution we all need to make, it is to demand action, demand a plan. Together, we can do it. 🙏
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateActNow
#auspol
Dutton’s no campaign is deceptively trolling Australians for their data, spreading misinformation to create fear. Political parties are exempt from the spam act & can lie in political ads. Crossbench are pushing for this to change.
#integrity
#auspol
One day the Coalition's net zero has "wriggle room". The next, Canavan says net zero is "dead".
Clearly the LNP has a fake net zero commitment.
Signing up to net zero cost taxpayers $billions in pork barrelling to Nationals-held electorates, and for what?
#climateactnow
#auspol
Surprise, surprise! Barnaby’s half a billion $ Urannah Dam contract has been ‘gifted’ to donors to the LNP. Worse still, the project will have a negative return on investment. A rort of epic proportions.
#auspol
#ausvotes
#stoptherorts
Coalition has slashed $526m from ABC – and most Australians want funding restored. A strong independent public broadcaster is essential.
#auspol
#voteindependent
#Warringahvotes
Why isn’t the media grilling the Govt on how much their inaction is costing us? We need a plan to adapt and mitigate the worst of global warming by locking in a real target to decarbonise.
#ClimateActNow
#ConscienceVoteonClimate
#auspol