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|Media|#auspol|#ClimateCrisis|Freelance journo writing about politics & the environment. Read my stuff (โ)
Adelaide, South Australia
Joined February 2022
MY LATEST: Australians face a little-known but very real health hazard from blueberry pesticide regs green-lit under Barnaby Joyce. Meanwhile, the area growing the blueberries faces ecological calamity from a "3rd World" regulatory regime. @michaelwestbiz.
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"Prime Minister, why did you lie?". How many times ๐
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We dont "hate Australia," Peta Credlin . although, to be honest, we *arent* too fond of you:
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The Wickham in Brisbane kicks out MAGAs, an outraged @BenFordham reports. โคต๏ธ. Great job, guys. Next time I'm in town, I must drop by and sample one of your Pumpkin Pizzas . ๐.
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"An unknown person sitting at a nearby table secretly recorded the conversation and it was later obtained by Sky News". (click belowโคต๏ธ). Good to see the Murdochs have moved past phone hacking . ๐.
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Thesis: Critical thinking skills are acquired at the tertiary education level. Evidence:
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Sydney, last night. Call me cynical, but I'm starting to think the ship has sailed on that whole #MurdochRoyalCommission thing .
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New ABC chair Kim Williams: if reporters can't be impartial "they should leave the organisation.". He's directing those comments at Fauziah Ibrahim, Fran Kelly, Lisa Millar and David Speers, right?
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You're not a coward, John Singleton. A coward is the kind of person who would ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ฅ๐ก๐๐จ๐จ, ๐๐ก๐๐๐ง๐ก๐ฎ ๐ข๐๐ฃ ๐ค๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐จ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ข ๐ค๐๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐ก๐ค๐ฌ.
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Wait, what? MSM-appointed "Indigenous leaders" Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine weren't at Garma?. Goes to show, even grifters have *some* shame .
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Wanna help prevent assassinations, Karen? Here's an idea: tell your LNP colleagues to stop stirring up culture wars and cookers: โฌ๏ธ
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AFL legend Eddie Betts posts footage of drive-by racism: โWe're not safe in our own homes. Iโm open to a chat (with the perp) about how much this hurts our kids ย ๐.โ. Instead of reflexively covering unrest in Alice Springs, maybe @BenFordham can show his elderly audience this:
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"Can someone *please* do a welfare check on Peta Credlin . Neil Mitchell . Tony Tardio . ".
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The Murugappan family from #Biloela says hi, Dutts. Here's an earlier photo of them on a remote island ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ โ๏ธ forced them to live on:
On behalf of the Coalition, I send my best wishes to Australiaโs Tamil community as you celebrate Tamil Heritage Month and the Pongal Festival from 14-18 January. Pongalo Pongal!
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BREAKING: Morgan Poll.๐ด Labor 53.5.๐ต L-NP 46.5 2PP. By comparison, 2022 election was 52.1-47.9.Maybe stop with the one-hour trips to kiss Gina's ring, Dutts. It's a bad look.
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Normally, a suburban eviction - even one where @AlboMP is the landlord - doesn't receive front page attention coast-to-coast. Unless, of course, #NewsCorpse wants to paint him as a heartless elitist at a time of rent stress. Albo owns 1 investment property. Karen Andrews owns 6
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1. Peta Credlin is a woman. 2. Ergo, Alan Jones wouldn't touch her with a 10 foot pole. Try and connect the dots, Peta. It's difficult, I know . ๐
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โHeโs the angriest Opposition leader weโve ever seen.โ ๐ฅ.โHe makes Tony Abbott look constructive and positive.โ ๐ฅ. Yes, @AlboMP! Make Dutton the issue! He's your best asset, and ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ! .#LibSpill
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BREAKING: Court-confirmed rapist Donald #Trump ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages for defaming E. Jean Carroll. "So much winning," Donald.
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Jane Hume on #Insiders: Fed ICAC could cause corrupt politicians to โtake their own livesโ. Still waiting for a downside, Jane.
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OUT TODAY: . Newspoll: 2PP.๐ด Labor 52.๐ต L-NP 48. RedBridge: 2PP.๐ด Labor 52.1.๐ต L-NP 47.9. Pretty well precisely the 2022 2PP result, after a hellish few months for Labor. It's almost like he's โฌ๏ธ unelectable, isn't it?
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Looks like the street artists of Canberra have added Vikki Campion to the mix. Because the family that lays together, stays together. #BarnabysBench
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Laura Tingle: the ABC's obsession with "balance" is out-of-date in a post-truth world. In the case of the Voice referendum, 'No' propagandists lying through their teeth are given equal time as 'Yes' advocates presenting a largely honest case. Because, y'know, "fairness." .@smh
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This happened ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ค. โฌ๏ธAndrews' wife, Catherine, was driving. Then-Premier Ted Baillieu "backed Mr Andrewsโ conduct when asked about the incident by journalists" (per AFR). Can you sink any lower, #MurdochGutterMedia?.@slpng_giants_oz
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Remind me: how often did this โคต๏ธ newspaper put *actual* #RoboDebt suicides on its front page?.#NewsCorpse
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National Party dinosaur Keith Pitt: "It's poor that passers-by grab their phones/didn't offer Barnaby a helping hand.". Joyce has been an alcoholic/in need of help for years. Why haven't you intervened, Keith?. Is it because you need his vote in parliament?.#BarnabyTheDrunk
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Vikki Campion in today's @dailytelegraph: โWe will be forced into far less powerful vehicles thanks to Bowen and Albanese who between the two of them wouldnโt know how to change a spark plug.โ. We really have to do something about Vikki's carbon emissions:
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Think "schmoozing Green bureaucrats on up to $464,058 a year" are bad, Vikki Campion? . ๐๐๐ข๐ญ '๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ "๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐จ๐ฒ" ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ $๐๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐ฌ' "๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค" . #auspol
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Say what you will about Bruce Lehrmann, he has a knack for summing it up:
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Since 2004, Peter Dutton has bought and sold more than a dozen properties, claiming many of them as his home to skirt capital gains tax. I'm sure @BenFordham will get around to mentioning this . #auspol
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There's principled protest, and there's "look at me, I'm holier than thee!". Lidia Thorpe disrupting Mardi Gras in pursuit of another cause crosses that line, imo. โฌ๏ธ
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Sarah Henderson: @AlboMP "scrapped Australia Day citizenship ceremonies." โคต๏ธThis just in: he did no such thing. I'm not sure what's more offensive about this person. Her endless fire hose of BS or her crocodile tears .
The Albanese governmentโs decision to scrap Australia Day citizenship ceremonies is fuelling division in our community. Labor MPs @RichardMarlesMP and @LibbyCokerMP must explain their failure to protect our national day.
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Lisa Millar, Jan 25 (top): "is your word your bond?" . David Speers, Feb 4 (bottom): "is your word your bond?" . Got any new material for us, ฬธLฬธNฬธPฬธ ABC? .#insiders
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1. Concoct a rumour. 2. Have media allies (in Ley's case that's most of 'em) spread it far and wide. 3. Shriek like a banshee in #qt. 4. Vanish without a trace (with no journos chasing it up) when it's shown to be BS. Welcome to post-truth Australia.
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"While my pride in Australia is .utterly undimmed, itโs hard to have .much respect for a Government that is starting to look unworthy of the country it leads.". Peta Credlin equates querying the date of Australia Day with the absence of patriotism. What an awful person she is.
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One of this pair secretly worked to subjugate our nation's interests to those of a foreign power. The other is Gladys Liu. #SpyGate
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This is beyond obsession. It's Prince Harry's hacked phone conversations, stored on Hunter Biden's laptop. The very worst of tabloid journalism, in a purported "broadsheet."
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Here's Marge Beavis, warning of health risks associated with nuclear power. โ๏ธ. Meanwhile, Will Shackle reads from an autocue to attack what he calls a "scare campaign." โ๏ธ. I'm really not sure who to believe: .a former GP who teaches at Melbourne University, or . Fallout Boy.
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Those trips were pretty well work-related, Benny. I mean, there were no jaunts to Hawaii during a country-wide firestorm, or Cornwall during Covid to commune with Great Uncle Bill .
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Gosh, Tim, I must have watched a different #NPC speech. In the one I saw, Jacinta stumbled, clung to prepared notes like a comfort toy and told us colonisation was good because "weโve got running water.". It's truly in the eye of the Murdoch toady beholder, isn't it?.#NewsCorpse
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Your reminder: Former Nine boss Hugh Marks, **the ABC's new managing director**, was directly involved in hosting a $10k-a-head Liberal fundraiser at Nine's Sydney television studios in 2019. He later conceded this was a "mistake.". It never ends, does it?.
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The editor of @smh, Bevan Shields, outed Rebel Wilson. Tell us again about "going too far," Bevan: โฌ๏ธ.
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In the space of three years, #NewsCorpse has gone from applauding Josh Frydenberg spending like a drunken sailor (2021) to eviscerating Jim Chalmers for forking out a fraction of that (2024). โคต๏ธ . What a difference a party affiliation makes . #auspol
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Babies in "anti-vax" area of southern WA are much more prone to deadly whooping cough after a "massive spike" in the illness. The area, near Margaret River, is infamous for many residents' refusal to vaccinate. Good job, cookers. Better go stock up on Ivermectin. #CovidIsntOver
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Dutton: "people aren't dining out in Eastwood because of renewables.". Well, at least the diners aren't scared of African Gangs any more . ๐
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Matthew Norman did 19 years in a Third World hellhole. The Geelong (Vic.) #NewsCorpse outlet seems to think he should spend the rest of his life in a shack. Again, where's former NSW Opp Ldr Kerry Chikarovski's drug dealing son serving 18 months of home detention? In a mansion.
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"Brittany Higgins and the plot to sink ScoMo." . A worthy cause if ever there was one .
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Anyone who wants to raise the disgusting language from Ralph Babet โคต๏ธ in the context of Babet's Senate responsibilities, should contact Senate President Sue Lines: senator.lines@aph.gov.au; Canberra APH office (02) 6277 3300; Perth electorate office (08) 9481 4844.
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Shelve those "wind turbines decapitating seagulls" stories, @BenFordham. Expecting you to be all over this one . ๐จ๐๐จ๐๐จ./sarc.
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As someone with a conscience, Monique Ryan *had* to say something about Gaza. What she posted was reasonable, measured and sanitised to within an inch of its life. And yet we get this, amplified by #NewsCorpse. โคต๏ธ. This is a systematic, choreographed bullying of democracy.
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.@BenFordham implies Albo's deliberately concealing the Australian flag in the photo below. "Does he remember he's our PM?" . The flag's right there in the middle, Ben. Anyone with half a brain knows that, you shameless Costello shill.
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Who are you, and what have you done with @AlboMP? โคต๏ธ. (Seriously, good job PM. And about bloody time!)
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Cleanup on aisle Barnaby! LNP staffers engaged in another cover-up, Dutts? . (@ihaveabluehat I'm guessing the plaque is gone?)
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So, an "oversight" under ScoMo meant we didn't learn why Australia went into the disastrous Iraq war this week. Important story of lost accountability. Samantha Maiden's main take? Whataboutism on delays releasing "Airbus Albo's" travel records. Talk about burying the lede. ๐
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Jacinta's very touchy on the issue of 1st Nations people voting "Yes". There was "manipulation" in remote communities, she claimed. Yes, Senator, that must be it. "Rigging" is easier to accept than FN telling their "indigenous leader" to go & get stuffed.
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Who's this (below) campaigning with @DanielAndrewsMP on Saturday, James Massola? Those specs need replacing, buddy:.#VicVotes2022
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I don't recall Sports Rorts, or Angus Taylor's shenanigans, or Barnaby's $675k, or Sussan Ley's house hunting, or any the supplementary tsunami of graft from 2013-22 meriting coast-to-coast, page 1 coverage in our tabloids. Mind you, my memory's a bit spotty these days . ๐
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"Aggressive early COVID measures credited for saving thousands of Australian lives." . Can we get a "thanks, Dan Andrews," @theage . or is that asking too much? .
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.@vanOnselenP : Why was I suddenly left off the government's media email list? . Possibly because @DailyMailAU isn't real media?.Admit it 'professor'. You're on the bottom rung.
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Memo Keith Pitt: there's this thing called a phone . ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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.@PatsKarvelas: "misinformation will flourish" after Meta/Facebook stopped paying #NewsCorpse etc for content. And how would that differ from the status quo? .#insiders
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You'd think a bloke so utterly unaffected would go visit the family of the man in the crowd who was killed yesterday. But nah. Gotta go play golf . โฌ๏ธ.#Trump
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"Defence Dept has 54 current contracts with PwC with a total contact value of about $223m.".<link: gt;. Remind me: who was Defence Minister for a chunk of the L-NP's time in office?
We just heard that Defence has a whopping 54 contracts with PwC for a total value of $223,299,943.56. Given the sensitive nature of information inside Defence and the known issues with PwC this is deeply concerning.
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Dutton, today: "Israel is responding with proportion.". The death toll from Israel's Gaza invasion Gaza stands at 28,663, per Reuters, compared to 1,139 Israeli deaths following the October 7 attack. In case Dutton can't count, that "proportion" is more than 25-to-1. #genocide
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Couple of points, Peta: .1. The mere mention of many Australians' racism isn't abuse. It's truth, and truth hurts; .2. The "national hero" to whom you refer (J Price) has sold out her people, so utterly, that she seriously believes colonisation was good for them. Get in the bin.
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Matt Gaetz nominates Donald Trump for US House Speaker. Trump receives just one vote. That's right. Donald just lost ๐ฎ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง election . ๐ฟ ๐ฟ ๐ฟ .#Speakerofthehouse.
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Can't imagine why you took this down, Katherine Deves <@deves_katherine>. Accused traffickers too rich even for your blood?
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Does anyone recall Pauline Hanson kicking up a song and dance over Barnaby's dual citizenship? Or Malcolm Roberts? . I can't qWhite put my finger on the reason . ๐ค.#auspol
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You know it's a State Government responsibility, right Dutts?
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