MY LATEST: Truck safety whistleblower Roxanne Mysko dodges jail, slammed with legal costs. Amid a rise in trucking deaths across Australia, Roxanne has had her life turned upside down for her whistleblowing troubles.
#auspol
@MichaelWestBiz
"An unknown person sitting at a nearby table secretly recorded the conversation and it was later obtained by Sky News". (click below⤵️)
Good to see the Murdochs have moved past phone hacking ...👀
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?
You're not a coward, John Singleton. A coward is the kind of person who would 𝙠𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙖 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙚𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙖 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙛 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙬.
AFL legend Eddie Betts posts footage of drive-by racism: “We're not safe in our own homes. I’m open to a chat (with the perp) about how much this hurts our kids 💔.”
Instead of reflexively covering unrest in Alice Springs, maybe
@BenFordham
can show his elderly audience this:
"Prime Minister, why did you lie?"
And just like that,
@ByClare
Armstrong delivers the soundbite to be run at the start of every commercial TV news bulletin. Cost-of-living issues? Policy detail? Nah, who needs that?!
Mission Accomplished, Clare. Lachlan will be proud.
#npc
On behalf of the Coalition, I send my best wishes to Australia’s Tamil community as you celebrate Tamil Heritage Month and the Pongal Festival from 14-18 January. Pongalo Pongal!
BREAKING: Morgan Poll
🔴 Labor 53.5
🔵 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.
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
“He’s the angriest Opposition leader we’ve ever seen.” 🔥
“He makes Tony Abbott look constructive and positive.” 🔥
Yes,
@AlboMP
! Make Dutton the issue! He's your best asset, and 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫!
#LibSpill
OUT TODAY:
Newspoll: 2PP
🔴 Labor 52
🔵 L-NP 48
RedBridge: 2PP
🔴 Labor 52.1
🔵 L-NP 47.9
Pretty well precisely the 2022 2PP result, after a hellish few months for Labor. It's almost like he's ⬇️ unelectable, isn't it?
Laura Tingle: the ABC's obsession with "balance" is out-of-date in a post-truth world.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
This happened 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙤. ⬇️Andrews' wife, Catherine, was driving. Then-Premier Ted Baillieu "backed Mr Andrews’ conduct when asked about the incident by journalists" (per AFR).
Can you sink any lower,
#MurdochGutterMedia
?
@slpng_giants_oz
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
Vikki Campion in today's
@dailytelegraph
: “We will be forced into far less powerful vehicles thanks to Bowen and Albanese who between the two of them wouldn’t know how to change a spark plug.”
We really have to do something about Vikki's carbon emissions:
Think "schmoozing Green bureaucrats on up to $464,058 a year" are bad, Vikki Campion?
𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭 '𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 "𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐲" 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 $𝟔𝟕𝟓𝐊 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬' "𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤" ...
#auspol
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. ⬇️
Sarah Henderson:
@AlboMP
"scrapped Australia Day citizenship ceremonies." ⤵️This 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 government’s 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.
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, ̸L̸N̸P̸ ABC?
#insiders
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.
"While my pride in Australia is
utterly undimmed, it’s 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.
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."
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 ...
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 "we’ve got running water."
It's truly in the eye of the Murdoch toady beholder, isn't it?
#NewsCorpse
* State-owned servos;
* No price gouging at the petrol pump;
* Council buses to be run by the State.
Whatever happens at October's election,
@QLDLabor
won't die wondering. We could do with some of this courage in Canberra, I reckon ...
#qldpol
#auspol
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
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
. ⤵️
This is a systematic, choreographed bullying of democracy.
.
@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.
You're not up to it, Dutts. Whatever we thought of Morrison, he rarely stumbled like this. ⬇️
Dutton's marching to his Waterloo, and I'm here for it.
#VoteYes
#Yes23
🖤💛❤️
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. 🙄
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.
"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?
.
@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.
.
@PatsKarvelas
: "misinformation will flourish" after Meta/Facebook stopped paying
#NewsCorpse
etc for content.
And how would that differ from the status quo?
#insiders
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 ... ⬇️
#Trump
"Defence Dept has 54 current contracts with PwC with a total contact value of about $223m."
<link: >
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.
Anyone else bothered by this? ⤵️
Anyone else bothered by billionaires buying by-elections (and worse)?
Take your time with the legislative remedy,
@AlboMP
. Just a lazy 15 months to save democracy...
#Dunkley
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
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.
Matt Gaetz nominates Donald Trump for US House Speaker. Trump receives just one vote.
That's right. Donald just lost 𝙮𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 election ... 🍿 🍿 🍿
#Speakerofthehouse
Ben Fordham's 2GB is first out of the blocks telling Usman Khawaja to "stick to sports" over his Gaza protest.
Are Ben - or Ray Hadley or Steve Price for that matter - any more qualified than Khawaja to opine (as they do, all the time) on current affairs?
Thought not.
Gutsy from Khawaja to show his support for Palestinians trapped in Gaza.
I wonder who'll be first out the gate accusing the practicing Muslim of "anti-semitism" or "supporting Hamas"? Will it be Bolt, Fordham or, yep, Sharri Markson? Pick your poison.
They've castigated "Airbus Albo's" travel habits. Now they're lambasting his taste in wine. ⤵️
Would a diet of bread and water meet with your approval, James
@J_C_Campbell
?
Brittany Higgins' payout includes $400,000 for "hurt, distress and humiliation."
You'd have to add a couple of zeros to cover what Andrew Bolt's putting her through:
Annabel Crabb: "Hollie Hughes has taken this week off (after losing Senate pre-selection) and who could blame her?"
The taxpayers, for one, Annabel. Spare a thought for poor Hollie as she chain-vapes to cope with it all ...
Morgan Poll Just Out:
🔴 Labor 52%
🔵 L-NP 48% 2PP
After all the negative headlines, these two-party-preferred numbers are basically the same as at the 2022 election.
Almost like this guy's unelectable, isn't it?
Dutton (without proof): ↙️ “young Indigenous kids are being sexually assaulted on a regular basis.”
Also Dutton: I went to George Pell's funeral because "he contributed a lot." Just ask Ridsdale's victims. ↘️