Aaron Dodd, Contrarian
@AaronDodd
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Melbourne/Gippsland - based small business owner. Progressive. Judo, NMFC. These are my personal views and opinions. @aaronfdodd on Threads.
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BREAKING: PM Scott Morrison has announced there's no need for Australia to take action against the
#coronavirus
. He said "We make up only 0.3% of the world's population. Even if we're all wiped out by the virus it will make no appreciable impact on the world's population"
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I've been asked why I never call Morrison "Scomo". First off, Scomo is a marketing brand he created for himself. It is in effect a term of endearment. As such I'll NEVER use it. Nor will I ever call him "PM" or "Prime Minister". He is not worthy of the office or title.
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Hey
@JoshFrydenberg
remember when you demanded Dan Andrews provide a detailed dated roadmap out of lockdown? Why aren't you demanding the same from Morrison on the vaccine rollout? Please advise.
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In 30+ years of observing politics in 3 countries, I have NEVER seen such an outpouring of disgust and scorn at country's PM as is being unleashed on
@ScottMorrisonMP
. Loathing of Gillard was Murdoch-driven. This is grass-roots stuff - visceral - terminal.
#auspol
#MorrisonFires
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I never expected Australia to throw up a worse PM than Tony Abbott. Certainly not in my lifetime. The very thought of it is preposterous. But I look at the degenerate currently residing in the Lodge and say to my fellow Australians, WTAF have you done?
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Every Victorian putting a mask back on this week can blame Scott Morrison. No-one else. He refused to build dedicated quarantine facilities. Then he botched the vaccine rollout. That's why this outbreak is happening.
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Is it just me? or does it seem odd that a former fish & chip shop owner with a Year 10 education seems to know more about climate science and its effects than 98% of the world's actual climate scientists, ones with university degrees?
#auspol
#qldpol
“Throw bloody climate change out the window”: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says
#climatechange
should play no part in any inquest into the bushfires.
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So there we have it. New Infrastructure Minister
@CatherineKingMP
has investigated the $4 billion that Frydenberg had said was put aside for the Libs' pet project, the
#ewlink
and declared the money non-existent and a "complete fraud".
#auspol
#springst
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While waiting for my takeaway coffee this morning, I overheard 2 other waiting customers discussing vaccines, both saying they didn't want to put toxins in their bodies. I should mention both were smoking while saying this.
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Spot the odd one out.
When I'm sick I ask a doctor.
When my power goes out I ask a sparky.
When I need tax advice I ask an accountant.
When I need legal advice I ask a lawyer.
When the climate warms I ask an undereducated former fish & chip shop owner.
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"You can trust us with your data" infers Morrison on the same day his office is circulating a pirated copy of Turnbull’s memoirs. Let that sink in for a minute.
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BREAKING: Strong rumours abound in Canberra that ACTU President Sally McManus will be the next Governor of the RBA. When questioned PM Albanese said "It's not happening, but we started the rumour to send the Murdoch media and the IPA into a hysterical frenzy"
#auspol
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Morrison: "I was in a quandary. We need money for bushfire recovery - where would I get it from? I thought to myself - what would Jesus do? and the answer came to me - he'd take money from disabled people and their carers and let the rich keep their franking credits."
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While
@SkyNewsAust
and its attendant Murdoch commentariat routinely negatively opine about
@abcnews
, the ABC has been saving lives with its emergency broadcasts. It's doing its job. Let's take a minute to thank the ABC employees working so hard behind the scenes.
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Scott Morrison is currently the most incompetent national leader in the Western world.
Prove me wrong.
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BREAKING: Australian PM Scott Morrison has announced that by including unused smallpox vaccination credits from the 1960s, that his government is actually well in advance of its Covid vaccine rollout targets. He said "It worked for Kyoto, why not for Covid?"
#auspol
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If you're one of
@ScottMorrisonMP
's "quiet Australians" you are one of the following;
1. Too stupid to realise what the govt is doing to you,
2. Too gutless to speak out about it,
3. Too selfish to speak out about the damage the govt is doing to others,
4. A fascist.
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That popping noise you can hear is the sound of cookers' heads exploding all over Victoria.
#auspol
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Dim witted
@SussanLey
says "the electorate has moved on from the Morrison years", then next minute she says the electorate still hasn't forgotten about "the chaos of the Rudd government".
Politicians don't get more stupid than Sussan.
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Dear
@izzyfolau
, why do you demand strict adherence to Leviticus 18:22 & 20:13 re homosexuality, yet choose to completely ignore Leviticus 19:28 which prohibits tattoos? You're covered in them FFS! Please advise.
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Didn't Morrison say he didn't attend a
@LiberalAus
fundraiser in Queensland? Where was this photo taken?
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For Australian to progress, on almost any matter,
@albomp
need to do 2 things:
1. Initiate a
#MurdochRoyalCommission
2. Legislate truth in media laws, similar to Canada's
Last night's result makes this our moral imperative.
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Do you not understand the separation of powers
@sussanLey
?
The courts let
#Benbrika
out. Not Albo.
Every time you open your mouth Sussan, you demonstrate how unfit you are for public office. You should resign.
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What does it say about
@liberalaus
and its Catholic cheer squad led by
@honTonyAbbott
&
#GerardHenderson
, that they spouted outrageous eulogies for the despicable Pell, but remain stone cold silent on the passing of
#FatherBob
?
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Tonight
@LiberalAus
and
@JoshFrydenberg
officially washed their hands of Victoria. They know they'll be lucky to win a seat here and will now be focusing all their largesse (25% of which is Victoria's) on NSW and QLD. We effectively no longer have a Commonwealth.
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F*ck off
@Australian
. The blame lies with
#Calombaris
illegally underpaying his staff. No one else. If you're suggesting the union should've turned a blind eye, you're even more immoral than I thought. >> Unions under fire over Calombaris downfall
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Are you a moron
@D_LittleproudMP
? Genuine question.
You say nuclear power means taxpayers won't have to subsidise electricity if nuclear is used.
Your stupid proposal is being wholly funded by taxpayers - it's 100% subsidised you idiot.
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I'd just like to point out that
@JacquiLambie
voted for the stage 3 tax cuts. In fact it was her single senate vote that got the Libs' policy over the line. Now she is demanding Labor remove them. She's a Class A hypocrite.
#auspol
via
@ABCaustralia
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BREAKING: Australian PM Scott Morrison has reportedly gone missing. Sources inside parliament house have stated the AFP's elite Missing PM team (The Harold Holt Unit) has been reformed. Peter Dutton has been encamped outside the PM's office ready to take over.
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Murdoch is being slammed all over the world right now, and you
@AlboMP
are in the strongest most secure political position of any Labor PM since Bob Hawke.
If NOW is not the right time to establish a
#MurdochRoyalCommission
, when will it be?
#auspol
@ThwaitesKate
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BREAKING: Sky News Australia has reported that Dan Andrews is to blame for the latest quarantine breach at Sydney airport. Host Peta Credlin has reported "Andrews is clearly to blame. He has made Victoria so attractive, foreign tourists will do anything to get there"
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Actually
@MRobertsQLD
this is the result of Libertarianism. A socialist economy would ration toilet paper so everyone got what they needed. These shortages are individuals taking whatever they can and saying f*ck you to everyone else - that's pure libertarianism.
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Sussan Ley: “We’ve had indigenous recognition in our party platform since John Howard was leader!”
Here's the thing
@sussanley
... In all the years you were in power you did NOTHING about it. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
You and
@liberalaus
are full of sh*t.
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@abcnews
#VoteYes
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BREAKING: Liberal Party Backbencher, Chinese-born Gladys Liu has been at Melbourne Airport handing out Coronavirus pamphlets in Mandarin to new arrivals from China. A translation has revealed they read "Vote 1 Liu to cure coronavirus"
#auspol
#coronavirus
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Let's be clear. The Premiers & Chief Ministers are wholly responsible for Australia's
#Covid19
success. Morrison wanted to open up and let it rip, but Andrews and Berejiklian, in particular, talked him off the ledge. He then undermined States' actions.
#ScottyNeverHelped
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BREAKING: The Herald Sun has reported that one of Premier Dan Andrews' wife's friends received a parking ticket from Bayside Council in 2019. Insiders have stated that Andrews was only 11km away at the time. More to come.
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BREAKING: Hot on the heels of yesterday's announcement that QLD Senator Pauline Hanson with Chair an enquiry into the Family Court System, PM Scott Morrison has announced celebrity chef George Columbaris will chair a enquiry into wage theft in the restaurant sector.
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You can stick your "thoughts and prayers" up your arse
@ScottMorrisonMP
. These fires are due to
#climatechange
wrought by coal-infatuated idiots like yourself. One day there will be Nuremberg-style trials for people like you and their crimes against humanity.
#auspol
Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been so directly and horribly impacted by these fires.
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Both of these men have attempted to conceal sexual offences by others. So far only one of them has been charged by police.
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I've watched the Sarah Williams - Albo interchange numerous times now.
Albo was respectful of the organisers throughout. Sarah Williams allowed herself to be carried away by her emotions, and the power of the microphone. She undermined the entire message of the rally.
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It must be noted that Probe, one of the private debt collectors contracted by
@liberalaus
's now illegal
#Robodebt
scheme is headed by Andrew Hume,
@SenatorHume
's ex-husband. The corruption runs deep.
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BREAKING: The Australian Electoral Commission has announced that the Federal division of Cook is to be renamed Crook, in honour of its most famous MP.
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It's so cold in Melbourne today I just saw a
@LiberalAus
MP with his hands in his own pockets.
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Seriously? How can "We will find you, we will track you down, you will have to repay those debts and you may end up in prison." be taken out of context??
#auspol
#RoboDebtRC
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Remember
#auspol
, when a union is corrupt it is completely unacceptable, but when a Liberal politician buys a heavily discounted Gold Coast apartment from a Liberal party donor and they use taxpayer funded flights to visit it, it's also totally cool and normal.
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Bill Shorten was front and centre at Beaconsfield. Rain, hail or shine he was there for the duration. That's leadership
Catastrophic fires that affect hundreds of thousands and
@ScottMorrisonMP
goes missing.
WTF have you elected Australia?
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#HaroldHolt
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.
@scottmorrisonmp
, In last 20 years;
Australians killed by terrorists in Australia: 5
Australians killed by Police in Australia: 60
Australians killed by
#DV
(mainly women): Over 3000
Why do you focus on terrorists, constantly. Why not address the real problem?
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Just terrible news out of London & The Hague. Whether it has been the despicable acts of terrorists in the UK, or as yet not determined in the Netherlands, Australians’ deepest sympathies are with the victims & their families - they were innocent people going about their lives.
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Terrorism deaths in Australia last 7 years = 3
#Robodebt
deaths in Australia = 150-2000
#Coronavirus
deaths in Australia = Nil.
Conclusion:
@LiberalAus
is more dangerous to Australians than either terrorism or coronavirus.
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I note
@vanOnselenP
has deleted all his anti-Rudd tweets from this morning. How come Petey?
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Former VIC Police Commissioner Christine Nixon, appointed under a Labor govt, was viciously pilloried by the Murdoch press for eating out at a restaurant while the Black Saturday fires raged. Morrison goes for drinkies with Lachlan Murdoch & generally does SFA, nothing.
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BREAKING: Scott Morrison has fled Greece after learning of massive bushfires in the country. He told reporters "It's always been my policy to flee bushfires to another country. Last time I chose Hawaii. This time I've come back to Australia. I don't hold a hose, mate"
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These are the planes Morrison refused to buy before he skived off to Hawaii. It took a Labor government to protect Australians.
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Australia now has in place the largest fleet of aerial bushfire fighting aircraft in its history - ahead of what's expected to be a tough season.
That includes a 737 large air tanker now on duty to fight fires anywhere in the country.
@Eddy_Meyer
#9News
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Is this you out walking without a mask in Brighton today
@RitaPanahi
? You made quite a fuss about Dan Andrews slip this week. Should
@VictoriaPolice
be informed?
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How weird is it that we had a major weather event that knocked out transmission lines that then tripped out a coal fired power station - and the RWFWs come out and blame renewables.
Absolute morons. The lot of them.
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BREAKING: In a closely fought contest young Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has managed to just pip Australian Newscorp columnist Andrew Bolt to win TIME Magazine's Person of the Year award for 2019. Bolt is yet to comment on his loss.
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Only a decade ago, historians considered Billy McMahon the worst PM in our history, and that status was likely unassailable. Then along came
@HonTonyAbbott
, and even more incredibly
@ScottMorrisonMP
. It's hard to conceive anybody worse than Morrison. All Libs of course.
#auspol
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Gobsmacking that
#HannahClarke
's family allow Morrison to attend her funeral. His misogynist party defunded
#dv
support. He is using them to rehabilitate his toxic personal brand. Utterly disgusting.
#auspol
#qldpol
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So let me understand. Just like
#Robodebt
, the former Liberal government was operating illegally - detaining hundreds of migrants who should not have been. Now
@SenPaterson
demands Labor come up with a plan to fix their mess? Get in the bin.
#auspol
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The
#religiousfreedom
bill defines atheism as a religion. We can use this. If you are an atheist business owner, we can found an institution say, "federation of atheist businesses". This would allow us to discriminate against the religious indiscriminately. Who's in?
#auspol
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If you foresaw it 4 years ago
@ScottMorrisonMP
, why did you defund the CSIRO's disease research and vaccine development capacity? If you knowingly did this having predicted the pandemic you are criminally negligent.
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FMD!
@SenatorCash
demanding the government get the Chinese tarriffs on lobsters removed.
It was the vile sinophobic rhetoric of the former coalition government she was part of that resulted in the tariffs being put in place in the first place.
How thick is she? !
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Most of Dutton’s Paladin/Nauru/Manus corruption allegations have been on social media in one form or another for many years. It is well known.
Why has mainstream media finally decided to get on the bandwagon and expose him now? What's changed?
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#Robodebt
was not a "mistake" or a "blunder". It was fraud - a very deliberate attempt to demand money with menace from the most vulnerable in society. Obtaining financial advantage by deception. The only blunder or mistake was the ABC employing
@David_Speers
.
#insiders
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BREAKING: The inaugural Australian Hypocrisy Trophy has been awarded to the American-owned Sky News Australia for complaining that the Saudi-owned Al Jazeera network is a foreign power interfering in Australian politics.
#auspol
#Election2019
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After tonight, it's now clear those teal seats are never returning to the coalition. Certainly not one led by Dutton anyway. Without them the coalition cannot win power.
We can take that as a positive from tonight.
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BREAKING: Fresh from announcing funding for Firefighters that they already have and leave for public service firefighters that they too already have, tomorrow, PM Scott Morrison will announce 2 new public holidays for 2020 to be called "Easter" and "Christmas".
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When Victoria locked down an apartment building Dan Andrews was labelled a "dictator". When NSW do it - crickets. Australia's media bias on full display.
#auspol
#MurdochRoyalCommission
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Today
@ScottMorrisonMP
said "I won't tolerate extortion". This coming from the architect of
#Robodebt
is next level hypocrisy. Does he think we are all idiots?
#auspol
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BREAKING: Man who strongly criticised Dan Andrews for taking on the sponsorship of Netball Australia, now tries to bask in their reflected glory.
#auspol
#springst
They do say diamonds are made under pressure.
The
@AussieDiamonds
have won the Netball World Cup for the 12th time!
A fantastic result. JP
#NWC2023
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Morrison's CV. I see a pattern:
PM Australia: About to be sacked for corruption and poor governance.
CEO Tourism Australia: Allegedly sacked for corruption and poor governance.
CEO Tourism NZ: Allegedly sacked for corruption and poor governance.
#auspol
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Morrison: "we received the requests last night we actioned them today. The planes will be available in 7 & 14 days" <<smirk>>
Those planes were requested to be on standby in Australia months ago, now - when we need them - today - not is a week or 2.
#auspol
#MorrisonFires
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The bile being spewed by the Murdoch commentariat and
@LiberalAus
MPs about the schoolkids'
#climatestrike
is unbelievable. The kids must have them really rattled. They can see the future and they aren't in it.
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I wonder how
@Buddy_Franklin
feels about having
@sussanLey
spouting anti-voice garbage while wearing a club scarf, given he will be a spokesperson for the YES campaign.
#auspol
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So Sydney's in lockdown?
No Brian, its a residential confinement order.
But...
No Brian, it's quite different to a lockdown. I checked.
Checked with who?
Whom Brian, whom.
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Littleproud implores us to respect farmers. I know a lot of farmers. I married the daughter of one. But I will say this, it's very difficult to respect them if they keep re-electing climate-change denying coal-huggers. They're like turkeys voting for Christmas.
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Morrison claiming he, Frydenberg and Cormann designed
#Jobkeeper
in his valedictory speech.
Fact: It was
@unionsaustralia
&
@sallymcmanus
who did that.
Is Morrison the first departing MP to mislead parliament in his farewell speech?
#auspol
#qt
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#IStandWithMagda
.
@MagdaSzubanski
did NOT bully Jenny Morrison as the Murdoch/Costello/Stokes media cartel is suggesting. The media has simply done an excellent job of gaslighting Magda. She simply commented on the terrible photo composition.
#auspol
#ThisisNotJournalism
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Not a single Boo from the crowd during the
#WelcomeToCountry
at the
#AFLGrandFinal
. Not one.
Eat shit
#SamNewman
.
#auspol
#VoteYes
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Morrison's banning of his MPs from talking to foreign media is a savage indictment of Australian media. It implies he knows Australian journalists are too weak, sycophantic and cowardly to ask the challenging questions they should be asking.
#auspol
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