I know
@PaulBongiorno
well.
He is one of the most decent men I know.
He did not suggest
@matthiascorman
was a Nazi (if he did, I would have condemned him) he simply said if you're going to lie, make it a big one & quoted Goebbels.
The huge pile on shows how much Libs fear Paul.
Still the loveliest photo taken inside Parliament House [via
@mearesy
].
@JuliaGillard
acknowledging
@TurnbullMalcolm
's condolences on the passing of her father.
Having lost his father in tragic circumstances, and relatively young, I suspect he easily empathised with her grief.
So the The Herald Sun promotes a 'secret leaked internal Liberal poll' that says
@DanielAndrewsMP
is failing at the same time a transparent Roy Morgan poll saying he has 70% approval has been released. Quite a coincidence.
Another week of ‘lockdown’ for Sydney estimated to cost $1 billion. Making $3 billion so far.
It would have cost $640 million more to buy 40 million doses of Pfizer rather than A-Z, yet the ‘party of business’ baulked at this...$660 million for car parks, notwithstanding. 🔥
Make no mistake,
@JEChalmers
is the most prepared & talented Treasurer to take the position in living memory. Better than Keating, & miles better than the golden boy of the right, the Frank Burns of Treasurer's, Costello. He is ideally suited to deal with the many challenges.
What, like the English did when they came to a fully populated Australia inhabited by a culture that had lived here for 60,000 years?
Like that, you mean?
'I have my doubts about multiculturalism, I believe that when you migrate to another country you should be expected to absorb the mainstream culture of that country!'
Former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, shares his thoughts on multiculturalism.
I've been watching election campaigns since 1972. This is, without any doubt, the most incompetent media coverage that I've witnessed. Yes, the odd journo is trying to hold
@ScottMorrisonMP
to some account, but the vast majority are simply dancing along to his vaudeville routine.
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."
As good & effective as
@jacindaardern
is, and she is very good & effective, I can't help but think that the absence of the toxic, gutter, disgraceful Murdoch press in NZ relieves her of a mighty burden that infects Australia, the UK & the US...with obvious results.
"Tonight's result has been strong and it is clear that Labour will lead the government for the next three years."
Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has delivered her victory speech to a rapturous audience.
More updates here:
Eden is being evacuated now. Eden. For Fuck's Sake.
Can any of you idiot right wing nut jobs seriously think that this is normal? Can you? How fucking stupid are you?
How. Fucking. Stupid. Are. You?
Gareth Evans famously, and correctly said, that John Howard was never so happy as when he was bashing blackfellas.
Make no mistake: Howard has shaped the Liberal Party in his own miserable, small minded & mean spirited image. Morally bankrupt & repulsive in the extreme.
.
@AlboMP
made more sense in that AM interview with
@SabraLane
than Morrison made in four years of "interviews". Special mention to Sabra for conducting a mature interview with important questions & ZERO gotchas.
Ridiculous that I have to make special mention of this.
My Sydney City retail colleagues report business has fallen through the fall since the removal of mandatory mask directives.
Well done
@Dom_Perrottet
.
The party of business…
There have been some deeply shameful episodes in Australian political history; Tampa among the worst.
However, if the "The Voice" referendum is defeated, it will be this event that will surpass all others in our Hall of Shame.
Our cards will be marked for all time.
Kerry O'Brien is absolutely right on
@RNBreakfast
.
@abcnews
at 7pm is appalling.
I was an habitual viewer.
I cannot watch it anymore.
It is so superficial and tabloid.
Tom Uren, was a veteran of the Burma Railway & one of the most decent human beings to have been in Parliament. Far from it being a negative, it would have been an honour to have simply made him a cup of tea every day or to have polished his shoes.
Make no mistake: this pivot from Morrison that we need to open up when [insert means] is based on research that is showing voter fatigue with lockdowns. He is trying to position himself as the champion of the people fighting against these tyrannical premiers.
Can anyone explain why some barristers can be paid 25-30k per day?
Can anyone think of any person in the medical profession - you know, people who actually save lives - who earns that much?
Is there any better evidence that our 'system' is well and truly fucked?
So the mob that built their entire political platform around "stopping the boats" were absolutely useless in stopping the one boat that really mattered.
Take note Australian media.
Take, bloody well, note.
And
@abcnews
&
@RNBreakfast
, in particular, apply this lens to every News Ltd article that you parrot on your show as "news".
Trump starts lying during press conference, CNN immediately cuts him off and fact checks him. THIS MUST BE DONE EVERY SINGLE TIME TRUMP SPEAKS. (Video: CNN)
BREAKING NEWS: High Court dismisses NASA's claim of landing a man on the Moon, citing reasonable doubt. "Scientists, acting rationally, should have concluded that the testimony from opportunity witnesses showed it's possible the landing was staged in a sound studio in Nevada."
I think if
@TheIPA
is going to be given a voice regularly on
@ABCthedrum
& other
@abcnews
programs, which is fine by me; then in the interests of balance the Sparticists League or The Fabian Society or Socialist Alliance should be given a voice, too.
I don't watch Insiders & haven't for years, largely because it is simply gossip. If
@latingle
or Nikki Savva appears, I will find it on Iview.
Today I made an exception to watch the
@JEChalmers
interview.
He was excellent, unsurprisingly.
On top of his portfolio in every aspect.
Can someone explain to me why female L-NP Senators and MPs aren't currently putting a rocket up their male counterparts? Especially Morrison?
This goes well beyond loyalty to 'The Party'...this is the behaviour of those who 'know their place'.
Just a special hello to
@JaneCaro
who stood for election in the Senate in NSW; just about the toughest challenge for a non-party candidate to be successful.
I dips me lid & doffs me cap to a remarkable woman. I would proudly lay down my cloak for her to walk over a muddy puddle.
Perfect answer.
John Howard was a failed treasurer, one of our worst...& his complacent treasurer, Costello, squandered the proceeds of the mining boom.
@JEChalmers
is an outstanding treasurer. The most prepared & qualified to be in the job in the 50 yrs I been following politics
I love
@IAmPoliticsGirl
.
"MLK: Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. So let's let the light in, because these people are like vampires, they simply cannot survive it."
No, Albanese does not have EGW, RJLH or PJK's presence or vision; he is not as smart as Rudd or Gillard; nor does he have the courage shown by Crean during the Iraq War, so he's not your greatest ALP leader. Nevertheless, he leads a very good team & is far better than Dutton.
Never forget John Howard always played race politics. He started against Vietnamese 'Boat People' & Malcolm Fraser squashed him. Then against Asians in 1988 & Bob Hawke squashed him. Then when elected in 1996 he went after Asians again, Indigenous & later refugees. Never forget.
These two exceptional young women are the perfect embodiment of Martin Luther King's quote:
"We must accept finite disappointment but must never lose infinite hope"
I dips me lid...a thousand times, and more.
.
@FatherBob
made a personal observation that images such as these two - one of refugees behind wire at Manus & the other of concentration camp inmates behind wire in WW2 - had visual similarities. An unremarkable observation, I would've thought.
Are you kidding me
@GladysB
? A painter from Sydney is an essential worker for Goulburn?
@JohnBarilaroMP
?
What? There wasn’t ONE painter in and around Goulburn who could have done the job?
The NSW Govt is not taking COVID seriously. Is it any wonder, nor is the public. FFS!
Simon Crean in 2003, telling George W. Bush straight to his face in parliament that the true measure of friendship was to tell a friend when they were wrong, as Bush was on the Iraq War.
Very few had the courage to do this at the time. But Crean did. Vale.
#auspol
Wondering if
@InsidersABC
will take the opportunity & schedule three of our finest journalists for the final episode of the year:
@latingle
@murpharoo
& Niki Savva. Yes, I know, the bookings are scheduled a long way in advance, but so what? Change the schedule to fit the times.
How stupid are the conservatives?
Yes, coal is a big export earner for AUS & so you can't, nor should you, close it down in the short term.
However, it has a very limited life & so we should've been transitioning to lead the world in renewables.
The party of business - my arse.
How about writing an accurate headline?
Liberals disgracefully dog whistle, by asking for “serious detail” on Voice despite knowing full well there’s been five years of consultation resulting in a greater than 200 page report that the Morrison Cabinet received.
The High Court’s Pell decision has done incalculable damage. The lawyers will argue all the points of law were right, but many survivors will say “why bother?” potential jurors will say “why bother?”
A devastating example of the disconnect between the law, justice & the public
Capitalising on conflict for political purposes is way over the line and highly irresponsible. Australians need leaders who will protect our social cohesion rather than inflame tension and deepen distress here.
I spoke more about this on radio today.
When the original outbreak occurred,
@GladysB
stubbornly refused to mandate masks for public transport & shopping centres/supermarkets/retail & so this is now a potential explosion. Had she done so, any chance of transmission would have been hugely reduced.
Ideology gone mad.
I've not watched the Vic press conferences at length before, just usually the first five minutes, but I have today, & have to come to the conclusion that the Vic journos there are the most obnoxious types I've heard.
Seems they aren't seeking information, just looking for gotchas
So many mean spirited people in this nation.
Now we have a faeces of trolls bagging the Welcome to Country.
How could anyone find that offensive?
We are all living on stolen land.
It was never ceded, it was taken, and yet, Indigenous people still generously welcome us to it.
So that genius “business lobby” that blew smoke up
@GladysB
’s arse, telling her how great she was & influenced her to not lockdown early, where are they now? Are they there helping all those small businesses going to the wall?
Nowhere to be seen.
Ben Chifley's phone number was one digit different to the butcher shop in Manuka. Occasionally, a customer would call in error wanting to leave an order. Chifley would take the order, then he would phone the butcher himself and say ‘It’s happened again’ and repeat the order. 😀
Has it finally dawned on all those fawning sycophants in our media, who genuflect in the presence of Morrison, that he is an incompetent buffoon?
If you're not sure of who is in that group; it will include any in the press who has called him Scomo - that's a dead give-away.
You have to shake your head in absolute disbelief that the Liberal Party celebrates 25 years for Abbott. What exactly has this buffoon delivered for the benefit of this nation? Good riddance to very bad rubbish.
As you watch all the shit that is going to rain down in the US today about voter fraud, voter suppression, rigged elections etc, thank your lucky stars that we have the
@AusElectoralCom
in Australia. Beyond reproach with impeccable integrity...and a bloody funny Twitter scribe.
People wonder how could the German people have been so foolish in supporting that lunatic Hitler & his crazy ideology?
Well, 72 million Americans voted for this very stupid man. This sexual assault committing man, this pathological lying man, this recklessly incompetent man. 🙄
Always remember Paul Keating made this speech shortly before he was expected to get hammered in the 1993 election, yet rather than shrink from his duty as a leader - to save some 'electoral furniture' - he struck out boldly & made the Redfern Speech. That's true leadership.
On Dec 10 1992, ex-Prime Minister Paul Keating delivered the landmark Redfern Speech. Today on Jan26 Uncle Jack Charles invites us to reflect where we are as a society living in Australia.
#AlwaysWillBe
Ok, media: the much bandied about 70% refers to 70% of the population 16 years and over. It does not include those under 16. It is a con job. True figure is closer to 50% of whole population.
Doesn’t sound so flash now, does it?
If politicians want to out themselves as men & women of 'faith', then journalists & other citizens are perfectly entitled to call them out when their behaviour shows them to be hypocrites to the teachings of that faith. It's not off limits, it's mandatory to expose the sham.
A request to all the climate denialists:
If after all you've just seen, you still don't "believe" in climate change, then fine, just get out of the way and stop hindering the efforts of those who can see the reality and are taking steps to address it. In other words, fuck off!
I am saddened that my great Twitter colleague
@phbarratt
was not around to see the back of Morrison & the rise of the Greens and Teals. He would have loved it. 😢
It is my sincerest wish that Yes swamps No in The Voice referendum.
The forces of lies and deceit should never win, yet, sadly they often do…and invariably at great cost.
Nevertheless, for what it’s worth, I have posted my Yes vote and am in the fight to see it prevail.
#yes23
Then get off the bus and tell
@ScottMorrisonMP
where to stick it. Can you imagine Alan Ramsey, Kerry O’Brien or
@LaurieOakes
putting up with this crap? And you still posted his photos? 😒
PM stopped to get a coffee this morning between events and decided to spend some time walking the street and posting to Instagram, while the journos on his campaign were left waiting on the bus with no information
#AUSVotes2019
#auspol
We were lucky to have these two at the helm for so many years. It was a golden age & never to be repeated. At the time I knew it was special, however, it's only after seeing the drudgery of Howard, the Rudd-Gillard butchery & this current dopey outfit, do I realise how special.
I didn’t think the ABC could act more cravenly than when it unceremoniously & inexplicably dumped
@PaulBongiorno
from
@RNBreakfast
.
However, its “counselling” of the most respected journalist in the nation,
@latingle
, brings its cowardly behaviour to a new low.
An utter disgrace.
I do wonder what goes in the minds of those who write news bulletins:
So "the ALP had to go to preferences" to win Eden-Monaro.
I think I'll just leave that there...😳
The ABC doesn't 'claim' that it is the most trusted news source; it's a fact that the ABC is the most trusted news source, as research shows consistently.
The ABC, that claims it is the most trusted news organisation, didn't even know the leadership coup was a real story the Sunday before last, as was evident on Insiders. Now it boasts about the ratings from the spill.
More fires breaking out threatening lives & property. It’s obvious that the nation is under attack in a manner akin to being invaded in war. A competent Gov would place the nation on a war footing: dealing with the immediate threat & planning for future threats...a competent Gov.
Great to see Bill Hayden there. Much undervalued (by history) as to his important role in rebuilding ALP after 1977. Hawke took over a crack team thanks to Hayden - something we all still benefit from.
The number of times I've heard on
@RNBreakfast
over the years "News Ltd papers are reporting..." & then spent the interview harassing the ALP leader about the crap News Ltd made up.
Just once I would've loved to have heard the reply "who gives a fuck what they've reported?"
THIS from Chris Warren:
"Treating News Corp seriously is hurting the fact-based news media, particularly the ABC. It pays the price in its own credibility every time it provides space to the News tabloids and The Australian as legitimate media voices."
Bill Hayden did many great things, Medibank one of the best.
However, in my view, his support for Gay Rights way back in the 1960s, from the perspective of an ex-copper in Queensland of all places, marks out his greatness.
Vale.
Exactly.
I've seen many women out at night whose appearance is simply stunning - never once did I think "she's asking for it."
I've seen many women out at night who were clearly very drunk - never once did I think "she's asking for it."
It is not the women at fault.
It is the men
Once more for those at the back, women are not responsible for men's behaviour. Men are. If a man behaves badly, it is his issue, not hers. Most men get this, tragically too many of our leaders appear not to and this is both weird, scary and ultimately, self-defeating.
And it’s not even spring.
Look at these idiots rejoicing at the repeal of the carbon price, the most effective measure we had to reduce emissions.
What will they say to their children?
As of 6pm, there are 70 fires burning across the state, with 14 not yet contained. Over 750 firefighters and IMT members have been working to contain these fires. Tomorrow, a TOBAN will be in place for the Greater Sydney Region, Greater Hunter & Upper Central West Plains areas.
MUST-WATCH: This moving speech by Senator Raphael Warnock at the Harris campaign rally in Altanta, Georgia, will be remembered and watched for generations to come. Just wow.
I find it odd that many of those who claim to be followers of Jesus of Nazareth use the term "left-wing" in a derogatory sense. You do realise that Jesus was probably the original socialist?
Been following federal politics in Australia for over fifty years.
This is, without any question, the worst group of journalists.
Just abysmal.
The last election campaign & its gotcha bullshit was just the tip of the iceberg…and they’re so smug about how “well” they’ve done.
I always thought Billy McMahon was our worst PM, but Morrison makes him look like Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Churchill & Curtin all rolled into one.
He is, without any question, the worst PM, not only in our time, but for all time.
The jury heard ALL the evidence, observed ALL the testimony AND unanimously found Pell guilty. Even though we exist in the post-fact Trump world, facts DO matter. You can't distort jury findings like the
@australian
likes to distort Newspoll results.
Paul Kelly in
@australian
argues George Pell’s conviction must be a miscarriage of justice because of media demonising of him in broader context of Catholic Church’s “unforgivable” failures. He shares Fr Brennan’s “improbabilities” judgment of victim’s singular evidence.
One of the loveliest, touching moments in the Parliament.
@JuliaGillard
appreciating the clearly genuine & heartfelt consoling that
@TurnbullMalcolm
provided to her on the passing of her father. I suspect having lost his dad at a young age would've affected him profoundly.
Take note Israel Folau. Alan Turing was Gay. He broke the Germans' Enigma code in WW2 which, it is believed, shortened the war by 2 years & saved millions of lives. He was later convicted of 'indecent behaviour', put on a course of chemical castration & then...committed suicide.
The impotence of our media (for the most part) is illustrated clearly in the qualification that the "PM deserves a break".
The nation is facing a crisis and the PM is missing in action.
That's all you need to know.
You are like a punch drunk boxer. You know nothing else but how to brawl & are constantly thinking you are hearing a bell ringing & come out throwing punches...at the air. Go away. Go away. Go away.
Emissions targets that made sense three years ago when all countries were supposed to be in Paris and we didn’t need policy change and wouldn’t face economic dislocation do not make sense now.
@TurnbullMalcolm
take note.
I’ve seen some vacuous opposition treasury spokespeople in my time. Alexander Downer, the worst.
But Angus Taylor runs a very close second.
Vacuous. Irrelevant. Embarrassing.
Re the
#palaceletters
: There was NO crisis of the Constitution, the crisis was inside the Coalition in 1972 when the Whitlam Gov was elected. The born to rule mob NEVER accepted the legitimacy of the ALP victory in 1972 or 1974 & manufactured the 1975 crisis.
Shame, Fraser, Shame
Where the hell is Morrison? He's not a leader's arsehole. The east coast of the nation is in crisis & what's he doing? Fuck all!
His big 'wins' this week: beating up on 'boat people' & gutting the public service.
How useless is he? Where's the address to the nation?
What a bum!
I recall how the Junie Morosi "scandal" obsessed the Australian press. I witnessed how she was hounded, tormented & humiliated.
Fifty years later, I figured I'd never see such gutter journalism against a woman.
I was wrong.
Australia: Chauvinist one day, Misogynist the next.
Why don't the other journos at these press conferences back up
@murpharoo
when she presses
@ScottMorrisonMP
& exposes his bullshit? Keep pressing him until he answers...and if he doesn't let him walk off.
Katharine Murphy: "What Mr Abbott is saying is not true… Prime minister, it's not a nuance. It's actually a fact."
This is the exchange between
@murpharoo
and Scott Morrison. The PM repeatedly refused to state what the law says.
#MedevacBill
#MedivacBill
#auspol
For the benefit of dopey RWNJs: There were mistakes made in VIC during the original hotel quarantine. A minister & public servants have paid the 'price'.
Perhaps
@DanielAndrewsMP
might, too.
However, the 14 days straight of ZERO infections is a direct result of his leadership.