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As Peter van Onselen observed this morning on Twitter every Canberra government scandal from robodebt to aged care has had Morrison as the relevant minister at the time. And this is why we never hear any action is being taken because it's always leading back to the PM
#thedrum
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Am I the only Australian on the planet with zero interest in football? Closing down the game hasn't affected me one iota
#qanda
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Riddle me this: Brittany Highins has been hounded out of the country for alleging rape; an unnamed businessman found guilty of gross paedophile activity has his name suppressed for 20years
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Finally I've seen the number - the Liberal Party received 23.9% of first preference votes in the 2022 election. They are very much a minority party.
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There's a quartet I'd like to see running the country.
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Morrison is now officially wedged. Can't consult Jenn. Can't come to the door. Can't meet the women. Can't leave the building. Can't hold an Inquiry. And can't go to Hawaii.
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Wow. The Attorney General is intelligent, forthcoming, articulate, legally informed, not obfuscating or patronising ... a VERY long time since we had an AG who behaves like a First Law Officer
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Why not give Monique Ryan her name rather than call her "the teal independent" hoping to unseat Josh Frydenberg?
#thedrum
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Does anyone else suspect Matt Canavan is too dumb to know how dumb he is?
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Penny Wong will address the UN tomorrow. Thank god it's not Marise Payne ...
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Kristina Kenneally loves sticking it to Peter Dutton every chance she gets. And I approve!
#abc730
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When Margaret Thatcher died there was dancing in the streets and people sang 'Ding dong the witch is dead'. If Morrison gets the boot what are we all going to do to celebrate?
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So if a President can be convicted and jailed, what of an Australian Prime Minister who's misused public money?
#thedrum
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David Speers: Where does that leave Scott Morrison?
Laura Tingle: That he lies about things
#insiders
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Ha ha, someone on Facebook labelled this photo "Murdoch readers"
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Lisa Wilkinson is giving a master class in sexual politics and media manipulation... using the witness box in a truly expert way
#Lehrmann
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A Hot mic at the end of press conference held at the Queensland Parliament has picked up Journalists discussing the fact there were receiving texts from the Prime Ministers Officer giving instructions and talking points to ask the Queensland Premier and the Chief Health Officer
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Morrison has done a quick re-brand of the Howard Springs quarantine facility outside Darwin. It's now the "Centre for National Resilience". Even Orwell would have gasped!
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Angus Taylor: "the King’s School Parramatta, St Andrews College, Sydney University, then Oxford...won the university medal at Sydney University in economics, a Rhodes scholarship took him to Oxford, where he studied a masters in economics" Then why is he so DIM?
#insiders
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Wasn't there a Royal Commission over who paid for Julia Gillard's kitchen cupboards
#PorterMustGo
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Is there a single minister in this pathetic excuse for a government who isn't a lying thief?
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Funny how Julia Gillard had a whole Royal Commission baying after her blood for 'corruption' though nothing was found; and its proceedings were plastered all over The Australian day after day. And yet not even the merest glimpse of a RC/Australian vendetta over Angus Taylor....
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#4Corners
... remember this hand signal of Jenny Morrison's... I didn't think it was for real at first... now I'm wondering... QAnon?
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Frydenberg says Australia doesn't respond to threats and coercion from foreign sources. Yes we do. Everyone's terrified of Rupert Murdoch.
#thedrum
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Magistrate Pat O'shane said ages ago that it was time to decriminalise swearing at police, that she was sick of indigenous people coming to her court because they'd said fuck to a cop
#thedrum
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Savva: "If the election becomes a referendum on Morrison, he will lose. If it’s about character, trust or integrity, he will lose"
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If Morrison loses 4 Corners should do a 2 part special on him; giv eus the full details of his sackings, his screwing over of Towke, his illegal interferences in apportioning grants etc etc etc. He's a HUGE story that those of us on Twitter half know, and others don't know at all
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Could we have Liza Wilkinson to replace Ita Buttrose at the ABC... LW seems far more intelligent and forthright and knows her journalistic stuff!
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Isn't Morrison astonishing... a globally declared liar and dud, and yet he just goes on brazening it out. Shamelessly. What kind of man is he?
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#HardChat
Tim Wilson says he has to fund the ABC whether he wants to or not. I say that I have to fund Tim Wilson whether I want to or not. And I know where I get the better value. It's not Wilson.
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These guys are discussing Morrison's so-called 4 stage plan as if it's real. He won't even remember he said it by next week
#Insiders
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Who is Morrison going to blame when he loses the election?
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Could the new Minister Karen Andrews finally let the Tamil family go home to Biloela?
#thedrum
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Has Vincent Namatjira thought of painting Linda Reynolds' portrait yet?
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Christian Porter's defamation suit seems to accuse Louise Milligan of saying things she didn't actually say. The whole thing feels like it's bordering on abuse of process, in order to silence public discourse.
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There are SO many Daddy's girls in the NewsCorp stable... Sharri Markson, Miranda Devine,
Erin Molan, Parnell McGuinness... who else?
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"From the time Angus Taylor entered parliament in September 2013, companies & organisations the Taylor family have managed, directed or are directly associated with have benefited from over $93,515,673 in federal & state government funds."
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PVO seems to be pretending that Twitter is the problem for
#ChristianPorter
er..no...the problem is his background behaviour which led to speculation about him on Twitter
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Mary Trump: “In less than two weeks, he won’t have the Oval Office to protect him from lawsuits, bankruptcies and criminal indictments. I don’t know what he’s going to do, but we need to understand he’s capable of doing anything. And the clock is ticking.”
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Last night I was out with friends who are not on Twitter & rely only on MSM. They knew almost nothing about the Barnaby episode and had never heard Linda Hurley sing! What a narrow uninteresting world they're confined to!
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Annastacia is tough and knows what's right... and she answers to us, not to the failing government of another state
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"Paris accuses Canberra of lies and duplicity" - welcome to our world Paris
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One photo changed everything for Annabelle Crabbe...sitting in the back seat of a limo with Peta Credlin her guilty face caught in the camera flash
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VirginiaTrioli "Just 12 months before Grace Tame accepted her Australia Day award for giving voice to survivors of sexual abuse, the cttee gave an honour to Bettina Arndt who sympathetically interviewed Tame's convicted abuser portraying him as the victim of female manipulation."
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Daniel Andrews seems like a really nice guy, with a good heart. Nasty listening to all the RW commentators going after him for nothing and interesting they never comment on the lamentable lack of good leadership in their own party.
#abc730
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Why are Murdoch governments always peopled by men of such low character - spivs, chancers, wide-boys, chisellers, white-shoers, conmen, swindlers, charlatans, fraudsters, tricksters, bilkers and sharks. Have I missed anyone?
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Tracey Grimshaw ripping into the Morrison vaccine bullshit. Very satisfying.
#acurrentaffair
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According to Laura Tingle's most recent graph Queensland is VERY behind in vaccine supply. It's all very well talking as if we're all in the same position as New South Wales in terms of vaccine supply but we're not
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I really don't understand why journalists have turned the Canberra rally into a get-Albo show. Frankly they've made something serious and awful into something trival. Australia's politico/media complex is stupid.
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Annastacia Palaszczuk has the opposite governing style from Scott Morrison. She doesn't seek the limelight. She listens and responds to questions. She's concerned about the safety of her State's citizens and puts us first. She's approachable and speaks warmly.
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KK's address to the National Press Club is not on iview. Too much scary stuff about the govt's rorts. But it's here:
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Mark Dreyfus attempted to bring some sanity and intelligence into our political discourse for a day. And now the whole clickbait RW army is baying for his blood. We're living in a very stupid society and in the thrall of a troupe of very stupid journalists.
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"Morrison’s inner circle is now convinced the Commonwealth government is a victim of hostile Labor premiers intent on shredding its credibility ahead of the upcoming federal election. 1/2
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The Morrison govt didn't get us through the Covid crisis. Its money splashing was erratic and unfair.
The states did most of the heavy lifting.
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FFS now Channel 7 is running an anti-Anastasia anti-Dr Young brigade. Why is it Queensland all the time and not any other state? I haven't been able to see my family all year because they're in South Australia. I'm not whining. I'm fed up with all this RW nastiness.
#covid19
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Would we expect Michaelia Cash as A-G to make some sort of statement about the Porter situation?
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I don't understand this curious horror of Labor doing deals with the Greens to retain power. Gillard had such a deal and she ran one of the most productive governments in Australia's history.
#QLDvotes
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Funny how all these really awful incriminating text messages of Lehrmann's haven't made it into The Australian by way of an Albrechtson column...
#Lehrmann
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Queensland is struggling to get people vaccinated... in the meantime Clive Palmer has his huge yellow billboards along the motorway saying things like vaccination doesn't stop you getting Covid so don't bother.
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Didn't we give the Great Barrier Reef Authority something like half a billion dollars - what's happening with that?
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Look at that. Leaders all over the world condemning Trump for the events of 6th of January, everyone except Morrison
#abc730
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Just watched a bit of
#theprojectTV
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Tremendously good commentary by Geoffrey Watson SC this morning on
#RNBreakfast
on Mr Sofronoff's actions in leaking the Report to the media, the misuse and distortion of info in The Australian, the unfairness accorded to Mr Drumgold. A must listen!
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FFS Barnaby Joyce as Nats leader again. Don't they have ANYONE better?
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Niki Savva; "Neither of these 2 men, Mundine and Constance, represent the future of the Liberal Party"
#insiders
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More and more Tweets and Facebook posts about 'Albo'. He's not doing something they want. He's doing something they hate. Albo-hate is being engineered by LNP strategists because they're stuck with trying to sell the dud Dutton. Hating on Albo is all they've got.
#austpol2024
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The Murdoch gong is clearly an up-you to Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull isn't it?
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Waiting for the cabinet minister to out himself and then sue the ABC
#abc730
for allowing Julia Banks to discuss something he did publicly while not mentioning him by name
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Pity about Bridget McKenzie being on
#qanda
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Aussies are known to have excellent bullshit detection. We clocked Morrison's phony Sunday night curries & the vacuous non-answers to important questions of governance very early on. Surely Dutton's BS is registering even higher on our collective geiger counter?
#auspol
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Is there a connection between Morrison's rejection of the Wagner family's quarantine proposal next to their international airport just outside Toowoomba, and the same family having won a big defamation payout from Alan Jones?
#auspol
#Quarantine
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Only a few more days of the riveting
#Lehrmann
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What an incredible insight into Canberra/APH/LNP govt political machinery this has proven to be. In its own way as valuable as the
#RoboDebtRC
Unmistakable Connecting tissue between them: Scott Morrison
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Every night on the news there's one long whinge after another about lockdowns affecting businesses... what do people think their business will be like if the virus runs rampant, infecting their premises and staff, and their clientele...
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Tim Wilson describes himself as 'forward looking' in his Twitter profile. Only if you're in 1850.
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Tim Wilson has gone a very long way on very little ability... was IPA membership his ONLY recommendation for 'high office'? Remember when he was a regular on ABC panels/talk shows in spite of recommending the ABC be shut down. Twitter got him off there thank God.
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Having just watched Bruce Lehrmann self-immolate, and Gina Rinehart Streisand herself... doesn't Linda Reynolds get the picture yet? She's on a hiding to nothing with this public effort to resuscitate her reputation.
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Yet another breathless interview with Matt Canavan on RNBreakfast. Why is Canavan considered worth interviewing? He gets a disproportionate amount of attention from journalists considering his extremely lightweight and self-serving opinions
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If Brittany gets landed with Reynolds' costs we can goFund them for her
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The Libs must be regretting going after Emma Alberici with such ferocity... Laura Tingle is now much more of a danger to them and these days they can't afford to look like they're attacking women.
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Alexander Downer's legacy of cheating the East Timorese is being discussed on
#mediawatch
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Tim Wilson lied about franking credits, Bill Shorten did not lie about Medicare. And yet the populace voted against its own interests and the LNP got another undeserved term.
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Do we all remember that glorious moment when the drunken top hatted Kerr lurched onto Flemington to be greeted by million decibel booos? Oh how I hope such a moment is awaiting Morrison very very soon...
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Why does Madonna King keep referring to the Qld Premier as the Labor Premier... is the party in government relevant to Covid management processes?
#thedrum
This is what's called politicisation of a health matter.
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I don't know about anyone else but I had a horrible Christmas Day, being yelled at and abused by a family member. Standing up for myself incurs more rage and abuse. It's a recurring pattern. as family violence always is.
What is the answer?
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I just don't believe Labor lost the last election over climate change issues. Murdoch/Sky got Morrison over the line on other pretexts
#thedrum
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OMG Canavan and Christenson are promoting a bill which will make resuscitation of aborted foetuses mandatory in hospitals. Imagine the psychological & physiological issues for any of those children should they manage to be revived
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Morrison still trying to bully Anastasia but here in Queensland we're quite happy with our border being closed. And so are many other states apparently. The Queensland election is looming. We get it. But everyone's a bit sick of all the harassing of Queensland
#thedrum
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Even Barnaby Joyce knows it's not a good look to beat up on a girl. The
#KirribilliHillbillies
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But this paranoia is merely blinding them to the reality of their own failures, more often than not born of incompetence. 2/2
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@JaneWardenGray
Yuk a man did that to me in an otherwise empty train carriage, then proceeded to masturbate
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A cafe owner in Sydney on forthcoming un-lockdown..."we're sitting here and rolling the dice whenever someone comes in, hoping they're not infected"... this is what Qld, WA, SA, Tas have cleverly avoided, or sensibly avoided I should say
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"Julia Gillard was called a liar for years, for much less, and yet everyone seems to be edging around that word in Taylor’s case."
But Julia wasn't a bloke. Men are permitted to lie, encouraged to lie, admired for lying brazenly. Trump. Johnson. Morrison
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