Bernard Zuel
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Music writer/critic; lecturer Sydney University; “cloth-eared poltroon” at SMH/Guardian/Rhythms/bernardzuel.net; media trainer; brown type. Seeking the joy.
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“In search of love and music, my whole life has been illumination, corruption, and diving, diving, diving. Diving down to pick up on every shiny thing.”
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What's that? Scott Morrison leaks against you when you disagree with him publicly? Tell us more ...
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When is the first flight to Biloela? Asking for quite a few million Australians.
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Reading Katharine Murphy, Julia Baird, Laura Tingle, Samantha Maiden & Jacqueline Maley is a reminder every week that the likes of Chris Uhlmann, Phil Coorey, Paul Kelly et al are not just yesterday's men but today's embarrassment.
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I don't think this SMH editor quite gets the gist of Thelma & Louise.
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When a prominent man is charged with child sex offences would it be relevant to know he was a Christian youth group leader, at a well known Hillsong-lite church & in people’s homes, & that this info has disappeared from his Wikipedia page? As has his Christian high school.
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A morning where it's good to be reminded that Laura Tingle is one of a handful of actual grownups in the Canberra gallery.
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It does sound like Michaelia Cash and Linda Reynolds acquitted themselves in court with exactly the finesse, knowledge and humanity they showed in their ministerial careers.
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Daughter watching Fierravanti-Wells on Morrison: “I’m getting the impression she’s met him.”
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People said Alexander Downer was an intellectual lightweight, establishment tool, a shockingly poor party leader, & classic nepo baby. Which was unfair. They left out fascist apologist.
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I don’t want them identified but you gotta know that if the “Avalon couple”, like the Aspen crew earlier this year, had been from the outer suburbs and/or brown their names would have been leaked to News already & they’d be being pilloried on 2GB, 7 & Fox.
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Pell, Heydon, Hollingsworth, Jones - Tony Abbott’s not really a great judge of character is he?
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Reading Katharine Murphy and Laura Tingle after forcing yourself to ingest Chris Uhlmann is a useful reminder that there is no comparison between excellent, thorough, balanced journalists & a moralising egoist with a destructive agenda.
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Tame: groomed & raped by teacher. Fought for right to speak.
Arndt: poor adult man got snared by wily girl.
Stoker: yeah whatever, fake rape crisis, Arndt rocks.
Morrison: AO for Arndt & Stoker's my champion for women.
Tame: Um, hold on.
Morrison: we need better ways to disagree,
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2022 starting with pages full of Desmond Tutu, who opened his soul & expanded his country; and John Howard, who shrivelled his soul & diminished his country.
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Define White privilege? Getting this far into the centre of legislative democracy in the US without being beaten, tear gassed or shot.
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Netball Australia should say thank you, again, continually, to the national team. Some stains you wouldn't be able to wash away.
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Watching
#TheFinalQuarterFilm
at times is like watching a Trump rally: a reminder rhat yes we are like that, yes the racism is bone-deep, yes Bolt, Devine, Newman, Jones are despicable AND representative. And yes, Adam Goodes is ten times the human they’ll ever be.
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Maybe journalists such as those on Insiders can stop referring to Morrison as ScoMo but use either his name or position. You are NOT his mate or his Twitter buddy. Indeed you are NOT insiders, but reporters & observers.
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Dear Australia, I voted for a bigoted & cruel party refusing to accept a climate change imperative & trading on my fear of change, but please don't see me as bigoted, cruel, fearful & unwilling to act because there's been good Liberals before. So that's ok
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Space Karen's daughter isn't here to do anything with spiders
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Is the rest of the media embarrassed by its efforts in comparison with the work
@SquigglyRick
has/still is doing on Robodebt & the RC, or is professional pride & shame so five minutes ago?
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FFS, Gladys Berejiklian saying if it’s proved fans racially abused Indian players, “it’s un-Australian”. Mate, it is very Australian. You could even say quintessentially Australian.
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha pause. read again. yep hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha stop it, you're killing me Linda hahahahahahahahahahaha
Reynolds v Higgins case: Reynolds said she chose Janet Albrechtsen to leak to because she had “respect for her professionalism and her even-handedness”.
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As the political eulogies arrive & the "respected on both sides of the aisle" follow, let's remember children overboard and the waterfront. Yes actually, now is the time to mention it.
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Post-Wilkinson et al, 1st step: every other media to type News &/or Sky instead of "sections of the media". 2nd step: stop treating them as respectable equals by not inviting them onto shows/network/quoting them. 3rd, stop pretending social media is the problem when it's News.
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I presume a reporter calling the boyfriend of a woman who's been assaulted, then faced years of public abuse, the puppetmaster (after all he is the man; she a mere girl) would be hugely offended if someone suggested said reporter was acting on orders of male editors/puppetmasters
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How are hospitals faring? A nursing unit mngr said this: "My friends at RPA say that things are pretty dire there. 5 full covid wards, one of the 3 ICUs full of covid and spilling over to a 2nd ICU. I’m pretty sure that would be the case at Liverpool too and some of the others."
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While acknowledging the Coalition MPs finally - finally! - speaking up about Tharunicaa, Nades, Priya & Kopi in an act of defiance, let's not forget their 4 years of acts of cowardice saying nothing or mouthing Dutton/Morrison/Andrews lines. They're not heroes.
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Australians pondering how frightened, fragile white identity is at the core of so many American legal/political traumas need remember that post-Tampa that has been the case in Australia too. Howard, Ruddock, Morrison, Dutton, Hanson et al have built or sustained careers on it.
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We have the most religious federal cabinet in some time, with avowed proselytisers in many senior roles, from churches/branches/sects who either preach or suggest male "headship". Are we surprised they tend to misogyny? Do we really think they will change an anti-women culture?
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What awful luck to be in 3 marked vehicles on a known, declared route & 1 car's hit accidentally. You move to a 2nd vehicle that's accidentally hit too, forcing survivors to move to the 3rd where - who'd foresee such wretched chance? - you're accidentally hit once more. Oops!
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A day of comment on & perfectly reasonable criticism of P. Goward. But we mustn't forget that that column was commissioned, approved & published by a series of editors. Who thought it ok. Maybe even good & right. That stuff doesn't get in the paper accidentally or without intent.
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weird weird world where a show like The Drum, aiming for & regularly having depth and some wit, is axed, but a show like Q&A, always aiming for and consistently hitting loud and dumb, is retained
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PM who lied about children overboard, coddled racists, evicted party moderates & undermined a modern Australia thinks PM who secretly accumulated ministries, habitually lied, sidelined remaining moderates & failed a modern Australia should stay in parliament. I'm shocked!
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Ferries that can’t run in direct sun, others that can’t take waves, ones too high for overhead bridges, trains which can’t use some tunnels, light rail with cracks. Andrew Constance, what a sterling legacy there my good man.
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Smoke? You whiners. Breathing? Wimps. Be bloody grateful we saved franking credits, negative gearing, the right to be a bigot & the wonders of prosperity gospel. We've never had it so good!
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It's a tough battle given Rowan Dean, Sam Newman, Rita Panahi & Bronwyn Bishop do sterling work, but Chris Uhlmann must be the most consistent provider of bad & wrong takes in Australian media. On almost any topic. That's some achievement. Respect.
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Bullshit. It's your business model. You don't host Dean & Cameron, Bolt & Murray - & recently Latham - you don't book this Nazi on, without knowing exactly what cesspit you have created & what slime infest it. Don't blame the producers; blame the culture, the owner & the CEO.
A statement from Angelos Frangopoulos, CEO Australian News Channel, regarding the Sunday night broadcast of The Adam Giles Show.
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If you use the likes of Deliveroo, Foodora or Uber, please don't express shock or unhappiness when you find riders & drivers are underpaid/exploited or claim you have a social conscience. Did you think those prices for your convenience were an economic miracle where everyone won?
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Man who mocked & denied the possibility people ostensibly under his care could have been traumatised by indefinite detention, brutal treatment, attempted deportation of children etc seeks sympathy for what he calls PTSD from his policing career.
Guess that is muscular politics.
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Somewhere in a corner, Bettina Arndt's shrivelled soul explodes.
By day Sonia Ivan stacks shelves at
@woolworths
- to free herself up to be volunteer
@NSWRFS
captain at North Rothbury. “It came through like a steam train,” she says of yesterday’s blaze. “Fire crowning 35-40 metres high.”
@10NewsFirst
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Daily Telegraph lose money, but they've taken down with them a young woman who didn't want to be part of it, whose reputation undeservedly is muddied & who was left stranded by a lot of her industry+ scared away others who might speak up 1 day. That deserves way more opprobrium.
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Phew, I had been worried. Needlessly it turns out. It’s all cool, Gerard knows best. Better than scientists, fire chiefs, statisticians ... anyone, really. Bushfires are a leftist plot. Thank god for The Australian bringing light to the gloom.
#dangerousidiots
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It is very very funny watching some of the biggest movers in loading Liberal branches in north west sydney with battalions of pliant, stackable Christians attacking Labor for, um, stacking branches.
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Ok let me understand Angus Taylor's position. The figures were accurate, then not. From the council website, then not. Originating from outside his office, then not. Definitely not faked with the approval of him or his staff, then ...
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Sydney medical centre announces on its FB they have RATs, $15 each, & a 30+ queue quickly forms. Then they announce they’re only selling them in $300 bundles of 20. Is this The Wire? Make your customers your sub-dealers? Morrison’s world eh. Guess that’s personal responsibility.
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How petty is Shane Warne? Can’t even give Starc a half credit for a first ball dismissal.
#Ashes2021
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What's in this week's playlist? I'm glad you asked.
@wizkidayo
+
@HERMusicx
,
@annacalvi
& The Coral, Grace Turner & Split Enz,
@londongrammar
& Empire, The Go-Gos &
@thelemontwigs
, The Dugites &
@MattCorby
, James Morrison+Jeff Clayton, Stephen Cummings.
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Can someone translate “Big Swinging Dicks Club” into all OECD languages? Asking for a friend.
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The best soul/R&B/anything you like singer Australia's produced, and more life and character in her than a century of compliant talent show graduates. Gonna miss the great Renee Geyer.
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Hard to be surprised by utter ignorance of one who
(a) works for 7
(b) hosts Sunrise
(c) once congratulated a twin for being whiter than her sibling
(d) paired with Pru McSween for offensive Indigenous panel even toothless ACMA criticised.
But Armytage does it. Congrats I guess.
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A media ethics question: if you run a story debunking the dangerous claims of a drug pushed by a shonky politician 13 pages after running a 3-page ad by a shonky businessman pushing that same drug & his acquisition of it, are you being balanced?
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Another noble act: Elaine Chao, having made a mint for her family company, herself & husband Mitch McConnell, while they each shielded Trump for 4 years, resigns a few days before she leaves the job anyway, saying she was "troubled". What strength of character! What courage!
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Two years of virtually no gigs,
@Enmore_Theatre
dark for the bulk of it, gigs return, the show is sold out … then the floor collapses. This venue, this industry, just can’t take a trick.
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In a Toowoomba court case a woman's alleged rapist is named. He is known; she has new enemies.
In a Perth office block, a man named Kerry speaks: "unleash hell".
In a Melbourne newspaper office, an editor speaks: "Call Mark Knight."
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This thread is beyond batshit crazy incoherence. Beyond elder abuse. And stupidly funny. And yet not one reporter has the guts to say “nothing you have said makes sense”.
I'm going to put together a thread covering Trump's press conference in Bedminster, which apparently will feature props. Follow along for clips and commentary.
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Yes, you can position yourself as "not as bad as James Campbell" or "not as craven as Simon Benson", or even "not as embarrassing as Vicki Campion", but you're still a News political journalist/commentator.
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Simon Birmingham maintaining his career-long position of being nearly principled, nearly honourable, nearly good.
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Brendan Nelson, who bombed spectacularly as party leader, turned the war memorial into a moneyguzzling, historically blind potential theme park beholden to arms manufacturers & khaki-loving media boss, & backed to the hilt a war criminal, has impressive judgement it must be said
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We're all agog at the self-immolation on the witness stand, but the other abject disaster here is what was left of the reputation of Federal Police & its ACT wing. They were already a pathetic force, a tool/protector of political masters rather than investigators but still ...
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After what'll be 25yrs+36 days (but who's counting!) I'll finish at SMH/Age June 30. It's been the best time, best job, best people. Onwards
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Gallery journos to criticism from the public: you simple folk don’t understand journalism.
Gallery hacks to criticism from other journos: you lightweights don’t understand politics.
Gallery hacks to criticism from ex gallery journos: you old farts don’t understand modern media.
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You don’t do as much & get as far as Michael Gudinski did without big mistakes & great enemies, but you don’t make a a mark & leave a legacy as huge as his without greatness - of vision, adventure & passion. A genuine giant of Australian culture.
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As much as as the gold Logie winner this year tells us so much about how far this country has to go, the fact it was presented, without irony, to her by Daryl Somers tells us just as much about how far it had sunk before this.
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It is funny seeing even a Fox News mannequin looking at Miranda Devine with a "really? you're saying this part out loud?" expression. When a station devoted to batshit crazy wonders if you're not a little, um, out there.
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Ben Fordham is proof that flushing Jones was never going to be enough to remove the stink from 2GB. It is a deep moral stench.
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After ABC management removed the ban on using insurrection to describe the attack on the Capitol, it was bizarre to hear Greg Jennett say Trump “quibbled & quarrelled” with the election result for 2 months. Quibbled? Quarrelled?? That’s some serious mealymouthed work.
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Reporters must do more than he said/she said. When the PM says there was no slavery in Australia, running an Indigenous MP saying “of course there was”, with you adding history is contentious is not enough. Maybe quote a historian on blackbirding, stolen wages etc. Do some work.
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Anything more tiresome than media types who are constantly on Twitter whining that Twitter is filled with mean spirits, abuse etc? Plenty of people are shits, yes. God knows we knew that. Plenty aren't. Block, mute, argue against, ignore, leave. Whatever choice, just stop whining
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The test is not if Abbott made up a SSM angle - he did - but which media reporting it now clearly state he made it up & manipulated them.
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Which columnist at The Australian or attack dog on Sky after dark will be the first (maybe it's already happened) to question Michael Lee's qualifications, qualities etc? You don't disobey the Family without consequences.
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Telling fellow believers that when they see you doing regular human (secular) things like comforting others you are actually doing some god fondling is virtue signalling & virtual assault at the same time. Impressive I guess, if you have no actual soul.
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The Catholic Church may be one of the most destructive forces unleashed on our societies. Generation after generation after generation. How they still get to speak with any claim of moral authority (or represent us in parlt in such numbers) is staggering,
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Chris Uhlmann is a bit needy isn't he? Will someone tell him they love him please so he won't get so stroppy about people disagreeing with him outside his church/office bubble.
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Your week needs a playlist with
@BudjerahS
, Blue Oyster Cult, new
@IggyPop
&
@BlackSabbath
+RJD,
@Youngfathers
, Velvet Underground,
@wizkidayo
& Pylon,
@RonSexsmith
, Echo & The Bunnymen,
@fleetwoodmac
& Bodega, Suburban Lawns,
@sleafordmods
& Female Species
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It's her little touches that always impress. The micro-sleep bits here are perfect.
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Interesting that in 3 bulletins, including the 7am 10 minute one, ABC radio news made no mention of a newspaper’s serious allegations of repeated assaults by Australia’s most prominent media figure but found time to report on who a long-irrelevant magazine named person of the yr.
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Dominic Perrottet in summary.
Cool with school saying HPV vaccine encourages promiscuity
Cool with gay conversion.
Cool with brothers refusing to appear before parliamentary enquiry.
Cool with MP keeping job after alleged revenge porn posting.
Cool cool cool cool.
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Journalists who circled wagons after online abuse last week on grounds of rights/ethics of our craft can't keep looking away when inviting Oz journos&editors on their shows/quote them as informed/give them time & respect. They accept & tolerate that standard daily & now so do you
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We discover historically male-driven culture at a male-dominated firm in a male-dominated field made right noises about inclusion, change, reflection, but when pressed to apply even a small amount of that ... reverts to historically male-driven behaviour. Wish it were a surprise.
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So, yes, this IS who we are. Scared, ignorant and bigoted
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I see Joe "Eleventy" Hockey has an oped supposedly offering an informed take on a new president. He does realise we were there when he praised Trump, claimed an insider relationship with that administration & called fraud in Biden's win, doesn't he? We're not stupid, Sloppy Joe.
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I reckon Michael Gudinski is organising a gig for Renee Geyer right at the moment - well, as soon as they've finished today's fight and the makeup drink.
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Gee, this about a club run by Eddie McGuire? I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
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Gallery journos insisting they know what's news & what's not when it comes to ministerial (aka the hand that feeds us) indiscretions would be on firmer ground if they'd spent the past 2 months pounding a story of 1 of those ministers declared by a judge to have "acted unlawfully"
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Of course an ASIO boss wouldn't lie, heavens no, but when (without provocation) dangle a politician sold out his country line for a speech but won't give any info, there is a touch of the 'I have a girlfriend, but you wouldn't know her, she goes to another school' about it.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a gem.
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Hell no, that's what we've got the minerals council, Alan Jones and News Ltd for.
"Social media is not going to set government policy in this country."
@ScottMorrisonMP
says the ongoing challenge of combating bushfires wont be done over Twitter.
#AustralianFires
#auspol
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The thing about the Ray Hadley abusive work environment story is that I wish there had been some way for us & 2GB mgmt to know that's the kind of person he was. I mean, there was never any sign of bullying, abuse, petulance or arrogance in his on air persona. I'm shocked. Shocked
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Timely to remember that time in parliament which showed Dan Tehan and education are uncomfortable bedfellows. “Without grades, how would we mark a geography student who didn’t know that Africa is a country, a nation?”
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An admirable and honourable man. Journalist Kerry O'Brien rejects Australia Day honour in protest over 'divisive' Margaret Court award
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People who know Paul Fletcher insist he is not stupid, but none would argue he isn’t devious & yet dull, inadequate & yet confident, without morals & yet pontificating, talentless & yet arts minister.
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Presumably the Israelis protesting in Tel Aviv, demanding their govt prioritise hostages over destroying Hamas (a de facto pause or even ceasefire you might say) are also borderline anti-semites, naive mummy bloggers & dangerous tools of terrorists. That’s how it goes, right?
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Really, Laura Tingle where did you get those outlandish ideas?
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