💧Rev Dr Brian Brown
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Past Moderator of the NSW.ACT Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia. Uniting for the Common Good. Views my own
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Why do fossil fuel companies get away with leaving their mess behind when they leave?
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In this household we are VERY proud of Grace Tame. We admire her resilience, her courage and her determination to keep working for change. If “politeness” is important to Mrs Morrison, she had better not watch her husband in Parliament.
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I have taken responsibility for staying fit and healthy all my life. I am now over 70 and need a Covid booster. Do not lecture me about personal responsibility, PM. Just do your job.
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How could anyone even dream of voting for a Party that has to hide half its front bench during the election campaign because of their bad behaviour?
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The PMs Father’s Day visit to his family in Sydney cost more than one of the Cartier watch bonuses that caused him to publicly demand Christine Holgate’s dismissal. One rule for the rich, another for the richer.
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Ch9 news just called Morrison’s hair-washing stunt part of a “campaign”. Given that the election has not been called, this means he is campaigning on taxpayer money instead of working. How has this irregularity not been called out by the
#MSM
?
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If “All lives matter”, why are the Biloela family still on Christmas Island?
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Could at least one MSM journalist please break ranks and tell us why this cohort is so upset at Labor’s election win? We just do not get it.
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Morrison denies hostility toward the
@abc
but complains that the reverse is true. “And we keep funding them”. No. You don’t. We do.
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Are there now two ABCs- one,
@4corners
that is willing to expose the questionable
#Aspenmedical
relationship with the Federal Government, and the other,
@abcnews
that will not mention it?
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Prime minister, the inability to apologise when you are obviously wrong is a sign of weakness, not strength.
@ScottMorrisonMP
#Holgate
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If Barnaby texted his “water envoy” report to the PM, it would be an official government document, right? So it would now be available in the office of the new PM and C right? It would not still belong to Morrison, right? So, LET’S SEE IT.
@AlboMP
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It seems that the
#MSM
has waved its magic wand and the Aspen Medical scandal had disappeared in a puff of smoke. It’s a miracle!
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Morrison just told us to “ignore” Christensen. Just “ignore” a dangerous anti- vax message from within his own government? I have a better idea. HE CAN GO. (Well, preferably, both of them)
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Morrison says there are 12 zeros in $2.1 trillion. There are 11. Some rounding error!
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I am now waiting for all the Christian churches, who have been hailing Jesus as the Prince of Peace over Easter, to speak out as one against the ANZAC Day warmongering of the Federal Government. I know mine will.
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Under what sort of regulation does
#HarveyNorman
get to sell essential pharmaceutical products for profit? And when is Gerry Harvey going to pay back the millions of taxpayer dollars he did not need during
#jobkeeper
?
#thebigbarramundi
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Outbreak 1. “We thought we had more time.”
Outbreak 2. “Nobody realised how severe delta was going to be”
Outbreak 3. “How come Omicron spread so quickly?”
At the May election, Australians will decide whether or not to re-elect a government that has been asleep at the wheel.
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@abcnews
I vary rarely resort to upper case, but THIS IS NOT THE HIGGINS TRIAL. This is the LEHRMANN TRIAL, where the Crown is alleging rape. What the hell is wrong with you?
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Well done
@PatsKarvelas
for pushing Premier Perrotet on the Barilaro appointment. Strange that he is “not across the exact detail” at this stage. Please keep going with this.
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Oh dear, does this mean we are going to hear about Morrison’s “Mr Speaker” gaffe for the next week, and how it is going to damage his re-election chances?
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Is anyone else wondering what happened to the ICAC report on Gladys Berejiklian? What could possibly be taking this long? At least we are entitled to know the reasons for the extended delay.
#auspol
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Barnaby Joyce has been used “sparingly” during the election campaign.
@abcnews
I cannot imagine why 😆
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Aloha from sunny Newcastle. I could not wait any longer to vote for
#Labor
, The
#Greens
and Jane
#Caro
. My vote is against corruption and for
#ICAC
,
#Statement
from the Heart, climate action and quality education and healthcare for all
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Some hanging questions. Where is Fauziah Ibrihim’s apology?Who paid for Porter’s legal expenses? Where is the Berejiklian ICAC report? Why are we still subsidising fossil fuel companies? How does Kathryn Campbell still have a high-paying public service job? Asking for a country.
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May your day be everything you hope for. This will make mine:ALP majority. ICAC with teeth, Marugappan family home to Bilo. Refunded ABC. First Nations Voice to Parliament. End INDUE. Media ownership laws reformed. Political donations laws reformed. Truth in political ads. Etc.
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We will keep asking until we find out where is the “awful lot of correspondence ” Joyce claims he sent to Morrison to justify $675000 in expenses while he was “Drought Envoy”.
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Any government that considers diplomacy to be “a sign of weakness” is a danger to its citizens and needs to be removed.
#auspol
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"‘I will not be apologising’: Dreyfus shouts at reporter in fiery High Court exchange " Oh please! James Massola. You want shouting? Go listen to Senator Cash in the Senate yesterday.
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Something is not adding up here. LNP keep abusing Parliamentary procedure with impunity by calling for the Labor speakers to “not be heard”, while Labor keeps giving a pair for the Long term absent minister Coleman. What is it that we don’t know?
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Apparently,
@RNBreakfast
host Fran Kelly said today that the PM could not be interviewed because he is in lockdown at The Lodge! Are the telephones “down”? Or is he, in effect, now on holiday (again)? Can this governance get any more farcical than it already is?
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I cannot get rid of the gut feeling that every move the PM makes is closely choreographed to protect his image at all costs.
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Does Sussan Ley and Greg Hunt have any comment on the State of the Environment Report? On their watch.
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10 Parliamentary sitting days between now and next August. and we are OK with that, Australia?
#auspol
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The privileged few who can afford a tennis final ticket boo the PM for making the tax system a bit more equitable for those who cannot. Time for some people to take a long hard look at themselves.
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The sky appears to be turning black with chickens coming home to roost.
#AspenMedicalScandal
#Millerpayout
#Darwinportlease
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Thanks due to some of my favourite tweeters, who sustain faith in the common good: Cheryl Kernot, Ronnie Salt, Grace Tame, Amy Remeikis, Avril Hannah-Jones, Katharine Murphy, Mike Carlton, Sally Larry, Jenny Frecklington Jones, Jane Caro, Cathy Willcox, Van Badham, among others
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If 1% of Australians believe that Morrison’s election was a literal miracle, and the world was created 6 000 years ago, that’s their business; but when 15% of the LNP government believe that, well, that suddenly becomes our problem.
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For heaven’s sake people, please calm down! The latest major polls Ipsos Newspoll & Morgan all predict a clear ALP victory. Resolve is an in-house ch9 SMH poll. The media has a vested interest in reporting final week tightening, and bookies are doing OK out of it too.
#auspol
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I cannot think of one good reason why anyone, Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal would vote NO to the Voice Referendum. Nothing to lose, so much to gain. Come on, good people. See the spoilers for what they are.
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“Dutton may never be PM but, so far, he’s hardly put a foot wrong ” I read this headline to my wife and she burst out laughing”
@smh
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A question about Question Time- If you have a microphone, why do you have to shout?
@ScottMorrisonMP
@JoshFrydenberg
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I am curious to know the position of the Pentecostal Church when one of its most prominent members claims an election victory to be a “miracle” only to have the process exposed as corrupt.
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Today’s fully vaccinated number is 14.65%. Do not be fooled by the LNP’s shonky calculation of 18% of “eligible population”. Nowhere else uses this trick.
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I hope that
#EdenMonaro
people make this by-election a massive protest vote against the cuts and job losses at the
#ABC
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I am getting a lot of pseudo-Christian/nationalistic outrage in my Twitter feed over the Andrew Thorburn Essendon resignation. The theme seems to be “How dare you be so intolerant of our religious/patriotic intolerance towards minority groups”. I am now blocking on sight.
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Oh Laura! You brave, brave person. She asked Morrison for an apology. Now he is reframing the question. The virus was at fault.
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Family Voice has declared Pauline Hanson “Mother of the Year” 2022. Formerly Fred Nile’s Festival of Light. All you need to know.
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The Minister for the Federal seat of Banks has not been in Parliament for a year. The reason has not been made available to the electorate. There needs to be a by-election asap.
#Banksbyelection
@ScottMorrisonMP
@AlboMP
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The Whitehaven $31 million deal to send coal to Ukraine looks like a blatant, bare-faced rort to me, as does the carbon credit fiasco.
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Sorry PM but your “leadership” looks anything but “Christian” to me.
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Does the LNP seriously expect that most Australians will be happy to keep paying Dr
#Laming
a full time salary etc for doing nothing for another year? This level of generosity does not happen in any other workplace
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While we are thinking about deliberately delayed reports, why have we not yet heard the outcome of Gladys Berejiklian’s questioning by ICAC?
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How are Aussies on the breadline, living on $6 a day meals in aged care, those who can no longer afford housing, feeling about Morrison’s
#4
.5 million gift to a Tassie brewery that employs 8 people? Some things do “fall from the sky”, if you are a mate in a marginal electorate.
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We had to put up with this cruel, corrupt and competent Federal Government for 10 years, and now
@abcnews
is cuddling them. This is truly pathetic and beyond acceptable. Their job is to hold power to account on our behalf. JUST DO IT.
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Is there a precedent for an Australian Prime Minister being given the red carpet treatment on arrival at a domestic destination? Seemed a bit on obsequious to me.
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“Morrison is not fit to be Prime Minister, and Hawke is not fit to be a Minister”
@RNBreakfast
You missed that bit of CFW’s speech in the Senate last night. Strange really, as it was the most damning part.
#auspol
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Is Hazzard’s announcement that we are all going to get Covid admission of defeat, a political positioning, or a health alert?
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Question 1. Are people in the S zone of the Northern Beaches of Sydney allowed into the N zone to exercise?
Question 2. Is having coffee with friends classed as “”exercise”?
Question 3. If the answer to either of the above is “no”, why have NSW Police exempted Tony Abbott?
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Anyone else wondering about the irony of the Victorian Premier fronting up to
@abc730
for a Leigh Sales grilling while the NSW Premier was unavailable?
@leighsales
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So the porkbarilaro is going to be wheeled to New York. What a strange hill for the NSW Government to choose to die on!
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Noel Pearson speaking at the YES campaign at Newcastle Foreshore Park. “If the NO vote wins we all lose. If the YES vote wins we all win”
#VoteYes23
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“New Kiwi government wastes no time in winding back Ardern’s agenda ” How tragic is this. All the good work undone.
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I remember when LNP Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey announced that "The age of entitlement is over". Since then, a lot of the evidence seems to be to the contrary, including John Barilaro's contested $500 000pa New York trade-related appointment.
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Brad Hazzard, how dare you blame the people? This is YOUR failure, you and your government.
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If he can go to the beach and the footy, he should not hide behind “security reasons” for not attending the
#March4JusticeAU
It has become imposssible to tell when this government is lying and when they are telling the truth.
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The people of NSW are entitled to know if ICAC considers them to be guilty of corruption or not. Why are we being kept in the dark about the outcome of the
#Berejiklian
investigation?
#auspol
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We are now being led to an awed respect for the so-called “quiet Australian”, a social construct of hard right propaganda that seeks to deify a self-righteous abstinence from social engagement, all the while making a private choice for self-interest. I call BS.
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It seems like there is a new story almost every day about how the former Federal LNP Government robbed Australians blind,
And yet some in the
#MSM
still treat them like royalty and hang on their every word. It’s almost as if they were somehow in on it.
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No, Alan Joyce. “All airlines” are not “giving bad service” at the moment. We flew with an American airline to the USA and UK in May/June without any delays or baggage problems. Don’t deflect, take responsibility.
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I wonder how many of the accounts running under a woman’s first name pseudonym and attacking Brittany Higgins are actually male right wing trolls.
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I am struggling to understand why the
#ALP
parliamentarians have not by now staged a walkout on the basis of the gross abuse of the “regulation” “that the speaker no longer be heard.” It is clear by now that the MSM is not going to highlight this abuse of process.
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I can understand why Dutton is furious. His Party in Government created three stages of tax cuts to wedge any future Labor Government. And it did not work.
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Emergency services in Queensland have been working their tails off to clean up after the floods. So Speers’ first question to Miles is “Has the cleanup been going fast enough?” GET IN THE BIN.
@abcnews
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I suspect that part of the problem with the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, apart from not ordering timely supplies of Pfizer, is that the Federal Government subcontracted much of the process to donor mates who are not up to the task.
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I love the generosity ofAustralians, but fundraising for essential services and loss reparation should not be needed in a country where the government boasts a surplus budget.
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Don’t let Dutton get away with equating Porter’s liability to disclose his court case donors with Hanson-Young’s GoFundMe crowdsourcing of funds to help her against Leyonhjelm. She disclosed appropriately. Porter has not. Dutton is playing smokescreen games. What a surprise!
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“Morrison tells G20 that, like the pandemic, science will tackle climate crisis ” Fine words from a govt that cut climate scientists from the CSIRO.
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“John Howard says the teal campaigns contain a fundamental lie ” Fundamental lie? Now “children overboard”- THAT’S a fundamental lie!
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The
#LNP
need to be thrashed in Victoria and elsewhere at the General Election. Not standing up for Dan Andrews in the face of mob death-threats is an act of cowardice and bastardry. Decent Australians are shocked and angry.
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Immigration Minister Morrison: “We do not comment about on-water matters”. Prime Minister Morrison: “Unless it’s Election Day”
#auspol
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Morrison was still talking last night about wind & solar as unreliable sources of energy as if batteries had not been invented, & talking up carbon capture and storage as if it was a practical technological solution to global heating. Pure fantasy, unstoppable bulldozer verbiage
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Aus. being badly let down by a
#MSM
not demanding answers to critical questions:
#WhoPaidPorter
? Why does LNP keep abusing the “no longer heard” regulation? How can the Nationals be allowed to hold the country to ransom on climate targets? And many others.
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Australian MSM not talking about Covid deaths, $4.5million to the Tasmanian whiskey distillery,
#AspenMedicalScandal
, Miller #$500 000 payout. Who gave them the right to choose the election agenda?
#auspol
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#rubyprincess
NSW Police to interview every passenger! Might take 6 months! Whould it not be quicker, easier and more to the point to interview the Minister for Home Affairs? After all, neither the passengers not the waiter gave permission to dock and disembark. People have died
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Every time I see an environment-related LNP ad, I remember the circle dance celebration in parliament when Labor’s carbon price policy was ditched by Abbott, Hunt and co. Hypocrisy at this level is such an ugly look.
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Another $10 million to Murdoch for women’s sport, which only subscribers can watch. Why not the free-to-air
@abc
? It’s our money, after all. How long will Australians continue to put up with this blatant patronage and misuse of the public purse?
@ScottMorrisonMP
@AlboMP
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Did anyone know that the Govt. can give a $4 million ex-gratia payment to whoever it likes, just before a General Election, and nobody is allowed to know the name of the recipient or the reason for the gift? This just adds to the existing stink of secrecy and corruption.
#auspol
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Does anyone know the probability of a random wiping of a mobile phone with a high level of security, such as when a toddler gets hold of it? Don’t they usually just end up ringing someone inappropriate?
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Another $10 million “gift” of taxpayer money to Murdoch media that should have gone to the
#abc
. It’s like watching an extended daylight robbery of the public purse with apparantly no one willing or able to stop it.
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