Dr Josie McSkimming 🌳🌈🌿🕸
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PhD. Social Worker. Author: 'Leaving Christian Fundamentalism & the Reconstruction of Identity'. Environmentalist. Views my own. RT≠endorse #exvangelical
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I'm THRILLED to report that my book is now available in paperback. How power spreads like a chain throughout the church shaping and re-shaping identity is explored through the life-changing journeys of 20 ppl, who refuse & resist.
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How to keep losing elections:
Move further to the Right. Wheel out John Howard.
Cosy up with Gina Rinehart.
Fan the flames of culture wars & promote hate.
Keep using words like ‘woke agenda’.
Keep silent on the vileness of One Nation.
Rant on Sky News.
#nswelection
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Please
#AmericanTwitter
.
Stop giving us advice about guns & arming our population.
This advice is entirely unwelcome.
Just compare your death statistics with ours and reflect.
From
#Australia
#bondiattack
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It is patently obvious that in NSW at least you CANNOT get tested for covid. Sick people cannot queue for upwards of 5 hrs, then wait for 3-4 days for results. And now the results aren’t always reliable anyway. Plus no
#RATs
. How can we ‘live with covid’ without any govt support?
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For god’s sake, why can’t we be more like Scandinavia & less like the US?
A huge middle class, much smaller gap between the rich & the poor, a welfare system that ensures high quality FREE state education & childcare for all. ‘Culture wars’ minimal.
#education
#auspol
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‘Laura Tingle has blown open a debate about the public broadcaster’s approach to the Voice referendum, arguing an obsession with balance has degraded coverage of the debate.’
It’s nuts & has meant the ABC has platformed blatant lies.
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Should we just shut down Sydney for 2 weeks as a circuit breaker?
Nothing open except chemists & supermarkets, with restricted opening & reduced numbers allowed? Police on all highways leading out of Sydney? Masks EVERYWHERE & curfews.
Something has to change in NSW
@GladysB
.
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The millions of doses of Pfizer & Moderna vaccines will not arrive in Australia for at least another 4 weeks. Until then, Pfizer is being rationed & argued about between states.
This is NOT how effective vaccination is achieved. What an epic public policy failure.
#MorrisonFail
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It’s very sad to hear of the death of Shane Warne. But the first 10 pages of today’s Sun Herald totally devoted to eulogies of him
@smh
?
We don’t get to the terrifying humanitarian crisis in northern NSW till page 11.
Lismore may need to be evacuated & rebuilt: newsworthy??
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Imagine if you worked for the NSW ICAC, committed to the highest standards of ethical & professional behaviour, & your PM just called you a 'kangaroo court'.
What a massive, undeserved insult to public servants trying to do their job & uphold the rule of law.
#MorrisonMustGo
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My son in the US: ‘you do know Australia is 12 months behind the rest of the world? No rapid antigen testing at work?? Arguing about eligibility for vaccines? & even lockdown protests! That’s totally 2020’.
Yup. We’re way behind. And our politicians talk like this is *all new*.
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I seriously can’t believe how people have treated
@simonahac
, who has just wanted to direct his resources into saving the planet.
You do wonder why the press & so many desperate politicians are busy trying to bring him down by any means possible.…
#auspol
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As a mental health professional, I dare predict that the mental health of many Australians will improve with a change of govt.
People long for a renewal of hope, the restoration of vision & competence in govt, & more than anything - meaningful action on
#climatechange
.
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What does General JJ Frewen actually do, apart from appearing on camera in full uniform with his medals glowing?
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I am asking the same question many have asked today.
Zoran Radovanovic, who travelled while covid positive to Byron Bay passed the character test but the Biloela Family haven’t?
@AlexHawkeMP
you could let them stay TODAY.
I also think it could be a vote winner, if that helps.
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‘During today's hearing Mr Lehrmann sat with his solicitor, Rowan King, while his two barristers, Andrew Hoare KC and Patrick Wilson, were at the bar table.’
Amazing how someone with no income & no employment can afford such expensive counsel 🤨
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Is there any woman out there, any woman at all, who would vote for Morrison?
Does she exist?
#ausvotes
#auspol
#australianelection
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Visited my 96 yr old mother in the nursing home today, who was being visited by her 96 yr old friend.
Both vehement in their horror of what Morrison has done to this country, the swing to the far right, & the lack of action on climate change.
Don’t tell me oldies don’t get it.
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Is this a bigger stuff up than ‘private security guards’ in Melbourne, when you allow international airline crews to manage their own self isolation with absolutely no scrutiny or accountability
@GladysB
?
This is appalling, &
@ScottMorrisonMP
calls this ‘gold standard’?
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Going to take a little break.
Sick of the insults to my profession, my intelligence, my ethics, & worse.
The trolls are out in force.
I’m not perfect, but Twitter can be a hellsite when you
try to speak up against inequality & social injustice.
#VoteYes
#VoteYesAustralia
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Within 24 hours, I have heard from 2 friends who both have
#covid
. All double vaxxed, no booster. The clinical severity uncertain. We have a Premier who has zero interest in public health, as long as the economy grows.
@Dom_Perrottet
what is the plan? We’re dropping like flies.
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Imagine the privilege of 10 years in govt, & having absolutely nothing to show for it.
No achievements to speak of, no progress on
#climatechange
, & to have nothing left but phoney credentials on ‘strong foreign policy’ & ‘good economic management’.
Sad.
#auspol
#ausvotes
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Does anyone work anywhere where it is ok to drink two glasses of red wine before participating in an important meeting?
Who would get sacked or deregistered if they drank at work?
🙋🏼♀️
#TheNationals
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What on earth is actually wrong with
@ScottMorrisonMP
?
And please don’t say a mental health issue or any associated language.
This is aberrant, appalling, deep-seated, deeply-held ideology.
A sense of divine calling & divine choosing & belligerent self-righteous indignation.
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Are my fellow Australians as pissed off as I am about
@ScottMorrisonMP
’s response to the
#NSWbushfires
? Refusing to answer q’ns about
#ClimateChange
& then offering
#ThoughtsAndPrayers
? It’s terrifying to have a PM whose belief system is so utterly divorced from science & reason.
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@nick_coatsworth
I seriously can't believe you tweeted that
@nick_coatsworth
.
As a health professional myself, I cannot understand why you would make light of so many people getting sick.
It is profoundly unethical.
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Let me say it again.
Australia has a huge problem with racism.
This is incontrovertible.
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‘The right thing, now, would be to open the sealed section of the robodebt royal commission. The institutions in which the commissioner put her faith have all failed. The only reasonable path to justice is for the public to know who the commission named..’
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‘Julia Gillard’s achievement is a case study in making a life outside politics.Unlike some of her colleagues, she has not only enhanced her own legacy but provided a role model for former PMs in how to use their skills& experiences as a force for good.’ 👏🏻
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Children don’t wear masks & are unvaccinated. They almost certainly will catch
#omicron
then give it to their parents & grandparents.
Who may not yet be eligible for the booster.
Can you see the problem
@Dom_Perrottet
?
Taking *personal responsibility* is a meaningless concept.
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Talked to my dear friend, 60 yrs single woman, just can’t live on the reduced
#jobseeker
rate. Applies for multiple jobs,always misses out to younger applicants. Why is there zero support for people over 55
@Anne_Ruston
? She feels totally abandoned & desperate.
Bloody Morrison.
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More from a young person I spoke to:
‘Why would I vote no? The voice does not affect me in any way, Aboriginal people have asked for it, so what’s the problem?’
Don’t troll me & say the conversation didn’t happen. It did.
Young Australians will save this referendum ☺️
#VoteYes
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If there were enough vaccine for everyone, we wouldn’t give a damn about private school boys or rich people jumping queues. We’d just be grateful the whole community was getting vaccinated, ensuring herd immunity. This white-hot community anger only happens when the system FAILS.
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This is the campaign & I really like it.
A vote for Dave Sharma is a vote for Barnaby.
A vote for Trent Zimmerman is a vote for Barnaby.
A vote for Josh Frydenberg is a vote for Barnaby.
Etc. Etc.
Simple but effective.
#VoteThemAllOut2022
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This is THE story of the day in
#auspol
.
A report released today shows that under Peter Dutton, contracts by Home Affairs funnelled millions into companies that were allegedly to be involved in serious criminal wrongdoing.
What did Peter Dutton know and why didn’t he do anything to stop this from happening?
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In the same news bulletin: Morrison gets his 2nd Pfizer dose, & an un-immunised junior doctor in Brisbane treating covid patients contracts the UK variant of Covid-19.
See a problem with this govt’s priorities?
#wheresthevaccine
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We all know the architect of
#Robodebt
was Scott Morrison, don’t we?
He conceived it & set it up.
The buck stops with him.
I don’t care if he’s swanning around Italy, or can’t get a job elsewhere because he’s unemployable, his time is finished.
Done.
#ResignMorrison
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‘One of the biggest q’ns emerging from Kate McClymont’s investigation is how many people knew about Jones’ alleged predilections & remained silent. McClymont has been flooded with messages from ppl who claim that Jones either bullied or abused them..’
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@AlboMP
I know you’ll have a lot to do when you become PM, but could you please add ‘Royal Commission into the Pandemic Response’?
Australians absolutely need to know how key decisions were made, who made them, & who profited from deals & contracts.
#AlboForPM
#MorrisonFail
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Seeing the life & words of a woman who took her own life picked over, trashed & even mocked, is sickening & deeply disturbing.
I think we’ve reached rock bottom here.
#EnoughisEnougth
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I know I’m late to this, but I was wondering why Morrison was talking about his anxiety NOW & not previously.
As a mental health professional, I was interested in his disclosure till I realised he’s actually plugging his book.
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It all goes to the question of trust, &
@ScottMorrisonMP
has lost the trust of the Aust’n community.
My conservative-leaning friends tell me the vaccine debacle, the Christian Porter affair, & the undermining of global efforts on
#climateaction
are the key issues.
He’s cooked.
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6 wks of a new
@AlboMP
govt & huge progress has been made. My hope is that soon
@JasonClareMP
, a stalwart champion of public education, will start the necessary review of the bloated funding to private schools.
I trust he will consult with advocates like
@JaneCaro
& get it done.
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He can’t stay in Australia now, can he?
Brittany Higgins migrated to France to make a fresh start & escape endless media scrutiny.
#lehrmann
will need to go to Siberia.
He’s surely
unemployable in Australia.
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Delusional??
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If Tim Wilson, Josh Frydenberg, Dave Sharma & the rest lose their seats to the independents, then surely that is democracy working exactly as it should.
Strong candidates get elected, poor candidates get dumped, & a failed govt gets consigned to the dust bin of history.
Amen.
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I am of Jewish background also & totally agree with Simon Tedeschi.
@smh
#israelpalestineconflict
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I don’t need to read Chris Uhlmann as well as Greg Sheridan point to the ‘godlessness’ of Australia as the source of the current woes. I grew up in the ‘godliness’ of the evangelical Christian church my whole adult life, & am still undoing the toxic effects of abuse & control.
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It’s been more than 2 weeks since the
#BlackLivesMatterAustralia
rallies, and not a single
#COVID19
infection has been traced back to them.
Do you think
@MathiasCormann
will now apologise for calling ppl ‘selfish & self-indulgent’?
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Do we need to get
@KKeneally
&
@SenatorWong
out of the senate, to lead the
@AustralianLabor
party (w/
@tanya_plibersek
) out of the political wilderness?
To stop the whole destruction of
#highereducation
, the
#environment
, the
#arts
? It’s time for action.
Put the women in charge.
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Please report this person.
There is absolutely no place for this sort of comment.
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A person much younger than me said, ‘who are these ppl voting no? I don’t get why this is such a big deal at all. Their arguments are so weak.’
Perhaps the young ppl of Australia will win this referendum for the country. They don’t vote in polls.
#VoteYesAustralia
#VoteYes23
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This is becoming a bigger and bigger story
#auspol
....
Deborah O’Neill also revealed that Peter Dutton received a copy of the damning internal audit into the many failures within the Home Affairs Dept, but did nothing about it.
#Estimates
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I’m in
#Melbourne
- and I notice how many ‘yes’ placards people have put up on their fences & in their front yards.
Melbourne has always been progressive.
Might move here.
It’s so heartening.
#VoteYesAustralia
#VoteYes
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Who’s voting no & promoting the no vote?
*Hanson, Roberts & Babet
*Latham
*Richo
*Dutton incl ‘moderates’
*Alan Jones
*Bolt
*Credlin
*Mundine
*Murdoch press
There is a definite pattern here.
#VoteYesAustralia
#VoteYes
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‘There were six principal reasons why the “No” campaign triumphed. The first was its shameful, morally bankrupt slogan: “If you don’t know, vote ‘No’.” The “No” campaign essentially argued “Why bother?’
The brilliant Barry Jones.
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I wonder if
@Craig_Foster
has considered standing for parliament as a progressive independent.
I would vote for him in a heartbeat.
#auspol
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Tried to get a pulse oximeter at the chemist for my friend who has covid. All sold out. I have to wait until the next delivery comes in. I said to the pharmacist ‘this means covid is everywhere’ & she said ‘it sure is’.
Just business as usual
@Dom_Perrottet
? Economy ticketyboo?
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Next time someone says, ‘oh but I don’t like
@AlboMP
, he’s a good person but he hasn’t got enough junkyard dog in him’, ask if they prefer a lying, rorting, misogynistic, deceitful, failed marketing man?
The choice is so very clear these days.
All days in fact.
#AlboForPM
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‘I have grave concerns about Scott Morrison’s leadership,’ says
@zalisteggall
.
‘Part of the problem is sitting here right now: Barnaby Joyce & the stranglehold the Nationals have on govt policy on climate change. They hold the country to ransom’.
Well said, Zali.
#QandA
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I'm not sure what Kerry Stokes was thinking when he bankrolled Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation case.
He cant think it's *value for money*.
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Maybe we should post & repost this very important photograph day after day?
#NuclearEnergy
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Morrison receiving legal aid is the last straw.
Is there anything this man won’t take from this country, while giving back nothing but woe?
Grifter to the end.
#RobodebtRC
#ResignMorrison
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There is no constitutional risk.
It is an advisory body.
It’s all negative politicking & lies.
And I for one am so very, very tired of it.
Can’t the
#LNP
get on board just for once to achieve some positive reform?
#VoteYesAustralia
#Yes23
Sussan Ley left humiliated after insisting there’s Constitutional Risks with
#TheVoice
but cannot name any expert who agrees, going on to suggest const. experts aren’t relevant
Speers “You’re talking about const. Risk, surely you gotta listen to some constitutional experts?”💥
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‘Former prime minister Paul Keating has launched a scathing attack on Peter Dutton, urging voters in the Home Affairs Minister's electorate to "drive a political stake through his dark political heart"’.
Best advice you will hear all week.
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Just wondering what ever happened to
@JNampijinpa
, the *next PM of Australia*?
Has she spoken at all since the referendum or has the media abandoned her now?
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I blame
@ScottMorrisonMP
Morrison utterly & completely for the lack of vaccines, the constant border closures, & the lockdowns. This is all on your government.
Are we at 4% vaccinated yet?
Oh sorry those specific numbers aren’t released to the public.
Huge policy failure 😡
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Firefighters pleading for donations of water,muesli bars & sunscreen? What sort of nation have we become? This is so deeply depressing on every level, with a disengaged govt distracting the masses while
#AustraliaBurns
.
Where is the national emergency
@GladysB
@ScottMorrisonMP
?
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Hey guess what
@ScottMorrisonMP
.
You lied about what you said about
#ElectricVehicles
.
And we don’t think.
We know.
#auspol
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Oh my word.
Cathy does it again.
Brilliant.
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I’m really not sure how Dutton can explain this one away….
I think he’s cooked.
#auspol
#Corruption
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My 93 year old mother just said, ‘what use is an economy on a dead planet’?
Not all older people voted to save their damn franking credits.
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And now we hear ‘more white Aust’ns would have voted yes if they knew most Indigenous communities supported it.’
Good grief 🤦🏼♀️
Media platforms the lies of Jacinta Price, pretending she speaks for mob - and SHE DOESN’T.
C’mon
@abcnews
.
This is so very important.
#Referendum
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If another politician says ‘we have to live with the virus’, I will scream. Of course we do. It’s the bleeding obvious. But how about making it easier by prioritising our health? Ppl who received AZ vaccine should be able to get booster at 4 months.
And keep masks & QR codes!
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Think it’s time for a bit of
#ThanksKevin
to trend on Twitter - along with some
#NoThanksToScotty
?
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Guess who’s launching the *No campaign* to the
#VoiceToParliament
in Tamworth NSW tonight?
Pauline Hanson.
Barnaby Joyce.
Alan Jones.
The local Indigenous people are not impressed & are protesting.
Those in doubt - looks who’s voting no & start asking q’ns.
@SBSNews
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I’ve never watched a live feed of a royal Commission before with such intent.
It is riveting.
If none of these complicit public servants or lying politicians aren’t brought to account, I think the public outcry will be huge.
This has really touched a raw nerve.
#RobotDebtRC
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@JohnBarilaroMP
@pvlandys
Really, John? This is where your head is?
We have family members in Sydney testing positive, who are close contacts, all in isolation - and this is what you think really matters?
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‘There used to be a strength at the ABC. There was a backbone of strength where journalists would be able to go & tell uncomfortable stories, but it’s been watered down and weakened to such a point..’ A great interview
@Peter_Fitz
w/ Tracey Holmes!
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Why would anyone seriously congratulate Morrison for scrounging around the world for almost out of date vaccines, when the problem of under-supply was his responsibility anyway? He is only rectifying the prob he made.
I’m glad he’s trying now but the error was an egregious one.
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'I have never seen a national leader that has less to offer than his own petulant ambition' - Peter Garrett.
#auspol
Peter Garrett unleashes on “petulant” Scott in Geelong tonight
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‘2 days after justice Michael Lee found former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann had raped his then-colleague Brittany Higgins in a ministerial office, their former boss Linda Reynolds sat down to dinner with The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen.’
Well, well.
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Just note & squirrel away for future reference that
@ScottMorrisonMP
has been completely silent today on
#InternationalWomensDay
He is either hiding from the Aust’n public, or has no real interest.
Either is contemptible.
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Next time you hear a Liberal politician say ‘Labor is coming after your money’, just remind them of the $1.8 billion of taxpayers money it has cost SO FAR to deal with the fallout of the horrific ideology of Morrison, Dutton, Tudge & Robert.
#RobotDebtRC
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Why is Morrison going on ‘a tour’ of NSW & Victoria?
What ever happened to rolling up your sleeves & doing some real work?
This govt becomes less like a govt, & more & more like a marketing agency, every day.
Who is fooled?
#auspol
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I've had 4 vaccine doses, and I want to get the 5th Moderna bivalent - like the rest of the world can.
I know there are people who haven't had any boosters, & quite frankly if they haven't by now, they probably never will.
But we should be able to get the 5th, if we choose.
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@ChloeBouras
@ScottMorrisonMP
@10NewsFirst
@Stela_Todorovic
@AchimBormann
I find it disturbing that the press see this as a ‘privilege’ we should all gasp & swoon over. All I see is a carefully curated image designed to soothe & deceive the voters.
It’s all a marketing ploy.
And unconvincing at that.
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Prof Luke Beck on
@RNBreakfast
seriously questioning the GG’s role in this whole fiasco. Says he is evasive; should have realised after Morrison’s 1st extra ministry that it would be kept secret. Why did he proceed another 4x when he knew of the subterfuge?
There are q’ns here.
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