Mr Denmore
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Retired ex-journalist, ex-broadcaster, ex-catholic, ex-hausted. Views ex-clusively my own. Mr Denmore is the pen name of writer Jim Parker.
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Visited the cardiologist this morning for regular ECG and stress test. Bill used to be $200 after Medicare rebate. It is now $450. Clinic said Medicare claims for heart tests were cut last year. I fortunately can afford it. Many can’t and will end up dying of heart attacks.
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Morrison spends at least $1 billion a year on offshore detention - enough to fund four free rapid antigen tests for the entire population. So they place a higher value politically on torturing refugees than they do on protecting the lives of citizens. I don’t get it. Do you?
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Anyone recall parliament sitting all night to debate legislation to deal with climate change? The aged care crisis? An anti-corruption body? But the legislature, which sits rarely, just debated all night on a completely unnecessary ‘reform’ dreamed up as a wedge by the far right.
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Just had lunch with someone close to the Lib preselectors in Warringah. Seems this Gladys is coming to save us story is entirely manufactured out of Morrison’s office. So no surprise there, right?
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Morrison called Albo a "loose unit"; Dutton accused him of being China's choice for PM; yet the Australian media, including the ABC, are in a frenzy because Tanya Plibersek compared Dutton to a children's movie villain. Is there no end to the confected outrage?
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I’m an ex-journo. I know what a story is. An openly corrupt Trumpist govt that has made Australia a pariah on climate change, alienated our biggest trading partner, covered up the abuse of women, bastardised refugees & mishandled a pandemic is a bigger story than Albo’s ‘gaffe’.
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If Australians don’t cut out the Murdoch cancer here we’ll go the same way as the USA.
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Andrews’ emphatic smackdown of the appalling Margaret Court gong is a showcase for Albanese in how to respond to culture wars provocations. Don’t prevaricate, just lead and stand your ground. Most Australians are progressive and inclusive. It’s the government that’s out of touch.
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See the pattern? Run down public services, contract out to private contractors who pocket taxpayer funds at fat margins while delivering minimal services to ‘customers’; politicians boast of ‘efficient’ delivery, then take post-politics sinecures with the same firms
#4Corners
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“So there we were, just me and my toy, having a quiet babycino after a nightmare week at daycare and this creepy old dude squats down beside me, grabs my toy and tells me how good coal is. Spare me.”
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When you get older and people say, in an accusatory voice, ‘you’re a real leftie, aren’t you?’ And you think, ‘Well no, I’m still a social democrat and I’m no different than I was in 1976. It’s just that the world has marched rightward ever since’. Anyone else feel that way??
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You’d have to say that without the protection of Murdoch, Nine, the Seven Network and talkback radio, Morrison would be gone. His government is the most corrupt and incompetent in Australian history. That’s not even an argument any more.
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Really? Nuclear submarines? The world is on fire, reefs are dying, polar caps are melting. We need a multi-trillion dollar transition of our entire economy. So let’s blow it on a 1950s Cold War strategy that gets China offside just when we need global cooperation most.
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It’s days like today that call to mind Walter Cronkite’s quote about Australia: “Too many journalists, not enough news.”
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Abbott, blasting lefty 'experts', says old folk with COVID-19 should be left to die. Also Abbott: Old folk with terminal cancer should be refused the right to euthanasia. In other words, he thinks people should die against their will and live against their will. What a guy.
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I’m older than Barnaby & ScoMo, but these guys are more like my father’s generation: sexist, patriarchal, anti-intellectual, frightened of difference, their self-confidence inversely correlated to their ability. They seem completely out of time. I simply do not get it.
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Had an
@abcnews
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To the journos clutching their pearls over the ALP’s plan - as proposed by the Royal Commission - to properly fund age care, Morrison wasted $5b axing the French subs contract. Did we hear you gnashing your teeth over that? Of course not. Failed Estate.
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Surely I am one of the few people who has never watched a single episode of Neighbours or Home and Away.
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News Flash. News media gets it wrong, AGAIN. Why is that? Because the owners of the bulk of the Australian media put journalism second to the pursuit of their commercial & ideological agenda. THAT is the news story out of this. But who is reporting it?
#VicVotes2022
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Can someone please start up a party for atheists and agnostics dedicated to driving religion out of politics? I’ll be first to join.
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So after five people died in an armed revolt on the US Capitol incited by Trump to thwart a democratic election, the big issue for the Morrison govt’s Trumpist fan club is their hero getting kicked off Twitter. Am I missing something or are these people simply insane??
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Australia has elected more grown-ups to parliament. Now it needs more grown-ups in the media.
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I’ll vote for the party that runs Murdoch out of this country. For good. Retweet this if you agree. Let’s see if we can get this to 10000 retweets.
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So Scotty misled parliament, ignored the cover-up of one alleged rape, let his defence minister take the hit, refused an inquiry into an alleged rape by his AG, snubbed 10k protesters & said they were lucky they weren’t shot & falsely claimed an assault at News Corp. Is that all?
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Australia didn’t need to make an enemy of China. But Morrison, high on his mini-me Trump trip, decided to inflame the situation for the short-term approval of his News Corp enablers. Does anyone believe this inch-deep opportunist has this nation’s economic interests at heart?
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When the Morrison govt walked away from the French submarines deal, it cost the taxpayer $5.5 billion, at least. Can you recall any gnashing of teeth in the right-wing media??
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Australia is the epicentre right now of a multi-billion dollar orchestrated campaign by the mining industry & big media to stop this country’s fire emergency advancing the case for rational preventative action against civilisation-ending climate change. That is a fact.
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I’m an old, privileged white man appalled at the twisted misogyny, juvenile playground taunts and sheer classlessness of the usual subjects in response to Jacinda Ardern’s resignation. I can’t imagine how women feel.
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Full bench of the Federal Court sitting on weekend, a dozen silks, staffer salaries, hotel bills - might have been easier and cheaper to deny him a visa in the first place, eh?
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‘But you’ve tripled the debt,’ asks Leigh. ‘All the more reason to trust people who know how to do it,” says Scott.
#abc730
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So if someone were murdered inside parliament, can we assume the ministerial standard would be not to tell the PM?
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Australians should wake up. The LNP here is overrun with Trumpists. Much of our media is run by his enablers. The Labor Party needs to stop rolling up into a little ball and fight and destroy this pestilence.
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The media losing its s&$t about a Greens Senator going out with a bikie, but sits on stories of actual cabinet ministers sleeping with News Corp political correspondents. Am I missing something here?
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1. Most people: ‘MPs’ religious beliefs are a private matter.’
2. PM to media: ‘Hey, film me praying & waving my arms around!’
3. Most people: ‘That image makes me feel uncomfortable.’
4. Morrison: ‘You’re politicising my religion.’
#AusVotes2019
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Of all the unresolved policy issues Australia faces, the Morrison government makes a big splash about which city we recognise as Israel’s capital. Who is asking for this? Why?? Is it me or does this just seem completely batshit insane??
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It’s funny. I used to wonder how the German people stood by passively as fascists took over the state. Doesn’t seem so hard to imagine now.
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Anyone keen on joining a group called ‘Boomers of Australia Defending Generational Equity’ (BADGE)? We’re for climate science, against tax lurks for the well-heeled, for free high-quality public education and we still prefer Iggy Pop to Alan Jones.
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In most modern workplaces, a manager who slept with a staffer would not hold that position for long. But in the Morrison govt, a minister who does it is judged not to have breached standards and gets to stand again?
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I’m told there are teachers still at Sydney Boys High who recall Morrison in the mid-80s as ‘schizo’ - a boy who would ingratiate himself with people he needed to impress while bullying and scapegoating his underlinings.
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Australia, like the US, is on the way to being a failed state. The ruling cabal are owned by the fossil fuel sector & Murdoch’s thugs. They are trashing our institutions, politicising the public service & tearing down the walls between church and state. Gloves need to come off.
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Having flown with other airlines in recent weeks, it’s pretty plain to me that Qantas’ problems don’t relate to the pandemic but to its own gross mismanagement.
#4Corners
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Just left the Qantas Club because there was no escaping the atrocious Sky News.
#qantas
why do you subject your most loyal customers to a channel that features Nazis, carnival bigots and professional trolls masquerading as journalists???
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The victory for the forces of light in the US elections is like a beacon of hope for liberal democracy. Let’s hope we see a similar victory for progressive politics in Australia this year and the defeat of the meanest most corrupt government in this nation’s history. Agree?
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I’m in the LNP demographic - old, white, male - and I’d rather they did more for our kids - real action on climate change, fix tax distortions that fuel housing bubbles, restore uni and TAFE funding - in short, address inter-generational inequity. Who’s with me?
#ausvotes
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People around my age squealing about losing their franking credit refunds (which cost the taxpayer more than we spend on public schools) while our kids work like slaves in ‘internships’, paid zip and having to fork out for everything. You want to talk about class war?
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Journalists seem to be clueless these days about how to use the word “allegedly”. Cassius was not “allegedly” attacked. He was attacked and killed. Those are facts. The “alleged” enters into it when the crime is attached to a suspect.
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The big question for me about Kitching is why a right-wing, Zionist, US militarist, neo-fascist, far right Catholic, climate denialist hawk bother belonging to a social democratic party?
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There we go kids. Sleep with the staff, cook your expenses, rort taxpayers, be stinking drunk on the job, lie about climate change on the behest of the fossil fuel industry, wreck our waterways for corrupt irrigators...and you too can be Acting Prime Minister of Australia.
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It’s sad how Australia used to be considered a model of rational, liberal and no-BS, progressive public policy. Now it’s a pathetic outpost of Trumpism, reactionary fundamentalist Christian politics and climate denialism.
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One of the best arguments for the Voice is the nature and motivations of the people opposing it, don’t you think?
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Sexual predators, paedophiles, climate denialists on the take, end-times tongues-speaking con artists, women-hating shockjocks, paranoid culture warriors threatened by the humanities and intelligent young people - the Libs’ fellow travellers are an attractive bunch aren’t they?
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The debate over News Corp's unhealthy dominance of our media might more successfully move forward if we stopped making it about 'left-wing' vs 'right-wing' media. It's really about professional fact-based journalism vs spin, lies & propaganda dressed up as journalism.
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If I were executive producer of
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A friend whose eighty-something father is a dyed-in-the-wool Liberal voter from Victoria told his son that his last great wish is to help vote the Morrison government out of office. “If it requires me to vote for the ALP, I’ll do it.”
#libspill
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Time for the ALP to stop fretting about how News Corp will attack them. I’m not sure who advises Labor on media these days, but this old hack is telling you (for free) that the Murdoch bogey is mortally wounded. Time to stop second-guessing yourselves and go in for the kill.
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The second life of
@billshortenmp
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Australia’s new outbreak of coronavirus is pretty well attributable to the privatisation of security, nursing homes and other essential services. Yet, what we need is more Thatcher and Reagan-inspired neoliberalism???
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Epstein absolutely right. The Liberal Party has modelled its entire schtick in recent years on the US Republican Party. They’re not issues that reflect what Australians care about. They’re alien to this country. It’s called irrelevance.
#insiders
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ABC’s Speers interviewing Adam Bandt and Allegra Spender about the role of the cross bench. Why wasn’t this done during the campaign? As a former journalist, I know the answer: They missed the story!
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Imagine being a journo reduced to providing live commentary of ‘here comes the PM in his plane’; ‘there he is in his car’; it’s like PlaySchool looking through the round-window today. Farce. Circus. Knock it all down and start again.
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Call me old fashioned, but I'd say a claim that the prime minister of Australia is a close friend of a member of a cult that believes a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles conspired against Trump is in the public interest, wouldn't you??
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Who organised the ‘anti-lockdown’ protests? Who paid for them? There are almost certainly bad actors involved here - same as in the USA - astro-turfed, anti-vax, Facebook-informed, barely literate people exploited by some very, very shady forces.
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The first thing the ALP should do upon winning govt is to strip the IPA of its tax-free status and force its army of Ayn Rand-obsessed entitled young fogey shills to get real jobs. Privileged little prats.
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Scott will invite Fierravanti-Wells to his office for a ‘quiet chat’, while his staff let News Corp know that CFW had been under ‘enormous pressure’ & had ‘cracked’. A large donation will be made to her favoured charity and she will be offered the ambassadorship to the Holy See.
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I’ll vote for the political party that says NO to Alan Jones.
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Journos say Albo’s ‘gaffe’ was unforgivable miss the point. Yes, within the ‘rules of the game’ as the media-political class plays it, Albo should have been able to recite the numbers, just as Morrison should have known the price of a loaf of bread. 1/6
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Struggle to see why any woman, person under 30, Aboriginal, university employee, disabled person, arts worker, or anyone alarmed by the future of the planet would vote for the Coalition. I’m their natural consistency - an old, white male - and I despise them. Simply don’t get it.
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Why do refugees risk their lives on boats? Here's the Syrian town of the boy who drowned trying to reach Europe.
http://t.co/s4GapL2xWW
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Looking at Craig Kelly, I see he is only 57, about five years younger than me. He looks and thinks like someone from my father’s generation (born 1925). Morrison is even younger, 51, and looks and sounds like someone much older. What is it with these premature fogies?
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Scott’s problem isn’t the lack of an inner circle. It’s the absence of an inner anything.
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Just caught this thumbnail from
@SatPaper
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The ALP running scared of losing Fitzgibbon’s seat. But what of the urban seats they will sacrifice by appeasing big coal? Why not offer climate action as an investment in new jobs, infrastructure and skills?? I simply don’t get it.
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Former Liberal Party leader
@JohnRHewson
: “I have been involved in election campaigns since the mid-1970s and can’t remember anything like the lack of professionalism and blatant bias that characterised the media’s role in this one.” via
@SatPaper
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Could Australian politics get any more stupid? Dutton is not interested in nuclear power. He aims to own the news cycle, wedge Labor and extend the life of fossil fuels. The media, marginalised in a splintered attention economy, feels compelled to play along with the charade.
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Help me out here: Mundine is funnelled $220K of taxpayers’ money to produce an hour of TV a week; then gets parachuted into a Liberal seat hundreds of miles from his cushy upper north shore Sydney home. Yet he’s telling Aboriginal people to get over their handout mentality?
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Australia will remain stuck as a nation until it embraces a Voice for First Nations people, becomes a republic with one of its own as head of state, changes its flag (John Joseph’s design is the best IMHO) and settles on a new national holiday that unites rather than divides.
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Public health is free because it is a public good. I mentioned to a friend in the UK the Morrison govt’s refusal to fund RATS and this was his response: “Seriously? You guys have to pay for home-testing? That's extraordinary. How mad is your government? Get rid of them. Fast.”
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If young people draw on super to buy houses, 3 things happen:
1/ House prices go up as more $ chases existing supply
2/ Older mortgage-free home owners get even richer, widening generational inequity further
3/ Young people retire poorer as compounding benefits are eroded
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Too scared to stand up the mining lobby on climate change, to the media on gambling advertising, to the defence industry on ruinous submarine contracts, to Zionist bullies on statehood for Palestine, what exactly is the point of the Albanese govt??
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The big issue in media coverage of the first week of the election campaign has been the media itself. Social media provides a behind-the-curtain view, allowing the public to see that journalists are not objective outsiders but are implicitly part of the machinery of politics. 1/5
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You’re not an economist either, or a defence analyst or a sociologist or a doctor or an educator. But you’re not required to be. You’re required to lead. And you have failed. Utterly.
"I'm not the operational leader of an emergency service or police force. I'm the prime minister."
@ScottMorrisonMP
responds to his historic criticism of Christine Nixon.
#auspol
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The real cancer is the Liberal Party’s mean-spirited, anti-science, kick-down ideology and capitulation to hard-right religious fundamentalism far outside the mainstream of Australian society
#4Corners
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The mediocrities & toadies of the Australian media, having blithely waved through the brazen corruption of the Morrison govt, are now up on their high horses about the ALP rightly backing away from unaffordable, unfunded tax cuts they were wedged into accepting. What gall.
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Having just got stung $600 by OPSM for a new pair of glasses and frames (AFTER a $300 private health insurance rebate), I’m left wondering why no-one has successfully disrupted the eyewear industry as yet. Any theories?
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@barriecassidy
@4mambo
I was a working journalist for nearly three decades and I’ve never seen the bulk of the mainstream media (Nine and News) actively suppress such a substantial story. It’s alarming.
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How did a secular, live-and-let-live nation of pragmatists with strong BS detectors come to be ruled by medieval zealots importing the US atavistic medicine show of white supremacist, anti-science, climate denialist, flat-earth, dog-eat-dog, market fundamentalist, plutocracy?
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Don’t miss the alternative
@abcinsiders
this Sunday with ex-News Corp columnist
@PSyvret
, the Monthly columnist
@rachelrwithers
and independent journalist
@MichaelWestBiz
#auspol
hosted by
@MrDenmore
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I have a feeling this mess is even beyond the combined magic powers of the Sharkies scarf, the hard-hat, the hi-vis vest, the Akubra, the chicken coop and the curry, don’t you?
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That 'faster flood' of Pfizer that Morrison told his press puppets that he had secured for Australia? No, actually. That was Kevin Rudd that achieved that. Great story by
@latingle
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Cathy Freeman, in her legendary run 20 years ago, expressed a possible hopeful future for the Australian people. It was there, within our grasp. But the nation them chose to follow the little frightened man, John Howard, not her.
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When a Minister of the Crown commits a fraud on the public, the Australian Federal Police say ‘nothing to see here’. When a journalist breaks a story in the public interest, the same people are in full jackboot mode. Who protects the public from these fascist goons??
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Deny pairs, defeat the government in a no-confidence vote, force a general election.
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OK, I am stumped. Why did anyone vote for that smirking, shifty, shallowly ambitious, mendacious mediocrity? I simply do not get it.
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Any remotely sentient human can see Trump is insane and a threat to the world. Yet, a morally bankrupt Republican Party and right-wing media defends him to the death. Is anyone else deeply disturbed by this?? It is not normal.
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For the life of me, I can’t understand why Albanese and his government are not distancing themselves from America, which shows every sign of being a failed state. Keating was right. We need to find our peace and security within Asia.
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The real estate industry’s scare campaign on negative gearing reform is like the Pharmacy Guild’s apocalyptic warnings on 60-day prescriptions - dressing up self-interest as public interest. But our cynical media, anxious for clickbait, willingly takes the bait every time.
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