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Nephrologist & General Physician, Crime Survivor and Road Safety Advocate. I love evidence based original thought and civilised conversation. Opinions mine

Melbourne, Victoria
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@Natasha57932694
Natasha Cook
3 years
Just heard on the news that ice use in Victoria has risen 30% in the last 5 months and Melbourne has become the heroin capital of Australia. @DanielAndrewsMP your stunning list of achievements grows daily.
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2 years
In a nutshell-brilliant
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Natasha Cook
29 days
From this morning’s Age. Noice Thanks @VictorianLabor for letting us get held to ransom by a bunch of gangsters. Wondering where our colossal new Victorian taxes are going? Thrilled that the huge land taxes I pay now are going to these thugs. Bikie gangs JFC
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Natasha Cook
2 months
Black Star Pastry baristas wore keffiyehs to work at Chadstone Shopping Centre. The next day they were sacked. As they absolutely should be. The workplace is not a stage for activism
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Yet you happily left Victorians stranded and locked out of their own home state when you hysterically closed the border over a virus. We all remember Dan
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Dan Andrews
2 years
With tens of thousands of Ukrainians currently fleeing their home, Victoria stands ready to help. We'll work with the Commonwealth Government wherever possible to welcome families seeking either temporary shelter, or to find a new permanent home here in our state.
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Natasha Cook
10 months
60 percent of Northern Territorians voted No. Are they racist?
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Natasha Cook
3 years
The respect afforded by MSM especially ABC towards John Setka and his opinions is staggering-in spite of alleged family violence offences.
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Natasha Cook
1 year
So my land tax bill this year is double last year. Has the value of property doubled? I don't think so. @DanielAndrewsMP you're a wicked thief. Why should I pay for your criminal incompetence in running this state?
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Natasha Cook
8 months
So do the Pro Palestinian protesters think disrupting Carols by Candelight, a charity for Vision Australia attended by families with small children will win them friends in Melbourne? 🙄
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Natasha Cook
2 years
My daughter has done an early morning nursing shift and could be called into do night shift tonight, which will wreck the first of her days off as well as being very unsafe. @DanielAndrewsMP I hate your vax mandates and covid isolation rules for the harm they are causing
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Gemma has nailed it-Scott Morrison’s power grab is a storm in a teacup compared to Daniel Andrews’ battle to keep his Covid papers secret | Sky News Australia
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Natasha Cook
8 months
Anyone bothered by this?
@BBCarlill
Dr Bren Carlill
8 months
The same Hamas official that has promised repeats of the 7 October massacre has personally thanked Australia for its support for the UN resolution aimed at keeping Hamas in power. #auspol
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Natasha Cook
2 years
My youngest was shamed for coughing in maths yesterday. I have to let her stay home today for a complex mix of biological, psychological and social reasons none of which are COVID19. No more chin up up and off you go The new culture and pitiful state of education in Danistan 🙄🤬
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Natasha Cook
2 years
My daughter went to the comedy festival last night and sent me this from a grungy Fitzroy Pub - I fear for us 🙄
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Dan do you realise how repulsive this kind of opportunism is to many?
@DanielAndrewsMP
Dan Andrews
2 years
I've spoken with the Warne family again today and they have accepted my offer of a State Funeral to remember Shane. It will be an opportunity for Victorians to pay tribute to his contribution to his sport, to our state and the country. Details will be finalised in coming days.
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Natasha Cook
2 years
LOL @4corners Monique Ryan drives to a dinner to thank her campaigners in a gas guzzling Audi Q7
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Natasha Cook
2 years
I want to be ⁦⁦ @JNampijinpa ⁩ when I grow up.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 Go fearless girl! Jacinta Price tells Penny Wong Australia does not need a First Nations Ambassador | Daily Mail Online
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Had a dozen fine young men around to celebrate my son’s 17th birthday. No alcohol and they were happy hanging out, playing pool, eating wood fired pizza and ice cream cake. Each one hunted for me to say thanks when they left. So glad they had fun after all they’ve endured
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Natasha Cook
3 years
PM Morrison refers to parents of 5-11yo having the CHOICE to vaccinate their kids for COVID19 with the Pfizer vaccine. Will it be a choice nationwide and not a mandate?
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Natasha Cook
2 years
@MagilaVera Vaccinated healthcare worker here but stand by your right to decline as for any other treatment we offer. Very concerned about what has happened to you and what losing all these teachers means for kids in terms of learning benchmarks and general health and wellbeing.
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Natasha Cook
3 years
My 74 yo mother with no symptoms drove around for five hours today trying to get a COVID test just for being a distant contact of a household contact of a case. This shit show gets more absurd daily. 🙄
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Natasha Cook
3 years
10000 gathered sprawling drunk and gambling at the Melbourne Cup before I can attend to my haggard crone locks at the hairdresser. @DanielAndrewsMP I dislike you more than my recurrently sprouting rogue facial hair. I wake up every morning feeling like I can’t face the day
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Natasha Cook
2 years
OMG what a shit show in Victorian hospitals right now. My 6mo out baby grad nurse daughter has to stay back to do a night after an afternoon shift. And be the nurse in charge of her ward!
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Natasha Cook
3 years
The CFMEU standover man is still talking about fruit picking in Mildura for MEMBERS who protested (even if not violent right wing extremist). We have a problem if union administration can expel somebody from the entire industry for disagreeing with government
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Natasha Cook
3 years
My son’s independent school is having a “Zoom free” day today for mental health. Ie no teacher contact. My fees at work. Of course the kids won’t be on screens of any sort 🙄 @DanielAndrewsMP congratulations! You’ve destroyed state and private education
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Sent to me by my 16 yo son ⁦ @DanielAndrewsMP ⁩. This is what the kids think of your policies. Worth noting some of them aren’t far off voting
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Joe nails it again. Joe Hildebrand: Australia’s panicked reaction to case numbers exposes an inconvenient truth via @newscomauHQ
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Says @CathLAndrews "This incident happened 10 years ago. I have no further comment" Despicable comment. It certainly isn't over for the young man whose life has been irreversibly altered. She needs to attend a Road Trauma Awareness Seminar and learn about the ripple impact
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Natasha Cook
7 months
60 masked Neo Nazis is terrible according to our PM and our ABC (and it is) but thousands of Hamas supporters is legit 🙄🙄🙄
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Natasha Cook
11 months
“If we chose to serve Australians on the basis of need not race, the opportunists would disappear quick smart” Jacinta Price just now at the National Press Club. Impressive!
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Natasha Cook
3 years
My son had a house incursion at his boys’ grammar school today called “Tomorrow Man”. They had their fingernails painted pink to challenge male stereotypes. Stop the world, I want to get off!
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Natasha Cook
4 months
A little unexpected from ⁦ @AlboMP ⁩ who wanted his colleagues to “smash” Sussan Ley. But hey she’s just a Liberal right? A crumb maiden 🙄
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Lucy in medicine we use the term vaccine hesitant. They are a heterogeneous group and any ethical medical care mandates free informed consent. For a lady of privilege with an education that’s a very unsophisticated tweet-the stuff of witch hunts
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Lucy Turnbull AO
3 years
Can we all now agree that anti vaxxers should be discouraged and condemned, strongly and forcefully, whoever and wherever they are, by all political leaders? Not just selectively.
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Natasha Cook
10 months
How DARE you do this @LordMayorMelb ? It is beyond belief after the barbarous mass murder of Israelis by Hamas. WHY are you picking this side NOW? You are employed by tax paying Jewish Melburnians and this is flagrant emotional abuse while the are hurting
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Never forget
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Qian Bai Wan
2 years
@DanielAndrewsMP “We should always look to peaceful resolutions of conflicts, not violence or aggression - unless you live in Victoria and don’t follow my orders” #DanielAndrewsMP
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Natasha Cook
11 months
LOL “You're the voice, try and understand it” and even better “We can write what we want to write” 😂😂😂
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Is beer the only thing you think Victorians are concerned about you absolutely tone deaf fool? You think you can train us with treats like dogs? You kept bottle shops open so people have slabs of VB in the fridge and drinking to excess. We want schools open and to visit family
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Dan Andrews
3 years
If you want to get on the beers, we've all got to get on the vaccines.
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Natasha Cook
3 years
My husband survived the fall of Saigon and offshore detention as a child before making a productive life in this country that he loves. 5 years ago today a drunk heroin addict ended life for him as he knew it. Small mercy he smiles and doesn’t know but we lost him that day
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Natasha Cook
4 months
Extremely sad. Why do we always have to hear “partner” though when she was a wife of many years? Sick of disrespectful non gendered language. Bev Brock, longtime partner of Peter Brock, dead | Herald Sun
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Just voted at pre poll. Josh Frydenberg standing beside my gorgeous young local Liberal candidate and her Mum, graciously and humbly greeting voters as they entered the booths. What an absolute legend and team player. Still reeling from our loss in Kooyong💙😥
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Anyone else feeling especially agitated about perpetual lockdown because it is an especially splendid sunny day today? @DanielAndrewsMP the beautiful city I call my home is far to precious for you to remain its mean spirited custodian a moment longer
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Natasha Cook
2 years
According to @abcnews the Victorian state govt "chipped in" to bring Billy Joel to Melbourne. Genuine question - how much and why would that need subsidisation with public money?
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Natasha Cook
11 months
@ProfPCDoherty @ConversationEDU So Prof you are aware of an evidence base for the benefits of mask wearing to walk your dog at 6am, close playgrounds, close schools while brothels were open and shout at the public for viewing sunsets? I’m a mere nephrologist but I don’t
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Who actually watches the Logies in 2022 or even Lisa Wilkinson for that matter? 😂
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Natasha Cook
3 years
“We are one and free” - hopefully we will be again one day @DanielAndrewsMP when finally you lose the power to divide and take our freedom
@RitaPanahi
Rita Panahi
3 years
Just heard this protest described as “hundreds of people” on Melbourne radio.🧐 Amazing how peaceful a protest can be when police don’t go charging in with pepperball rounds.
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Has to be seen to believed! Anybody know what this cost and who pays?
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Natasha Cook
1 year
@DrLoupis Honestly I'm not speaking with any medical knowledge here at all but what happens to the baby when the birth parent takes the doses of Reandron trans men usually take? Long term safety data???
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Natasha Cook
4 years
@RitaPanahi Those visors are meant to be worn standing upright; they are doing absolutely nothing in that position except making those poor babies very uncomfortable. More futile, crazy and cruel procedure arising from COVID19 hysteria
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Natasha Cook
2 years
100m from my home while I was sleeping. Feral. Change has certainly come to Kooyong. How come ⁦ @Mon4Kooyong ⁩ “s corflutes are so pristine?
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Wrong, everyone owes another person courtesy and respect, if only because we have respect for ourselves
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Natasha Cook
3 years
WTF is wrong with being outdoors and enjoying a beautiful sunset masked and distanced?! @DanielAndrewsMP you don’t own the sky. I enjoyed a beautiful one with my dog and other families against the city skyline from a Surrey Hills vantage point. So shove it
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🌸Valerie🌸
3 years
Another forbidden thing in Victoria: 🌞 do not watch sunsets 🌞 … as it’s not within the “rules” of #dictatordan The message is clear: stop living! #tippingpoint #letherrip
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2 years
Well heeled Surrey Hills residents impacted by night crossing works noise are being offered apartment accomodation in Box Hill by the Victorian State Labor Govt. I shit you not! While homeless can be found sleeping rough in Wattle Park in freezing cold 🙄🙄🙄
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Natasha Cook
2 years
The sycophants of @DanielAndrewsMP maybe celebrating 4 more years of institutionalised laziness and handouts, but core Liberal values get my children get out of bed in the morning to lead gainful productive lives in spite of losing their father and 2 years of crushing lockdown
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Natasha Cook
5 months
Australia’s bloated public service exposed in damning new figures Victoria leads the way at 21%…who would have thought? 🙄
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Natasha Cook
26 days
Rubbish. The rottenness and criminality of the CFMEU has been common knowledge for years. She was lying through her teeth. And if she wasn’t she has miserably failed workers like the young man working for the Aboriginal construction company who was bullied and then overdosed
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Sahar Adatia
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No matter how firmly Sally McManus reiterated she was not aware of CFMEU organised crime allegations, Sarah Ferguson persisted in pushing unfounded assertions. No evidence. Just speculation. Sally is an exemplary leader – conscientious, compassionate & principled #abc730 #auspol
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Dan Andrews on @abcnews just now re ongoing vaccination mandates but zero isolation requirements -“The last thing we want is health care workers to make their patients sick” Foolish and totally flies in the face of facts. Who on earth still listens to @DanielAndrewsMP ?
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Feeling a bit shit this morning. Ducked out of my clinic room for an extra cup of tea and got confronted with this. Losing all reason to hope
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Exactly @DanielAndrewsMP you’ve imprisoned us for 3 months and finally concede this on a day we reach triple figures again. You have failed on every front and destroyed us. You will go down in history as the most cruel, incompetent and Stalinist premier in Australia of all time.
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Supermarkets are crowded indoor Meccas whilst everything is shut. Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could celebrate spring with the return of a few open air farmer’s markets?
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Natasha Cook
4 years
Tomorrow the drunk heroin addicted driver who destroyed my husband and inflicted perpetual trauma on my family finishes his 3.5 year sentence. I don’t know why I’m so impacted when he’s probably just been doing covid safe chats with his parole officer all this year, but I am
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Not Murdoch @MrKRudd
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Paulo
2 years
@Natasha57932694 #rottenlabor let’s get it trending!
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Yet my clinics remain virtually empty with Telehealth still largely replacing face to face-because of directives to “reduce foot traffic”
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Dan Andrews
2 years
Round 1, back at the 'G. Right where footy belongs.
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Do you have an evidence base for this Brett? Do share
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Chief Health Officer, Victoria
2 years
We've still got 7,000 cases a day, and children aged 5 to 11 currently have the lowest vaccination coverage. So this is a proportionate measure, for their protection and for ours. It won't be forever.   My primary school-aged kids have worked masks into their usual routine. 1/2
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2 years
This is good isn’t it @KKeneally @tanya_plibersek @SenatorWong ? It’s important for women in politics to stand up to bullying
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Bridget Rollason
2 years
Former Labor MP @KaushaliyaMP has given notice of her motion in parliament to accuse @DanielAndrewsMP of a "systematic bulling campaign" against her by seeking to "undermine, isolate and exclude her" which she claims was allowed to continue for two years. @abcmelbourne #springst
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Natasha Cook
3 years
I’m not sure what the current unvaccinated rate is in Victorian 16-18 year olds @DanielAndrewsMP but even if it is “only” 10 percent or even as low as 5%, that’s a lot of young people at low risk of serious disease to exclude from life entirely. Not objectively justifiable
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Hopefully the truth will set us all free ⁦ @AlboMP ⁩ ⁦ @JacintaAllanMP ⁩ scrapping the ABCC Pretty dumb wasn’t it? And Jacinta you can’t fib and deflect your way out of this
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Premier can’t say if Melbs lockdown ending Tuesday. As if he hasn’t already decided.
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Natasha Cook
1 year
When level crossing removal CFMEU members take over your favourite cafe in Surrey Hills 🙄
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Anyone still need convincing of how corrupt and rotten the current administration is? Thoughts @PRGuy17 ? Police were prevented from arresting Labor MPs over ‘red shirts’ rort: documents - The Age
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Received from my son as I slaves in clinic. Shame on us
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Interesting juxtaposition of headlines. Sums up a few of your stellar achievements ⁦ @DanielAndrewsMP
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Has anybody else observed what a bogan accent the Queen of Queensland has?. And how dare she go on about the Pfizer supply after snatching a dose when she was age ineligible?
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Just had to flash my vax passport at Officeworks buying school stationery with the 13yo. What if we didn’t have them? Are school supplies not essential?
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3 years
Why ⁦ @DanielAndrewsMP ⁩ ?
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Natasha Cook
1 year
For those happily burning Gladys at the stake but proclaiming Dan innocent. Comparing IBAC in Vic with ICAC in NSW is like comparing apples and oranges 🙄 Gladys Berejiklian ICAC report: Corruption literally means something different in Victoria
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Natasha Cook
11 months
Another waste of space drug affected driver causes more carnage in the CBD. We criticise Americans for not changing their gun laws while we continue to stand by and do nothing about vermin drug addicts and alcoholics getting in cars. Special place in hell for these people
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Natasha Cook
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Norm Gallagher the BLF king actually did jail time for comparatively less than the current major CFMEU players. Back then we still had a functioning society
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Natasha Cook
3 years
I’m disgusted- ABC just identified the 2 COVID in Melbs cases from Sydney in every way short of name-we got age, suburb of party attended in Sydney, Melbourne workplace (complete with footage of the business premise-twice!) Can they please stop hurting people??
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Rip off
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Amazing! The Drum is having a big discussion about it being unhelpful to brand vaccine hesitant people “anti vaxxers” Ah der!!! How long have sensible humane people been saying this? So supercilious! You’d think they’d invented the wheel 🙄
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Natasha Cook
28 days
I would actually have some respect for Tony Burke if he dares to deregister the CFMEU as Bob Hawke did the BLF…. #insiders
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Natasha Cook
1 year
@ThePosieParker You should be home with them instead of on a world hate tour
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Natasha Cook
10 months
Are we paying a terrorist sympathiser ?
@Kidcowboy2
KidCowboy🤠
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This cunt 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Natasha Cook
1 year
Don’t come to my house. If you do I will certainly vote no. ! Has door knocking on behalf of a sitting MP ever been a thing leading up to a referendum?
@Mon4Kooyong
Dr Monique Ryan MP
1 year
✅ First day of doorknocking for the Voice officially done! We’re on our way to doorknocking the whole of Kooyong. It’s for all of us to walk together with First Nations Australians and vote Yes in the Voice referendum.
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Natasha Cook
2 years
What have you done Julian?
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Julian Burnside
2 years
What has Hillsong done to help victims of the floods?
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Natasha Cook
3 years
You sound like a spoiled, bored, petulant and disengaged child not mature or dedicated enough for the duty that comes with the honour of being an elected representative of the people of Victoria
@SamanthaRatnam
Samantha Ratnam
3 years
A quick update from Vic Parliament as we debate the pandemic bill. We are 6 hours into the committee stage (where questions can be asked of govt). Still on clause #1 . Looks like it will be a long night ahead! #springst
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Natasha Cook
3 years
Sunsets are best in good company ⁦ @DanielAndrewsMP ⁩ .
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Natasha Cook
3 years
“Just had a Karen yell at me to wear a mask lol” The text from my cheeky 16 yo boy. He was out walking and more than likely running with our dog. Me says “I warned you” but honestly, Melbourne is a horrible place right now
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Natasha Cook
2 years
Saw an elderly person with a spray can in broad daylight spraying “Vote Josh out” on a large brick walk in Camberwell Rd. Are we OK with this? Is this the generation expressing concern for the next generations through climate action? Is this part of the teal campaign?
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Natasha Cook
2 years
My absolute favourite ( unless of course you pay for it)
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3 years
He’s a delight isn’t he?
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