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I asked Father Bob if he would marry us in his church even though we were from different faiths. Quick as a flash he said, “don’t worry about all that, if you truly love each other, then I will do the deed”. 20 years later we are still going strong! Thanks again Father Bob. ♥️
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On this day in Oct. 1969, Zelda D’Aprano chained herself to the Commonwealth Building to protest for equal pay for women workers. RT if you think this act of courage should be commemorated in a memorial in
@cityofmelbourne
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Are you with me?
Queens Birthday is the cherry on top of a mountain of royal anachronisms that Australia still wallows in 227 years after English settlement.
Let's replace it with Reconciliation Day
#auspol
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The buzz is coming back Melbourne. Get amongst it!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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The Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne is surely the world’s most beautiful mass vaccination hub. DISCUSS
Props to the amazing people at
@StVincentsMelb
who are doing an great job running this centre.
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🧐COMPARE THE PAIR 😲Blue Liberals and Teal Independents out campaigning in Kooyong, Higgins and Goldstein. If volunteer numbers are a key indicator then
@LiberalAus
are in deep trouble!
#auspol
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WARNING: If you get sent a link to listen to the new Ed Sheeran and Elton John Christmas song, don't open it. It's a link to listen to the new Ed Sheeran and Elton John Christmas song.
#Christmas2021
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The
@cityofmelbourne
has voted to terminate it’s sister city relationship with St Petersburg. We do this as a symbol of our outrage at Russia’s illegal and immoral aggression against the people of Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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Two hour queue to vote in Docklands after
@AusElectoralCom
failed to set up a polling booth in the CBD. This is unacceptable in a democracy, especially given we have compulsory voting.
#auspol
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50 NEW UNITS IN THE CBD FOR MELBOURNE'S HOMELESS. Really proud of this one! Props to
@LordMayorMelb
for driving this. Thank you
@rwynnemp
for supporting.
#makeroom
#springst
#auspol
Melbourne is a caring city, and everyone deserves access to a clean, safe place to stay and support services. That’s why we’re converting a city building to provide supported accommodation for those experiencing long-term homelessness in Melbourne. 🏘️
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Julia Gillard has managed the period post prime minister better than recent leaders. She is not one of the “miserable ghosts”
My column today.
#auspol
#SpeersonSunday
#insiders
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In the Wurundjeri calendar there are seven seasons and the month of August is a season of its own. Called Guling its marked by yellow wattle bursting into colour, orchids flowering and male koalas bellowing at night. Happy Guling!
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Here it is!
You’re the Voice that can change history.
Thank you John Farnham!🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍
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Almost 20 years later…
Please join Michael Long as he begins another 650km trek to Canberra to support the YES campaign for the VOICE.
Melbourne Town Hall
10AM Sunday, 27 Aug
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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To be sure,
@cityofmelbourne
has voted to support the YES campaign for the vote on the Voice to Parliament. This includes an education campaign to empower people to make an informed vote.
#auspol
#VoiceToParliament
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Jacinda Ardern: As a politician you can appeal to people’s fear and prejudice and you can do well. Or you can try another way, by appealing to hope and kindness and love and sympathy...
#auspol
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The saddest of nights in Melbourne with buildings light blue for the fallen
@VictoriaPolice
. Our thoughts and hearts are with them, their families and all police who put themselves on the line to keep us safe.
#VictoriaPolice
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The JOHN CURTIN HOTEL is one of Melbourne’s most loved live music venues.
@cityofmelbourne
has granted the building interim “SIGNIFICANT” HERITAGE listing. With the building up FOR SALE, any application for redevelopment will be VERY CAREFULLY considered by our team!
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My
#LabourDay
column: The Eight Hour Working Day is arguably Australia's greatest contribution to humanity. Won by the union movement in an era when Australia was seen as a "workers paradise". We should celebrated it more!
#auspol
#vicpol
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Quotas deliver again for Labor.
The first party to have 50% of its leadership team made up of former Sky News hosts.
Maybe there is hope for me yet! 😂🤣
#auspol
@SkyNewsAust
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Vale Sisto Malaspina.
The godfather of Melbourne coffee. The original barista.
@cityofmelbourne
will not be the same.
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Something to cheer for!
While Melbourne is in iso,
@cityofmelbourne
is fast tracking 40 km of new bike lanes.
These new separated lanes on Swanston St by
@unimelb
complete a missing link in the network. Hooray!!! 🚴 🚴🏻♀️🚴🚴🏾♂️🚴🏻♀️🚴🏾♂️🚴🏻♀️🚴🚴🏾♂️🚴🏿♀️
#buildbackbetter
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The fact I had just been on
@SkyNewsAust
criticising an
@TheIPA
report makes Gideon’s defence of me against the trolls even more laudable. Thanks mate, very decent of you.
I don't know who needs to hear this but quit demanding that
@SkyNewsAust
boot off
@Nicholas_Reece
. Nick is a good bloke, a great Australian, and shows up week after week to put an alternative point of view.
Right-wing cancel culture is as bad as left-wing cancel culture.
#pmlive
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In the other big election result today, I am honoured and humbled to be elected Deputy Lord Mayor of
@cityofmelbourne
Congrats to
@Sallycapp
and elected Councillors.
Huge job ahead with economic recovery, but as the greatest city in the world we are poised for the comeback!
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Jacinda Ardern prime minister of Australasia? If only it was that simple | Nicholas Reece
Feedback welcome!
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PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC in Melbourne for FEB 2023 was HIGHER than FEB 2019 (100.7%). First time we have had a month that was higher than pre-pandemic. It has been a hard road but MELBOURNE IS BACK!!! Lots more still to do but this is a milestone to be proud of. 👏🏾👏🏻👏👏🏾👏👏🏻
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You will all have a special place in our family story and in hearts of all of us.
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Following the Vietnam War, Australia accepted 70,000 refugees.
Following the Afghanistan War, the Morrison Govt agreed to accept 3,000 refugees.
(Canada and Britain have already agreed to 20,000)
SURELY WE CAN DO BETTER!!!
#auspol
#Afghanistan
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Melbourne stands with the people of Ukraine.
@cityofmelbourne
has just voted to suspend our sister city relationship with St Petersburg.
#Ukraine
#auspol
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GLORIOUS NEW BLUESTONE! Each year
@cityofmelbourne
allocates funding to replace asphalt footpath with sawn bluestone paving. Street by street, block by block, we are getting the job done. 🚧👷🏽♀️💪
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In QLD the Libs say Labor does not support the Adani mine.
In VIC the Greens say it is Labor’s Adani mine.
Confused? 🤔
🤥🤥🤥
#Auspol
#ausvotes
#AUSVote2019
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On Tuesday the Morrison Govt is turning off community tv in Australia,
@C31Melbourne
@44adelaide
for NO reason.
That’s exactly what the country needs now, another 1,000 media jobs gone ...NOT!
Ping:
@ScottMorrisonMP
@PaulFletcherMP
#SaveCommunityTv
#auspol
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Ballarat 1854: “My fellow diggers, irrespective of nationality, religion, and colour, salute the Southern Cross as the refuge of all the oppressed from all the countries on earth” - Raffaello Carboni
Canberra 2022: Southern Cross banned on building sites - Morrison Govt
#auspol
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RECORD crowds in Melbourne in recent days. Foot traffic across
@cityofmelbourne
on Friday was 122%, Saturday 131%, and Sunday 175% of pre-Covid levels!!! Soooo good to see.
THANK YOU event organisers (the best in the biz).
THANK YOU MELBOURNE. ❤️❤️❤️👏🏻👏🏾👏
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After a pretty rough 2020 and 2021, Melbourne has had an impressive 2022. Scoreboard:
-Most liveable city in Australia (Economist)
-Coolest neighbourhood in Australia (Time Out)
-Friendliest city in the world (William Russel)
-Most LGBTIQ+ friendly city in Aus (Big 7 Travel)
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“Two years into the pandemic and Australia’s federal system of government is struggling with some of the most basic elements of pandemic response”. Feedback welcome.
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As part of
@cityofmelbourne
commitment to reconciliation and truth telling we support the dawn service & acknowledge 26 January as a historical Day of Mourning for Aboriginal people.
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ON THIS DAY IN 1856, stonemasons working at
@UniMelb
downed tools and marched to
@VicParliament
to demand an 8 Hour Working Day. Delighted to join all walks of civil society to celebrate and reflect 167 years later.
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SOME GOOD NEWS: The
@abcnews
has come to its senses and will continue with local weekend TV news bulletins. Local news & local stories are so important to the fabric of the States, Territories and Cities of Australia. Thank you ABC!
👏👏🏻👏🏾🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏
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A big thank you to Fed Labor,
@billshortenmp
&
@Keir4Melbourne
for $5m for Moonee Ponds Creek. Let’s bring back the pobblebonk frogs, the rufus night heron and other wildlife that once frequented this waterway.
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In the Wurundjeri calendar the month of August is a season of its own: called Guling Season its marked by wattle bursting into colour, orchids flowering and male koalas bellowing at night.
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151 wonderful people from 43 nations became Australian citizens today . When this family from Ukraine 🇺🇦 took the oath there was a standing ovation. And some of us may have shed a tear 🥲. This is who we are Australia! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@cityofmelbourne
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A HISTORIC DAY in the fight against future pandemics with
@VicGovAu
funding the building of a new Australian Institute of Infectious Disease.
CONGRATS to
@TheDohertyInst
@BurnetInstitute
@UniMelb
#auspol
#covid19
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After two decades of arguing for strong borders, Conservatives now want open borders. Hmmm.
#QueenslandVotes
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At what point does Victoria say to the Commonwealth of Australia, enough to is enough. Is it time for a Vexit? My column today. Feedback welcome.
#auspol
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Last night
@cityofmelbourne
further strengthened Heritage protections for John Curtin Hotel. 💪🏼💪🏾💪
Importantly, we now recognise its significance as a “LIVE MUSIC VENUE” as a reason for protection. Thanks to
@MusicVictoria
, National Trust,
@VicUnions
🙏
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Sooo good. Bike bus Barcelona!
Tell me this isn’t the best “traffic” you’ve ever seen. A school “bike bus” in Barcelona, happens each Friday & has been growing from an initial 5 kids when it started. Safety in numbers — do you really think you couldn’t do this in your city? Via
@lljunca
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@sallymcmanus
brandishes her Medicare Card at the Bob Hawke memorial at
@VicUnions
Hall in
@cityofmelbourne
“This was his greatest legacy for working people, universal health care for all”
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BREAKING:COMMUNITY TV SAVED!
@C31Melbourne
@44adelaide
win last minute reprieve on 30 June shutdown.
1,000 media jobs saved, youngsters to still get that first break, and Yiayia can still watch Greek Church on Sunday=WIN!
Thanks:
@MartinFoleyMP
@PaulFletcherMP
@LordMayorMelb
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ZELDA D’APRANO
Feminist, Unionist, Champion of Human Rights in Australia.
“No more male & female rates - Only one rate.”
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Does
@JoshFrydenberg
have a bad case of premature-electioneering or does he know something about the poll date we don’t? 😂
#auspol
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THREE CHEERS FOR THE JOHN CURTIN HOTEL!
Heritage win for Bob Hawke’s watering hole
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100,000 people on Lonsdale Street for the Antipodes Festival 🇬🇷🇦🇺
Huge cheers at the unveiling of the new Parthenon Marbles frieze at The Greek Centre. 🏛️
Britain must return this treasure of antiquity to Athens! 🌿
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Best thing I did today!
#2
Props to the wonderful people from
@western_health
at Melb Showgrounds.
Book online or 1800 675 398.
We got this!!!!
#COVID19
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Channel 31 must be saved! With local newspapers closing & creative industries hit hard we need community TV more than ever.
RT to get the message thru to the Morrison Govt before it pulls the plug on 30 JUNE !
#SaveChannel31
#auspol
#springst
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Multifaith leaders gather at Town Hall for the “Together for Reconciliation: THE VOICE” event. Welcome Rev Helen Summers, Fr Frank Brennan, Bishop Philip Huggins, Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann, Mohamed Mohideen, Aunty Joy Wandin Murphy, and Aunty Helen Bnads. VOTE YES is unifying message!
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@CroweDM
Australia's oldest and busiest public library, when it opened in 1854 it was one of the first free public libraries in the world. A testimony to the spirit and ambition of Australia in colonial times.
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Has
#Covid_19
positive Australian Home Affairs Minister
@PeterDutton_MP
infected the Trump White House? Here he is with
@IvankaTrump
6 days ago!!!!
#auspol
#USA
#Trumpdemic
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Feminist, unionist and equal pay legend
#ZeldaDaprano
will be immortalised in a memorial at Trades Hall.
What better way to celebrate
#IWD
2022!
Well done
@GabbyWilliamsMP
@clareawright
@lhilakari
and everyone from Monument of Ones Own. 💜✊🏾💜✊🏻💜✊
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Wellington Lee has passed away aged 97. Lee was a long serving city councillor, deputy Lord Mayor, pharmacist, RAAF Officer and RSL Exec member. In 1977 he was one of the first ever Australians of Asian background to be elected. A legend, a champion, on so many levels. Vale.
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This year, don’t forget to put out the cookies, carrots and QR code for Santa and his reindeers. 🎅🏻 🦌🦌🦌 😉
Most of all, have a very Merry Christmas!!! 🎄🤗🎄❤️
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Deeply saddened to learn of the death of Professor Marian Simms, one of the giants of Australian Political Science. A trailblazer for women she co-wrote the pioneering account of women in Australian politics, A Woman’s Place (1984). She will be missed by many.
#auspol
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Next Tuesday
@cityofmelbourne
will vote on whether to commission a new statue of leading suffragette Vida Goldstein. Only 10 of the 581 statues in the city are of real women.
>>> RT if you think the Council should vote YES.
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Well done
@unimelb
and
@cityofmelbourne
for this community partnership with CLAN to deliver 90 computers to local families with school-aged children in the Carlton Estate, plus digital literacy training to support them. I could probably benefit from that training as well! 😊
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On Monday at 12pm I will join the
#March4Justice
to demand the Government act on gendered violence.
The women of Australia and their supporters have had enough.
#EnoughIsEnough
#auspol
#springst
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If you are lucky enough to be in Melbourne tonight, then please have a treat on us.
We’re shouting 20% of your food and drinks bill if you spend more than $50 within the
@cityofmelbourne
with a maximum rebate of $100.
Visit: for details.
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This Sunday is Victorian Mosque Open Day.
The Islamic community are inviting us into their place of worship.
Show your solidarity, celebrate our common humanity. We will never be defeated by hate.
…
#christchurch
#vmod
#auspol
#springst
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#Fearlessgirl
unveiled in
@cityofmelbourne
. Glad to be here with my own girls. May they be fearless too!
#auspol
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The wheels of democracy continue to turn at Town Hall.
Even in a pandemic the wonders of digital technology allow debate and decision making to occur.
It’s not that hard
#auspol
!
@cityofmelbourne
@Aust_Parliament
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My column: Let’s make the 2020s the decade Australia gets its mojo back, starting with a Climate and Energy Accord.
via
@theage
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The footpaths of Australia's cities are precious public space, and this is a victory for the millions of people who use them every day.
Well done
@cityofmelbourne
@cityofsydney
@brisbanecityqld
!!!
#auspol
#springst
#nswpol
#qldpol
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Here is a summary of the voting recommendations from newspaper editorials across the country.
Discuss.
#ausvotes
#AusVotes2019
#auspol
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GET VAXXED MELBOURNE! 💪🏻
AstraZeneca is now available for 18-39 yr olds at State run centres in
@cityofmelbourne
. ✅
📍Royal Exhibition Building
📍Melbourne Showgrounds
📍Convention Centre
Book your / our ticket to FREEDOM here: ✊🏾✊✊🏻
#COVID19
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Christian, Jewish, Sikh and Buddhist, religous, political and community leaders all expressed their solidarity with Muslims at the vigil tonight. This is love in action. This is community at its finest.
#Christchurch
Vigil
@cityofmelbourne
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Here's something to smile about. A new river front park for Melbourne, right in the heart of Southbank. Absolute riverfront. So good
@cityofmelbourne
!!!!
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BIGGEST EVER CROWD for a
@TheMatildas
Game👏🏽⚡️⚡️50,629 ⚡️⚡️👏🏽
In Melbourne of course!!!
#FIFAWomensWorldCup
@cityofmelbourne
💛💚
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Best thing I did today!
Props to the great people from
@western_health
at Melbourne Showgrounds.
Book online or 1800 675 398 or just walk in. We got this!
#COVID19
#COVID19Vic
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In 1945 Menzies introduced gender quotas for
@LiberalAus
internal party positions, the most progressive in the world. Decades of electoral success followed. Now “anti-quota” is an article of faith for Libs. 🤔
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Three cheers for VIDA! 🙌🏼
Tonight the
@cityofmelbourne
voted to commission a statue of Vida Goldstein. An absolute world champion for women’s rights and democracy! 💜Thank you to everyone who made this possible! 🙏
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The Melbourne vigil for lives lost in the Christchurch Mosques:
Monday 18 March, 630pm
State Library, Swanston St
Stand in solidarity for those who lost their lives, for our common humanity, for the triumph of love over hate.
#springst
#auspol
#Christchurch
@cityofmelbourne
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It’s the vibe of the thing!
Today I officially announced my candidacy for Lord Mayor in the City of Melbourne elections later this year.
Let’s Get Good Done.
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If
@peterdutton
has Covid-19 and there was a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday does the PM and federal cabinet now self isolate?! What about the Premiers who attended COAG today!!!
#auspol
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@SkyNewsAust
Bronwyn, climate change is not socialism, it’s science.
I hope some kid puts that on a sign tomorrow.
#ClimateStrike
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@cityofmelbourne
has called for the
#JobSeeker
payment to be continued.
Cutting it on 25 Sept is too soon and too harsh - it will hurt our local economy and actually add to unemployment at the worst possible time.
Don’t just take my word for it:
@ACOSS
@D_AccessEcon
#auspol
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Aunty Joy welcome to country. “We may feel differently about today, but I choose to be here, to stand along side you, so we can come together.”
@cityofmelbourne
#AustraliaDay2019
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Is
@RealMarkLatham
a freedom fighter or a book burner?
Last week freedom of speech was under threat from wokeness, this week books should be banned.
You can’t have it both ways!
#auspoI
#nswpol
#historywars
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Farewell Father Bob. People’s priest, patron of the unloved and the unlovely. You loved us, and we loved you.
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