Paul Syvret
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Recovering former Murdoch columnist. Proud unionist @withMEAA & @CFMEUQNT , lover of cats, beaches, heavy metal, horror and Z grade films and cryptic crosswords.
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After a life-long habit (and a 30 year career in newspapers) that is it. Never buying the Sunday Mail again. Just vile.
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Few parliamentarians have the ability of Penny Wong to cut through so pointedly and eloquently on an issue:
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This may not be a popular opinion, but I would seriously vote for a party that promised to raise my tax rate - and kill off all the rorts - and spend it on real services, climate mitigation and social infrastructure.
#AusVotes2022
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I grew up in Queensland under Joh. I’ve followed and covered politics closely all my life. And I’ve not seen a government as brazenly corrupt, unaccountable and unapologetic as the gang of brigands and buffoons
#ScottyfromMarketing
leads since the days of Bjelke-Petersen.
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Is it just me, or is anyone else here getting a tad impatient for a chance to vote at a federal election?
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Oh well played. Annastacia Palaszczuk is doing her media conference in a warehouse with
#forklifts
whizzing around in the background. Quality trolling.🤣
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Oh ffs. The AFP acting commissioner just blamed the ABC for turning a police raid into a "public display". Fellas, you raided a media organisation ... and had the news cameras front and centre when union offices were being raided.
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If Christian Porter was a school teacher would this be playing out differently?
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A quick photo explainer on the Morrison government and women's voices in federal parliament:
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Have I got this right? The new Morrison ministry has a Youth Minister in his 60s, an "Emissions Reduction" Minister who supports building a new coal fired power station, and a Multicultural Affairs Minister who wants to deport Africans?
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While we’re all having a(nother) laugh at Barnaby Joyce and his “slightly tired and emotional” street theatre, it’s worth remembering that if that was an indigenous man lying tits up and pissed on the footpath he’d probably spend the night in a cell.
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I’m a former News Ltd journalist. I still have many friends (and very fine reporters) who work there. I have signed this petition for the very reasons
@MrKRudd
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Just imagine if we had really clever medical/engineering types here who could have developed an Australian designed RAT and we manufactured plentiful supplies locally … oh, wait. 🤦
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Last time I was “driven too far” I said bad words I quickly regretted and slept in the spare room. I did not incinerate my family.
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Let me get this right, NSW is introducing a mask mandate from midnight Monday, two months into an outbreak which is now producing 600+ cases a day? In SEQ (no community cases) you don't walk out the front door without a mask.
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We used to condescendingly refer to NZ as a “little brother”. These days they have every right to dismiss us as a slightly mad, angry old uncle.
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Imagine living in a country with the world’s biggest moat, and almost no cases of ‘rona. All you should need to nail this shit situation shut would be a secure national quarantine system and a federal government competent enough to deliver a reliable supply of vaccines. Bugger.
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The chief of Army doesn’t hold an assault rifle but you don’t see him fucking off to Hawaii when the troops he leads are in the firing line.
"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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For statistical purposes, the $3.7 million spent on the "Good Society" (including the now deleted
#milkshake
video) equates to about 740 Cartier watches.
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Wtaf is Scotty playing at by arguing the unvaccinated should enjoy the same freedoms as everyone else ... right at a time when state governments are desperately trying to battle hesitancy/refusal and lift vax rates. Grossly cynical and irresponsible politics.🤬
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The welcome you get when you are not a duplicitous pile of oleaginous shit with a permanently self-satisfied smirk ...
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In 30 odd years as a journalist I attended some odd press conferences, but that Hanson effort was a masterclass in loonfuckery.
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@TonyAbbottMHR
You’re trying to score political points from the death of one of Australia’s greatest public figures within hours of his passing? Hawke was a giant. You are a tawdry little pissant. Long may you rot in obscurity.
#BobHawke
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@TimSmithMP
@SpectatorOz
Few things say "loud, entitled and rich" quite like (drink)driving your Jaguar into the side of someone's house.
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Maybe Barnaby Joyce would find it easier to manage his affairs with a cashless debit card.
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A Prime Minister. Holding her baby. Condemning extremists, and embracing multiculturalism. God bless New Zealand.
"I think you'll see from the reaction they've had from New Zealanders that their views are not those that are shared by this country and I'm quite proud of that." - Prime Minister
@jacindaardern
when asked about Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux.
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You’d think a “Christian” would raise money to help vulnerable kids, not to fight a legal action to allow him to vilify them while keeping a $5 million job.
#IsraelFolau
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“ScoMosas”: best served with a side of rorti.
Sunday ScoMosas with mango chutney, all made from scratch - including the chutney! A pity my meeting with
@narendramodi
this week is by videolink. They’re vegetarian, I would have liked to share them with him.
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The fucker's going to do a runner isn't he?
#TrumpMeltdown
I’m taking this live shot of the White House, with a moving truck outside, as a good omen.
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I don't know that much about Michael Daley, but this short clip of him completely owning Alan Jones warms the heart.
WATCH | Labor leader Michael Daley tells
@AlanJones
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Full story + interview →
#nswpol
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Please correct me if I’m misreading this, but I’m assuming the noisy claque of conservatives angry about the intrusion into Gladys B’s private life were equally vociferous while the Gillard royal commission witch hunt over a 20 years past ex boyfriend was in full flight?
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So have we stared down the floods yet, or are we still taking wickets? Or are we living with the floods? I get confused.
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Rather intrigued that this hit job on Rachel Miller publishes her texts and emails in excruciating detail, but none of Tudge’s messages. 🤔
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I live in a city of 700k people. According to tracking sites the nearest place with RATs in stock is 100km away. I have a family member isolating in the spare room waiting on PCR results. Testing sites are overwhelmed. This “live with the virus” deal is a bit shit so far. 😡
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Please. Sign this petition. As a former News Corp assistant editor and columnist I can assure you our democracy needs to be cleansed of this cancer in its current form.
We just broke the record for biggest e-petition in the history of our national parliament. They hoped the people wouldn’t be interested. You proved them wrong.
We have 5 days left. Let’s push hard towards the half-million mark.
#MurdochRoyalCommission
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God this is tedious: Electric vehicles will destroy the weekend, $100 lamb roasts, the boats are coming, African gangs, the gays are grooming our kids, the black fellas want to steal your land, union thugs on the rampage, China wants to invade us ... 🥱
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I always dismissed Michael McCormack as a rather dim-witted boor, but this morning’s effort marks him more as a craven apologist for extremism.
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Let me get this right. Under Dutton’s border control regime coronavirus flies into the country, while two little (Australian born) girls and their parents spend Australia Day locked behind wire on Christmas Island?
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Prime Minister with a track record of lying, blame-shifting and never taking responsibility for anything urges Australians to take "personal responsibility" for their health. 🙄
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So what's Premier Berejiklian got in her diary for Monday? A picnic?
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The Barilaro hearing is entertaining, but just imagine watching Barnaby Joyce testifying at a federal ICAC hearing.
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Oh, THAT million dollar investment property ...
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If Australia is serious about exporting destructive military hardware, maybe we should just share our NBN with the rest of the world. That would totally fuck up an enemy wherever it was deployed.
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Ooh look: a fuckwit festival.
Thousands of anti government protesters have gathered at Melbourne’s State library to protest against vaccine mandates and the Victorian government’s proposed pandemic bill. Many anti vax signs among the crowd.
@theage
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If Mike O'Connor wants "sacrifice", I'm happy to forgo stage III tax cuts, double dip franking credits, discounted CGT, and negative gearing on multiple investment properties. Would also be prepared to wave goodbye to over-funding of rich private schools and tax-free churches.
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Am I one of the last people on the planet to still refer to the evening meal as “tea”?
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Maybe, with a bit of luck, we’ll get a ‘Morrison’ version of the ‘rona virus which does fuck all, then disappears when things go pear-shaped.
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Knock knock.
“Who’s there?”
“Scot.”
“Scot who?”
“ ‘Scot nothin’ to do with me, mate.”
#ScottyFromMarketing
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Who the absolute fuck allowed this poisonous puddle of fly-blown shit to jump the (long and expensive) queues and come to Australia?
#KatieHopkins
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Okay activist/progressive Twitter. Is it time to organise the mother of all national Right to Protest marches? Or do we just lie down and take this shit?
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On further reflection, I'm beginning to suspect Scotty's media team actually don't like the bloke very much.
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Why are we waiting to ban mass gatherings from Monday? Is the virus having a weekend off?
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@ScottMorrisonMP
And you had to be shamed into doing anything beyond sitting back on a beach chair in Hawaii and waiting for the Rapture.
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Forget the potential criminality at PwC, look at the “woke”. I’ve seen some unhinged takes in The Australian’s op-ed pages, but FFS.
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Overheard at Woolies this morning: “I’m not effing checking in, what if this is a hot spot and I get a message telling me to isolate? Eff that shit.”
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Tim Smith Offers To Travel To South Australia To Help Undermine Response To COVID Outbreak
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I worked in newspapers for 30 years (15 at News Ltd), and yes I used party drugs in my younger years. In fact I could fill half a newspaper with naming and shaming recreational drug users who happen to take a pay cheque from Murdoch.
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So in the event we do develop a
#COVID2019
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This would be hilarious if it wasn't so depressing.
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Niki Savva: "Spare us the hand-wringing. It was heartless and while opinions differ on the legality of the government’s actions, the fact is they are immoral and cowardly because of the Prime Minister’s critical failures to shoulder difficult tasks."
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I am so far quite impressed with the ScoMoFo government’s ability to meld almost slapstick incompetence with pure evil. It is an art.
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“Woke” as the first word in the lead par of a news story??? Adjectives of any sort are questionable enough, but seriously?
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@JohnRuddick2
I’m sure the rest of Sydney appreciates your efforts to have the lockdown extended until 2022. Pisswits.
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So wealthy private schools, billionaires and the likes of Hillsong and Royal Sydney Golf Club get to keep their Jobkeeper millions, while the government chases a dead woman for $1,600 (about a quarter the cost of Scotty's Fathers Day jaunt).
#robodebt
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"This behaviour is beyond reckless. It is beyond disgraceful. It is amoral and corrosive. And it needs to be called for what it is." | Katharine Murphy
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Queensland should do a deal with Ruby Berejiklian. We'll reopen the borders if, and only if, NSW agrees to take Pauline, Clive, Senator Tinfoil, the
#TuberFuhrer
and the Member for Manila off our hands. Fair?
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Are we now going to be treated to a torrent of news articles decrying the hotel quarantine failures and general bungling bastardry of the Marshall government in South Australia?
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Bugger all this panic Twitter. We could use a laugh. Anyone up for a
#ToiletPaperMovies
hashtag?
The Odd Angry Shit
Apoocalypse Now
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An epic ‘putting lipstick on a pig’ effort at the Oz this morning:
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“People Should Be Able To Say Whatever They Want, Unless It’s About Me In Filipino Strip Clubs”, George Christensen Says
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For those of us bespectacled types dealing with 'rona masks and foggy glasses, I can recommend rinsing the lenses in gin. Please don't ask how I discovered this.
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The bloke who personally and immediately intervenes with au pair girls’ visas has no oversight of a $400 million contract? Bullshit.
#auspol
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For those who may not have read the breathless "Chinese spy ship" story running large in all the Murdoch tabloids - the vessel was cruising off the coast in August/September. It is now nearly December.
#Distraction
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At risk of sounding slightly churlish, I have to say Gladys is starting to annoy me.
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A national “jobs hub”? We used to have one of those. It was called the CES ... until Howard killed it and outsourced jobseeker services to the private sector.
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