As an Australian, I don't feel terrorised by Hamas, Hezbollah or the Houthis.
But I do live in abject fear & terror of the Australian Govt &the politicians who seek to jail those who oppose genocide & censor those who seek to get the truth out about Israel's extermination agenda.
Sorry Julie Bishop. Independents in a hung parliament do not undermine democracy or the people's wishes. Rather, they keep absolute power in check & hold the government of the day to account. That is the very essence of Democracy.
#auspol
#ausvotes
#AustralianStory
Jane Norman just called job seekers "dole bludgers". Not all job seekers who turn down a job are "dole bludgers". Chances are the job is unsuitable in some way. Location, wage, conditions, hours, etc. Wish such demonising, demeaning rhetoric wasn't on the ABC. 🤦♀️🤷♀️
#auspol
Istill can't believe how Orwellian & dystopian Australian society has become. That anyone could think it's appropriate to hold a "Defence Expo" in the middle of Israel's ongoing genocide in Palestine is beyond me
We've entered a parallel universe
The Victorian Govt is a disgrace.
Has the ambassador to Israel been expelled from Australia yet after Israel executed an Australian citizen & his wife? Apart from being a war crime,it's an affront to the Australian nation. The ambassador should go,this is inexcusable. Has the Australian Govt said anything? 💚💛🕊
GladysB just can't help herself. She always has to have a swipe at the Queensland Government. Seriously, QLD is enjoying a safe and healthy environment thanks to the appropriate and proportionate measures out govt took. GladysB needs to get over it & focus on her state.
#auspol
Can somebody please explain to me why Scott Morrison gets to enjoy pay rises & that's not a threat to the economy but lowest paid workers don't get the same treatment? I genuinely want to know the difference. Is he more deserving? Does he work harder? Or is it pure greed?
#auspol
I really hate what Australia is turning into with Scott Morrison as Prime Minister. It's ugly, brutal, dark & dreary. We so desperately need a beacon of hope & positive change. We need leaders who are good people, not the creeps in the LNP. Australia deserves better.
#auspol
What's Jennifer Hewitt's point? That Victoria's economy should have remained open when there were hundreds of cases&many deaths a day? Is she really so shallow & devoid of a conscience that she places the economy above human life? How pitiful a life she leads.
#auspol
#insiders
I can't believe Josh Frydenberg is stubbornly & foolishly clinging to flattening the income taxation system making it one of the most regressive & unfair taxation systems in the Western World, leading to a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. Disgraceful.
#auspol
Isn't it nice the way Australians are so protective of well-off retirees living comfortably,but couldn't give a stuff about old folks on the Aged Pension barely surviving on scraps. Protect the rich, punish the poor. That's what I call real Class Warfare
#ParallelUniverse
#Auspol
ABC just cut short the Press conference with the group of fire experts. They were saying
#ClimateChange
is making the situation worse with bushfires. So naturally, we didn't get to hear all of it. They have expertise, knowledge & experience. Why are they being ignored?
#auspol
David Speers could hardly conceal his disdain for Julian Assange referring to Assange as an "irritant" on
@abcnews
What's their problem at the ABC?
Do they really think Journalists shouldn't expose war crimes committed by America?
Are they CIA propagandists or bad at Journalism?
Hearing ScottMorrison speak right now you'd think we were going to war. The mystical "threats" in his head he keeps going on about is farcical. If only we invested as much in accommodating peace &building bridges as we do for preparing for war,such "threats"wouldn't exist
#auspol
You've gotta love this. When BillShorten is scrutinised by MSM journalists, TheOz says they're just asking hard questions. But when ScottMorrison is scrutinised by an ABC journalist, TheAustralian calls it an "extraordinary on-air attack". The double-standard is laughable
#auspol
So let me get this straight. Australians have gifted over half a million dollars to a millionaire?
Do those same people give to actual charities&poor people?
& has the country gone nuts??
IsraelFolau has no conscience. What a disgrace.
#UngodlyDemand
#folau
#IzzyStupid
#IzzyFolau
I don't think I can watch Question Time today. I don't think I can stomach it. Watching the LNP gloating & bragging about their cruelty, bastardry & heartlessness towards sick people. I don't think it will be helpful for my mental health. I feel shattered.
#qt
#auspol
#Medevac
I don't care what Scott Morrison has "committed" in disaster relief. I want to know what people have received in disaster relief &how they are rebuilding their lives right now What have they received? Has anything tangible been delivered to any fire/flood victims?
#auspol
#abc730
"Politics of envy" is how Scott Morrison just described a legitimate enquiry about JobKeeper going to Executive Bonuses& Dividends. So Australians are just meant to cop "their money"(Morrison's claim) being gifted to wealthy shareholders &CEOs & stop being "envious"?
#auspol
#NPC
Christian Porter is such a dutiful fascist. Always quick to silence debate and refuse Parliament recording history as it happened. Travesty. What a dark era Australia is sliding into.
#qt
#auspol
Why isn't Australian media covering the protests in Portland, America and the heavy-handed, violent and aggressive tactics being used by the tyrannical authorities? Seems very newsworthy. Where is the media?
#auspol
#USPolitics
#PortlandProtests
#journalism
#media
Someone on $40,000 paying the same tax rate as someone on $200,000. Yeah, that sounds fair. This is how inequality becomes entrenched and the rich get richer and the poor get condemned, silenced, forgotten & oppressed. How Good Is Australia??
#Sarcasm
#auspol
#ausvotes
I really wish Fran Kelly would not align "Teal Independents" with "the left" & as an opposing force to "UAP & OneNation on the right".
It's such a stupid,false equivalence to make &vastly inaccurate(& insulting). It's basically BS
#auspol
#AusVotes22
#AfternoonBriefing
@simonahac
Mick Fuller has to go. What a shocking neglect of duty. NSW Police should be ashamed. Seriously, the Officers involved & Mick Fuller should leave the Police Service, if they are truly sorry & have a shred of decency & integrity.
#RIPOlgaAndHerBabies
💔💔💔
#auspol
#60Minutes
Who is this person badgering
@DanielAndrewsMP
? I'm so sick of these press conferences degenerating into this gotcha game from Journalists. They're not acting in the best interests of the public with these childish games.
#auspol
#Victoria
I'll never get how a low-income earner could vote LNP.
Cost-of-living up,because of the LNP.
Wages down,because of the LNP.
Work casual&insecure because of the LNP.
ClimateChange more expensive to mitigate&more disastrous because of the LNP.
Lack of equity because of LNP
#auspol
I'm struggling to understand the logic behind having to pay environmentally-destructive industries to stop cooking&killing the Planet. Why do they have to be compensated for destroying our quality of life? If anything, they should be paying us for the damage they caused.
#auspol
Scott Morrison talking about unemployed people on social security feeling suicidal is sickening given the glee with which he announced cutting them off payments for not meeting MO rqts & the barbaric way RoboDebt was enforced. Scott Morrison & his policies are the problem
#auspol
@vanOnselenP
He's the Prime Minister of Australia.
Please stop making excuses for his disrespectful & demeaning attitude towards Indigenous Australians, their culture, heritage & connection to the land. Remember, this is a govt that allows the destruction of sacred sites. He just doesn't care
Scott Morrison's catchcry is you can't trust
@AustralianLabor
with money and they can't manage money or the economy. & in the same breath he approves of a deal with a businessman who owes millions of dollars to QLD workers. Who can't be trusted with money?
#auspol
#AusVotes2019
I feel profound sadness for Australia today. Shameful day. This bastardry, cruelty&selfishness towards people we should be helping is shocking. I can't believe this is Australia. We can no longer claim to be a generous or compassionate nation. The nation is sick.
#auspol
#Medevac
Am I the only one that finds it obscene that it takes 30 years to own a home? When did that insanity become normal. We all have the right to shelter. A stressful,terrifying 30-year mortgage or obscene rents doesn't coincide with that right. Something wrong w/that
#thedrum
#auspol
There's apparently a downturn in the property market in QLD. But
@JoshFrydenberg
said the market would only collapse under a Shorten Labor government. & yet it's tanking under the LNP. So what's Frydenberg's excuse for a flatlining property market under the LNPs watch?
#auspol
Here we go again. The ABC just cut off a press conference with
@KKeneally
mid-sentence atA crucial time when she was discussing the Biloela family. This is ridiculous. 24-hour news channel for what? To go to the same story played many times already? Ridiculous
#auspol
#hometobilo
It's not conflating 2 different things. It's whether spending $288/day on a politician's travel is justifiable while
#newstart
recipients struggle on about $270/week. It's shameful.
Morrison has no conscience & no capacity to understand shame or feel empathy.
#auspol
#abc730
Well-said, David Marr. The situation on Christmas Island is ludicrous & Orwellian. In fact, it's post-Orwellian. I don't think even Orwell could imagine how real his revelatory fiction would become. We were meant to be smarter & freer than that, right?
#auspol
#Orwell
#insiders
Every time I defend Julian Assange I get blocked by the hounds of hate. What a shocking reflection of this situation. The reaction to truth is truly pitiful. No-one on Earth deserves the ongoing psychological torture & isolation Assange is being subjected to.
#FreeAssange
#auspol
Why have Australian media outlets abandoned Julian Assange? More to the point, why have they turned their backs on the founding principles of Democracy: a free press, truth, the right to know, whistle-blower protection, & open, transparent & accountable govt?
#FreeAssange
#auspol
It's ridiculous that so-called centrist Rex Patrick can't see how inhumane & oppressive cashless debit cards are on Australia's most vulnerable citizens. Welfare quarantining has been around for 13 years & yet still there is no evidence of its effectiveness. I wonder why.
#auspol
Is the Prime Minister of Australia gaslighting Australians? Is this textbook sociopathy & narcissism he's displaying? "I see you think you're bothered by Israel's genocide, but really,your problem is your anti-semitism so stop looking over there. You're the problem, Australians".
What a heartless, cruel Prime Minister Scott Morrison is. I don't think it's humanly possible for someone to be more cold-hearted &evil towards
#Newstart
recipients. This barbarism from both major parties is shameful. What a bleak future Morrison has condemned them to
#qt
#auspol
@johncusack
It kinda feels weird to feel sorry for Hollywood Actors & Writers because there's just this assumption that they're rolling in dough.
Maybe Hollywood needs more independently owned & operated studios then there's no need for obnoxious executives pulling the (financial) strings...
Stuart Robert is nuts. Say thank you to Centrelink staff for driving someone to suicide? Stuart Robert is a very sick individual. How much more disgusting can this government get? & denying the Opposition the opportunity to table the Mother's statement. Heartless.
#qt
#auspol
Greg Hunt requesting compassion for his colleague is unbelievable. When do the LNP ever show compassion? Can Greg Hunt please show what "compassion" looks like, just so Iget it right. Maybe he can show what it looks like towards actual vulnerable Australians?
#auspol
#CapitalHill
Tim Wilson is so rude. I missed half of what
@MicheleONeilAU
said thanks to him talking over her. Ridiculous. So much for the call for civilised & respectful debate & that spirit being honoured by the panellists.
#qanda
#auspol
@PeterCronau
This is what Israel has been doing for decades though. This time it's just on a much larger scale & with the eyes of the world looking. Sadly, the world is letting Israel get away with it, yet again.
How does the world stop Israel doing this? How do we save Gaza & the West Bank?
@barriecassidy
Thanks Barrie.
It's also often the only place to find like-minds & kindred spirits in an ever-isolating society.
That's a good thing.
I'm grateful for Twitter.
& there are so many brilliant minds and good hearts out there I'd never have encountered if not for Twitter.
🙏🤝❤☺
@gazaheart
@AlboMP
@SenatorWong
@ClareONeilMP
@andrewjgiles
I must say, the depths of your depravity & cruelty, while startling, is impressive. Just when you think the Australian Govt couldn't be anymore cold-hearted, callous,cruel, inhumane & barbaric, you out-do yourself. Disgraceful.😡💔
I have a migraine & I'm trying to understand what the hell just happened in the UK...
As an aside, what have some Brits got against Europe??
& why do working class people vote against the stability of their own futures.
#UKElection
#GeneralElection2019
🤦♀️🤷♀️😔
Wow!! How dare the Australian Govt do what the Australian people want&one suspects what their conscience commands at this time. The AustralianGovt is doing its job,representing the Australian people, &this barbaric fascist doesn't like it
The LNP are toxic to the public interest.
Labor’s shameful abandonment of Israel & our US & UK allies at the UN is another display of weak leadership on national security. A ceasefire keeps Hamas in power, but Anthony Albanese is clearly caving to domestic political pressure.
Here we go again. If you dare to stand up for Palestinians' human rights, you're anti-Semitic. What a joke this society has become. History will judge this matter & Israel poorly. Palestinians deserve better & ignoring their plight is just plain wrong.
#QandA
#auspol
Channel9 just played ClivePalmer's deceptive ad saying "StopLabor's 20%DeathTax" How do we stop commercial media outlets perpetuating the lies&misinformation by showing these ads? This mischief-making& interference in Democracy must stop
#auspol
#qldpol
@AustralianLabor
@QLDLabor
The difference in press conferences with the way the Journalists are treating
@ScottMorrisonMP
&
@billshortenmp
is startling & stark. The media bias in this country is embarrassing & disgraceful. The absence of scrutiny towards Scott Morrison is ridiculous.
#auspol
#AusVotes2019
Sack Paul Fletcher. What a dishonest, deceitful individual. Just another politician incapable of acknowledging the truth about the ABC funding cuts. Shocking display. Yet very impressive ability to lie. Though slightly macabre to witness. Credit to Speers.
#auspol
#insiders
Gerry Harvey has truly lost the plot. All he cares about is the money. Seeing people's despair, grief, shock and loss of livelihoods & quality of life as an "opportunity". Unbelievable. Zero empathy from the wealth hoarder. 🤷♀️🤦♀️
#auspol
#coronavirusaustralia
#60Mins
#COVID2019AU
The ABC has editorial independence from government in theory. But in reality their funding relies on the govt of the day. When they report truthfully on issues like
#ClimateAction
, economics & inappropriate behaviour, they are threatened & harassed by the government.
#insiders
How f*cked up would you have to be to walk into someone's home in a place you've never been to before & claim it as your own? How morally blind, psychologically deluded & downright insane are people like that? Such is the daily life of Palestinians terrorised by illegal settlers.
Is there a reason GladysB isn't wearing a mask at this press conference? As the Premier of New South Wales, shouldn't she lead by example and wear a mask or at least have a mask while she's not speaking? Has she worn a mask at all surrounded by reporters, etc.
#auspol
#COVID19nsw
Why didn't those police officers in Atlanta just let the guy run away?
He was ASLEEP in his car. He wasn't driving the car recklessly or dangerously or hurting anyone. They could've just let him go. That innocently sleeping in a car is a crime in the US is really disturbing.
#BLM
Did you ever think that Planet Earth would reach the stage that if you oppose the slaughter of an entire population of people,you'd be considered the bad guy?
That you'd be accused of hatred & racism because you don't like seeing innocent unarmed civilians & babies massacred?🇵🇸🕊
The Israeli mindset reminds me of the wife-beater. The man beats the crap out of his wife for years 1day the kids &wife snap& fight back. The man,in a fit of narcissistic rage,proceeds to slaughter all of them&burn the house down
The Israeli mindset is unhinged
The West allows it
Ed Husic just called Twitter "a tunnel burning trash can of social media". Wow.
@AustralianLabor
really are intent on alienating progressive voters, aren't they? Seems the LNP aren't the only ones determined to shut down discourse on Social Media. How pitiful.
#auspol
Now the ABC have let Barnaby Joyce accuse the unemployed of being "lazy". He said that they're "not unemployed",they're "lazy". Patricia Karvelas is still on air& could easily contest this allegation, but let him go. Stunned. Going in for the kill today
#auspol
#AfternoonBriefing
"Albanese, Dutton in heated exchange on AFP media raids"
I always knew Dutton was a scary man,but even this goes to a whole new level. He's effectively endorsing the potential jailing of Journalists. That puts Oz w/the MiddleEast, Egypt,China,etc
#auspol
I see
#insiders
today is merely allowing Scott Morrison to lie & embellish the truth on emissions targets & promote how perfect the LNP's climate policy is. Not a shred of scrutiny or accountability from the ABC or pointing out the lies. Ridiculous. Should've slept in😴😴
#auspol
So when are Scott Morrison & Gladys Berejiklian going to resign for the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in NSW? The case numbers are unacceptable,the deaths are unacceptable,the attitude of GladysB is unacceptable. At the very least,she must resign. She's lost control.
#auspol
I'm pretty sure condemning unemployed people to languish in abject poverty without a shred of concern for their wellbeing, survival &mental & emotional health truly is a form of psychosis unique to the LNP Govt. That degree of cruelty isn't normal.
#Newstart
#auspol
#HaveAHeart
❤
What the hell was that attempted slur on Anthony Albanese's character from Scott Morrison? Morrison is truly delusional, narcissistic&completely out-of-touch w/reality. He obviously has no memory of his inhumane, barbaric &unethical policies. Not much character there
#auspol
#qt
Why hasn't Australia declared a humanitarian emergency in Yemen & increased our humanitarian intake to bring the babies & children & their parents to Australia? I don't understand why we're not helping when we have so much capacity to be generous & compassionate.
#auspol
#Yemen
What nonsense from Christopher Pyne. The "Teal Independents" will not automatically back Labor & are not pro-"Labor". Allegra Spender is a prime example. They'll negotiate & vote for their values, standards & beliefs, not what Pyne thinks.
#AfternoonBriefing
#auspol
#ausvotes
All this tax talk has me wondering, why do wealthy Australians hate our society so much? Why do they regard properly funding doctors, teachers, carers, psychologists, surgeons,lawyers, community workers,labourers,road workers, etc with such disdain? What's their problem?
#auspol
One of the main points I can gather from
#Budget2020
is that it's ageist & condemns older Australians to poverty & over 35s to unemployment. So much for lifting up all Australians & leaving no-one behind.
#auspol
Yet again,
@abcnews
is acting as the propaganda arm of the IOF & Israeli regime. Birmingham & Joyce insinuating that the aid workers were acting as "human shields" for Hamas. Utterly offensive. Same old lies always repeated on
#AfternoonBriefing
.
#Intifada
#FreePalestine
#auspol
Wow.
@Barnaby_Joyce
has all the answers. The "good Lord" himself will provide the rain. WhatArelief. Start praying Australia. We're killing the GoodLord's planet & Climate Change is prolonging the drought but I'm sure that entity, Barnaby's Lord,will oblige us with rain
#auspol
AlanJones, RayHadley, StevePrice & PeterGleeson really represent the shame of this nation. Kenny & Bolt are just as bad. These people are the reason the nation is stagnating. What kind of individuals dismiss scientific fact & reason & knowledgeable
experts.
#mediawatch
#auspol
Not only is ScottMorrison the worst PrimeMinister we've ever had,he's the most dangerous. His reference to Democracy&scrutiny as "tawdry" is very troubling. This PrimeMinister point blank refuses to be held accountable forAnything. The"quietAustralians"need to wake up
#qt
#auspol
So the Indue Card is so praise-worthy & successful that people were too ashamed to brag about it on
#abc730
. Maybe that's because it's just another example of the human rights of Australians being trashed&extinguished by the LNP & their humiliating,demeaning policy regime
#auspol
How is Clive Palmer not in jail? Seriously, how do you get away with not paying wages & entitlements to your employees in this nation.
@ScottMorrisonMP
should hang his head in shame for approving of a preference deal with that crook. He belongs in jail.
#auspol
#AusVotes2019
Margaret Court actually had the nerve to say her critics harbour bitterness & resentment. She is a sad case. The only person who needs to be forgiven & well & truly forgotten is Margaret Court. Shameful that she continues to use media to hurt people.
#auspol
#NoHonourInBigotry
When is
@AngusTaylorMP
going to get sacked? Seriously, what the hell is going on with this government. Are there no standards they're expected & required to abide by.
@ScottMorrisonMP
really has no sense of morality or decency. No depth is too low to sink to.
#auspol
#taylorgate
EveryAustralian must watch
#4Corners
tonight. This slide towards tyranny&authoritarianism is scary&wrong,to sayThe least. &yet the people tolerate it. This case certainly does put paid toThe idea that Australia isA fair, just&democratic society. Quite the opposite is true
#auspol
Hear, hear Laura Tingle. Such a breath of fresh air on the Journalism landscape! Spot on about the LNP & economic management. "Superior" is not an accurate descriptor. It's just a facade. What lies beneath the surface is far more revealing.
#auspol
#insiders
Apparently I've been "radicalised" because I oppose the mass slaughter of innocent civilians. So let me get this straight. The expectation from Australian society & the status quo is to cheerlead & support Israel's
#GenocideinGaza
& WestBank & not stand in the way? Is that right?
Why doesn't Australia want to be a pioneering nation anymore? W/the abundance of intellectual, human,social &financial capital we have, we could be world leaders on sustainability,renewables& measures to deal w/
#ClimateChange
. Why do we choose to be backwards?
#auspol
#innovation
Petrol prices have gone up exponentially under the Morrison Regime
Electricity prices have risen exponentially under Morrison
Rents,house prices,internet&groceries have risen exponentially under Morrison
The rich have gotten richer
He's made life harder for the rest of us
#auspol
What kind of human gives you financial help at the lowest point in your life&then asks for that help back when you're still struggling financially? What sort of an ideology justifies stealing from the vulnerable &gifting billions to multi-billion$ successful corporations?
#auspol
This is unbelievable. She is really distressed after being bullied & intimidated by the police. How dare they do that to a little girl exercising her democratic right to peacefully protest. Pigs is an understatement for the police service. They're getting worse. 😡😔
#auspol
Izzy outside Kirribilli House after being moved on by police for peacefully calling on
@ScottMorrisonMP
to act on the
#climatecrisis
for our futures today.
@Quicktake
I must've missed something. Who exactly is struggling for independence? Who are losing their homes, livelihoods and dignity systematically & ruthlessly on an ongoing basis? Joe Biden has lost the plot big-time. It's not Israel struggling to exist. That distorted narrative is BS.
According to Twitter,saying Gaza has no air force, military or navy is "Violent Speech". What sort of torture logic & mental gymnastics is happening in Musk's brain to state that this is "ViolentSpeech"? Twitter has taken Censorship back to the 1900s.
@ShaykhSulaiman
#FreeSpeech
Dear World, Just in case you haven't worked it out yet,when Israel says they want "total victory", "last stronghold for Hamas" & "completing the task", that means slaughtering every Palestinian remaining in the Gaza Strip. Every Last One Of Them. An unimaginable war crime.
#Rafah
The "quiet Australians" are morons. So we're becoming a Christian, conservative backwater led by zealots Scott Morrison & Israel Folau who are driven by hatred & disdain for anyone who doesn't follow their cult. This must be their revenge for Australians voting for SSM.
#auspol