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@antfarmer
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2 years
Speers to Shorten: ‘Your mates at the AWU’ Hmm not sure I’ve heard him ever say to a Liberal pollie ‘Your mates at the IPA’ or ‘Your mates in fossil fuels’. Trivial ? I don’t think so. #insiders
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David Pocock has made more of a positive difference in Australian politics in 2 years than Pauline Hanson in 20+ #abc730
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3 years
The government must be sweating on Leigh Sales getting back in the chair. Laura Tingle and the researchers at #abc730 are quietly and methodically tearing Morrison a new one nightly on their failings on numerous fronts, mainly #COVID19 mismanagement.
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I’m so here for Laura Tingle calling out the dark racism of Peter Dutton’s political Modus Operandi. She’s one of the few courageous journalists in this country. #insiders
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3 years
Fucking spare me. 🤢 #shameless
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3 years
Gosh, a carbon credit scheme run by @AngusTaylorMP that’s being rorted by wealthy landholders according to experts. Denied point blank by Angus. Colour me shocked. 😏 #abc730
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2 years
Disappointingly @murpharoo just recited the misnomer that the Liberal party’s traditional strength is economic management. Really? On what basis is this furphy rolled out election after election? Which economic stats? 😒 #RNbreakfast
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Penny Wong calling Zed Seselja a junior woodchucker sent to Samoa at the 11th hour is campaign gold. 👏🏼 #rnbreakfast @RNBreakfast #AusVotes22
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2 years
After tomorrow I move that we hear no more about the Royal Family for the rest of 2022. Who’s with me? 🙋🏻‍♂️
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2 years
Twice convicted racist Alan Jones to discuss racism and Queen of the rorts Bridget McKenzie to discuss integrity. #QandA is having a lend 😏
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3 years
Gotta admit I didn’t have Bob Carr triggering a #libspill in 2022 on my bingo card. #leftfield #auspol
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4 years
Wow. @vanOnselenP divulges that the PMO dirt unit are backgrounding the media about the current partner of Brittany Higgins. He’s disgusted and so should Australian voters. On brand behavior #rnbreakfast
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@antfarmer
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10 months
FFS @abcnews The trial for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins by #BruceLehrmann did not ‘collapse’. It was aborted due to juror misconduct and the follow up trial abandoned due the mental trauma of the victim. Language matters 😡
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5 years
Morrison on his party’s #sportsrorts Laura Tingle: ‘What’s the point of guidelines if they’re not followed? Morrison: ‘The rules were followed, the guidelines are a separate matter’ Wut? #ABC730 #PressClub
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4 years
Attempting to contrast China with Australia @JoshFrydenberg cites our ‘free press’. The very same week his government are actively trying to muzzle the ABC’s #4corners while feeding press releases to the compliant conservative commercial outlets 😏 #abc730
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4 years
A bloke who’s spent $27 + million on locking up a QLD family of 4 with brown skin on an island gulag wants to lecture QLD state government on $ waste. Give me a break @PeterDutton_MP #insiders
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2 years
Craig Foster destroying Bridget McKenzie’s disinformation on a Republic on live TV was worth enduring #qanda
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2 years
It gets better. Katy Gallagher and Pocock in the Senate from Canberra. Amanda Stoker gone… #AusVotes
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1 year
Oh dear. Hamish McDonald excoriated live on air by Geoffrey Watson SC for pushing the Janet Albrechtsen’s version of the Sofronoff report. McDonald couldn’t seem to accept that the report HASNT been released and Drumgold hasn’t been afforded procedural fairness. #rnbreakfast
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1 year
Watching a tinderbox situation unfolding at the Sydney Opera House. Whoever thought lighting it up blue tonight really ought to have their job on the line. Appallingly inappropriate and inflammatory. @ChrisMinnsMP
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3 years
How the fuck has Speers turned #insiders into a judgementfest on a Labor Premier in QLD who has a almost Delta free state while NSW under @GladysB is melting down? Astonishing narrative creation. Full marks. 😒
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4 years
Penny Wong just made more sense on climate and energy policy than any government member in the last 10 years. It’s not even her portfolio. 😏 #insiders
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2 years
This time last year @LiberalAus Marise Payne couldn’t even secure a phone call with her Chinese counterpart. Today Penny Wong steps off the plane in China for well overdue dialogue. Ya reckon elections don’t change the country… #rnbreakfast
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1 year
Your bi-annual reminder of who Greg Sheridan is, and why is he here? #insiders
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4 years
@shafieikeyvan Fixed that image for them. #COVIDIOTS
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9 months
It’s fine to bathe the Sydney Opera House in Israel ‘divisive’ blue & white. Sackable offence to wear a tiny Palestinian badge. Let’s talk about the outsized influence of the Zionist lobby in Australian life. #auspol
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Caroline Marcus
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Exclusive: @qantas has counselled a number of cabin crew who wore Palestinian flag badges on a flight, breaching the airline’s uniform policy. A passenger told us he felt intimidated and @AustralianJA is calling for staff involved to be sacked. Watch:
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2 years
On the power price debacle. Just heard @PeterDutton_MP say ‘people are going to get sick of Labor blaming his party everything wrong’. 🤣 Maaaate. They’ve been in power for a week! You blokes were blaming Labor for 3 BLOODY TERMS! #auspol
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4 years
One new case in Victoria. While the rest of the world gets a third wave. Ya reckon Dan Andrews can get some relief this week MSM? Or god forbid some praise?
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3 years
Ouch! @latingle nails Morrison on the Rudd affair divulging he MADE 55 CALLS OS lobbying for Lib mate Matthias Cormann to get his little OECD junket gig yet couldn’t make ONE CALL to fast track Pfizer like Rudd. #ABC730
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3 years
Amanda Vanstone started her interview by saying she might be out of touch. That noise you heard was collective nationwide nodding. @RNBreakfast #rnbreakfast
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2 years
Thank god for Laura Tingle on #ABC730 she puts all these other lightweight ABC ‘journos’ to shame. Piercing the fluffy nonsense horse race coverage of those others with relentless facts about the last term in it’s entirety. Stuff voters need to know.
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6 years
So this is what I saw yesterday on my beach holiday. Only in #Australia
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3 years
Great question Samantha Maiden. $800 to Aged Care workers is the equivalent of 3 nights accommodation allowance for politicians to live in THEIR OWN Canberra residences. #npc
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3 years
What was Leigh Sales angling at by asking the new SA premier whether he’s dealt with hardship? What an odd question… what’s the subtext? #abc730
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3 months
Man the layers of corruption surrounding Bruce Lehrmann are like an onion. Unbelievable. AFP, politicians, ex judges, columnists. The stench.
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6 years
Sad truth is that if the Bourke St attacker’s mental health and substance abuse resulted in his female partner being killed there would be no Morrison press conference. All it takes is brown skin and a tiny whiff of Islam #msm #insiders
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4 years
Just attempted to assist daughter with negotiating the centrelink system for a standard student assistance application. It’s designed to break you. It’s horrendous. An abomination. Tear inducing.
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Dutton refusing to go to Garma but traveling to the other side of the world to kiss the ring of the genocidal Zionist Netanyahu tells you everything about conservatives in this country. #insiders
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3 years
I’ve just turned up for a Covid test at my local site. The queue is about 200 cars+ I hour before opening. ABC news has Rev Bill Crewes begging for free RATs for his people. Pharmacies are price gouging them due to scarcity. Mismanaged #COVID19 by @ScottMorrisonMP is ongoing.
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Speers says ‘let’s look at what’s making news’. Refers to the MSM newspapers which have studiously avoided the #RobodebtRC like the plague. It’s a self fulfilling circle of censorship. What about the independent press David? #insiders
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4 years
Susan Ley on ABC trying to smear Labor for an alleged Shooters party pref deal. Bit rich coming from a party with a history of pref deals with the racist One Nation 😏. Keneally eats her alive anyway. #EdenMonaro
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OMG Speers running interference for Joyce’s drunken disgrace as ‘dizzyness’ kicking in while talking to his wife. Give us a break mate. 🙄 White male privilege writ large. #insiders
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3 years
Is it just me or is Lisa Wilkinson getting more strident these days? I’m here for it though. She just tore absolute strips off ‘do nothing’ Gladys. #TheProjectTV
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2 years
This has pissed me off big time. What pure unsubtle fuckwittery. Look at me I’m MARRIED 🙄
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2 years
Albo has thought a lot about this. It’s clear. Speers cannot land a nitpicking blow. Albo is not having a bar of it. God it’s a relief to have a PM like this. #UluruStatement #insiders
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4 years
Keating: ‘Fran - You’ve got me on here because I’ve done this before.’...My structural changes gave 28 years of growth. All these arguments were put to me before in 91 and they’re all wrong. #rnbreakfast
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Speers propagated a Liberal party talking point by suggesting the cost of a modular nuclear reactor ‘will come down over time’ 🙄 Hey Dave have you seen the chart showing the downward cost of renewables like Solar over the past 10 years!! FFS mate we have the solution. #insiders
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LOL. Bridget Archer spills the beans on Dutton who made himself out to be Mr Big who ‘had words’ with Archer to his mate Ben Fordham. He didn’t. He lied. #rnbreakfast
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3 years
Rob Oakeshott is right - we can’t let this rampant rorting of grants by the Coalition government without proper process to be normalized. We have to care. We have to make it count at the ballot box. #abc730
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Penny Wong rightly calls out Scott Morrison for going missing in a crisis. Just like the bushfires. It’s a pattern. #insiders
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3 years
When Stuart Robert talks about a ‘massive investment on skills training’ he’s talking about gutting of TAFE’s and the rise of privatized Mickey Mouse colleges providing tick a box training at high prices. Not fit for purpose #rnbreakfast
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As an atheist I’m not defending religion in politics but for @PatsKarvelas to beat it up in light of Senator Payman whilst not uttering a peep about Morrison’s evangelical nonsense among many other non Muslims is reprehensible @RNBreakfast #rnbreakfast
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Prince Phillip dying has opened my eyes to how many people I follow watch Vera on the ABC.
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I’d like to see @DanielAndrewsMP get a right of reply next week to that calculated pathetic hatchet job by Tehan. #insiders @InsidersABC
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3 years
Just heard @vanOnselenP describe Morrison’s upcoming regional visit as a ‘listening tour’. Cmon Pete call it for what it is: a desperate PR pantomime designed for the compliant commercial news bulletins (and Phil Coorey). #rnbreakfast
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2 years
Waleed’s contrarianism on matters constitutional are tiresome. Just because (it appears as of now) that he only intervened once in his ‘extra’ ministries doesn’t make it OK mate. Not to mention the secrecy 🙄 #TheProjectTV
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Funny how all the alleged Chinese spies are targeting THE OPPOSITION in NSW and Federal parliament and not the ahh... you know .. the government 😏 #GladysLiu
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1 year
Clear speaking Katharine Murphy: ‘we have wasted decades coming up with a model that would be acceptable to conservatives’…. If we can’t have these debates in this country without the inevitable polarization then we are locked in a pre civil rights era. 😞 #insiders
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2 years
Lehrmann is suing everyone. What a jerk. Totally on brand.
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Isn’t it amazing how China just had to ‘shine a laser’ in the same week as Morrison switched to vaudeville on nationalism and fear. Just amazing. 😏Taking lessons from Putin Scott? #insiders
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Antony Green reckons the increase in Liberal vote is ENTIRELY because the RW bigots didn’t have One Notion and Fat Clive to vote for… 😏 #DunkleyByelection
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Oh wow. Ethical public servant Colleen Taylor is thoroughly blowing the whistle on her former bosses who turned into #Robodebt ‘monsters’. Good on you Colleen. Kathryn Campbell should be first in the dock alongside Morrison, Tudge , Robert et al. #abc730
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Why do the Australian political press gallery hate Dan Andrews so much? It’s not even disguised? I don’t get it. #auspol #vicpoll
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I know it’s been said a million times before BUT… How refreshing to see Penny Wong representing us on the world stage. #insiders
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Hamish McDonald campaigning for Morrison right to the end. All the lazy campaign tropes getting an airing. He has diminished so much in the past year. A shell of a journalist. Should be ashamed to share the desk with Kerry O’Brien. #TheProjectTV
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Niki Savva’s column today floats in like a Grim Reaper over the @ScottMorrisonMP Prime Ministership. He’s gone. #auspol #Election2022
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Daughter was Darling Harbour this morning waiting for her work shift to start. Harrassed by NSW cops, questioned and bag searched looking for “Supa glue” apparently - all because a mining conference was nearby. Your taxes at work people. NSW, Straya 😏
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Unless he’s in the dock for #robodebt I don’t wanna hear this deluded smirking prick Scott Morrison ever again after tonight. Nauseating. #Nemesis
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Sad state of affairs when a satirical political show is dissecting the PM’s lies around a rape in his minister’s office more than our press. 😏 #MadAsHell
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Visiting my 80 yr old mum. She’s making tea in the kitchen. Frydenberg comes on the radio. I hear ‘ah get stuffed’! 😂
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Is Linda Reynolds the full quid? Seriously.
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Funny, I don’t recall @MathiasCormann telling us how selfish, indulgent and reckless it was for the 5G anti vax Qanon nutcases to march last weekend. #insiders
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Oh for gods sake @PatsKarvelas stop pushing the discredited Skynews beat up about Kevin Rudd and the idiot Trump. You know as well as anyone it’s ludicrous. #rnbreakfast
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Grattan seems unable to use the word DRUNK when referring to Barnaby Joyce. Nor can ABC News. I’ve heard it referred to as an ‘incident’, a ‘fall’ , ‘mixing of medication’ by other news orgs. Why is everyone in protection mode? The bloke has form. Not fit for parli #rnbreakfast
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We’re not analyzing #RobodebtRC for the second week in a row are we? Fucking incredible censorship @InsidersABC . The biggest scandal in #auspol in decades, not worth discussing. 😒 #insiders
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Extraordinary exposé by Kate McClymont. Yet the rest of the media seems obsessed by a Skynews reporter being rebuked at a presser. 😒 Alan Jones accused of indecent assault by multiple young men
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How is this drunken oaf still in parliament? What a disgrace 😡 Barnaby Joyce video shows former Nationals leader lying on the side of the road in Braddon, Canberra and mumbling profanities into his phone late at night after Parliament | Daily Mail
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Why are @abcnews presenters making a point of telling us Bruce Lehrman’s rape trial was ‘aborted with no findings against him’ while omitting the key point - due to JUROR MISCONDUCT! 😡 #rnbreakfast
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It’s galling to listen to @vanOnselenP explain how #Robodebt was ALL Scott Morrison as social service minister and then Treasurer - to then read his fucking approval rating has gone up again 😒 What is bloody wrong with Australians? #TheProjectTV
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I’d love to know what the women of Channel 7 think of their brand’s deification of Bruce Lehrmann and the implicit denigration of Brittany Higgins…?
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I’m surprised Linda Reynolds found the time to be interviewed for #nemesis What with the 24/7 harassment of Brittany Higgins 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Oh spare me. Anne Ruston and Susan Ley talking about Australia’s international reputation while they propped up Scott Morrison internationally known as an untrustworthy liar and shunned accordingly. #insiders
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Boom 💥 Clare with a beautiful dig at Speers trying to gotcha her on a future policy in a future government re a special levy.. ‘I wish as much scrutiny was placed on the government on their fiscal commitments’ #insiders
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Fran asks if anyone remembers the Angus Taylor affair... err yes we do. Then goes on to frame it as ‘Labor being after Angus Taylor’. Throws to Albanese. Later asks ‘where does Labor wants this to go’ insinuating a pandemic makes it irrelevant Seriously? @RNBreakfast #rnbreakfast
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I just cannot get my head around the fact that a national news organization would put this egregious victim blaming tweet out knowing that we all know they are paying the alleged perpetrator to live in luxury. Astonishing. #BruceLehrmann
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A question to our MSM. Why is this man not as visible as the wrecking crew of Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price? Looking at you too @abcnews #VoteYes2023
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Take it from me, Canberra politicians don't have all the answers. Vote Yes on October 14. @yes23au #Yes23
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This woman is funding a legal team at great cost to pursue a rape victim’s trauma compensation, and bankrupting the fiancé to boot - for her ‘reputation’. You be the judge.
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Urgh. Christian Porter is suing Louise Milligan for defamation on #March4Justice day. Fucking typical. 😡
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I’ve never criticized Lisa Millar on this platform because I never watch AM tv. Many have though of course, now I can see why. She’s not even responding to answers given. Purely agenda driven. Pure bias. Really appalling @abcnews
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Jim Chalmers claps back at the LNP attacks, so an angry Lisa Millar resorts to whataboutisms. Who needs the opposition to speak when you have the ABC running their lines? #auspol
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Only in Australia could a privileged white bloke who escaped an ‘alleged’ rape conviction on a legal technicality be ‘rewarded’ with free sex, food and accommodation for a year. While the victim was hounded to another country 😒 Alleged of course. We’ll see.
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The outrageous hide of Sussan Ley to pontificate about alleged lack of action of Labor government on gendered violence. The very same time her female @LiberalAus colleague Linda Reynolds is doggedly hounding a rape victim through the courts for hurt feelings. #rnbreakfast
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OMG Morrison actually arguing that retirees who have ‘paid tax all their life’ to be ‘SELF FUNDED’ are now so dependent on the TAX GIFT of franking credits that their life will end and the sky will fall. What part of SELF FUNDED don’t you get @ScottMorrisonMP ? #LeadersDebate
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This is scandalous. The only people that should be resigning are Ita Buttrose and David Anderson 😡
@RhondaGarad
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A group of Jewish lawyers demanded @antoinette_news sacked from the ABC
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So babies were dying in NSW public hospitals which were suffering chronic understaffing, around the same time St Gladys was pork barreling 100’s of millions to coalition seats. 😡 Hope you’re doing well at Mac Bank $ lady #abc730
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I’m calling bullshit. 😒
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Watching Jane Hume and her tortured non answers and rehearsed lines, two words come to mind: vapid and irrelevant. #insiders
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4 years
Canavan brother’s coal company collapses. Thoughts & Prayers of course...
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I’d rather have an #insiders participant shed a tear on the couch than the smug cynicism of a Coorey or a James Campbell any day. It means Amy is real and feels it.
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All the right wing shills gleefully jumping into the Andrews government for employing private security firms to do quarantine. Not so mouthy when profiteering companies earn billions jailing asylum seekers and genuine refugees for Herr Dutton #TheProjectTV
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