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We've been inundated with complaints that we haven't uploaded Bob Katter's gay marriage speech, so here it is in all it's unhinged glory
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If someone in Australia cuts down a tree on public land to improve the view from their house, the local government will install a sign to block that view again
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Whoever came up with the Specsavers ad at Sydney Airport deserves a raise
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Incredible update from reddit user u/SpadfaTurds
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RIP to the godfather of all quotes
On this day in 1967: Prime Minister Harold Holt drowns
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Anti-gay senator Cory Bernardi accidentally walks into 'Vote Yes for Same-Sex Marriage' photoshoot
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America could take a leaf from how Aussies do political assassinations
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Honorable mention to New Zealand's weapon of choice against politicians: the ballistic dildo
America could take a leaf from how Aussies do political assassinations
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The time Prime Minister Tony Abbott rebooted mid interview
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Good lord
The US Embassy to Australia's twitter bio shows they have really understood the assignment down under
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The time Michaelia Cash lost her mind over a journalist mentioning curry
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The time the Deputy Prime Minister cheated on his wife with a staffer, got busted, went on national TV & claimed his mistress could be pregnant to a bunch of guys, was fired from his job, then got the Deputy Prime Ministership back by rolling the Acting PM during a Covid outbreak
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26 January 1988: Indigenous Australian Burnum Burnum travels to England and plants a flag in the White Cliffs of Dover, claiming Britain for the Indigenous people of Australia
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The time Scott Morrison secretly gave himself 5 ministries, claimed he couldn't remember, then went on national TV to shout at everyone
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The time Angus Taylor forgot to switch to his alt account before commenting praise on his own post
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Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about getting semen out of a bee
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Turns out we have hundreds of DM's we've never seen, so here it is: every single Batshit Moment In Australian Politics, a thread
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For our international followers: today's top news story in Australia is a mother who complained she was kicked out of a comedy show for bringing her baby. She has spent the rest of the day having TV interviews about it fall apart because her baby won't stop screaming.
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Actual footage from the time an Australian Prime Minister was sniped from the grassy knoll mid interview
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The US Embassy to Australia's twitter bio shows they have really understood the assignment down under
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For international followers - today's batshit Australian news is that Melbourne's Lord Mayor decided to create artists impressions of some newly planned parks, using AI.
Unfortunately for Mayor Nick, he didn't spot the dead body in the generated pics until after they were posted
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Plaque has now been added to Barnaby's planter 😆 (please comment with credit if you know who did this!)
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Woke up to 200 new DMs and thought someone must have died. Not in our wildest dreams was "viral Australian PHD breakdancer" a possibility.
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But I
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more
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on
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While Lizz truss holds the record for the UK's shortest serving Prime Minister, at 44 days, she would only be Australia's 5th shortest serving PM, with our record holder being Frank Forde who led the country for 8 days
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Couldn't get a better summation of Australia's media landscape than people unable to get their news about Channel 7 losing a defamation case because all the Channel 6 staff were in maths class
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The time Pauline Hanson went to jail for electoral fraud
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For international followers wanting to know who this Barnaby Joyce fellow is that everyone has been clowning on in the last few days: a thread 🧵
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The time a Prime Minister who drowned at sea was commemorated by getting a swim centre named after him
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2007: Asked during a TV interview to pick a man he would "turn gay" for, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd baffles the nation by answering "my wife"
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This is the greatest day in Australian politics
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The time the ABC started a government press conference feed early, and a cameraman didn't realise he was broadcasting to the nation
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Honoured to have been selected by the Mint to reveal the new $5 bill
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The time Premier Don Dunstan went to the beach threatening to fight the sea in response to mass panic over a psychic's prediction that God was going to send a tidal wave to destroy Adelaide for legalising homosexuality
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Casual reminder of the time Scomo removed his welding mask to see better
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The time Tony Abbott suddenly brought back knighthoods so he could knight Prince Phillip for no reason
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March 1983: The world record holder for fastest beer drinker is elected Australia's 23rd Prime Minister
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If there is not a state funeral we are lost as a country
Getting flooded with requests for the Democracy Manifest video, so here it is in all its unhinged glory
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For our international followers: One of the top news stories in Australia this week was a kangaroo jumping over a fence weird
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Best submission on this yet - we're told students made off with the apostrophe within an hour of the sign going up
The Australian National University has to repeatedly remind people not to pluralise their 3 letter abbreviation in headlines, as apostrophes do not appear in web addresses
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As all our national media falls over thanks to tech outages, we once again remind international followers that one of the most relied on news outlets in Australia during moments like this is literally run by a bunch of 16 year olds
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The time Senator Bill Heffernan snuck a pipe bomb into parliament and proceeded to give live instructions on how to build one
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May 2014: Senator Bill Heffernan complains about the lack of metal detectors in parliament, tabling a pipe bomb he's brought with him as evidence
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Pauline Hanson protests the burqa in parliament by becoming the only person to ever wear a burqa in parliament
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The time Liberal senator Mary Jo Fisher gave a speech condemning carbon trading, despite clearly having no clue what it is
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Either twitter is rapidly falling apart or the Defence Department is running a recruitment drive targeted at fans of Jennifer Coolidge
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The time Scott Morrison responded to news that women were forced to give birth on the side of a highway due to a lack of hospitals, by stating that he will be pledging $150 million to upgrade the highway
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Yearning for a simpler time (two weeks ago) when this was the top news story across the country
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This
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The yanks wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised us
Chat is this real or is Food & Wine pranking me 💀 This sounds literally unbelievable
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Tonight's update for international followers:
For Australia's national war veterans day, one of our state war memorials has launched a AI powered "virtual veteran" you can talk with.
It has gone about as well as you'd expect.
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the word "cunt" going from being derogatory to being used as a compliment is the best thing ever actually
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The time Channel 9 funded a trip for Pauline Hanson to protest the ban on climbing Uluru, where she then got stuck halfway up the rock
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The time Scott Morrison snuck off for a holiday in Hawaii while the whole east coast of Australia was on fire
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Probably goes without saying that the Batshit Auspol Moment of the week goes a real estate agent lucking his way into the Senate on a platform of supporting free speech, only to then cause the Tenacious D to break up after he tried to have them deported for exercising free speech
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Aug 2016: Australia’s national census night fails after authorities report a sophisticated DDOS attack that has taken the website offline.
It was later revealed that the so called “attack” was actually just the entire population of Australia attempting to complete the census.
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1901: In the frantic rush to federate the Australian colonies, drafters of the constitution name New Zealand as a state, due to uncertainty around whether they will join.
To this day the Australian constitution still claims New Zealand is a state of Australia.
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The time New Zealand held a vote to change their flag due to its similarity to Australia's, leading to the submission of the 'Lazer Kiwi' flag. Designer Lucy Gray said her inspiration was that "Australia has a lot of animals that can kill you, so New Zealand should get one too"
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The time Joe Hockey (born 1965) raised the pension age for those born after 1965
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In 1987 Parliament was interrupted when the Speaker realised one of the MP's sitting in the benches was dressed as a chicken. When asked later why he turned up to work in a chicken suit, the MP replied 'I don't remember'.
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The time Cory Bernardi said gay marriage could lead to people marrying dogs, got sacked by the government, started his own party, absorbed Family first, claimed a silent majority supported his views, & then lost the next election wiping out two conservative parties in one hit
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The dream
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Can't believe it's almost been 10 years since the biggest disaster interview in television history
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The time the Prime Minister picked up a raw onion, looked at it, and then took a bite out of it, skin and all
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The time the opposition leader announced he has a plan to build a bunch of nuclear plants in 10-15 years and then just dropped some concept art stolen from the internet and refused to elaborate further
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French President Macron thanks Turnbull for his delicious wife
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No other country comes close to the level of batshit generated by Australia's elected representatives
(vid via
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1987: Former liberal leader Billy Snedden passes away while having sex with his son’s ex-girlfriend, which his son later explained was part of an "adrenaline filled evening" after being "welcomed back into the Liberal fold"
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The time Julie Bishop did a fashion shoot at a lithium mine to raise awareness about ovarian cancer
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Australia's sense of humour is said to be best summed up by the Harold Holt swim centre, a pool named in memory of a Prime Minister who drowned
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The time The
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