Dominic Giannini
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Greens and First Nations senator Lidia Thorpe has had to redo her oath of allegiance in the Senate after prefixing the Queen as a "coloniser". Story via
@AAPNewswire
#auspol
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Having worked with the fantastic team at Lifeline Canberra for the better part of two years, it’s absolutely infuriating to see the countless hours of hard work volunteers and staff have put in during a pandemic undone by the literal antithesis of what Canberrans stand for.
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David Pocock says its "bullshit" parliament is still having a debate about whether climate change is real in 2022 and forced to withdraw the unparliamentary term amid giggles in the Senate.
#auspol
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#Breaking
: Jacqui Lambie says she may need to change her phone number after it was leaked by One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts and she has received a number of threats today.
Changing her number will also impact veterans who have her number and can no longer call her any time.
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Hate it when you confuse your f*cking and your fracking 🫢
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Spilling coffee on your white shirt on budget day: $4.50
Having it noticed by the prime minister and treasurer on national TV: Priceless
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Tourists will come down the Hume Highway for the “ACT party lifestyle” and can do “about 15 lines” bc of drug decrim, Libs say.
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When asked about George Christensen spouting conspiracy theories on a podcast, Barnaby Joyce says he "doesn't watch his podcast".
"I tell you what I do watch, I watch the teletubbies with the kids. That's good fun but I don't endorse that."
This clip is really ... something.
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Pauline Hanson walked out of the Senate chamber after interjecting the acknowledgement to country with, "No I won't and never will".
The One Nation senator told AAP it was in protest to a proposed motion that will raise the Indigenous flag in the Senate. Story via
@AAPNewswire
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Lucky the Australian Open went with Mastercard because visa’s cancelled.
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It appears Scott Morrison was also sworn to oversee aspects of the social services portfolio as Anthony Albanese flags “there may well be more” ministries his predecessor held. Story via
@AAPNewswire
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Helen Haines and Bridget Archer leaving the chamber after the Liberal MP crossed the floor but still failed to start debate on a federal anti-corruption commission.
Poetry in motion
@aap_photos
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Two weeks to the day after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 10 members of the Canberra-Ukraine community stood alongside the Australian envoy Volodomyr Shalkivskyi to sing their national anthem - hands on hearts - ahead of his speech to the
#NPC
.
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If you are able, please consider donating to
@Lifeline_ACT
via or if you’re Canberra based, they have the fantastic book lovers lane at Fyshwick markets that’s always worth a visit!
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#Breaking
: Bridget Archer has already come out in parliament saying she won't support the government's religious discrimination bill straight after amendments were rubberstamped by the partyroom.
"The simple fact is this bill would allow for discrimination to happen."
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Not sure if a laughter backtrack has inflated my ego or knocked it down a peg but nonetheless stoked to have made my commercial TV debut! 📺🌟
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Keating, Rudd and McGowan walking out to Kylie Minogue’s banger “can’t get you out of my head” at the Labor campaign launch in Perth
#auspol
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I’m stoked to (belatedly) announce that I’ve joined
@AAPNewswire
at Parliament House!
You can hit me up at dgiannini
@aap
.com.au or dominic.giannini
@protonmail
.com for more spicy messages.
I couldn’t take a nice photo so here’s me being awkward on the hill.🚶
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#Breaking
: The trial of the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins will be delayed after his lawyers successfully pushed to postpone proceedings following Lisa Wilkinson's Logies speech. Story via
@AAPNewswire
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Also
Not exactly 100% on media laws around court reporting in the ACT, but probably not helpful to blast social media with the name of someone who you think is an alleged perpetrator of a crime. Just a thought!!
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Tuvalu’s foreign minister Simon Kofe will land in Brisbane instead of Lisbon, pulling out of the UN Ocean Conference after China blocked the credentials of three Taiwanese delegates on Tuvalu’s list. via
@AAPNewswire
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“I dunno let’s find out when no one’s looking. I’m from Logan I want to drag everything”, Jim Chalmers said when asked how fast the electric buses announced by Labor go.
#auspol
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Someone in the
@AuSenate
broadcast team has a sense of humour, playing Bach's Dracula tune as the chamber reconvened only five hours after adjourning at 4am.
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Marles: "The whole (sitting) week has played out with the kind of horrible inevitability of an Attenborough doco.
"The PM is looking like the slowest wilder beast of the herd and ... we've seen Peter (Dutton's) head pop up from behind the bushes like the lion licking his chops."
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Some extraordinary stories from the floods.
A police officer on a boat heard a faint noise and dived through a window to find a 93-year-old woman clinging to a mattress 20cm from the roof.
The officer was able to get a boogie board and take the woman out through the window.
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@JoshButler
I just didn't have 'leaders get asked price of tampons' on my list for this morning
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A standing ovation in parliament for Professor Sean Turnell, who was recently released from a Myanmar prison after almost two years, and his wife Dr Ha Vu.
@cochl
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#Breaking
: Immigration Minister Alex Hawke has cancelled Novak Djokovic’s visa “on health and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so”.
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Sovereign citizens in ACT Magistrates Court asking to represent an Old Parliament House protestor being told to keep quiet by a clearly annoyed Magistrate Beth Campbell.
“It's not like on television where someone can just jump up and say objection."
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I wonder if these two are meeting just because they're similar in age and have got a lot of common stuff?
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So after leaving uni almost six years ago and working full time for four years, my total HECS debt has ..... gone up by more than $7500 🫠
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Senator
@nitagreenqld
has brought her child into the chamber today. Looks like Australia's youngest senator is preparing to table an important document.
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Easily missed in a frenetic sitting week, but former foreign minister Marise Payne broke down during her valedictory speech as she issued an emotional plea to not forget the women and girls suffering under Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Worth a watch.
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Senators have paid tribute to the late Kimberley Kitching with a condolence motion as colleagues placed a white rose - her favourite flower - on her empty chair.
@aap_photos
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Tensions have run high in the Senate over a push to ban Nazi symbols - everyone agrees about the ban, but not everyone happy with the process.
The heated exchange led to one senator breaking down. Full story via
@AAPNewswire
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The ACT's first independent senator
@DavidPocock
has delivered his first speech in the Senate against a large screen displaying Auslan interpreter Mandy, who also appeared on the live parliamentary broadcast. Story via
@AAPNewswire
#auspol
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Listening to Senate estimate debates about whether the home affairs department is captured by left wing ideology for addressing threats posed by climate change.
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@shalailah
Even using her $150,000 in 1995 vs today’s average income and house price in NSW:
Number of times weekly wage needed for deposit:
1995 - 60 (for this person’s 15%)
2022 - 180 (off the usual 20%)
Weekly loan repayment vs weekly wage:
1995 - $70/$370
2022 - $1468/$1250
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The ACT would need to vaccinate 95% of its 12+ pop to reach the 80% threshold if under 12s - who can't access a vaccine - were included in the tally.
106% of the 12+ residents would need to be vaxxed to hit 90% total vax rate - so impossible to reach without an approved vaccine.
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My favourite thing at the moment is shittily photoshopping
@andrewprobyn
and his spreadsheet into historical moments because I love it so much
#auspol
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Each day I'll try and a do a quick wrap of the major election stories along with some of the best AAP photos from the campaign trail for those 7 people - including mum - that read my tweets.
Day 1:
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A pill testing facility could be run in Civic as soon as this summer after the ACT Government agreed to a
@ShaneRattenbury
amendment to explore a pilot program
#Canberra
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Eight nuclear powered submarines is pretty cool, but check out the paper clip the AUKUS brief came with!
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Opposition leader Anthony Albanese very blunt when asked if Labor would align with the Greens to form government.
"No."
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Scott Morrison doing the morning media rounds this morning listing all the different types of milk and prices.
#auspol
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A lot of emotion in the room as the prime minister outlines details on the voice to parliament and the question Australians will vote on.
@AAPNewswire
@cochl
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Tell me you’re a journalist without telling me you’re a journalist
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On the same day the Jenkins report came out, a coalition senator was accused of growling + making dog noises at Jacqui Lambie after a passionate Q in Senate
#qt
.
Sarah Hanson-Young and Penny Wong seek withdrawal but no one comes forward.
"Gee you're tough aren't you" -Wong
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Poignant from
@JanaStewartVIC
, reflecting on the mental health of young Indigenous people while calling for a respectful voice debate:
"We're not going to come out of this without scars but let's try and keep them to a minimum."
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#Canberra
has recorded 1 additional covid case - a close contact of the previous case, taking total active cases to 7.
No one is in hospital.
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#Breaking
: WA senator Sue Lines has been elected Senate president with 54 votes. The Greens' Dorinda Cox received 12 votes while two senators donkey voted.
@AAPNewswire
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In some good news, 100 critically endangered Southern Corroboree Frogs have been reintroduced to their native habitat at Kosciuszko National Park and the NSW government has sent out some cracking photos!
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When asked why the gov says it hasn't introduced a federal integrity bill bc Labor wouldn't support it, but introduced religious discrim bill despite its own MPs not supporting it, min. Fletcher says "choices and trade offs" needed to be with limited sitting days left.
#auspol
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The prime minister’s preamble clocked in at 18 minutes today, one minute for each year you (still) need to be alive to hold a forklift licence.
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@naveenjrazik
One of the best was (I forgot which MP) being told to sit back down after trying to argue his town shouldn't have made the "shittest in Australia" list.
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A hungry press pack - and shadow housing minister
@JasonClareMP
- descends upon the local bakery at Wadalba after a busy morning on the campaign trail.
#auspol
#ausvotes
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Today in the Senate, Bridget McKenzie has raised a point of order after being called sensitive, clarifying she is indeed, not sensitive.
#auspol
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Every politics observer watching the Senate essentially vote on the same thing a dozen times in a day
#auspoI
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5/ Senator Jacqui Lambie savaged One Nation for using fear to gain votes.
"Choices have consequences. You cannot call the consequences of every choice discrimination.
"You are choosing to do something that puts other people's lives at risk and you'll be held accountable."
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In just over a week, the coalition have shot from $3.15 underdogs to $1.85 favourites.
#auspol
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An emotional
@Gordon_R_Ramsay
tells the
@ACT_Assembly
about the pain and trauma felt by those who underwent conversion therapy
#ACTpol
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A few months ago I started training to become a crisis supporter with
@Lifeline_ACT
.
I might be biased but definitely worth a read and a small donation if you can to support the amazing work Lifeline does.
Or spend big at the upcoming bookfair🤷♀️
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Me trying to stay positive amid a 4 week lockdown extension for the ACT.
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Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
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Protesters have come up right to the doors of Parliament House and are playing the last post and chanting “lest we forget” as a line of cops block the door.
@AAPNewswire
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More than 8 hours into the defence department fronting
#estimates
, the airforce chief is now being asked about UFOs 🛸
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ACT will reach 70% first jab milestone for 16+ population over the weekend.
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To recap, the prime minister says he intends to amend sex discrimination act alongside religious discrimination bill.
Lib moderates: Won't vote for bill without immediate protection for LGBT+ students.
Lib conservatives: Won't vote for bill if SDA amended.
#auspol
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#Breaking
: Former rugby league player Chris Dawson will face trial for the murder of his wife Lynette after the High Court struck out a special leave application to have the case permanently stayed. via
@AAPNewswire
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Pacific Minister Zed Seselja just reaffirmed Australia found out about a Solomon-China security pact when it leaked on social media.
Earlier PM said he “wasn’t surprised” when questioned on the pact.
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#Breaking
: the report into parliamentary culture has dropped and found that "rather than being held accountable, participants told the Commission that people who engaged in misconduct were often rewarded for, or in spite of, their behaviour."
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Peter Dutton talking like five moderates crossing the floor is similar to a couple legs falling over on your multi.
"If one goes, then you lose five and you lose a vote by one, you can lose it by five, it's the same outcome."
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