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For those saying gun laws don't work, I made a list of Australian public mass shootings since our strict 1996 laws
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Sydney's Sea Life aquarium says it is a gay penguin couple, Sphen and Magic, and they are hatching an egg together
"The pair make a great team"
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If I was Novak Djokovic, I would simply have taken two doses of the safe and effective COVID-19 vaccinations, then quietly collected my millions of dollars for playing tennis
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Tommy Robinson "decked" by a 70-year-old man on his first day in jail
"He is said to have tried to intimidate the pensioner who responded by dropping him with a single punch."
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it's been 24 hours and I can't stop watching on loop this Canberra kangaroo get rescued from Lake Burley Griffin then jump right back in the water
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Ariarne Titmus’ coach’s reaction after she won gold in the 400 metres - instantly iconic
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"Trump pardons Lil Wayne, snubs Joe Exotic" is exactly the kind of headline this presidency was always going to end with huh
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A man with literally every piece of information in the world at his fingertips looks at COLDEST NEW YEARS EVE ON RECORD and comes up with "yeah, climate change isn't real"
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
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Someone put a statue of naked Trump (with giant belly + tiny peen) in NYC today and apparently it's also a Pokestop
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PM Albanese about to give his first press conference from Parliament House. They’ve just added the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to the podium
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Russell Crowe got Jennifer Aniston to read out a climate change message about the bushfires at the Golden Globes, and honestly, what a lord
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very strong speech from Jacqui Lambie, bluntly opposing One Nation's vaccine mandate "discrimination" bill:
"that's the way it is. We do that to keep people safe. How about that?"
#auspol
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"this is a problem of Chris Bowen's making", opposition leader Peter Dutton says of the energy crisis, regarding the new energy minister who has been in office three weeks following nine years of Coalition government
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[me appearing on Shark Tank with my million dollar idea]
Salmon waterslide cannon
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Kanye likes Trump and Kim doesn't, 2017 is gonna be great viewing
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Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells just launched an incredible attack on PM Scott Morrison and Alex Hawke in the Senate - says Morrison is “not fit to be Prime Minister” and claims he and Hawke “destroyed the Liberal Party in NSW”
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Here's a video of Anning getting egged - the kid walked right up, got his phone out, started recording, and calmly cracked the egg on Fraser's head
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Laura Tingle at
#NPC
: “It’s traditional for the PM & opposition leader to give their final major addresses of the campaign to the Press Club… Morrison becomes the first PM in over 50 years to not give such an address. We wish him well on Saturday, as we do our speaker today”
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Stop booking white supremacists on your TV shows. Stop publishing cartoons depicting immigrants as scary, faceless invaders. Stop giving easy softball interviews to politicians who sow division and disunity.
Christchurch requires a thorough examination of how media works in 2019
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Richard Di Natale's speech in the Senate just now was straight fire
"We have kids in a catatonic state because they had given up hope, locked away in those offshore hellholes. What is the Liberal Party doing? Focusing on vengeance, on payback. Focusing on themselves."
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Scott Morrison just dropped “Mr Speaker” three times in one answer to a journalist in a press conference, only realising on the third one that he’d slipped back into Question Time mode
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'Just Adelaide Things' has this video of an old fella walking up to Scott Morrison and flipping the bird in his face in South Australia
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Bold of Brad Hazzard to sternly warn that “particularly young people” need to “not let complacency set in” - like the first cases in this Avalon cluster weren’t two people aged 60+ who failed to isolate after COVID tests and visited cafes all over town while infectious
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@thomas_violence
Italian historians must have enjoyed the authenticity of the shootout at the petrol station and the police helicopter in the Luhrmann version
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left: Parliament House, Canberra, January 5
right: :Parliament House, Canberra, January 20
(pics: AAP)
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China: lockdown
Italy: lockdown
Spain: lockdown
UK: lockdown
India: lockdown
USA: planning specifically to relax rules by Easter with the hope churches will be "packed"
Trump on why he picked Easter as the day he wants to end strict social distancing and reopen American businesses: "Easter is a very special day for me ... Easter Sunday, and you'll have packed churches all over our country."
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Penguins giving each other special rocks is my favourite thing in nature, it's honestly just so pure and good
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The governor of Florida, America’s third biggest state, has slammed Australia’s strict approach to Covid-19, likening the nation to ‘communist China’.
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Scores of people are deleting Uber after the company serviced rides at JFK airport while taxis were striking against muslim ban
#deleteuber
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wow those four hours where NSW tried to unilaterally open Australia's international borders sure were exhilarating
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Berejiklian saying Delta is difficult to contain "even when you've thrown everything at it from day one”, in the same breath as announcing a long list of brand new restrictions, is quite the feat of political gymnastics
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Fatima Payman: "My family didn't flee from a wartorn country to come here as refugees for me to remain silent when atrocities inflicted on innocent people. Witnessing our Govt 's indifference to greatest injustice of our times makes me question the direction [Labor] is taking"
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Not sure I quite have the words to describe Brittany Higgins returning to Parliament House to address the massive
#March4Justice
. An absolute powerhouse. A force of nature. That speech, I think (I hope) will go down in history. Seeing the effect on people here was extraordinary
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holy shit
"we'll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We don't want them to find any ballots at 4 in the morning and add them to the list... as far as I'm concerned, we've already won"
we're in dangerous territory now
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if you were the person who called Crime Stoppers on Barnaby Joyce, please send me a DM or email as I am dying to hear from you
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Canberra anti-vax protesters have blocked roads for 2 weeks, harassed hospo workers, been arrested on weapons charges, camped illegally, forced a charity book fair to cancel
in Australia's most vaccinated city (98.6% 2-dose)
and wonder why they're not being more warmly welcomed
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Glad someone said it
Archer: “It is irresponsible to cast doubt on the integrity of the AEC and their established processes in a deliberate attempt to confuse people or induce them to question the validity of the result”
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MELBOURNE:
Pot, potato cake, lockdown
SYDNEY:
Middy, potato scallop, stay at home order
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I have been getting messages and tags and mentions from upset Indian cricket fans all morning - some angry, some supportive - because they have mistaken me for English cricketer Jos Buttler, it's been quite a day for me on twitter dot com
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can we stop doing fact checks on good animals please, can't we just have some nice things that don't need to debunked in a "well ACTUALLY" hot take, let Sully and Knickers just have their time
Sully H.W. Bush is a service dog who had been with the president for six months, not his lifelong companion:
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Pretty sick of living through these “once in a lifetime”/“one-in 100-year” weather and economic events every couple of years lately hey
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Home affairs minister Clare O'Neil, on Donald Trump Jr: "a big baby, who isn't very popular."
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Chris Hemsworth holding a tiny koala which is holding a bigger toy koala
That’s it, that’s the tweet
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statement from SA opposition leader Peter Malinauskas, striking a different tone to some politicians lately:
"We’re going to fight for each other, not against each other.... unlike in Victoria, as Opposition Leader I’m here to support the government, not undermine it"
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5 crossbench MPs (Adam Bandt, Helen Haines, Rebekha Sharkie, Zali Steggall & Andrew Wilkie) have called on the Nine and News Corp papers to stop running COVID ads from Clive Palmer - say they have "civic duties as a national publisher"
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[Trump, body pumped full of cocktails of experimental drugs, having been on oxygen just days ago] maybe I'm immune
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Advice at start of pandemic:
stop shaking hands! Disinfect your groceries when you get home! Don’t touch elevator buttons!
Advice today:
would be good if you can limit your licking of doorknobs to 3 hours 59 minutes. Totally ok if not though
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Andrew Bolt: I still maintain Adam Goodes bullied that girl at the game and that is definitely the only reason I don't like him. Bullying children is wrong.
also Andrew Bolt: here's my very normal 1000-word article calling a 16-year-old girl "deeply disturbed"
Why do so many adults treat this middle-aged and strange man with such seriousness?
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Hmm, pretty hungry. Might go to Muffin Break and ask them to give me 200 free muffins because it'll be good experience for them. Anyone want anything?
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PM Anthony Albanese on the Roe v Wade ruling of the US Supreme Court:
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I must have missed the episode where Barney killed more than 500,000 people around the world
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SA chief health officer: "We had a security guard at the [quarantine] hotel that worked part-time making pizza"
did we... learn nothing... from the last six months
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Stunned that Katie Hopkins has been let in the country. Aside from the obvious travel caps and Australians still struggling to get home, this gobsmacking disrespect for quarantine rules, deliberately flouting vital health guidelines on avoiding HQ breaches
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speaker Andrew Wallace apparently couldn't hear Scott Morrison yell "Manchurian candidate" into the microphone, but can hear Morrison say "I withdraw" even though the microphones didn't pick it up
Curious!!!
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At 5.52pm on a Friday, the Australian government has cancelled Novak Djokovic’s visa 🎾
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I’m on a bus into the city. Bus is diverting due to climate protests, driver is telling everyone
One woman is LIVID: “Why?? How do I get to Martin Place now??” She’s furious
Then someone says it’s because of the protest
“Oh..that’s good..someone has to stand up for the planet”
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journalist Q: "Has the COVID safe app been used at all during the outbreak?"
VIC health minister Martin Foley: "Not to my knowledge. I'm sure such a rare event would have been brought to my attention"
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Monique Ryan gets up in
#QT
to [unintelligible sledging]
microphones don't pick it up but Peter Dutton appears to mouth something about "prime minister" in her direction (0.22)
Ryan: "I'll be there before you are"
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We’re about 2 minutes away from a concerted campaign of “the referendum is being rigged by elites and the woke AEC” and I think media and commentators really need to reflect on the role we’re playing in either debunking that falsehood or allowing it to take root
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former Aus Post CEO Christine Holgate compares her treatment (near-instant dismissal over the Cartier watches) to how Scott Morrison responded to "terrible atrocities" alleged against cabinet ministers
#auspol
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Beside the inherent insanity of this tweet, I think we could agree that at 71 years of age, calling Trump "old" is not so much insult as it is fact
Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!
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writing 1500 words to claim Norman Swan is bad at his job but then someone putting the wrong headline on the article is just *chef’s kiss*
News Limited better lawyer up. I suspect
@jonathanvswan
will think it’s defamatory to have the photo of whoever that ugly old bloke is associated with his name. I am of course not referring to Kenny who’s a fine figure of a man and so young looking for his age.
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Scientists, for 30 years: climate change will exacerbate natural disasters like fire. We’ve been saying this for ages
Facebook idiots: you fool. Far more likely it’s entirely the fault of an orchestrated clandestine campaign of arson, led by greenies, for purposes unknown
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Scott Morrison is on 2GB, speaking to Ray Hadley
Hadley: "if anyone listening expects me to carve you up, they're going to be sadly disappointed"
which is just a fantastic way to start an interview
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I think it’s fun how all the analysis of Macron’s anger is “it’s only because France has an election soon”
French election is in April. Australia likely to have one in March or May
So by that logic, we should be considering Morrison’s response in the election context too?
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PM Albanese on ABC Radio, on Bondi stabbing:
"This man wielded a knife, but if it was an automatic gun, then we would have been speaking about hundreds of deaths... an important reminder of how important it is that we do have strong gun laws in this country"
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Morrison: "Had I been asked about these matters at the time at numerous press conferences I held, I would have responded truthfully"
...how? How would anyone have been able to ask about this?
"Excuse me PM, just wondering, have you secretly appointed yourself treasurer?"
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PM Albanese responds to criticisms of his international travel schedule: "those people might like to say which of the events I have attended on behalf of Australia, that I should not have attended. I have not had a day off for a very long period of time"
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speaker Milton Dick told the House he reviewed video of PM Albanese answering a question from Michelle Landry in
#QT
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"the PM was answering the question...he was directly responding to interjections from [Dutton]. I didn't see the PM show any disrespect to [Landry]"
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I hate analysing the theatre of pressers, but this NSW one is something. Great to focus upfront on vaccinations, as we should - but Hazzard waiting 10 mins to mention 30k people in Armidale going into lockdown, adding "there have been some deaths" as the last thing... not great?
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oh my god you have to watch to the very end, this one is worth it
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I don’t think I’ve ever been to a protest where there’s a line to get IN. Scenes at the edge of the Sydney
#climatestrike
at the Domain
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imagining Kevin Rudd roaring into the Parliament House forecourt in a black Pontiac Firebird with a truckload of bootlegged Pfizer in tow like 'Smokey & The Bandit'
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Gladys Berejiklian:"We have had, and continue to have, the right settings in place"
don't know how you can honestly say this, at this point
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Antony Green - "The story of this election at the moment is the collapse of the One Nation vote"
#QLDvotes
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Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo: "I'm devastated"
"We've seen a disgusting No campaign, a campaign that has been dishonest, that has lied to the Australian people"
"I'm not angry at the Australian public...It's the people that have lied to us, they are the ones we should be blaming"
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So she was fine when Labor nominated her for the election
And fine when she sat in the senate for 2 years as a Labor senator
But the afternoon she quits the party - suddenly "Labor figures" have had a stunning revelation that they've had to alert the papers about
🙃🙃🙃
Labor figures are reportedly questioning Fatima Payman’s eligibility to sit in the senate as a dual citizen, after her bombshell resignation from the party. MORE 👉
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I was so stoked reading the first two lines of this headline then really sad reading the third line
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"the tunnel should have been built 20 years ago", Tony Abbott says
He's been local member for 25 years
#warringahdebate
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so the list of government members who knew about the Brittany Higgins report, but didn't pass the message on to the Prime Minister:
- Linda Reynolds
- Michaelia Cash
- Scott Ryan
- Tony Smith
- several PMO staff
- and now Peter Dutton, who says the AFP told him on February 11
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The AFR hit job on Sam Maiden is pathetic and outrageous. Talk about shooting the messenger
I wonder how many blokes in the gallery would be described as a “spiky competitor”. I’ve been there 8 months - IMO the place could definitely do with being a bit more spiky & less chummy
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Joe Hockey once again proving you don’t really need to know a lot about anything to ascend to some of the highest offices in the political society. A shining example for us all.
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Peter Dutton giving a press conference to sound the alarm over a Chinese "intelligence collection warship" 250 nautical miles off the coast of WA today
we're at the "break glass in case of emergency" stage of the election
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~Some personal news~ very stoked to be joining
@TheNewDailyAu
on Monday as political editor. Slightly daunted at the prospect of moving to Canberra in the middle of winter, but real excited to get stuck in
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Scott Morrison: under 40s can get AstraZeneca
State premiers: hmm not sure about that, ATAGI says preferably nah
ATAGI: health advice hasn't changed
Greg Hunt: health advice hasn't changed
AMA: not sure about this
RACGP: we found out about this from the TV
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I don't know what I expected from a Scott Morrison government but "tweeting a video soundtracked by a Fatman Scoop song containing the lyrics 'who fuckin tonight' in his first month" definitely wasn't on the list of possibilities
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in the Senate, Sarah Hanson-Young accuses someone on the Coalition benches of making "growling and dog noises" as Jacqui Lambie spoke
Penny Wong says she heard it from "that end" too but Senate President Slade Brockman said he didn't
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"irony" is the Trump campaign plagiarising a speech about the importance of hard work
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I don't have a GP of my own in Canberra. I just Googled "GP near me" and called the first number that came up. Was able to instantly book an AstraZeneca vaccine appointment for 11am tomorrow. Go on, go out and get one, fellow youths - I'm stoked
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