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@DrewPavlou
I wouldn't get too "civilisation" about it all. Oz soldiers have done dreadful things (but haven't shared it online).
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Political class - journos, pollies, staffers, strategists, on both sides - reckons this is very clever stuff. Rest of the country rolls their eyes at this try-hardery.
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That Perrottet fellow is in for the mother of all PMO backgroundings.
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News Corp seems still unsure lwhether Morrison should go to Glasgow. Hope they decide and let him know in good time.
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Not normally a Danstan, but gotta admit he is a rather .. . crisper communicator on this than one Anthony A.
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No one has explained why
@AusFedPolice
facilitated the arrest on Interpol red notice of an Australian resident found to be under risk of persecution by govt that issued that red notice.
Almost as if it's the same organisation that facilitated the execution of Sukumaran & Chan.
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More than two years into this thing and still no one has (successfully) explained to Chris that the point of all the rules and restrictions was to *prevent* deaths and sickness and that citing the low death toll as evidence it was all a fuss about nothing makes. No. Sense.
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PMO preparing background for journos on that rude French guy.
Stay tuned.
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Upper Hunter, which Labor has not won in over a century, is now the "Labor base".
More to follow.
Joel Fitzgibbon: “When your base walks away from you, it takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of commitment to win them back”
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@vanOnselenP
Turns out Crikey article wrong, and she had contemporaneous recollections, so this is moot.
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Calls for Voice audit may put Mundine-linked firms in spotlight
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Just quietly, just between us, keep this to yourself, but the Constitution has always given special rights to some Australians, the most extreme case being Tasmanians with outsized voice in both the senate and house of representatives.
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Greens voter angry at ALP for wanting to appeal to more than 10% of the electorate.
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730’s post-mortem of Labor’s election loss is quite thought provoking.
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"I certainly don't want people of that type in Australia, I really don't." John Howard, Children Overboard, 2001.
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During the 2019 federal election a couple (at least) of ABC journos regularly employed the term "retiree tax" when discussing Labor's franking credits policy.
"Ute tax" destined to go the same way?
I want to scream out loud every single time. Along with media enabling embedding “ute tax” into the daily political discourse. Hewitt just did it on
#Insiders
What crap journalism standards we currently have.
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The Australian's economic editor retweeting the far-right dude (convicted of assaulting his ex-wife) & calls on Victoria's governor to sack premier. All good.
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Dutts will struggle to hold Dickon imo. This is not wishful thinking or hyperbole. A mere 54-46 Qld Coalition 2pp win would sweep him away in a uniform swing. Ali France running again, is good for Labor. And Getup also must've done something right the last 2 times.
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Former PM wheeled onto stage to insist no regrets about anything. Wheeled off again
Commentariat goes: “ooh aah they don’t make them like that any more, today’s politicians take note, learn from the master etc..”
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Morrison was furious when he found out staff were confiding in journos how furious he was about the Australia Post thingo. “He hit the roof”, said one source close to the PM.
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Greg Sheridan went to that ARC junket and found Jordan Peterson’s pretentious gobbledegook “profound.”
Paul Kelly also attended, and was particularly impressed with Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s explanation of the meaning of the Voice vote.
Just the boys having a normal one.
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Sky News Australia being cancelled and censored again, this time by … Sky News Australia.
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Govt: these massive deficits are caused by Covid!
Oppn: Nonsense, most of the debt was accrued before the pandemic!
Debt/deficit conflation is cool.
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Documents left behind in a Canberra bar reveal a No victory on the Voice would set Tony Abbott on a path back to the prime ministership. Greg Sheridan will be governor general and Australia will become part of Hungary.
Voting no is just not worth the risk.
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The usual political approach is to deny making the earlier, erroneous statement, no matter how silly this denial makes you look.
But Morrison instead goes for the double down.
Not thinking ahead Scott!
This is extraordinary. Morrison is so unwilling to admit his basic factual errors on Taiwan and Hong Kong that he’ll junk decades of consistent, considered, balanced Australian China policy. He is totally out of his depth.
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“I am writing this because no one at the ABC — whose producers invited me onto their coronation coverage as a guest — has uttered one word of public support.”
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Under Menzies, Howard, Hawke and Keating the AEC didn’t block one person on Twitter
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I reckon Tim is most vulnerable of sitting Libs to an Indie, partly because Zoe would have some name recognition, and also because Tim is so obviously PR driven and insubstantial.
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Resolve guy wants Australia to return to first past the post.🙄God help us.
(Hint, it would currently assist the Coalition.)
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My soccer team won last weekend despite scoring fewer goals than the previous weekend, when they lost. How this happened is a mystery and I will write about it - referencing only my team’s scores, not their opponents’ - many times.
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When this CV crisis is over, some lesser lights will go "lol only X people died, this shows all those govt restrictions were an overreaction lol."
Plse don't be that person.
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It happened because the Coalition’s primary vote fell by even more, much more.
Hopefully soon ppl will STFU about Labor’s primary vote. They got 52+% the two party preferred vote and a majority of seats.
(Otoh Declining support for both major parties is an important story)
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@bkbarnz
@WalshFreedom
Fascinating exercise. Ignore Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, HRC wins!
Over here, ignore Qld, Bill Shorten is PM.
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Five days on, no one has the heart to tell the Oz what two party preferred means.
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Due to Twitter's character limit Alex forgot to include the information that France % vaccinated it more than twice Australia's.
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Man who got AZ jab without side effects (ie no blood clot) “feels cheated”. Not the Onion; an SMH headline.
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Now not too soon to point out?
anyone who actually believes that a politician being ostracised by colleagues & left off tactics committee is in any way comparable with bullying & sexual assault of political staff …. might like to, Yknow, reflect on their own thought processes?
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Peter Costello* hates high taxes.
* Highest-taxing treasurer in the country's history.
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Has any previous PM felt the need to hang around a by-election seat for the count? Why would they?
Suspect this is a new rule invented by the L/NP-News Corp tag team that other journos are mindlessly inhaling.
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Me on Upper Hunter byelection.
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History has shown Churchill greatly overestimated the threat from Nazi Germany. Worst case scenarios never remotely eventuated, therefore Britain overreacted to what was always a modest threat.
Next week: The battle of Waterloo
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Labor has remained comfortably comfortably ahead in the polls but commentariat commentates as if they’re behind and need to pull something out of the bag. Makes good yarn.
Not a bad place to be for Labor.
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@vanOnselenP
Peter. He should have exemptions for work, but not for play. Was very poor form.
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“Rather than halving international arrivals, a simple and much less damaging approach to reducing risk would be to require all international arrivals to have verification of receiving two doses of any vaccine approved in Australia.”
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41% of those polled agreed "There should be an immediate easing of petty restrictions with appropriate social distancing in place", 39% disagreed. Don't you hate it when dodgy wording (viz "petty") doesn't get the result you wanted?
Soz, Strayans love lockdown! (For now.)
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A note from the Mother Country.
Dear Andrew, Australia has now had 37 failed constitutional refs on 18 occasions + 2 non-const. ones (on WW1 conscription).
After one of the latter the PM quit his party, joined the opposition & remained PM.
Apart from that, no PM has resigned.
David Cameron resigned as PM after losing the Brexit referendum. Will Anthony Albanese, father of The Voice referendum in Australia, resign as PM after losing his referendum? By far, far more than Cameron lost Brexit.
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Victoria: 56% fully vaxxed.
Denmark: 77% fully vaxxed.
Close enough for comparison eh
@nick_coatsworth
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Why is Victoria not opening up as quickly as NSW? And why aren’t we looking more to what is happening in Denmark? A good counter from
@nick_coatsworth
& Catherine Bennett to some recent alarmist commentary
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Did you see someone not celebrating Australia Day appropriately today? You can call crimestoppers on 1300asekfhsadfs
Everyone else was happy to wave the Australian flag, so why did Eltham Labor MP
@VickiWardMP
spend the vast majority of the local Australia Day and Citizenship ceremony refusing to wave hers?
#springst
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Reckon we are 1 2pp Newspoll % point shift (to ALP) away from "this Liberal campaign is the worst I've ever seen. Let me list the ways - and no, I don't care if this totally contradicts what I was saying/writing 2 weeks ago). Furthermore I reserve the right to flip again next wk"
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ministers now send their dept heads to be grilled by journos? 🤔
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Oh. Here’s Barrett herself in 2016 running the (then) Republican line, including that Scalia should not be replaced by someone who is very different to him philosophically.
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Bordering on satire. Presumably party dills are telling journos this. Do they think we use PR?
Nine political editor
@CUhlmann
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‘Polling shows both major parties now hovering on a primary vote in the mid 30s. Neither party can form government from there. There is a big vote for minor parties and more than one in four are undecided just five weeks out.’
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Just turned off the car's ignition - inadvertently "banning" the radio station that had been on. 🙁
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Johnson’s snub caused Morrison to “lose face” in front of his people. It’s harsh, but the only thing that works with Australians.
#losingface
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She has a way of clarifying things, always has.
@JacquiLambie
"All I will say about Phil Gaetjens is that he is an overpaid public servant that will do anything to save the government's arse"
#afternoonbriefing
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I get the two confused. Simon Benson is federal opposition leader and Peter Dutton is the Australian’s chief political correspondent, right?
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Again: the last three federal opposition leaders to successfully oppose constitutional referendums were rolled by their parties the following year: Howard 1988-9, Peacock 1984-5, Sneddon 1974-5. People think it’s a political “win” but it’s not really.
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“Journalists are so easy to con. Learn your talking points by rote, affect a deliberate and grave speaking style and bombard them with WhatsApp messages. Drop them the occasional exclusive and they’ll say you’re the next JFK.”
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This is actually probably a slight rise in Labor 2pp compared with last Newspoll. How close did it come to rounding to 54 46? Even as it is, rather a party pooper for teh accepted narrative.
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Watch as Abbott, Dutton, Bernardi and Leyonhjelm battle for the same patch of around 10% of the voting population. Which man will prevail? Stay tuned.
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Australia unequivocally condemns hacking/bugging in foreign countries for commercial advantage.
(Old Timor Leste joke.)
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Nasty, judgemental, lock 'em up radio jock's sudden conversion to "drug addiction is a mental health issue" has scientists baffled.
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Here's the overwhelming reason Trump is competitive in the US presidential election. The answer will surprise you.
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Remember Bill Hunter ad for Labor in 1996: ~ ‘I’m an actor, that’s my job. But John Howard is acting too, and that’s dangerous. With Keating you know where he stands blah blah.’ Similar to this week’s Lib message. And Howard on Rudd.
Timeless theme for govt far behind in polls.
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Here is a list of all the times a Greens MP has crossed the floor. Very interesting reading.
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Thing about Sky after Dark (& Sunday morning) is: its ratings in general community are pretty much asterisks; they have negligible direct influence.
But LNP MPs & members are extremely well represented among viewers & it reinforces their belief that this behaviour is mainstream🤪
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Lib ministers piling onto Paul. Outrage perhaps a little faux?
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Blue Labor pple go: OMG we've lost a huge chunk of our primary vote to the Greens; to survive we must reconnect with One Nation supporters.
🤷
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Look, my only concern right now is Scott's mental health and welfare, I wish people would stop sniping, not all of us are suited to leadership positions, many of us have found ourselves struggling in jobs that were beyond us, ok, even after 3 years, it's not his fault he can't ha
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Sensing, reading between the lines, that the PM has lost the support of Crikey, the Guardian and - most importantly - Twitter. Studies have shown that when this trifecta deserts a political leader it's only a matter of time bef
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It’s actually 74%. Todays webpoll: do facts matter in journalism anymore, or is it all about the vibe?
Nearly 90% of the Australian population is fully vaccinated & the panic, fear & hysteria continues. Hermit nation is real.
#COVID19Aus
🇦🇺
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This is news to Australians.
“In Australia you can lose custody of your children if you don’t affirm their gender. The state will come and take them away… the state will, in schools, change your child’s name, pronouns and treat them as the opposite sex and won’t even tell you… They are talking about a baby
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We’re running a competition to see who can generate the most overblown takes on what a 6% One Nation vote in the NSW upper house says about “the country”. So many excellent entries so far; keep them coming.
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Collective amnesia implicit in remembrances of 2003 ALP leadership change.
For the record: Team Beazley dragged down Crean, who then helped organise numbers to ensure Latham, not Beazley, succeeded him. Crean also helped topple Kim in 2006; he wanted Gillard, settled for Rudd.
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Labor's cunning plan to make sure they come third in Higgins.
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Labor win was widely expected. Surprises (for me) in this order:
1. Teals 5, wtf!
2. Greens, +3 in HoR, wot! 😠
3. Labor primary vote going backwards (see 2.)
4. WA huge swing
5. Fowler
6. Griffith
7. Pocock
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The only good Gerard this country has produced is Gerard Kennedy from Divvy 4. The rest are mostly Hendersons and Rennicks.
Sad!
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In some ways the guy who says he told Pell to "piss off" from swimming pool in the 1980s is the most .... damning ...
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