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@scotiabank
@Desiree_Dakin
This is appalling. You need to fix this situation rather than try to manage the PR fallout.
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Can anyone tell me why Rachel Baxendale & Alice Workman think they have some inalienable right to access the WIFE of a Premier?
I mean, I know they're 'just following orders' for Murdoch, but aren't they a *tiny* bit embarrassed declaring publicly that they see a wife as chattel?
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Fancy finding Tex Perkins's finger more 'shocking' than millions of hectares on fire, lives lost, & properties destroyed.
That's the Murdoch moral compass for you.
May 2020 be the year the nation comes together to reject cruel, divisive, & deadly disinformation.
#AustraliaBurns
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Had a *gutful* of certain Australian journos’ arrogance & whining?
Then the incomparable
@she_jedi
’s video is for you!
Watch with the sound on: you'll appreciate her dulcet tones, especially as she rents asunder a novel, collective botty-orifice for the Govt stenographers.
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@emmma_camp_
What a disgusting, ableist take. Just bc you're the type of person who'll engage in dishonesty (cf your following tweet) doesn't mean that the rest of us are behaving that way.
Your gatekeeping materially harms others & serves no one well.
It also reflects really badly on you.
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A review of Grace Tame's appointment, but no review of Bettina Arndt who platformed and justified the actions of Tame's rapist; who allowed her credentials to be misrepresented to her advantage. There is something deeply wrong with power in this country.
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I want to write about an argument some of my favourite Twitter people were having, the past couple of days.
People I admire greatly cannot understand why other people I admire greatly believe there was something inherently sinister about Morrison's attendance at Devonport. 1/9
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Those of you w kids know: when they've been quiet for a while, they're probably up to no good.
Maybe they've been eating toothpaste.
Maybe they've created some modern art on the baby's cot w the bum cream...
Dutton, Porter et al have been *really* quiet.
What might they be up to?
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@QandA
@newscomauHQ
Do you not have any ABC-produced content?
Why on earth are you boosting a news organisation that has been amply demonstrated as partisan and hell-bent on damaging women who challenge power?
It's frankly bizarre.
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Personally, I'd like to hear from the Attorney General, Christian Porter, regarding much-needed reform re laws around rapes in which the victim has passed away, thereby precluding prosecution.
I have no interest in hearing from someone thoroughly ignorant of the law, like
@Birmo
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It's super cute that Darren Chester is calling for a by-election after Andrew Gee's resignation.
Chester's wild assumption: the good people of Calare voted for the Nats, not the individual MP.
I've done research recently in that electorate & have some terrible news for Chester.
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Let's debunk some recenf Lib staffer discourse.
They're claiming there's no existential threat to the Libs based on-
1. those telling Libs to arrest the rightward drift are never voting for them anyway so their opinion is worthless
2. after the Kevin07 wipeout, Libs were...
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Family went for the annual flu vax today. I have NEVER heard GPs at work, talk politics before....
They are *incandescent* with rage.
Minister Khunt, you better pray there's no Voices Of in your electorate.
#auspol
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It feels horrific right now.
But I genuinely believe we're watching the beast in its death throes.
Most weeknights, I'm neck deep in qual research; in the days, quant.
We watch Australia's beating heart in real-time.
Ordinary Aussies HATE this cruelty & they have switched OFF.
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Devonport broke our hearts. Everyone in
#auspol
, on both sides of this debate, was speaking from a place of grief.
Please, let's be kind to each other.
And let's not assume the worst of those who are appalled by this Govt's record of cruelty. 9/9
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Morrison isn't just any PM. In my lifetime, we've never had a leader so corrupt & cruel - who, at every turn, prioritised marketing over the nation's wellbeing.
If an action can't benefit him personally, it doesn't happen.
So the Devonport photos didn't exist in isolation. 5/9
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There will be fallout for rape survivors: a short-term chilling effect.
But it won't last.
Instead, there is going to be the most almighty backlash against this insanity.
The Libs are headed for oblivion.
The putrid sections of the media are headed there too.
Maintain hope.
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@jeff_kennett
This conduct is abhorrent & contributes to a culture that makes ALL Australian women less safe.
@beyondblue
should dissociate from you immediately.
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They're threads in a tapestry of pathological self-promotion and extraordinary callousness & cruelty.
And they would NEVER have happened had Morrison NOT seen the direct benefit to himself.
People on Twitter who are upset by this are NOT 'politicising'... 6/9
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Hillsong's Frank Houston RAPED children. His son, Brian Houston, was named in the Royal Commission for failing to immediately alert police. A survivor accused Brian Houston of victim blaming.
Now Brian Houston seeks to silence us via defamation threats.
#Hillsong
#StreisandEffect
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#auspol
Tweeps: it was OUR outrage that FORCED Morrison & media to take notice.
It will be OUR outrage that lets the LNP know there'll be an UNPRECEDENTED defeat @ the next election if they don't act NOW.
These fires will be SEARED into national memory
#FireMorrison
#Scomomustgo
Many people are saying
#ScomoMustGo
#ClimateEmergency
#FireMorrison
#MorrisonFires
#bushfirecrisis
#HawaiiSmoKo
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something that wasn't itself ALREADY highly political.
They're NOT begrudging grieving families the comfort of leaders.
They're responding to Scott Morrison's cynicism & opportunism; to selective compassion that's NEVER afforded to so many who suffer... 7/9
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Re Brittany Higgins:
Libs/RW media don't get it, women like me never intended on going into politics.
We stepped up bc we HATE corruption/cruelty.
Like many, I began after Fed19.
By Fed 22, our impact was obvious.
We're just getting started.
We are furious.
We are unstoppable.
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@simonahac
@DaveSharma
As mentioned, Dave, I'm a well-known Orthodox Rebbetzin.
I also run an enormous Jewish newsgroup.
I can't begin to tell you how many of us are disgusted by what you're doing.
We see it for what it is: disinformation & defamation. Appropriation of our trauma for political gain.
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Prediction!!!
Donald Trump is going to suffer a 'health scare' that takes him out of the running for November, leaving Pence with the poisoned chalice.
Trump will seek 'medical care' in a location *without* an extradition treaty with the US.
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The
#NSWbushfires
disinfo's out of control.
We MUST PUSH BACK.
The facts:
.Greens are NOT in power in fire areas.
.LNP govts slashed fire budgets
.LNP ignored expert warnings of catastrophic fires
.LNP refuses to act on
#ClimateEmergency
.LNP spreads disinfo to deflect from this.
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as a direct CONSEQUENCE of Morrison's actions.
To allow Morrison free use of others' grief for his own purposes without comment strikes these tweeps as a grotesque abdication of their responsibility - to be decent citizens who identify the ruses responsible for great harms. 8/9
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@philipdalidakis
@AdamBandt
@Greens
Can you stop conflating Jews with Zionism. It is a disgraceful tactic, to attempt to smear others with the charge of antisemitism when so many *Jewish* people hold similar views. Grotesque stuff.
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Genuine question: can anyone identify a single substantive achievement that was a net positive for the nation attributable to the Coalition Govt since 2013?
#auspol
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WITHOUT taking context into account, strengthens the darkest, cruellest aspects of his ideology & its practical manifestations.
We all know Morrison's compassion is selective.
We know he is fine with robbing the Biloela girls of their health & happiness.
We know he didn't... 3/9
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utter a word about the Sudanese Australian children who died in a fire.
Listing every cruel act he has overseen during his political career would render this thread unreadably long.
Yes, of course it's reasonable for ANY PM to attend a site of grief, BUT that's the thing: 4/9
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...these extreme online spaces. So the right wing discourse, as it intensifies & becomes more extreme, becomes less & less comprehensible to normies.
And here's the rub: you do NOT win elections in Australia without the normies.
11/11
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SA Labor: if you're in any way invested in the Albanese Govt maintaining majority at the next election, you might want to rethink this strategy.
People under age of 40, worried about climate/democracy, are a key demographic in crucial seats.
And they HATE this style of politics.
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...serious person. Demographic shifts matter. Generational change matters. Howard-lovers are more likely to be dead than those voting progressive.
Wheeling Howard out at various critical elections has had a real Weekend at Bernie's vibe, with all the efficacy you might...
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My God. They have to go back generations in their frantic search for anything resembling decency.
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@DaveSharma
I'm an Orthodox Rebbetzin.
THOUSANDS of hours of service to my community.
ALL 4 grandparents were Holocaust survivors.
Dad was born in a German DP camp.
I have NEVER been so disgusted by defamatory dishonesty.
You EXPLOIT Jewish trauma in a FOUL way.
This is SICK.
SHAME ON YOU!
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Bettina Arndt:
'Under the National Law it is an offence for an unregistered person to knowingly or recklessly claim to be a psychologist....Individuals found guilty of misusing a title can face up to three years jail or a fine of up to $60,000 per offence'
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@PT_Yharnam
@DW3y488AeAQ
@ProtonInspector
@BigIrishDad1
These are the lyrics to my favourite country & western song that has yet to be written.
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Talk to everyone you know. They will likely not have the knowledge you do.
Share what you've learned with patience and determination.
Stay focused on the main game.
We've already gone some way to loosening their grip on power.
Keep pushing.
We will win.
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These women...!
Sarah Hanson Young
Rachel Miller
Grace Tame
Brittany Higgins
Kate
Jo Dyer
Louise Milligan
Christine Holgate
Julia Banks
Jacqui Rudge
Might things actually be changing?
We must tell disengaged family/friends about their stories.
#auspol
, we must kick the Libs out
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@latingle
@franknfamily
There's a reason so many people are excited by this news. Thank you, Laura.
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Andrew Bolt & The Herald Sun Editor,
Damon Johnston -
@damonheraldsun
- think bullying a small girl is normal and appropriate.
If you're a brand advertising with these people, you need to know just how badly this reflects on your product or service.
***
@slpng_giants_oz
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Was the Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse also 'gossip',
@ScottMorrisonMP
?
Were their findings that your mentor, Hillsong's Brian Houston, covered up his father's rapes of children nothing more than idle chatter as well?
You are depraved.
#auspol
#insiders
Wow!
@ScottMorrisonMP
on telly doing a presser now.
Journo asks him about Brian Houston.
PM calls it 'gossip'
Journos repeatedly: Is it true?
He repeatedly replies 'it's gossip', abt 10x & then 'I think I've answered that question'
#LiarFromTheShire
🐝
#auspol
#Insiders
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@mjrowland68
@CUhlmann
@aus_media
Not a good look, supporting Uhlmann's punching down.
Not a good look, after having been so very silent about Emma Alberici.
Why do you think legacy media is haemorrhaging audience share?
The hypocrisy & contempt for audiences may have something to do with it.
#ThisisNotJournalism
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@swandane
@rtralphy
The replies have been fun. But in all seriousness, your attempt to make a disgusting transphobic 'joke' revealed that -
. You don't know what tampons are
. You don't know what incontinence pads are
. You've never had a relationship in which a woman trusted you to buy her tampons
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...expect from that sort of creative thinking.
3. The Lib talent pool itself has been drained. The party incentivises religious right people/conduct & punishes moderation. This is a formula for failure in a system w compulsory voting & independent election admin...
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More unpopular opinions from me re Baxendale -
It's actually insane to have this laser-like, obsessive focus on a shitkicker like Baxendale when the real power escapes scrutiny.
Baxendale's being made a *scapegoat* for deep structural failures that reward corruption.
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So I want to dig into it a bit.
Complex systems nerds will tell you, analysing dynamic phenomena through a prism of a static event, too often yields perverse results.
What the HELL does this mean in English?
Basically, looking at Morrison in Devonport in isolation... 2/9
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In case you missed it, take a look at this gorgeous vid from
@reclaimthenews
- sound up!
It dovetails nicely with a lot of the commentary here re
#ScomosGapYear
And if you like this, stay tuned, coz a mega version is on its way.
...
with
@she_jedi
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After
@she_jedi
's vid went berserk (27.5K views!) Oz journos paused for deep introspection re the enormous damage some wrought doing Murdoch & the commercials' bidding.
😂
Kidding!
@reclaimthenews
realised some of them *need* this massive harm spelt out.
Watch w the sound on.
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@MarkRobinsonMP
Persecuting drag queens and scaring the shit out of TINY children is not a fucking 'principled stand'. Delete your account.
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Fuck. I'm shaking right now. After every horror - refugees, Robodebt, aged care, Watergate - i think i couldn't possibly be more furious.
This fucking Govt, however, ALWAYS finds a way.
#LNPProtectRapists
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Here are the medical professionals who give assent to Government torture of refugees.
REMEMBER THEIR NAMES
Dr Katie Allen
Dr Fiona Martin
Dr David Gillespie
Dr Andrew Laming
#auspol
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...saying VOTERS believe this too. Since Abbott, there's been a secular decline in the metro Lib vote. Metro Aus has been saying for a while it doesn't want what the Libs are selling.
2. Anyone who points to past voting patterns as indicative of future trends is not a...
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@albericie
@YouTube
Emma, we can't imagine what you're going through right now; but please know that you have the support of thousands of Australians. We have your back.
The corrupt cabal currently in charge won't be there forever. Power is fleeting; good work is eternal.
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Andrew Forrest: modern tobacco baron... seeking to degrade the knowledge base to increase already obscene wealth.
Also, his Indue card not only robs taxpayers for a costly scheme that INCREASES social pathologies, it also robs people forced onto the card of the will to live.
Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is spreading disinformation about climate change - and wants to fund people to come up with more disinformation.
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...is so dependent is now posing an existential risk to Fox itself via the Dominion lawsuit (and likely Smartmatic after that).
Meanwhile Murdoch here haemorrhages audience but cannot course correct bc of the demands of the online environment- the filter bubble/algorithms...
9/11
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...(i.e. no gerrymander or voter suppression).
The only way to survive in the Lib party as a 'moderate' is to milquetoast your way through a political career in the hope you're not noticed all that often (c.f. Payne, Birmingham, Fletcher).
4. The Lib staffer arguments are...
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their extreme defensiveness on Twitter.
We *must* keep calling out bad reporting while supporting the many journos doing excellent work like
@MichaelWestBiz
@albericie
@SquigglyRick
@MichaelPascoe01
@lukehgomes
@GrogsGamut
@BernardKeane
@Utopiana
@MelissaLDavey
& many more
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...transformed into something that is actually forcing them to act counter to their own electoral interests.
The same is happening, ironically, to the right wing media outlets.
You can see how the need to feed the disinformation-hungry echo chamber on which Fox news...
8/11
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@brisco63
@Milliganreports
@DonWeatherburn
Ever considered that YOU don't need to be on socials? That your steaming pile of foetid hot takes are as boring as they are tedious?
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...also predicated on the idea that the voter information ecosystem is the same today as in 2013.
Not only is cut through much harder now, & not only has legacy media impact been greatly diminished, but the information ecosystems which the Libs once leveraged have now...
7/11
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Beware of any powerful person pushing unity.
I've never seen that NOT used as a means of silencing legitimate dissent.
There is something deeply discordant about seeing our Olympic team strive for this country and then having the politics of
#covid19aus
divide
#auspol
. Our young athletes are showing us what teamwork means. Support Sydney, as we supported Melbourne last year and unite not divide
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Big turnout at Princes Park for
#March4Justice2
@zdaniel
and
@GoldsteinVoices
are serious about equality.
#EnoughIsEnough
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What distinguishes Alexander Downer from the Nazis - who murdered every one of my great-grandparents - is STYLE, *not* substance.
This is unspeakably vile. He should hang his head in shame.
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...eviscerated at Fed & State but came roaring back due to Abbott's hard man political genius/Labor's complete incompetence
Here's what they're missing:
1. It's not just lefty pundits telling the Libs they've moved too far to the right.
Qual/quant research is...
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Together, dear Tweeps, we can move mountains!
The hard right & Murdocrats BANK on our cynicism/exhaustion!
We must keep fighting!
We’re already doing better than we realise!
Murdoch's haemorrhaging money!
& we’ve already got his journos rattled, evidenced by...
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I think we can safely say Dutton is an apologist for a child rape facilitator.
This is the guy who sued me over a single deleted tweet, claiming he was hurt and offended. This disgraceful statement is an insult to victim-survivors of sexual abuse and the loved ones of those who have sadly died. Appalling but unsurprising from Dutton
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This is so stunningly beautiful! Please God/Dog it should come to pass.
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@AlexRyvchin
You need to stop. You're doing material damage to our community. You do not speak for so many of us. Your arcane 'elections' comprising a limited number of folk, prepared to subscribe to a single ideological position, in no way confers upon you authority to speak for us. ENOUGH.
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I'm reasonably cynical, but Peter Dutton's rant re Indigenous Australians & Alice Springs has genuinely shocked me.
The rank racism dripping from his characterisation of Indigenous priorities has left me feeling physically ill.
The utter shamelessness is perhaps most stunning.
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...which only reward what's extreme and punish what's moderate.
There is a critical bidirectionality here: copious research suggests that the most extreme users train the algorithms while the algos reward the most extreme users. BUT most people do not spend their time in...
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@SharazDavid
@BrittHiggins_
@mrwillhayward
If there isn't a retraction and apology, I will be cancelling my subscription as well.
I won't be funding Rundle's transphobic & misogynistic content.
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Emma Alberici's greatest crime?
She made men look stupid.
She exposed
@TurnbullMalcolm
&
@gavmorris
lack of rigour & dilettantism.
Talking like you toffee's surgically implanted in your soft palate isn't commensurate w the acquisition of actual knowledge.
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Nothing sweeter than watching this young woman absolutely thump toxic masculinity in the knitskies.
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What was the thing that made you flake away from the rusty chain that is the
@AustralianLabor
Party?
For me, it was their complicity in refugee torture - cemented by their capitulation in the destruction of the tax base and their cruelty towards those on Newstart.
#auspol
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AUSTRALIA IS NOT SINGAPORE.
We're NOT a tiny island of 6 mil people w impecable public hygeine.
We do NOT test children's temperatures in schools the way Singapore did.
CLOSE SCHOOLS NOW.
MAKE PROVISION FOR CHILDREN OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES WORKERS.
This isn't hard!
#coronavirusaus
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What did Jenny say about
#ScottyTheMisogynist
's rape-joke response to Pamela Anderson?
#ScottyFromMarketing
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@thebettinaarndt
You're either evil or deeply unwell. You need help - URGENTLY. From a psychologist/psychiatrist with REAL qualifications.
I'm also beginning to wonder what skeletons you have in YOUR closet.
What drives you to side with the sickest perpetrators in the country?
What have YOU done?
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@thebettinaarndt
. You defend child rapists
. You shame VICTIMS of child rape
. You defame survivors of domestic violence
. You encourage LIES about your qualifications
Yet you have the gall to play victim here.
You're odious.
You've been found out.
Every decent person in the country is cheering.
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@ultrafrito
@vandroidhelsing
Disagree. I see our species' future freedom as contingent on eating as many of these bastards as quickly as we can.
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For obvs reasons, I can't go into detail.
But I want to reassure folks finding things bleak atm: the research keeps showing there's *so* much care/compassion out there. Howard's arseholes continue to shuffle off this mortal coil apace. Libs/some in media just aren't keeping up.
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Classic abuser tactic from Dutton: 'look what you made me do!'
So is Dutton saying that if we'd just been quiet while the family was deported, they... um... wouldn't have been deported?
This is next level gaslighting.
#HomeToBiloela
#hometobilo
#letthemstay
#auspol
Carina Ford, responding to charge the
#hometobilo
campaign has painted Minister Peter Dutton into a corner and made it impossible for him to grant a visa: "The Australian community cares about this story, they care about this family... The interest in it has come from people"
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@DaveMilbo
@GregHuntMP
@Raf_Epstein
The Federal Govt has left us for dead. And many of us are determined to ensure they're kicked to the curb at the next election - so much so, we're already devoting every second of our free time to that purpose.
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'Christian sexual ethic'?
Is that the George Pell Christian sexual ethic?
Or the Frank Houston one?
Or the Gerard Ridsdale one?
Or the Anglican priests who raped kids?
Or the Salvation army child rapists?
Or is it the more 'vanilla' sexual ethic of Lyle Waxed Balls Shelton?
Australian Christian Lobby backs sacking of employees with no ‘Christian sexual ethic’
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Maybe Scott Morrison will turn up on some far-flung warship... bc what Australia needs right now is another photoshoot & bellicose anti-China war-mongering.
That will nicely distract from what is objectively the biggest failure of public administration in my lifetime.
#libspill
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So diverse! I love how there was a real mix of people here. Look at all the -
. women
. people of colour
. people under the age of 60 (apart from Timmy)
THIS is how great policy gets made, right?
You'd hate to entrench and magnify extant power.
#auspol
Our government will ensure those of faith are shielded from discrimination, just like the rest of the community.
It was great to discuss how we’ll prevent religious discrimination, with women and men of faith from across Goldstein yesterday.
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Unfortunately, the AFR is burdened by a surfeit of mediocre white males.
I might disagree with
@samanthamaiden
on certain issues, but her journalism is fearless & rigorous, unlike the often misogynist, & sometimes racist, tripe the
@FinancialReview
peddles.
#ThisisNotJournalism
Not always been a fan of Samantha Maiden but this hit piece by Aaron Patrick in AFR is revolting. Even more offensive considering AFR is the home of old mate Coorey editor for
#Scottysplaining
🙄
Massive issue in Australia for women & we get yet another bloke trashing a women 🤬
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