Sophie Elsworth
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Media writer at The @australian & @skynewsaust contributor. 📺 ✍️ 🎙🗞Email: sophie.elsworth @news .com.au 🇦🇺 (photo: News Corporation HQ, NY City)
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This woman has no class. Thank goodness the late Queen doesn’t have to see this tripe.
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Well, well Australia. How embarrassing this
@DjokerNole
debacle has turned out. Terrible PR for
#ausopen
too. International embarrassment.
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What health threat is
@DjokerNole
to the Australian population? Please clarify. 🤷♀️🤯😳
#AusOpen
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Go well
@DjokerNole
. Australia has made a mockery of itself in front of the world & many loyal tennis fans won’t forget the shameful treatment of the world no. 1.
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So
@DjokerNole
loses his appeal. What a mess the handling of this whole case was, embarrassing for Australia & the grand slam tournament.
#AusOpen2022
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First it was all about flattening the curve. Then it was about getting two jabs & freedoms would be returned. Now it’s about getting booster
#1
, maybe booster
#2
. The goal posts keep moving. No wonder many people have had a gutful.
#covid19aus
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Meghan Markle going on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Please respect her privacy. 😳🥺🙄
#megexit
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The
@DjokerNole
win is making headlines on news services all around the world. Australia looks like a laughing stock & it will go from bad to worse once the world no. 1 speaks out about the entire ordeal.
#AusOpen
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There’s an awful lot of people on this platform extremely quiet about bullying allegations made by a female MP against her own political party. Wonder why? 🤷♀️🧐
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Nearly 90% of the Australian population is fully vaccinated & the panic, fear & hysteria continues. Hermit nation is real.
#COVID19Aus
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Former Victorian police chief commissioner Kel Glare said in his lifetime he had “never seen a government as corrupt” as it is under Premier Daniel Andrews,
@australian
@SkyNewsAust
.
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Premier
@DanielAndrewsMP
, “The only numbers I’m focused on is cases numbers.”
Unemployment, mental health numbers, families separated, businesses destroyed, debt bill etc doesn’t count.
#COVID19Vic
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The handling of the
@DjokerNole
situation is nothing short of disgraceful & embarrassing, making Australia the laughing stock of the world. All those involved in this shambles have egg on their face.
#AusOpen
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This is the worst possible PR for the
@AustralianOpen
& the federal govt & Melbourne re the
@DjokerNole
visa cancellation. It shouldn’t have taken this long to get to this point. Melbourne is tarnished.
#australia
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Frustrating that Melbournians can now get fined $1652 for going outside their neighhourhood to exercise yet 10,000 BLM protestors marched the streets last month & no fines issued (bar 3 organisers). Victorian rule book is an utter shambles
#COVID19Vic
#lockdownmelbourne
🤷♀️🦠😷🏃🏻♀️
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ABC presenter Leigh Sales said the public is “losing interest” in the stories the media is telling, blaming some journalists for being activists and driving their own agendas,
@australian
.
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A distraught NSW mother - 4 applications to get into Victoria, double jabbed, she’s trying to visit her daughter undergoing chemotherapy & is prepared to pay for HQ. Told “no” you can’t come & to call a mental health line if she’s upset. How disgraceful Victoria.
#covid19vic
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There’s 1000s of Victorians still stuck in Sydney & Brisbane due to border madness, yet there’s 1200 tennis players jetting into Melbourne from countries with plenty of covid cases. Yet again money talks. Stuff the honest, hard-working taxpayer. They can wait.
#covid19vic
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Thousands have already gathered at Parliament House, Melbourne, Australia to protest about the pandemic bill & civil liberties.
#Melbourneprotest
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These two hadn’t even planned to bother seeing Queen Elizabeth II when they went to the UK according to news reports,
@thetimes
#MeghanMarkIe
#HarryandMegan
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So crowd capacity at
@AustralianOpen
finals increased just like that. Pretty hard to stomach for businesses who have had to operate at reduced capacity for much of the last 2 years with harsh restrictions destroying their livelihoods.
#covid19vic
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It’s now suddenly no longer dangerous to be out past 8pm. Curfew extended until 9pm. Then it’s dangerous again after 9.01pm. Would love to see the “science” behind this.
#COVID19Victoria
#lockdownextension
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Today is proof that the so-called “sisterhood”are happy to stand up for those who make allegations of bullying when it suits their political agenda. Pathetic. 🤯😳
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The Victorian Premier said today the 5km rule could be in place past October 19. By then it will have already been in place 11 weeks.
This rule needs to go. It’s an unnecessary limitation to the civil liberties of Melburnians.
#COVID19Vic
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BREAKING: TV networks are taking court action against the approved request from
@VictoriaPolice
to ban live footage being aired from Melbourne's protests. More soon via
@australian
@aus_media
#tradieprotests
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Those who claim to be part of the "sisterhood" & have been silent this week speaks volumes. 😲
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Whatever the
@DjokerNole
result is on Sunday the whole saga has dragged on for far too long & nobody has owned up to giving him the green light to enter Australia in the first place. Complete shambles & international embarrassment.
#AusOpen
#Melbourne
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Channel 10 news story on Victorian Premier tonight: "There's still not a lot of love for Dan Andrews, speaking to people on the street, the general feel is that they have had an absolute gut full of their freedom being given back to them in dribs & drabs." 🧐
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How can you give a budget reply speech less than two weeks ago & have no idea about the cash rate or unemployment rate...😳
#auspol
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The same police commissioner who was incredibly understanding to Victorians who attended last year’s BLM protest is now urging citizens to dob in anyone at Saturday’s lockdown rally. Mmmm.
#covid19vic
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Would love to see a poll of how many non-
@DjokerNole
fans have now become his biggest supporters & hope he brings home the
#AusOpen
crown. 😳🥺🎾
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Lots of criticism of Peta Credlin &
@sam_armytage
today. Wondering why feminists have gone extremely quiet.
#covid19australia
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Three-hour curfew from 9pm-midnight in Melbourne tonight. Based on health advice* 🤔🧐😷
#covid19vic
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Wow. Protests in Australia across many capital cities on issues including vaccine passports, erosion of civil liberties & pandemic legislation.
#COVID19Aus
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Peta Credlin: “If I have to go to the Premier’s press conference every day I will. I’ll get the truth”, via
@SkyNewsAust
.
#COVID19Vic
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Covid zero. A wonderful goal for those on full pay who haven't lost a single cent during the pandemic.
#COVID19Vic
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Can’t wait for the day the Covid check-in process gone, masks ditched for good & life allowed to resume as normal pre-Covid.
#covid19aus
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The longer I’m in Sydney avoiding the ridiculous stage 4 lockdown it’s becoming clear how messed up Victoria is. Life up here is relatively normal, it really feels like being in a different country. Melb & Victoria are sadly going to be left behind at this rate.
#COVID19Vic
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Silence from the female activists who would be as vocal as ever if these bullying claims involved Coalition MPs continues. How unsurprising. Proves they only care about bullying when it suits their political stripes otherwise nothing to see here. 🧐😳
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People saying “it’s only a five-day lockdown” should try running a small business. Not everyone has the luxury of being guaranteed a weekly pay cheque.
The disaster will be when there’s no JobKeeper to fall back on. These snap lockdowns do so much harm.
#melbournelockdown
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Premier
@DanielAndrewsMP
says "stop pretending this is over". That's exactly what the BLM protest did on June 6 & the State Govt did nothing to try & stop it happening. From then on it signalled to Victorians rules no longer apply.
#CovidVic
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WA Premier
@MarkMcGowanMP
is getting a roasting from all angles in the media & political world. Really quite something to see.
#covid19wa
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Any fool knows that elite athletes need to train & manage their diets meticulously.
@DjokerNole
being locked up in detention & unable to train & eat specific foods is disastrous for him. Reports making him sound unreasonable for doing so are absurd.
#AusOpen
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The protestors at the weekend in Melbourne were labelled as "extremists". I went along & this is what I discovered after talking to many people who explained why they marched the streets.
#Melbourneprotest
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Why is Melbourne still living under a 9pm curfew based on NO medical advice?
#covid19vic
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Good to know COVID-19 is now deadly 20km from home, not 5km. No data, no science, just control over Victorians’ movements because contact tracing is no good.
#COVID19Victoria
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Can someone send Gladys to Victoria to sort this mess out. This is beyond a joke.
#COVID19Vic
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Gladys blitzing the “second wave”. She making Victoria’s handling of the virus look more & more farcical as the days roll on.
#covid19nsw
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NSW = No creeping assumptions. No pen & paper contact tracing. No curfews. No masks. No ridiculous restrictions. No power trips.
#COVID19Aus
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Melbourne the city known for the longest lockdowns in the world & now the city where the world no.1 tennis player
@DjokerNole
has had his visa cancelled & faces arrest & deportation.
#AusOpen
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And yet again the Q&A audience loudly applauds anything anti-Coalition. How unsurprising. 😳
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Just in: Alan Jones to start his own digital TV show from Monday. He’s joined forces with Australian Digital Holdings.
#ausmedia
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The entire state of Victoria is locked down. An over the top, disproportionate response by a panicking and incompetent government. Face masks outdoors. Ridiculous.
#covid19vic
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Looking forward to
@DjokerNole
giving his first media interview to reveal exactly what has unfolded since he arrived in Australia. The situation is completely shambolic & an international embarrassment. Appalling on so many fronts.
#ausopen
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Bit rich those running Victoria now lecturing NSW on how to handle the outbreak. Seriously. They must have remarkably short memories. 🤦♀️🥺😷
#covid19australia
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The rest of 🇦🇺 is heading to pub right now while 5 million Melburnians are under house arrest with a 9pm curfew. A typical Friday night in the world's most liveable city. 😷
#COVID19Vic
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There’s hundreds of thousands of active Covid-19 cases in Australia yet the world no.1 tennis player
@DjokerNole
is locked up in detention due to not meeting Covid vaccination orders. It’s all about health, apparently.
#AusOpen2022
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Must be comforting knowing you can slam shut an ENTIRE state within 3.5 hours notice knowing you’ll continue to receive your full pay & so too all those making these decisions. Devastating for many Victorians. 😢☺️
#covid19vic
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Gladys keeping her cool is doing in the heads of the pro-lockdowners in Melbourne. Truly odd.
#COVID19nsw
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Australia. You’re an embarrassment. 🥺
#covid19aus
8th in line for family COVID test at 545am, before it opens at 8am. In Australia, this is what you have to do to cross some state borders. Entering the 3rd year of the pandemic & with a world leading vaccination rate of >90% of adults, this is ‘living with COVID’ Aussie style
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In NSW you don’t have to carry a mask nor wear one. In Victoria mask rules get wound back a bit more & it’s meant to be applauded. Stockholm Syndrome strikes again.
#COVID19Aus
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950 cases in Victoria today…go hard, go early. Victoria doesn’t want to end up like NSW. 😳🤔🧐
#COVID19Vic
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“Police investigating the assault on crossbench MP Andy Meddick’s daughter have found no evidence she was targeted because of her father’s political views,” via
@theheraldsun
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Police in Melbourne today. Heavy-handed tactics used on anti-lockdown protestors.
Same police force that didn’t fine 10,000 BLM protestors (except 3 organisers one week later).
Victoria Police are selective as to when they apply the law.
Source: David Crosling
@theheraldsun
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“The more we can keep people who are not vaccinated away from those who are…then the safer we will be”, says
@DanielAndrewsMP
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#covid19vic
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Nightclub bouncers were still manning hotel quarantine in Victoria until yesterday...and those in charge constantly lecture Victorians to do the right thing. Seriously. 🥺😷
#COVID19Vic
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Appears it’s best to drive 1800km or so from Melb to Qld than risk being thrown into quarantine while fully jabbed because of a Covid case on a flight. Complete & utter insanity.
#covid19qld
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The consequences of 0.0098 % of Victorians have Covid-19 right now:
- 42,400 Victorians lost their jobs in Aug
- 413,000 Victorians are on JobSeeker
- 300,000 businesses are on JobKeeper
- 6.8% unemployment 😷
- 5 million Melburnians are locked up 22 hours a day
#COVID19Vic
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Never thought I’d be living under a totalitarian regime in Melbourne, 🇦🇺 . How things can change.
#COVID19Victoria
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A typical weekend in Melbourne now: No footy, no seeing family/friends, many without jobs, 8pm curfew, being locked up 23 hours a day. The damage this lockdown is doing goes well beyond daily infections/deaths. Thanks inept state govt. 23 days to go. 😷😳🇦🇺
#COVID19Victoria
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So media reports
@DjokerNole
was told of the decision to cancel his visa 10 minutes after the press pack. Says it all about the handling of this situation.
#AusOpen
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Sydney is buzzing tonight. Restaurants/bars busy. It’s sad to know 5 millions Melburnians are locked up unnecessarily because of the ineptitude of those in charge all while they collect their full salaries & do so much harm to many others.
#COVID19Vic
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Seems like the line being fed by politicians for the past two years that "we're following the health advice" is a load of complete load of rubbish in many instances.
#Covid19Vic
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Right now Sydney is bustling, fireworks are going off in the city. Feel for Victorians who are locked up yet again under lockdown 3.0. Gladys has proven you can manage outbreaks proportionately.
#COVID19Vic
#sydney
#melbourne
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Compulsory masks, 10 limit caps in a room in a pub, businesses struggling & all the focus is on 0 cases. The govt ministers & bureaucrats on full pay haven’t a clue about business & couldn’t care less. It’s sad to see many battling to make ends meet.
#COVID19Vic
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Another snap lockdown for 2 million people by NZ PM
@jacindaardern
all for 1 case. Complete madness. Second lockdown in Auckland this month. But hey she’s Ms Popularity so expect more of this open/close nonsense.
#COVID19nz
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6 new cases yet 5 million Melburnians locked up. Hundreds of thousands out of work. Cost to the national economy $10-$12 billion. This is cruel to watch.
#COVID19Victoria
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Police officers patrolling playgrounds is a new low for Melbourne. I hope the world is being alerted to the insanity of the draconian measures in what was once such a great city.
#covid19vic
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Every single Victorian will pay the price for the gross mismanagement of this disaster by the Andrews Labor Government. This includes the
#istandwithdan
crew. Hotel quarantine/contact tracing failures has now left millions of Victorians living in a police state.
#COVID19Vic
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11 new infections & 5 million Melburnians locked up 22 hours a day living under a curfew.
It’s all about the data & the science. 😷
#COVIDVIC19
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Can’t wait to see how protestors are described by the media today. 🤔🙄🥺
#Melbourneprotest
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Can the Victorian CHO please release the health advice, data & science showing playgrounds are dangerous now but safe as houses from Friday….
#COVID19Vic
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It's one thing to lock 5 million Melburnians up 22 hours a day in their homes, but it's a whole new level to keep secret the supposed "data" relied on to keep it in place. The civil liberties being stripped from Victorians is extremely concerning.
#COVID19VicData
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VICTORIA - 4 lockdowns, 88% of Covid-19 deaths in Australia & more than 160 days of lockdown. The worst report card of any state/territory in the country by far.
#CovidVic
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Even if Victoria squashes Delta, bets on it comes back. And then sure enough there's another lockdown. And repeat. It's unsustainable. 😷
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Gaslighting the media about covering an important story concerning bullying allegations is really quite something to watch. Hypocrisy is unbelievable.😲
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1 new case & still 5 million Melburnians living in lockdown. 1000 Victorian jobs being lost everyday. Workload must be too big for the 1000s of contact tracers.
#covid19vic
#lockdownMelbourne
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