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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

Most beautiful city on Earth, nowhere else even comes close #Sydney

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@jackbegbie

1 year

now that’s hot

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@Colgo

2 years

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

An alleged internal post at Google suggesting "trials" for people who "make diversity difficult", part of the Damore lawsuit

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

Colvin.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

Some personal news: after six amazing years at Business Insider, I’ve decided it’s time for a fresh challenge. I’m immensely proud of what the team has achieved -- Australia was BI’s first international edition and it’s now in over 15 countries...

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

New Demi Lovato album is metal AF. Green Day meets Pearl Jam but with some super heavy stuff in there. Reckon we are seeing a metal resurgence and about time too

HEAVEN

Song · Demi Lovato · 2022

open.spotify.com

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

Mind-blowing. "Automated trading strategies" account for: - 72% of trading in US equity indices - 75% of International equities indices - 84% of G10 currencies and - 70% US Treasuries

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

10 months

This is what happens in an economy at full employment

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@JoshBavas

10 months

Queensland Rail has hired 15 goats to remove tall grass and weeds around its regional rail network as part of a trial.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

My brother filmed this near home in Ireland last night. Starlings. Just incredible.

The Cottages

@TheCottagesIre

6 years

We had the pleasure of witnessing one of Winter's true spectacles this evening, the starling #murmuration in Nobber. No video could ever capture the magic, make the time to experience it first hand 🙌. Thanks @bolgo101 for the capture 🎥 @ancienteastIRL @BirdWatchIE @Louthchat

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

@CSMFHT Mack the Knife

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

Let's cross to Finance Twitter for reaction

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

9 years

That would be the Dutch flag

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

8 years

Question to Baird: "You've said you're a politician of conviction... is it a relief to be free of that burden?"

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

Stop everything. The 35-year chart of Japan's unemployment rate is a map of the coastal drive around northern Australia from Port Hedland to Rockhampton

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

5 years

This is, and always will be, the greatest negative restaurant review ever published. The craft in the writing (articulate venom, civilised repugnance) is simply astonishing as it builds to its crushing climax.

Tour De Gall

A certain bistro in Paris seems to be on every upscale tourist’s itinerary—it’s quirky, authentic, and beloved by celebrities. A. A. Gill sticks a fork in L’Ami Louis.

www.vanityfair.com

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

10 years

Possibly the greatest editorial ever written. They must have had so much fun writing it http://t.co/owsaENe8E4 #kirbydelauter

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

“Senior Coalition figures now see defeating the referendum as their primary political priority to inflict political damage on the Prime Minister. It is that ugly. It is that cynical.” Chris Kenny today:

Attacks on the voice an ugly attempt to wound the PM

The historically significant reconciliation project of the Indigenous voice has now been seized as a partisan, political weapon to be used against the federal Labor government – any doubt about that...

www.theaustralian.com.au

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

5 years

The best thing about this story is how Australians' one and only reaction is, "Well of course it did."

The Associated Press

@AP

5 years

A cassowary — a large, flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea — killed its Florida owner when it attacked him after he fell.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

directional transsexual

@north0fnorth

1 year

this is one area in which Chicago is indisputably better than anywhere else. basically no other world city has this much uninterrupted, publicly-accessible coastline this close to its core. in total, Chicago has an incredible 26 miles or 48 kilometers of public shoreline.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

The NAB survey is horrendous. This is the worst deterioration I've ever seen in its findings. Profitability collapsed from 14 to 0 in just two months, forward orders have gone negative; evidence of severe disinflationary pressures.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 months

Supermarket price inquiry will be fun when it emerges a lot of daily produce is sold at minuscule margins, sometimes even at a loss. The money is all made elsewhere on big ticket items (as I understand it). 1/2

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

5 years

Journalists (including senior editors): Twitter is bad for our industry and for the political system Also journalists: let's do a story based on a whole bunch of things random anonymous people say on twitter, embedding outrageous tweets

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

@CSMFHT Minnie the Moocher.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

There are a lot of strange things about Australia - but easily the weirdest is that in a nation full of tradespeople, and a population density nearly as low as Antarctica, we don't have enough houses. Just 🤔

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 months

Australian taxpayer is crying now, thanks Three absolutely horrendous charts from CBA

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

I think I need a lie down

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

Worth the 2 minutes.

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@strangerous10

1 year

Kerry O’Brien says it “does not wash” to keep doing the same thing & that the Voice is our first real “chance” O’Brien also calls out politicians who say Indigenous ppl will “abuse” their responsibility & reminds us of the real abuse of power we have today.💥 Brilliant. 😌👏👏

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

@kalehummus

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

10 years

A heartstopping moment as this hostage gets out of the cafe: #sydneysiege

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

#Bitcoin this week.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

What a photo.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

The ABC just deleted an analysis piece by its chief economics correspondent that attacked the case for corporate tax cuts (via @BIAUS )

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

Tomorrow's SMH front page

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

Snapchat vs Instagram stories

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

Take a moment to reflect on how Malcolm Turnbull managed to destroy the rebellion, even though he lost office in the process. And they said he was bad at politics. The final act in his political career suggests otherwise. #libspill

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

Again on Bannon: shutting down someone whose views you find appalling may seem like reason to celebrate when a ban aligns with your view but it is the thin end of an evil wedge if it leads to normalising censorship as a political weapon.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

It's been reported elsewhere but here is some context around China's bullying of 60 Minutes in Australia. How China tried to shut down Australian media coverage of its debt-trap diplomacy in the Pacific (via @BIAUS )

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

This, on how Australians come across to foreigners, especially Americans, is the best thing I've read today.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

Everybody! Remember it's the Ides of March tomorrow and you must be following @CSMFHT for your annual dose of non-stop Julius Caesar themed hilarious memes. Be there or be quadratum

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

This is the top post on the bitcoin Reddit today

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

10 years

#happynewyear from Sydney! Hope it's a great one for you! http://t.co/a6vC6FaGAS

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

New from me. The ACCC estimates that for a typical $100 spent on digital advertising: * $47 goes to Google * $21 goes to Facebook, and * $32 goes to all other websites. 🙃

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

Take a bow, Gareth Aird - much dunking in the replies to this. Big call and got it right.

Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

CBA's Gareth Aird sticking with 25bps to come in the May RBA meeting for a peak cash rate of 3.85%

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

Podcast: Bronte Capital's @John_Hempton in a rare long-form interview with myself and @Scutty on what makes a good business -- plus some insights on the process Bronte uses to find stocks to short around the world

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

9 months

If you know, you know 1 like = 1 rum & coke 🙏

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

8 years

Love thinking about how this looks to non-Australians. THANK YOU BATMAN

David Feeney

@Feeney4Batman

8 years

Thank you to the people of Batman. I am excited to continue to serve this community that I love #Election2016

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

CBA: "We attribute the rate hike today primarily to the Fair Work Commission’s decision ... to increase the award rates of pay by 5.75%, effective from 1 July 2023."

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

Guy On Train talking loudly about US bank system risk. Maybe we're near the bottom

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

Bitcoin $13,600 possibly looking at a violent crash now

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

Last year, Mark Textor had this chilling summary of why voters are so sick of politics. It is lethally relevant today. #libspill

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

5 years

The house rules at our Airbnb in Taupo. A nice place but what the actual...

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

Oh stop it #sydney

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

@patrick_oshag How bad is the attention problem? Could start here

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 months

Supermarkets making a profit means keeping people employed and opening up new stores, keeping them clean and serving communities. If they're losing money they cut jobs and shut stores.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

10 years

Any boss in Ireland who sacks private-school-educated staff for not coming in to work tomorrow is a bum #WIvIRE

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

Kid: Dad, I need a bitcoin. Dad: What do you need $15,523 for? $12,284 is a lot of money. I mean what are you going to spend $11,340 on? Actually wait - can you hold off until Tuesday?

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

Always wanted to do this. Took about 45mins to cook this on the deck today #SydneyWeather

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

In a week that seemed like the World Championship of Worst Possible Takes, behold:

Alan Baxter ♛

@AlanBixter

2 years

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother died at 101; The Queen died at 96. It is only an example, but it is an example of how we can no longer expect a lifespan 4-5 years longer than our parents. The reversal of fortunes is likely primarily driven by COVID.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

My city is better than your city #67354

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

9 years

Found this ... spectacularly wrong 1987 ad predicting prices for a bunch of things in 2015

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

@sarah_keoghan *Far Kurnell

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@Colgo

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Variety

@Variety

1 year

James Bond fans can expect a relatively unknown male in his 30s to take over the 007 role.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 months

We are not the same, 2024 edition Via CBA's Gareth Aird

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

Great story by @kifleswing Apple just admitted it's throttling older iPhones -- but says it has a good reason for doing it

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 months

Overall margins are like 2-3%. Coles and Woolies employ something like 300,000 people directly. Then there's all the costs of transport, storage, property - getting stuff on shelves daily across a country as big as Australia is incredibly complex.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

Elon Musk says Tesla made a new Roadster to be a 'hardcore smackdown to gas-powered cars' by BI Tesla guru @mattdebord

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

Gillard is a truly class act.

Julia Gillard

@JuliaGillard

6 years

As PM, I had the privilege of working with David Hurley. He is a strong and compassionate person. I congratulate him on his appointment as the next GG.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

There should be a special class of visa for skilled migrant dancers: the 5678.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

8 years

NHK says water cooling system appears to have stopped at Fukushima Daini nuclear plant #Japanquake

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

SCIENCE: Journalists drink too much, are bad at managing emotions, and operate at a lower level than average

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

#infrastructure

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

Correct take @TheEconomist . Australians, you can buy these in the International section at Coles and Woolies.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

Bitcoiners are insufferable aren't they - If you don't like Bitcoin you're stupid - Prices are higher than [insert date] - Something something future money - The fact you are citing is not applicable in the context I choose

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

New from me Malcolm Turnbull had many weaknesses in politics, but his final act was a masterclass in destroying your political enemies (via @BIAUS )

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

Australia's people and companies led the way on marriage equality, and now it's time for parliament to deliver by @AMEquality co-chairs @AlexGreenwich and Janine Middleton

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

Such a sad sight. Pandemic's not over until Quay Bar is back and full at 6pm on a Friday. #sydney

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

(My emphasis) McCrann: "It should now be blindingly clear that the key question is not whether the RBA hikes to 0.5 per cent in May – THAT'S NOW A 'DONE DEAL' – but whether it follows through with another 0.5 per cent in June."

RBA seriously behind the curve as inflation surges

Can anyone with an IQ north of 50 and some pretensions to be an economist not now understand that the Reserve Bank must lift its policy rate next Tuesday; that it must lift it by 0.4 per cent; and...

www.dailytelegraph.com.au

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

Er, Nikkei futures

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

I think literally every single person I know has been sick in the past few weeks. Just me?

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

This is fine

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

Another crypto platform hacked and people's money getting stolen. Gee it's almost like putting your money into an imaginary asset on the internet might be risky

Alex Freeman

@thealexfreeman

2 years

BREAKING: Curve Finance website has been compromised The fake website directs users to approve a malicious contract, which is then able to drain assets from users’ wallets. DO NOT interact with the protocol frontend until further notice. Stay safe people.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

lol. Call when you've got a harbour

Herald Sun

@theheraldsun

7 years

Melbourne's skyline will sparkle with more fireworks than Sydney Harbour as half-a-million revellers ring in the new year.>>

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

🔥🔥🔥

David Crowe

@CroweDM

7 years

For all the conservative push against same sex marriage, there's just one Liberal seat that voted no. Are the conservatives listening to their electorates or just their branches?

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

6 years

Head of the IMF warning about the "abuse of consumers’ financial illiteracy" in the crypto world. Don't crypto types have powers of financial super-literacy?

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

8 years

Can't believe I haven't seen this before. Ouch.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

I love rugby. Not gonna lie there might have been a few tears after this. Well done @IrishRugby and respect @AllBlacks #NZLvIRE

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

Breakfast menu from New York 1907. I'll take one of everything

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

9 months

No, you are not imagining it, part 2 #ausecon

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

9 months

Happy holidays America and other Northern hemisphere nations! Best wishes from 🇦🇺

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

1 year

@PetefromHayNSW Two in every 100 high quality mortgages issued last year are now in arrears. This is absolutely on track to be worse than the GFC impact which you can see in the 2007 origination line

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

9 years

This post completely blew up on Business Insider today. A US expat explaining the Adam Goodes row to the world http://t.co/ofgzf9osYy

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 months

@cDebIn2050 Fruit and veg are exempt from GST

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

10 years

You guys: jetpack maker debuts on stock market, chart looks *exactly* like a jetpack ride. http://t.co/8vMXdzZmyX http://t.co/XfrNwsDF2P

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

Long-standing bugbear of mine. Very apparent when you move to Australia, or returning after some travel. Rules EVERYWHERE. We love a good rule

Australians are too obsessed with rules. She’ll no longer be right

I worry our cultural fetishisation for rules made us susceptible to a creeping authoritarianism overreach during the pandemic.

www.smh.com.au

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

They didn't run this past an Australian, clearly

Business Insider

@BusinessInsider

7 years

AOL and Yahoo plan to call themselves "Oath" after the Verizon deal closes

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

7 years

This idea that somehow the public somehow shouldn't be told the Deputy PM had an affair with an (ex) staffer and now they're having a baby ... come on.

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Paul Colgan

@Colgo

2 years

You gotta look up the photos of Mt Rainier in Washington state from this week. Incredible: