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2 years

Covid19 deaths in Australia: 2020: 909 2021: 1317 2022: 13,665 I know that covid19 is now pretty much over and we are ‘living with it’ because cafe owners told the ABC that was what we needed to do, but is no one else concerned by this?

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@MikeCarlton01 I have a Masters degree in Divinity so I can tell you with complete authority that nowhere in Jesus’ words as recorded in the canonical gospels did he condemn either homosexuality or abortion. Hypocrisy and abuse of the poor by the rich, however, he apparently hated.

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Kennett closed more than 300 schools, slashed hospital funding, got rid of the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, ended the Victorian Law Reform Commission, tried to outsource the Auditor-General’s role and @3AWNeilMitchell says Andrews is “the worst Premier in our history”?

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‘The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) has called on the ABC to stand down Middle East correspondent Tom Joyner after he called reports of Hamas beheading babies “bullshit”.’ - As we now know, it was bullshit. But no one is allowed to call out Israel.

ABC reporter under investigation over vile comment

ABC Middle East correspondent Tom Joyner is under investigation as revealed by ABC's Managing Director David Anderson, after he called reports of Hamas beheading babies "bullshit".

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Well-Dressed Old Man on the tram, pointing to my ‘Voices of Kooyong’ t-shirt. W-DOM: Do you think you’ll win? Me (politely): I don’t know. It’s a very safe Liberal seat. W-DOM: I hope you do! Did you read that piece in The Age by Baillieu’s son? It was excellent! Me: 😮

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The trouble with KJK is that she’s a white colonialist. She’s come to the Pacific, trying to impose her binary understanding of sex and gender, with no idea about Sistergirls, Fa’afafine, Fakaleiti, Fakafifine, Mahu, Irawhiti. As the missionaries did! #LetWomenSpeak .

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What was that, Gladys? Dan Andrews was re-elected with an increased majority, and you’ve been found to be corrupt? After the media constantly told us how evil he was and how brilliant and saintly you were?

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Puzzled by people on here who think that retirees on $90,000 a year aren't wealthy (so they should get the Health Card) but JobSeeker of $17,378 a year is perfectly fine.

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David Crowe telling us Australia needs new gas fields to reduce energy prices. The ABC telling us the end of live animal exports will bring about the end of lamb for domestic consumption. Journalists, FFS, get your house in order. We need actual facts, not industry stenography.

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@annajhenderson Yes, yes, you console yourself with that thought. The rest of us will continue to rejoice that Keating showed how woefully unprepared the journalists were to engage with someone who knew what he was talking about. Is it because so many of them are just so young?

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In an Opinion Piece on p. 37 of The Age Geraldine Brooks does more to report on and answer Dutton’s lies than the paper’s political journalists do in the front half of the paper. This is what should be on the front page, not Massola on ‘falling support’ for Yes.

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Just got an email from you, @SenPaterson , in which you said, "I’m sorry to say that your local member, @Mon4Kooyong , has this week voted in support of Labor’s extreme industrial relations changes." 1. Not extreme. 2. I would hope that she did! 3. How did you get my address? 😕

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Imagine if Gina Rinehart and other mining billionaires paid appropriate taxes. Not only could women’s sport be funded, fewer children would go hungry and fewer people would be homeless. As it is, accepting money from such greedy oligarchs would be utterly reprehensible.

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Lehrmann “was the subject of multiple sexual assault and harassment allegations, with other women reporting their own complaints after the political staffer’s claim.” Wonder if their diaries and texts will also be leaked to Newscorpse if they go to court?

Documents show other Bruce Lehrmann sexual assault allegations | Canberra Daily

Other women reported sexual assault and harassment allegations against a man accused of raping Brittany Higgins in 2019, court documents show.

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You are doing so much damage to women who are *actually* bullied in workplaces, @mlandryMP , by lying about this for politically-partisan reasons. Just appalling.

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Hey, @theage , this is one of YOUR columnists suggesting the Nazis at yesterday’s rally were a false flag. Are you really comfortable with publishing someone who thinks tweeting this is responsible?

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This is moderately hilarious. Kathryn Campbell seems to have decided her best strategy is to present herself as completely incapable and incompetent, and basically not to be allowed out of the house alone. #RobodebtRC

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I believe that in a free and fair election the ALP would romp home over an LNP lead by Morrison and Joyce. I'm just afraid the ALP cannot defeat the LNP, Newscorpse, Peter Costello's Nine and Kerry Stokes' Seven, with an ABC that believe 'balance' is more important than 'facts'.

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I cannot even begin to imagine the cognitive dissonance for someone like Samantha Maiden, who believes themselves to be a serious journalist, but then has to pump out these stable sweepings as ‘news’ because they work for Murdoch. #ThisIsNotJournalism

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Remember the hung jury in Joh Bjelke-Peterson’s corruption trial, after which it was found the jury foreman was a member of the National Party and had fundraised for his legal expenses? I’d *love* to know who the ‘rogue juror’ in the Lehrmann trial was.

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Hey, @theage , why did you publish an advertisement for the Victorian Liberal Party in the guise of an Opinion Piece by Roshena Campbell, Liberal Party Councillor? Why could I see the disclaimer that she was an LNP shill in the print edition, but not the online version?

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Have only flicked through so far, but suspect I would have worked out I was a queer almost a decade earlier than I did had I had access to this in the 1980s. Is that the problem for the cookers, do we think? #WelcomeToSex

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#RobodebtRC wouldn’t have happened without Twitter & #NotMyDebt & people like @Asher_Wolf . When Chris Uhlmann accused #auspol Twitter of being ‘sewer rats’ and David Speers called Twitter a ‘horrible, horrible place’ what they meant was that those on Twitter were doing their job.

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Oh. My. Goodness. Tudge is saying that he can’t remember his Advanced Constitutional Law. He studied Law at the same university at the same time I did. If he says he’s forgotten, he was either a useless student (too involved in student politics?) or he’s lying.

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There was no way a Party led by Matthew Guy was ever going to win Victoria. So this was less a defeat of the Liberals, and more a defeat for Andrew Bolt, @3AWNeilMitchell , Leigh Sales, Peta Credlin, @rachelbaxendale , @melbchief , and every other anti-Victorian media commentator.

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The ten pound Poms in the family tell me they were horrified by racism when they arrived here in 1967. (I suggested that Scotland was just as bad, only it was religious sectarianism.) But watching the Voice debate, we really are an appallingly, embarrassingly, racist country.

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Oh dear God. Jewish leader just on @SBSNews condemning Tony Burke for daring to care about Palestinian as well as Israeli deaths. He actually said, “All deaths are not the same.” The Israel lobby have so dehumanised Palestinians that they have lost their own humanity.

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So, for anyone puzzled by ScoMo going to Israel. There is a (crazy) strand of fundamentalist Christianity that wants the world’s entire Jewish population back in Israel. Once that happens, in their lunatic theology, Jesus will come again. The Jews will either accept him as

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How John Howard retired ‘at the time of his choosing’, @PeterDutton_MP . You do know that most of the ABC audience isn’t the same as the Sky News After Dark audience? We remember history and prefer facts.

McKew declares victory in Bennelong

One week after election day high-profile Labor recruit Maxine McKew has claimed victory in the northern Sydney seat of Bennelong, held by John Howard for the past 33 years.

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I didn’t think I could have less confidence in and respect for the mainstream media after their covid19 coverage, but their coverage of the proposed changes to superannuation while ignoring the #RobodebtRC has revealed there’s a new level below ‘rock bottom’.

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I still haven’t had covid19. I wish I could think that that means I am somehow immune to it, but I have a horrible feeling it’s because I’ve taken sensible precautions like wearing masks in shopping centres and libraries, and I’m just going to have to continue doing that forever.

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Does Andrew Bolt strike other people as frighteningly pro-paedophile?

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Look, rusted-ons, we don’t blame @AlboMP for covid19. It’s just that with literally hundreds of people dying of it every single week, we want him to encourage mask-wearing and testing, isolation for positive cases and so financial support for casual workers without sick leave.

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“Senator Price should support us, not tell lies about us.” Central Land Council says Jacinta Price needs to 'stop pretending we are her people'

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We’re all blaming Dutton and the LNP’s lurch to the far right for their Aston loss, but some of the blame also belongs to the candidate. Roshena Campbell has been showing Melburnians who she is for years in the pages of @theage , and she’s very, well, shall we say ‘unVictorian’.

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“Six years on I cannot remember every relevant document…”. Does Kathryn Campbell not hear herself? This is exactly what was demanded of those given robodebts! #RobodebtRC

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Good afternoon, @David_Speers . 👋🏻My name is Avril Hannah-Jones, I am the minister at North Balwyn Uniting Church, and when I criticise mainstream #auspol ‘both sides’ journalism and its failure to hold the Morrison government to account I do so with my real name and real face.

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Say cheese for the hot mic, Speersy!! Back to you, twitter 😂 #auspol #insiders

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I just got in before Anna Henderson realised that the responses to her tweet might not be the whole-hearted support of journalists that she was expecting - and disabled replies. 😆

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If you claim to be protesting drag storytime to ‘protect children’ and you’re not regularly protesting outside Hillsong services or Catholic cathedrals, you’re a hypocrite.

Frank Houston was a ‘serial paedophile’ and extent of his crimes may never be known, court hears

Trial hears Frank Houston also told his son Brian, founder of Hillsong, that he was abused by his own grandfather as a child

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Gotta love rich people whinging: "The Albanese government’s broken election promise didn’t sit well with Sydney mum and lawyer Nicola Picherit. Ms Picherit and her husband earn $220,000 each". Let us all weep for Ms Picherit of Herbert Smith Freehills. 🙄

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“Politicians and columnists and whatever Andrew Bolt is …”. 😂 Marcia Langton in ⁦ @SatPaper ⁩ today.

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“In Yuendumu and Kintore, as one example, where about 500 people voted, she polled just 36 votes. In Utopia, Haasts Bluff and Papunya, where more than 600 voted, only 38 chose Price. In Hermannsburg, Areyonga and Ampilatwatja” she got 46 votes from 600.

Jacinta Price claims to represent NT’s Indigenous communities but the data suggests otherwise | Jon...

The conservative senator was elected thanks to suburban voters in Darwin and Alice Springs not remote communities she aims to champion

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I know there's probably no need to say this, but the 'Christian Lives Matter' thugs are about as 'Christian' as those who support Donald Trump in USA. They're Far Right extremists, who wouldn't know Jesus if they punched him in the back of the head.

Two charged after violent protest at Latham speech

Two people have been charged after a violent clash outside a Sydney church where NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham was due to speak.

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Did she have an affair with a staffer (while speaking against #MarriageEquality because ‘family values’, impregnate that staffer, and have the staffer moved around into a mate’s office? .

PM avoids questions over former Joyce staffer’s appointment

PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull reportedly had a hand in the creation of two plum jobs for the now-pregnant partner of Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.

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Barnaby says Anthony Albanese should sack Katy Gallagher. 🙄 Why? Was she drunk in Parliament? Did she call Albo a hypocrite & a liar in a text? Did she send texts instead of written reports? Was she involved in corrupt water purchases? Allegedly sexually harassed anyone? 🤷‍♀️

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Well, I bet Magistrate Allison Hawkins is now feeling like a bit of a dill. #NSWPolice #RightToProtest

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@mattjcan As an ordained Christian minister I must say that a court that just this week struck down a gun control law DOES NOT CARE about human life. I am completely in favour of protecting human life, and over-turning the right to safe, legal, abortion puts the lives of women at risk.

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Well, this is hilarious. Samantha Maiden has blocked me! The number of mainstream media journalists who apparently cannot cope with criticism from a suburban Uniting Church minister. 😆🙄

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APPALLING: “During the trial, Drumgold complained that police were regularly meeting with Lehrmann’s defence team during breaks in proceedings, and that the defence team had been asking police directly to conduct further investigations into some issues.”

Prosecutor alleges police ‘aligned with defence’ in Bruce Lehrmann case and claims ‘inappropriate...

Exclusive: Letter from Shane Drumgold to ACT police chief, obtained under FOI, calls for inquiry into ‘political and police conduct’ during investigation of Brittany Higgins claimss

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Hey, @abcnews , when doing a story on a proposed medically-supervised injecting room in Melbourne, could we NOT, as one of the first voices, hear from another bloody cafe owner telling lies about how it will increase violence and increase homelessness near his business? PLEASE.

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Are you old enough to remember Cathy Freeman winning the 400 metres at Sydney 2000? This feels like that. #Matildas #AUSFRA

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What has happened to Stan Grant is awful, but it is also a wee bit amusing to see all the journalists who have been blaming progressive Twitter for auspol incivility finally discovering what progressive Twitter has known - it's their Newcorpse colleagues who are the problem.

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I honestly don’t understand how #Hillsong has got away without independent auditing. My tiny little congregation is independently audited every year and I’ve always understood that the requirements are stringent *because* we have charitable status.

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Nothing about the #RobodebtRC in @theage today. Yesterday there was one story on page 14. How is it not on the front page, every day of the hearings?

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I am never going to get over the fact that HE BROUGHT THE CASE HIMSELF: “The judge found … Roberts-Smith was, on the balance of probabilities, a murderer, a war criminal, a bully, a liar, and a disgrace to his country and the Australian military.”

What it took to win the biggest defamation case in Australia’s history

Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Victoria Cross and Medal of Gallantry winner Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost a landmark defamation case.

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Will the LNP finally work out that Australia is not the USA, and going further to the Right to energise the base doesn’t actually work in a country with compulsory voting? Also, most religious people think the Australian Christian Lobby are deplorable. Never listen to the ACL!

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Was puzzled that The Australia’s Simon Benson kept his job after sitting on knowledge of Morrison’s secret swearing in to extra ministries, but surely this is the point at which his closeness to the LNP means he can no longer be seen as an actual journalist? #RobodebtRC

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Those very qualified women were Trent Zimmerman, Jason Falinski, Dave Shama, Tim Wilson and Josh Frydenberg. The only women who ran against Teals were Celia Hammond trying to replace the appalling Christian Porter and the egregious Katherine Deves trying to defeat Zali Steggall.

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#JasonFalinski told @abcnews earlier today: “the billionaire climate 200 took out a lot of very highly qualified women who were sitting in the house of representatives” is he _that_ stupid, or does he just think everyone else is? #auspol

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Is Linda Reynolds still planning to sue Ms Higgins for defamation? Because I’m thinking that may well turn out to be the biggest defamation own goal since the Ben Roberts-Smith case.

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I did not expect @albomp to fix everything within a year of taking office. (I expect relatively little of the ALP since Rudd and Gillard broke my heart over asylum seekers.) But I did expect him to increase #JobSeeker , and I don’t think I was politically naive to think that.

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The Prime Minister couldn't answer a simple question about Newstart, so I'll answer it for him: Of course he couldn't live on $40 a day. No one can. And that's exactly why Newstart should be increased.

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“For years, we have laughed along with Keating as he hurls his trademark barbs.” But now Keating has attacked us, precious journalists, he’s gone too far! Yeah, right, mate. Your papers did a classic Cold War Red scare and you expect us to respect you?

We are not above criticism but these attacks go too far

I feel compelled to respond to two unfair and uninformed attacks against Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott.

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Elderly lady in bookshop does not like @simonahac ! Saw me buying this; said he’d got rid of Frydenberg “out of vengeance”. Nothing to do with @Mon4Kooyong running a good campaign. All nasty Simon being mean to Josh. 😆

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“I, along with other countries, made a decision – and it is a decision I made – to pause that because the allegations were serious”. You know what other allegations were serious @senatorwong ? The plausible allegations that Israel is carrying out genocide!

We don’t have all the facts on UNRWA allegations, Penny Wong admits

Minister says she didn’t have all the evidence about alleged UN staff links to 7 October attacks before she paused funding

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Look at the websites of schools like Scotch College, with its “superb purpose built [music] facility catering for a range of performance experiences, from intimate recitals to large scale group performances” and tell me you think it deserves payroll tax concessions.

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Your regular reminder that Scott Morrison may call himself ‘Christian’ but his particular brand of prosperity gospel Pentecostalism has almost nothing in common with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. An actual follower of Jesus could never have presided over #Robodebt .

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Interesting to see Nicky Stein has been removing all her contact information from the internet today. Going to make it a wee bit difficult to be a conveyancing lawyer, I would have thought.

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People died because of #Robodebt . Quite frankly, mainstream media and @PeterDutton_MP , this nice middle-aged, middle-class Kooyong voter won’t be satisfied until its architects face criminal charges. #RearViewMirror #WitchHunting

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Of course the egregious Linda Reynolds is trying to deflect blame for the way Brittany Higgins’ allegation was mishandled to Katy Gallagher, but why on earth are the media letting her get away with it?

Linda Reynolds pays compensation after calling alleged rape victim Brittany Higgins 'a lying cow'

Defence minister ‘unreservedly apologises’ and acknowledges ‘the hurt and distress’ suffered by her ex-staffer

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Commissioner Holmes seems stunned that so many people with law degrees never seem to have thought about Robodebt as lawyers. #RobodebtRC

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Given that Andrew Bolt’s parents were Dutch may I, as the daughter of a Scot born in Ayr, with four British grandparents, tell him that those of us with British ancestry are doing just fine in Australia and he shouldn’t pretend to speak for us? #RacistBlot

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@HonTonyAbbott The Royal Commission found that he had known about and helped cover up the sexual abuse of children by priests. I'm only a Protestant, but in my church we wouldn't consider that the action of a saint.

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They’re never, ever, going to understand that a good portion of Dan Andrew’s popularity was because we could see the mainstream media being unfair and telling lies like this. We watched the media conferences in real time! He answered every question. Even Leigh Sales’.

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The #insiders panel spreads the lie that Daniel Andrews cut out the media. Dan fronted up for 120 days straight and answered every question. Neil Mitchell was too lazy to get off his arse and turn up. #ThanksDan #ThankYouDan #journalism #SocialMedia #auspol

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If the ABC had any guts at all it would stop platforming Newscorpse journalists on its programs. - “Stan Grant faced ‘unrelenting racism’, fellow ABC panellists say, as scale of conservative coverage revealed”

Stan Grant faced ‘unrelenting racism’, fellow ABC panellists say, as scale of conservative coverage...

Data suggests Sky News and the Australian mentioned the ABC’s coverage of Charles III’s coronation more than 150 times in the past two weeks

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HOW THE ABSOLUTE FUCK ARE THEY ARGUING THAT KICKING AN UNARMED MAN OFF A CLIFF WAS EXCUSABLE BECAUSE IT HAPPENED "IN A WHITE-HOT TIME OF WAR"?!?!?!?

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‘Collins asked: “So you made up a conversation with a lawyer?” Lehrmann said: “Yes.”’ - Bruce Lehrmann tells court he fabricated conversations with lawyer about plans to take defamation action

Bruce Lehrmann tells court he fabricated conversations with lawyer about plans to take defamation...

Lehrmann tells court a text saying ‘I’m up for millions’ was to placate his girlfriend, not due to a plan to sue

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What on earth is wrong with @theage ? I hoped that after a week of ignoring the #RobodebtRC it would do a huge spread on it for the weekend paper but, no, it’s instead focussing on the superannuation discussion. Really? Fairfax no more.

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Any woman who thinks transphobia is a feminist stance, this is who supports you. Actual, literal, Nazis. The same sort of people who burned the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. If you truly just want to #LetWomenSpeak you need to rethink your transphobia and your allies.

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@SenatorWong Of course violence against civilians can never be justified, which is why I am puzzled that I can’t find a tweet from you condemning Israel’s horrific killing of 29 Palestinians, including five children, in January alone.

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Damn you, Australian ‘Christian’ Lobby and your robocall. No, Bernie Finn does NOT represent my Christian values. How DARE you talk about late term abortions as though they occur for any but the saddest reasons? How DARE you attack trans children? You absolutely DISGUST me.

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@obserifish I am an ordained minister in the Uniting Church in Australia. I have been the congregational minister of six different congregations, four in the country, two in the city. I have a Master of Divinity from the University of Divinity. I know Christianity. The ACL is not it.

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It’s a week later and I’m still flummoxed by this: there were fucking NAZIS on the streets of Melbourne. And ‘being on the same side as NAZIS’ has apparently not been a wake-up call for KJK’s supporters. In fact, they’re doubling down, saying it’s trans people who are violent.

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Is there anything more pathetic than one man asking another man what a woman is? A woman is whatever she decides to be, and we don’t need men playing such games with our identities.

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Watching #Insiders on my day off. 1. I’m over white people talking about the #VoiceToParliament without First Nations participation; 2. People like Samantha Maiden need to stop engaging with Dutton’s objections to the Voice as anything more than culture war rubbish.

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Yeah, but I would happily watch 61-year-old Laura Tingle and 78-year-old Michelle Grattan on my screens until the cows come home. My problems with Kelly’s new gig aren’t anything to do with her age or gender.

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My new column: Criticism of Fran Kelly's new gig Frankly drips with ageism — a stubborn form of discrimination we need to call out - ABC News #auspol

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Now that he is gone, I want to say again how incredibly angry I am at the support the mainstream media in Australia gave to Scott Morrison’s ‘ScoMo’ marketing. Their failure to hold him to account was so incredibly damaging.

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To everyone, including Annabel Crabb, arguing that #KitchenCabinet gives us useful insight into politicians, rather than an opportunity for them to fuzzily convince us they’re just like us, the Morrison episode was in 2015. He became PM in 2018. ‘ScoMosas’. Yeah, right.

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@MichaelSukkarMP I have two words for you: Christine Holgate. Don't even try to pretend that the LNP has any integrity or cares in the slightest about government probity.

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@BBCNews Australian here. You did notice the Nazis turning up to support KJK in Melbourne (which the Uniting Church condemned) and her screaming that she wasn’t a feminist in Hobart, yes? Nothing she does is a “women’s rights” event. It’s an anti-trans hate event.

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@hendopolis “it’s impossible to verify” is certainly one hell of a headline.

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I am a horrible person (sorry, Jesus!) but I really hope I give anti-vax cookers horrible menstrual cramps by sitting next to them. One member of my congregation, in his 90s, still suffers from the arm paralysis polio caused him seventy years ago! Anti-vaxxers make me grumpy!

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Watching the UK introduce the anti-refugee policies Australia initiated is bad enough, but watching them GET AWAY WITH IT because the UK’s mainstream media is as useless as ours is worse - Rupert Murdoch is destroying human rights and the rule of law in multiple countries.

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So bloody tired of homophobic bigots using Christianity to justify their homophobic bigotry. Go read the Sermon on the Mount, and then tell me exactly how you are reconciling Jesus’ teachings as recorded in the gospels with rejecting LGBTIQ+ people. Grrrr. Making more coffee.

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Roshena Campbell was unknown and had to start from scratch, Jane Hume? She’s had a column in The Age Opinion Pages! She was allowed to continue to write those columns DURING THE FEDERAL ELECTION! And she still couldn’t win. #AstonByElection

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Oh, dear God. “Sadly it was common for Centrelink officers to deal with” threats of suicide. WOULD THAT NOT SUGGEST THERE WAS A PROBLEM, THEN?!?!?!? #RobodebtRC

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I spent the first ten years of my ministry burying World War Two veterans, men and women who had fought the Nazis. That there are now Nazis being protected by the police as they take part in the #LetWomenSpeak transphobic rallies makes me sick to my stomach. They are utter scum.

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Given that Nampijinpa Price is, like me, the child of a Scottish immigrant, I feel I need to make it clear that she does not speak for me, nor is her pontification representative of much of the Celtic-Australian community. She’s off on a frolic of her own.

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Bloody hell, it’s not a joke. If you can afford to put $400 in your child’s bank account, the government will match it. If you can’t, I guess it’s too bad. Let’s do more to entrench intergénérationnel poverty!

Dominic Perrottet announces ‘future fund’ for NSW children as cornerstone of Coalition’s re-elect...

Premier uses Liberal campaign launch to pledge up to $400 annually for children to be used on education or housing once turning 18

www.theguardian.com

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I have never, not once in my entire life, felt inhibited or afraid to say “I am a Christian,” Mr Latham. I have, many times, in many places, felt sick with fear or completely unable to say, “I am queer”. As a queer Christian I know which part of my identity leads to more danger.

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Yes, Christians like me should be louder, to counter the conservatives. And I spend my life YELLING here to do exactly that. But media organisations, including the ABC, prefer getting their ‘Christian’ comments from the conservatives because that fits a simple conflict narrative.

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Look, neither the Scottish nor the Australian parts of me has any respect for English royalty. So much #NotMyKing , #NotMyQueen . But I did think they’d have more decency that parading around with Andrew post-Epstein. Unless they’re showing that Jesus died even for paedophiles?

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It honestly terrifies me that so many Australians believe that the rapist-supporting, welfare-attacking, climate crisis-denying bile vomited out by Murdoch employees is ‘news’ produced by ‘journalists’. At the very least, the ABC needs to stop platforming them.

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How on earth is Justin Greggery KC not throwing his lectern at Kathryn Campbell as she pretends to be a cluelessly innocent robot? His self-control is astonishing! #RobodebtRC

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