I won’t forget my 1st Tweet…an unflattering reference to our Deputy PM, Barnaby.
Someone responded, “You seem like a good person…how come you only have four followers?” 🤣
Thanks whoever you were - you encouraged me henceforth to back the newbies - just as people supported me.
The anxiety and distress caused to Monique Ryan and her 87 year old mother-in-law, by Josh Frydenberg’s attempt at petty point-scoring, is insufferable and well beyond the pale.
Josh was asked by the SMH in Mar 22 if he had a pact with his wife that their family would stay private.
“Yes,’ he responded, ‘and I prefer that.”
How odd!! Weren’t they plastered all over the Herald Sun on the weekend?
The Doherty Institute's director Sharon Lewin has said the combination of greatly increased transmission rates and uncertainty over vaccine protection meant Australia needed to pause its decision to live with COVID. Did you hear that
#domicron
?
Do not forget:
$20 billion in JobKeeper was given to companies whose revenue actually rose during the first 12 months of the scheme. It was supposed to support jobs, but most of the $20 billion paid to companies, went to share dividends, share buy-backs, and executive bonuses.
Wtf? I’m so angry I am shaking.
‘Our’ Labor Govt has decided to end more than 70 different telehealth services, wind up of pandemic leave payments despite Australia entering into a devastating third wave of the virus, and today, end free Covid tests for concession card holders.
Ha ha, despite Twitter’s strict warning that I cannot follow any more people for 24 hours, I have discovered, after enormous persistence, that I can sneak in one additional person every 15 minutes! 🤣🤣
When NSW reported 136 new locally acquired cases, back in July 2021, Gladys declared the state’s Delta outbreak ‘a national emergency’.
What should we call 11,201 new cases? A fcuking disaster?
#Lehrmann
Not a cover up??
A cleaner who was called into Senator Reynolds’ parliamentary suite after the alleged rape gave evidence that he was told by his superior: “You need to look for something like a party, like condoms or something like that.”
AFR 22 Oct 22
Morrison’s long campaign was designed to run down Labor’s lead so he could exploit his alleged ‘campaigning genius’.
It has failed spectacularly.
Whatever Morrison learned during his troubled marketing career may have been successful in 2019, but it no longer works.
What the hell is Mark Butler thinking??
More than 70 different telehealth-related consultations have been cut, including 33 initial and complex specialist items, 40 specialist inpatient items, and GP consultations that last longer than 20 minutes.
Are you being asked why you are voting early, when you front up?
Are they pretty lax about it?
I would have thought fear of getting Covid either before or while voting should be enough!
What upsets me about you
@AlboMp
, is that you tricked us.
We believed you were our chance to have an equitable society, where the workers, disadvantaged, poverty-stricken & disabled would have equal worth to the wealthy, ruling class.
With no-one left behind.
You lied.
Nazis claimed Jews were an existential threat to Germany, & had to be destroyed.
Starvation was a central strategy in the Nazi genocide against the Jews.
Today, the siege of Gaza amounts to intentional starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.
Can you see the similarity?
"Australia’s foreign minister has declined to meet with the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories amid Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza"
Scott Morrison’s gross pay is $274.62/hour.
Morrison has labelled Albo a “loose unit” because he has guaranteed to raise the minimum wage ($20.33/hr) by 5.1%, which equates to a rise of $1/hr!
He is abhorrent.
After tweeting about the cut of more than 70 Telehealth Services, the past two days I have been accused of impatience, whining, misrepresenting the truth, slagging off at Labor, being irrational, plain wrong, told to check my facts and blocked.
My patience has reached a limit.
The rusted-ons need to read this.
Who’s betting they won’t?
“Labor’s rusted-ons can’t deny the decay any longer.
Anthony Albanese's Labor looks nothing like the party of old, writes Guy Rundle. Those on the left must now take active steps to oppose it.”
Prof Esterman says, "In Australia it (XBB1.5] has the potential to cause another wave. But we have such high levels of immunity from previous infections and vaccination, it is unlikely to be as bad as the BA.2 or BA.4/5 waves," he said.
I call bullsh^t.
The world was horrified to learn what the Nazis did to the Jews during the Holocaust, but now sits back and applauds Israel’s debasement and genocide of Palestinians 😡 This is monstrous.
If the UN General Assembly doesn’t invoke Article 6 against the US, UK and Israel for committing genocide, the UN is finished.
Spoiler alert: the UN is finished
The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has said, "the pulverising" of Gaza now ranks "among the worst assaults on any civilian population in our time & age", & civilian deaths in Gaza will be a "permanent stain" on Israel & its allies.
It’s up there with the Holocaust.
I feel so strongly, that if I were a teacher, I would buy a huge Samsung or Philips HEPA Air Purifier for my own classroom, and would be cracking open the windows in winter.
I’d encourage every child in my class to wear a mask and to stay home if sick.
33% of all suicides in Australia are on Jobseeker. Well over half of all suicides are on a payment. It is all in the ABS stats. The govt has actually thrown fuel on it with Indue and
#robodebt
. The number of suicides linked to Centrelink could be as high as 70%.
#auspol
#ausvotes
I cannot believe the immaturity and stupidity of people on this platform ignoring the Judge’s warning that derogatory comments about counsel will shut down the live stream.
Is this their objective?
#BruceLehrmann
#auspol
China is not a threat despite incrediblly irresponsible war mongering in SMH. Climate change is and Albo can't get his head around it. No one telling him what to do. No guts to take on FF companies and no central planning/resources to take on simultaneous climate events.
@rickpidcock
In 1977, I was separated from my husband, pending a divorce.
I was not allowed, by law, to apply for a passport, without his permission and signature.
We had no children.
Hamish on
#TheProjectTV
suggesting that Albanese isn't as comfortable and prepared to be PM as Morrison because he allows the press to ask follow up questions and defers to his ministers sometimes for responses. I know which style of leadership I'd prefer!
My thanks to the many people who have recently chosen to follow me! Frustratingly, I am currently blocked by Twitter to follow any more people back. Once the restriction is lifted I will get cracking again!
I am not here to make friends, although I have made many wonderful ones along the way.
I am here to have intelligent, perceptive, factual, constructive, open-minded and authentic discussions about current events in this country and the world.
@Green_Girl100
@Cheyleia
She has the right to refuse to work if she is symptomatic.
Everyone has the right to be excused from work if they are sick, whether it be a cold, or laryngitis or bronchitis.
Who the hell does her employer think he is?
Unbelievable!
Isn’t this the account that some on here suspect is Bruce himself?
How would ‘Masculine Excellence’ know the woman’s name and details of what she did the next morning??
#Lehrmann
The population of the United States is 334 million.
Can anyone explain why the two top Presidential hopefuls for the Republican Party are tRump and DeSantis?
Are they really the ‘best’ they can find? Have the Republicans sunk that low?
Of what calibre is a Prime Minister refuses to debate the Leader of the Opposition, or to be interviewed, on the ABC, the the nation's independent public broadcaster?
@JillannFarmer
I think my experience is quite common.
I visited my doctor’s surgery and was instructed to remove my N95 and replace it with a surgical mask.
When I objected and offered to replace mine with a sealed, fresh N95 mask, they refused and said I must abide with their policy.
Thousands of Palestinians who broke into UN food warehouses in the besieged Gaza Strip are ‘scared, frustrated and desperate’ after 3 weeks of war, says director of UN Palestinian refugee agency ⤵️
“Palestine Was An Empty Land”
Outside of Israel, in particular in the United States, the assumption that the promised land was empty, desolate, & barren before the arrival of Zionism, is still alive and kicking.
This is FALSE. 1/
So the esteemed Nick Coatsworth said this morning that children going back to school will not have an impact on the trajectory of Covid-19 Omicron cases.
How many times has this dipstick been wrong before?
He’s playing with fire.
Hamas has no respect for international law, but we do.
Civilians and hospitals in Gaza must be protected.
We need steps towards a ceasefire, but it cannot be one-sided.
@95markr
Why didn’t Labor extend them?
Are you excusing them for callous decisions??
Butler has the Ministerial discretion to extend them. Doctors, the AMA, and even Anne Ruston are slamming his decisions.
The thawing of relations with so many countries continues…Defence Minister Richard Marles has held a one-on-one meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Singapore, officially ending a two-year diplomatic freeze between Canberra and Beijing.
I’ve written almost 20 letters to Aust/MPs & Senators, pleading for a cease fire & adequate humanitarian aid, for the Palestinians in Gaza. They’ve already endured life under a brutal apartheid regime, for decades.
I’ve had ONE response…from WA Senator Fatima Payman.
I’ve been a bit on edge this morning, as my beautiful little dog had to have an anaesthetic for teeth cleaning. He has a heart murmur so it’s risky.
The vet nurse just sent me this photo of after he woke up.
All good 🎉🎉
@ShiannonC
@JRWeaver55
Celia Hammond WA Lib’s Curtin Federal representative has lost to Independent, Kate Chaney (although hasn’t yet officially been called).
This is significant.
Curtin is Julie Bishop’s old seat.
@find_findlay
James. Much appreciated that you took the time to write such an informative account.
So good to hear you got through the experience unscathed.
“If we can’t agree as a polity that generous super tax concessions provide disproportionate benefits to people who really don’t need the help, while depriving the budget of funds for services that we all need and value, then things are really cooked.”
Katharine Murphy
I should clarify, I have been reasonably active on Twitter about a year now, but just getting exposed to so many great people recently who I intend following…
@TexTexington
@ChristianDrakes
Ultimatums don’t sit well with me!
Please continue to protect yourself.
If you can, use HEPA filter air purifiers in the main living areas of your house and bedrooms.
Open windows (tell your kids to dress warmly)
Lobby your kids’ school for clean air.
@BrightWolf3
Yep, my response to the people who have ridiculed China for it’s zero Covid policy is, “Careful what you wish for”.
Now that Covid is running rife in China, 2023 will be a disaster.
Has it occurred to you
@SenatorWong
, that the 2.2 million Palestinians who live in Gaza (less the >10,000 recently killed by the IOF) are effectively hostages of Israel?
The immediate release of all hostages, you call for, would include the Palestinians…
Bugger, bugger!
I have fractured my knee.
CT scan tomorrow to determine severity, then ortho to discuss surgery or immobilisation for six weeks.
What a bummer.
I slept terribly last night, thinking of:
The beautiful people of Gaza, trapped & bombed to smithereens;
The vulnerable, who are maliciously ignored during this ongoing epidemic;
Rape victims;
People on welfare, barely surviving;
Our indigenous people, denied a voice;
And so on…
The opposition health minister, Anne Ruston, has called on the Fed Govt to release the health advice underpinning its decision to end free Covid tests for concession card holders.
Jeezus what next
@Mark_Butler_MP
This is a disgraceful decision…1/
I saw my specialist doctor today.
He commented I was still wearing a mask.
I replied, “I don’t want a bat-mutating virus that causes cognitive damage, cardiovascular damage, immune system damage and possibly Long Covid”.
He said, “I think I’ll put a mask on”…and did!
Win!
I was saying to someone recently that I am not prepared to eat indoors in a restaurant over winter, and I will re-evaluate the situation in summer.
I was told there is NOTHING we can do about the spread of CVID-19, and to stop worrying.
I got excited for a second…
“Albanese said that Israel is not fighting another country, but “a people in an occupied land”.”
No, not our PM, but Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories.
Different species altogether 😫
@HeathdonSMcGreg
@AlanBixter
“Mild” to an epidemiologist does not mean that same that “mild” indicates to us. Mild to us means not feeling so bad. Mild to the public health professional just means you aren’t in the hospital. It can still knock you off your feet, debilitate you and be termed mild.
The standard of reporting on the ABC has deteriorated under Ita’s control, but what would we do without the wonderful
@4Corners
?
A great investigative program which shines with fearlessness and integrity.