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NED. Parent. Many hats, one head. Opinions are mine.

Brisbane
Joined June 2009
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2 years
I move that the blue ticks be recoloured pink now that they’re Musk’s ticks. #TwitterTakeover
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2 years
Career goal: being able to send my hat to events I don’t really want to go to.
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Every woman I talk to is triggered, livid and determined. We are not the quiet Australians. We are loud and we are getting louder.
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3 years
Dad just dropped us off at a restaurant in Noosa then went to find a park because it’s raining. Then I thought I saw some people pile into his car, told myself it wasn’t—must be a similar looking Uber.
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2 years
The idea that Anthony Albanese is untested or the new guy is laughable. He was sophomore parliamentian when my dad was a freshman.
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3 years
It wasn’t. It was Dad’s car. The lovely but tipsy crew had been at the restaurant since lunch and asked for a lift to Hastings St. Said they’d pay. He said he’d give them a lift. Took them half the ride to discover who their driver was. He’s here now.
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5 years
Is now the right time to share that when we moved into the Lodge in 2007, the sole remaining disc in the DVD player was The Great Global Warming Swindle? Happy New Year.
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3 years
Can someone pls let me know if we still have a PM? Seems quietish. Asking for some 25 million compatriots. Ta in advance.
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3 years
😂 Uncle Greg’s having a crack at Dad through NewsCorp. It’s just like family lunch without the Vienetta.
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3 years
Do we have an order confirmation and tracking number for our Pfizers or did we just add to cart?
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2 years
So they’ve opted for Dutton dressed as lamb then.
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2 years
To the bloke who surreptitiously shoved an LNP HTV into my 10yo’s hand and said “take it home to daddy, there’s a good girl,” this is why I am voting Labor. Your mob does not respect women, and you can’t even fake it when you need to. #AusVotes2022
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3 years
I want the Australian-Indian community to know you are loved, treasured and wanted here. You are woven into this community. And to any person who has family and loved ones in India: my heart beats with yours. Such a scary time for all of humanity. We will pull through together.
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2 years
A friendly reminder that a majority of Australian voters are women. #WomenVote
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3 years
“Thank you for reminding me that I really have nothing to lose. On that note, brace yourselves…” @TamePunk
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4 years
That I’m scared my dad is taking on News Corporation is precisely why News Corporation must be taken on.
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The New York Times
4 years
“I think at great news organizations, the mission really should be to introduce fact to disperse doubt — not to sow doubt, to obscure fact, if you will,” James Murdoch tells Maureen Dowd about his decision to leave News Corp.
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3 years
Maybe he thought it was the Notional Women’s Safety Summit.
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4 years
Call me old fashioned, but you can’t deny allegations you refuse to read, answer questions from journalists for 20 minutes, decry the trial by media you’ve chosen and pooh-pooh an independent inquiry in defence of the rule of law.
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3 years
Good grief. What on earth is happening in NSW? Was this mapped out on a coaster at the members bar?
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4 years
To suspend an investigation into a workplace rape and blame it on the AFP, who dispute that they required the suspension in the first place, looks bad because it is bad. It’s really, really bad.
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4 years
The rest of us owe a great debt of gratitude to Victoria and Victorians for the way in which they have managed to contain this hideous virus in our country. We are the envy of the world. Solidarity. X
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4 years
I’ve seen many a great speech. I was present for the Apology that made the hairs on my spine quiver. Brittany Higgins spoke with her soul today. She was powerful, vivid, sharp and brilliant. Alive with empathy and courage. What a marvel. And what a privilege it was to witness.
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4 years
Not a particularly flash day for the PM.
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3 years
Hey, quick question: before we went with the let-it-rip strategy, did we have a little think about the burden that would place on pathology/healthcare? And if so, why can’t the system cope?
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3 years
He knows we vote, right? #WomensSafetySummit #keynote
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3 years
Spend your sixty minutes on something else.
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3 years
I will follow these civil rights leaders wherever they take us. @BrittHiggins_ @TamePunk
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2 years
Mum said there used to be a Cadbury chocolate block in which each individual square was filled with different flavouring. What is this sorcery and why doesn’t it still exist? 🍫
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3 years
Shandies in Ladies’ Lounge are on me.
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3 years
So letting it rip to help business seems to be going great guns.
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4 years
Apparently the rule of law is about declaring accused people innocent by taking them at their word. Things must have changed a fair bit since I did Introduction to Legal Theory.
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3 years
Do they not want to know if we have Covid now? Have they just thrown in the towel? What on earth is going on with testing?
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2 years
Liberal launch as a song title: Jenny and the Debts
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Jess Rudd
3 years
Every attempt to get a poll boost before ubering to Yarralumla seems to go off quicker than a sandwich in a school bag. Aukus was my favourite so far, but Novax is a close second. We aren’t distracted. We’re enduring the reality of this Government’s failures. Do your job.
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3 years
lol the Nats have one job: just be available when the PM’s away, so they leave us Prime Ministerless on a sitting day in a pandemic in order to reinstate a some oafish, gormless caricature in rouge, apparently expecting Australians have short memories. What a bunch of drongos.
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3 years
Coates just pointed to his own use-by date on the world stage. What a dinosaur.
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Jess Rudd
3 years
Bit of a misinterpretation. There was no sledging of l’Australie, but of un Australian particulier. Language is important.
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Jess Rudd
3 years
“Anyone who has symptoms gets a free test.” - PM. (Unless you can’t actually get one because there are no appointments or RATs, but sure.)
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3 years
I’ve decided to wear a mask in Brisbane today because NSW has not, in my view, got this under control. Their delay is putting us all at risk. There’s some serious Hare v Tortoise arrogance going on. And yes, it is a race. Lock it down.
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4 years
I have the utmost respect for office furniture, especially spinny chairs, but I am really quite focused on the rapes of women as priority number one if that’s ok.
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1 year
Poignant historical artifact… #yes23
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3 years
Anyway, I’m just stoked I downloaded COVIDSafe.
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3 years
Wouldn’t you wait a hot minute and see how the ICAC investigation plays out before swooping in to preselect someone for a federal seat? 😳
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3 years
Are we seriously about to have a reds under the bed election campaign? Buy a new playbook.
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3 years
Would there be any interest in a running commentary of mum teaching dad to use an Apple Watch?
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3 years
This aged terribly. Turns out they jumped into the trolley and Greg put them back on the frigging shelf. Not happy, Greg.
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3 years
Do we have an order confirmation and tracking number for our Pfizers or did we just add to cart?
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3 years
What exactly are Australians feeling afraid to speak about with regard to their faith and where/to whom is discrimination occurring?
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4 years
UPSKIRTER DEMANDS PRIVACY
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Jess Rudd
3 years
PJK is the guy you’d want to sit next to on a long flight. All you’d need is curiosity, focus and a cuppa. Imagine what you’d learn. What a mind.
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3 years
“Selfish, shitty choices.” Go Dan!
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3 years
Good grief, I just read the AFR. From this day forward, let it be known as Pruvilege.
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3 years
What the actual happened in parliament today?! Unbelievable.
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3 years
Good morning. We need tough border restrictions in Queensland because the Federal Government failed to vaccinate and quarantine. Our approach is saving lives while the Feds are cramming. We don’t like being shut but the alternative is dire. Stay well and have a lovely week.
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4 years
Imagine you’re a serial sex pest in a position of power and you discover after all these years the most severe consequence you’ll face is some bad press and STILL enjoy the endorsement of a former prime minister. What’s the deterrent? And what does this say to the rest of them?
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3 years
I’m just worried someone’s going to post a positive pregnancy test and we’re all going to go “I’m so sorry, that sucks, hang in there, it’ll be over soon.”
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3 years
Economies are people doing things. When people are dead, sick or trying to avoid getting sick, they can’t do things. This is why let it rip, without proper contingency planning, has been woeful economic management.
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I’ll be voting Yes for the country I love this weekend. Yes to healing. Yes to recognition. Yes to listening. Yes to proudly living alongside humanity’s oldest continuing culture. Yes to a future my children can be proud of. Just yes. #Yes23
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So grateful for our leadership here in Qld. Dr Young and her team are fantastically thorough and I am so pleased the Government takes her advice and implements it in its entirety.
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Dear Victoria, Without diminishing your plight, I have so admired your fortitude, time and time again. Thank you for being so consistently you: resilient, uncompromising and ethical. It’s not right that you have to be, but you are. Love always.
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3 years
Porter resigned—from cabinet, not parliament—because the PM wouldn’t sack him. And not for the substance of the allegations that he faces, but for the failure to disclose the source of a fighting fund he is using to silence the allegations. Because priorities. Slow clap.
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I’m astonished that we have a sitting prime minister who is blatantly ignoring the national security big wigs because some focus group has said it might help him cling onto a handful of seats. For shame.
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3 years
I guess where I have a problem is: why have a government if they can’t govern because it’s all about “personal responsibility”? 😷
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3 years
Doing a late shift in a Covid ward tonight? Thank you. You’re amazing. We are in your debt.
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Just quietly, SEQ is fine with the PM not holding a hose.
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This woman is our future.
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Jess Rudd
2 years
I feel like Four Seasons Total Landscaping would’ve been a better venue for that press conference.
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3 years
I’ve deleted some tweets about a recent arrival to these shores because she doesn’t deserve my attention—or yours.
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Jess Rudd
3 years
I know as many people with underlying health conditions as I do people without them: asthma, Chron’s, diabetes, Hashimoto’s, anxiety, depression, Coeliac disease, heart disease, MS, endometriosis, chronic pain, PCOS, arthritis, high blood pressure…the list goes on.
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Update: What emerged yesterday on @abc730 is that NSW has been disproportionately prioritised in terms of newly acquired vaccines. I get that NSW is in the midst of a huge outbreak, but it’s pretty astounding given the amount of vitriol being directed at Qld.
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Jess Rudd
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Queenslanders, it’s pretty dire that we are sitting on just 32.28% fully vaccinated. I get that other states and territories are facing huge case numbers, but we can’t afford complacency. What can we do as individuals to lift this rate with the supply available? Genuine question.
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Rape survivors are not able to be “neutralised or turned into net positives”, you boorish swines. This is the most degenerative piece of analysis you guys have published this year. A PB. Congratulations.
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5 years
Dad used to cancel stuff when he had to be at work. We all understood, just like the firies’ families do.
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Jess Rudd
3 years
Can we stop calling Mr Porter the former AG and start calling him the current Minister for Industry, Science and Technology? Yes, the MIST.
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3 years
I for one am glad that so many of the heroes of hindsight were also the very vocal heroes of foresight.
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3 years
Let’s play What @AnnastaciaMP Would Have Said If She Wasn’t Being The Consummate Diplomat.
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This Qld lockdown is a very solid reminder that our educators are frontline essential workers and Delta puts them and their families at risk. They need to be vaccinated. It’s the least we can do for them.
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2 years
I’m feeling a bit down this morning, think I might treat myself to flat white and a pre-poll. #ausvotes
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Jess Rudd
5 years
So the nation knows you as “Scotty from marketing” and you decide an ad in the middle of a crisis is the way to counter that perception...
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Jess Rudd
4 years
Pleased the PM has apologised for slander under parliamentary privilege. Now back to the original question asked of him: why is it one rule for his high flying mates and another for every other stranded Australian?
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Office of Kevin Rudd, 26th PM of Australia
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Morrison claimed in the parliament today that I have obtained exemptions to travel in and out of Australia, taking quarantine places from other Australians. That is an utter falsehood. I haven't left Queensland since March. Morrison has misled the parliament & he should apologise
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I think at some point we have to ask ourselves why an oaf like Mr Joyce remains in the nation’s parliament, after everything, given the vast number of bright, values-driven, articulate people of vision outside it.
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3 years
Just witnessed the loveliest thing. Local post office owner went through an elderly customer’s Foxtel and Telstra account for her and worked out she was being overcharged. Found a better package and set her up. ❤️
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Just going to put this out there: I’m excited about some of the independents on offer this election. I think they bring diversity to our political landscape and I look forward to seeing how they shape policy outcomes for their electorates and others with whoever forms government.
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Kindness from the vax queue (hopefully a thread): - nurse went to the back of the queue to explain that she and her team would do her best to fit us in but it would be several hours - young couple with a baby were spirited to the front of the walk-in queue with popular support
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4 years
The appearance of Pence as some kind of worthy conservative in the Certification Process maintaining order in a crisis—papering over his complicity—is about as sickening as it gets.
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Lady falls in airport. Very distressed. Hurry over. A woman rushes towards us. “I’m a nurse,” she says and begins to treat the patient. Man rushes over. Takes over. We all assume he’s a doctor. “Are you a doctor?” asks the patient. “No,” he’s says, and continues to dominate. 👀
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Jess Rudd
3 years
I agree with @PatsKarvelas and Nikki Savva. Labor has to go hard or go home on climate policy. The climate debate in this country is much more mainstream than it was at the time of the last election because its impact is visible and action is urgent. #Insiders
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2 years
Quick reminder that an actual human editor decided to publish an identifying photograph of the 18yo driver and sole survivor of that horrendous crash as he was wheeled toward the ambulance.
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6 months
Brittany Higgins has shown grace, humility, courage and leadership today. She has offered peace and requested space to heal after five battle-weary years. The wisest among us will honour that.
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Hi Neil. I love my uncle. He’s hilarious and an excellent storyteller. But his “strong political instincts” have seen him used as a pawn in print and on Sky, all of which serve to prove Dad’s point about the muscle of Murdoch’s print media monopoly in this country.
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Neil Mitchell
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@Jess_Rudd But is uncle Greg really wrong ? He makes a good point . And he has strong political instincts .
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“Well, she could’ve done that for months.” PM on Qld Premier funding a quarantine facility at Wellcamp that the feds wouldn’t fund. Breaking: Irony died of Covid.
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3 years
Happy 2022 to everyone working a nightshift at a hospital. You’re a selfless legend and we wouldn’t be here without you. 🎆
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Jess Rudd
3 years
Pretty audacious to claim the successful passage of Jenkins’ Respect @Work Report when a paltry 6 of the total 55 recommendations will be implemented.
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Jess Rudd
4 years
Dear America, let us know if you need a demo of how to replace a leader. Yours sincerely, Australia.
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Jess Rudd
3 years
Sums up the approach to securing vaccines.
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5 years
I was living in London when Black Saturday hit. I woke up one morning to see footage of him on the verge of tears. I will cop whatever you want to throw at him. That’s politics. But he was then and is now a compassionate human being and leader.
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Parnell Palme McGuinness
5 years
Except her dad, Kevin Rudd, made everything worse by not getting enough sleep and perspective, and insisting on micro-managing everything - according to his own colleagues. In fact it was the widespread opinion of all who worked with him that he shld let go more often. #auspol
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Jess Rudd
11 months
Allow me some frivolity: Jodie Haydon is a shimmering smokeshow in this ethereal goddess gown. 💥
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Jess Rudd
3 years
Eighteen months into this pandemic, Covid-19 is no longer novel and its latest iteration is now infecting children. It’s time to vaccinate educators. Pronto.
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Jess Rudd
4 years
Happy 39th anniversary, Mum and Dad. Xx @Therese_Rein @MrKRudd
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Jess Rudd
3 years
Introduced my children to French onion dip and now they think I’m a culinary genius. They didn’t feel this way when I made them individual chocolate soufflés with salted vanilla ice cream. Cool cool cool.
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4 years
In the morning I’m off to Canberra to #March4Justice .
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