Michael Atkinson @MickAtko Twitter profile

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

The Russian Federation has sanctioned Frances Fukuyama, author of The End of History & the Last Man.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

@zalisteggall This is shocking. As Attorney-General for SA for 8 years, it rested with me to make final decisions on which High Court cases the State of South Australia would intervene. I decided not to intervene in Roberts v. Bass (2002) owing to State Labor MP Frances Bedford’s involvement.

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Michael Atkinson

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2 months

@Der_Parrot I remember his killing. He toured Cambodia chronicling the Khmer Rouge’s Year Zero and remarking “I have seen the past, and it works.” Then the Khmer Rouge killed him too.

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Michael Atkinson

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3 years

@lidia__thorpe @GreensMP ’s spokesman on constitutional matters, @lidia__thorpe , has issued a statement on the death of Prince Philip. Stay classy @greensSA , @sarahinthesen8 , @SimmsRobert , @TammyMLC

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Michael Atkinson

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2 years

@shorewalker1 @michellegrattan @Raf_Epstein @KarenMMiddleton If the Governor-General in Executive Council commissioned a Minister and this decision was not gazetted, that is a scandal.

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Michael Atkinson

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6 years

(1/2) Here is a culture the Ottoman Turks thought they had ended with mass killings 1915-1923 being celebrated in Adelaide last night. Pontian Greek, Assyrian & Armenian cultures survived.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

6 years

@SharriMarkson You should have introduced the subordinate clause with “which” not “that” because it is a commenting clause not a defining clause: The A.B.C., which claims it is the most trusted... Journalists are supposed to know these things.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

4 years

Welcome to all my new followers in the past 36 hours who have followed me under the misapprehension that I am the American Inspector General of the intelligence services dismissed by @realDonaldTrump .

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

4 years

Two days in the last three @BOM_SA forecast rain for the Adelaide metropolitan area. Not so much as a drop,

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 years

Yesterday I stood on Tanunda polling booth for @alpsa from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. We didn’t staff the booth in 2016. Labor’s primary vote went from 13% in 2016 to 21%. Time for @alpsa activists to get out of their comfort zone instead of being five deep on inner-city polling booths.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

What sort of an example does this set for the pooch, watching its mistress take so many immature garlic plants from the verge without even trying to get the permission of the gardeners by knocking on the door? She’s come equipped with extra plastic bags. Rego no. in other tweets.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@AlboMP @alpsa @AmbVasyl It takes more front than Myers for @GreensMPs to pose for this photo, given that they opposed Australian military aid to Ukraine. Without western military aid, Russia would now occupy Ukraine, from Kharkiv to the Carpathians & from Bakhmut to Brody.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

4 years

@MehreenFaruqi It’s official: @GreensMPs want Melbourne Cup banned. Every time a Liberal or Labor voter inadvertently includes a @Greens candidate on his or her list of preferences, this is the risk taken. Everyone in the racing industry needs to be alert to @MehreenFaruqi ’s ambition.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@Milliganreports No, you maliciously misrepresent the effect of the decision. The father could always sue Cardinal Pell. The decision means he can sue the Catholic Church also.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

4 years

After a rigorous day’s pointing at & retrieving game, our Barossa establishment’s Hungarian Vizsla has retired to his bed by the fire, but with his head on the cool slate. Kaiserlich und Koniglich. @GrayConnolly

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

6 years

Savoury: capers, dolmathes, gherkins, peppers stuffed with cheese, haloumi, fetta, smoked cheese, olives, Polish sausage, cacciatore, artichokes, nuts (brazil, pecan & cashews). Sweet: halva, fruit cake. Such are the sybaritic delights of volunteering for Labor in Enfield.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

4 years

@jreynoldsMP @johnmcternan I was doorknocking, as a sitting South Australian MP, in Croydon Park in the 1990s. I was invited in for a cuppa by a Mrs Marsh. She told me she would not be voting Labor owing to Ramsay MacDonald’s closure of a coal mine in the 1920s. Fair cop. Tea was hot. No other complaints,

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Michael Atkinson

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1 year

@KateEllis22 You can find the Order of Service at . The glory of it is the music, old and new, commissioned for this coronation. Inspired to include Byzantine chant & representatives of other faiths.

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Michael Atkinson

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1 year

Clive James concluded about Charles de Gaulle, @GrayConnolly : “Nothing is more likely to civilise a powerful man than the presence in his house of an injured loved one his power can’t help. Every night he comes home to a reminder that God is not mocked; a cure for invincibility.”

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@JJKALE2 @Greens , Left & Twitterati will be triggered by @dai_le ’s apparel when giving her maiden speech in Parliament. They will never grasp how grateful Vietnamese-Australians are to be here, where they live under rule of law & can change governments. They don’t get practical Communism.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

7 years

Whatever happens tomorrow @JayWeatherill , @TKoutsantonisMP & Reggie Martin have led an almost flawless campaign.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@caitoz Here’s an Australian political activist threatening a nuclear first strike. It must be a thrilling megalomaniac Walter Mitty feeling when one shifts one’s patriotism from one’s home country to a dictatorship on the other side of the globe.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

At the finish of today’s recount & recheck of votes cast in polling booths in the State District of Dunstan (9am-1.30pm), @CressidaOHanlon leads @marshall_steven by 143 votes. @LiberalSAHQ did not send a scrutineer.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

@Birmo Can you home deliver ? I’m harvesting garlic from my verge gardens & am about to change crop. Manure now would be timely. What do I need to say to get Extinction Rebellion & @greensSA to home deliver to me ?

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

@EnticottJo We share most of its with neighbours, family & passers-by who stop to ask for something. Indeed, we guide them to the fruit & vegetables that are in season. Yesterday armfuls if garlic that had not formed bulbs were looted after being tended from February - harvest due November.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@RWApodcast @RemindMe_OfThis I must congratulate you on not deleting this challenge of yours now that the Ukrainian armed forces have occupied both Kupiansk & Izium 14 days before the expiry of the period during which you asserted they would not be occupied.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@9NewsAdel The idea of contrition is so foreign to the modern age that @9NewsAdel calls this “bizarre.”

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 months

@ellensandell Displays have always been forbidden in the chamber. It’s not a new rule.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

@zalisteggall The Solicitor General, Brad Selway, was keen to intervene because it was a defamation case that raised the scope of the political-discussion defence. WA did intervene. My decision was to stay out owing to the appearance of conflict.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

4 years

@samanthamaiden *Karens plural, not Karen’s possessive.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

Labor’s candidate for Dunstan, ⁦ @CressidaOHanlon ⁩, supporting the Bath Hotel, Norwood. ⁦ @marshall_steven ⁩, the local M.P., doesn’t have time to listen to the publican’s opinion, or those of any of his constituents for that matter.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

1 month

It’s only 60 minutes until @PAFC finish bottom of the @SANFL ladder for the first time since 1900.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@PLnewstoday If you are such an intrepid “journalist,” complying with the Code of Ethics, you could drive to the Ukrainian-held part of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia & Kherson and report the other side of the question from there. No ?

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 years

The Greek Presidential Guard in the Anzac March.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 years

It’s sad in the Israel Folau case that no-one spoke up for drunks, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists & idolaters. As a Christian whose chapel is festooned with icons & bondieuserie, I would have thought our Bishop could have said something in defence of idolatory.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

6 years

@abcadelaide It’s remarkable that they should be standing on the Torrens-To-Torrens Project that @SALibMedia (& @greensSA ) opposed tooth & claw. But for @alpsa victory at 2014 State election, not a sod would have been turned on this project.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

8 years

Liberal candidate for Port Adelaide says she lives locally. Then why is she enrolled to vote in Kensington?

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

“We are the boys from Old Fitzroy, m’lad, we wear the colours maroon & blue.” Off to the footy final in Adelaide tonight. I’m no.20 Graham Campbell, @RankineJen as no. 12 Mick Conlon. @Fitzroy_FC @c_s_wallace @TimHarcourt Let’s do this for Wilbur, Eric, Norm & #JackIrish !

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

(1/2) Who would have predicted in 1986 that NSW Centre Unity titan Paul Keating, of the faction that prided itself on having no illusions about communism, would be chiding @AlboMP , of the Ian Macdonald-Tom Uren Soviet apologist sub-faction of the NSW Steering Committee, for

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Michael Atkinson

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5 years

@MehreenFaruqi @greensSA Yes, but you should disclose that @Greens policy is to ban horse racing whether there is a pandemic or not. Unless you make that disclosure, @MehreenFaruqi , you are hiding that your Tweet is opportunistic.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

At the Dunstan recount

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@AmbVasyl It’s important to understand, @AmbVasyl , that Australian Greens opposed Australian military aid to Ukraine. The ALP & Liberal Party supported it, so it happened. See interview with @sarahinthesen8 ABC Mornings radio 6 April at 9.30 a.m.

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Michael Atkinson

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3 years

Did @theTiser & @cpyne mention that two of the firms boosted in today’s @cpyne column are clients of @cpyne ’s lobbying company ? They are Saber Astronautics & Southern . Alas, No. @ABCmediawatch

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2 years

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Michael Atkinson

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7 years

Worthy winners of Governor’s Multicultural Awards: @ahmadiyya_sa , Kruno Batrac, of the Croatian Club, Brompton, & Community Constable Jamal Mussa, for work with Oromo-Australian Youth.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 years

I walked to The Pear Cafe, Sussex St, Alberton, to celebrate the Glenelg premiership this morning and on the way back picked up The Westside Messenger.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

A feature lost to many Australian towns: railway down the middle of the main street.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

Geese in an Angaston street, still as statues until I approached their letterbox with @alpsa flyers, upon which they fulfilled their task as sentries. My Polar fitbit tells me I’ve clocked up 42 kilometres over two days of letterboxing.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

The election campaign has meant that it’s taken me until 4.20 p.m. to meet my spiritual obligations on this Holy Day of Devotion.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 years

@SenatorDoug @AliceC80 I’m pleased to have fulfilled my vocation as a Labor MP to the satisfaction of the South Australians I represented modestly, quietly & without ever appearing on Q&A or Sky News or going viral on social media.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

1 year

@SenatorThorpe Are going to pay that $50,000 you owed the Australian Taxation Office? I am surprised by @GreensMPs who pontificate about tax evasion & then have your record or @TammyMLCs string of tax convictions. @Greens keep on whom other parties would have expelled.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@PMalinauskasMP Very important to remember that @GreensSA , @SimmsRobert , @TammyMLC & @sarahinthesen8 are opposed to all defence shipbuilding in South Australia. Each vote or preference for @Greens is a vote against these jobs.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@barriecassidy @CFMEUManDiv I’ve been a member of the A.L.P. for 43 years & was an M.P. for 28. I’ve always taken a keen interest in how the Liberal Party works. What continues to surprise me is the egoism & impulsiveness. Each candidate thinks he is the big new thing & nothing came before him.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 years

@CUhlmann The @smh “Independent, Always”

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

7 years

Croydon Railway Station under reconstruction. Better than ever by December 2017. Only with Labor.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

⁦ @RankineJen ⁩ looking for some ⁦⁦ @southadelaidefc ⁩ finals joy after 57 years. As @Mike_Rann famously said “Go Panthers!” South Adelaide 3.0 Norwood 1.1.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

7 years

Watch the bell lap in the Trotters Cup, Wayville. Aldebaran Ten fails by a head coming off 20 metres.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@BaxterTim This is the Linda Gale who was a Communist Party candidate for the upper house in South Australia when the Berlin Wall was still up ?

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@PLnewstoday No. The HIMARS hit a currently-occupied Ukrainian railway, not a “Russian Railroad.” Ukraine as recognised by the United Nations. You’re not a journalist if you adopt a Russian Television lexicon.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

8 months

The nostalgia is overwhelming me. The tram sidings on raceday at Morphettville when I was a teenager. When people still went to the races (instead of betting on their phones) and people used public transport. Note the two liveries.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@Raf_Epstein If the Governor-General commissioned him, the commissions must have been gazetted.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

I’m interested in whether Australian apologists for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, such as @BarnsGreg , @johnpilger , @MaryKostakidis , @caitoz & @timand2037 know this man & co-operate with the segment of opinion he reflects. I invite each of them to repudiate him here on Twitter

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@DrewPavlou

2 years

Extreme right wing figure at pro-Putin Night Wolves march in Sydney says Jews are poisoning the planet and he supports Russia because they are killing Jews: “The Russians are fighting the Khazarian mafia in their homeland. They're cutting the head off the snake.”

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Michael Atkinson

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2 years

@TimHarcourt @dakindon @JeromeFahrer @TheKouk Withdrawn on vet’s advice

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

A remnant of the world we have lost that I saw tonight while letterboxing in Maylands. The frieze on the grocery reads: Rosella Fruit Chutney. The jambs read: Registrar of Births & Deaths. Bran, Wheat, Pollard, Onions, Butter, Bacon, Cheese. Haberdashery, Drapery, Hosiery.

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Michael Atkinson

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5 years

@SenatorDoug @AliceC80 You should be remembered, @SenatorDoug for doing everything you could to stop Bob Hawke becoming Prime Minister and then opposing Paul Keating.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

1 year

Two Ukrainian-Australian trainers record their first city win, at Sandown, in a deadheat, Tetyana Furdetska & Lesia Masnyj. The colours reference the Ukrainian flag, the Ukrainian nationalist flag, the trident & the sunflower. @AmbVasyl . The horses: Mothereens & The Maggstar.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

7 years

The Last Supper with my staff & volunteers at the Czechoslovak Klub, Coglin Street, Brompton

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

On ABC’s election panel, @VickieChapmanMP told viewers “Michael Atkinson was the campaign manager in Bragg.” Although I would be honoured to manage Rick Sarre’s campaign in Bragg, including the coming by-election, there is no foundation for this claim. I co-managed Dunstan only.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

10 years

The wood is ready in the elevated half-drum for Kurdish Newroz (new year) fire-night at Bonython Park. http://t.co/912rx9OYkM

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 years

@SenatorDoug This is the time, on the Labor side, for humility, reflection and insight into our unexpected defeat. It is not the time for declaring that the Australian majority are suffering collective false consciousness and just need more Leninism classes.

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Michael Atkinson

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3 years

Rain didn’t deter them. Kensington Gardens residents turn out for street-corner meetings with @PMalinauskasMP & @CressidaOHanlon , at Orient Rd & West Terrace. @marshall_steven never ventures into Croydon electorate, nor does he make himself available to constituents in Dunstan.

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Michael Atkinson

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4 years

Celebration of the patron saint of Serbia, St Sava, at the Hindmarsh Church. Procession. Station on Orsmond Street. @TKoutsantonisMP @jaynestinson @PMalinauskasMP

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

(2/2) making a huge over-the-horizon decision to give the Royal Australian Navy the capability to deter the world’s biggest navy interdicting sea lanes needed for Australia to trade with the rest of the world. Yes, the People’s Republic of China now has the world’s biggest navy.

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Michael Atkinson

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1 year

@JohnSimpsonNews Even in Australia we have Global-Times-grade Tiananmen Square Massacre denialists. The one whose Tweet is attached, @johnmenadue , was an adviser to the Australian Prime Minister 50 years ago.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

@cpyne @UniofAdelaide For services to The Swamp & agility at getting over, around & under statutory restrictions on Ministers lobbying after they leave Parliament. @GrayConnolly

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

Voters should know they are being pickpocketed when a twenty-something lifelong @LiberalSAHQ staffer & sinecure-holder, anointed by @cpyne , runs in an unnecessary by-election , held weeks after a general election, under the slogan “A new generation Liberal.”

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

@PMalinauskasMP Nor did Labor ever hold its predecessor seat, Mitcham.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@PLnewstoday If only you had posted like this when Ukraine a few months ago retook Balakliya, Izium, Kupiansk, Lyman & right-bank Kherson. These towns were not mentioned in your Twitter feed at that time. We might regard you as a journalist rather than a Russian public-relations consultant.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

Friday night tucker for @CressidaOHanlon campaign team at the Altavilla Irpina Club, The Parade, Beulah Park

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

@ToryShepherd @greensSA My principal objection to your “journalism” is that you haven’t broken or written a story for years. Your output is one long “sharing” of your correct opinions on everything to readers who share your prejudices. You are as much a journalist as Alan Jones.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

It’s nice to come home after another day campaigning for @CressidaOHanlon to take over from @marshall_steven as the Member for Dunstan & get a spruiking email from @marshall_steven even though I’ve not given any Liberal MP my email but merely bid for a tourism voucher.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 years

Glenelg: SANFL club, founded 1920. Premiers 1934, 1973, 1985, 1986 & 2019. Port Adelaide: A.F.L. franchise founded 2014, chairman at all material times lives in Sydney.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

The ⁦ @CressidaOHanlon ⁩ caravan has moved on to The Republic Hotel, Osmond Terrace, Norwood. We’re drinking & eating our way around the clubs & pubs of the State District of Dunstan. It’s onerous work but someone has to do it.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@abcnews Can you imagine @abcnews reporting in 1942 ? “The war in Europe continues to rage, with the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Yugoslavia, Greece & the Soviet Union, but there are two big winners: the British & American arms industries.”

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

6 years

Akram Arifi becomes the first Australian of Hazara Afghan origin elected to local-government in South Australia, for Ward 5 Playford Council, in news that will mean something to readers of The Kite Runner. He’s an accomplished cricketer too.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

1 year

I was in a long queue at the Bunnings checkout. The self-checkout was empty. The supervisor of the self-checkout addressed the queue. “Do I stink ?” she asked us. “Certainly not,” I replied. Keep it up queue !

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

6 years

No-one could accuse the privatised electricity networks of gold-plating in Woodville South by unnecessarily replacing the infrastructure.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 years

The bounty of my street fruit trees. Thank you @CharlesSturtSA for your 2016 decision to allow me to cultivate the verges. I’m hoping @CityofPAE will soon adopt the @CharlesSturtSA policy on verge gardening.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

1 year

Here’s the real Glenelg club song, not the Richmond copy played at Adelaide Oval today: “We are the boys of the GFC, our gold & black colours a picture to see; we’re dashing, we’re gay, we’re the pride of the Bay; our war cry strikes fear in the teams that we play.”

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

5 years

Verge Garden Report: Mexican Tarragon had a good start in Adelaide’s Indian Summer; tomatilloes, but I don’t know when to pick them; Jerusalem Artichokes all finished but I’ll dig the tubers only when I’m ready to serve them at table; finocchio, earthed up around the stem.

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Michael Atkinson

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5 years

I unpacked my Labor Party marquee from the garage for the first time in 11 years & erected it at Lohri Mela, the Punjabi festival, at Northfield. Just now it’s attracted a throng.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

Generational decline in the hardiness of Adelaide anglers: Henley Jetty deserted today. @KevCorduroy & @psossic

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

Here’s the outcome of my complaint to @AusPressCouncil about @cpyne ’s column in @theTiser talking up companies for which he acts as a lobbyist without his disclosing he acts for them. Complaint upheld. @cpyne won’t do it again, they say.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 years

@TomRichardson I trust @PAFC ’s 119-point Grand Final record is intact. If @PAFC had got this far, it might have challenged its own record.

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Michael Atkinson

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1 year

@theTiser No-one tell @stephaniedowric about Anzac Day. She’ll be in touch with @Greens to have it banned.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

3 months

(1/2) For all the good Wikileaks achieved, today would be a good day to remember Julian Assange’s victims: “Well, they’re (anti-Taliban) informants. So, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it.” Julian Assange quoted in “Wikileaks: Inside Julian

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

2 years

@nickschadegg “Ethnic cleansing” means murdering, raping, burning & looting a target group to persuade them to leave territory on which they have long lived. It was popularised during the war in former Yugoslavia. Ethnic cleansing is not denying citizens of another country tourist visas.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

8 years

Big roll-ups for five West Croydon & Kilkenny street-corner meetings with Pete Malinauskas, Mayor & both councillors

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

7 years

@1395FIVEaa I recall A.L.P. promised to build the Torrens-to-Torrens South Road upgrade ($850m) at the last State election, and, despite opposition of @marshall_steven & @greensSA , it’s almost finished.

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Michael Atkinson

@MickAtko

7 years

As someone who has doorknocked his electorate for almost 30 years, when I hear a veteran of 20 years repose in upper houses say he’s going to knock on every door in a State lower-house electorate in 136 days, I know I am hearing someone who has no idea.

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