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Dad. Wiradjuri man. Nerdy, creative, political. Join your union. He/Him

Waywurru Country, Australia
Joined September 2010
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@RhysParton
Rhys Parton
2 years
Lost a few followers today. Good, I don’t want you if defending trans children upsets you in any way shape or form.
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2 years
@PeterDutton_MP You’re literally in government, your mate @JoshFrydenberg , manages the nations coffers - YOU fund the rescue, repair and recovery operation. That’s your job!
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2 years
It’s absolutely fucked what the Costello media did to Rebel Wilson.
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2 years
During floods in Queensland, Rudd helped clean up. During bushfires, Tony Abbott put on the gear and fought them, Albanese purchased and cooked food for fire fighters. When the plague hit the aged care sector, Richard Colbeck was at the cricket, Morrison washed a lady’s hair.
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3 years
Earlier today during his press conference Dan Andrews mentioned the work the Victorian Government is doing to put air purifiers in Victorian schools. As a cleaner in schools, I can confirm one school I’ve worked on has them already, and these were delivered to another yesterday.
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Some people need to read a f*cking book. “We don’t need to be welcomed to our own country.” You’re not being welcomed to Australia, you’re being welcomed to the specific area from which the First Nations people in your presence come. Get over yourselves.
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2 years
Can we change the rules for Speakers of the House? I don’t think they should be part of the government. An Independent one, or a lawyer, or someone somewhat detached from the party politics would serve the role and the people better. #QT #QuestionTime
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2 years
I reckon WA is going win Labor the election. #auspol #ausvotes
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3 years
Wow. People really don’t know what it was like in Victoria last year. The worst bit wasn’t the lockdown (I know that’s hard to believe), because it wasn’t on its own. It was the being mocked for doing it. The implications that the compassion we have for fellow Victorians 1.
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2 years
“70% of Australia didn’t vote for the ALP”. Tell me you don’t know how preferential voting works without telling me you don’t know how preferential voting works.
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1 year
Conservatives and trolls are losing their minds that he went out of his way to slightly acknowledge this basic truth, but I appreciate that he did.
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3 years
This whole press conference is great (& available here: ), but in this bit Albo came in swinging, the gloves are off, the cards are on the table. Basically, it’s on. Firm but calm. Hits the nail on the head: the PM COULD debate, but he’ll run scared.
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3 years
Magda Szubanski didn’t criticise Jenny Morrison. She criticised #ScottyFromPhotoOps , who has spent months demonstrating his contempt for victims alleging things about his Ministers & a march where he had the chance to listen, but ignored them, using his wife as a prop. #auspol
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Dear @PeterDutton_MP It’s genuinely shocking to me that your mind could compare an act of mass violence and death such as Port Arthur to a protest wanting peace. It’s embarrassing that somebody so opportunistic, callous and divisive leads one of our major parties. Disgraceful.
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2 years
Jason Clare is one of the few politicians, from any party, who can direct a press conference and still answer questions. Not bullishly take charge. Not deflect or run away. He dynamically directs them.
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Just got a tad emotional hearing Bill Shorten standing up for kids with autism accessing or remaining on the NDIS. It hit home. This role suits him. #auspol #AfternoonBriefing
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1 year
This person is such a sad individual. The Tillies are out here being iconic changing the country for the better, this individual being divisive and hateful. In a world of Kobies, be like the Tillies.
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3 years
“If there’s a problem in Sydney, there’s a problem for all of us.” - Dan Andrews, he said after wishing Sydneysiders the best and saying he’s offered any support required, including learnings we may have. Class act. Brilliant leadership.
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2 years
I see some people calling the Religious Discrimination Bill a ‘wedge’ for Labor. Standing by the LGBTQIA+ community isn’t a wedge. Just vote no, Labor.
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Because George Christensen, a member of the federal government, attended an anti-lockdown protest, and Scott Morrison, our Prime Minister and alleged leader, has NOT condemned the protests, I’m reaching the conclusion that the federal government supports said protests.
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3 years
A First Nations woman lifted the spirits of the whole country this weekend. Just saying.
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2 months
👀 even FriendlyJordies has the sh*ts with Albanese.
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10 months
The local IGA is offering a free Herald Sun to anybody who spends over $30 at the checkout. I haven’t witnessed anybody take it up and there’s a massive pile of papers left, shunned by our community. Proud.
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2 years
There are now as many states with Liberal Party Governments across the country as there are Liberal Party MPs in Western Australia.
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3 years
Stop calling her Brittany, Prime Minister. Call her Ms Higgins. You're not a friend, you're not helping, you are, in fact, someone she's taking issue with. Address her with respect. #auspol #QT #QuestionTime #IBelieveBrittany #IStandWithBrittany
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1 year
John Howard is the worst thing to happen to Australia since colonisation.
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3 years
This is NOT a cry for help, but I want it on the record that: I’m pushing though a depressive episode because 1. People can be depressed still (relatively) high functioning & 2. Sometimes you just have to. I’m okay, I know to monitor myself, but breaking stigmas means talking.
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Did I hear it right that we didn’t get more Pfizer because the Morrison government just couldn’t help but find a way to profiteer out of the situation?
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I canceled my Centrelink payment last week. I’ve got a job (don’t work enough hours to satisfy them) & I couldn’t put up with the bullcrap from Workforce Australia. I’ll go without an average of $100 a fortnight to escape it. My heart breaks for the people forced to continue.
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2 years
No sadness for George Pell dying. Much sadness for his victims, today and every day.
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9 months
Sorry but $100 for a GP visit feels like a massive failure. And very disappointing for a Labor government.
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3 years
Steve Price mentions that the COVID-19 pandemic took 800 Victorian lives, but conveniently forgets where most of them tragically lost their lives: federal Aged Care Home under Senator Richard Colbeck’s jurisdiction. #auspol #COVID19 #COVID19Aus #MurdochRoyalCommission #SpringSt
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2 years
Shattering news. Truly a gut punch for so many. My thoughts are, as they have been for a long time, with Brittany Higgins. And with other victims for whom this will feel like another reason not to come forward, because the system is not adequate.
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3 years
Call me socialist, but the Victorian government’s approach of paying $450 to working people who miss out of shifts if they need to get a COVID-19 test & isolate until they get their results (& $1,500 if the result is positive & they need to isolate longer) is pretty effective.
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3 years
Nicole Flint voted to keep Christian Porter safe from being investigated for the trust fund donation.
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1 year
I just heard from my seven year-old autistic son’s school that yesterday he sat with another students who was having difficulty regulating their emotions and talked them through the sorts of techniques that help him when he’s having a meltdown or similar. So proud. ❤️
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3 years
Six police officers have beep hospitalised as a result of the protest in Melbourne. Don’t lie about them being “peaceful”.
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1 year
I could write a lengthy response objecting to his bringing further Americanisation of our politics with lies and mischaracterisations of people, and culture wars and science denial, which had lead America to be a failed state. Instead I’ll opt for the simpler: Fuck off cunt.
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Junior announces he is going on a tour of Australia in July to get a MAGA movement started there.
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“I dOn’T nEed tO bE wElcOmeD tO mY oWn cOuNTrY” yes, literally everybody knows that. That’s why you aren’t being welcomed to your own country. You’re welcome to the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Country you happen to be on at the time.
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3 years
Thanks Dom.
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11 months
People. A lot of them. #WalkforYes
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10 months
The anti-vax filth has already started about Cal Wilson’s death. It’s going to be an instant block from me if it hits my timeline.
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1 year
Let’s normalise this. Leaders ought to be able to leave when they recognise they’ve put in all they’ve got. Good job to Peter Gutwein, Jacinda Ardern and now Mark McGowan for deciding you’ve given the public life enough.
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10 months
@PeterDutton_MP It wasn’t the “Prime Minister’s referendum”. Stop lying for once in your life.
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“Today the people of Dunkley have sent Anthony Albanese a very strong message!” Sussan Ley. Something like: ‘here Anthony, keep that seat.’ #auspol #DunkleyByelection
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Rhys Parton
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The two best additions to the Senate this election cycle.
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Photo of the week in Australia… says so much! #auspol
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I’m officially no longer a Labor member, with today being the day a membership renewal was due. I joined because I admired - didn’t always agree with - Dan Andrews as a leader. Saw ALP governments everywhere I looked & wanted to join the conversation with a party of government.
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Labor just voted against recognising the State of Palestine. They joined Peter Dutton, instead of the 146 other countries who have taken this crucial step for justice. None of us will forget Labor’s complicity and cowardice in the face of genocide.
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I won't let the government ignore this one. I won't let them try and silence #TheProjectTV like they tried with the #ABC730 episode. The culture of the Canberra Bubble has to change. This is utterly sickening. #IStandWithBrittanyHiggins #auspol
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I can't wait for the voters in Dickson to move that Peter Dutton is no longer heard at the next election. Bring on Ali France! #auspol #QT #QuestionTime
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3 years
Commentators and Tim Smith: ‘why isn’t Daniel Andrews also resigning because of a corruption investigation?!’ Corruption watchdog: ‘we’re not investigating him.’
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Norman Swan says he heard, from three different sources, that what Greg Hunt is claiming about how the government procured Pfizer, is wrong. #QT #QuestionTime
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This woman should be a superstar among Labor, not shunned. Especially because she was the only Labor parliamentarian to vote according to Labor’s platform.
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I'm extremely impressed by Senator Fatima Payman. "We're talking about 40,000 Palestinians being massacred here. These Palestinians do 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 10 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀." #insiders #auspol
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1 year
I still vividly remember my time on JobSeeker (or NewStart as it was called then). The worst days of my life. The lengths I had to go to in order to eat, or stay cool in hot, dry regional Australian summers, or warm in bitter winters. 1/20
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Rhys Parton
2 years
In 2020 I became quite partisan. I used the #IStandWithDan hashtag a lot, 1. Because I did. I ranked his resilience in the face of constant partisan barrage from the Murdoch media and Liberal party, while keeping us safe. And 2. Because it pissed cookers off. 1/5
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Western Australia can give me the best Birthday present ever by booing Scott Morrison at the footy tonight. I would love you even more than I currently do. #auspol
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3 years
“Labor’s always hoping for the worst” - Scott Morrison. Nonsense.
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@couriermail @kylie_lang When did being Prime Minister, Premier, Party Leader or public figure making or demanding policy decisions or change make you exempt from criticism? Oh that's right, never.
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I’d say riots from anti-vaxxers and the extreme right wing have repeatedly set Victoria back… 🙄 #Insiders
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Genuinely confused at Swastikas being made illegal in Victoria but the literal marching and Hitler saluting Nazis appears not to be?
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3 years
*cough* Norman Swan told us this months ago *cough* #COVID19Aus #auspol
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2 years
Long 🧵 on poverty and what I find the most disappointing, almost painfully disappointing, thing about the Federal Government’s refusal to raise the rate, or do pretty much anything to help people in poverty or doing it tough. The hypocrisy.
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7 months
If Councils are the ones allegedly doing this, why use a picture of the PM?
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6 months
This sh*t is squarely on you, @PeterDutton_MP . The vilification you did of First Nations people last year, the lies you said about The Voice, claims you made about it being a “power and/or money grab” has stirred such vitriol among people who you convinced we’re not worthy.
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Suspect this bloke wouldn't have been so angry about a woman wearing an Indigenous t-shirt if conservative lobby group Advance Australia & friends hadn't told him he should be angry about it. This is the rage they're manufacturing. (Source: 7 reporter Jacqui Felgate on Insta)
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I actually can’t get over that Port Arthur statement from Peter Dutton. The man is out of control. He compared an event calling for the end of the kill on Palestinians to the mass shooting that killed 35 people. Unforgivable.
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3 years
RE the bullshit myth that “taxpaying Aussies don’t want their money going to social security recipients”, I want to unequivocally say that I’d be beyond proud if EVERY CENT of my taxed money went towards helping someone in the nightmare position of being a JobSeeker in Aus.
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2 years
I’ve got many Labor supporters following me. A few Labor MPs, including Ministers. The PM. I know a lot of you see my Tweets about poverty & the rate of JobSeeker. Your silence is noted. Just because it’s Labor doesn’t mean they can’t mess up: call for them to #RaiseTheRate .
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PRGuy: an anonymous Twitter with a profile picture of a cartoon character which supports science, human rights & common decency. Which connected thousands of Australians online during a rough period last year, & which also, for some reason, makes conservatives butt-hurt. #auspol
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1 year
Make the very best of this Easter by unsubscribing from this shit.
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3 years
was the wrong choice & wrong thing to do. The lack of responsibility taken from the Federal government (mainly Morrison and Richard Colbeck) for the tragedy in Federal private aged care - its a federal responsibility, ask Brad Hazzard, even he will confirm. Then the lies to 2.
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George Christensen has called Victoria “a disgrace to the nation”. After everything we went through last year, that’s all a National party MP had to say about us. Keep that in mind. #auspol #auspol2021
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3 years
I don't think I'll ever get over the fact that Peter Dutton, when asked why the current government keeps gagging debate, he told Tony Burke (who asked the question) "stop whinging about it". Deplorable. Killing our democracy & telling us not to complain. Total abuser behaviour.
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3 years
Bill Shorten was cleared by the police. Conservatives don’t like that fact so ignore it.
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Despite the “get over it” responses I’ll probably get, I’m still sad and disappointed by the referendum result. It wasn’t a surprise, but it still hurts.
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3 years
@tedcruz Stand with the people of your state and object to the horrific ban on abortions, and maybe stand up for vaccine uptake in the state too.
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Labor: payment rates are reviewed at every budget, so we’ll review them at the budget. Pocock: you really should just raise the rate. Labor: we’ll set up a committee into it, if we need to raise it, they can tell us. Committee: JobSeeker needs to be increased. Labor: No.
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My mother is Aboriginal. It isn’t a “tiny fraction” of my lineage. Just because when you say the word Aboriginal, and the “percentage” of my ancestry, you mean “black”, doesn’t mean that’s how any of this works. My family is Aboriginal, I am Aboriginal.
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@RhysParton It’s a tiny fraction of your heritage yet it’s the one you pick to identify with. Not hard to spot.
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If you’re ever feeling useless in life. Like an utter failure. Like you’ve let everyone down. Take solace in the fact that you’ll never be as bad as the Morrison Government’s #COVID19 vaccine rollout.
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I walked past an actual Trump cap in real life yesterday. In Australia. Regional Australia. The guy couldn’t make eye contact with me because I was wearing an “Always was always will be” shirt. I smiled, he was clearly uncomfortable.
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I’m sick of this shit…
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Well, they’re going to test their belief in their immune systems - unvaccinated and unmasked with no social distancing The results should start to trickle in via the rise in Covid cases by about Thursday or Friday #Melbourneprotest
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I might tone down the political commentary a bit today, it’s my birthday and I want to enjoy myself. Politics sometimes gets depressing. As for a gift for me, I don’t mind if it’s late, but please vote the LNP out. Vote strategically when the time comes. #auspol
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Pin it on the state government who, by contrast, because they introduced actual health measures in the places in which they have jurisdiction, didn’t lose a life to COVID in state managed aged care. But the Murdoch media, who was already lying and downplaying COVID, spreading 3.
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I don’t particularly care for how we commemorate Anzac Day. I base that on my great grandfather and grandfather’s experience and opinions. They saw horrors and did things that haunted them for years. They felt it got too close to glorifying what was their worst nightmare.
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It isn’t appropriate. It isn’t helpful. It isn’t how we do things in this country. I stand with Daniel Andrews in the face of these threats and this atrocious behaviour, and I condemn those who lower themselves enough to make them or cheer them on. 5/5
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My body, my choice only applies to vaccines, say Republicans.
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I personally question “small dick energy” as body shaming. It’s isn’t the “small dick” itself, it’s the energy, the personality, the incessant need to overcompensate by being ridiculous. It doesn’t even have to be accurate, the dick can be any size, it’s the behaviour.
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3 years
Both Twitter and polls say that Victorians will be picking #DanNext election.
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Scott Morrison has made mention, two days in a row, of how long Anthony Albanese has been in Parliament. 25 years this year. He knows his stuff. Thanks for pointing it out, #ScottyFromMarketing , who has been sacked from every job previously. #auspol #QT #QuestionTime
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Dr Young and Steven Miles are early contenders for the ‘Heroes of COVID’ response today! #auspol #COVID19QLD #COVID19Aus
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Nan wasn’t allowed to know she was Aboriginal until her later years. Her family was separated by the colony. Everybody knows it’s a complete and utter lie that there are no ongoing negative impacts of colonisation on Indigenous people, Tories just feel emboldened to say it.
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@Sammyboy7777Sam
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@LozzaFox Tell me you don’t know how a vaccine works without telling me you don’t know how a vaccine works…
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Dave Sharma's take on Twitter accounts being suspended changed in a matter of mere months. Again, the only " #FreeSpeech " that conservatives care about is free conservative speech. #auspol #auspol2021
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3 years
How long until England has to lockdown again? Also, how long until a new variant comes out of there?
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I see in my life. That any of us do. Anyway, Victoria, actually; Australia, let’s avoid COVID doing this to us ever again - let’s get ourselves on top of this ghastly virus - let’s get vaccinated! 24. End.
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“I’m sure the lockdown in NSW will only go as long as it needs to” - Scott Morrison. All lockdowns have only gone on as long as they need to… #auspol
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Morrison, you have a majority, you don’t need Labor to pass ANYTHING. Don’t try and use that to hide behind and as a reason for not passing an ICAC bill. #QT #QuestionTime
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@AlboMP @BrittHiggins_ @TamePunk They were outstanding. It’s notable that you were there and the other guy wasn’t. Please act on behalf of trans children, just vote no on the Religious Discrimination Bill.
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3 years
Sam Maiden asking the question we ask about almost EVERY subject: “why isn’t any journalist asking him [Scott Morrison] about it?!” #Insiders #auspol
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Mourning the deaths of the people murdered in Bondi Junction is now “virtue signalling” according to Kobie, everyone. Don’t engage with the original post, the rage baiting and attention is what she wants.
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