TomB 🖤🤍 Profile Banner
TomB 🖤🤍 Profile
TomB 🖤🤍

@TomBurkeDarwin

1,908
Followers
2,449
Following
657
Media
36,070
Statuses

Political tragic. ALP member. They’re not perfect, but way way better. Opinions are dictated to me by my wife/son.

Gadigal Country
Joined July 2020
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 years
50 bucks. 50 bucks extra for each dose of Pfizer than AZ. So they rejected it. Instead spent the $600M on #porkandride , spent $120M on #spotsrorts , spent $500M on war memorial, $500M to an ineffectual Barrier Reef group. The list goes on. FFS! #auspol
102
1K
4K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
6 months
Imagine being a person that got his rent cut from $900pw to $680pw during Covid, has not had it increased in the 4 years hence, gets 90 days notice that the owner is selling, and then goes bleating to the Daily Telegraph about the injustice of it all.
141
526
3K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 years
Grace Tame had no war with Jenny. Grace Tame was courteous and smiled at Jenny. Jenny attacks Grace Tame on 9/Costello. Don’t be like Jenny.
29
401
3K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 years
My wife is finishing up at the ABC on Friday after 34 years. Respected by everyone, she’s carrying untold knowledge away that they weren’t able to find an appropriate position for. Younger, less capable, people preferred.
156
373
2K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 years
Do the fucking feds have any fucking responsibility for any fucking thing? #auspol
197
214
2K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
9 months out from an Aus election, I’ve lost my patience with the ‘fuck Labor they haven’t implemented my cause 100% in 2 years of their first term’ crowd. How dare you? How fucking dare you? How dare you put the prospect of a Dutton govt on the map? How fucking dare you?
470
322
2K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
17 days
So essentially we are saying that a lightweight TV presenter is allowed to buy a $4M home, but the most senior person in the country is not, and then said TV presenter gets to denounce him for his purchase. Spare me.
@RobynAMilne
Robyn
17 days
@TomBurkeDarwin The hypocrisy is astounding. ABC presenter ­Annabel Crabb pays suburb record of $4.2 million for Hurlstone Park home Jonathan Chancellor First published 22 Sep 2022
6
32
81
67
505
2K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 month
Are people really not able to understand that Labor took an inflation rate on the rise, but already at 6%, that rose to 8%, down to something in the low 3 per cents? Are people really that fucking stupid?
255
325
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 year
Gotta hand it to Murph. She has been missed. #VoteYes23
Tweet media one
41
435
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 month
Yes, the lesson for Labor, yet again, is that if you even look like trying to do anything positive in Australia the MSM will attempt to tear you to pieces in a gotcha feeding frenzy. We are so poorly served.
100
376
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
18 days
Anyone remember the LNP government? A scandal every day. Stuart Robert, Taylor’s water, McKenzies spreadsheets etc etc. and now Albanese WITH HIS PARTNER buys a house with their own coin, and it’s somehow the end of times. FFS!
67
334
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
18 days
Hey media, did you know that Jodie Haydon is a successful woman who earns good money in her own right? Is she not able to buy a home near her family?
44
250
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
17 days
So have I got this right? A decent individual leading a hard working competent govt buys a house and because of that many of you would like to see a racist thug and his band of misogynist incompetents lead the country back into the days of picket fences. I can’t even…
92
247
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
5 months
Thanks for your contribution, Judith
Tweet media one
348
135
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 years
I’ve fought hard. For a long time. For a fairer society. I’m getting old. I’m nearly ready to give it up. Let those that vote against themselves bear the burden. But then I think of those 2 small faces on Xmas Island. I can’t give up till they are free. #HomeToBilo #auspol
31
265
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 year
Panic is setting in amongst the money grubbing No campaigners. Imagine Price and Mundine if they lose? They’ll never get preselected again. Dutton won’t be leader by Xmas. The Farnham intervention, planned 9 months ago has them riled. They are rattled. Well done Yes campaign.
66
210
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 years
Why is Phil Coorey still a thing? Didn’t we just vote him out?
27
150
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 years
2 weeks no smokes.
118
15
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 months
Iconic photo. (Mike Bowers. The Guardian).
Tweet media one
33
148
1K
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 year
There are gatherings in Berlin and New York in support of the Voice. I know this because people that are there, including my son have told me. This is a worldwide movement with the focus on us.
12
245
989
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
Oh goody. Leigh Sales has chimed in with an article supporting Trump. How very surprised I am not.
77
111
998
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 years
Any of you guys wanna listen to something quite important. I grew up in the sun. Tiny little spots can be dangerous. I wondered about one tiny little spot. Glad I did.
Tweet media one
77
192
970
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 years
First time in a long time a senior politician’s speech has sent a shiver up my spine. There is hope still. #auspol
@JEChalmers
Jim Chalmers MP
4 years
This is Australia's defining moment. Years from now, how will we look back at the decisions we made during this crisis? Did we have the imagination to build a better and fairer Australia? Or will we regret the missed opportunities? It’s for us to decide. #auspol
308
1K
4K
53
343
950
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
22 days
Here is a reply to a tweet from Ali France from a business called Pronto Locksmiths in SE QLD. I would be extremely disappointed if any of my followers used that business. I would be delighted to see this reposted far and wide. @ProntoLocksmith
Tweet media one
76
635
956
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 years
Interesting to hear Andrews talking about a ‘national response’ and Palaszczuk calling for a National Cabinet meeting. Almost like they’re trying to fill some sort of leadership vacuum 🤔 #auspol #COVID19nsw
14
173
896
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 months
If the Australian people had been gracious enough to vote Yes, we would have seen a far far more ambitious Labor government post referendum.
402
97
918
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
11 months
WTAF? Harman said that at one stage an AFP agent based in Parliament House had given her “a summary of what she had viewed within that footage, but it was said to me that … it wouldn’t be viewed again, or able to be viewed, until after an election”.
33
289
841
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
10 months
Can Australian media, who never report stuff like Dutton being in India, or payments made into offset accounts of affiliates, just fucking stop reporting on a bruised young woman who is attempting to resurrect her life away from you despicable cunts?
57
141
787
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 years
The inimitable @RonniSalt said a few hours ago that Morrison’s ‘NSW is the Gold Standard’ statement will haunt him, more so than ‘I don’t hold a hose’. I’m a bit thick, so it’s taken me a few hours, but I’m now certain she is correct. #auspol .
22
94
781
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
8 months
The very eloquent @AmyRemeikis
Tweet media one
13
218
781
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 years
God damn brilliant.
38
290
748
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 year
Dutton claimed today that 105,000 asylum seekers have entered the country since Labor won power, when in fact there are 105,000 asylum seekers IN Australia, 95,000 of which entered while he was in charge of the portfolio. Wonder if #abcnews or #abc730 might give this a run.
Tweet media one
40
426
768
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 years
I can’t imagine the pain one must go through to endure 14 days locked up in the Lodge with your personal photographer. The sacrifices made to sign an ‘in principle’ thingy with a Japanese PM who didn’t know you were coming. #auspol .
20
124
750
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
6 months
Does anyone think it’s reasonable to expect a Prime Minister to hang around for 10 minutes whilst a rally organiser (who has just compared herself to Brittany Higgins) decides whether he’s allowed to speak or not?
88
107
738
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
Jim Chalmers is a maestro. Closest thing I’ve seen to Keating since, well, Keating. #qt
122
142
729
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 years
Morrison will win the General Election on August 2021. Because Costello 9, Stokes 7, and the ABC’s Gavin Morris will support him. Shame on you Australia.
65
176
689
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
11 months
Is any journalist going to ask Sussan Ley or Peter Dutton or Simon Spineless Birmingham if they will apologise to the Australian people for lying about the law and the constitution?
30
188
697
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
5 days
I repeat. We have a government that has had zero scandals, therefore the media feel obliged to invent them. (Remember the last government, a scandal with each new day. We lost track of them cos the new one each day took over).
64
252
845
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 years
I have a son in Germany. He says pretty much anyone that wants a vaccine has had it. Everything is open, with some restrictions. I have a friend whose son is in the US, walked into a supermarket (!!) and got his 2nd Pfizer no Qs asked. But here? Geez we are backward. #auspol
29
132
632
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 month
I am at a complete loss as to how Dutton can just make shit up, deliberately lie, and everyone is just fine with it.
Tweet media one
83
222
635
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
11 months
On what planet is it reasonable for a leader to call for an end to killing and the opposition leader says that’s weak.
36
123
597
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
6 months
For anyone that still thinks Crabb wrote a serious article, she said this … “ Katy Gallagher, for whom one fervently hopes a new Oscars category will be devised: "Best Sustained Neutral Expression Amid a Live Emerging Shitshow".
71
127
604
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
11 months
This is the sort of interview one gets when a journalist’s motive is to inform the Australian public.
@abcnews
ABC News
11 months
The federal government today announced major changes to migration - mostly centred on tightening up visa conditions for international students and temporary migrant workers. @latingle spoke to @ClareONeilMP about the migration review. #abc730
140
43
183
23
163
588
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 months
Gee, if all those that I have seen in here today saying ‘I’ll never vote Labor again’ had voted Labor in 2019, Bill Shorten would have won in a landslide, and we’d have serious neg gearing, CGT, and excess franking credit refunds reforms.
34
128
587
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
11 months
Look I’ve met stupid in my life. But I’ve not met more stupid than someone that thinks Dutton would be good for the country.
65
103
567
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 months
If Senator Payman was my daughter (I’m 62) and IF she asked my advice I would have said ‘on this one, vote what you feel in the Senate. But do not go on Insiders to gloat about it’.
54
69
572
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
10 months
There are several reasons that I can understand people being disappointed with the ALP government. To you I say, they had the fucking guts to bring on a referendum to permanently improve conditions for indigenous Australians, which was of no political gain to themselves.
135
89
560
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 month
I’ve observed Australian politics and media for 50 years. The dynamics changed when Rudd was elected. It became ‘get Labor’. Nothing has changed since then.
58
102
564
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 years
Oh dear. Tudge can’t recall a particular case that resulted in a suicide. So counsel assisting asks ‘is that because there are lots’.
7
91
545
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 months
I’m struggling to see what has changed in the last 2 years to convert the Murdoch press, Gina Rhinehsrt, and consequentially the Liberal Party, to be so gung ho about nuclear, when it was not on their radar prior to May 2022?
147
106
544
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 years
Ya have to wonder, when all of the Liberal’s arguments against The Voice have been clinically dismantled, and they still oppose, what are their real reasons?
144
121
530
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
6 months
News of Dutton releasing one of the alleged WA home invaders must be devastating for the LNP, otherwise the ABC wouldn’t bother hiding it.
11
132
533
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
8 months
Dutton says he’s going to release his nuclear plan, including where to put SMRs. Is any journalist going to point out that SMRs are purely conceptual, and that they don’t actually exist (and that the most recent attempt was canned in the US as being economically unviable).
44
162
521
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
6 months
I see the LNP running around saying those that own 5 houses will get 5x$300 rebates. They must know that the rebates go to whomever pays the electricity bills. I can only conclude that LNP landlords pay the power bills for their tenants. That’s fantastic!
30
146
522
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 month
It seems the Treasurer prefers to make decisions based on data, modelling, and analysis. The press seems to prefer Angus’s approach, which is based on the vibes.
13
137
522
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 years
Nearly none of you cunts wished me a Happy 60th Birthday two days ago. Just because you didn’t know it was my birthday is a feeble fucking excuse. 🤣
166
12
503
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 months
Still trying to get my head around Linda Reynolds leaking confidential documents to Janet Albrechston.
42
120
513
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 years
With complicit former Ministers now powerless or gone altogether, I feel it's more important to know which JOURNALISTS knew what and when about this attack on democracy by their hero Morrison. The public needs to know which are willing to cover up such crap #ThisisNotJournalism
14
121
479
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
8 months
Anyone in the MSM gonna ask Sussan or her boss why they found a man guilty before he was brought before the courts? Was it because he is brown?
14
107
485
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
11 months
I find it fascinating that the Liberals (Fiona Brown) tried on the old mental health argument for not having to testify. And it was disallowed.
17
64
453
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
Hung parliaments are not generally a good thing. It’s difficult to get anything done (and yes I know Gillard did, but she had rare decent people Oakeshott and Windsor in the picture). The LNP need to be crushed, so that they ditch Dutton and he’s out of our lives forever.
71
88
451
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
6 months
How come we all knew the facts about that rally and the circumstances leading up to and the videos to show what went on but the ABC did not? @annabelcrabb did not? She preferred to write a character assassination of Gallagher based on her desire to get a cheap line into a story.
22
107
450
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
27 days
Dutton says the government should arrest protestors. Up till now, only the police had the power to arrest. Dutton wants the power to arrest those that don’t agree with him. I’ve seen this movie before.
32
133
452
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
8 months
Ok, I’m gonna get rounded by everyone. But, Albanese and Wong have said they want a ceasefire. What do you want them to do? What impact do you think they can have, outside diplomatic channels. It’s horrible, and they don’t have the power to fix it ffs.
152
49
446
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
8 months
Sussan says it is a huge swing. You’ve never seen a swing this huge. This is the highest swing anyone has ever seen. No one will ever see a swing this huge. HUGE, I tells ya. #DunkleyByelection
58
41
443
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
15 days
I would have thought that a politician wanting to be PM, that makes a claim such as ‘the vast majority of people in Collie support …’, when asked about that claim, would be able to do better than ask the journalist ‘how do you know they don’t?’
@strangerous10
stranger
15 days
Peter Dutton questioned how he can claim the “the vast majority of the public in Collie” support Nuclear after he avoided the public during his visit. Peter Dutton accuses ABC journalist of being an “advocate” & attacks the ABC. Great fight back by journo, Dutton smashed💥
637
853
3K
20
144
451
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
Memo to journalists: Just because the opposition waste #qt by repeating the same useless question over and over all week, it doesn’t make that question important or newsworthy.
13
114
445
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 year
Everyone is SO against Labor and Albanese and Penny Wong. Fine. I look forward to how much you like it under Dutton you fucking close minded morons.
65
47
426
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
Just once in my lifetime I’d like to see a Labor government being able to do its thing without having to deal with an economic crisis.
144
62
434
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
LNP slaughtered in #qt . And the Opposition Leader in hiding, too weak to ask a single question.
21
93
428
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 month
Coincidence that the political MSM is universally totally focused on negative gearing, which was not raised by anyone bar themselves, in the same week that Dutton humiliated himself at CEDA and inflation came in at less than half the number it was when the LNP left office.
23
145
421
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 years
Is Morrison on holidays to avoid questions on Trump, Christensen, and Kelly? #auspol
70
79
404
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
6 days
I’m hearing youth crime in QLD has dramatically decreased in the last 18 hours. Problem solved!
26
81
417
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
6 days
I am so so very tired of people that just CHOOSE to ignore the work that Tony Burke has done, Chris Bowen is doing, and every other bum up heads down Labor Minister is doing on the Labor agenda, just so they can so ignorantly critisize. Says much more about your ignorance.
54
107
420
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
This is pathetic. No other word for it. How far the Greens have fallen into the abyss of Trumpism.
@MehreenFaruqi
Mehreen Faruqi
2 months
Gut the NDIS and then jump ship to get that sweet VC gig at Uni of Canberra. Long live the revolving door of the boys club networks 😡 Cap VC pay now.
220
171
1K
34
68
409
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
11 months
So Linda Reynolds COS thought Higgins may have been raped. And Reynolds and Morrison were never told? Spare me.
8
57
399
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 years
I want Senator Wong as Foreign Minister yesterday #afternoonbriefing
14
75
384
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
6 months
Our MSM at work. These jets were ordered by the Morrison government in 2021. Don’t see journalists rushing out to discredit this story or the ‘journalist’ that wrote it. Seems their fury only flows one way.
@westaustralian
The West Australian
6 months
Taxpayers will be billed $450 million for Anthony Albanese’s two new luxury Boeing 737 business jets.
524
233
541
8
157
393
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
3 months
Patricia Karvelas’s entire journalism schtick is ‘Peter Dutton says …’.
8
68
391
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
10 months
According to Dutts, Albanese is ‘bizarrely’ focussing on missing National Cabinet documents rather than the cost of living. This, at the same time that Dutts and his front bench are throwing tanties over when some councils are holding citizenship ceremonies.
42
79
373
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 years
So the opposition have come up with ‘Sneaky Albanese’. My goodness they’re a high quality bunch. 🙃
51
44
356
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
OMG! Yet another Albanese scandal!! Here he is CAUGHT talking to not one, but TWO other people. Outrageous!!!
Tweet media one
38
51
361
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
9 months
Albanese breaks a promise made (that he had intended to keep) due to economic conditions. Dutton and Ley come out each day and sprout clearly provably lies, not even grey areas, and yet Albanese is the liar. The media is totally unfit for purpose and a stain on the country.
17
79
340
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
People seem to be waking up today to the fact that a Dutton government is a clear and present danger. Good.
47
62
333
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
7 days
Anika not taking Speers shit, and I’m here for it.
2
41
326
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
7 months
We have to ask ourselves. At which point can a brilliant female become Head of State without all the carry on from those that want white males only?
52
46
320
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
9 months
Getting a wee bit tired of ALP Ministers constantly being badgered by ‘journalists’ demanding they rule out whatever the latest thing is that the Liberals are lying about them considering. Apart from being intensely dull, ruling out ever doing anything is shite for the country.
9
71
314
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
9 months
I lasted till 4:08 in #Nemesis . Which included the titles and starting froth. I can’t bear to see any of these cunts ever again.
30
23
310
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
8 months
Screen shotted for when Sussan deletes after learning that police have dropped charges after reviewing CCTV footage.
Tweet media one
24
80
304
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
7 months
So the only male killed in the catastrophe at Bondi yesterday was a security guard attempting to protect people. A young man that paid with his life attempting to protect others. Another hero.
12
35
306
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 months
There is one party trying to govern in this country. Every other party is trying their best to prevent them from doing that. The Greens, the Liberals, the Nationals, all want to sabotage good government wherever they can. Do they deserve your support?
47
94
305
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 months
Got approached by guy handing out Lib flyers for council elections this am. I said ‘Congratulations!’ He said ‘What for?’ I said ‘Getting your nomination in’. Didn’t wait for any reply.
23
32
307
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
8 months
How are Labor ‘shutting down debate’ on nuclear? Or is this just something the Liberals have decided to say that Labor are doing?
65
39
302
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
4 months
I’ll change my mind if anyone can explain to me how the Greens motion in the Senate would have saved one Palestinian life.
29
49
299
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
2 years
Dutton is keeping Tudge on his front bench.
99
99
290
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
8 months
Gonna watch #abcnews and #abc730 for the first time in ages to see if they have a story on Dutton and Ley convicting an innocent man before he is even brought before the courts. 🤔
14
73
295
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
1 year
I can’t even complain about the ABC in my household. My wife, who worked there for 30 years is so embarrassed by them she tells me I don’t want to hear about it.
3
38
293
@TomBurkeDarwin
TomB 🖤🤍
5 months
I’m still trying to understand why Penny Wong is the only person on earth that can stop the horrors in Gaza, and why Albanese is the only person on earth that should be on trial for genocide.
34
46
288