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#GenderBalancingClothingCommentary
Dear new followers,
After butting up against Twitter's silly and arbitrary "can't follow more than 5,000 people" rule for the last 18 months I appear* to be allowed to follow more people now.
I'll aim to add a few each day lest I trigger some kind of automated response.
Dear new followers,
I would love to follow you back but Twitter has an arbitrary rule that I can't follow more than 5,000 people (well, 5,001 it turns out) until I have many, many more followers.
No offence or shade is intended on my part.
I know I'm far from the only one saying this, but how f***ing impressive is
@DanielAndrewsMP
?
I f***ing LOVE the way he thanks people for their hard work in keeping numbers down, and delivers clear, concise information on the current situation.
#COVID19Victoria
#springst
The more I learn about Linda Reynolds, the more I marvel that she was able to fool the Army and the Liberal Party into promoting her so far.
She seems to be both barely competent and completely unhinged.
#AusPol
"We're self-funded retirees. We get nothing from the government", says the questioner.
Oh, honey. You get tax concessions worth far, far more than the Age Pension.
Give it a bone, ploise.
#QandA
#AusPol
"Why is 'Princess Anne' trending?", I asked myself.
Reader, I was not disappointed.
Princess Anne has long been the "not putting up with your shit" member of the Royal Family.
Her reactions to The Orange Buffoon were bound to be shareworthy.
#PrincessAnne
Can you imagine if the good burghers of
#Canberra
still had Zed representing it us in the Senate?
How much better off are we with
@DavidPocock
representing us instead!
#QandA
#AusPol
The people gleefully (re)tweeting the petition to deny Annastacia Palaszczuk an exemption to leave Australia for the
#Olympics
would seem less obviously partisan if they'd campaigned as vigorously for Scott Morrison to be denied an exemption for
#G7
, too.
#JustSaying
#AusPol
I love that every second person in my feed right now is comparing NSW Police's investigation into the
#RubyPrincess
debacle to their oh-so-thorough and completely-uninfluenced-by-political-considerations investigation into Angus Taylor and the fake travel claims.
@SenSHenderson
@AlboMP
So 'the standard you walk past is the standard you accept', you say, Senator?
I guess that means you accept the views & behaviour of Alan Tudge, Christian Porter, Eric Abetz, Andrew Laming, Michaelia Cash, Teena McQueen, Barnaby Joyce, George Christensen, etc, etc, then.
Right?
Hey
@BreakfastNews
,
When you talk about the nurses strike in NSW make sure you mention that the NSW Government delayed going to the Industrial Relations Commission until after the by-elections on Saturday.
A cynical move by
@Dom_Perrottet
that ought to be called out.
How do you know it's Saturday morning in Australia?
'Katharine Murphy' and 'Laura Tingle' are trending, courtesy of their regular Saturday reviews of the week that was.
Love your work,
@murpharoo
and
@latingle
.
#AusPol
Honestly, I'm not sure why the fuss from Bruce Lehrmann's lawyers: it shouldn't be *that* difficult to find a jury's worth of people in
#Canberra
who haven't seen or heard anything about
@Lisa_Wilkinson
's
#Logies2022
speech.
Quit with the stalling tactics.
@RealAlexJones
@C_N_F__on__X
You absolutely did not post this to spark debate.
You just couldn't hold back your anilingus fetish any longer. Own it, Alex. Be proud.
(If you'd been referring to cannibalism you would've said 'rump' or 'butt' or similar.)
I love the posture of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese at the
#NPC
today.
Big Not-Taking-Any-Of-Your-Bullshit Energy. And kick-arse boots, too.
If in 75 years time, the international community is yet to realise what the Nakba is, HERE’s what it is -televised on our watch. - Francesca Albanese at the National Press Club
Pondering why NZ seems to have been much better prepared & been much faster to act than Aus.
Hypothesis 1: Australian govts were distracted by the
#AustralianBushfires
.
H 2: Our federal system is a disadvantage.
H 3: Ardern is awesome; Morrison is mediocre.
Discuss.
#auspol
I have a policy of not commenting on what women on TV wear, but I'm prepared to make an exemption to that policy for
@AmyRemeikis
's rock-star look on
#insiders
this morning. Yassss, queen!!
That joyous moment of uncertainty when you see 'Pocock' trending and can't be sure if it's referring to
@DavidPocock
or
@BarbaraPocock
but can be sure that it'll be interesting.
We are so lucky to have both Senators Pocock!
#AusPol
Senator Sarah Henderson gave a masterclass in delivering talking points instead of answering a question, despite Hamish's repeated attempts to draw her back.
#QandA
Good to see
@abc730
not giving up on Nades, Priya, Kopika and Tharunicaa and the people of Biloela who just want to see them come
#HomeToBilo
.
When will Australia's loudest Christian finally demonstrate some Christian compassion?
#abc730
#auspol
I don't think there's any doubt that
@Bowenchris
emerged the winner from his sparring match with
@David_Speers
on
#Insiders
this morning, is there?
Bowen's tactic of anticipating the next question was especially disarming.
#AusPol
This brought tears to my eyes.
How is it that NZ has Jacinda Ardern and Canada has Justin Trudeau but the US is stuck with Trump and Australia is stuck with
#ScottyFromMarketing
?
"I apologise for the position that we find ourselves in. I'm accountable as the leader of our state."
Vic Premier
@DanielAndrewsMP
when asked about the hotel quarantine program and the state's outbreak of new coronavirus cases.
@SenatorHume
@AlboMP
So 'the standard you walk past is the standard you accept', you say, Senator?
I guess that means you accept the views & behaviour of Alan Tudge, Christian Porter, Eric Abetz, Andrew Laming, Michaelia Cash, Teena McQueen, Barnaby Joyce, George Christensen, etc, etc, then.
Right?
Every time I see 'Angus Taylor' trending, I find myself wondering: (a) how he got a Rhodes Scholarship; (b) how he got Liberal preselection; and (c) how he got elevated to the NOalition frontbench.
In all three cases, clearly merit was not responsible.
#AusPol
Ah,
#auspol
Twitter never disappoints: "He's the Prime Minister" is now trending, thanks largely to
@vanOnselenP
's attempt to explain Morrison's ignorance around
#blackbirding
and other forms of slavery in Australia.
When "SHUT UP" is trending, surely you realise that
@David_Speers
is not doing his job well tonight.
Do you not have a producer in his ear telling him to SHUT THE FUCK UP,
@QandA
?!?
#QandA
@vanbadham
@TheRickWilson
The ad is so clever, riffing on one of the best campaign ads ever. Calculated to get under Trump's very thin skin with a greater degree of precision than a forecast of the eventual US
#coronavirus
death toll could ever hope to achieve.
It's hilarious to see
@sussanley
thrash and flail helplessly when faced with even the slightest of tough questions from
@ljayes
.
She really is a dud, isn't she?
#AusPol
Am expecting Stuart Robert to come down with a raging case of monkeypox (or some other infectious disease), thus preventing him appearing on
#QandA
on Thursday, after tonight's
#4Corners
.
#AusPol
I thought this had to be a piss take but, no, apparently the three members of the
#MCC
really are called Bartholomew Frinton-Smythe, Humphrey Wigbert-Porter and Quinten Breckenridge. 😳
#Ashes2023
Lawyers, what responsibility (or liability) do courts have for ensuring that court-ordered mediation sessions are conducted in a way that is (a) safe and (b) complies with relevant legislation, including the DDA?
A nine-hour mediation session sounds like a form of torture to me.
I haven't seen
@AmyRemeikis
on a panel show for a while, and I'd forgotten how skilled she is at this format and how insightful her analysis is across a broad range of issues.
#TheDrum
I love how regularly 'Greg Jericho' and 'Katharine Murphy' trend. Pretty much every column from either of them results in their name trending.
A reminder of how much of a boon
@GuardianAus
has been to the media landscape in Australia.
#auspol
#BruceLehrmann
and his lawyers abused the process and benefited from 'mistakes' by his mates in the AFP and (genuine) mistakes by the DPP and that overly eager juror.
This interview is timed to coincide with the ACT Board of Inquiry.
How much did you pay,
@7NewsSpotlight
?
1/
'Greg Sheridan' is trending.
In the exceedingly unlikely event that he's had something sensible to say, would someone be so kind as to let me know?
Otherwise, I'll just assume it's just another bad take in a career littered with bad takes.
Katy Gallagher fires back after Jane Hume asks about publicly available info on released asylum seekers
Gallagher “Go & find it…I’m not here to do your homework for you”
Hume “We’re happy to wait until you Google it Minister.”
Gallagher “Google it yourself!”👏👏
#QT
Those vox pops in Tasmania fill me with a combination of rage and despair: rage at the lies and misinformation of the No campaign; and despair at the political and media literacy of the people willing to believe them.
#Referendum2023
"The government did not think suicide was the answer to receiving one of these letters", says Ms Campbell.
Umm, this sounds an awful lot like victim blaming. Or have I misinterpreted Ms Campbell's comment?
#RobodebtRC
#AusPol
@ESIaustralia
In 1969 when you did Matriculation (Year 12), working women were still paid only 75 per cent of what their male colleagues were paid for doing the same work and Aboriginal Australians had only been able to be counted in the Census for two years.
Do you hanker for those, too?
I'm just tuning in to the
#RobodebtRC
, but I'm shocked that Jarrod Kagan from Probe Group refers to
#Robodebt
victims as 'debtors' rather than 'customers' or another more useful term.
Just awful.
Sally McManus usually sounds measured and reasonable. Today is no exception.
Compare that to
#ScottyFromMarketing
's increasingly breathless and unhinged communication style.
#insiders
Is anybody else finding it weird (even a little disconcerting) to see 'Bruce Lehrmann' trending rather than 'Toowoomba' or
#HighProfileMan
?
No?
Just me, then ...
@CroweDM
He's not meeting them anywhere, David.
His minders can't afford to risk letting any 'real' or 'quiet' Australians get near him lest one of them give him an earful.
#ScottyFromPhotoOps
doesn't want to meet undecided voters.
#AusVotes2022
#AusPol
@AlexanderDowner
@QandA
Someone call a waaambulance for Lord Downer.
I didn't see you complaining about balance when IPA drones (including your daughter) appeared on
#QandA
week after week.
If Paul Fletcher had been better prepared, he would've been fine.
@BrandonTozzo
In Australia, where voting is compulsory & something of a day of national pride (replete with a
#democracysausage
or two), never more than 20 minutes, seldom more than 5, and usually walk straight in.
I'll never quite understand Americans' (misplaced) pride in their 'democracy'.
I'm continually impressed with the work of the lawyers at the
#RobodebtRC
.
Ms Hogan-Doran SC, for the Commonwealth, only pipes up when she needs to but when she does she always adds value.
@DaveSharma
I thought you'd be keeping a lower profile while the Collaery secret trial was going on, lest you draw attention to the part of your resume that involves Lord Downer and some dodgy dealing with Timor Leste over the Timor Sea.
#auspol
It's a bit f***ing rich for John Anderson to talk about kicking the can down the road, when he sat at the Cabinet table when Howard and Costello gave away the proceeds of the resources boom in tax cuts, family payments and unsustainable tax concessions.
#QandA
I'll have to go back and time
@SenPaterson
's interview on
#insiders
this morning.
I don't recall a Labor shadow minister getting such an extended (and soft) interview when the Noalition were in government. I wonder why that is? 🤔
#AusPol
Why does the questioner think that experience in 'the real business world' is more relevant to Jim Chalmers's role as Treasurer than his experience as a policy adviser to Wayne Swan during the GFC?
#QandA
#AusPol
@PeterFegan9
@jekearsley
Your tweet is journalism at its most defensive, Peter.
If journos like you did a better job at reporting on the facts & the issues that matter to people instead of on the horse race & on so-called gaffes maybe you wouldn't cop so much criticism on social media.
#AusVotes2022
More than half of these were on the reading list for my English classes in Years 11 and 12!
What are the poor kids in US English Literature classes reading instead?
I did not have Katherine Deves being owned by Antony Green on my post-
#Referendum2023
bingo card. Did you?
Clearly Deves' history education was ... lacking. 🤦♂️
I'd encourage the NSW Liberals to preselect her in
#Warringah
again. Just for the lols, obvs.
#AusPol
@robbystarbuck
@davidkerr1970
@MikeStuchbery_
1 - Learn to use 'literally' only when things are actually the case, not merely as a meaningless intensifier.
2 - Learn the difference between 'socialism' and 'national socialism'.
3 - Learn to keep your mouth shut when you don't know your mouth from your arse.
Oh, come on,
#ScottyFromMarketing
!
Having
#Auslan
interpreters in shot at live broadcast emergency briefings was one of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into the Black Saturday fires.
Now standard practice in Qld, Vic, NSW, etc.
Why not for federal govt?
#auspol
"Labor botched it last time" isn't the zinger you think it is,
@AngusTaylorMP
, when the NOalition had 10 years in government to implement something better.
Get better lines before Tuesday or be prepared to continue being the laughing stock you've always been.
#insiders
#AusPol
Geraldine Brooks absolutely eviscerates Benjamin Netanyahu. Just as Trump is running for president to stay out of jail, so is Netanyahu waging war in
#Gaza
to stay out of jail.
#QandA
Hearing
@zdaniel
talk about the need for reform to the taxation arrangements for fossil fuel exports warms the cockles of my former econocrat heart.
#QandA
Bill Shorten providing a masterclass in ACTUALLY ANSWERING AN INTERVIEWER'S F***ING QUESTIONS.
I hope every user of "I reject the premise of your question" is watching and taking notes.
#insiders
#auspol
Is it just me, or is it not exactly a surprise that the revelations about Dyson Heydon were dealt with the way they were because the chief justice, Susan Kiefel, is a woman?
#abc730