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2 years

Fran Kelly was silly enough to take on Keating on superannuation this morning. He carved her up thoroughly.

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3 years

Unconscious irony from a caller to ABC Melbourne this morning criticising the holding of Djokovic in an immigration hotel upon the grounds that ‘he wasn’t a criminal’. The compère might have pointed out that neither were the other inhabitants who have been held there for years .

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I note that the ABC were this morning consulting that well known foreign affairs expert, Barnaby Joyce, for his views on the discussion held by Richard Marles with the Chinese.

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I am troubled by media carrying pictures of the Aboriginal man accused of the Carnarvon abduction in chains. There are two questions, one being why he was in chains at all and secondly, why he was exhibited to the media in chains? It seems that WA is unaware of how that looks!

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A truly pathetic stunt from Tim Smith apologising to the people of NSW on behalf of Victoria for imperilling them. He and his colleagues have done more to white-ant the Victorian anti-virus program, ably assisted by the right-wing media than anyone else.

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3 years

Frydenberg’s defence of Porter in relation to his blind trust says more about him than Porter. Do we really need a Treasurer who thinks this sort of behaviour is OK?

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A Trump like performance by Vic Opposition Leader Michael O’Brien standing in a field of flags representing COVID-19 dead in Victoria. Truly sickening behaviour from a person whose only policy has been to whine and pick and reopen everything no matter how many die as a result.

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Disgraceful attack on Dan Andrews last night on commercial TV. Unbelievable hypocrisy by Frydenberg and Sarah Henderson attacking him over Victoria‘a covert 19 problem knowing that most of the deaths have been caused by the Federal Government’s failures in aged care.

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4 years

Frydenberg and the Libs are desperately attempting to blame Andrews for everything to cover up their own appalling neglect of aged care.

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3 years

Josh is at it again,favourably comparing Sydney to Melbourne. Hopefully, he is planning to move there after he loses his Victorian seat at the next election!

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3 years

Dutton has just demonstrated his unsuitability as a Government Minister and particularly Minister for Defence in his attack on Anthony Albanese on RN this morning. Classic Reds under the bed stuff dating back to the Cold War

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2 years

Disappointing to read the attack on Gough Whitlam by a political minnow like George Brandis. His only achievement if one can call it that was the effective destruction of the Family Court and family law system that Whitlam had set up.

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11 months

I write today with a heavy heart. I am now in my 86th year so the likelihood of there being any significant improvement in the position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders during my lifetime is now very small following the referendum A great opportunity has been lost.

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Sickening to see Dutton posing as PM in Israel while the real PM is at the Garma festival consulting with real Aboriginal people. Remember that Dutton showed his true attitude by walking out of Parliament during the then PM’s apology to them for their ill treatment!

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4 years

I think it not unreasonable to suggest that the LNP Opposition in Victoria have played a significant part in causing none compliance with the current lockdown provisions and spread of the virus. Their constant carping and negativity has been completely irresponsible.

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1 year

Victoria was fortunate to have a leader like Dan Andrews during COVID. He was faced with a terrifying situation with disaster looming. He made firm, difficult and unpopular decisions that I believe saved many lives. I hope he enjoys his retirement.

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3 years

The same Department of Home Affairs that fast tracks visas for people like Katie Hopkins is apparently incapable of doing so for Afghans who helped our armed forces and are now in genuine fear of their lives. This is not a situation where bureaucrats should rule.

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9 months

What a grubby story by Campbell on the S500 bottle of wine. How does it reflect on the PM that he accepted the winemaker,s offer to try his best wine? What else was he supposed to do? A typical Murdoch press special!

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3 years

As a judge I had the experience of dealing with issues relating to Trans children who had indicated suicidal ideation if they were not permitted to adopt their preferred gender. Imagine the pressure they would be under if their school could legally discriminate against them .

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1 year

'Political lynching': Scott Morrison claims robodebt findings part of plot against him. Remarkably, the findings against him were made by a highly qualified woman who was a former Chief Justice of Queensland.A political lynching??

'Political lynching': Scott Morrison claims robodebt findings part of plot against him

Scott Morrison has claimed he is the victim of a "political lynching" over the robodebt scheme.

www.sbs.com.au

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4 years

I remain amazed that the media are busying themselves publicising complaints from people placed in lockdown for a few weeks in an attempt to save lives including their own. On the other hand they seem unworried about asylum seekers unlawfully being locked up for years.

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4 years

Disappointing to hear Minister Hunt unmercifully bagging the Andrews Government on RN this morning and not getting one question from Fran Kelly on his Government’s failure to protect people in aged care.

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3 years

I note the Age is beating up Morrison’s ‘success’ in obtaining large supplies of vaccines from UK. In fact it should be reported as evidence making plain his abject failure to do his job of protecting the Australian people by obtaining enough vaccines much earlier.

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3 years

The story of the Chinese ship lasering the RAAF aircraft seems a little too opportune. These harassing tactics are not uncommon, but no doubt the political situation determined that it should be widely publicised.

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3 years

It seems likely that the Ministerial delay in the Djokovic case was a confected one to keep the story going to cover up the RATS disaster. If a straight forward decision takes the Minister this long, his Department must be an even bigger shambles than we thought.

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2 years

I have just read the detailed coverage of the robo-debt Royal Commission in the Saturday Paper and wonder why such coverage does not appear in the MSM. The relevance of evidence of serial cover ups by senior public servants and politicians appears to escape major media outlets .

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4 years

It is about time Frydenberg attended to his own responsibilities as Treasurer and butted out of Victorian politics, where his party has performed dismally and where his Government has even more dismally failed our frail aged

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4 years

The somewhat intellectually challenged Victorian Opposition is still reported on tonight’s ABC news as demanding Andrews resignation despite having been exposed as making false allegations against him

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4 years

I note that Westpac has agreed to pay a $1.3 Billion fine for money laundering. That falls on the shareholders rather than management who caused the problem. Isn’t it about time that management should face criminal sanctions which would have a much greater deterrent effect?

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4 years

Kevin Rudd, speaking on RN, has exposed the Government’s propaganda attack on Facebook on behalf of the Murdoch media. He points out that it is merely supporting one monopoly against another, which is a quite improper position for Government.

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3 years

ABC reports Latrobe University, Melbourne has announced a further staff reduction of 300, following a similar reduction in 2020. The Morrison Government continues its war on tertiary education at great cost to Australia’s future.

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4 years

Saturday Paper reports Morrison being loose with the truth when he said that he had recently consulted with Kevin Rudd about China policy. Rudd responded that this was news to him. It seems that Trumpism may be catching.

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5 years

It is troubling if the reports are correct that Skytraders was advised by Dutton’s Department that it should ignore a court injunction because they would soon be out of Australia’s airspace with the deported family. If so the Department was guilty of a serious contempt of Court.

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2 years

I cannot believe the news slant of the ABC on last night’s debate- extensive quotes from Morrison as to his position and nothing from Albanese. What is the matter with them?

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3 years

Stephen Charles QC in the Age and on RN has exposed Morrison's proposed anti-corruption Commission as the mockery that it is. He must think we are all fools. It's as if it was deliberately designed not to work which suggests that there is much to hide.

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4 years

Frydenberg’s hysterical attack on the Victorian Government yesterday was an inappropriate response from a Federal Treasurer and yet another smokescreen for his Government’s failure in aged care. This from a man who has just produced a dismal budget wrecking higher education.

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5 years

I note that a fresh Government approach is to provide interest-free loans of up to $2000 to women fleeing family violence. It seems to me that this is a pretty miserable response to women driven from their homes through no fault of their own. Why loans rather than grants?

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11 months

More than 70 university law professors say Voice 'not constitutionally risky' in letter to Australian public via @ABCaustraliap This is a most welcome intervention. Those peddling this sort of nonsense need to be called out quickly

Voice 'is not constitutionally risky', say 71 law academics in open letter to Australian public

Dozens of constitutional and public law teachers from across the country have signed a letter in a bid to tackle "misunderstandings and misconceptions" about the Voice to Parliament.

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4 years

Hard to understand what the LNP fools in Victoria thought they were were achieving by forcing a sitting until 2am to try to prevent extension of the Emergency for 6 months at a time when measures to control COVID19 are having success. Another example of their unfitness to govern!

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1 year

Those considering a No vote might think about its main supporters such as Dutton, Barnaby Joyce and the National Party, Pauline Hanson and others of that ilk to say nothing of the media including the Murdoch and Channel 9 groups. Do you really want to be on the side of that lot?

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3 years

I am appalled at the price of RAT tests currently being advertised on the net. Morrison would no doubt claim this to be an example of ‘can do capitalism’. I call it an example of Government caused price gouging aimed at the poor and sick.

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11 months

I just read a horrifying article by David Marr in Good Weekend in which he describes the murderous activities of his own family as officers in the Queensland Native Police in the 19th century. Should be compulsory reading for No voters like John Howard.

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3 years

I expect that at the coming election we will hear again the tired old slogan that the LNP are better money managers despite having unnecessarily given away $13b to their corporate mates from Job-keeper funds.

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1 year

In a brilliant article in the Saturday Paper, Barry Jones thoroughly skewers the No Case as morally bankrupt. As he says “Really if you don’t know you should find out. This is a basic decency on a question of such importance.”

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5 years

Former Family Court chief judge labels Hanson's comments 'appalling' via @smh I agree my predecessor as Chief Justice of the Family Court and other former judges who have rejected Pauline Hanson ’s comments. These should disqualify her from the Inquiry.

Former Family Court chief judge labels Hanson's comments 'appalling'

The first-ever chief justice of the Family Court said Senator Pauline Hanson’s claim that women fabricate domestic violence complaints was "appalling" and "not true".

www.smh.com.au

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4 years

I note the vicious attack on Dan Andrews in the HUN.If the idiots in the VIC LNP had been in power, we would have been faced with a US or British situation. They forget that Andrews and Berejiklian pulled Morrison into line when he was off to the footy.

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3 years

It is common knowledge that LNP hates Medicare. Rather than engage in a direct frontal attack which would be political suicide, it has now sought to severely cut its benefits suddenly and without any credible explanation.

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3 months

I would remind the various cookers screaming about Laura Tingle’s Australian racism remarks of the solid evidence presented by the referendum result and the way it was presented by the Supporters of the No campaign.

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4 years

What a pack of clowns the Vic LNP Opposition are. They have not made one constructive suggestion to solve the COVID problem other than to reopen everything. Their leader, Michael O’Brien, now wants to hold a Royal Commission, having been excluded from the current Inquiry.

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3 years

I could not believe that Frydenberg thought that it was an appropriate moment to kick the Communist can again when attacking Albo. The Libs are never very original are they?

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2 years

Interesting performance by the Weekend Australian with Paul Kelly deifying Morrison for his disastrous China policy, Sheridan talking up a war over Pelosi’s visit and Albrechtson praising Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. Instructions from Murdoch HQ in the US have clearly gone out.

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2 years

The exposure of Morrison as one of Australia’s worst PMs comes too late for the many victims of his appalling immigration policies but it at least exposes the sort of person that he is and was.

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5 years

I see that the AFR regards the criticism of the PM’s holiday while Australia was burning as ”Undergraduate outrage”. It shows how far away from reality most of the mainstream media are.

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5 years

Morrison: asylum seekers should go home or face 'very, very long' detention This demonstrates the real nature of the person who is Prime Minister of Australia. He represents a different Australia to the one that I have known and loved.

Morrison: asylum seekers should go home or face 'very, very long' detention

Exclusive: extraordinary footage emerges showing Australian immigration minister calling on detained asylum seekers to leave

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4 years

Why does our Department of Home Affairs treat asylum seekers in the same manner as prisoners of authoritarian regimes? The Saturday Paper reports Farhad Rahmati as having been subjected to transfer 8 times across 2 States since July 2019. Is this where we have sunk to?

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2 years

There is something ironic about Morrison now choosing to use the pressures of the pandemic to excuse his extraordinary actions. This is the man who was off to the footy and who delayed getting vaccines saying that it wasn’t a race.

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3 months

John Hewson once again shreds Dutton in the Saturday Paper. He says it is fair to suspect that he probably knows that nuclear can’t ultimately be delivered as he has described, which will allow the party to fall back on coal and gas - to the delight of its fossil fuel donors.

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1 year

A fully justified call for a Royal Commission into immigration detention in Australia. The roles of Dutton and Morrison in would be well worth examining.

The money trail of human misery

Could a royal commission into offshore processing finally force us to properly confront the shadowy injustices committed in our name?

www.themonthly.com.au

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4 years

I am tired of the media giving coverage to business organisations and business people complaining about lockdowns and mask requirements. They never interview anyone who feels that the protection of lives should take precedence over business profits as the Premier obviously does.

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3 years

The Federal Government’s massive failure to roll out vaccines cannot be simply blamed on supply issues. It demonstrates incompetent planning and logistics in the management of the exercise.

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3 years

I remain amazed at the public enthusiasm for hoarding toilet paper. Apart from being most unlikely to run out, if it did we could always rely upon a trusted historical remedy of using Murdoch publications.

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3 years

After listening today to a vapid discussion on ABC Radio Melbourne on COVID and masks, I find myself troubled about the line being pushed by many.The pandemic is not over, there was a substantial increase in Victorian infections yesterday and basic protection still makes sense.

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4 years

Disturbing debate is now starting between those who want to return to making money and those who want to save lives. The signs are to be seen here in Australia, NZ, USA and elsewhere. I am on the life saving side.

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4 years

My immediate reaction on walking in halfway through an interview by Vitginia Trioli with an unknown blustering politician was to say to myself ’Who is this idiot’? My assessment was correct. It was Stuart Robert.

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@alasnich

3 years

I find it hard to believe that the Nationals have secured an extra cabinet position as part of their climate change deal. With a little over 4 percent of the vote they are already heavily over represented with Joyce as the Deputy PM as well.

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@alasnich

5 years

I am amazed at the tame reaction of the Australian media to the revelation that our PM has virtually conspired with Trump to assist him in his political attempts to blacken his domestic opponents. This has nothing to do with the alliance with the US- just sycophantic politics.

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@alasnich

2 years

I cannot believe the present weakness of the Andrews Government on COVID. It seems to have completely lost its nerve and succumbed to business pressure in ignoring the CHO and AMA advice on mask wearing. Since when has business had such influence over public health issues.

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@alasnich

4 years

Note large ads in the Age bearing many signatures of the extremely wealthy calling for immediate opening up in Victoria. I wonder what their movie is other than greed?

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@alasnich

6 years

I am a little puzzled about all the adulation for Julie Bishop as Foreign Minister. What did she actually do other than preside over the destruction of AusAID and the greatest reduction of foreign aid in our history? These actions trashed Australia ‘s reputation internationally.

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@alasnich

5 years

It is great to see Kristina Keneally reminding us that there is an active Opposition in this country because hardly anyone else is doing so.

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@alasnich

11 days

Perhaps the NT chief Minister needs to be briefed on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to which Australia is a party which is entirely incompatible with her policy.

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3 months

The Thug accompanied by his mentor Howard, launched a disgraceful public attack today on PM Albanese calling him “A child in a man’s body.” There appears to be no depths to which he and Howard will not sink!

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@alasnich

4 years

There is amazing hypocrisy about the Australia Post saga. It used to be a vital part of the public service until it was set up as a private business, albeit owned by the Government and told to make a profit with a Board run by LNP cronies. How could things possibly go wrong?

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@alasnich

3 years

There is increasing opposition to lockdowns which have severe effects on so many people but attacks on Dan Andrews are misdirected. If the PM had done his job we would all be vaccinated. He didn’t and the alternative to lockdowns can be seen in the death toll in SE Asia.

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4 years

Difficult to understand the logic of bringing forward tax cuts and thus reducing revenue while undertaking massive expenditure to stimulate economy. Surely the main tax cut beneficiaries are much less likely to spend than those in poverty who have to do so.

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4 years

I think it unfortunate that Albanese has weighed in to the Christine Holgate issue on the side of Morrison. The PM and indeed Australia Post’s position is legally doubtful and the whole exercise smacks of a witch-hunt.

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@alasnich

4 years

I trust Victorian electors will not forget the whining negativity of Michael O’Brien and some of his more thuggish colleagues throughout the current crisis, nor the white-anting by their Federal counterparts, particularly Frydenberg and Hunt and others including Morrison.

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@alasnich

3 years

The problem with the new COVID-19 crisis is due to the incompetence and lack of foresight of the Morrison Government in obtaining and efficiently rolling out vaccines much earlier. It has not even managed to cover medical or aged care staff and patients yet.

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@alasnich

3 years

If Morrison had wanted to do something useful with our money, he could have engaged Qantas to bring back the Aussies from overseas as he had promised to do by Christmas and helped it as well. Instead he is throwing it at electorates he hopes to retain.

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@alasnich

4 years

How many lives is he offering up as well and how does he equate them with dollars?

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4 years

The Prime Minister concedes #COVID19 infection rates will rise in Australia as restrictions ease to get the economy moving. “Of course, you will see numbers increase,” he says. “That is to be expected.” ⁦ @10NewsFirst ⁩

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4 years

Ironic that LNP Senators are concerned about Industrial super authorities funding the New Daily but don’t give a toss about The source of Clive Palmer ‘s sources of funding his expensive media campaigns against the ALP and public authorities that affect his business interests.

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@alasnich

4 years

This confirms my view that Howard was one of the most destructive and therefore worst Prime Ministers that Australia has had. My own personal experience was the same when he effectively gutted the Australian Family Law system when it was the most progressive in the world.

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At Kyoto I was Secretary of the Department responsible for energy. I was gutted when Howard didn’t ratify. At Kyoto we fought a hard campaign to give Australia time to adjust. We were given a huge concession, we agreed to it, and Howard ratted on the deal.

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@alasnich

3 years

What a sick philosophy Morrison pushes! He won't send Afghans back but won't give them visas to stay. Another example of the refined cruelty of our immigration policy for which he is responsible. Time he and his mob became a distant memory like the white Australia they support .

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@alasnich

4 years

The usual pile-on Dan Andrews led by the vile Murdoch media. The real criticism needs to be directed at Morrison and Hunt whose failure to obtain a supply of vaccine much earlier would have prevented the need for the lockdown.

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@alasnich

3 years

Our media are a short-sighted lot. Today's Age suggests that money spent on quarantine facilities may be wasted as they may not be needed. However, another variation or pandemic is possible, and we are not out of the woods on Delta anyway. Go figure!

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@alasnich

3 years

That is a most insensitive and crass comment from a person who lamentably failed to obtain vaccines in a timely manner and discharge the Government's responsibility to provide proper quarantine facilities. If he had done his job we would not be facing the present COVID problems.

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"What I’d like Australians to have for Christmas is their lives back": Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP has challenged state and territory leaders to commit to reopening their borders by Christmas | @rachelclun

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@alasnich

3 years

Morrison and Hunt fail again. ABC reports today that the Government has not taken sufficient steps to obtain advanced drugs to treat COVID.

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@alasnich

4 years

I note that the Government has resurrected its Bill to abolish the Family Court which it hopes to ram through the Senate today. Hopefully the cross bench will again block this act of vandalism inspired by Pauline Hanson in a deal with the Government

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Think of the stain that he will leave over this!

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9 months

It now appears that cricket authorities dislike the display by a player of an image of a dove of peace as a political statement! What lunacy is this?

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@alasnich

4 years

The Age obviously does not appreciate that it and the Murdoch press are part of the problem when it runs articles headlining “State’s faith in Andrews has been shredded “ as it has today. MSM are showing their usual irresponsibility.

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Alastair Nicholson AO RFD KC

@alasnich

9 months

Australian Authorities have disciplined a cricketer playing for Australia for wearing a black armband in protest against the war in Palestine. Interesting when Aussie Peter Norman became a national hero at an Olympic Games joined US athletes in a black rights protest.

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Alastair Nicholson AO RFD KC

@alasnich

4 years

Michael O’Brien’s hypocrisy is beyond belief in seeking political advantage from Victorian deaths when the great majority were due to the neglect of his Federal colleagues

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Alastair Nicholson AO RFD KC

@alasnich

1 year

Brilliant article by Fred Chaney on the Voice in the Saturday Paper makes the point that the idea behind the Voice is not complex but it will serve to remind Governments that before taking action affecting Indigenous peoples they should at least hear what they’ve got to say!

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Alastair Nicholson AO RFD KC

@alasnich

4 years

I was more or less in favour of the Corona Virus App on the basis that with proper safeguards it could useful. After listening to Minister Robert this morning, I have no confidence that anything could run well under his direction.

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Alastair Nicholson AO RFD KC

@alasnich

4 years

It remains an abiding disgrace and let us not forget that it’s architect was Morrison.

Andrew Wilkie MP

@WilkieMP

4 years

The Australian Government's treatment of #asylumseekers , in both onshore and offshore detention, continues to be cruel and inhumane. It is also a waste of taxpayers' money. #politas #auspol

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Alastair Nicholson AO RFD KC

@alasnich

2 years

Dutton is dropping the facade and returning to type in engaging in complaints about the security costs involved in bringing a few unfortunate Australian women and children back from the Middle East. He and Brandis inflicted upon us an expensive system that can surely handle this

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Alastair Nicholson AO RFD KC

@alasnich

4 years

The LNP can always be relied to make the wrong choice about important issues. They have now launched an attack upon Uni students seeking a liberal education for misguided ideological reasons. They don't remember that their founder, Menzies, pioneered the opposite in 1949.

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Alastair Nicholson AO RFD KC

@alasnich

4 years

Great comment by Hugh White quoted in today’s AFR ‘ This is a defence policy entirely devoid of a military strategy’.

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Alastair Nicholson AO RFD KC

@alasnich

5 years

Australia has ignored the UN's request to release the Tamil family from Christmas Island @SBSNews Another potential charge against Dutton and Morrison before the International Criminal Court.

Australia has ignored the UN's request to release the Tamil family from Christmas Island

The United Nation’s Human Rights Committee asked the Australian government to release the family from detention within 30 days. That time limit has now passed.

www.sbs.com.au

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