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Politics|current affairs|arts|culture Australia’s talking about, #drive is live 4pm M-F on @RadioNational or anytime on podcast. Views mine, not ABCs.

Sydney, Australia
Joined March 2010
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Some people claim the Sistine Chapel is the peak of human made beauty. Wrong. It’s Viennetta being made:
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I am only going to say this once: the Simpsons has been going for 32 years. There are bound to be coincidences.
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He told me how his dad, a stonemason, built a rock garden, which we lovingly care for to this day. I invited him in to see it, and he broke down in tears. His parents both died last year from covid. "it just brings it all back" Life is shitty. Be kind to each other, we all hurt.
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3 years
There was a dodgy guy, idling in a van and staring at my house. When he saw me, he looked uncomfortable. I waved hello. He yelled out "I was born in your house in 1965". I said "you mean actually in the house? He said "yes"...
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3 years
I broke the bad news to my 4 year old daughter about Sydney’s 4 week lockdown extension today: Reaction: “yay!” I hear “lockdown”, she hears “family time”, “crafternoons” and “home play with dad”
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5 years
Good morning from #australia , where a bastard cockatoo just stole my #vegimite toast. #gday #straya
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7 years
'Chance The Rapper" Plumber
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In case you wanted to know the occupation of “Chance The Rapper”....
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3 years
What did NSW gain (economically, socially) by winding restrictions back in the face of rising omicron numbers? Today’s reinstatement is effectively an admission that was an error, and the Premier must admit that for us to have faith in his future public health directions.
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4 years
I don’t speak French but this seems understandable.
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6 years
How to make your friends think you are on holiday. 🍼🛫
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5 years
If you say “it’s just the flu”, you are a selfish bloody twat, and you can come with my wife and I to all her medical appointments to try and plan the next six months of her being immuno suppressed in a pandemic. You can hold the baby (with gloves). Dickhead.
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5 years
So let me get this straight: the PMO and or Liberal Party were working on a political video ad announcing troop deployment into firegrounds instead of informing @NSWRFS commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons of this plan.
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4 years
2020: the year professionalism died.
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3 years
I’m departing @abc730 to host @RNDrive in a big 2022 #auspol /election year, replacing the indomitable @PatsKarvelas (as she replaces @frankelly08 on @RNBreakfast ), & joining absolute national treasures @PhillipAdams_1 @GeraldineDoogue on @RadioNational :
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4 years
Cockatoos have ram raided a local supermarket loading dock, cracking open racks and racks of bread, in an early morning Boxing Day heist.
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6 years
I meet a girl some years back. We dated. Fell in love, got engaged, got married, went on a honeymoon, bought a house, fell pregnant, had a child, raised the child, AND ONLY THEN SHE BEGAN FOLLOWING ME ON TWITTER.
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5 years
All of Australia’s newspapers look like this today, so that they won’t look like this tomorrow. #PressFreedom #righttoknow
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6 years
Welcome to Central Queensland.
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3 months
Meanwhile at the ABC. Is your #microsoft down too? @abcnews
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4 years
ABC has lost $783m in funding since the Coalition came to power in 2014. ABC has lost $783m in funding since the Coalition came to power in 2014. ABC has lost $783m in funding since the Coalition came to power in 2014.
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4 years
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5 years
The year is 2020 and we have just heard the phrase "illegal dinner party" used by government.
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5 years
Politically, there’s not being able to read a room, and then there’s being in the wrong house.
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5 years
When the Morrison government says it’s doing all it can for “our farmers”, remember the appointed drought envoy can’t prove he did anything, and spent $675,000 of your money in the process. @AmyRemeikis @msmarto
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5 years
Remember this when there’s further cuts the ABC this year.
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Gavin Coote
5 years
Many areas along the south coast will be without internet for potentially days - those north of Ulladulla if you can’t use the ABC Listen app don’t forget the wireless is still working and keeping you informed on 97.3FM #nswfires
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3 years
I have to have a general anaesthetic tomorrow and honestly, as a father of two, I am just psyched about the sleep.
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6 years
Big support for African/Australians tonight, who, in my experience, are highly educated, freedom seeking, contribution making and generous of spirit in a traditionally Australian way. Most are smarter, more genuine than those who seek to tear them down #NotmyAustralia
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1 year
My elderly neighbour died today. She was a great mate. She lived alone, after a transient life married to a station master & danced ballroom, if her arthritis permitted. She wore a low key, natural wig, & would lift it like a top hat, & doff it in my direction to make laugh. 😓
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7 years
Phrasing, please.
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8 years
Queensland. Anglicans. Straya.
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3 years
This obit will win a Pulitzer:
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6 years
You might think the ABC appears to be burning in Sydney, but I‘m working 18 and 20 hour days in the Wimmera to make stories that matter to Australians. And that is what really matters.
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4 years
Mike Bowers with the pic of the day #auspol @GuardianAus
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5 years
WORM: Lobbyist SNAIL: Public dept. vulnerable to privatisation BIRD: large multinational
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This zombie snail. A parasitic worm Leucochloridium has taken over its motor functions and eye stalks, making them into caterpillar mimics so birds will eat them. The worm can then reproduce in the bird's GI tract, eventually transmitting via its faeces 🤯
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4 years
Who else is constitutionally excited about tomorrow? #palaceletters
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5 years
The perils of sleep deprivation, and dressing in the dark of a winter morning. Had already left the house...
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4 years
There are two kinds of lockdown people.
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5 years
Woman appears to cough at man during argument over coughing etiquette on a #Sydney train. #coronavirus #coronavirusaustralia #COVID2019 #2019nCoV
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6 years
What would @realDonaldTrump look like if you applied his natural skin colour from around his eyes and removed his comb over? Via Jordan Rivers Creative.
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3 years
Novak Djokovic has been denied entry to Australia after an extraordinary mix-up with his visa application. Via @thetimes
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6 years
This photo is sooooo 2018.
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3 years
Me: let’s have a grazing platter WIFE: yeah like muscatels, daphenoise, fig paste, sea salt crackers etc ME: puts party pies and nuggets in the oven.
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5 years
I still can’t believe this is #Australia 📷 @CoppelHeraldSun
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4 years
Dream big.
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4 years
Remember: this person votes in elections. From local FB page.
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5 years
After being alone on an empty ward for days, my Christmas miracle is being discharged on crutches today to share Christmas with my wife and two little girls. I am dizzy with pain and happiness.
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4 years
this slowed down my week for sure
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3 years
Less than three per cent of Australians are vaxed. Less than three per cent of Australians are vaxed. Less than three per cent of Australians are vaxed. Less than three per cent of Australians are vaxed.
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4 years
Please wear masks in places of worship
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5 years
For our international friends struggling to comprehend what’s going on in Australia right now.
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6 years
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found Channel Seven Melbourne breached the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice in a Sunday Night program broadcast on 8 July 2018: ping @NyadolNyuon
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3 years
Wondering where your package is? (Ships queuing up outside of Shanghai due to lock-down) via @AndreasSteno
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5 years
How do you spread? (Personally, go 5 or go home ☺️) #vegemite
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3 years
The Morrison govt. has tipped more than half a billion dollars of taxpayer's money into Carbon Capture and Storage, with the promise of reducing emissions to net zero by 2050. Tonight, I take an in depth look on @abc730 #ccs #abc730 #auspol #climatechange
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3 years
Sydney’s Roseville bridge is a lake on a bridge over a river 🙃 #SydneyStorm
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5 years
Give me one good reason a government shouldn’t fall over the Ruby Princess debacle. (That one good reason shouldn’t be “we blame the other level of government”)
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Unrelated GP visit today. GP implored me to tell people that the authorities must close public gatherings such as schools, unis etc immediately. #coronavirus
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My dad, who’s ridden motorcycles for 60+ years - including across the US with me in 2013, is in intensive care tonight because a driver diddn’t see his motorcycle coming through the intersection, causing them to collide head-on earlier today.
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A lovely old man approached me at my gym and gave me wonderful comments about my work, @leighsales and the @abc730 crew today. I won't dwell on the fact I was naked in the change rooms at the time.
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5 years
Just caught a colleague putting soy sauce into their instant coffee. What federal agency do I report this to?
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3 years
Before children/after children:
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2 years
honest to god, my 5yo daughter carefully read the @abcnews news strap out loud and forlornly said “but whose going to look after the world?”
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4 years
IT ME
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5 years
This is how you do a standup.
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Fleeing civilians tell CNN they don't know where to go CNN's @clarissaward speaks to civilians who are attempting to escape the chaos in Syria.
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5 years
I’m ready for scotchpocolypse.
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Good lockdown tips from Italy @peter_0713
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I have covid and am battling power outages from my iso cave/home studio, but @rndrive must go on, live around the nation!* *in ugg boots.
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4 years
In other vaccine news, polio has been fully eradicated in Africa.
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@byronkaye Home schooled?
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5 years
This is about as insulting as news reporting gets:
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*democratically elected premier.
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5 years
The year is 2020 and all ABC reporters have now been issued papers to be allowed to be in public spaces.
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4 years
Things you LOVE but prefer to be owned by others. Go: - boats - jacarandas - Twitter beefs - children ?
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2 years
Seeking early access to my super to have a completely normal one at my local suburban pub tonight.
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3 years
This will 100 per cent lead to a cracking divorce notice
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If these fires are a state issue as the PM has repeatedly pointed out, why does @PeterDutton_MP hold the emergency management portfolio at a federal level? And where is Mr Dutton? These are genuine questions.
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The entire staff at Ultimo ABC just got an email that precisely one person needed to get. About a broken hairdryer.
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4 years
A play, in three acts
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3 years
"WHY DON'T YOU F&%K OFF!!" (sorry if you were hoping for a sweet ending, people are shit. The end)
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NSW emergency services minister David Elliot says his planned European holiday was “inexcusable” and that even his own family think he should have stayed and done his job. Astonishing he’s not sacked. #nswpol #AustraliaBurning #ausfires
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"Are we allowed to..." - entire state of Victoria.
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4 years
Police seek man who allegedly broke into the Australian museum, took selfie in dinosaurs mouth, left with staff members fedora.
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5 years
This looks a lot like a public health policy failure.
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The Pakistani government accidentally added a cat filter to a live stream of gov business:
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It’s almost like... a distraction.
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"There are 537 councils in Australia. About 530 of them already have citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day" - Bill Shorten
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4 years
Maybe i am going wrong by waking up “unnaturally” to shrieks and toddler screams at 4.45am?
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A member of the Australian government just said on national television that he is “not relying on the evidence” in relation to climate change policy. I shit you not.
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#LookTwiceForBikes : 1-2 times a week a driver won’t see my motorcycle (despite the hi vis) 99% I see them & can avoid, last night I couldn’t & came off at 60-70kph. Kind people helped me. I’m incredibly lucky (bike less so) road burn even chewed through my shoes, into my socks!
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What’s the point of being alive if you can’t be alive? 🤷🏼‍♂️
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I am in the ER waiting room bc my kid broke her foot. Because I can’t turn it off, I am watching Married at First Sight with an Indian woman who is high on Endone, who also had an arranged marriage. She has strong views on this topic.
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5 years
@GrogsGamut I have been thinking about this a lot this week.
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2 years
Somehow, I don’t think the ⁦ @GuardianAus ⁩ is getting the full gravity of the cost of living crisis 😂
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5 years
The dogs of Australia have never been so walked.
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4 years
How it started How it’s going
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A gruff old white bloke walks into the newsagent & says to the Asian staff “What, we’ve run out of Australians then?” My wife & the Asian proprietor exchange nervous glances. “You have the SMH, but none of The Australian?!” Moral: gruff old white blokes read The Australian.
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