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Living in exile on the mainland. Tasmanianista content at extreme levels.

Melbourne, Victoria
Joined September 2010
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
6 years
no one gets my costume
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
2 years
sitting unmasked, drinking a cider on a lovely Melbourne day, watching the protestors demand their freedoms back
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
2 years
Denmark had players who play for Manchester United, Barcelona, AC Milan, Leeds, Tottenham, Sevilla.... but ZERO A-League players
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
6 years
Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975), directed by Peter Weir
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
3 years
the crowd might be hating it but Peter Malinauskas is so determined not to gloat and is instead being very generous, feels very different to almost every Australian election winner's speech I've heard #savotes
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
3 years
Picnic idea: Melbourne hairdressers meet people in the park for a fully legal hair cut
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
3 years
if you are one of the Australians lucky enough to not be in lockdown it is your RESPONSIBILITY to have a cracking weekend of social activity, for all of us who cannot - do it for your nation
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
4 years
hi everyone, if your baby had walked off with the TV remote, where would they have put it?
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
NO ONE: ME: Tim Paine has the third-best Test average for Australian wicketkeepers behind Gilchrist and Haddin and he is comfortably a better gloveman than either and the best since Healy, while also captaining the team through crisis
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
I have a son, his name is Rufus, he is very good and I recommend him
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
6 years
BOOMERS: we will raise our children to be outspoken and believe in themselves MILLENNIALS: you've really screwed things up and we should be in charge now BOOMERS: ohhhh wait GEN X: how good was Nirvana
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
3 years
sometimes you have to pay respect to a sub editor
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
2 years
he's nailed it #AFL
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
Hong Kong wants to stay Hong Kong
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
3 years
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian visiting a baby in a Sydney Hospital in December 2006 or January 2007. If you are this baby please get in touch
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Angus Livingston
2 years
I was always conviced that Andrew Symonds born 10 years later would have been the most dominant T20 player in the world - could power hit, incredible fielder, versatile bowler. And he was an excellent Test player - one of Ricky's biggest successes as captain
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
3 years
my mum started Wordle today with "hymns", incredible energy
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
turns out NSW park rangers have been doing heaps of hazard reduction burns, but they haven't been able to keep up because the NSW coalition government has cut their numbers by one third
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
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[Australians feeling a patriotic duty to educate the rest of the world re: the Kyle and Jackie O show and why Jacob Elordi does not deserve prosecution]
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
yowza, Princess Eugenie was about to launch a podcast about sex trafficking and slavery, but now has to put it on hold because of the whole thing with her dad Prince Andrew and billionaire pedo Jeffrey Epstein
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
2 years
season was over last weekend: 2022, The Year of Collingwood #AFLGF
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
6 years
Senator Fraser Anning earns more than $200,000 a year, taxpayer-funded, as well as having the power to hire his own staff here he is with convicted criminal and far right extremist Blair Cottrell at a rally thousands of kilometres from his home state of Qld
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
after almost six years at AAP I'll be moving back to Canberra to be the SMH/Age federal bureau chief - I absolutely can't wait, and this is how I'm feeling about it:
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
4 years
when you're right you're right
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Angus Livingston
6 years
name a more iconic duo - I'll wait
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Angus Livingston
3 years
the Australian Cricket Team coaching decision isn't hard to understand - if your boss has huge mood swings and your team performance is bad, and it only gets better when he steps back and someone else does his job, it's a pretty clear sign you shouldn't renew that contract
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
"Government rejected major air-tanker expansion" - four years ago the national aerial firefighting centre asked the coalition for a national fleet to deal with worsening bushfires, and a senate committee agreed. But the coalition govt ignored them both:
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
Ben Simmons also ran camps in Melbourne for underprivileged kids with Helping Hoops, you can see the pics on FB
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7NEWS Sydney
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. @NBA star @BenSimmons25 spent the day in Sydney, offering a once-in-a-lifetime experience for young basketball hopefuls. But it came at a cost - tickets were more than $200, despite the Aussie signing another multi-million dollar contract in the U.S. @SarahNavin #7NEWS
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Angus Livingston
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the ABC says it sacked Antoinette Lattouf because she shared a social media post about a Human Rights Watch report - which the ABC also covered twice in that same week
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
3 years
taken from @Mel_Mclaughlin 's IG, these pics of Dante Exum, Patty Mills and Matisse Thybulle after winning bronze are lovely. After all the injuries, an NBA coach who didn't want him, it's great to see Dante do so well #boomers
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
now that everyone in the country is suddenly a hazard reduction burn expert, let's hear from some actual experts.... who say the burns are ineffective against extreme fires and we're already burning more than ever before and it still didn't work
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
me whenever I show off my soccer skills:
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Angus Livingston
5 years
it's all very well to say "rules are rules" but the au pairs with connections who got busted on tourist visas got ministerial intervention because Peter Dutton said they deserved a chance - do the Biloela family not deserve a chance too?
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Angus Livingston
2 years
you can say what you like about Nick Krygios and many will, but if you're a former tennis champion you might want to look at your own history before wading in with hot takes - some highlights from Pat Cash (with a bonus Pat Rafter story that Nick would never survive IMO)
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
6 years
welcome to COAG
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
4 years
on June 9, Victoria had a day with zero new cases - community transmission was very close to being eliminated, just like every other state then we learned 30pc of hotel quarantine arrivals weren't getting tested, and staff weren't trained in infection control, and now we're here
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Angus Livingston
6 years
big numbers - the 53,034 crowd at the AFLW grand final today was bigger than every NRL game in 2018 other than the grand final
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Angus Livingston
6 years
good to know I paid more tax in 2016/17 than Qantas, Glencore, Origin Energy, Lendlease, ExxonMobil, Woodside, EnergyAustralia, Flora Green and Bluescope Steel they only made about $87 billion or so more than I did that year
@NickEvershed
Nick Evershed
6 years
I just want to know how Glencore got to a nice round $1,000 here
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
6 years
it is deeply weird how a group of old men make sexual comments about Sarah Hanson-Young under parliamentary privilege
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Angus Livingston
5 years
The election was three weeks ago, ministers sworn in seven days ago since then: - raid on News journo for correctly reporting security agency power grab 13 months ago - 2GB host told he's being investigated for his reporting - ABC raided for reporting alleged war crimes
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Angus Livingston
4 years
Australian basketballer Elizabeth Cambage standing on a tram stop shelter in Melbourne leading Black Lives Matter chants
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WSLAM
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Liz leading protests in Melbourne, Australia. 🖤 @ecambage
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Angus Livingston
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four Queensland cops in a month have been charged with illegal data searches, using their massive surveillance powers to so unauthorised checks on people this is why people were so concerned about metadata laws
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Angus Livingston
5 years
the Daily Tele is calling these saladas but we think they're CHEDS
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Angus Livingston
5 years
here's the AAP story about AAP closing - yes, someone had to write it up and send it out on the wire
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
4 years
Australian Special Forces committed up to 39 murders in Afghanistan. Investigators spoke to more than 350 soldiers and officers from SAS and Commandos, Afghan villagers, special forces interpreters and support staff
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Angus Livingston
6 years
Prime Minister Scott Morrison does a Borat impression in parliament
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Angus Livingston
2 years
I mainly feel sorry for the bride's who have to wait this out to get their wedding photos
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Angus Livingston
5 years
four pics taken from twitter, Australia's parliament house in one month hit with thick toxic smoke from distant bushfires, destructive hail, a dust storm, and now a bushfire not far from the actual building
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Angus Livingston
5 years
Karl........ why
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Angus Livingston
5 years
someone did a time lapse of two million people protesting and it's a bit impossible to comprehend
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Angus Livingston
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I know this is a funny post but in Sept 2022 I sent myself an email with a bunch of ideas for how to make the Tassie team a success and one of them was literally 'the Devils vs the Demons during Dark Mofo' call it the Gates of Hell game
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Angus Livingston
6 years
I need you to understand that some people think Australia is full
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Angus Livingston
1 year
cannot wait to try Hard Solo after reading this, the thirst crusher is already the best in the business (bitb) at crushing thirst, now it's adding alcohol? incredible
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
4 years
the robodebt program was absolutely shameful and still no one has been held accountable for it
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Luke Henriques-Gomes
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A heartbreaking letter from Kath Madgwick to the Senate. Her son Jarrad, 22, committed suicide and had received a robodebt.
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Angus Livingston
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AAP got a photo of Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti and Mark Baguley during the Essendon game and it's actually the epic handshake meme
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Angus Livingston
4 years
@natalietran I worked with a subeditor who would change his girlfriend's stars in the paper every day so they were positive, so she started the day off in a good mood.
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Angus Livingston
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@natalietran sorry but "*sighs* You know what I'm doing" is devastating
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Angus Livingston
6 years
Joe Ingles had to wear a head bandage today and luckily the #UtahJazz had one ready for him
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Angus Livingston
5 years
the boats from Sri Lanka have actually been coming for months IT TURNS OUT so perhaps giving a family a chance to build their life in Australia wouldn't make any difference at all to whether we get more boats or not, in fact it's possible they're not related
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Angus Livingston
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[calls SEN] so Joel Selwood makes an entire career off it but as soon as a Collingwood player gets hit in the head a few times to kick a few goals the AFL steps in, okay sure
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Angus Livingston
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Australians will need to pay up to $1000 to be evacuated from Wuhan, and after quarantine on Christmas Island, they will be dropped off in Perth and make their way home at their own expense
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Angus Livingston
4 years
sending seeing a funny my friends' tweet responses
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
everyone who pushes for electronic voting in democracies either doesn't know what they're talking about or has a financial interest in a business providing electronic voting
@ScottMStedman
Scott Stedman (indefinite hiatus)
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There are now reports that the app that caucus leaders are using to report Iowa results isn't working. Nobody knows who owns the app and there were major security concerns:
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Angus Livingston
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Tayla Harris kicked 61.5m in the longest kick competition to place third overall above AFLM players
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Angus Livingston
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I have access to The Age's photo archives if any scientists need to prove anything fyi
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Angus Livingston
5 years
one of the rare tweets that still works if tweeted four hundred years ago
@TomMcIlroy
Tom McIlroy
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Church of England moves valuables to Tower of London amid fears of looting
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"No more of this ‘the best form of welfare is a job’ crap. That’s like saying the best form of chemotherapy is not having cancer" - Jacqui Lambie wants to improve the Newstart payment in 2020
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Angus Livingston
5 years
Heads should roll over the robo-debt scam - this has been a huge waste of money that also contributed to deaths. Call the royal commission
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Angus Livingston
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@netw3rk Adam Silver is gonna pay Ben Simmons $14 million to hit a three in a preseason game
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Angus Livingston
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if you can't get a haircut done in 30 minutes, then you just have to get short back and sides with a tidy up on top everyone, men, women, whoever, same haircut, 30 minutes, thirty bucks, bam you're good and looking sharp
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Angus Livingston
4 years
none of this would have been an issue if they'd just gone ahead with NRL Island, as advised by the majority of sensible voices online
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5 years
lovely to see - this Indian restaurant does excellent food (I eat there a fair bit when I stay that way), and they're giving it away for free to bushfire-affected people near them in Bairnsdale
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MPs find that outsourcing has caused major problems for veterans trying to get claims through Veterans Affairs, so the government has outsourced to McKinsey to ask them how to fix the problem
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
5 years
EXCLUSIVE RECREATION: @AmyRemeikis confirms normal-sized hands cannot hold saladas in this fashion, CHEDS CONFIRMED
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Angus Livingston
6 years
I guess we'll never know how much the Daily Beast's decision to break the law affected the decision to dump the second trial, depriving other alleged victims of their chance for justice
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Noah Shachtman
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Journalists who decided to accept the government's gag order called us every name in the book for reporting the truth about the monstrous acts of one of the Vatican's most powerful men. I hope they are equally vociferous in their investigations of Pell.
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Angus Livingston
5 years
every cafe has a Big Breakfast where you pay $24 for too much food but why don't they have Medium Breakfast where you pay $13 for half as much food
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Angus Livingston
5 years
what I like about these talking points is they are an admission of where the government knows it is vulnerable - there is no national drought policy - emissions are going up - we won't meet the Paris targets - Newstart is too low to live on - the economy needs stimulus
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I'd been a journalist for 6mths when @MargaretSimons ran a training session in Burnie. I did ok - a great intro, then a middling one. She asked us what we wanted to do, I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be a journo or not. This was her note to me. Almost 20yrs on, it's time to go
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I know people are mad at all the questions for Premier Dan Andrews about hotel quarantine, but you have to remember he dodged them for six weeks by saying he couldn't comment due to the inquiry, which wasn't true, so now he's answering weeks of questions at once
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Ben Simmons has 4.3m instagram followers and he dated Tinashe and Kendall Jenner, he is walking clickbait and demands attention. And he's from Melbourne! In my opinion, Vic tourism agencies would be negligent if they didn't see what sort of coverage he could provide them
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Angus Livingston
6 years
the Israelites put blood on their doors during Passover - speaking of other people whose passes are over, James Ashby has had his revoked
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Angus Livingston
5 years
memes have been responsible for a LOT of terrible things these past few years but I believe I'm about to be radicalised into supporting the GWS Giants in the AFL grand final
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Angus Livingston
5 years
twice a year Taiwan rehearses for a deadly virus coming out of China. When the first reports of coronavirus came out of Wuhan, Taiwan sent experts there because they couldn't trust the Chinese data. They've had just 385 cases for 24m people
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thinking about all the Tasmanian champions of the AFL who felt homesick
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5 years
what a way to find out Baz Luhrmann is doing an Elvis Presley biopic
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
4 years
Very happy to hear Annika Smethurst will not be charged over her front page story about plans to expand spying powers to cover Australian citizens. The story was correct and in the national interest. It's been 358 days since police officers raided her apartment for seven hours.
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Angus Livingston
6 years
I maintain that the designers of the Robodebt system should face consequences for their actions
@not_my_debt
NotMyDebt
6 years
$2416 #Robodebt "The debt was the result of my income (from sporadic casual work) being averaged out over the entire year. Even after I provided proof of this, I still have the debt and am currently having my Austudy payments garnished for it." #NotMyDebt
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and today we have this feature with Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese on the road in Queensland, trying to make inroads into seats where Labor has been smashed in several elections - again, I think it reveals a bit about him
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Angus Livingston
6 years
this is amazing - they've edited the video to speed up just as his arm moves, so it looks worse than it is
@PressSec45
Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived
6 years
We stand by our decision to revoke this individual’s hard pass. We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video.
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Angus Livingston
6 years
here's the "ni hao" clip for those who are interested
@SkyNewsAust
Sky News Australia
6 years
. @ScottMorrisonMP has had his first street walk of his campaign in the inner west Sydney suburb of Strathfield, greeting locals and visiting a restaurant. @annelisenews : There was a bit of confusion about what kind of restaurant he was in. MORE: #auspol
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4 years
interestingly, the BLM protest was evidence that community transmission was basically over in Victoria - barely any cases, looks like no transmission at the protest. Instead, the issue was constant leaks from hotel quarantine, which was entirely within the govt's control
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Angus Livingston
5 years
big day for Tasmanian secessionists
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Angus Livingston
5 years
I did not expect the Belle Gibson story to take this weird turn, which is my fault, because I should have expected something like this
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Angus Livingston
6 years
this could all be over in 10 minutes hey
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Angus Livingston
5 years
it's the email everyone's talking about and it only lasted on News Corp's servers for less than an hour
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Angus Livingston
3 years
it has been pointed out to me that if you combine my face with the PM's, we look like a cosmetic surgeon currently in the news it's good to have friends
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Angus Livingston
5 years
wow - 33,620 parents on the ParentsNext program had their payments cut off, but 85 per cent of them weren't at fault. That's a TERRRRRRRIBLE success rate from Centrelink.
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Angus Livingston
3 years
so many Americans asking to be bullied for their tweets tonight, and luckily there is a nation of Australians who just happen to be VERY good at bullying
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@anguslivingston
Angus Livingston
2 years
there's an Australian cricketer with more Test centuries than M. Waugh, M. Hussey, M. Taylor, S. Ganguly, VVS Laxman, M. Atherton, G. Thorpe, R. Richardson, G. Gooch, D. Walters, S. Malik and C. Gayle, and yet I feel like he doesn't get enough respect - it's time to change that
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Angus Livingston
5 years
Nick Kyrgios giving up an easy point in order to muck up a trick shot is one of the best things about him and I won't hear any slander
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