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3 years

Melbourne has seen several sequential days of protests and a ramping up of violence. What would happen if, instead of trying to stop them from marching, the police stood aside and let them march and only intervened in the event that they were to attempt damage to life/property?

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So having had a bad reaction (pericarditis and tachycardia, along with 40 degree fever) to the 2nd Pfizer for over a month and now having had Omicron and having had those symptoms, but for a far shorter duration (a week) why ought I not be exempt from a third dose?

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So after more than 70 years New Zealand has screwed the pooch and now 5-Eyes is 4-Eyes because NZ could not be trusted not to defer to China. What a massive betrayal by Jacinda Ardern, both of ANZUS and NZ!

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So Canberra's statistics show that there's a 0.077% (rounded up) chance of death across ALL ages from Covid of any kind since March last year. Yet Greg Hunt expects us to have a 3rd dose despite KNOWING that it won't stop people from catching Omicron. @ScottMorrisonMP be logical!

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3 years

Meghan Markle wants her child to grow up in an "equitable" world? Oh well, in that case she won't mind living that dream, giving everything away and going to live in a commune - equitably, after her privileged life in LA attending private schools and university and whatnot?

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17 days

Imagine the adverse impact of so many hectares of solar farm. A nice molten salt thorium reactor would be WAY more energy efficient, would not require batteries for storage of that energy. I look at this picture - it's dystopian! How can't people see this?

Green light for world's biggest solar 'precinct' in Australia

Australia's biggest solar farm has been approved with the potential to power three million homes, many of them expected to be in a foreign country.

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3 years

Now that "casual contacts" are being removed, and the only contact is a "close contact" who has been in contact with a case for >4 hours, what is the purpose of checking into most venues?

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11 months

Who have we invited in to become Australians? Celebrating the death of innocents is not what we do as Australians. Way to get on a watchlist, fools.

Scenes as Aussie Muslims celebrate Hamas

A prominent Muslim preacher was filmed declaring “it’s a day of victory” to a roaring crowd in Sydney’s south west on Sunday night amid violent scenes between Hamas and Israel.

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3 years

The powers that Dan Andrews seeks are plenary and unfettered. If the independents vote to pass this law to give him to have power to declare state of emergency and rule by fiat absent advice, then truly he will have been handed dictatorial power.

‘The race is on’: SA unveils reopening plan

Welcome to Tuesday’s live coverage of Australia’s Covid-19 situation.

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1 month

I see that warnings are now being given for female visitors to Paris who are blonde to dye their hair dark for "protection". This is just disturbing - why should any place in Europe have to offer such a travel advisory? Why not just say we need bodyguards? 🙄 The Paris Olympics

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4 years

CCP is a liar and the WHO is its dog. If Coronavirus had started in Australia, how is it that we aren't covered in it because we eat our beef and our bats are here 100% of the time? The WHO is a propaganda arm for China and Tedros is their useful idiot. Defund the WHO!

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2 years

I'm not happy reading that Steve Whybrow is a "misogynist" and a terrible human because he is representing Bruce Lehrmann in the Brittany Higgins trial. Firstly, there's the Cab Rank rule that means barristers MUST take jobs offered to us in our areas of expertise. Secondly, his

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4 months

But whereas the budget is inflationary, why pick on the wife of the treasurer? So she's wearing an Australian Designer - that used to be a good thing. What'd they want her to wear - sack-cloth and ashes? If she can afford it, why be spiteful.

Chalmer’s $1900 designer Budget outfit

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ wife Laura stole the show in a buttery Carla Zampatti dress while her husband debuted his second budget consecutive surplus.

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3 years

For goodness sake! We are well past the equilibrium point between self-harm and the lockdown. 8,489 kids under the age of 19 were hospitalised for self-hrm and suicidal ideation - more than all deaths from covid.

Forty teens are rushed to hospital every day in Sydney for self-harm

The NSW Suicide Monitoring System found 8,489 people under 18 were rushed to hospital for self-harm and suicidal thoughts this year, to July 29 - up 31 per cent on 2020 and 47 on 2019

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3 years

Did the Premier of Qld just say we'd all be wearing masks until "everyone" is vaccinated?! SO awkward. This is not "the science" it is not even "a" science.

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3 years

Notice how quiet the media are about the acquittal of Craig MacLachlan? They drum up a lot of hatred, but when there's an acquittal, they're nowhere to be found...

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4 years

So China outright threatens to invade Taiwan and NZ's cowardly response to this is to tell Australia to reconcile with China! Come ON NZ - that is not the ANZAC spirit! Aus and NZ should not be standing by while Taiwan is outright threatened. At the moment the international

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3 years

Ben Roberts-Smith is getting in trouble for having offended enemy soldiers by wearing a Crusader Cross? What kind of a war is it if you can be ordered to shoot enemy combatants, but can be cancelled if you dare hurt their feelings?

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3 years

Well? Get to it then! It was never a good idea to lease a key strategic port to a country that keeps talking about how Australia "needs to be punished"!

Port of Darwin lease with China could be torn up

The Northern Territory government signed a 99-year lease for the Port of Darwin to a Chinese-owned company in 2015.

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3 years

Since a fourth booster won't stop Omicron, I don't see why a booster should be mandated. Surely it should be made available to the "at risk" and everyone else should have the choice of bearing the risk they wish.

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4 years

@catturd2 @Olivianuzzi China is responsible for deliberately sending infected to the USA. NY is responsible for doing a crap job of saving lives, including sending Covid19 patients BACK into nursing homes - that was a special level of fail for Cuomo. The question presumes the answer - straw man.

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1 year

1. Linda Reynolds: "I was told by one of your senators two weeks before about what you were intending to do with the story in my office. Two weeks before." Katy Gallagher: "No-one had any knowledge. How dare you." In this instance Linda Reynolds very well can dare! Ms Gallagher

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11 months

NSW Police, here is the section that you use against the people yelling "Gas the Jews!" s93Z Crimes Act 1900 which makes it illegal to incite violence on the basis of race, sexual identity etc. Why are police so reluctant to use this section?

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10 months

So I see Brittany Higgins has decided the best thing to do is to issue a statement commenting on the forthcoming case against Lehrmann. You'd think that after the suggestion that there could be contempt as a consequence of the speech outside the court whilst the possibility of

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2 years

3. substance until the jury's decision is complete, but I have to defend Steve against these allegations because they are completely misplaced. Our system of justice is, by nature, adversarial and requires defendants to have access to competent counsel.

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3 years

My nephew is stuck in Bathurst in a 2x4m dorm room, unable to return home to Qld even though Charles Sturt Uni is shut down and even though he's vaccinated. The hypocrisy is that football players and partners and family have all been allowed in. Actual Qlders don't count. 😡

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2 years

I can't believe people are out to cancel Hairy Maclary; The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Where the Wild Things Are! This is just insanity! If you're searching for gender problems or woke anything in these stories then the problem is in your head. These are well-loved stories!

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2 years

Tanya Plibersek is not at ALL a mean girl. I mean, no mean girl would ever call someone with alopecia "Voldemort" would they? Imagine if someone commented on a female Labor or Greens member's appearance - there'd be after them like a rat up a drainpipe to cancel them...

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2 years

The #LehrmannTrial resulted in the jury being discharged for bringing their own "research material" into the deliberation room. I expected a hung jury and warned that the longer it went on, the more likely a juror would attempt to advise others with external material. Huge error.

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4 years

The people fat-shaming Scott Morrison on here are hilarious. If someone did it to any of the woman in parliament there would be an outcry. Double standards are no standards at all!

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5 months

Though the police have the identity of the Bondi Junction murderer, they have to go through all of his electronic devices and cloud etc to make sure that this was a one-person enterprise and to check to see what his motivation was before the release his identity. The reason is

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3 years

Look what is buried Friday afternoon in the news just before the weekend! Remember this poor man getting body slammed from behind. The officer has been charged.

Violent arrest footage prompts officer assault charge

A Victorian police officer will face court over an arrest during which he allegedly slammed a man to the ground, knocking him unconscious.

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3 years

Okay, suspended for bodyslamming is a sensible outcome. Now VicPol, now tell us what happened to the officer who headstomped Tim Atkins last year?

Cop suspended over wild protest incident at train station

A Victoria Police officer has been suspended over a confronting incident captured on camera at Flinders Street station.

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3 years

“Can you please remember who I am...” Was there ever a more telling phrase?

Qld’s one condition to open border

Queensland’s powerful top doctor said interstate borders won’t open until “every single” person in the state has been offered a vaccine, as the bitter war of words between the Palaszczuk government...

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9 months

Lisa Wilkinson demonstrating that she never really understood what metadata is by saying that she didn't know that digital photographs on cameras have metadata... How, then, could she understand what the risks of accessing "metadata" were if she didn't know what it was?

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3 years

This headline!!! "A man has tragically died after a homemade explosive device detonated inside his car as he was driving on Sunday morning"! Seriously? HE HAD A suicide vest and it's tragic it went off and killed ONLY him!?!?!? Go home news, you're crazy!

Father dies after explosive vest detonates

A man has tragically died after a homemade explosive device detonated inside his car as he was driving on Saturday morning.

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@catedempsey

3 years

Jussie Smollett uses the N word in texts and then gets angry at Prosecutor Webb for reading that word, so Webb makes Smollett read them out himself! Get wrecked Smollett - you used the word and then complained about it being used- that's rank hypocrisy!

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1 year

The attempt to have 16 year olds vote is shameless. You aren't allowed to leave school at age 16, you can't drive by yourself, can't be sent to the front line in the military or decide by yourself to marry, but because it would be expedient, they should vote? We know now that

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1 year

To all the people who said "what about the steam cleaning the next day" - note there was no more than the normal cleaning cycle. Sometimes stories get carried away with themselves.

Brittany Higgins case: Cleaner makes bombshell claim

Carlos Ramos was asked to clean Senator Reynolds Canberra office on March 23, 2019 after Parliament House security staff wete alerted to two staffers seen entering Linda Reynolds' parliamentary...

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1 year

I can't believe the AEC is considering accepting a tick for a Yes vote, but not a cross for a no vote. The law is clear - the words YES or NO have to be used. So YEAH or NAH won't cut it - why should a tick cut it? Since the law is clear the AEC should instead of waffling about

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3 years

Who predicts SE Qld will be locked down on Monday?

Qld records two new local Covid-19 cases

Queensland has again avoided a snap lockdown - for now - despite recording another two new local cases of Covid-19.

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3 years

The new Australian curriculum will only teach multiplication tables in year 4 (when kids are 9/10 years old). Australia is dumbing itself down SO much that I am tempted to set up a school in competition with this curriculum. I would teach multiplication

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4 years

@JamesTodaroMD @AndrewAQLD WHO is run by African Nations beholden to China. It may as well be directly run by China. Why we even bother listening to such a useless organisation is beyond me.

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1 year

This is a huge thing - revoking a law only a month after it coming into action is a rarity. It usually signals that a lot more thought should have gone into the concept and its execution. Rushing into passing laws rarely ends well.

Furious farmers’ win over ‘botched’ law

The controversial Aboriginal cultural heritage laws that prompted an army of outraged farmers to rally in an outback hall last month are set to be scrapped, according to new reports.

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4 years

Just a monthly reminder that there is no public record of the Victoria Police internal investigation into the police that rammed Tim Atkins with a vehicle and then headstomped him after he left hospital after trying to admit himself due to a bipolar episode. Don't forget that

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1 year

There are approximately 500 separate Aboriginal nations in Australia. Now Albanese has clarified he expects The Voice to be approximately 24 people. So that means that >5% of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia will have a "Voice" to parliament. How's that an improvement? It

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5 months

This is so sad - why take Molly away - she lives outside, she's not "trapped" inside. Magpies are very territorial and they are very friendly - this woman has done nothing wrong! I have magpies that leave their kids with me - they

Famous magpie Molly is surrendered after allegations against 'owner'

Molly became an a global phenomenon after Juliette Wells, a blogger from Coomera in Queensland , started highlighting the unlikely friendship between the magpie and her two dogs.

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5 years

@Ms_Mirielle @RealJohnDennis @Cernovich I would make this an advertisement. It shows what he's up against and who supports his opponent.

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7 months

Evergrande, China's largest property developer has gone into liquidation. Everybody hang on - this is going to be quite the ride. The repercussions of this will spread across the world.

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So someone does two undergraduate degrees (neither very marketable) and regrets having to pay them back. Meanwhile, quietly and without fuss most other students have paid back their HECS and are moving on with their lives by age 35. Why should taxpayers

‘Going up’: 35yo’s opens up about $115,000 HECS debt nightmare

The HECS indexation is creating panic among Australians, with one revealing that it has made her “regret” going to university.

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11 months

1/ This is the Exposure Draft Bill for the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023. It was a bad idea when the LNP proposed it, it is still a bad idea. #DisinformationBill

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3 years

Watching the meltdowns over Dominic Perrottet being NSW Premier because he is Catholic and "politics and religion should not mix". A few points about that: 1. religion is esentially a set of beliefs. Regardless of religion, everybody has a set of beliefs: even atheists, so

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2 years

2. job is to test the evidence of the prosecution. Allegations that he is asking "inappropriate" questions are completely off-base. He's done his research, his job is quite literally to test their evidence and he's done precisely that. I won't be commenting on this trial in

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3 years

Brisbane is in lockdown, again. Remember how we were told that this "most likely" would not happen? It was always going to happen.

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5 months

Channel 7 just couldn't wait and named the wrong person as the killer. Doesn't this show yet again that the only way to go is to WAIT for the police to name the attacker? Will Channel 7 learn anything from this and from the Lehrmann matter about journalistic ethics? I'd guess not

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3 years

Would the US Government really provoke a war with Russia to attempt to detract from the outcome of the Durham Report?

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3 years

What in Hades is happening to reporting in Australia!? Only NOW we find out that #Djokovic holds a Diplomatic Passport. For people who don't know what that means, Diplomats have been coming and going and you don't get to ask them a whole bunch of questions because they're exempt

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3 years

Oh good grief. Now there's no "flirting" at work and that it is going to be "misconduct" we are going to be inundated by cases where we're going to have to determine what constitutes "flirting" 🙄 Actually, there is not a large enough eyeroll for that. This is just stupid.

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3 years

The Greek alphabet was going so well for Covid names until someone worked out that they were going to make it all the way to Xi and that China was not going to permit that. Somehow now we just skipped Nu and Xi and ran straight to Omicron - less contentious that way.

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5 years

@AdamBandt This is advocating violence and as such is in breach of s 474.17 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 “using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence” is a Commonwealth. You are meant to be a sensible politician, not some random crazy advocating fury equalling the bushfires

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6 years

@dbongino Please fight back in this way: point out that the US Constitution, in all walks of life, preserves the natural justice concept of "innocent until proven guilty". This has existed since Magna Carta. The "this is not a trial" narrative is a red herring. The presumption prevails.

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3 years

Oh dear - so does Pfizer think boosters work against Omicron or not? Because it sounds like the head of Pfizer is saying "not" and that is contrary to what government is saying.

Pfizer CEO says two doses provide ‘limited protection, if any’

Pfizer’s chief executive has revealed that two doses of its current Covid-19 vaccine offer “very limited protection, if any” against the Omicron variant.

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4 years

Reading about the WHO and corruption is sickening. Why Australia or the USA would contribute money without audit, especially when a non-medico from Ethiopia who has been bought and paid for by China is at its head.

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4 years

What are the chances that Labor and the Greens and the media will show Christian Porter the same acceptance of his word that they showed Bill Shorten? Either both of the men are to be taken at their word, or neither, one would imagine? In both cases there was said to be

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4 years

Buried in the news today, Christmas Eve, is that AusTrac is investigating the Vatican over money-laundering a couple of billion dollars and the local catholic authorities deny having received it! I have confidence in AusTrac!

The Vatican investigated over secret transfers to Australia

Figures released by financial crime regulator Austrac have revealed more than 400,000 transactions have been made since 2014, sparking a federal police investigation

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3 years

If a country has nuclear weapons, it should not be treated as a "developing nation" because it clearly is prioritising aggression over its own people. China, India, Pakistan - none of these are "developing" - they're as developed as they're going to get.

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3 years

Well, they cancelled #Djokovic 's visa, so now there will be a diplomatic fight AND a fight over the appeal. I'm just sitting back here with the mental popcorn watching it all burn.

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6 months

My daughter was just sent a letter by Labor as a person who earns under a certain $ amount per annum. I know that political parties are exempt from almost everything, but how did a political party come to know her taxable income bracket? How's that reasonable?

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1 year

Seriously? They took a 45kg 90something year old woman using a walker to move around carrying a steak knife out with a TASER? They could have disarmed her with a broom handle! This is so screwed up.

Homicide squad probe 95yo tasered by cops

Police have refused to say if the officer who tasered a 95-year-old woman in an incident that left her fighting for life will be charged.

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3 years

How many people under 18 are in hospital in Australia as a consequence of Covid19? We are seeing reporting of children getting Covid, but why can we not be told how many are (a) symptomatic or (b) sick or (c) hospitalised?

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4 years

Totally correct. It was functionally insolvent BEFORE Covid19 - why are we bailing out foreign nations?

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Pauline Hanson: Virgin is 91% foreign owned and hasn’t paid tax in Australia for the last 7 years. The foreign companies that own Virgin can bailout the airline. Australian taxpayers shouldn’t be propping it up.

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Imagine being so pathetic that instead of having sympathy for a 94 year old woman whose husband of the last 73 years died, that instead they want to make points about inbreeding. It's not the day for that trolls - embrace empathy or don't complain if we go after you.

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The subheader writer for @samanthamaiden 's article has this header wrong: "Lehrmann’s lawyers are seeking urgent legal advice from police over Brittany Higgins speech outside court." No, they aren't seeking advice - they've referred the matter: this is not asking for advice

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4 years

The Victorian anti-publication law that prevents victims of sexual violence from identifying themselves or telling their stories is a retrograde step. All the members of Parliament who passed it should hang their heads in shame for taking the side of rapists and paedophiles!

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3 years

The MSM is so dim. I can't believe they are complaining that an alleged rapist was not dismissed until 10 days later. Firstly, it is an allegation: you can't just fire people summarily on another person's word, that's not how employment law works!

Alleged rapist wasn’t sacked for 10 days

The employment of the man Brittany Higgins alleged raped her was not terminated for 10 days after he packed up his desk despite the Prime Minister’s claims he was “sacked, quite swiftly” over a...

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4 years

Melbourne cancelling ANZAC Day is just terrible. If Daniels can't permit a socially-distanced and effective ANZAC Day March then he doesn't deserve to govern. He didn't complain about BLM protests and he maintained they weren't dangerous - why would an ANZAC Day parade be deadly?

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3 years

Now there will be an hour delay on newsfeeds coming from the protests in Melbourne. People have asked in multiple posts why the protests are in Melbourne. The answer is simple - wealthy people and white collar workers have been working from home, unaffected by the lockdowns. But

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9 months

Every day this year my mind turns to the Lindt café siege. Do not forget the two who died in that siege because of that monster who won't be named: Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson. That was in 2014, her kids will be so much older now, but I can't imagine how they opened the

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3 years

Still no public news about the outcome of the investigation regarding #TimAtkins , the man who was videoed being headstomped by Victoria Police last year. Why is the media so incurious about that investigation? HOW LONG can it take? Don't let his mistreatment be forgotten!

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4 years

It makes no sense that people are coming into multiple points within Australia to quarantine. Just make one central Commonwealth Controlled Quarantine facility. Pop it on Christmas Island so the disease can't escape and stop these stupid lockdowns for good!

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2 years

I see the Greens lying about "green" energy being cheaper and pointing to the ACT. The ACT doesn't produce anywhere NEAR enough energy to power itself - it makes <5% here in the ACT. What it did was to buy forwards contracts for power from SA and NSW - fixing the price of energy

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3 years

I see vaccination passports as a gateway into mandating other actions such as mandatory drug testing for all workers and people on welfare. I mean, it's for "the greater good" isn't it if we know who is using illegal substances? See how easily the reasoning flows? If you would

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1 year

RIP Hills Limited I never expected that the company that made the Hills Hoist would become insolvent - especially in an era where people are supposed to be trying to be "green" and not using dryers so much. It's the end of another manufacturing era in Australia.

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My tweetheart, Arthur Blurd the willie wagtail has been coming back to see me every day since my Dad died in 2018. He comes, does his little dance and I give him a treat of mealworms (now that I know he loves them). When I garden, he sits on my shoulder. I love his eyebrows!

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Fourth and subsequent doses? I can understand boosters for the immunocompromised (as ATAGI started out), but there's been so much "mission creep" here we're starting to look at over 4 vaccinations per year and I'm not at home to that.

Big hint on Covid-19 booster shots

Australia’s most senior health official has dropped a big hint on the future of booster shots.

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If the bird flu is in the native or wild bird populations, then what good will it do to cull chickens - especially if their meat and eggs cannot pass on the infection?

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So Channel 10's lawyers want to introduce new evidence AFTER closing and KNOWING that Lee J has decided to hand the decision down on April 4 (ie, knowing it has been written and is ready to be handed down). This would be extraordinary, because there should be no evidence that

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RIP Prince Philip - the last member to have a non-PC irreverent sense of humour. From here on in the only way for humour in Royal Family is comparatively downhill.

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2 years

@catherine___c There's always Kristina Keneally... Whenever you want to smile, just think that she never won an election.

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@Lou16em One time in a law school I was watching professor in forensic odontology was doing something in the microwave (getting the flesh off a dingo head to see whether it ate a kid- matching bite marks). Our Dean walked in and asked him what was cooking "smells nice". Answer: "hot dog".

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I don't think it the "wait and see" people are your typical "anti-vaxxers". Most aren't "anti" in the sense of thinking all vaccines are bad or unnecessary. Labelling them anti-vaxxers will not shame them, it will make them jack up even further and add confirmation bias to their

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Melbourne is seeing panic buying of toilet paper again... What is it with the TP?

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Voted - there was zero No campaign in Canberra at the Uniting Church. The Yes Campaigns were out in force. It was really disconcerting to have a group of strangers approach and surround us: I hate feeling trapped. Why have how to vote cards on a Yes or No matter? More generally

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2 years

Any guesses what economists would say that a "shared equity" scheme where the Cth govt owns up to 40% of your house would do to house pricing? There should be no prizes for guessing, the result is house prices go up.

Labor’s ‘big moment’ in election campaign

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3 years

2. The "independents" will show their true colours if they vote for this completely unnecessary measure. Under such powers, Andrews could also determine that during a pandemic no elections need be called and could remain, unchallenged by elections. This must be stopped!

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So much hatred and disdain in the newspapers for "bogans". It seems as though the working class is now being told that it does not know its place and that it should be grateful for permission to work. If someone had told me before 2020 that we had such bad classism I would not

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Results are in, it appears the No vote has won. But now would be a really good time to remember that manners maketh man. Crowing and bragging and "I told you so" are unhelpful and not good. We have to cooperate moving forward, so try not to be antagonising, try to set an example.

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3. livelihoods and homes and hope is why the blue collar workers are rising up. The media should stop calling them "alt right" because I seriously doubt that they are! I think they're just done with being casualties of lockdown!

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RMIT and the ABC aren't exactly covering themselves in glory. Someone explain to my why it is "right wing" to want to have nuclear power (like France and Germany) and "left wing" to lie about the "success" of renewables (because I see a number of former LNP people involved there)

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1/ One thing that arises from yesterday's post about Lehrmann v Channel 10 and Wilkinson is the question of what is required for finding that an event occurred "on the balance of probabilities". Some people seem to think it comes down to "I believe her" or "she's lying" - it is

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