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Malcolm Farr
2 years
If you have to pay $500,000 compensation for a minister’s behaviour, that minister should not be a minister.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
ICAC has operated in NSW for 33 years and well-known NSW politician Scott Morrison STILL doesn’t now how it functions. It investigates. It doesn’t convict. There is oversight. But it might make people accountable, which would explain Morrison’s hostility towards it.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
ICAC, obliged by law to root out ‘possible corrupt conduct’ is attacked for inquiry into politician’s ‘possible corrupt conduct’.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
The disconnect between News Corp papers and voters is the huge media story of the election. The screwed coverage and impotence of the brace of tabs and the national daily is going to be difficult for News to overcome.
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Malcolm Farr
5 years
I presume arsonists caused the hail storm.
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Parliament House Canberra
5 years
Parliament House at 12.59pm, captured by our Auspic photographer David Foote.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Morrison is the shallowest, most demonstrably deceitful, self important and ill-equiped PM of at least the past 30 years.
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Louise Adler
3 years
Another word salad from @ScottMorrisonMP “I couldn’t have been clearer in denunciating” the protests . @abcnews Conflating “denouncing” with “enunciating” . You don’t need Freud to understand the mixed message #auspol
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Malcolm Farr
5 years
Not sure how children taking one day off school take being berated by ministers who will have sat in Parliament for just 10 days in five months.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Morrison wants applause for fixing a problem he created.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
So many photos of Morrison on front pages. You would be excused for thinking he had actually done something.
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3 years
But not a grown-up tennis player who could fight back.
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Malcolm Farr
6 years
Dined in Melbourne Friday night despite threat of Sudanese gangs.Sure enough was approached by tall young figure of African descent who said, “Would you like to order?” Before I could react she turned on my wife: “Perhaps you’d like a drink first?” We finally escaped 2 hrs later.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Scott Morrison’s most significant contribution to Australian politics was in preventing Peter Dutton becoming PM. That contribution might now be fading.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
I wish our prime minister was the can-do, dynamic leader portrayed in The Australian rather than the Scott-the-Unready, responsibility dodger we have.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
By my calculation the Sue Gray inquiry into lockdown-breaching by Boris Johnson staff took 17 days. Again by my calculation the inquiry into who on Scott Morrison’s staff knew what and when of the Brittany Higgins allegations has been underway for 252 days.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
If only the Oz had been as intensely critical of Scott Morrison’s failures as it has of Jacinda Ardern’s successes.
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
Remarkably, a woman with an opinion has upset Alan Jones. Has this happened befre?
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Linking Christian Porter’s fate to the global survival of liberal democracy might have been a stretch.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
“You sit down, boofhead,” Albanese to Dutton. Getting bit wild today.
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Malcolm Farr
5 years
I was offended by Tingle’s restraint.
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5 years
Chief political correspondent for the ABC tells Twitter user to “go f**k yourself” after they question the balance of the national broadcaster
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Interesting that when Labor MP for Solomon Luke Gosling asked PM the 1st Q in QT today Scott Morrison didn’t thank him for his 11 year military career as he routinely does vets on his side. Seems only Liberal vets get saluted by him. Has he politicised military contributions.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
Whenever i hear “kangaroo court” i am drawn instantly to Scott Morrison’s uninformed, unfair and unrestrained condemnation of Christine Holgate in Parliament.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
I understand this has been touched on before but am I correct that the only people who use the term “woke” (which I still don’t know the meaning of) are commentators well right of centre-right?
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
This is a stunner, a best in show. Scott Morrison blames Labor for robodebt which saw HIS government illegally rip $1.8 billion from welfare recipients.
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David Marler
2 years
"I've never treated the Australian public with such disrespect." Robodebt Royal Commission? It's Labor's fault. #ausvotes
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Savva in The Oz Morrison has had 14 months to expand existing or build new quarantine facilities. Instead, he handballed the problem to the states. He’s had a year to plan the vaccination rollout. He’s been forced to handball that to the states
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
So $650,000 in compo to Rachelle Miller with no explanation to taxpayers who had to fund the settlemrent, now an unknown amount to Brittany Higgins with again no explanation for the public. In both cases the ex-ministers involved wear neither public guilt nor private expense.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
An Australian senator endorses street violence against police as *heartening*. Extraordinary.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
That’ll teach Darren Chester for being principled and competent.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Morrison hasn’t released 2050 climate change modelling document coz there isn’t one. This is Three Stooges stuff. Barnaby Angus and ScoMo.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
Josh doesn’t want ministers facing public integrity scrutiny, but I don’t recall his opposing highly publicised, ministerially authorised police raids on homes of journalists.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
*CAN DO CAPITALISM*: Yet another empty slogan to toss on Morrison’s growing bonfire of the inanities.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Turnmbull has just ripped Morrison several new ones in his NPC address. Mainly over AUKUS and “deceitful” nuclear sub not-yet-a-deal. “What it tells you is that Australia cannot be trusted.”
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Life goes on. The Australian Open men’s title will be won by an extremely good tennis player, he just won’t be named Djokovic and will be vaccinated.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Morrison’s use of “Mr Speaker’’ as a punctuation mark is annoying.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Barnaby partner Vikki Campion claimed in her column someone — perhaps journalist?? — had taken pix of her kids in Parl House child care centre. Official investigation has found totally untrue. Not a journalist, no pix taken of Campion kids. Vikki not a victim.
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3 years
Timeless, priceless, shameless
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Why the growing number of talking heads at a Gladys presser? I’ve seen productions of My Fair Lady with fewer on stage.
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Malcolm Farr
7 months
Measuring patriotism by the pursuiit of trashy trinkets, many debasing the national flag to the role of cheap clothing decoration, is unsurpassed shallowness — also known as a Credlin,
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3 years
Greg Hunt “with great respect” busy on ABCam answering at length questions he hasn’t been asked. Seems angry at being held to account.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
Clive Palmer says he earns $640,000,000 a year. Yet he can only afford a tatty used Craig Kelly.
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Malcolm Farr
9 months
I don’t know who or why, but someone neatly put a copy of the Weekend Australian in the toilet paper section of my local Coles.
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
What an extraordinary mob. PM Morrison effectively punts Oz Post head over Cartier watches, makes big to-do in Parliament. Today Comms Min Fletcher on RN breakfast stoutly refuses to say what an official inquiry found. Understandably some will think embarrassments being hidden.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
Scott Morrison: “Public Servants don’t run the government.”*** ***Unless they decide to use $500,000 in taxpayer money to compensate for the alleged behaviour of a man who is in cabinet, but not a minister.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Stare down, push through, shake and bake, take wickets.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Should we set up a GoFund account to pay for ministerial salaries?
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
If only those two Australian-born little girls still locked up on Christmas Island had been able to slip some cash to a Liberal MP..
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Paul Karp
4 years
Three of the people Daryl Maguire assisted in alleged cash-for-visa scheme now have Australian citizenship; Labor outraged. #auspol
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
NSW residents face fines if they do not register their positive rapid antigen test results on the state’s services app. Surely Morrison will object. “Scott Morrison says Australians don’t want to be told what to do…”
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
I have only briefly looked at Budget papers and would be grateful were someone to point me to the funding alocation for the anti-corruption body Morrison insists his government is determined to create.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Tutu memory: He once debated Alan Jones on Apartheid (Jones supporting it of course). It was all over when Tutu put on that huge smile, turned to his opponent & calmly said 1/2
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
It ought not be forgotten Scott Morrison lied about trying and failing to get Hillsong’s Brian Houston into a White House dinner. Said it was gossip when it was fact.
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@GrumpyHacks
3 years
Scott Morrison tells Christian conference he was called to do God’s work as prime minister | Scott Morrison | The Guardian
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
Morrison confident God will provide the next job from which he will be sacked for incompetence and dodging accountability.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
If every Australian who had smoked dope quit work the country would shut down, with Parliament House among the first to go.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Had second AZ dose today and only after effect was disappointment that not one spoon in the cutlery drawer would attach itself to me magnetically.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
Trump gone, Morrison gone, Boris going. Is there a linkage here to the political price of a reputation for deceit?
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
This bloke crashes through to a new public policy low. His government spends millions on pork barrelling and then walks away from disaster relief suggesting someone else pay for it.
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Peter Dutton
3 years
The water hasn’t gone down yet, and we haven’t seen the full extent of the damage to our community due to catastrophic flooding. We have started a fundraiser to help local residents and businesses who have been affected.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
“But Mr Jones. I am a prince of tye Anglican church, and i do not have the vote.” Audience roared approval and a speechless Jones put on that cat’s arse mouth he uses to show indignation and displeasure.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
For those keeping score, Labor now governs in four of six states and both territories.
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Malcolm Farr
6 years
This would be a great place on which to project French lotto results.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Taxpayers are carrying the cost of this trite, non-stop PR stunt of Morrison posing as an amiable daggy dad from the suburbs. Meanwhile some 2020 bushfire victims he tried to ignore still living in caravans.
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Julian Andrew
3 years
You've gotta like the way Morrison wears a black t-shirt to (purportedly) fillet the fish, and then changes to a blue button-up shirt to hold an implement that has been stuck into the curry.
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Malcolm Farr
5 years
It beats the hockey puck out of me how the PM can say the Auditor General didn’t find pork barrelling of sports grants when the report said this.,
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Unable to deliver solid policy or measures, Morrison follows his instincts and offers a cheap, valueless sneer.
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3 years
Scott Morrison: "We’re not going to achieve net zero emissions in cafes, wine bars and inner city dinner parties." #auspol
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2 years
Today’s interesting viewpoints: Scott Morrison is innocent of having contributed to a major hit on household budgets announced today, while independent candidates who are not even in Parliament are destroying democracy.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
Thanks to Liberal senator Holy Crap I know what a Marxist is as I live next to a teacher. Among the tell-tale signs: unprompted kindness and generosioty, raising healthy intelligent children, regularly attending church, working hard in the classroom. Who will save us from them??
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
As a symptom of coronavirus is loss of taste and smell I am self-diagnosing with regular doses of particularly delicious wine. So far I am clear but constant testing is essential.
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Malcolm Farr
5 years
Christian Porter arguing the Prime Minister not responsible for what happens in the Department of Prime Minister. That could be the ultimate down grading of ministerial responsibility.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
All the contrived hoo-haa about a compo payment to Brittany Higgins and nothing, not a jot about the $650,000 compo to Rachelle Miller for bullying harassment etc by Tudge and Cash.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
Did Vic punters simply ignore the savage coverage of Andrews, or did they actively reject it?
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
There’s been a run on “shake and bake” ingredients which we will have to stare down, push through, take wickets.
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
Maybe they PM could build a cubby house for the girls.
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4 years
Happy Father’s Day, Nades. We don’t know how you do it. Playing games with Kopika and Tharnicaa, trying to create some fun and adventure in the monotony of life in detention. Always with a kind and gentle smile which hides the constant uncertainty you live with.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Morrison adopts new way to avoid accountability and transparency: the social media statement. Very Trump-ian.
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Malcolm Farr
11 months
Antony Green has pointed out voters who opposed a “divisive” indigenous mention in the Constitution at the republic referendum supported keeping an in-bred British family at the head of that constitution.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
This looks like calculated cruelty. Only three members of Biloela family of four granted 12-month visa extension, lawyer says - ABC News
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Malcolm Farr
6 years
Bob Katter just went from quirky provincial clown to nasty mindless imbecile.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
A Covid ward nurse has told me of an oaf who came to hospital demanding big vitamin C shots and — wait for it — Ivermectin, coughing over staff all the while. Such folk don’t deserve a public health system.
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Malcolm Farr
5 years
Scotty from Marketing has got the shits with a 16yo
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Morrison’s so-called “war” footing on vaccines shouldn’t hide the government’s inglorious surrender to its own incompetence on the issue. And the expanded national cabinets process should do more than share the blame.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
One thing Jesus is NOT recorded saying is: “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me…unless they are gay or transgender.”
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Malcolm Farr
6 years
Briefly putting related matters aside, I don’t know any other country which celebrates as its national day the occasion of it becoming someone else’s colony.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Someone tell deaf Speaker Morrison called Dep Oppos Ldr “another Manchurian candidate”. Meaning he is being run by a foreign power. Nasty stuff.
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
Dan Tehran holds a BA, a Masters in Foreign Relations and Trade, and a Masters in International Relations. Are these studies “job relevant” for an education minister?
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
We have lost a cherished neighbour. Tough bloke who one night used a stock-whip to chase off thieves plundering his dope plants. Would also walk hand-in-hand with his much loved gay son who sometimes liked to wear blouses and jewellery to primary school. A good man was Bruce.
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2 years
In the middle of the Scottish highlands, at a small car park for tourists, a reminder Australia is a primitive when it comes to electric vehicles.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
I think we should be told where media people call alleged rape victims “lying cows”,. PM today: “I can only reflect on some of the things I hear about media rooms and the way they talk about people in those places.”
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
NSW coat of arm suggestion: The pork barrel with crossed pork swords
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2 years
Stacking an online poll requires the online poll to function.
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
Barilaro, Barnaby, Christensen...where do the Nats find these people?
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
I might have lost count but i believe that’s two Liberal prime ministers who have officially or unofficially taken advice from Ms Credlin and subsequently lost an election.
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Kenny Devine
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Peta Credlin calling Richard Marles "The Member for Beijing". Gracious.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Current free passes for some prompted me to ask myself: How would a woman MP be treated has she spent almost 300 days in Manila — including red lights districts — rather than doing by her $210,000 job in Australia?
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
Just a reminder to Jobseeker recipients about to get $307 a week that garbage distributor Craig Kelly grosses just over $4000 a week base pay.
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Malcolm Farr
2 years
Great to have lunch with someone who has no interest whatsoever in politics or journalism.
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
The government said JobKeepert would cost $130b before the ATO had taken a single application from a stricken employer. So would seem the frock-up happened in the planning???
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Malcolm Farr
5 years
Sorry senator. That division happened around 1788.
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Senator James McGrath
5 years
I am strongly opposed to any changes to our constitution that will divide Australians on the basis of race.
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
This is among — no, top 10 — dumbest “equivalency” attempts
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4 years
PETA CREDLIN: If we want the truth from our military about how people were killed in Afghanistan, we must also demand it from our political leaders about why people died in Victoria.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
“Ministers made the decisions,” says Morrison before fleeing valid questions on the $660m commuter car park election promise.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Barnaby’s again gone to the dress-up box for his Insiders gig.
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
The PM’s dismissal of the WH invite matter as “gossip” when he knew it was fact was a deliberate, premeditated evasion of the truth. That’s why it’s significant.
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Malcolm Farr
3 years
Morrison’s preoccupation is in defending himself.
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Malcolm Farr
4 years
This system is hell bent towards irrelevance. ...Sorry, it’s arrived.
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Malcolm Farr
7 months
What about a family on $50k a year that can’t afford to go to the dentist?
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