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4 years

@gcaw @jjoque @whet You can’t take it with you but you can do your best to clasp it firmly in your cold dead hands!

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@na_dirs An 11% margin in a two party contest is truly remarkable result! Mandates don’t come much stronger than this. Let’s hope that Jokowi makes the very best use of his strong mandate for a productive second term with substantial reforms. #JokowiGaspol

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“The longer the debate ran, the darker Prabowo's vision grew. On Saturday night Indonesia's president emerged as more of a multilateralist and internationalist while his challenger offered a more isolationist vision for the nation.” via @smh

Jokowi's optimism outshines Prabowo's darker impulses

The latest presidential debate revealed President Joko Widodo as a multilateralist and internationalist while his challenger Prabowo Subianto offered a darker, isolationist vision.

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"And I have never forgotten this simple thought: if the 1967 referendum had happened three years later, I wouldn’t have been able to leave Australia without permission; maybe I wouldn’t have won Wimbledon."

You’ve cheered for me … now please vote yes with me

When I was a little girl, I remember hiding under the bed so I wouldn’t be taken from my mum. You wouldn’t know how terrifying that was for a kid, even now.

www.theaustralian.com.au

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9 months

Measured in terms of lasting impact and damage, John Howard is arguably Australia’s worst prime minister.

Michael Fullilove

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9 months

The real story here is that in 2020, after watching his presidency for four full years, Mr Howard would have voted for Donald Trump.

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6 years

Lone-actor attackers are very often (Sydney Lindt Cafe, Nice, Orlando, Westminster, Pittsburgh ...) driven by a toxic cocktail of personality disorders, substance abuse and rage. The justifying ‘political cause’ that they cling too covers an ugly mess of personal demons

Sowaibah Hanifie

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ABC Melb reports Somali community says the man was fearful of people coming after him with “spears” before the attack. And he was on drugs. If so, I think there’s much more than radical Islam at play.

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3 years

Leigh Sales is right. Sadly, this interview does not inspire confidence that the reality of vaccinations will match the rhetoric of announcements anytime soon

abc730

@abc730

3 years

Australians were told at the start they would be front of the queue for vaccines. So far, only two per cent of the population is vaccinated. @leighsales asks Dr Brendan Murphy: "How can the public judge this as anything other than amateur hour?" #abc730

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@FatherBob Indeed! A Christian PM, from whatever party, should be concerned about the people & core issues the Father Bob is concerned about - women, children, senior citizens, the poor, the powerless and the oppressed. God's work is all about love, compassion, justice and generous giving

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“At Melb U, science faculty staff have been told that “low enrolment subjects” would be deleted including quantum field theory, physical cosmology & advanced environmental computation. Senior teaching positions inc in genetics, biosciences and chemistry will be made redundant...”

The Age

@theage

3 years

Melbourne University is bracing for reputational damage as it culls science subjects and senior academic positions in the latest response by the state’s higher education sector to tumbling revenue. Internal documents reveal 11 science units are marked f...

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1 year

“The Voice ad, by contrast, is a statement of progressive patriotism. It counters the notion that the Yes campaign is driven by a loathing of Australia and feelings of elite white guilt. Voting Yes, it suggests, is an expression of national pride. “Morning in Australia” …”

Peter FitzSimons

@Peter_Fitz

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I’ve seen many political ads, but this Farnsey belter is up there with the best

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@samanthamaiden “According to the NSW Premier, that’s all completely legal in NSW… a sitting MP taking a commission for a property deal? Totally fine, as long as he declares it...What sort of madness is NSW pol that the Premier, her entire fbench & MPs don’t know this is wrong?

Samantha Maiden

@samanthamaiden

4 years

Why @GladysB ‘bad boyfriend’ survival strategy, which rests on casting a 50-year-old woman as a lovesick teenager in an episode of DeGrassi Junior High, should be sickening to feminists

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@mjrowland68 @ScottMorrisonMP @ScottMorrisonMP is being deeply disingenuous. He knows that federal funding to universities has been consistently and deliberately run done (to bottom of G20 levels) over the past two decades - forcing them to rely on international students. They are not regular big corporates!

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“Australian women are among the best-educated in the world according to the World Economic Forum, but we have fallen from 13th to 70th for women’s workplace participation and achievement. Surely such a criminal waste of talent ought to be cause for radical action (hello quotas),”

Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

On the eve of IWD week, my latest column in @smh . Why equality of opportunity for everyone benefits everyone & gives men more freedom too

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8 years

It seems likely that Siti Aisyah was simply a 'fall guy' recruited to carry out a simple task & unwittingly implicated in murder

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Indonesian caught up in murder case #jakpost

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Voice to Parliament constitutionally sound, according to solictor-general's legal opinion

Voice to Parliament constitutionally sound, according to solicitor-general's legal opinion

The federal government releases opinion from the solicitor-general on the Voice to Parliament, which deems the proposed amendment legally sound and an "enhancement" to the constitution.

www.abc.net.au

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"On May 8 2018 Trump made wht could turn out to be the definng mistake of his life: He fired the top WH offcl in charge of plannng for a global disease pandemic, Adm Ziemer & disbandd his global health sec team... I don’t like havng 1000s of pple around when you don’t need them”

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9 months

@antoinette_news That is terrible Antoinette, very sorry to hear that!

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3 years

@julia_zemiro @simonahac @ScottMorrisonMP @Dom_Perrottet @RocKwiz To be fair, the church of @RocKwiz sounds like it could be a lot of fun!

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"Prejudice slips in under a cloak of ignorance and self-affirmation, through normalising and legitimating anti-Islamic views, and then denying the prejudice that these views authorise towards Muslims and its real-world effects"

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5 months

Still hoping for France to join AUKUS, if only for the acronym!

Kate Clayton

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5 months

Love JAUKUS? Hate the idea of JAUKUS? Sick of acronyms? Come to our event tomorrow for the launch of the La Trobe Asia Brief: Enhancing Global and Regional Maritime Order. The brief is the result of a series of workshops in Japan with Australian, Japanese and UK maritime experts

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“We just recently published a comprehensive report where we surveyed 32 studies that look at racism in Australia. We looked at all the evidence & there is no doubt that racism hasn’t gone away. In fact, it’s actually becoming more entrenched & difficult to dislodge from society.”

Prof. Dr. Fethi Mansouri

@FethiMansouri

3 months

My contribution to this collective piece in @ConversationEDU on the vexing question: "Is Australia a racist country? We asked 5 experts" via @ConversationEDU ; @Deakin_ADI ; @deakinresearch ; @deakinmedia ; @AcadSocSci ;

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5 years

“Numerous current and former staff, students and parents from St Kevin's College told Four Corners the school had a history of failing to adequately deal with complaints of inappropriate behaviour.”

Louise Milligan

@Milliganreports

5 years

BREAKING: New legal proceeding following our @4corners investigation about a counsellor making allegations of inappropriate sexual misconduct involving a current teacher and a boy at #StKevins . And pressure from deputy head not to make mandatory report.

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“He is a Trumpian figure who lives in a self-created bubble of imagined greatness," said Marcus Mietzner, from the ANU's College of Asia and the Pacific. "Any disturbances to that fantasy world are met with further manipulative additions to his own reality."”

Max Walden

@maxwalden_

5 years

“The Djojohadikusomos have always imagined that one of them should eventually govern Indonesia,” @ConnellyAL tells @AnneABarker of Prabowo’s refusal to concede defeat #Pilpres2019

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5 years

Inside Delhi: beaten, lynched and burnt alive

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9 months

“Northern Ireland internment taught us that a disproportionate response by the state can serve as a terrorist organisation’s best recruiting sergeant. For many, watching the events in Gaza unfold each day makes us more and more uncomfortable.”

Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

9 months

Wow, that's quite something! Ben Wallace, who just left his job as UK Defence Secretary, writes a scathing (and extremely unusual for a UK politician) rebuke of Israel: He says its "collective punishment" of civilians and "killing rage" is making Israel

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@ASDGovAu Long time listener- now there’s an understatement!

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2 years

@AndrewBGreene @davidlipson Four is a good start but the Ukrainians need many more. Could we not arrange a swap and backfill with the Dutch so that their Bushmasters could be driven to Ukraine and the Dutch later resupplied?

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"Cranbrook, a school on Sydney Harbour that just completed a $125 million building redevelopment and receives more than $6.5 million in taxpayer funding a year is threatening an investigative journalist for asking questions about probity. Is this what those fees...up to $46,000"

Louise Milligan

@Milliganreports

6 months

BREAKING: Analysis by me. “A fish rots from the head.” What lies in the body? Reasons #Cranbrook legally threatened us (again). Read to end. “What is the culture of a school supposed to be about, first and foremost? The care & safety of children. For some, that got lost here.”

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5 years

@jokowi Javanese proverb: “Even though you may be righteous don’t try to bring others down Even though you may be fast don’t try to cut in front of others Even though you may be intelligent don’t try to show off your intellect before others”

Febriana Firdaus

@JustcallmeFeb

5 years

Jokowi is throwing shade to his opponent by using Javanese proverb.

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1 year

“This essential feature of the No campaign is operating like an oil well on the Australian political landscape: drilling into community anxiety, hitting a reservoir of discontent and bringing an ugly fury gushing to the surface.”

Max Uechtritz

@plesbilongmi

1 year

"The falsehood holds a real power in this referendum and will stain the landscape long after the vote. Does the Voice really divide Australians by race? No. It is the big lie that just won’t die."

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““Brave people who speak up about wrongdoing – whether it be human rights violations, government misconduct or corporate misdeeds – make this country a better place. They need to be protected and empowered, not prosecuted.”

Amber Schultz

@AmberMaySchultz

1 year

Former SAS Soldier Oliver Schulz has been charged with war crime, but the man who helped expose those crimes, whistleblower David McBride will face trial before him @MurdochCadell

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“If you are only just hearing this story, you may be shocked. But the arbitrary and ongoing detention of people, including children, indefinitely is tolerated and normalized in Australia.”

Behrouz Boochani

@BehrouzBoochani

3 years

Border politics is in the heart of propaganda that makes Australia. Read the latest article I and @JanetGalbraith5 wrote about the ongoing use and abuse of refugees for political benefit. @mohammedJoy73 @MehdiAli98 @AfraviAmin @AzimiMoz

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5 years

This is not about religion, this about politics. Erdogan, like many ME dictators, uses 'religion' to shore-up unchecked personal power, persecuting millions of ordinary Muslims he denounces as terrorists whilst utilising real AQ & IS linked terrorists

'All options are on the table,' Morrison warns over Erdoğan's Gallipoli threat

Australian PM denounces Turkish president for saying anyone who came to Gallipoli with anti-Muslim sentiments would be sent back in coffins

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

When #PhilCoorey calls out cynical, negative, politicking in words that echo, say, #PhillipAdams , then you know that the LNP leadership has really lost the plot!

Chris Wallace

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1 year

Even #PhilCoorey #AFR is critical of 🥔’ s position on #TheVoice ! #auspol

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4 years

@chaser I thought that The Chaser was supposed to be about exaggerated satire not factual reporting!

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6 years

@MikeCarlton01 Hopefully ICAC is keeping a list, and checking it twice, of who has been naughty and who has been nice. Some surprises coming down the chimney!

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“We Israelis must begin to finally confront the delusion that we have been living for decades with almost total acceptance. It should become clear to us all that you cannot occupy another people for 56 yrs & expect to have peace. You cannot lock more than 2m &expect to have quiet

Gershon Baskin🟣 جرشون باسكين גרשון בסקין

@gershonbaskin

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This is a very long piece , it contains most of what I have been thinking about Hamas over the last years, about our conflict, about peace and about our way forward. I believe that is has a lot of wisdom that has been generated over a very long period.

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4 years

@Raf_Epstein If only we had some sort of federal agency with a dedicated professional force - say a ‘border force’ - that could be responsible for manageing international arrivals and quarantine arrangements, in accordance with the federal quarantine act

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“Some political commentators are always quick to stereotype multicultural Australians. They overlook the reality that we empathise with First Nation Australians. We empathise with their tragedy, their loss of lands, and the killing of their ancestors.”

Kos Samaras

@KosSamaras

1 year

As a Greek I am compelled by my own history to vote Yes. So are many other migrants and children of migrants. My ancestral land is no longer my home, it’s no longer the home of my relatives. It’s a reality that the No campaign completely overlooked.

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“Yet if recent days have proved anything, it’s that we’ve underestimated how deeply his slippery and scandal-prone politics have infected and emptied basic democratic conventions of much of their content across the nation.”

Michael Pascoe

@MichaelPascoe01

1 year

"Never before has the nation been led by a moral degenerate so hopelessly mendacious, so unserious, so full of righteous incompetence, and so brazen in his sly contempt for political norms and the pleasure he derived in debasing them"

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6 years

“Senator Anning said at the rally: “I think this is the start of something bigger. The revolution will eventually start. People have had enough of these people and they have got to be sent back to where they came from.”

The Sydney Morning Herald

@smh

6 years

Fraser Anning billing taxpayers more than $2800 for flights to St Kilda rally

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7 years

Very well put - civil Islam goes back 14 centuries, Islamism is a reactionary product of the 20th century, dressed up in 'golden age' myth

Ihsan Yilmaz

@ihsanylmz

7 years

Civil Islam (Gülen) versus Political Islam (Erdoğan) in 2 minutes

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“Every centre-right opportunist in modern western political history has cynically believed they can maintain control of an unleashed far right flank. This delusion may, in fact, be the greatest disinformationist triumph of them all.”

Melissa Sweet

@MelissaSweetDr

1 year

‘Disinformania’ has taken over the internet - can ‘no’ voice opportunists maintain control of an unleashed far right flank?

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6 years

When Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Australia, Bungaree was with him all the way “In his book detailing his journey, Flinders described Bungaree as a "worthy and brave fellow" who saved the expedition multiple times.”

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3 years

“…In more than 20 years of reporting from Canberra, I’ve never seen a prime minister less interested in the foundational processes of Australia’s democratic system than the current incumbent. Morrison sees these things as constraints. He chafes against them.”

Chris Wallace

@c_s_wallace

3 years

Excellent @murpharoo column: ‘Scott Morrison has a lot to say about democratic values. Here’s how he could actually enact them’ | Katharine Murphy #auspol 1/

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"As Twomey says, all that is important at the referendum is to know the scope of the power being enshrined. This leaves the function in the hands of the parliament, with the oversight of democratic process. “It puts democracy, not the devil, in charge of the detail.”

Julia Banks

@juliahbanks

2 years

The Voice is a vision for “.. .a reconciled Australia in which First Peoples are constitutionally part of the fabric of our nation” Yet it’s Opponents insist on a fight we shouldn’t have to have Powerful piece by Marcia Langton ⁦ @SatPaper ⁩

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⁦ @ariel_heryanto ⁩ speaking at the launch of the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre. Herb would surely have been surprised by the naming of the centre but encouraged by its vision and mission

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7 years

"Simply do good and let those who receive it be those who speak of it."

NU Online

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7 years

"Berbuat baik sajalah dan biarkan mereka yang menerima kebaikanmu yang mengingatnya." #GusMus

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“Your smartphone was tracking you. The grocery store got your location data and paid a shadowy group of marketers to use that information to target you with ads. ..:But the location data industry has a much more precise, and unobtrusive, tool: Bluetooth beacons.”

Privacy Project

@PrivacyProject

5 years

Apple, Google and Facebook built a secret surveillance system. It’s one you probably don’t know about, and it tracks your movement throughout retail stores, gyms, transit centers, and more. Michael Kwet of @yaleisp for @nytopinion 's @PrivacyProject

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“More than half of Afghanistan’s 39 million people do not have enough to eat and are “marching to starvation,” in the haunting words of the World Food Program. By next year, the United Nations warns, 95 percent of the country could be plunged into poverty.”

Saad Mohseni

@saadmohseni

3 years

My oped from a month ago (and still relevant)

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6 years

@vanOnselenP No doubt true enough - but exactly how would it have changed voting patterns in Victoria? Dutton looks more like the problem than the solution

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“Sympathy for either white supremacy or white nationalism is far greater in our Western societies than any kind of ideology sympathetic to ISIS. Indeed, I would argue that even when we compare to the lure that ISIS-style ideology has in Muslim majority societies ...”

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6 years

Celebrating the Muslims who helped build Australia

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4 years

“Despite meticulous training & contingency plans for a host of scenarios from terrorist attacks to biohazards, the Capitol Police seemed unprepared...law enforcement had apparently ignored the seriousness of the threat of domestic far-right extremists, as they’ve done for years.”

TIME

@TIME

4 years

Insurrectionists openly planned for weeks to storm the Capitol. Why were police so easily overwhelmed?

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3 years

@JoshBavas Oxford comma please!

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4 years

If only this was over the top satire!

Mark Humphries

@markhumphries

4 years

“Say No to a Federal ICAC”: a message from shady grifter types

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@iainmarlow @siobhanheanue Populist politics can be literally a matter of life and death during a pandemic, or other crisis! The populist politics of Trump, Bolsonaro, Erdogan and Modi (and previously Johnson) have tragically seen many 100,000s of lives lost that could have been saved

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@SBSNews Clearly, not all the dinosaurs died-off!

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@LindaMottram @davidlipson Cheated again?!!! Hopefully, next week will pass peacefully despite this antagonistic rhetoric

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“In at least 46 countries across four continents, Turkey has pursued an aggressive policy to silence its perceived enemies &has allegedly used Interpol as a political tool ...achieved the arrest, deportation, or rendition of hundreds of Turkish citizens from at least 16 countries

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“The Notre Dame fire had up to 9 times more search interest than the bombings in Sri Lanka, within 24 hrs of each event. So why does the Western world care more about a fire where no one died, than it does the gruesome killing of hundreds... ... it's apparently 'closer to home'”

Avani Dias

@AvaniDias

5 years

As I grieve for the atrocities in Sri Lanka, I wonder why my social media isn’t flooded with as much support and solidarity for the victims. The reaction has been markedly different to that of the Notre Dame fire. But we should all be mourning. My piece:

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“They had been warned: about the conditions on Nauru and Manus… It would be wrong to say they were indifferent. The decisions are too deliberate for that. What they are is callous and barbarous and, on the evidence of three straight elections, successful.”

The Saturday Paper

@SatPaper

3 years

Editorial: At least 15 detainees in Melbourne's Park Hotel now have coronavirus. All of these people have health conditions: it is the reason they were brought back to Australia from offshore detention. #SatPaper

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“The resignation of Nour Haydar follows a pattern that has seen Stan Grant quit the ABC and Antoinette Latouff sacked at the alleged direction of the managing director. In each case, management has failed to back their staff when they have come under attack from outside the ABC.”

Max Walden

@maxwalden_

8 months

Exclusive: ABC federal politics reporter @NourHaydar resigns over Gaza coverage

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3 years

“Morrison prepared for the last election by stashing $5 billion in a series of war chests in the April 2019 budget, such as the urban congestion fund, the safer communities fund and a plan to pay for sporting facilities.

David Crowe

@CroweDM

3 years

The normalisation of political graft. Time to stop. Column:

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@gregjamesbarton

4 years

Kylie Moore-Gilbert was unjustly imprisoned in Iran two years ago today: #WeRunWithKylie / #WeWalkWithKylie #FreeKylieMooreGilbert #FreeKylie

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@gregjamesbarton

4 months

“Netanyahu critics in Israel saw it as a sign of what appears to be his growing suspicion about Israel's intelligence, military and security establishment, which hold divergent views about how the prime minister is carrying out the war.”

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

4 months

🤯🇺🇸🇮🇱Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has banned Israel's intelligence and security chiefs from meeting with U.S. officials and lawmakers multiple times since the war in Gaza began. My story on @axios

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“In Bali, spirituality merges with crypto-capitalism in a montage of flapping linen. The island has become a magnet for 20-something digital nomads, life coaches and wellnesspreneurs, …But even in famously tolerant Bali, the welcome has worn thin.”

Max Walden

@maxwalden_

1 year

Bali is overrun by influencers. Locals are fighting back

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@gregjamesbarton

7 years

"Turkey has suspended or dismissed mr than 150,000 judges, teachers, police & civ servants since July 15 T’s Justice Min annced on July 13 that 50,510 people have been arrested & 169,013 hv been the subject of legal procdngs..also seized to at least 1,068 companies & 4,888 props

Turkish Minute

@TurkishMinuteTM

7 years

Erdoğan admits trapping Gülen movement people | Turkish Minute

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@gregjamesbarton

3 years

@MikeCarlton01 Interesting that he chose to sit in the passenger's seat not the driver's seat

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@gregjamesbarton

1 year

Discussing the prosecution of alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and why attempting to achieve justice matters, even with only one case in a thousand able to be addressed. @Deakin_ADI @gregjamesbarton

TOLOnews

@TOLOnews

1 year

Interview with Greg Barton, Lecturer at Australia's Deakin University #TOLOnews

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@gregjamesbarton

8 years

unusual but inspiring all the same -Sprightly Japanese granny 'Dreamgirls' bitten by cheerleading bug - ABC

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@gregjamesbarton

6 years

“Anti-Semitic hate crimes surged in 2017, the first full year of Trump’s presidency, by 57%, representing the largest year-on-year increase since the Anti-Defamation League began collecting data in 1979, while hate crimes against Muslims rose 44% in the same 12 month period.”

CJ Werleman

@cjwerleman

6 years

It’s no wonder then that in the age of President Trump, a figure who has leveraged both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism to mobilise his base, hate crimes against Jews and Muslims have spiked precipitously. My latest for Sydney Morning Herald:

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@gregjamesbarton

4 years

NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean blasts Scott Morrison's 'ridiculous' 2050 emissions stance

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@gregjamesbarton

3 years

“Public health officials say a big proportion of cases are likely going undetected and Professor Kaldor said it would be not too wild a guess to suggest that there at least were three to five times as many cases as the officially notified.”

Prof. Nick Talley

@Prof_NickTalley

3 years

Not only will hospitals buckle if anything close to this number of cases eventuate. Ambulance service won’t be able to cope. Both #Covid and non Covid patients at high risk. Hospitalised COVID patients double since Christmas, 100,000 daily cases on horizon

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@gregjamesbarton

6 years

@JaneCaro @ABCthedrum Indeed, arriving by boat driven by desperate circumstances to seek asylum is not illegal. This falsehood of 'illegal arrivals' has been repeated so often, by people who (should) know better, that it has become an Orwellian 'truth'

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@gregjamesbarton

3 years

“According to World Health Org (WHO) data, Indonesia has just 4.65 doctors per 10,000 people — compared with 37.6 in Australia. "Indonesia can't control the pandemic like in Singapore, Thailand, where they have good health systems," Jane Soepardi, a Jakarta-based epidemiologist”

Max Walden

@maxwalden_

3 years

In Indonesia, scores of medical workers are dying, some as young as 29

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@gregjamesbarton

6 years

“It cannot be right that, with Australia having participated as one of just eight nations in the creation of the Universal Dec of Human Rights over 70 years ago, we are prepared to put people seeking asylum at risk of physical and psychological harm in order to deter others.”

Craig Foster

@Craig_Foster

6 years

Dear Scott & Bill, we've strayed from our values. Letter to ⁦ @ScottMorrisonMP ⁩ ⁦ @billshortenmp ⁩ calling for Australia’s treatment of refugees to abide by international obligations we demanded of others. We saved Hakeem now let’s save ourselves

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2 years

“ revealed on Sunday the former Prime Minister swore himself in as resources minister and ultimately used the power to roll his own frontbencher, Keith Pitt, over a plan to drill for gas off the New South Wales coast.”

Samantha Maiden

@samanthamaiden

2 years

BREAKING: Former Finance Minister Matthias Cormann was NEVER told PM has sworn himself into his portfolio. Only found out when read it in paper this weekend

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@gregjamesbarton

8 years

"For Anies this is really a big game. If he fails to win the election, it is all just finished for him - his reputation as a pluralistic...

Jewel Topsfield

@JewelTopsfield

8 years

Anies Baswedan is climbing in the polls but some say it comes at a cost to his moderate reputation

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@gregjamesbarton

4 years

“Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place. Without agreement about some basic facts, citizens cannot form the civil society that ...”

Timothy Garton Ash

@fromTGA

4 years

Magnificent essay on meaning of #Capitol storming 6 January 2021 & Trump's 'pre-fascism' by @TimothyDSnyder

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@gregjamesbarton

6 years

@smh @clementine_ford "No, not all men hurt women. But all women have good reason to fear that a man or men might hurt us one day - either for the first time or again. And while it may not be all men who do, it is at least any man who could. It’s men who have done that to women, not "misandry".

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@gregjamesbarton

5 years

“It was only a decade or two ago that anti-Muslim & anti-immigrant extremists ... existed only on the fringe of the media landscape or the corners of the dark web, but today, particularly in the age of Trump ...they have moved to the mainstream, enjoying platforms on major TV...”

TrueNorth

@TrueNorthNewsAU

5 years

These attacks are being carried out in increased frequency & ferocity in mosques, synagogues & black churches thru-out the Western world, with a notable common denominator: gunmen are always white, male & fuelled by consumption of right-wing media #auspol

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@gregjamesbarton

3 years

Andrews's killer line will come to haunt Morrison as the returned Premier takes no prisoners ⁦ @PatsKarvelas ⁩

Dan Andrews's piercing zinger will come to haunt Morrison with elections decided on handling the...

Every now and then, you hear a line that is so piercing, you know it will be repeated over and over. Dan Andrews had a belter this week, writes Patricia Karvelas.

www.abc.net.au

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@gregjamesbarton

6 years

Turns out that detaining terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay was a very bad idea at multiple levels. This is not a path that we should be going down.

Samantha Maiden

@samanthamaiden

6 years

The PM has flagged the indefinite detention of terrrorists convicted of more minor offences today on Sunrise - surely the most likely challenge to Labor’s bipartisanship on terror

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@gregjamesbarton

2 years

“We know that Aboriginal people travelled to Makassar on a regular basis, and some of them stayed there and had families. "So I think it's highly likely that there are descendants of those mixed families still living in Makassar."

dr sharyn graham davies

@sharyndavies

2 years

Photographic evidence now proves Aboriginal people settled in Indonesia at least 150 years ago. @lilyyulianti via @ABCaustralia

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@gregjamesbarton

3 years

“Morrison is fundamentally confused about the role of the PM. He remains a state party director at heart …This has been the fundamental failure of the pandemic. He never believed himself responsible for the country as a whole. Now he has failed even those who put him in charge.”

The Saturday Paper

@SatPaper

3 years

Editorial: Scott Morrison’s smile is like a measuring tape. It lengthens as he decides what it is he can get away with.

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5 months

Why is the Sydney church stabbing an act of terrorism, but the Bondi tragedy isn’t? @avertresnet @deakin_adi @gregjamesbarton via @ConversationEDU

Why is the Sydney church stabbing an act of terrorism, but the Bondi tragedy isn’t?

Sydney has seen two stabbing incidents within days of each other. Grim comparisons are inevitable, but what makes them different?

theconversation.com

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@gregjamesbarton

1 year

“While the department does not collect data on the cause for death in these cases, nearly a third - 663 people - were classified as "vulnerable", which means they had complex needs like mental illness, drug use or were victims of domestic violence.”

Natasha Mitchell (she/her) 💉💉💉💉 💉

@natashamitchell

1 year

"More than 2030 people died after receiving a Centrelink debt notice, also known as robo-debt, according to new data released by the Department of Human Services."

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@gregjamesbarton

3 years

@SharazDavid @c_s_wallace To be fair, he never said which Christmas

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@gregjamesbarton

1 year

@JaneCaro @4corners Incels are not so much raving lunatics as deeply sad, lonely, and deluded

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3 years

The world must not look away as the Taliban sexually enslaves women and girls via @ConversationCA

The world must not look away as the Taliban sexually enslaves women and girls

Emboldened by success in Afghanistan, the Taliban is now ordering religious leaders to provide them with lists of girls over the age of 15 to enter into ‘marriages’ to Taliban fighters.

theconversation.com

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@gregjamesbarton

6 years

“But whatever their differences when it comes to the proper behavior of men, Trump and his evangelical backers are united by a common desire to constrain the behavior of women. That alliance was consecrated during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing...”

Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

6 years

This article sums up exactly what I have been thinking. I am frightened of what lies ahead for women around the world.

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Afghan refugees leaving quarantine look forward to new life in Australia, while remembering those left behind

After a dramatic escape from Afghanistan and two weeks in hotel quarantine, Zekria and his family...

A security guard who worked at Australia's embassy in Kabul is thankful to be starting afresh with his family after emerging from hotel quarantine today. But that happiness is also tinged with...

www.abc.net.au

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@gregjamesbarton

2 years

“Cam Smith, an Australian podcaster and radio host who has been hosting discussions on conspiracy theorists and the far-right for more than six years, said lockdown protests supercharged the movement, acting as 'face-to-face networking events'.”

SBS News

@SBSNews

2 years

Robert Sudy was lured into the Sovereign Citizens movement with a simple online search to contest a fine. Months later, he managed to wade out of the black hole of misinformation. @TheFeedSBS

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2 years

“what Santos did goes beyond that. He fabricated a new persona, that of a meritocratic superman. He claims to be a populist who hates the elites, but he wanted you to think he once worked at Goldman Sachs. Imagine how much inadequacy you’d have to feel to go to all that trouble.

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion

2 years

“In a sense Santos is a sad, farcical version of where Donald Trump has taken the Republican Party — into the land of unreality, the continent of lies,” writes @nytdavidbrooks .

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4 years

“Under Xi’s leadership, China is currently giving the world a masterclass in how alienate and alarm even those of us who aren’t instinctively hostile toward the People’s Republic.”

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@gregjamesbarton

3 years

"Morrison’s inner circle is now convinced the Com gov is a victim of hostile Labor premiers intent on shredding its credibility ahead of the upcomng fed electn. But this paranoia is merely blindng them to the reality of their own failures, more often than not born of incompetence

Paul Bongiorno

@PaulBongiorno

3 years

It’s all going wrong for Morrison

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2 years

“National security is not a zero-sum game. …treating people well – upholding justice and acting with compassion and humanity – keeps everyone safer.” @Deakin_ADI @AvertResNet @gregjamesbarton via @ConversationEDU

Australia is well-placed to make the long-overdue repatriation of Islamic State women and children...

It has taken Australia far too long to return its citizens from hellish refugee camps in Syria – and treating people well will create far less risk to the country than leaving them there.

theconversation.com

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@gregjamesbarton

5 years

“Therefore, the sooner everyday Australians, particularly young people, are brought into closer contact with Indonesians, the sooner Australians will understand that Indonesia is not a threat, and in fact can contribute significantly to local economic growth.”