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Ian McKay Former editor Communicable Diseases Intelligence. Photos of dogs, mushrooms, flowers and birds.

Canberra, and Helensburgh NSW.
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@DaveMilbo @MvFcGooner27 If a majority of American voters can’t see through the Trump lies, the racism, the sexism, the felonies, the moral turpitude and fall for his propaganda, it will be a sad day, and a sad reflection on US voter intelligence that he can fool most of the people most of the time.
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@TheRealHoarse @DoctorNora @johncardillo Male love is a beautiful thing. Cherish it, John.
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“A man whose life mission is to block progress, to stoke division, to kick the underdog when they’re down.” Tanya Plibersek accuses Peter Dutton of ‘killing people’s faith in government’ | Australia news | The Guardian
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@Barnaby_Joyce Let us see your drought report, Mr Joyce. Let us see your drought report, Mr Joyce. Let us see your drought report, Mr Joyce. Let us see your drought report, Mr Joyce. Let us see your drought report, Mr Joyce. Let us see your drought report, Mr Joyce. Mr Joyce?
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@theprojecttv @ScottMorrisonMP What Waleed did again and Hamish did yesterday and Kathleen Murphy did a few weeks and Samantha Maiden did yesterday is what all journalists should be doing. Fact checking and call out the lies.
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@robynbryant33 @abcnews Seriously @abcnews when a hugely successful Premier who got increasing majorities in election after election steps down, and all you can do is to interview his key detractor from #NewsCorpse you are seriously biased and playing to the wrong audience. Get in the bin.
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@SeanBradbery @AlexanderDowner Alexander, how does the Oxford English Dictionary define blackbirding? Well if that’s not slavery “a Polynesian person on a slave ship” I don’t know what is.
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@vanOnselenP Dear Peter I promised my son I’d buy him a Toyota Yaris for his birthday. I lied. I bought him a BMW iX3 instead. Will he ever forgive me?
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@MikeCarlton01 Take three.
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@nonstoptom @BrianBrownUCA Tom Gleeson’s crudity doesn’t disgust me but these people do.
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@ChristyDanFan @Raf_Epstein @MichaelSukkarMP There’s a litany of LNP lies he could have drawn upon, with no mitigating circumstances. Abbott and Hockey cut funding to health, education and the ABC in the 2014 horror budget.
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@TamePunk There are two Canberras. 1. The toxic, self important bubble on Capital Hill; and 2. Everywhere else, where normal Australians get on with their lives, ignore the blow-in politicians, and enjoy a beautiful city set in the countryside.
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@nyunggai @DavidPocock Your hypocrisy Mr Mundine is breathtaking. You lie with the racist Pauline, and you get up with fleas. Please correct me if I’m mistaken, but the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart was not written by those of “white privilege”.
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@shaunmicallef The questions are better on Sky.
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1 year
Hey @abcnews why are you repeating the misinformation that Shane Drumgold was set aside when earlier this morning, Shane Rattenbury, ACT Attorney General, stated on ABC TV that Shane Drumgold applied for leave on his own volition? #ThisisNotJournalism
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4 years
@MikeCarlton01 Mike, Glen 20 is so last century. You need Glen 2020.
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@thespecialbka @scepticalzizi Compare and contrast. Julia Gillard is 61 years old.
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@Barnaby_Joyce You guys have already wrecked the joint.
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@RonniSalt Cathy Wilcox.
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@christianlexus Barnaby’s career ended, not with a bang but a planter (box). He has to go and soon, or it will taint the LNP until the election.
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@_davidlimbrick Utter bullshit yet again. Jeez you guys are as predictable as you are stupid. Woo hoo new cars in Australia will have to meet the same emission standards as currently in place in the EU. WHOOPTOFUCKINGDOODY.
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@mormorlady @abcnews And today we had Angus Taylor lying about taxes while Greg Jennet gave him tummy rubs. Seriously poor journalism @abcnews Repeatedly said LNP are the party of lower taxes. Incorrect and compounded by the banner. Your own ABC Factcheck says they’re not.
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@jachristian @sfchronicle We had months of this in the 2019-2020 Australian summer and I’m dreading the upcoming summers here.
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@nick_coatsworth @jamesmassola Rubbish the fourth estate is so much up itself, it’s time it’s called out. She started interrupting him on a totally false premise.
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Just watching #TheDrum and that Mundine fellow, self described as Director of mining company, Chair of Energy company knows everything and he is constantly not listening and talking over the panel because that’s what Liberals do.
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@AngusTaylorMP Campaigning in 2013, Abbott promised “no cuts to education, no cuts to health, no cuts to the ABC”. He lied. He slashed funding in the 2014 budget. He lied and hurt Australians. Albo’s change to Stage 3 tax cuts is helping Australians. Get in the bin, Angus
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@colonelhogans Linda Karen Reynolds epitomises the “Punishers and Straighteners” that Manning Clark wrote about.
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@Terrytoo69 Yes, I shudder to think what life would be like without these wholesome champions of self depreciation and magnanimity running the country.
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@JJKALE2 @Julie28086389 @abcnews I’d be happy for Laura Tingle interviewing Littleproud as an entree before a NACC inquisition. These tummy rubs from Spears are embarrassing. Auntie wept.
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2 years
@okSettleDown Australia is serious about the important stuff - universal health care, subsidised pharmaceuticals, gun control but when it comes to the English language we won’t even go to how you septic tanks pronounce “aluminium, nuclear, oregano, buoy”.
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2 years
@EddyJokovich Christine Holgate was bullied by the then Chief Bully. Nodding agreement from Dutton and Littleproud. #hypocrisy
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2 years
@LesStonehouse “Oh, I know you. You’re the man on my bin!”
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4 years
@cheryl_kernot @WilmaSlurrie @KKeneally I also rate Penny Wong, Tanya Plibersek, Linda Burney, Katy Gallagher very highly.
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6 months
@Sunny_Mezz Stage 3 hasn’t been cancelled but modified. Everyone gets a tax cut. That’s 11.5 million voters still getting a tax cut. It’s a no brainer and the confected outrage and utter hypocrisy from the LNP is both hilarious and tragic.
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@mjrowland68 @BreakfastNews A scary moment in Australian politics when a senior Liberal Party Minister blatantly tells the media “If you’re not with us, you’re against us”. Poor fellow, my country. Imagine if Labor said the same to any presenter on Sky. The howls from Murdoch acolytes would be deafening.
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4 years
@_rockrit @cheryl_kernot Meanwhile in Canberra today thousands marched to Parliament House in protest and solidarity #BlackLivesMatter
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@wendyemily2 I’m voting with my tribe. These people are not my tribe. #VoteYes2023
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2 years
@StevePriceMedia @AusTodayListnr “Insanity is voting for the same Party, over and over again, but expecting different results.” Apologies to Albert Einstein. This government has shown nothing but ineptitude wrt timely bushfire response, vaccine and RAT procurement, flood response, international relations.
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2 years
Birds on the wires in the backyard this morning in Canberra. Sulphur Crested Cockatoos and Galahs. @ParrotOfTheDay #parrot #ownphoto
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5 years
@RealMuckmaker See these hands? Grown up hands. Not baby hands like yours. And yes I’m mocking you now. Get used to it. It’s party time. Democrat Party time.
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3 years
@FlickReynolds @angel_v_cormier Yes. It’s ok to feel sorry for us in Canberra. The drop bears are in plague proportions and can you guys believe, we love our children more than our guns. #AustraliaHasFallen
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@simonahac May have to petition the ACT Chief Minister for a permanent memorial.
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11 months
@HumanHeadline Two questions, Derryn. First, can you not accept the hand of friendship extended by our FNP without telling them you know better, from your position of white privilege and power? Secondly, why are you threatened by an advisory panel?
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"He proceeded to inform me that the interview had ruined a woman's life. "It wasn't until some minutes into the call that I realised he was referring to Fiona Brown, not Brittany Higgins." Phone call from Scott Morrison's former press secretary
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@HonTonyAbbott Utter Rubbish. The CSIRO is not alone in its costings and a cheesy YouTube video doesn’t cut it. Heating water to make steam to power a turbine is 19th technology whether the heat source is coal or uranium. Renewables are the future.
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3 years
@vogrady2132 @davidbewart Choices. Just some of the talent in Labor. No comparison.
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@ParrotOfTheDay Crimson Rosella on the back fence with golden wattle in the background. #lovecanberra
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@JaneCaro John, Paul, Jimmy, Missy. The groundswell is palpable. My kids 19 and 21 and their similar aged friends and workmates are totally pro Voice and look at the lies from the No campaign with incredulity. When Cookers promote No, you know #VoteYes is the right thing to do
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2 years
@xskinn Oh yes indeed. ✔️
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5 years
@RealMuckmaker The headlights are on but nobody's home.
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3 years
@MachiavelliVero @xskinn @Tiddapage @GladysB @BradHazzard Especially as Dan Andrews, Brett Sutton and Jeroen Weimar have been providing a free-to-air masterclass on TV for 18 months on how to provide facts without spin and obfuscation and actually go the distance until every question was asked and answered. I’ll be Glad when she’s gone
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From someone who lost family to genocide by the Nazis in WW2, her take ( @louiseadler ) on what Israel is doing to Palestinians is compelling, and insightful. #7 .30Report
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I love @louiseadler #7 .30Report
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@JaneCaro @wendyemily2 “cult of ignorance”. Forty years ago Asimov identified this phenomenon in the US and it’s rife here in Australia
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2 years
@TheIPA @SkyNewsAust Ahh the unchangable history of January 26 for Australia Day. Oh wait.
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@normanswan I won’t buy anything Murdoch: Fox, digital or print. Now with good VDSL2 he is even more redundant. BTW the paywall @australian protects me.
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@vanOnselenP The fourth estate, ashen faced and collectively clutching at their pearls after being schooled by the Attorney General for an attempted gotcha question based on a false premise, proves they’ve learnt nothing about what journalism is about and what the public crave.
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4 years
@TonyHWindsor We were warned of this viral tsunami weeks ago. We’ve watched Italy being swamped. We had the warning to go early, go hard. #ScottyFomMarketing did neither. Our only hope to avoid repeating Italy was social distancing. 1 in 5 in lockdown in the US. You left it too late, Scotty.
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@denniallen @chrisamason @jeff_kennett This ⬇️ In the 1990s, the Victorian Liberal Government of Jeff Kennett pursued the rationalisation of hospital services.Despite strong protests, the specialised functions of the Fairfield hospital were transferred, On 30 June 1996 Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital closed.
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8 months
Ex-LNP president oversaw transfer of $500,000 in Morrison government grant money to brother’s offset account, court hears | Liberal National party | The Guardian
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@ChristyDanFan ‘Australian historian Manning Clark famously said that there are two types of political leader: “the enlarger of life” and the “punisher and straightener”.’ LNP always punish, straighten and tear down.
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2 years
@lesstenny 9 Still lots to do but definitely a high distinction. To do: Covid Assange Refugees Multinational tax increases Living wage Social housing
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@Vic_Rollison @davidbewart What part of “:::::we cannot guarantee you’ll be able to come back:” is so hard to understand? Are the words too big for readers of the Murdoch press?
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“A malaria drug hailed as a miracle cure for COVID-19 by the likes of Donald Trump, George Christensen and Craig Kelly has been linked to nearly 17,000 deaths in six countries during the pandemic, according to a study”
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@noplaceforsheep NSW has led the way from the start. Starting with Ruby Princess and then Bondi, NSW has led the way in spreading COVID-19 throughout the country and by opening up now, will lead the way in bringing the NSW health care system to its knees.
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@noplaceforsheep I’m not a PVO fan but he was absolutely right this morning on #insiders The ‘disaster fund’ is politically motivated and total bullshit. It’s a distraction. At any time the government can draw down on consolidated revenue to provide disaster relief. #auspol
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@OfficialKamahl Kamahl, it’s an advisory panel that Dutton opposes because Albonese might be more popular if it gets up.
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4 years
@MichelleOC13 @LizBuff46 Yes compare and contrast.
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@MFWitches The immense worth of Scott Morrison. and the love people in Australia had for him as PM, are encapsulated in his hashtags.
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@SkyNewsAust @ScottMorrisonMP @aclennell Yeah! Nah. The gratuitous lies from the PMO trying to shore up a failed Prime Minister and broadcast by a failing TV station owned by a foreign national just don’t cut it anymore. #ScottyTheBlameShifter #ScottyDoesNothing #ScottyFromMarketing #ScottyTheGaslighter
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@MFWitches Twenty two NSW detectives have been assigned to scan social media photos and videos. There will be more charges in addition to the 55 already.
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@MichelleOC13 @annaclarity1 Intelligence, strength, calmness and empathy and with these qualities, like Jacinda Ardern, she doesn’t have to rely on slogans, zingers, prevarication, denial, distractions and obfuscation unlike #ScottyFromMarketing and his dismal apparatchiks.
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@JoshButler Meanwhile just across the border #Canberra thousands turned out for a #blacklivesmatteraustralia protest and march.
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@FuqqinLit @Stop_Trump20 One size fits all.
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@PaulBongiorno The Liberals are down in the weeds. So many Australia changing issues on the go, yet #LeftoverMash Dutton is chasing cheap political points using a rape victim.
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@ballp36 @raywilton4 @_sara_jade_ Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble When you're perfect in every way I can't wait to look in the mirror Cause I get better lookin' each day To know me is to love me I must be a hell of a man Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble But I'm doin' the best that I can! #ScottyFromHairPlugs
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@mjrowland68 @FinancialReview @PhillipCoorey Bwa ha ha. There isn’t a lunchbox small enough for Coorey to be a legend in. Who takes the @FinancialReview seriously anymore? Whenever the LNP needs a tummy rub, Coorey is the lackey of choice. #thisisnotjournalism
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@Peter_Fitz Fair. An Opposition with an ounce of forward thinking wouldn’t have had the knee jerk reaction to go for the “gotcha lying” headlines, without thinking of their next move. I present The Dutton - the only potato that wedges itself. Morrison laid this landline five years ago.
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@MaryKostakidis That Israel is seeking a final solution for its “Palestinian problem” by starving and bombing trapped civilians is both ironic and revolting.
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@David_Speers @mjrowland68 Yes. Laura Tingle revived a tired and flaccid #abc730 and set a benchmark that I hope you can work to emulate.
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@Scottludlam @WScetrine #ScottyFromMarketing shows narcissist personality disorder. On Kangaroo Island he was corrected when he stated there had been no deaths. Immediately he said “I meant no firefighter deaths”. No compassion about the deaths. Narcissists can’t be wrong. They justify everything.
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My current whereabouts. 20 mg morphine 2 x endone Just had fentanyl None of which was on my bingo card
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@LizzBettZee @DavidTh80602001 The Westminster tradition is for the PM to be in the house of Reps. John Gorton was a Senator when he became PM in 1969. He later won a Reps seat. Penny Wong has previously stated that she values the safety and privacy of her family which would be compromised if she was to be PM.
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@ElaineM11584892 I have no idea.
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@noplaceforsheep Once you hit exponential growth and significant numbers, tracking is futile. Then your choices are: 1. very restrictive and extensive lockdown, 2. the vaccine fairy vaccinates 90% of the population, 3. living with death and desperation. eg Brazil, Argentina
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@Mountaingoat55 @PeterWMurphy1 I’ve tested Woke positive. 😎
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6 years
@ScottMorrisonMP Over the past five years, your government (no needs for capital G) has been stuffing up the environment, race baiting, persecuting the poor and the sick, looking after your mates and trumpeting total bulldust. Do yourself a favour and call the election. #auspol
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@RealMuckmaker LICK OUR PRESIDENT’S ASS
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3 years
@slsandpet I’d say that the LNP strategists will be concerned. Bowen and Albanese are both coming across as people leading a confident united team that have done their homework and want to govern. Bowen ripped Scooter a new one re his ICAC comments and his lying.
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@AltoCarol @mattjcan Hey @PatsKarvelas next time @mattjcan is on #AfternoonBriefing can he please explain why Scotland can do it but Australia can’t, even in 30 years time? Not enough sunshine and wind in Australia? Too many donations from the fossil fuel industry?
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@MatthewBevan Fact 1. While PM, Hawke was teetotal even for formal toasts where he had non alcoholic wine. Fact 2. Hawke related to Australians and Australia related to Hawke. Hawke was genuine. Fact 3. Morrison is false, a contrived, insecure charade. I believe his worst days await.
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@noplaceforsheep Two years ago four young kids from the one family, walking on a sidewalk in Sydney were killed by a drunk driver in a SUV. The family at their funeral said they forgave the driver. Its now been highjacked for political advantage by politicians namely Morrison and Perrottet.
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@SallyLawry @blakandblack When Canberra based cookers join Howard, Murdoch, Hanson. Jones, Credlin et al and advocate voting No, it’s easy to know voting Yes is the right thing to do.
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