Excited to join
@abc730
for a brief stint from tonight to the election. Working again with this wonderful team
@JamesEltonPym
&
@latingle
… here we are pondering the busy days and weeks to come 🤔
Sue, one of our long-serving make up artists, gave me this tie. It was her Dad’s. He was a loyal ABC viewer and died a bit over a year ago. He would have been 100 today.
Very excited that next year I’ll start a new job, presenting the 7PM TV News on
@abccanberra
📺 Really looking forward to working with the very talented team and telling stories that matter to the Canberra community
#CBR
#Canberra
The cabinet minister who is the focus of a historical rape allegation is likely to front the cameras and break his silence tomorrow. He has sought advice from eminent defamation lawyer Peter Bartlett, partner at MinterEllison
@abcnews
@politicsabc
The PM Scott Morrison says he intervened in NSW preselection because he is “very serious about having great women” in his ranks and doesn’t have time for factional games. Internal critic
@Senator_CFW
who recently lost her spot on the Senate ticket tells
@abc730
:
Dear press secs and twitterers. I have now had several messages criticising "questions" I have asked Anthony Albanese - I am apparently both too critical and too soft.
But I am not on his campaign. It is not me.
About 60% of the ship has COVID-19 but after weeks at sea the 100 plus Australians on the Greg Mortimer Antarctic cruise ship are thrilled to be finally heading back home. Flying from Montevideo to Melbourne in a few hours on a special medical charter flight
@abcnews
A Morrison Government staff member has resigned from his media advisor role, shortly after he was accused in Tasmanian state parliament of calling a senior female politician a "meth-head c***" in 2019
@politicsabc
@abcnews
@andrewprobyn
After a fantastic few years working in London, I’m excited to announce I’m heading to Washington DC as the next North America Correspondent for
@abcnews
The Minister will not stand down. His statement is still being worked on and he's expected to take questions from journalists. Government sources are hopeful his public appearance will be "the end of the matter".
Getting a few comments about the retirement of George Christensen this evening - this one from
@KKeneally
: “I hope to God that Mr Morrison doesn’t make Mr Christensen a Consul General to the Philippines or anywhere else.”
After 5 decades, yes FIVE, in the media and 23 at ABC Canberra, the much loved Andy Messenger is leaving today with his final 📻 bulletins this afternoon.
A lovely man, a great colleague and a terrific broadcaster. He will be missed.
Strong words from the ACT Chief Minister, ahead of today’s national cabinet meeting. “I just see young people being horribly exposed by the decision of another government and I don’t know what I can do to protect my community against that.”
"The suggestion of co-administration of departments is 100 per cent false," says Mr Morrison.
Here's the wording of the instruments which gave the former prime minister what he describes as "emergency powers"
"Administer"
#auspol
Former PM Julia Gillard says there’s “no rush” but she expects a “measured” discussion about an Australian republic is inevitable. We spoke at Australia House in London today. Watch here:
Across the road from my home, one man attracted national attention by taking in protestors who were being pepper-sprayed by police as a demonstration was dramatically broken up. 194 arrested. He sheltered > 50 who ultimately weren’t:
@abcnews
@PoPville
A tough day for ABC Canberra as four senior legends, Craig Allen, Narda Gilmore, Susan McDonald & Greg Nelson (not pictured) say goodbye for the final time, taking more than 8 decades experience with them 📺 📻
Some will think this is insufferable but it is actually quite interesting. You do get an insight into the personalities of both
@piersmorgan
&
@realDonaldTrump
If you are watching world news in a foreign country and randomly see an Australian reporter on screen you can be fairly confident someone has either been bitten by a dangerous animal or our nation’s politicians have done something embarrassing. Thanks
@LisaMosley
for the pic
This is a good observation from
@lenoretaylor
. The Aussie press pack was pretty visibly shocked after yesterday’s Oval Office spray with the PM ... but when you see it everyday you do become desensitised:
Made it through week one on
@abccanberra
Humbled by the number of viewer comments and intrigued by the intense interest in the weather. Great that people in Canberra and surrounding region are watching - it is an excellent team 📺
@AdiFrancisABC
Tonight’s 7PM News weather 📸 comes from Anthony Albanese, Deakin. It’s of a frosty Toto at The Lodge
@abccanberra
@AlboMP
📧 canberraweatherpics
@abc
.net.au
Lib backbencher Bridget Archer confirms in parliament that she can't support religious discrimination bill, arguing it goes "far beyond" an orthodox anti-discrimination law
#auspol
and she's worried about possible far-reaching unintended consequences
Australia's three remaining diplomats in Ukraine are expected to move to Poland as soon as possible, following Russia's decision to send in the military to rebel held regions in the east of the country.
In response to internal criticism Mr Morrison again tells
@leighsales
it’s coming from people who have “an axe to grind”. His Ministers have said he’s the target of a political hit job on the eve of an election.
“The ACT Integrity Commission is today circulating a media alert confirming it has received, and is assessing, allegations into the conduct of the Hon Walter Sofronoff KC.”
BREAKING: A former Morrison Government staff member who was sacked for masturbating on the desk of a female MP has made a report to police, alleging he was a victim of revenge porn:
@politicsabc
Instead of going to the beach on holidays, my embarrassing wife made us visit the actual (private) house from Dawson’s Creek.
Luckily the owner was very welcoming and fine with us briefly walking around his backyard 😐
WATCH: Russian spy chief stumbles and expresses support for eastern Ukraine's annexation, to which Putin responds: "That’s not what we're talking about"
Behold Australia's grossest drinking tradition: To “do a shoey” is to pour alcohol (usually beer) into a shoe and chug it. “You don’t have to do it, but it’s in your best interests."
The lovely Lisa Millar is sick
@mjrowland68
doesn’t like the Canberra cold ❄️ so we are up early for
@BreakfastNews
for all the latest budget reaction and to chat about THAT speech from
@Senator_CFW
🔥 🔥 🔥 (Rowland actually loves
#CBR
)
The more the 100 or so Aussies onboard are pretty happy too, after being stranded on the Greg Mortimer off Sth America for weeks. Most of them have been diagnosed with COVID-19
@abcnews
One of the benefits of working from home and having no sport on TV ... is I’ve noticed - and got to spend some time with - the really nice wife and kids I live with
#coronalife
#coronavirus
😍
@LisaMosley
Haha, great work
@abcbarbm
for accidentally stumbling on perhaps the most interesting person in a late night line of tens of thousands of people and then rolling with it 😂 :
The Tasmanian Greens leader says a Liberal staffer now employed by the Morrison Government called her a "meth head c***" when he was working for the then-Premier Will Hodgman. Story from
@andrewprobyn
and I:
@abcnews
“All gossip” claims the PM, yet doesn’t actually say the report is wrong. Seems strange to suggest a major US paper like
@WSJ
would bother with “gossip” about an Australian pastor. American media covering the White House think about us as often as we think about Tonga
@abcnews
Oh, FFS
@jamesglenday
. Take the mask off for your ‘stand-up’. Firstly, they don’t work. But in any case you were standing in the middle of a park and there was nobody anywhere near you except a cameraperson.
@abcnews
@jamesglenday
@abcnews
Quoting from ASPI devalues your reporting.
ASPI is a group of putrid analysts with zero credibility, who constantly spew anti-China hysteria.
#ASPI
is funded by the US
#WarMachine
to use
#Australia
to confront
#China
. Why? So Oz buys more US weapons.
Tonight’s weather photo 📸 comes from Chris Elsley. It is of Lake George, NSW, which is currently about 2.9m deep at its deepest 📧 canberraweatherpics
@abc
.net.au