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CBD Columnist @smh . Send your tips/support/hate mail to knapier-raman @smh .com.au. DMs always open.

Sydney, New South Wales
Joined July 2013
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I'm not sure why, as a secular country, we need a church service to mark the new Parliament. Or why the Speaker recites the Lord's Prayer every sitting day
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Novak Djokovic's lawyers Hall & Willcox have a 'no jab no entry' policy for their offices
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This morning the Mayor of Lismore told me had no idea whether he’d be meeting the PM today. Seems worth a chat you’d think
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“I’m not pretending to be anyone else”
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Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese giving every reporter a question at his opening press conference. A sharp contrast with Scott Morrison who spent about 10 minutes taking questions from reporters this morning
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"It's a free country" says Scott Morrison when asked about Assistant Minister for Women Amanda Stoker's attendance at a recent anti-abortion rally #auspol
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Apropos of everything it's going to be a pretty horrible election campaign for Asian-Australians
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One reason it's funny Morrison didn't know the price of petrol is just two months ago he was running lines about how a Labor government would increase petrol prices
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Who is going to punch Josh Frydenberg during the Budget speech tomorrow night?
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I saw the best minds of my generation working 80 hours a week making PowerPoint slides for McKinsey
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My colleagues and I are striking because Nine won’t offer us fair wages. Meanwhile the CEO is living his best life at the Olympics and refuses to answer questions about the terrible optics of this
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This speech is such a contrast from 2019 when Scott Morrison went around listing all the marginal seats he’d won
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Taxpayers are helping fund minister Michael Sukkar's defamation defence. But A-G Michaelia Cash still won't answer questions in #Estimates about who is suing him and why, while hinting more ministers might be getting taxpayer funded legal help
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Shane Stone is paid $591,904 to run the National Recovery and Resilience Agency, which is responsible for responding to disasters like the floods. Here's what he had to say about climate change a couple of years ago:
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New Drought Co-Ordinator General Shane Stone when asked his view on Climate Change on @rnbreakfast by @hamishNews : "My view is the climate's always been changing. If you want to draw me into that debate you've really asked the wrong question."
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The dial is well and truly shifting. #ChangeTheDate
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Some news: very excited to be joining @smh as CBD Columnist later this month
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“Sorry our kitchen’s closed” — 8.25 on a Friday night in the Sydney CBD
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Nine recently gave a boss accused of misconduct a $1 million payout. It’s putting up Scotty Cam in a five star hotel for the Paris Olympics. But this very profitable company refuses to offer its journalists fair pay. That’s why we’re striking. @withMEAA #DontTorchJournalism
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We live in the most cursed timeline
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“Indian and Tamil communities” 🤨🤔
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Scott Morrison: “if you’re starting with Crikey and you’re talking about credibility that’s not a good start”. Cmon man 🙄🙄
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6 News Australia
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No, this is not an April Fool's Day joke ⬇️ | #6NewsAU
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Days before an election announcement, the Morrison government announced a flurry of appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, many of whom are former Liberal MPs and staffers @crikey_news
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Reminded of this extraordinary @barneyronay on Pele from last year. RIP King
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The Australian put up a trigger warning before showing readers a photo of Honi Soit's edgy front page
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"I wish I got that reception in Kooyong," Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says, as he takes the stage to a standing ovation #aupsol
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It's 2022. There are almost no COVID restrictions anywhere in Australia. Time for Guzman y Gomez to reinstate the DIY salsa station
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Good morning. Labor now leads in Bennelong, Deakin (listed by the ABC a “likely” gain) and Gilmore. The Greens are closing in on Brisbane, which would give them a third lower house seat #ausvotes
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Don’t have to worry about the ethics of playing at the Qatar World Cup if you don’t qualify #AUSvJPN
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@AmyRemeikis I would buy triple pulp if I could
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Our new speaker of the House of Representatives Dugald “Milton” Dick once featured on a subreddit for “absolute units”
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Hi all, today's my last day @crikey_news after nearly four years. I've loved my time here, and am so grateful for the opportunities I've had to work with some some truly brilliant colleagues (or more accurately, friends). Really damn proud of everything we've achieved together
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Been out and about in Sydney the last couple of days. Things are very much quieter than normal but it is also absolutely nothing like lockdown. For one nobody is getting fined for leaving their home
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Former Immigration Minister Alex Hawke is fighting to save his seat with one of the worst photoshops we've ever seen. Real school captain election energy.
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(I say Asian-Australians rather than Chinese-Australians because the distinction will be irrelevant to the racists you embolden with this stuff)
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Adani took Nationals leader David Littleproud on a trip to visit its Carmichael coalmine. He didn't declare it for nearly six months. With @noeltowell
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When Scott Morrison showed up at a Trump rally, many progressives, Anthony Albanese included, were scathing. It’s not clear how the PM’s appearances with Modi are all that different
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Update: ABC has Griffith and Ryan both down as Greens gains. If the party wins Brisbane, that gives them four lower house seats. A lot of people will have to rethink their assumptions about Queenslanders #ausvotes
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Peter Dutton says the CCP would pick Labor and Albanese as their preferred government at the next election. #qt
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The Walkley Foundation has revoked the finalist status of Seven's Bruce Lehrmann interview after discovering the network paid his rent for a year to the tune of over $100,000
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“It’s between Scott from Marketing and a real man” lol no way this is an undecided voter #LeadersDebate
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Josh Frydenberg talks briefly about the government's pathway to Net Zero, but look closely at the #Budget2022 and there's a cool $50.3 million to accelerate the development of priority gas projects
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The state of play: - Labor inching toward a majority - Liberals record their worst election performance since 1983 - Senate could have a clear progressive majority with Pauline Hanson on track to lose her seat to the Greens #AusVotes
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Morrison: “I get it, that people are tired of politics”
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Josh Frydenberg debating independent challenger Monique Ryan in @SkyNewsAust Kooyong People's Forum. Can't imagine the Treasurer doing this if the Liberals weren't worried about the seat #auspol
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Just a few hours ago, we heard from the Hindu Council of Australia who were calling for the religious discrimination bill to be scrapped. Lots of non-Christian faith groups still have concerns about the bill #Auspol
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Labor’s Sam Lim is on track to win the WA seat of Tangney off special minister of state Ben Morton, Scott Morrison’s right hand man in parliament. Another huge result for Labor out west #AusVotes22
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Meanwhile, the Walkley Foundation is “considering its position” after learning Seven paid for its Lehrmann interview. It was a finalist for Scoop of the Year at last week’s awards
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Lmao I appear to have been indefinitely banned from Russia along with half the journalists in the country
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@PressClubAust
National Press Club
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JUST ANNOUNCED: @PeterDutton_MP & @BOConnorMP , the Minister & Shadow Minister for Defence, will make their '2022 Defence Debate' on Thursday the 5th of May, in the lead up to the Federal Election. See more details on our website:
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So the Liberals were smashed in Reid and Chisholm, and could lose Bennelong. Will have to see more on this, but it looks like the Coalition's language on China could have seriously alienated the diaspora #ausvotes
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Imagine if Labor’s decision to parachute in Kristina Keneally to Fowler is the decision that deprives the party of a majority
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“The case for fear of COVID-19 is now restricted largely to the social media platform of Twitter.” — @nick_coatsworth
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Imagine for a second if a senior Australian journalist did this about Duterte, Erdogan, Orban or Bolsonaro . . .
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At the Canterbury RSL for Labor’s election night event. If Albo gives a victory speech here it’ll be the biggest moment at this venue since I got presented the match ball for taking a double hat-trick in under-9s cricket
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Scott Morrison met John Howard for a private lunch at Sydney's all male Australian Club last week, before skipping the first sitting of Parliament to head to a conference of conservative has-been leaders. With @noeltowell
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Shadow A-G @markdreyfusQCMP : "Rather than calling the election, the Morrison Government is hanging on to power so they can hand out as many lucrative, taxpayer funded jobs to themselves and their mates."
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Fyi this is pretty common for legal/professional services firms
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Four fellow members of Australia’s highest civilian order — Companion of the Order of Australia — want former High Court judge Dyson Heydon’s appointment terminated Good story from @JGanko
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Mfw not pretending to be anyone else
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The Liberals have been absolutely bodied in Melbourne by both Labor and the teals #ausvotes
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Back in 2018 the Global Times praised Scott Morrison’s “Confucian wisdom”. A good reminder of how stupid some of this week’s discourse has been from @theshufflediary
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Nobody asked you to live in Surry Hills, Graham.
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When you absolutely definitely have Indian friends . . .
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So interesting that through this whole religious discrimination debate we've heard almost nothing from Attorney-General Michaelia Cash
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Before Monday’s defamation judgment, Bruce Lehrmann was seen hanging out at the Point Piper mansion owned by Penny Street, wife of late former NSW chief justice Sir Laurence Street
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Former journalist Ita Buttrose thinks journalists at the Nine papers should accept a real wage cut because tHe oLyMpIcS
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Imagine doing this to a bloke reporting out of a war zone. More important, hard-hitting public interest journalism from the national broadsheet!
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Tom Joyner
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I was in Poland this morning when Nick Tabakoff rang me at 5:21am to ask if I’d like to respond to people in “the newsroom” who thought my massage posts were “tone deaf”. All I’ll add now is it sounds like Nick needs a massage too. I recommend it!
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Props to the New Zealand High Commission for playing Lorde as its hold music
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A very happy Monday to the tradie sitting alone munching a banh mi while blaring Rasputin out of a Bluetooth speaker
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Monique Ryan says the Liberals are in a minority government with the Nationals, and says Frydenberg is "a hostage to Barnaby Joyce and to his own political ambitions" #auspol
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Interesting exchange in which Scott Morrison straight up admits to having no real vision for Australia
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I did everything wrong and somehow still haven’t caught COVID. Not sure how this has happened
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As the Federal Court rejected Novak Djokovic's appeal, vaccine sceptics in the Coalition party room continued to attack their own government's decision to deport him @crikey_news
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Weird that even the good reporting on vaping in Australia manages to underestimate how widespread it is and how incredibly easy they are to get
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Happy “what is Diwali” explainer day to all my South Asian fam
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After a two-year hiatus, Euro Summer insta posts are back and I hate it 🥲
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"This morning NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet admitted the disaster response hadn’t improved since the Black Summer bushfires. But he couldn’t really say why." @crikey_news
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On this analysis, WA won't be 80% boosted until May 16. The Federal election is likely to be May 14 or 21. Which means no campaigning from Albanese or Morrison at all in the west unless McGowan reopens sooner
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Kerry Stokes could end up forking out nearly $40 million on Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation suit because a cost order against him is accruing interest every day
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This thread is well worth reading. The Indian community is growing and all sides of politics are trying to court it. But that means politicians need to wise up about the kinds of Hindu groups they’re meeting with and what those groups stand for:
@HumanismProject
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<THREAD> : @AustralianLabor leaders ⁦ @AlboMP ⁩ & ⁦ @KKeneally ⁩ attended a fundraiser by the Hindu Council of Australia and got photographed proudly displaying the scarf of Vishwa Hindu Parishad. ⁦⁦⁩ ⁦ @FriedrichPieter @hrw @amnestyOz
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Here’s the only reference to Howard in the speech
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Labor supporters are jubilant as Antony Green calls Goldstein for independent Zoe Daniel. And the jubilation continues when Green points to early results showing a whopping 8.4% swing to Labor in WA #ausvotes
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Anyway this is unsurprising but kinda petty stuff from the PM. It’s just a shame that a few of our colleagues in the media/press gallery seems to share these views. All power to the gun team of journalists @crikey_news who produce stellar work every day
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ADF boss Angus Campbell received a $14,000 watch from the Sultan of Brunei. The non-response from the Department of Defence is *highly* relatable. Via @TomMcIlroy
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So Tudge has been stood down as Education Minister but he’s still got a warrant as minister and he will be Education Minister again if the government is re-elected #leadersdebate
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Remind me why we dropped Usman Khawaja again?
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Interesting how Morrison straight up refuses to take questions from certain journalists
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3 years
Big congrats to my brilliant friend @naamanzhou for his richly deserved gong. Rats off to ya!
@walkleys
Walkley Foundation
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The winner for All Media Public Service Journalism supported by @SydneyAirport is “Australia’s delivery rider deaths @naamanzhou , @GuardianAus .
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