Award winning best selling author The Palace Letters, biographer Gough Whitlam, Lionel Murphy, Frank Hardy. Now on ABC iview The Search for the Palace Letters
Excellent from Geoffrey Robertson: 'The monarchy, love it or not, is a relic of aristocratic privilege according to an hereditary principle .. It does not comport with our modern ideas or ideals of democracy, equality and human rights'
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Brad Hazzard announces record Covid cases in NSW and then attacks Victoria for 'not helping' NSW by sending its Pfizer allocation. Vic dealing with Delta outbreak from NSW & was remorselessly criticised last year for lockdown. You can't make this incompetent hypocrisy up
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Shock new poll shows treasurer Josh Frydenberg facing defeat in Lib heartland seat of Kooyong to Independent Dr Monique Ryan. UComms poll has Ryan 59% to Frydenberg 41% 2pp. Massive lead for Ryan will be difficult for Frydenberg to overcome
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Phenomenal effort by Victorian government and Premier Daniel Andrews - all 3,000 residents of 9 tower blocks tested in just 3 days, completed yesterday and results today. Massive logistical exercise at the most difficult time. Respect and support
#springst
#auspol
.
@AlboMP
has met up with Maggie Beer at the Adelaide Central Markets pledging $5 million for the
@mbeerfoundation
if elected. The money will aim to achieve better food and nutrition in aged care.
@9NewsAdel
The politicisation of the AFP & its disturbing relationship with NewsCorp will now be explored. Inquiry includes how 'sensitive material found its way into The Australian'. AFP investigated for perverting course of justice in Lehrmann rape case
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PM's diplomatic disaster with France worsens as Morrison reveals he told India and Japan about cancellation of submarine deal in advance. And not France
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My thoughts on Harry & Meghan & the toxic UK media. 'No-one can survive unscathed from such an endless denunciation of their very essence, their character, motivations, and life’s ambitions, as Meghan Markle has faced. It was unrelentingly brutal'
#Spare
Morrison says
@alboMP
is more left-wing than Gough Whitlam. Medibank, free tertiary education, votes for 18 year olds, land rights, schools funding, equal pay, National Gallery, Blue Poles. Really looking forward to
@alboMP
doing better than that!
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Governor-General Hurley must consider his position after aligning himself so strongly with this questionable funding deal now scrapped by the Albanese govt. Its timing coincident with Morrison's secret multi-ministry power grab is concerning
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“Government sources have told the ABC that the Australian Future Leaders Foundation will no longer receive millions of dollars promised by the former Coalition government”
A Royal Commission into Scott Morrison? After his secret appointment as Treasurer Morrison approved $$billions in foreign takeover deals including electricity giant AusNet
#auspol
via
@MichaelWestBiz
Terrific news! After 45 years the Palace letters b/n the Queen & GG Kerr about dismissal of the Whitlam govt will be released in full NO redactions. A great decision for our history
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Queen's secret letters on Whitlam dismissal to be released 14 July
Denis Muller on media’s partisan anti-Dan narrative; ‘the hung parliament & minority govt possibilities were generated by the Herald Sun acting as a propaganda arm of the Liberal Party. Why on earth would The Age & the ABC buy into this nonsense?’
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It's sad to see the historical distortions about the dismissal continue. It's time to acknowledge what the history now shows us and deal with it.
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Oh dear the mythology of the Queen’s non-involvement in the dismissal is being pedalled by one of the direct beneficiaries of the dismissal, John Howard. I urge all serious Australians to read the documentation in Jenny Hocking’s The Palace Letters.
@InsidersABC
There's been very little coverage of a major achievement of the Albanese govt, opening 58 urgent care clinics in 2023. They're Medicare bulk-billed with extended hours & may make the difference in critical health care when needed. Here's a list
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@RonniSalt
@MarieColemanAO
And did Hurley not notice that the Hansard list of the full ministry, printed every sitting day, was missing 5 of Morrison's ministries which he himself had sworn in? The GG's failure to announce this through the usual process caused Parliament and the public to be misled
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Scott Morrison cannot continue as PM. This was the worst press conference imaginable. His credibility's shredded, his anger at journalists was threatening. He knows more about complaint at Sky than about alleged rape in minister’s office
#libspill
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Did
#ABC730
really not know that the Blak Sovereignty leaders announced just this week they're supporting a YES vote for the Voice to parliament? No mention at all. Big fail
#abc730
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Barnaby Joyce needs help &
@PeterDutton_MP
needs to show leadership & dismiss him as Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs. Is this the standard Dutton accepts in his front bench?
#auspol
Bizarre video emerges of Barnaby Joyce lying on the side of the road
Yes campaign director Dean Parkin says No campaign ‘the single largest misinformation campaign that this country has ever seen’. Trumpist, blatant and dangerous
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Yes campaign sheds tears for a brutal result and for the dark victory of misinformation
Shane Drumgold launches legal challenge to Sofronoff inquiry. Inquiry report included a “significant factual inaccuracy” in presenting a paragraph from The Australian newspaper as the opinion of a NSW supreme court judge. Yeah, easy mix-up 😏
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Malcolm Farr eviscerates Peter Dutton’s childish and divisive Woolworths ban: 'It's pure political positioning – but who would be suckered in by it?'. Only Pauline Hanson and the ever reliable scribes at NewsCorp it seems
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This really is desperate and sad. Vote for Josh Frydenberg so Robert Menzies’ daughter won’t die with a non-liberal in her father’s old seat
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Heather Henderson is 93 and says she doesn’t want to die with her father’s seat in non-Liberal hands
PM Albanese gets ‘massive cheer’ from tennis crowd. Albo’s popularity soaring as Libs in disarray and division. Crowd in stitches as Albanese agrees to request to ‘give us a wave’ from tennis fan
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Huge win for transparency & accountability as hundreds of secret documents on 'sports rorts' to be released incl secret 'letter of advice' by fmr AG Christian Porter. Stellar work by
@MrRexPatrick
FoI loophole now closed in ‘transformative’ ruling
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My piece on the political interventions of King Charles III.
'If ever there was a time to assert our national independence, to sever the remaining ties to this relic of colonialism & become a republic with an Australian head of state, this is it'
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Actually Leigh this is not 'strong' it is the height of irresponsibility. Calling for the Premier to stop 'lecturing about compliance' while Covid numbers are increasing only feeds non-compliance and endangers everyone. This is a shameful divisive editorial
#auspol
#covid19vic
An excellent antidote to the relentless negativity about politicians! Prof Colleen Lewis looks at the govt's achievements over the last year and says it's time to acknowledge the positives rather than seeing only negatives
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If you missed it last night The Search for the Palace Letters is now on ABC iview and here it is! Thanks to the mighty Film Art Media team - dir. Daryl Dellora and producer Sue Maslin - for such a brilliant job🙏
@TSFTPL
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via
@ABCTV
Stellar analysis from Katharine Murphy on Bill Shorten’s ‘Christmas miracle’ - saving, building, and improving the NDIS ‘one of the great Labor policy achievements’ of the Gillard govt. After a bad week for journalism this is a standout
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Explosive news from
@KarenMMiddleton
: Walter Sofronoff KC looks set to face an ACT Integrity Commission investigation after giving his final report to Janet Albrechtsen at The Australian before it had gone to the ACT govt that commissioned it
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Katharine Murphy's ripper column on Peter Dutton 'the exploding fire hydrant of politics'. Dutton fomented the polarisation of the Voice 'to normalise his natural political appetite for negativity' and he's leading the Libs into electoral oblivion
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Furious Lismore flood victims dump the remains of their damaged houses and furniture outside PM Scott Morrison's current house at Kirribilli. Morrison has failed to provide housing support for thousands of homeless Northern Rivers
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The Age buries the lede: coalition primary plummets 4% since last election, Labor primary now 3-4% higher than at last election. Dutton's preferred PM rating languishes at 27%
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My thoughts on the ignominious end to Scott Morrison's political career: 'Morrison must resign immediately as the member for Cook, leave the Parliament, and try to salvage what remains of his shredded reputation as Australia’s 30th Prime Minister'
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Rather excited about this! Doco on the Palace letters case ABC Mon 8 Jan 8pm: 'The case led to a stunning High Court victory & opened the archives on the Palace’s role in Kerr’s dismissal of the Whitlam Govt'. Thanks to mighty
@Filmartmedia1
team
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'King Charles III of Australia' will be the last British monarch as our dynastic Head of State. 'The Palace Letters revealed the extent of the Palace’s connivance in Sir John Kerr’s treachery' in 1975. Time for this demeaning subservience to end
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Excellent from Paddy Manning. Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has succeeded in getting the second wave under control and will make the right decision, based on the medical advice not irresponsible Morrison govt demands, on when to reopen. Back off
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Support for Vic Premier Daniel Andrews govt surges to a massive 59.5% as Victoria opens up! RoyMorgan survey: ALP 59.5% LNP: 40.5%, Dan Andrews' approval at 63.5%, and 76% support vaccine mandates. Libs languishing at record low
#springst
#auspol
.
@palaceletters
thank you for a brilliant gripping documentary, a beautiful and appropriate homage to your mother, exposing an inappropriately politicised Archive and all the while adorned with fab necklaces.
@abcnews
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Australian caught straight up lying by doctoring a reader’s letter to invent criticism of Voice. Propaganda masquerading as news. It’s Time for a
#MurdochRoyalCommission
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So a letter to the editor published by The Australian about Noel Pearson's support of The Voice contained paragraphs critical of Noel that were not written by the letter author. Editor said they got in the Pearson letter by mistake. Absolute bullshit. Gutter tactics.
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Opposition leader Peter Dutton may be investigated by the national security watchdog. Vic supreme court justice scathing of Dutton’s failure to disclose a crucial report during case while minister responsible for Australian federal police
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This is absolutely extraordinary. Labor surges to 57% LNP 43% 2pp in latest
#Ipsos
poll. If this is repeated on 21 May the liberal party will be decimated
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ABC news chief Jason Stevens slams News Corps' 'relentless campaign' against the ABC’s coronation broadcast & Stan Grant. News Corps targeting ABC b/c 'we threaten their business model'. News Corp is toxic & out of control. Murdoch RC now
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Allan Patience on Peter Dutton, Jacinta Price & Warren Mundine's adoption of the slogan "If you don’t know, vote no": 'One of the most ignorant, ethically despicable & anti-democratic moments in the history of federal politics in Australia'
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John Farnham joins YES campaign with his song Voice. ‘That song changed my life. I can only hope that now it might help, in some small way, to change the lives of our First Nations peoples for the better’. Wonderful. Thank you John Farnham
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Geoffrey Watson SC says Shane Drumgold SC could have Sofronoff inquiry findings set aside due to lack of procedural fairness in its early release to select journalists
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CoVid numbers continuing to decline 41 new cases today. Well done Victoria and thank you Daniel Andrews for putting people first and fronting up every day. What a contrast to PM Morrison who thinks attacking Victoria during a pandemic is the answer. Go away!!
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#springst
Excellent from David Hearst. 'For 76 years, Israel literally had a licence to kill. Until Monday. The ICC prosecutor punctured the myth that any Israeli leader, official or soldier was beyond the reach of international law'
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Thanks
@AlboMP
for keeping your election promise to hold a referendum on Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians through a Voice to parliament. That's leadership, respect, and hope for a better future. The rest is up to us. Vote YES
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Wayne Swan's take-down of the 'disgusting gotcha journalism' for failing to hold Scott Morrison to account and clear hostility towards
@AlboMP
now damaging democracy
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#ausvotes
Victoria offers free rapid antigen tests to Vic households. Dan Andrews labor govt ordered 2.2 mill tests in early October, first deliveries arrive this week. A further 34 mill by end-Jan. Vic could do it so why didn't Scott Morrison?
#auspol
Churlish and ungracious statement from current Vic Liberal leader
@JohnPesutto
on
@DanielAndrewsMP
's term as Premier and legacy for the state of Victoria. No wonder the Libs are in free fall in Victoria
#auspol
#springst
Great article by Norman Baker on King Charles' shameless royal Honours for the royal family: 'This latest set of nepotistic awards makes the royal family look ridiculous, arrogant & breezily self-serving .. totally out of touch with modern Britain'
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Noel Pearson: "This referendum is the largest mirror we will ever look into as a nation — 27 million people will look into this mirror on October 14 and see ourselves like we never have before’. What kind of country will be looking back?
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Laura Tingle slams NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian for ripping up the national plan and 'abandoning any semblance of accountability to the people of her state just when it is facing the worst of its COVID-19 crisis'
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#covidnsw
Albanese govt quietly ends refugee detention on Nauru with the last asylum seekers to be brought to Australia and 60 moved in the last year, most granted bridging visas. At last
#auspol
Jo Dyer on the egregious Linda Reynolds: 'an unreliable witness at Lehrmann’s criminal trial now claiming victimhood & pursuing Higgins for defamation – a rape survivor with fragile mental health – because her feelings were hurt by a tweet'
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@Donsvess
Completely untrue. Whitlam was on an official visit not on holiday and he returned from Europe immediately, he arrived in Darwin 48 hours after Cyclone hit. Which is 2 weeks faster than Scott Morrison took to get to Lismore.
Wow. Michael West asks: Can Alan Joyce be prosecuted for insider trading? 'If he knew about the ACCC investigating Qantas’ ‘phantom flights’, which is false and misleading conduct, then the answer is yes'
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via
@MichaelWestBiz
Coalition in disarray over Voice to parliament referendum as National party refuses to support Peter Dutton's 'alternative' proposal. They can't even agree on why they oppose it
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Extraordinary. Former Labor PM Kevin Rudd succeeds where PM Scott Morrison failed. Pfizer agrees to fast-track vaccine delivery after Rudd intervenes to repair Morrison's bungled Pfizer negotiations. Humiliating incompetence from Morrison govt
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Prof Tom Calma, a key architect of the referendum for an Indigenous Voice, dismayed by the misinformation, racism, vitriol & lies. 'There is so much misinformation.. it’s very frustrating when politicians can be bald-faced liars in this process'
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An extraordinary article by the legendary doyenne of Australian journalism Tess Lawrence, longtime advocate for sex abuse victims who has spent decades investigating the Catholic Church and George Pell. Content warning
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via
@AusIndiMedia
'ACT’s Inquiries Act only allows boards of inquiry to submit their reports to the chief minister of the ACT'. Head of inquiry gave their report to selected journalists before ACT chief minister. The inquiry now appears compromised by its own breach
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Wow. Mark Dreyfus announces abolition of irreparably damaged AAT. Albanese govt will abolish ‘irreversibly damaged’ Administrative Appeals Tribunal after Morrison govt stacked it with 85 former liberal MPs and staffers
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Wonderful from
@Vic_Rollison
on 'fleeting contact' & media bias. A tale of two cities. NewsCorp's absurd claim Vic's lockdown based on 'flawed advice’ & that 'fleeting contact' was ‘unfounded and unduly alarmist’ looks even sillier now
#covid19nsw
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NSW Lib Premier Gladys Berejiklian capitulates to extremist pro-coal lobby & sacks Malcolm Turnbull from climate change body just one week after appointing him. Power of fossil fuel lobby is frightening, environmentally & economically disastrous
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From Paul Keating: ‘Bill Hayden was a great servant of Australia. A modernising Treasurer, the author and founder of Medicare, the re-shaper & builder of the post-War Labor Party, Foreign Minister and finally, in high office, Governor General’
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AFL legend Michael Long with Bill Shorten & Vic Premier Dan Andrews begins the long walk to Canberra in support of the Voice: ‘All we’re asking is: enshrine us in the Constitution so we can advocate on decisions affecting Indigenous people’
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Excellent
@BernardKeane
on former Vic Premier Dan Andrews' popularity and the unhinged media onslaught. 'That conservatives couldn’t land a punch on Andrews enraged them & drove the Coalition’s right-wing cheerleaders at News Corp to distraction'
#auspol
Labor primary has increased against all predictions, small swing against. Libs should be very worried - Dutton's division and negativity isn't cutting through!
#libspill
#auspol
An important lesson from the
#Dunkley
by-election is that the Liberal strategy of demonising asylum seekers - which only worked for them way back in 2001 - is no longer a winning political strategy. But they’ll keep doing it because it “energises” their base 🙄
NSW has 4 times as many new Covid cases as Vic today. NSW 6,394, Vic 1,608. Why? Vic has mask mandates, QR code check-in, vaccinated entry only, NSW does not. Morrison/Perrottet's 'let it rip' puts health system in crisis & lives at risk
#auspol
#covidnsw
An absolute must read from Alan Austin on the decline of Insiders 'as a program to be relied on for accurate information and analysis due to its excessive reliance on Rupert Murdoch’s mendacious “news” outlets for its content'
#auspol
via
@IndependentAus
Morrison government has humiliated Speaker Smith, effectively expressing no confidence in him. Smith has no option but to resign since government defied him. Desperation by government under siege
#auspol
Extraordinary and shocking development in the Reps . The government has defied Speaker Smith and voted down his referral of Christian Porters potential contempt fir the rules of the members’ register.
Word is Smith is considering his position.
No decent standards left.
Incisive Ranald MacDonald fmr editor-in-chief The Age. 'The Murdoch Empire was little more than a mouthpiece for misrepresentations and lies.. The ABC was unable to guide its listeners and viewers as to what was fact and what was fiction'. Respect
#auspol
Excellent interview
@AlboMP
sharp and across his brief and a terrific policy discussion. A welcome contrast to the childish divisive dribble from Peter Dutton today
#auspol
#libspill
Congratulations Kim Williams a wonderful appointment as new Chair of the ABC. Public broadcasting will be secure independent and supported. Excellent news
#auspol
#BREAKING
: The Prime Minister will recommend the Governor-General appoint Kim Williams as the new chair of the ABC.
Current chair, Ita Buttrose will step down at the end of her term in March.
A masterclass in leadership and political communication from
@DanielAndrewsMP
tonight. Matthew Guy had no cut through and no vision, just more divisiveness and false claims
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#springst
Me on the Greens' decision to block the Albanese govt's $10bill Housing Fund Bill. 'That the Greens would delay the injection of much-needed housing stock during a housing crisis, of which supply is incontrovertibly the root cause, is staggering'
#auspol
This from a former deputy chief health officer about his medical colleagues in the AMA - 'peanut gallery'. Disgraceful at any time let alone in the middle of a pandemic. And why is he even a guest on
@abc730
tonight??
#auspol
#covid19aus
Penny Wong slams Greens' Max Chandler-Mather after Greens vote with LNP & Pauline Hanson to delay housing package; 'This man’s ego matters more than housing for women & kids fleeing domestic violence ..What sort of party are you?' Good question
#auspol
His initial announcement got a lot of coverage, as a significant announcement. His subsequent retreat from it got very little. Another big media failure.
Journalists eviscerated by Paul Keating's piercing analysis now desperately trying to make it all about the labor party not them. 'A cyclone through the labor party' - the hyperbole continues
#auspol
Labor’s
@JulianHillMP
says PM Anthony Albanese deserves ‘enormous credit’ for the resolution of Assange’s case. 'Assange is an Australian & enough is enough. The Prime Minister deserves enormous credit for his determination in pursuing this case'
#auspol