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It's not a contradiction to be socially liberal but economically conservative. Travel, cars, watches, urbanism and poking fun at the COVID zero brigade.

Sydney

Joined March 2009

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2 years

COVID Zero has elements of a doomsday cult. "A doomsday cult is a new religious movement or cult that says that the world is about to end. According to these cults, there will be a catastrophe. The only way to be saved is by joining the group, and by doing what it says." 1/

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24 days

Wealthy Australian private schools that charge $40k+ per year and can afford to drop $125m on an aquatic centre should not receive a cent of government funding.

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Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum

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29 days

Well, my post about catching a domestic flight in Australia took a somewhat unexpected turn.

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1 year

Who is old enough to remember this?

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Vehicles like this do not belong in the central business district. And before anybody has a go at me for hating on tradies, the bed was absolutely pristine.

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Any school that can afford to build an aquatic centre like this for $125m shouldn't receive a cent of government funding.

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2 years

@yaneerbaryam The people in Shanghai are out on the street celebrating because they can finally buy food, earn a living, see their friends and not have their pets bludgeoned to death. Shanghai is definitively not a model for the rest of the world to follow, particularly democratic countries.

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This interview with the the Bondi Junction killer's father is utterly heartbreaking. What a thing for any parent to have to go through.

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Barry O'Farrell resigned over an undeclared bottle of wine. Gladys resigned as soon as the whiff of an ICAC investigation was announced. Yet Jacinta Allan, Tony Burke and other ALP figures are up to their necks in the CFMEU scandal and it's all good, let's just tough it out?

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2 years

Cochrane review just out, reviewing 12 studies (incl. 10 RCTs) on the impact of community masks on the spread of viral respiratory illness. How much more evidence will the mask fetishists need to realise that they simply don't work at a population level?

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This ham and salad sandwich I just had for lunch was very tasty with quality ingredients, but it cost TWENTY FOUR (24) AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS JFC!

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The red Peugeot 208 was the top selling vehicle in Europe in 2022. The black Ford F-150 behind it was the top selling car in the US in 2022. Amazing to see the difference in size. Are Americans and Europeans really that much different in their vehicle needs? 1/2

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For an example of what the CFMEU is costing taxpayers and the public, the wages they have strongarmed for lollipop people, a qualification that takes 1.5 days to obtain, are $49/hr plus allowances. The award wage is $28/hr. For comparison, a registered nurse gets paid $34/hr.

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Wanker vehicle vs. work vehicle.

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6 months

This vehicle is a work vehicle that has a purpose being in the Sydney CBD. It is shorter than the Chevy Silverado wankpanzer truck that I posted yesterday and is far more practical as a work vehicle than the Chevy would ever be.

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@ProfGThurston Those people's hybrid immunity is doing far more to prevent them (and you) getting COVID then your mask ever will, so you should be thanking them, not calling them names.

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The Mazda 3 in the foreground was Australia's top selling car in 2011-12. The Ford Ranger in the background is currently Australia's top selling car. Have Australians' vehicle requirements really changed that much in a bit over a decade?

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2 years

It's a mental illness at this stage. And this guy is a paediatrician.

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2 months

Once more for people at the back: the Australian pension system is welfare (about which there is nothing wrong) for citizens and PRs aged 67+ who fall below certain income and assets thresholds. It has nothing to do with whether you have paid taxes or not. Full stop.

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They've had 3 years to design and conduct a robust RCT to show that masks reduce the spread of COVID in the community, but they've failed to do so. They know that conducting one now won't give them the answer they want due to hybrid immunity, so they're reduced to this drivel.

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@ConversationEDU

The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

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2 years

An updated Cochrane Review suggests face masks don't reduce the spread of COVID in the community. But there are several reasons why this conclusion is misleading. @UNSW

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2 months

Sydney vs. Melby.

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6 months

Oh dear, I really poked the redneck/small 🍆 hornet's nest with this post...

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Vehicles like this do not belong in the central business district. And before anybody has a go at me for hating on tradies, the bed was absolutely pristine.

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Since the beginning of 2022, we have done more than 11.5m PCR tests in Australia. At a rough cost of $100/test, that is more than $1bn in tests over 3 months. Free PCR testing for COVID is costing us $3-4bn per year. Is this the best use of funds and what's the end game? 1/

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I am sick and tired of the zero COVID/anxiety-afflicted crowd using "but what about long COVID?" as a stick with which to beat anybody arguing for relaxed restrictions. A semi-rant. 1/

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3 months

I always suspected that the CFMEU was a criminal organisation, and now we have proof. Time for it to be deregistered and disbanded, just like the BLF was. Full stop.

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Today I was reminded that New Zealand banned the sale of fiction (but not non-fiction) books because they were deemed "non-essential". And this included online delivery. What a ridiculous decision.

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@Soylent_Spring @useless_priest Amsterdam sounds like a wonderful place to be at the moment. Looks like they've moved on from COVID like every other country should. And were you seriously expecting people to be wearing masks...on the dance floor at a music festival? Please!

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Why does it make sense that I need to pay to hire a bike locker at this regional NSW train station but I can park a car for an unlimited time for free?

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Not an immunologist/virologist, but wasn't the real danger of SARS-CoV-2 that it was novel when it first emerged and none of us had any exposure to it? In Oct 2022, with widespread vaccine/infection-derived immunity, hasn't it now been largely defanged, except for a very few?

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@GeorgeMonbiot This article is chock full of misinformation: 1. There is no evidence COVID causes permanent immune system damage for the vast majority of people. 2. The study you quoted explicitly does not prove reinfections are worse than first ones. 3. COVID is not a "mass disabling event".

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Finally made it to the Antarctic Peninsula. Possibly one of the best days of my life. 🤩

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@maggiemfox Did you actually even open up this study? They cherry pick 13 studies out of more than 1,700 which were all done in 2020 and in which 243 out of 1,500 people got infected, and they draw their conclusions from this? This has to be one of the worst studies I've ever seen. Rubbish.

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The quotes and replies to this are awful. Think what you want about Morrison and his prime ministership, but anybody increasing awareness of and trying to destigmatise mental illness shouldn't be piled on like this.

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The former prime minister says that without medication he would have fallen into a serious depression in his time in the Lodge. Read the full exclusive story:

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@ask_aubry Um, I'm sorry - you're having a go at his dad who was doorstopped by the media hardly 48 hours after his son killed 6 people and was shot dead, because he called his son "a very sick boy"? Seriously?

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@jen14002373 @BallouxFrancois @LegoLas44941816 COVID hasn’t disappeared in Africa. It’s just that most countries in Africa don’t have the resources to test for it.

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People in the US and elsewhere may not appreciate that in Australia, you can get to the airport 35min before a domestic flight with no ID check nor shoes off at security, keep everything in your bag and still have 15min in the lounge to have a good flat white before boarding. ✈️

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Shaming the Treasurer's wife for what she wore to Budget night has to be one of the lowest forms of journalism. She's successful in her own right, why shouldn't she spend her money how she likes? And she's supporting an Australian designer too.

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Chalmer’s $1900 designer Budget outfit

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ wife Laura stole the show in a buttery Carla Zampatti dress while her husband debuted his second budget consecutive surplus.

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@theheraldsun Here's a study on masks, the Cochrane review, which is the best study that we have. "Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza/COVID-like illness compared to not wearing masks". You're welcome, researchers.

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@PhotonicPunk I am not pretending that things are totes back to normal. They ARE back to normal. Sorry to give you a dose of reality, but it is you that is pretending that things are not back to normal. If you look out the window at the world, your perma-masking dystopia isn't happening.

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@HFrostyB69 Then you're as cooked as he is.

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@ChrisMinnsMP This is terrible policy based upon a knee-jerk reaction to a tragic incident. Knife crime is declining. So why are these laws necessary?

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I am sick and tired of the take that Australia was amongst the best in the world at managing COVID and is now amongst the worst. We postponed mass infection until most people were vaxxed, saving many lives. It is delusional to think that we could avoid the pandemic forever.

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This is Chris. He has net assets of $2m yet somehow it is supposedly fair that taxpayers provide him an aged pension of $26k per year when he could take out a reverse mortgage from the Federal government, not repayable until he passes away, of at least $500k. Make it make sense.

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I love seeing the ALP rusted-ons trying to defend the indefensible regarding the corrupt and criminal conduct of the CFMEU and the complicity of the ALP in tolerating it for so many years. Incredible to see the mental gymnastics and the "oh, look over there" responses. Amazing.

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2 years

@ConversationEDU @UNSW If Raina Macintyre says masks work, why has she had COVID 3 times despite claiming to wear N95s everywhere indoors, opening windows and using HEPA filters, whilst I've done none of that nonsense and only gotten it once?

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Yeah nah.

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@ringothe5th If the killer was armed with a semi-automatic weapon like they would have been in the US, 60 people would have died rather than 6. In Australia we are very happy with our gun laws, so perhaps keep your US perspective to yourself.

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This is a great move. Why should a 150-year-old pub be forced to close early just because one (1) married couple who wouldn't have lived there for anything close to 150 years complained?

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$19 MILLION in fines against the CFMEU over the last 8 years for breaches in workplace laws, and the ALP and the ACTU are "shocked, shocked" to learn about their criminal, corrupt and thuggish conduct. Give me a f*%king break.

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I'm sorry, this is just f$*king antisocial, particularly because it's raining outside. What an idiot!

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And cash received can go straight into the register without being subject to GST or income tax, but never mind about that, hey?

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Excellent news! Pity it's not happening sooner and the emissions standards aren't more stringent. Now make them subject to luxury car tax too, no exceptions.

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@No1saintBrett Large trucks and buses serve a purpose being there. This vehicle doesn’t.

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2 years

Monique Ryan is claiming that there are 400 Australians on ventilators with COVID. The actual number is eight. Eight. Why would we ever listen to anything Mon has to say if she deliberately misrepresents the data to call for more COVID restrictions?

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Dr Monique Ryan MP

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Today I represented the voice of my constituent @SMpwrgr , along with other vulnerable Australians. Sadly, Australians are still dying from COVID, every day. I call on the Government to review its public health measures in respect to COVID19

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@MoriceDarrin I'm just stating my opinion. Are you new to social media?

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Almost three years on and this has proven to be 100% correct. Those people predicting that there would be permanent, involuntary changes to the way people around the world lived, worked and socialised have been proven to be utterly mistaken, and what a bad message it was too.

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"There is no getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we accept that, the better" This is possibly the most damaging message in terms of public health and I believe it is highly irresponsible to run such an uninformed headline. 1/

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There is no logical reason whatsoever why the 33% luxury car tax on vehicles above $77k should not be applied to dual-cab utes that are primarily used for private, rather than work, purposes.

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Does the luxury car tax apply to utes?

Some high-end utes exceed the LCT threshold. But, are they exempt from paying the 33 per cent tax?

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2 years

I am sick and tired of COVID maximisers wailing for so-called "clean indoor air". Show me a well-designed RCT that shows reduced transmission in a population with hybrid immunity and a cost/benefit analysis for your proposed measures and then we can talk. Until then, sit down.

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6 months

Imagine waiting 6 months for a table at a top Ginza omakase sushi restaurant that costs ¥35,000 (A$350) per head and telling the wait staff that you don't eat shellfish or certain kinds of fish, or dishes that are "too chewy". Goodness me.

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1 month

Go Aussies! 🇦🇺

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2 years

A vote of thanks to politicians around Australia for holding the line against the voices (including certain media outlets) who screeched for more restrictions. Looks like cases are falling off a cliff without anything new being imposed. Hybrid immunity at work! 👍

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2 years

Ladies and gentlemen (and non-binary friends too), we have a new Swiss Cheese model thanks to @adventure_ali_ Been wanting to do this all along but I didn't have her mad graphic design skills!

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8pm on a Wednesday evening and there are so many people out and about on George St. The light rail has made such a massive difference and I'm sure the new metro will contribute even more.

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The Rolex Submariner is arguably the iconic sports Rolex. This is a ref. 16610 from 2000. At the time it was looked down on as the "starter Rolex". However, this particular watch is very special because it was my dad's, and my mum left it to me after he died this afternoon. 💔😢

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2 years

Just because you are an advocate for LGBT, indigenous rights, disabled people or whatever other entirely worthy cause and also a member of the relevant group, doesn't mean that you can't also be a thoroughly horrible and nasty person.

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I have a proposal. When the new Sydney Metro West opens in 2032, it should be named after the person who had the vision to plan, finance and commence construction of it. I look forward to riding the Gladys Line.

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2 years

@amyriscool @LauraMiers It's a mental illness at this stage to wear a mask when sleeping or showering. Please seek help.

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The WHO just downgraded SARS-CoV-2 to a BSL-2 level pathogen for lab work and the meltdown is just beginning. What are all those people who were wailing about being exposed to a BSL-3 pathogen going to do now? 😱🤭😂

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YIMBY on the left, NIMBY on the right. Who says that pictures can't tell a thousand words?

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Don’t know who needs to hear this, but the public health care system exists to serve the public, not the other way around. The public never needs to do [insert action] because public health care is stressed. It’s the government’s responsibility to fix that, not the public’s.

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"My mask kept me from getting COVID for 3 years." Oh, but I WFH, shop online, don't go to restaurants, bars or a gym, haven't been to family or friends gatherings for 3 years nor concerts or other events, haven't travelled and probably got lucky too. But my mask kept me "safe".

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Whilst disabled people should receive the support that they received, this is a train wreck. How can the cost of the NDIS already exceed that of Medicare? Disastrous!

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@amapresident DO YOU CONSIDER THIS AN APPROPRIATE COMMUNICATION STYLE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE AMA? I DON'T.

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5 months

Chinese food in Australia has improved in leaps and bounds, with a huge variety of authentic regional Chinese food now available, but I have to say that I have a soft spot for the Australian Chinese restaurant, mostly found outside the big capital cities.

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When the time comes, and the last of their kind are shut down and sold off, who will remember the old Chinese-Australian restaurant?

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Do people honestly believe that the CFMEU is the only trade union in which corrupt, criminal or even questionable practices have been occurring? 👀

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6 months

Why would you blindly follow your boarding pass for a connecting flight that was probably printed many hours ago when you first checked in, rather than, you know, checking the many monitors in the airport? SMH Traveller letters section never fails to deliver.

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The new Victoria Cross metro station, it's over station development and its immediate surrounds are 11/10 good!

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The meltdown over the statement that long COVID is no different to other post-viral syndromes is so good because long COVID was their unproveable doomsday cult shibboleth that they could always point to as why COVID was a super scary special disease, and it's been called out. 🍿

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@amandacenin1 Nobody in Australia got forced into a concentration camp for not being vaccinated.

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Rookie bloody error. I always forget that seat 9A on Qantas' 737-800s don't have a window. 🤦

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Are the people screaming for the return of COVID restrictions mostly from the minority of people who haven't yet had it and are getting ever more anxious as they see the tide closing in? I doubt that anybody who had a mild infection would call for the return of restrictions.

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So great that the era of building beautiful public infrastructure continues in Sydney. But of course there will be sooks who say it's a waste of money.

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@MervHughes332 Merv, loved your work as a cricketer, but nowhere in Kate's post does it indicate that she was breaking any of the rules. Even in the darkest depths of Victoria's lockdown, people were allowed to take their kids for outdoor exercise.

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It's crazy that in Victoria, there are no mandatory medical nor driving tests for older drivers. It's a self-assessment and there is no reporting obligation on doctors either. In NSW a medical is required every year from 75 and a driving test every two years from 85.

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A 92-year-old male driver has reportedly hit the wrong pedal before crashing through the front window of a Bakers Delight in Mentone this morning. Six people were inside the shop on Florence Street and managed to escape unharmed, while the elderly driver was taken to hospital

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1 year

@KathrynHenzler Hating seeing people's smiles is the ultimate form of misanthropy.

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1 year

Today I was reminded that New Zealand banned the online sale of fiction books during their first lockdown in March 2020 because they were "non-essential items". Incredible stuff.

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The crazy Kiwi corona book ban | The Spectator Australia

New Zealand’s Ardern government has outdone even the world’s most authoritarian regimes, banning the sale of fiction. Emails have issued from a range of booksellers, including UBS, which has a small…

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This is the face of extreme health anxiety.

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Masks & HEPAs

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Add an air cleaner to your setup. DO NOT take off your mask inside. Leave the building and get far away from ppl to eat. Keep your elastomeric ready to don and hold by hand fast if a person surprises you while eating. DM me If you want help making one of these portable purifiers.

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For those who think Australia's tax system is not progressive - the top 1% of taxpayers in Australia paid 18.3% of total income taxes and the top 10% paid almost half of the total. The bottom 50% paid just 11.6%.

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Full MEL-SYD flight on a Friday arvo. Guy 1 who boarded late asked Guy 2 in the row in front to move his one (small) carry-on from the overhead locker to under the seat in front so he could put his enormous wheelie bag there instead. Guy 2 tells Guy 1 to get f$&ked. Good! 👍

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Guy at my gym still wearing a *cloth* mask to work out, in September 2024. And his trainer panders to his anxiety by wearing a mask whilst training him, which he promptly takes off as soon as the guy is gone. People are broken.

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5 months

With the increase in passport fees to $396 in yesterday's Federal budget, if I'm not mistaken, the Aussie passport has now become the most expensive in the world. And there's a $100 additional fee for a 5-day turnaround and $252 for 2-days.

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2024 Budget reveals new fees for Australian passports

A price rise from July 1 will make the Australian passport one of the world’s most expensive

www.executivetraveller.com

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1 month

The dog abusing woman is back at it again. 👎

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2 years

So he catches a flight looking like an Asian Darth Vader, but used the wrong filters in his praying mantis mask thereby rendering the whole setup useless. You can’t make this stuff up!

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2 years

New study on 37,732 BA.2 infections amongst Quebec HCWs shows prior vax+BA.1 infection gave *NINETY SIX* percent protection against BA.2 infection, with no evidence of waning after 5 months. Now tell me once again that hybrid immunity doesn't exist?

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7 months

Didn't realise that people like this still existed in Australia in 2024. Wow.

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2 years

Victoria spent $125m on 51,000 HEPA filters for schools in early 2022 and until very recently had a mask mandate for >8yo primary schoolkids. What did this achieve? The highest seroprevalence in under 20s in the whole of Australia. And the COVID zeros question why we need RCTs.

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9 months

PSA: It is an absolutely terrible idea to avoid healthcare because you are afraid of catching COVID, whether or not the doctor chooses to wear a mask. My dad died of entirely treatable prostate cancer because he deferred going for scans due to fear of catching COVID.

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6 months

Finally we have The Lancet publishing a debunking of the nonsense claim, repeated by none less than the WHO, that 1 in 10 COVID infections result in long COVID. If your numerator is garbage, your denominator is garbage, then your answer is utter garbage.

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1 year

Some COVID fan fiction from the BBC from August 2020 as to what life would be like in 2025.

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5 months

Every single international arrival into Sydney Airport, four years ago today. A total of seven flights. Today, 27 April 2024, 105 international flights arrived into Sydney Airport. Never again.

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