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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 years

Just marked a decade back in Australia after nearly a decade as a foreign correspondent and, have to say, feel like crying for my country. Right wing conservatism has sapped the life out of Australia, stunting its humanity, ambition and potential. Hard to be optimistic.

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@4mambo

3 years

The culture wars have poisoned the Australian media. It is now almost impossible to find reporting on the Covid crisis which is not influenced by a political agenda of one kind or another. An historic failure by editors, producers, presenters and reporters.

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@4mambo

2 years

The great thing about the best political commentstors - Oakes, Grattan, Lyneham, Carleton et al - was you never knew how they voted. Treated both sides equally robustly. Too many now wear their colours on their sleeves.

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@4mambo

2 years

So much anger about taxpayers’ money being lavished on aborigines. So little anger about rich Australians paying no tax!

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@4mambo

3 years

Australia is relying on the Astra Zeneca vaccine because it does not have the capacity to produce modern mRNA vaccines. Surely, a disastrous example of our failure invest in and keep up with vital technological innovation.

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@4mambo

2 years

In Canberra this morning, had to wait for a motorcade of police bikes, lights flashing, escorting an ancient black Rolls Royce containing GG "whatsisname". Looked utterly absurd and anachronistic. Why do we still put up with this rubbish? Please bring on the republic.

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@4mambo

2 years

I think I just heard the Prime Minister question the deputy Opposition leader, Richard Marles' patriotism to justify not briefing the Opposition on the AUKUS deal. An incredibly serious charge.

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@4mambo

3 years

I spent years sitting in the Press Gallery in Question Time. I think this is government at the ugliest I have ever seen.

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@4mambo

3 years

Why do News Ltd papers write about Covid as though deaths are just a statistic whereas freedom is a deeply felt need which must be met.

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@4mambo

3 years

Been thinking as I have scanned the media in recent weeks that the terms of the public debate in Australia are now almost entirely set by the politicians with the media following rather than leading/holding to account. Very bad for democracy.

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@4mambo

3 years

I have covered the careers of 10 Australian prime ministers. It is hard not to conclude that Scott Morrison is the shallowest, most short-sighted and most self-pitying of them all.

Lisa Wilkinson

@Lisa_Wilkinson

3 years

Wow. So the PM reveals in his press conf that he’s across someone at @SkyNewsAust having an HR complaint against them after a toilet incident, but in 2yrs he was NEVER told by anyone in his own office or @lindareynoldswa about a rape on her ministerial couch? Really? #auspol

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@4mambo

2 years

There is a much bigger thing going on here. Hillsong (Pentecostalism) had taken deep root in the Liberal Party, with potentially big implications of Australia's future. For the ABC to treat it as a normal church is a huge journalistic failure. Watch out Australia!

Mike Carlton

@MikeCarlton01

2 years

Why indeed ? Hillsong is a business, a money-making enterprise based on luring the gullible into a cult and taking their money. A church it is not.

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@4mambo

2 years

Above all else, Australia declaring itself a Republic within the Commonwealth would be a statement to the world and to ourselves of our independence, our confidence and our pride in being the unique nation that we are. I regret that so many people don’t seem to care.

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@4mambo

3 years

Twelve people died of Covid overnight in NSW. Imagine if they had died as the result of a plane crash or a train crash or a terrorist attack. Don't think it would be mentioned as a footnote on a story.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

9 months

It is hard to imagine how Australia will ever escape the burdens of its indigenous disadvantage when such a simple proposition as The Voice faces such widespread hostility, dishonesty and fear. We are a baby nation, unable to grow up.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 years

I notice journalists' suggestions that the Morrison/Macron issue was a matter of national security and that those who criticised Morrison (including Turnbull and Rudd) were siding with another power. This is not only wrong but dangerous. The issue was about Morrison's character!

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

2 months

Are there no senior editors at ABC news any more. How could anyone with basic journalistic skills think it a good idea to interview Barnaby Joyce on this issue. I despair about the decline of editorial standards across the Australian media.

Tony Koch

@TonyKoc69285191

2 months

This is good ole "Can't keep my zip up'' Barnaby lecturing on how to properly treat women. What a repulsive ponce this clown is ... and how disgusting is it that he is a member of our Parliament. Dogshit on the shoe of decency. #auspol

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

1 year

This piece sets out with devastating clarity why the mainstream media's lukewarm (and in some, disgraceful cases zero) coverage of the Robo debt Royal Commission is is so shocking. This surely is one of the biggest of all Australian political stories!

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

I filed this piece on the plane back from Canberra and when I landed I pressed send, then boss phoned as I was driving back to Boonah and suggested a summary "paragraph." I pulled over at a Maccas off the Centenary Highway and wrote this. Glad I did.

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@4mambo

2 years

Are we to conclude that the China/Solomon Islands dialogue came as a shock to Australian intelligence community. After the Aukus deal? Surely a Chinese response was expected. And now we are going cap in hand to Pacific nations for help to prevent it happening. Breathtaking.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

2 years

Having coffee next to a group of middle aged white men discussing the “fake aborigines” who are “running” the Constitutional recognition plan to make it easier to bludge off taxpayers! The racism comes so easiky to them.

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@4mambo

2 years

In all my decades of covering national politics I think this was the most grimly consequential story I covered. It opened the Pandora’s box of xenophobic racism and fear that political leaders had kept the lid on since the end of the White Australia policy. Thank you John Howard!

Canberra Insider

@CanberraInsider

2 years

August 26, 2001: An Indonesian fishing boat with 433 Afghan asylum seekers on board made a distress call in the Indian Ocean, 140 kilometres off Christmas Island. A Norwegian container ship the MV Tampa responded, later being denied entry into Australian waters.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 years

A conservative religious prime minister to introduce a divisive piece of legislation to give special rights to the religious. I never thought I would see that in Australia.

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@4mambo

8 months

So the EU can say it. Why can't Australia?

Andrew Stroehlein

@astroehlein

9 months

"Israel has a right to self-defence, but it has to be done within international law ... cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people is against international law." - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

4 years

John Hewson now a more effective critic of the Government than the official Opposition.

John Hewson

@JohnRHewson

4 years

Seeing how Morrison Govt on prejudice and for mates is selling out our national interest and future Australians-more dirty petrol, diesel, gas and coal power, resetting ARENA, less renewables, delayed decarbonisation of vehicle fleet-costing jobs, export potential-a huge legacy

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 years

I was in Germany when Helmut Kohl chose a young Angela Merkel to be environment minister. Her stengths as a leader that Kohl saw then, are her intelligence, humility and empathy and a determination to govern for all her people, above all else. Great qualities, becoming rare.

Quentin Dempster

@QuentinDempster

3 years

The people of Germany stood on their balconies and applauded for 6 minutes to acknowledge their departing Chancellor Angela Merkel. This exceptional politician (b. 1954) emerged from post war reconstruction to lead Germany and a united, prosperous, peaceful Europe. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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@4mambo

3 years

Scott Morrison, for God's sake lead. Call out this madness and take a stand for a safe community.

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@plesbilongmi

3 years

Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has been forced to indefinitely close his electorate office following death, rape and bomb threats against him and his staff members.

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@4mambo

15 days

I have just had specialist treatment in a public hospital. Most of the medical staff were immigrants. Standard of care exemplary. We benefit hugely from immigration. Playing politics with immigration and multiculturalism is evil. We are fortunate to be a multicultural country.

Lucy Turnbull AO

@LucyTurnbull_AO

16 days

Savva is right. Our hospital, medical, early learning and aged care services are substantially provided by #Immigrants . We need skilled #essentialworkers #tradies

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@4mambo

3 years

I am currently in Perth where there was a total lockdown. They haven’t had a community spread infection for 9 months. No-one has died from the virus in the time. Health workers deal with normal health issues and do not live in fear. The economy is booming and I am free as a bird.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 years

Laura, this is bullshit, My family lives in WA. I have visited WA twice in the past 12 months. None of my family lives in fear. They live very free and care-free lives. They want a safe opening up. Please take off your Sky News blinkers!

Laura Jayes

@ljayes

3 years

After 2 years of fear… West Australians are being told they’ll be the new ‘Italy’ even with the vaccine. And tax payers are the ones footing the bill for this ‘modelling’ Wild 🙃

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

9 months

30 years ago, on the White House lawn, I watched Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shake hands, offering hope, finally, of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Rabin was killed by an extreme right wing Israeli soon after. Extremism has dominated ever since. At terrible cost.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

2 years

Time to reflect on the words of a great Russian, Leo Tolstoy: Patriotism is nothing more than an illusion foisted on the powerless by the powerful, to convice the former to accept all manner of things to benefit the latter.

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@4mambo

2 years

Failing to get any real sense of what is in voters minds in marginal seats where the election will be decided. Far too much focus on leaders' campaigns and far too little deep reporting from the electorate. Media must fundamentally rethink coverage of future campaigns.

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@4mambo

2 years

Was there nobody around the editorial table at the Herald Sun who spoke up and said “this is going to make us a laughing stock”. Does any one of those people look at this today and feel proud of their work?

Mike Carlton

@MikeCarlton01

2 years

“WE ALMOST GOT HIM !” HERO STEPS’ BOLD PLAN TO RID STATE OF PREMIER. Exclusive in tomorrow’s Herald Sun, the top step tells how the pair schemed to deliver Victoria from Dictator Dan. “We sent him tumbling,”the step said. “Somehow he survived. But we won’t give up.”

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@4mambo

2 years

What an incredible piece of TV - the story of Uncle Jack Charles’ discovery of his ancestry, only seen on SBS. All Australians should see it. This is true Australian royalty. This is our story - but given a fraction of the attention being given to the death of an English queen.

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@4mambo

3 years

We ooh and ah over a new Royal baby of only the vaguest connection to Australia but turn away from two Australian-born children held in an immigration prison and for whom our government seems utterly incapable of offering a skerrick of compassion. What does this say about us!

Sean Kelly

@mrseankelly

3 years

It's long past time to end this stupid, cruel situation.

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@4mambo

4 years

We have entered dangerous territory in this country when people with power - not just politicians - no longer see accountability for their actions - regardless of consequences - as fundamental to our democratic system. Whatever you can get away with is simply corruption

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@4mambo

2 years

Correct Peter. I would not have attended an event such as this at the start of a campaign. Poor judgement by those who did.

Peter Logue

@pjlogue

2 years

@GreenJ @RonniSalt I covered federal campaigns in the 70s and 80s and early 90s. Can’t recall any campaign drinks except maybe a dinner, where we paid our way, right at the end. Media drinks a couple of days in is a bit suss. Might be something new.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 years

Barnaby Joyce compares ICAC to the Spanish Inquisition. This is the deputy Prime Minister of Australia saying political corruption is no more than an electoral issue. This is beyond shocking. What a dangerous, bumbling fool he is.

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@4mambo

2 years

If he heads for Australia he will be turned back.

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@ianbremmer

2 years

sri lanka president flees the country on a navy ship

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 years

We are now in Alice in Wonderland politics in Australia. The most successful leader protecting his citizens is the dangerous one. The one letting Covid rip is the star. Ideology over common sense is out of control and taking Australia down a dangerous path.

Quentin Dempster

@QuentinDempster

3 years

In ad hominem attack on WA’s @MarkMcGowan Chris Uhlmann @smh forgets to mention that all Aussies could have been substantially COVID protected by early 2021 had there been sufficient vaccines + no leaks from quarantine. But yes, please sandgropers get vaxed NOW.

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@4mambo

3 years

Several people I have spoken to today who know I am a Canberra political reporter have asked me if I think we are going to go to war with China. Well done Australian media!

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 months

So on the ABC’s 9am bulletin they have Barnaby Joyce speaking on commercial morning TV getting stuck into Rudd over the Trump slag!!! ABC news pretty much at rock bottom!

Denise Shrivell

@deniseshrivell

3 months

@TheRealPBarry We should never forget those who sided with Trump on this. Never.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

8 months

We have entered very dangerous territory in Australian politics. The media has to be less passive and more willing to call out lies and misinformation of the kind that poisoned the Voice debate. Peter Dutton cannot be treated as just another Opposition leader. He is not!

Mike Carlton

@MikeCarlton01

8 months

Dutton will seize anything, no matter how low, no matter how sleazy, if he can use it to whip up fear and loathing for political points. He is a dangerous disgrace, vicious and utterly unprincipled.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 years

How do you know this actually happened Clare? How many sources did you check before you wrote this? Are you proud of the work you did to reassure yourself that you weren't just writing propaganda?

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

6 months

Ita Buttrose has presided over the decline of the ABC into mediocrity. Does she care or was this her brief from the former government, which employed her and slashed the ABC's funding? Whatever, this is a terrible national loss.

Possum Comitatus

@Pollytics

6 months

The ABC current affairs division (in its broadest sense) used to target a wide range of people, but particularly people like me (and alot of you too). They no longer have a current affairs flagship show on any platform. They no longer deal with States like Stateline /

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@4mambo

1 month

An example of excellent journalism but which exposes a big failure of the media in this country - allowing the Dutton opposition to get away with disclaiming any responsibility for Morrison governments failings. History didn't just begin when Labor was elected. Fine work Shane!

Shane Wright

@swrighteconomy

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I've covered every budget since 1998. They normally don't leave me angry. But a $6.5b decision forced on the current government contained in last week's budget is still upsetting me ..

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@4mambo

3 years

Staggering! What has happened to political reporting in this country? This is an historic blow against the integrity of the democratic system. Does no-one have any sense of history? What's wrong with editors? Do they no longer understand their role in a democratic country?

Bernard Keane

@BernardKeane

3 years

Phew. I thought yesterday that Morrison and co had voted to prevent the Speaker's referral of Christian Porter's anonymous mates to the Privileges Committee. But I checked this morning's papers and it seems it didn't happen. Big sigh of relief.

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@4mambo

11 months

It dismays me, Tory. I hear it all around me, even from people I love. The anger towards indigenous Australians is unfathomable. The lack of empathy is shocking. The sense that they are getting something others are not is bizarre. The unthinking racism is heartbreaking.

Troy’s Voice

@TroyPSimpson

11 months

Can someone explain the anger from hard No-voters? Their overwhelming urge to diminish others? Their confidence in assuming they know the lives and backgrounds of those whom their engaging? The insults they hurl? Their refusal to listen? The appalling grammar and spelling?

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

2 years

Has political commentary in Australia ever been shallower and less well informed. The fact that the ABC treats deeply conflicted conservative Greg Sheridan as the country's go-to commentator on foreign affairs proves the point.

Eddy Jokovich

@EddyJokovich

2 years

How surprising for Grant to completely slag off the China-Australia breakthroughs this week, saying has nothing been achieved. Quite naive, things don’t change overnight in diplomatic circles. Sitting down and talking is a big deal. #insiders

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

2 years

Sorry, am I suddenly living back in the 1950s?

Dominic Perrottet

@Dom_Perrottet

2 years

All public transport will be free tomorrow so people can travel to Sydney to witness the historic proclamation of His Majesty The King. The ceremony will be held outside NSW Parliament House tomorrow, commencing at 12.30pm. Everyone is welcomed and encouraged to attend.

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@4mambo

4 years

I have reported on Australian PMs since Whitlam. I think Scott Morrison is the most limited, small view leader of them all.

Janine Perrett

@PerrettReport

5 years

Spare us. More disingenuous spin. More hiding behind the family. You are meant to be leader of a country not a plumber. Morrison defends trip as parental 'juggle' while firefighters prepare to work through Christmas via @smh

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@4mambo

6 months

The Murdoch media/Sky News/Seven West media era of Australian media history is indeed a bleak one. Much of what they do is not journalism, its trash and straight out political propaganda.Oh for the day this stain on quality journalism is erased!

Mike Carlton

@MikeCarlton01

6 months

The media bullying and hounding of this Qantas worker who wore the Palestine pin is sickening. It's not news. It's sleazy shit-stirring, conducted by low-rent hacks from the safety of the Murdoch cowards' castle.

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@4mambo

2 years

How did journalists inside the political bubble and associating closely with Scott Morrison not recognise that his religious faith was a major and disturbing influence on is prime ministership and write about it.

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@RonniSalt

2 years

There is so much more to this escapade than just Scott Morrison repulsing Australians again. You have to understand him to really see what this is about. What you're seeing here is 2 things. 1 - it's the real Scott Morrison. This is how he fancies himself, the messianic leader

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@4mambo

3 years

Politico Europe reporting that French European affairs minister says EU-Aus FTA is off as Australia cannot be trusted. German chair of the European trade committee, agreed deal was in trouble “The willingness to compromise, on the European side, has now certainly decreased."

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

5 years

I live near the centre of Canberra. I am connected to the National Broadband Network. I cannot live stream music because the speed is too slow. The government that installed this economy-stunting system got re-elected because it backed a new coal mine to create jobs. Go figure!

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@4mambo

11 months

That the ABC platforms Sheridan in the name of "balance" is an indictment of the management of the ABC. News Ltd already gives him a huge, prominent platform for his wild and absurd views.

Peter Botsman

@PeterBotsman

11 months

What a shocking, ignorant statement by Greg Sheridan, whose claim is to cover international affairs. He must only talk to people who look like him. You would think that our reputation as a racist country, with a shocking White Australia policy past which practiced segregation of

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

1 year

If you go back and read the political reporting of the Morrison prime ministership no-one had the guts to call him out for his disastrous character faults. The compulsion to be "balanced" was wrong. It's wrong now about Peter Dutton.

James Dunstan

@snowycats

1 year

@RonniSalt When you read this comment on Morrison you realise what a terrible mistake was made by Liberal Party in choosing him as leader & the public in voting for him. Media as well. He is clearly a very nasty individual who was prepared to do or say anything. Oz the worse for having him

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@4mambo

4 months

This casts a very dark shadow over Australian politics. It is imported from the darkest reaches of US right wing politics and represents a style of political campaigning which is very dangerous!

Marie Coleman AO PSM

@MarieColemanAO

4 months

Rightwing political group Advance mounts ‘unprecedented’ campaign against Labor in Dunkley

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@4mambo

26 days

Until the 1970s, Australia had an official policy of racism - the White Australia Policy. To seriously suggest that we utterly cleansed ourselves of racism since then is absurd! We are our history, even if we hate being told so!!

2GB Sydney

@2GB873

26 days

One of the ABC’s high-profile presenters, Laura Tingle, has labelled Australia as a “racist country”. 😳 Many proud Aussies have hit back 👉 |

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@4mambo

7 months

ABC is reporting four women dead in recent days, killed by men. Soon, Australian gaols will be clogged with men who have killed women. What on earth is wrong with Australian men?

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@4mambo

3 months

How does he know it was an accident? He doesn’t and to write this now is pro-Israel propaganda, not journalism!

Scott Burchill

@IRanalyst

3 months

And the cardigan with another priceless contribution

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@4mambo

1 year

I was proud to work for the AFR for many years. No-one could be proud of this. How did it get into the paper?

Matt Kean MP

@Matt_KeanMP

1 year

The racist trope of Thomas Mayo in today's full page AFR ad has no place in Australian politics. It's a throwback to the Jim Crow era of the Deep South. The No Campaign has every right to be heard but can do much better than this.

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@4mambo

2 years

And our Prime Minister cooked a fish!

Kate O'Brien

@Kateobrien65

2 years

@barriecassidy I’m a frontline healthcare worker in Melbourne and yesterday it finally got to me and I cried. I let out 2 years of stress and anger and fear because I suddenly feel like we are a rudderless ship, no leader, no plan and what is ahead scares the hell out of me

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@4mambo

2 years

The editors who send young, ill-equipped reporters to cover an election campaign are the people who have failed in their jobs. But this is the consequence of decisions to replace experienced reporters with cheaper juniors - to save money. It has cost the country!

timdunlop

@timdunlop

2 years

The absolute state of our press corps. Election coverage has been a farce from the beginning, and they will go out as they started, screaming like children about imagined wrongs. Concocting controversy where none exists. As a profession, you should be ashamed. What a disgrace.

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@4mambo

1 year

The more we learn about the Morrison government the more disturbing it is that so much of the media seemed unaware or unconcerned about the way it operated and how appalling some of its most senior figures were. A shocking failure by those responsible for holding it to account.

Antony (Tony) Walker

@tonywalker1

1 year

Mr Robert warped sense cabinet solidarity. He had the option of resigning, or threatening to resign. Ministerial accountability distant memory. Sometimes you despair 😑

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

2 years

Does anyone at the ABC have the guts to explain who made the decision to invite this fringe dwelling extremist onto the program and on what grounds?

Scott Burchill

@IRanalyst

2 years

@MikeCarlton01 I thought they had to disclose their funding sources before appearing on the ABC again?

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

6 months

Some of those in our profession who disgracefully swallowed and regurgitated the fake intelligence and defended the Howard government's support of the Iraq war are now doing the same thing over Gaza. people without conscience, with no credibility!

Michael Pascoe

@MichaelPascoe01

6 months

Not everyone in the Australian intelligence game was a lickspittle in 2003, swallowing whatever American spooks made up, regurgitating what Howard & co wanted to hear. Their reservations deserve airing. Minister stands by Iraq invasion call

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 years

Laura, for God's sake, do your job as a journalist - holding power to account, not cheering it on when it is manifestly failing to uphold even basic standards of integrity.

Laura Jayes

@ljayes

3 years

If @GladysB ran for Warringah…. It would be a big headache for Labor. Her very presence on the campaign would permeate well beyond the north side. Potential game changer

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

2 months

Australian politics is spinning out of control. Crazed right wing media is setting agendas with gross exaggerations, lies and unhinged commentary which is driving division and hate and utterly false narratives and other media is losing its bearings. All becoming very dangerous!

Peter Murphy

@PeterWMurphy1

2 months

"While no one was killed during the 9 October protests, the events at the Sydney Opera House were akin to a Port Arthur moment in terms of their social significance." — Liberal Leader Peter Dutton, Comparing pro-Palestine protests to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre. 😡 #auspol

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

2 years

Does Sky have any editorial standards. Bishop was a joke years ago. Now she is a farce.

Ben Fordham Live Parody

@SkyAusNews

2 years

Sky News host Bronwyn Bishop has called for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to step down over his “stomach-churning” embrace of “ghastly satanic influences” such as rock music, immigrants and the gays.

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@4mambo

2 years

How could any journalist worth the name look at this front page and feel proud of their work?

Sharnelle Vella

@SharnelleVella

2 years

Daniel Andrews thoughts re the front page of the Herald Sun today: ‘Can anyone tell me what the point of the story is? Anyone? Are you going to interview the stairs? People can go as low as they want. I’m not going there with them’. @7NewsMelbourne

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@4mambo

3 years

Just watched a commercial news bulletin in which there was no mention of the criminalisation of arrivals of Australian citizens from India. Imagine if this was Australians from the UK. Outrage guaranteed. Australia not racist? What a tragic joke.

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@4mambo

3 years

In Norway, health authorities warned that if no countermeasures were taken Omicron could infect up to 300,000 people a day compared with the previous peak of about 1,000 cases. But in Australia we are going to "stare it down".

Mr Denmore

@MrDenmore

3 years

Anyone know where to access this ‘stare down’ vaccine?

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

1 year

I long felt John Howard’s agenda was regressive and would take Australia to darker places in our past. I got to the point I could not be objective about him and and left Canberra to work overseas. I now feel the same about Dutton. To me he’s a dark shadow over Australia’s future.

Paul Bongiorno

@PaulBongiorno

1 year

Excellent analysis from a throughly thoughtful writer:

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

6 months

That Campbell Newman was once Premier of Queensland is almost as insane as the fact that Tony Abbott became Prime Minister of Australia. Every point he makes here is wrong. He either knows that but doesn’t care or he is alarmingly ignorant.

Mike Carlton

@MikeCarlton01

6 months

In which ol’ Campbell, failed army officer, failed politician, bursts the bubble of a Nobel prize winner 😂

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

4 months

Nuclear madness! But the media treats it seriously. For God’s sake, is there no editor in this country with the guts to say to the Opposition “this is rubbish” and we are not going to treat it seriously.

David Milner

@DaveMilbo

4 months

This is like if the ALP was pressed about upgrading the nation's roads and they said they were working on flying cars instead, and they'd have a policy reallllllly soon, and every outlet in the country started talking about how sweet flying cars are. Children run our newspapers.

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@4mambo

1 year

SMH goes all Daily Telegraph! I can't think of a single editor I worked under at Fairfax for over 40 years who would have run this in this way. This is alarmist, Murdoch-style , click-bait journalism.

Antony (Tony) Walker

@tonywalker1

1 year

Hmmm 😑

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

1 year

Actions always speak louder than words and, on the matter of indigenous affairs, John Howard has zero credibility. Never forget the utterly disgraceful and divisive role he played in the outrageous scare campaign against native title!

Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

1 year

Says the man who sidelined Patrick Dodson in the 1990s to derail the reconciliation movement…

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@4mambo

3 months

ABC news is lost! Just appalling!

𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬

@MrDTJames

3 months

Why is ABC news Melbourne leading with a “report card” on Victoria’s economy by the IPA as if they are credible think tank??

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@4mambo

2 years

Indeed Wendy. His speech to Margaret Court’s church is very disturbing. He puts his faith above his secular duties. That makes his faith a matter of public concern, not a private matter. For it to be revealed only now in a quite bizarre speech is shocking.

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@4mambo

3 years

I retweet this in light of the news thst Margaret Court is to recieve Australia’s highest honour..we need a deeper understanding of the growing power and influence of Christian right wing fundamentalism in Australia.

Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

3 years

I’d really like to read a deeply reported piece about the growing infiltration of the Liberal Party by the radical Christian Right. It now has significant influence in the government. We need to know more about these fundamentalists, their beliefs, their ideology and loyalties.

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@4mambo

1 year

When someone who poses as an expert is so wrong so often why go back to them and ask their opinion again? A question for ABC editorial management. I simply don't get it!

Paul Begley

@yelgeb

1 year

Had to turn off #insiders Greg Sheridan calling nonsense on Prof Hugh White's AUKUS analysis was too much. Sheridan bought the lie of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in 2003 and called the fall of Baghdad the end of the war despite bloodshed continuing for more than a decade.

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@4mambo

3 years

This is utterly pissweak. What is happening in the US is a threat to the democratic free world. It demands strong responses from democratic leaders. It is our business. This is a failure of leadership by our Prime Minister. Shocking!

Brett Mason

@BrettMasonNews

3 years

Does Donald Trump bear some responsibility for undermining democracy and inciting some of the chaotic scenes we've seen in the US Capitol Building overnight? "I'm not here to offer a running commentary on what should be happening in the United States" @ScottMorrisonMP #auspol

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@4mambo

3 years

This is a very important comment by one of the nation's journalistic icons...Michelle is the personification of integrity. When she rings the alarm bell the whole country should take notice.

Michelle Grattan

@michellegrattan

3 years

@fbongiornoanu The media serve the 'national interest" by seeking the facts, and getting all sides' views on matters. We are not a country at war. The apparent dragging in of patriotic duty is very bad, deliberately misrepresenting the role of the media is in strong democracy.

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@4mambo

3 years

Indeed Max. What shocks me is how the line between news and propaganda now seems utterly blurred - and how so many in the media now can't tell the difference.

Max Uechtritz

@plesbilongmi

3 years

@abcnews Should be a milestone moment for some media. Newsroom bosses should lead reviews of "journalism" where a critical, independent organ of justice (ICAC) was demonised in a pre-emptive fact-free defence of a "loved" politician. Little wonder the declining trust in our craft.

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@4mambo

2 months

28 per cent of Australians were foreign born. Aust born getting a bigger share of public housing! This post by a shock jock is filth!

Cheryl Kernot

@cheryl_kernot

2 months

How about regulating this racist misinformation designed to divide us??

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@4mambo

12 days

ABC news policy has changed from calling the news as they see it by trusted reporters to second guessing how its output will be received by its right-wing critics and shaping output accordingly. Result: A disastrous collapse into near irrelevance.

Linda Martin

@LMStrategy

12 days

@Davo55061519 @JACKHEARTS11 @4mambo It’s true, but honest, timely, informative news is something democracy relies on. We need it. I want my ABC back.

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@4mambo

2 months

I was with Paul Keating when he kissed the ground at Kokoda. RSL and right-wingers howled. Yet standing next to Keating, overwhelmed by the breathtaking beauty of the place and knowing the hideous horror of what took place there it required some gesture. Keating was right

Terry Sweetman

@Terrytoo69

2 months

Unbelievable the petty minded and spiteful stuff being posted because the PM is going to spend Anzac Day at a place sacred to the memory of hundreds of Australians. That's precisely the sort of thing PMs of any political hue are expected to do.

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@4mambo

4 months

Saw that and was staggered. Surely Hastie could have been recorded and replayed after the full details of the government announcement were revealed. ABC policy of “balance” has given this Opposition greater media space than any previous Opposition.

Robert

@RW2023141

4 months

ABC at it again! Defence Minister Richard Marles announces naval ship acquisition program. ABC showed 15 sec clip of announcement and then immediately switches to media conference by Shadow Defence Minister Hastie for full 5 mins. This is wrong, very wrong. ABC promoting LNP.

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@4mambo

3 months

Matt Kean, truth telling, standing out from his miserable right wing colleagues.

Matt Kean MP

@Matt_KeanMP

3 months

I have worked closely with Sam Mostyn over many years. In everything she did I saw her trying to make a better country. That was most clear with her successful advocacy and policy work for women, as well as her drive for stronger climate action.

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@4mambo

24 days

I can’t help but wonder how Jason Stephens would have coped in the years of great, brave news and current affairs by people like Richard Carleton, Kerry O’Brien, Jim Middleton etc! Years of relentless conservative assault on the ABC has seriously weakened it!

Rohan Connolly

@rohan_connolly

24 days

Absolute cowardice (again) from ABC top brass, caving in to usual blowhards & opportunists. Tingle's widely-held (& I believe correct) view doesn't compromise her. Sad how Australia gets angrier about claims of racism than it does about actual racists.

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@4mambo

2 years

The rush to defend Gina Hancock sickens me, especially when it comes amid the news of the racist murder of 15-uear-old aboriginal boy in her home town. She could use her wealth and power to advocate for action against racism. Instead she looks the other way.

Mike Carlton

@MikeCarlton01

2 years

Phew ! At last: some commonsense and decency on the Rinehart-Netball Shock Horror, from ⁦ @JennaPrice ⁩ . A useful antidote to the shrieks and squeals of outrage from Lord Murdoch’s serfs and toadies.

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@4mambo

11 months

In the Voice debate there is one underlying truth that should be at the centre - the No campaign is not really about the merits of the proposal. Its prime motivation is to deny Albanese his signature reform and do him political damage with little care for aboriginal people.

Peter Singer

@PeterSinger

11 months

One of my readers has asked for my view on the proposed constitutional amendment to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament. I will vote "yes." The Voice isn't enough, but it's better than nothing.

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@4mambo

3 months

I covered the Kosovo war. Saw some terrible things perpetrated by both sides. Don’t think Greg ever covered a war so he seems to think in this war one side is pure evil doing evil things, the other all virtuous, incapable of doing evil things. I know, it doesn’t work like that!

Scott Burchill

@IRanalyst

3 months

Disgusting apologetics, denying Israel are agents in the murder of aid workers: speechless

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@4mambo

2 years

Have to say, Gay, a lot of commentators who do live in Victoria don’t seem to know what is going on there.

Gay Alcorn

@Gay_Alcorn

2 years

Sick of commentators who do not live in Victoria giving ill-informed views as though they know what’s happening here.

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@4mambo

3 years

I am amazed how little has been made of this. Generals in uniform doing the work of politicians and public servants is a step down a very slippery road. The passivity of the Opposition and the media is alarming.

Rohan Connolly

@rohan_connolly

3 years

Brilliant from Guy Rundle in @crikey_news . Where's the questioning of this govt's fetish for military handling of civil tasks? Even a raised eyebrow? Not from Labor. Nor an acquiescent media. Would be good if someone from either camp discovered a backbone.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

13 days

I have not seen in my many decades of observing politics a leader so captured by the agenda of a single person: Peter Dutton is Gina Rinehart’s sock puppet!

Scott Phillips

@TMFScottP

14 days

Maybe they have some compelling polling. But this doesn't seem like a strategy that wins you government... #auspol

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@4mambo

2 years

This government is just a circus. It’s time is up. Media that argues now is not the time for change, that Albanese is an “unknown quantity” and therefore too risky, that Labor hasn’t done enough to earn government etc is failing the country. It is time for change.

David Crowe

@CroweDM

2 years

Messy start to the campaign with a question mark over who is in cabinet.

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Geoff Kitney

@4mambo

5 years

Fairfax Media, turning in its grave.

amanda meade

@meadea

5 years

Shocked that @smh chose to run an in-house announcement about Stefanovic on p1 instead of the bushfires, relegated to a pointer to p7

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@4mambo

3 years

All Seven care about it getting noticed. The more outrageous the "celebrities" the more they like it. But how did these people get priority over trapped ordinary Australians. I have two children living overseas. Haven't seen them for two years! I'm bloody angry!

Mike Carlton

@MikeCarlton01

3 years

So 5th rate "celebrities" Caitlin Jenner and the odious Katie Hopkins can fly here for a shitfer-brains TV show...while Australians are banned from coming home. How fucked is that ?

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