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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

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New @WeekOnWednesday podcast is out now: #auspol #education #endviolenceagainstwomen

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 years

If QAnon people are “excited” about your election and you invite them to parliament and you keep communicating with them and you hire them to work in your household, you don’t get to be “offended” when people think you’re facilitating QAnon. Because you are. #4corners #QAnonPM

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Ben Davison

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5 years

Gough made education for all Fraser wrecked it. Hawke made Medicare Howard wrecked it. Rudd made the NBN Turnbull wrecked it. Gillard made the NDIS Morrison wrecked it. Labor creates, makes & delivers all that makes Australia great Liberal/Nationals, wreck, ruin and break #auspol

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Ben Davison

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2 years

Morrison giving $2billion to Qantas at a time when their TOTAL market capitalisation was about $3.3billion & getting ZERO equity & ZERO job guarantees should be a matter for ICAC Qantas market capitalisation is now $7.4BILLION 2/3rds of that should be ours But it’s not #auspol

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Ben Davison

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3 years

I don’t want a Prime Minister who wishes it were different. I want a Prime Minister that makes a difference. #auspol #MorrisonFailure #TimeToGiveSomeoneElseAGo

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Ben Davison

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1 year

Anyone who argues we should give $2billion a year in tax concessions to 11,000 people who already have $5million JUST IN THEIR SUPER is trying to con you into believing that one day you’ll be that rich But you won’t Partly because you’ll be paying for the 11,000 who are #auspol

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Ben Davison

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2 years

In just six months Bevan’s @smh has: -Run Liberal Party lines by calling a lockout a strike (overruling his journos) -Outed Rebel Wilson (then thrown journo under the bus) -Used the word “sniper” in a headline about our PM the day after an international political assassination

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Ben Davison

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2 years

Qantas board member @toddsampsonOz has a new TV series coming out on @Channel10AU that’s about screen usage and it’s impact on society. Todd, your company unlawfully sacked 2,000 people. Want to improve society? Start with addressing your CEO’s unlawful behaviour, champ. #auspol

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Ben Davison

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2 years

Given Albo had to debate David Speers can we make Morrison debate Jordan Shanks? @friendlyjordies #QandA #auspol

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Ben Davison

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4 years

“Good blokes” don’t: -set their kids on fire -set their ex on fire -groom their students -protect sexual predators -defend sexual predators on TV -defend men who set their kids and ex on fire #GoodBlokesDont

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Ben Davison

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2 years

Apparently Peter Dutton went on the ABC to let Australians know has been misunderstood due to the words, actions and writings of Peter Dutton. It remains to be seen if Peter Dutton will be suing Peter Dutton for defamation #4Corners

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Ben Davison

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3 years

If you’re suffering without work or income it’s because the Morrison government has decided to fund the likes of Gerry Harvey but not you. Your problem isn’t lockdown. It’s trickledown economics. Your enemy isn’t masks. It’s Morrison. #auspol #freedomrally #AustraliaHasFallen

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Ben Davison

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3 years

Morrison dancing for Twiggy Forrest to a misappropriated Jimmy Barnes song as they both play high viz dress ups, while forcing insecurely employed miners to play along is 100% of the Liberal Party’s economic platform. #auspol

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Ben Davison

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2 years

“Well my view was always that if you’re going to lose government you might as well lose your own seat.” #savotes

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Ben Davison

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4 years

Imagine being so distant from reality you think 4% is ok for a death rate but too high for a wage rise #QandA

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Ben Davison

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3 years

Did we pay Scott Morrison $1,500 (plus travel expenses) today to get a haircut, make pasta and go car shopping? #auspol

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Ben Davison

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3 years

A short thread on why, as a Victorian, I care so much about #COVID19nsw . Firstly, Victorians did so much to protect, not just Victoria but, the whole nation in 2020.

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Ben Davison

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2 years

Today my mum got COVID She has underlying respiratory health conditions & because she’s been unwell for months was due to undergo a category 1 diagnostic surgical procedure on Wednesday Diagnosis of her condition will now be delayed Morrison’s “living with COVID” is sickening

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Ben Davison

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1 year

Currently the referendum is boiling down to: Who do we trust more? Albo, Marcia Langton, Noel Pearson, Ken Wyatt, Linda Burney & the 86% of indigenous Australians who want the Voice so vote YES OR Dutton, Andrew Bolt, Lidia Thorpe, Rowan Dean & “WAR” so vote NO I’m voting YES

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Ben Davison

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2 years

Tim Smith’s comments about violence in sport have gotten under my skin. My youth was full of violent men. Men who’d go out onto a sports field and be applauded for acts of violence Men who beat their dogs, their wives, their children, my mother, me. Even kill my pets. 1/7 🧵

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Ben Davison

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3 years

Morrison defended his backbench spreading Americanised conspiracies with; “there’s freedom of speech in Australia” But he’s spent everyday as PM trying to ban the Eureka flag from building sites & threatening companies that allow union signs Morrison has failed freedom of speech

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Ben Davison

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2 years

I’ve been to a lot of rallies in my time and if someone had come to any of those with a gallows and nooses the media would be demanding the AFP arrest people. There is a violent, foreign influenced, extremist minority trying to intimidate our democracy. #SpringSt #auspol

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Ben Davison

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2 years

@hughriminton Hollie Hughes got elected with 28,336 1st preference votes. Which is 0.6% of the vote in NSW, the state she represents in the Senate. Be her logic 99.4% of people didn’t vote for her and she has even less of a mandate to do anything. And she was TOP of the Liberal ticket! 🤦‍♂️

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Ben Davison

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2 years

Chris Uhlmann. Is an opinion columnist who pretends to be a journalist. #ausvotes

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

1 year

When the Liberal Party defends a $1,500,000,000 tax concession for 11,000 people who have more than $5m in super but oppose helping teachers, nurses, aged care & disability workers get a pay rise and improve their retirements….because of the cost…. #auspol

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Ben Davison

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4 months

Jim is retired so pays zero tax but he has TWO adult children earning $200,000+ A YEAR Jim’s unhappy with tax reforms that will see them get $4,500 each & deliver tax cuts for 11.5 million Australians Jim clearly doesn’t realise he’s a miserable greedy old man Poor Jim #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 years

Scott Morrison Won’t, Won’t stand up for women Won’t stand up for elders Won’t stand up for workers Won’t stand up for students Won’t stand up for farmers Won’t stand up for the NDIS Won’t stand up for veterans Won’t stand up for bushfire victims Won’t get my vote. #auspol

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Ben Davison

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3 years

Anybody else notice that Morrison seems to be taking weekends off? Like fully off. No tweets. No appearances. No press conferences. Just punches out at 4pm on a Friday and isn’t heard from until Monday. It’s not entirely normal behaviour for a Prime Minister.... #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

4 years

I had cause today to consider my life I realised, despite many disappointments in the last 18 months, how lucky I am I am healthy, employed & have many of the people I love And I know, not believe, but know that I have a premier who wants me to live & thrive #IStandWithDan

Catherine Andrews

@CathLAndrews

4 years

This man does not stop. Thank you to everyone who is doing the right thing. We are in this together. #istandwithdan ❤️❤️❤️

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Ben Davison

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2 years

The scale of financial power that the Commonwealth has it its disposal is highlighted by the fact that Angus Taylor can waste a BILLION dollars at the same time Dutton wastes a BILLION dollars but no one notices until Labor takes a fine tooth comb through the accounts. #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

4 years

Tim Wilson has taken every opportunity to attack state governments and promote privatised aged care. He’s actually disgusting #QandA

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

4 years

I’m less impressed with Twiggy given his history of tax minimisation & profiteering than I am the bloke down the road who gave 5% of his income this fortnight AND pays taxes. Let’s not applaud parasites for spitting back a bit of what they’ve sucked out of us. #auspol

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Ben Davison

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2 years

I just hope Tim finds people who help him move past his fake concept of “manliness” That he can start to leave behind the childish notions of violence being a show of strength I hope he finds an understanding that the actions he’s praising are sad & weak, childish & dangerous 7/7

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Ben Davison

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1 year

We need to stop pretending that Australia “can’t afford” things We can afford subs, NDIS, public education, housing, roads, living wages & healthcare We just have to tax the very rich & profitable companies & stop believing the media owned by them telling us we can’t #auspol

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Ben Davison

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3 months

I’ve said this before and I stand by it: If a few people with nothing but the shirts on their back washing up on an Australian coastline scares you then you’re a coward and god forbid you should ever be in a position where your only hope is to get on a boat fleeing for your life

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Ben Davison

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3 years

I can’t imagine another democratic country where two ministers could be involved in covering up rape allegations for over a year but not get sacked. Or where the PM’s office had embedded a staffer with one of those ministers but the PM’s office somehow still didn’t know. #auspol

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Ben Davison

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5 years

My family contains Baptists, Catholics, Mormans & atheists. They’ve never been stopped from going to church, mass, temple or a football game. Australia has religious freedom. What Morrison wants is freedom to be cruel without consequence. That’s oppression. #auspol

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Ben Davison

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5 years

Morrison: We have to do anything, and I mean ANYTHING, to keep America happy. Australians: WHY? They are soooo broken. Morrison: They are our allies. We rely on them for our defence! Kurds: We will let you know how that works out.... #auspol #KurdishAllies #KurdsBetrayed

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Ben Davison

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2 years

Morrison has “toughened the laws” on foreign ownership. He says on a news channel owned by a foreign corporation and chaired by a foreign citizen… #leadersdebate #ausvotes #auspol

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Ben Davison

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3 years

Gladys has trashed all of it. Didn’t lockdown Didn’t protect the most vulnerable Won’t follow health advice Gets Morrison’s help Kept open borders & infected others Acts unilaterally Now she won’t even front her own people, let alone the rest of Australia She’s a menace #auspol

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Ben Davison

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3 years

Partly I’m angry the homophobe is getting honoured because Morrison wants that fight, not the fights on privatised aged care or digital sham contracting, or on him leaving 2 million unemployed/under employed, or his cuts to retirements, to jobseeker, to wages & job security.

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Ben Davison

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3 years

This is not to say that Sydneysiders haven't done what they've been asked to do. My partner has been in lockdown since the first Sydney restrictions in June. We haven't seen each other while she's caring for her mum It is Gladys who has failed. Failed NSW. Failed Australia.

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Ben Davison

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2 years

For business lobbyists concerned about workers going on strike there’s one simple trick to stop workers taking industrial action: Pay people fairly and treat them with respect. #auspol

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Ben Davison

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2 years

I’m genuinely confused how Alan Tudge is still a minister and I’m even more confused by it following the resignation of Tim Paine. Do we hold our cabinet ministers to lower standards than our cricket captains? #auspol

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Ben Davison

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2 years

Morrison: We won’t be providing rapid COVID tests to people. That’s up to the states. Also Morrison: We are going to redefine “close contact” BECAUSE I AM THE PRIME MINISTER AND I DECIDE WHAT WORDS MEAN!

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Ben Davison

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3 years

Three years ago Shorten asked why our Afghan interpreters were refused resettlement. Six months ago Morrison announced our withdrawal. Five months ago he closed the embassy. Today claims he can’t save them. He could have and should have. He chose to leave them behind. #auspol

Gabrielle Jackson

@gabriellecj

3 years

Australia will not be able to rescue all Afghans who served alongside military, Scott Morrison says

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Ben Davison

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10 months

"I am voting YES because First Nations people need their voice enshrined in the constitution. We must also acknowledge, respect and celebrate that people have been on this land for 60,000 years, not just the last 200, in the foundation document of our Commonwealth” #auspol #yes23

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Ben Davison

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3 years

Alan “I had an affair with my staffer” Tudge is questioning people’s commitment to Australian values? Alan Tudge The man who campaigned against marriage equality, because it would undermine the sanctity of marriage WHILE he was having an affair, wants a “values” debate? #auspol

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Ben Davison

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6 years

Dude getting $200,000 a year, 3 staff, a comcar, an office, lives in leafy eastern Melbourne suburbs, has his phone, bills, printing and electronics paid for is "against the nanny state." Sounds more like he's just for himself and against anyone not him #auspol

Tim Wilson

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12 years

To those of you who why I'm so hardline against the #nannystate , it's quite simple - I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees ...

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Ben Davison

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5 years

I still remember this "meddlesome priest" showing up to Christmas lunch with a car full of hams and clothes and toys to distribute to the disadvantaged, the lonely and the alone No one had asked. He just delivered. We need more priests like him. Live long and well Bob.

FatherBob

@FatherBob

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I’d hoped to grow old gracefully....my own fault to hear from off stage “Who will rid us of this meddlesome priest?”

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Ben Davison

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5 years

Abbott Bolt Jones Kenny Devine Henderson Shanahan Sheridan All defended/advocated for a now convicted sexual predator In some cases they attacked those seeking justice They should be sacked and forever barred from mainstream media (TV,Radio, Newspapers) and public office #auspol

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Ben Davison

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5 years

This is Australia. We don’t do “thoughts and prayers” We do “support and solutions” This wanna be American President needs to wake up to himself, help these communities and tackle our changing climate.

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Ben Davison

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2 years

Given the pharmacy guild has denied being consulted by Morrison and he claims that the RATS decision was driven by consultation with business. And Harvey Norman is now selling RATs who wants to bet that, like with jobkeeper, Gerry Harvey put in a call to the Morrison Gov? #auspol

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Ben Davison

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5 years

I’m confused about the point of Morrison’s trip to the US Why did he go? He seems to have gone there just to give them our jobs (Pratt’s factory) & our money (for Mars) He did get to prance about with our plutocrats at the Whitehouse...I’m sure that was worth the $10M #auspol

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Ben Davison

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3 years

Canberra based journos whining that Dan made ACT a red zone for Victoria should direct their complaints to #MorrisonVaccineCrisis & #GladysSuperSpreader because those of us in Victoria who lived through lockdown & now have sick family stuck in Sydney don’t want to hear it #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

5 years

Morrison is saying “stuff costs more because of unions” to try justifying his attacks on workers You know what “costs more because of unions”? Wages. Your wages are higher because of unions That’s the “cost” Morrison is tying to bring down: Your wages #auspol #insiders #ausunions

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 months

Morrison had categorically ruled out a “wage subsidy” program. It was the union movement that wouldn’t let millions slip into unemployment overnight. #auspol #Nemesis

Sally McManus

@sallymcmanus

3 months

Just a reminder that JobKeeper was the idea of Australian unions & we had to drag the Morrison Govt kicking and screaming to implement it #Nemesis

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Ben Davison

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4 years

This guy worked at KPMG & the Productivity Commission as they fought for some of the most anti-worker, job offshoring, sovereignty selling trade policies in human history. But sure, let’s reminence about clothes lines & 50’s style sexism while wearing high viz, spiv #auspol

Senator Matt Canavan

@mattjcan

4 years

Installed 100% Aussie made Austral clothesline today. Disappointing that Hills Hoists are Made in China. Great product from Austral though. Support Aussie manufacturing jobs 🇦🇺 ... And timing is a coincidence but the missus is happy with the early Mother's Day present!

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Ben Davison

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2 years

So yeah, Tim Smith MP with all his privileges and his lack of first hand experience of being “biffed”, of watching people he knows and loves being “biffed”, of losing friends who can’t take being “biffed” anymore, bemoaning the lack of “biff” in sport gets under my skin. 6/7

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Ben Davison

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2 years

@MikeCarlton01 I truly believe journalism is part of democratic processes We all expect social interaction between professionals But for journalists, not commentators, to let a party leader “host” them during a campaign is, at best, failing to grasp how unconscious bias works At worst corrupt

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

5 years

Tim finally found the Liberal base. Multi-millionaires over 65 living in Sydney's north shore who pocket tax refunds without paying any taxes. The Liberal Party's natural constituency. #auspol #ChangeTheRules

Tim Wilson

@tw4goldstein

5 years

The crowd is so big at Dee Why RSL for the Inquiry into Labor’s attack of retiree’s full tax refunds we had to expand the room ... #Auspol

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Ben Davison

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4 years

The “far left”: we need universal healthcare, living wages, equitable access to education, pollution controls, equality for all. The “far right”: we must kill Muslims, Jews, feminists and foreigners Dutton: These are the same. Narrator: They. Are. Not. #auspol

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Ben Davison

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6 years

Just to be clear turning off a pay tv service on public transport because it's airing nazis isn't fascism it's the opposite of fascism. Let me provide some examples of "creeping fascism" from the Australian context in this thread...

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. @sydney__watson : This is very close to what fascism looks like to be honest, where the state uses its power to interfere with private enterprise. It's incredibly disconcerting and doesn't set a good precedent. Who do they go for next? MORE: #Hardgrave

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Ben Davison

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4 years

When Morrison said every job was “essential” what he clearly meant to add was: “Except arts, higher education, ABC, CSIRO, national gallery, any public sector, aviation, casuals with less than 12 months service and workers we imported and have trapped here.” #auspol #Australia

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

2 years

@BevanShields You’ve left this factually incorrect tweet sit on your timeline for 13 hours. You’re supposed to be the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald it’s past time to have some respect, if not for your own integrity, for the integrity of your publication and correct your mistake.

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 years

Things that the pandemic has conclusively proven do not work: -Trickle down economics -Libertarianism -“reaching the natural unemployment rate raises wages” -“Zoom drinks” -Privatised aged care -“Labour market flexibility” -Hotel “quarantine” -Scott Morrison #pandemic #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

4 years

I hear Andrew Laming went on @BreakfastNews and argued against rent relief during #Covid_19 That wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact he’s got two rental properties, owns four blocks of land and is a partner in a property development company would it? #auspol #coronavirus

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

5 years

Keating hits the nail on the head. Employers don't give wage increases instead of lifting super. They just take more profit. Employers increase wages & super when they are made to: by law or worker power #abc730 #ChangeTheRules #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 years

We locked down, we worked from home, we zoomed, we did PPE, we sat in a cold dark winter so the rest of Australia didn’t get COVID. It was hard, no one “enjoyed it”, but we did it because it protected ourselves, our families, Victoria and the nation.

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

6 years

Nobody is attacking Morrison for being Christian We are calling it hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian while doing the exact opposite of what Jesus Christ did It's as if he asks "WWJD" and then does the exact opposite Cuts Pensions Cuts Medicare Cuts penalty rates #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

4 months

Just a reminder that if Albo does change the stage 3 tax cuts he will be reducing his own tax cut to ensure minimum wage, median wage and average wage earners do better Shame that Dutton’s MPs & Senators aren’t prepared to make a contribution to help ordinary Australians #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

5 years

If two little girls, born here, can be exiled because their relatives were born overseas then what’s stopping Morrison’s cruel mind from finding ways to exile you? Your family? Your friends? #letthemstay #hometobilo #HomeToBiloela #auspol #ausunions

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 months

Unemployment at 3.9% Inflation down to 4.1% Annual wage growth is 4.3% This is what good economic management gets More people in work Real wage growth Inflation declining No more neo-liberal trickle down nonsense pretending we need to keep 5% of people out of a job #auspol

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Ben Davison

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2 years

But they also damaged other people. Clearly men like that have damaged Tim Smith. Thankfully my life has also been full of love Men & women who showed me violence is the last refuge of a coward That causing pain doesn’t reduce your own but multiplies in both yourself & others 3/7

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Ben Davison

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2 months

Dutton can’t win a by-election in a Liberal seat Dutton can’t win a by-election in a Labor seat Dutton has zero chance in Teal seats The Coalition has lost all relevance to the lives of ordinary people & relies on boomer muscle memory to get any votes at all #auspol #Dunkley

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

2 years

Men who drank too much, who killed in cars going too fast & too drunk Men who’d be racist just to be cruel, homophobic to be “manly”, sexist for a laugh & murderous in a rage They lived for the “biff” They lived in & spread pain, love was “weakness” They lost everything 2/7

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Ben Davison

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3 years

Fourthly we copped endless flack from Morrison and other states. A never ending stream of vitriol. Refusal to provide financial support. Redirecting vaccines away from us. Demanding we open when unsafe.

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Ben Davison

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1 year

When you’re on stage with Nazis claiming to “protect women’s rights” it’s worth remembering that no trans person ever opened a concentration camp & put nuns, lesbians, socialists, Jewish, Roma or women with disabilities in it to be tortured & die But Nazis did And would again

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

4 years

Peter Dutton is incapable of even apologising for giving two people #Coronavirus . Instead he calls them “opponents” Wtf is wrong with that guy? (Apart from the fact he has Coronavirus....) #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

4 years

The people who want you to access your super to fund this downturn won’t be accessing their super They won’t be touching their retirement savings Remember that they want you to dump your investments at the bottom of a downturn, cheap But they won’t #auspol #COVID ー19 #COVID19

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

4 years

How it started How its going #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

5 years

There’s a wages crisis. Morrison attacks unions There’s a poverty crisis. Morrison attacks the unemployed There’s an environmental crisis. Morrison attacks environmentalists There’s a crisis of corruption in our democracy. Morrison attacks journalists See the pattern? #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 years

Thirdly we started state run vaccine clinics. Morrison government botching the rollout? Fine we will do it ourselves. Not enough vaccine? Ok, let’s prioritise the most vulnerable and essential.

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

2 years

@billshortenmp A minster FOR the NDIS instead of a conga line of ministers against the NDIS. It’s a watershed moment. Congratulations Bill.

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 years

Secondly, We snapped into and out of lockdown whenever needed. Short notice? Fine. 5 days? No problem. Indefinite? Not ideal, but whatever’s needed.

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

4 months

Ever notice how the Coalition is quick to call for boycotts if a company doesn’t adhere to their identity politics but actively defends them when they are stealing workers wages & price gouging Australians? The Coalition is obsessed with projecting identity politics into #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

2 years

Good people from all sorts of places showed me the joy of sport, played with skill & passion & for the sake of the team. People showed me that justice, not revenge, starts the healing. Who showed me a man who doesn’t resort to violence is always stronger than a man who does 4/7

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

5 years

I just then stopped to think about it and it’s been a really good day. #MediVacBill passed #HakeemisFREE #AWURaids are closer to the truth about Cash’s role Almost everyone agrees that #TimWilsonMustResign Polls indicate a party that wants to #ChangeTheRules leads #auspol 55/45

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

7 months

Had a voter who wasn’t sure but leaning no have a chat, go in to vote and then come out tell me he voted #YES ! He then went to buy us both a coffee! When I said he didn’t need to he said “You’re doing a public service” It was delicious Australians are good people #Referendum

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

2 years

In 24 hours I’ve seen that Morrison is going to handout: -$1000 tax rebates -$1.5b ($6 a tank) in fuel rebates -$400 one off payments Nothing that makes work more secure, lifts wages or improves the bargaining power of workers. Just things we have to pay for ourselves. #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 years

We took some pride in doing what was needed. Not what we wanted. What was needed. To keep people safe. To stop the spread to NSW and other states To let as many people as possible survive and thrive To support livelihoods now AND for the future To keep people safe

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

6 years

I can't imagine how comfortable my life would be if I was on $80k-$100k a year, owned my home outright, knew I had a nest egg nearly a million to "fall back on", didn't have to pay any tax AND I WAS GOING TO GET A REFUND FROM THE PUBLIC PURSE! #QandA #ChangeTheRules #TaxTheRich

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

5 years

That the office cleaner and the company executive will pay the same rate of tax while one takes home two or three or five times as much as the other, does not just entrench inequality, it masquerades the powerful’s exploitation of the powerless as “economic policy” #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 years

@TimWilsonMP You’re arguing for people to empty their retirement savings in their 30’s and forgo 30 years of compounding returns in order to not even have a whole deposit for a house. Just to make a “dint” in one. That is ridiculous.

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

10 months

I know there are some disappointed athletes & clearly some media commentators who were looking forward to being able to attend Comm Games hospitality as "news" but for the vast majority of us we really just want the affordable housing, improved transport & facilities #ThanksDan

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

2 years

Men and women who showed me that forgiveness and compassion are the start of happiness That understanding & celebrating difference creates opportunity & wisdom That love is strong & hate is weak That a man lifts others, he doesn’t climb on them or hold them down 5/7

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

1 year

The Liberals Voted against creating super Delayed increasing super for everyone Made us fund the first COVID response from our retirement savings Used super to open massive loopholes for millionaires to pay less tax Now they fight to keep the millionaire loopholes 🤦‍♂️ #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

3 years

So a man who happily locks people up in offshore detention, who arbitrarily separates families for years and who never admits he broke his promise to bring #strandedAussies home by Christmas 2020 is now saying “we’ve got to give people their lives back”? I don’t believe he cares

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

2 years

I’m sure they’re preparing another half apology from Bevan and yet another staff member for their trip under the bus even as I tweet.

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

1 year

Imagine Ken Wyatt having to fly back to WA tonight knowing that the overwhelmingly white caucus in which he sits ignored him in both government and in opposition. It's just so disrespectful towards him #auspol

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Ben Davison

@Ben_Davison1

5 months

This headline is misleading Labor’s primary is higher in every state (except WA) than it was at the election The Coalition’s primary is lower In an election on these numbers Labor pick up seats in QLD, NSW, Victoria & maybe lose 1 in WA An overall INCREASED majority #auspol

The Age

@theage

5 months

Voters have turned on Labor in two of the battleground states at the next election and cut their support for the party nationwide.

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