South-West Slopes grazier, passionate about the Merino industry, concerned with the debasement of politics and Australia's lack of climate change policy
Listened to two expert epidemiologists on ABC PM. Both said the same thing. To open up lockdown at 70% adults vaccinated is going to lead to a horrendous train wreck with hospitals certainly unable to cope. Someone must stop this evil plan of
@ScottMorrisonMP
and
@GladysB
.
It’s a huge story if the Ruby Princess Covid disaster was because
@ScottMorrisonMP
abused his power as secret health minister by giving permission for disembarkation just so his no1 supporter Alex Hawke could get his in laws back home .
Western Australia is looking like the best and safest place to live in Australia all thanks to Mark McGowan having the guts to stand up to the dangerously insane
@ScottMorrisonMP
. All Western Australians must be thanking their lucky stars. Will Scott win many seats in WA?
For Greg Sheridan to denigrate Jacinda Adern but to laud the vile paedophile protecting, climate change denialist George Pell tells us everything we need to know about Sheridan and the type of people Murdoch employs.
To my mind the pulled
@4corners
episode on
@ScottMorrisonMP
is still a serious threat to Morrison's tenure. There is no doubt he, through his office, forced the story to be pulled. This in itself is a huge story and there are people in the ABC who knows what happened.
It is irrelevant now but possibly the most perverse act of the
@ScottMorrisonMP
Gov was to not allow universities to access Jobkeeper while giving the greenlight for so many , like Harvey Norman, to rort this program such that they were stealing Government funds.
Who was the young lady who took the little video standing beside
@ScottMorrisonMP
smilingly saying "Congratulations on being Australia's worst ever Prime Minister"? Very classy indeed.
As a farmer I can’t say with enough emphasis how disappointed I am that a party that once represented the interests of farmers, has now been turned into a party of cookers and conspiracy theorists by a deranged drunk
@Barnaby_Joyce
. What is the matter with you people? Madness
Isn’t it just bizarre that the most decent man in the Australian Senate,
@Senator_Patrick
has not been returned. Australia owes him much as he became the bulwark against the blatant corruption and disregard of rules by the
@ScottMorrisonMP
LNP. He will be sorely missed.
It is quite obvious that in the most egregious abuse of power in our history
@ScottMorrisonMP
was slowly and methodically working to turn himself into a dictator and to that end quite a number of senior public servants were complicit accomplices. Royal Commission needed.
What a huge surprise that Mathias Cormann is a flop as head of the OECD. The big surprise is that so many world leaders were duped by
@ScottMorrisonMP
into supporting the Belgian bulldozer. The really big question is why Cormann wanted the gig? The Manchurian candidate?
The elite private boy's school students who sent messages to Jewish class mates saying "I hope your family is gassed" should be expelled. Any school principle who could think otherwise is part of the culture that permits such horrendous behaviour.
I think the years of
@ScottMorrisonMP
's PMship will become an unbelievable chronicle of the abuse of power and inappropriate actions by a Government that will serve as an example of how his type must never be given the reins of power again. 1/
The Robodebt Royal Commission has revealed the unpalatable truth about how compromised the Australian media is. Revealing confidential personal Centrelink info to Murdoch media to launch a hatchet job on targeted people who complained, no reason for a media inquiry
@AlboMP
?
A drunken Barnaby Joyce, who my daughter saw chase girls her age, the age of his own daughters, into toilets in Armidale pushes back hard against renewables because his benefactor Rhineheart sees climate change action as a threat to her fossil fuel driven profits. What a grub.
Liz Truss could be the best example yet of ambition not being matched by ability. Why did Australia not revolt against the talentless
@ScottMorrisonMP
, who was no doubt a far more flawed character?
Since
@MrKRudd
has taken on Murdoch and started to assist
@AlboMP
in campaigning you can straightaway sense a momentum shift. I see nothing wrong with Rudd's assistance, in fact it is very welcome and necessary to rid Australia of the corrupt, inept
@ScottMorrisonMP
LNP Gov.
Jacquie Lambie made a big thing about
@ScottMorrisonMP
threatening her with jail over her secret deal to back the repeal of Medevac legislation. Pretty tawdry all round. If she is so disgusted why is she preferencing Liberals first where she has candidates in Tasmania?
With Andrew Thorburn's resignation from Essendon, let's be clear, those who are members of these pentecostal cults are not Christians and it is an insult to real Christians for them to talk of their "Christian faith". Hatred of others, greed, divisiveness are not Christian values
Much was made by
@AngusTaylorMP
and
@ScottMorrisonMP
's announcement a couple of years ago of Australia purchasing a huge quantity of fuel when crude was at unsaleable low prices. Fuel was ostensibly stored in Texas. So where is it, what has happened to it? Anyone know?
I wonder does
@ScottMorrisonMP
know how much his refusal to condemn
@realDonaldTrump
's criminal acts reduces him and frankly highlights how he, himself, is unfit to be PM of Australia.
Samantha Maiden, the designated grenade thrower of Murdoch media, leaker of Higgins' text messages which can only have been obtained through nefarious means, turns up on
#insiders
. You can't tell me there is not an orchestrated campaign to Murdochrinise the ABC. It's unacceptable
The Voice is just another example of how a simple logical step forward is turned into a major divisive issue by hard right reactionary forces, namely the Murdoch media and a very unpopular opposition leader with a history of racist slurs. Australia should be better than this.
Sam Maiden on fire this morning. You must be able to see that NSW should have locked down earlier and harder and those who encouraged
@GladysB
to not do so, including the PM need to take responsibility for the crisis and the deaths. Is Sam the most honest Murdoch journo
#insiders
There is no better example of neoliberalism than government school funding. Howard started the rot, Gonski was supposed to fix the problem yet it is now worse than ever. Why does the Fed Gov pour billions into elite private schools and underfund the public system. Why
@AlboMP
?
I think
@AlboMP
must be honest with the Australian people. He must legislate a windfall profits tax on fossil fuels . To not do so is one of the greatest failures in public policy. It is not good enough to say they didn’t take such a policy to the election.
Seems that political journalists in Australia were quite happy to trade away their ethics, credibility and honesty to be given access to the outpourings of
@ScottMorrisonMP
. Probably the most dangerous aspect of his PMship , journalists happy to become his propagandists.
This defamation case of Murdoch v Crikey is of huge significance to Australia. I doubt the
@AlboMP
Gov has the guts to have a Royal Commission into the Murdoch media which is sorely needed. This case is the de facto inquiry. I’ll happily contribute to Crikey’s legal costs.
So
@ScottMorrisonMP
refuses to meet the Chinese ambassador who asked to meet him to pass on a message from Xi Jinping. Diplomacy is as lacking in the Morrison character as honesty and decency.
Methinks the vile Libs and Murdoch people who devised the hit job on Brittany Higgins in the Australian newspaper and the attempt to portray Linda Reynolds as a victim will actually backfire spectacularly. We knew they were evil, now they are proving it. Hold them to account.
Can there ever be a better example of why Australia needs a Royal Commission into Murdoch media then the front pages of their various papers today. They have run a despicable campaign attacking
@BrittHiggins_
non stop. They have plumbed the depths with todays' front pages. Enough
To impose a windfall profits tax on fossil fuel companies would be a very popular decision
@AlboMP
. Why on earth won't you do so? There is no argument , either social or economic, that can be mounted against such a decision.
12 mths ago trade weight meaty merino lambs we sold varied between $160-$185 week in week out. Similar lambs we sold today made $96. Sky high meat prices, supermarkets and wholesalers must be making a killing. Is inflation being driven by price gouging? Methinks so.
Will
@ScottMorrisonMP
be flooded with resignations as ministers look to move to the backbench, where under this PM you are free to accept donations of any amount with no questions asked?
Australians woke up to what a dangerous man
@ScottMorrisonMP
was. I think that most have picked up on the type of person
@PeterDutton_MP
is. Australia does not need a racist homophobe as leader. Those days ended when Howard lost his seat.
Has Australia witnessed the most egregious, vile misuse of media power ever seen with what has occurred re Brittany Higgins over the last two weeks? To think that female journalists have been willing to attack a rape victim in order to push their media boss' manipulations!!
Australia has become a terrible place. Anything which is unpalatable to ultra conservatives is automatically turned into a culture war, framed as a leftie issue. There is so much crap, climate change, the Voice, the cancelled Commonwealth games, transgender crap. LNP and Murdoch.
The privatisation of job seeking and mutual obligations for job seekers is the biggest rort ever thought up, where private companies impose intense conditions on job seekers only as a means of themselves being able to rort more Government money. Stop the theft now
@AlboMP
PVO says
@Mon4Kooyong
could be a one term member for Kooyong. Does he not realise what a breath of fresh air she has been to Parliament? A person of principle, a set of social values, there to serve the Australian people not themselves and their hip pocket like these Party hacks.
I sincerely hope I am wrong but I think the Omicron variant will need some seriously good health governance by the authorities to keep it from becoming our greatest ever Australian disaster. We have a PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
whose best advice is stare it down and Perrottet-let it rip
So Murdoch’s Australian newspaper writes a puff piece on how fine family man Alan Tudge was hounded from office by trolls. That’s the same newspaper that did hit jobs on Robodebt victims who had the temerity to speak out. Hit jobs organised by Tudge with confidential dept info!!!
From the time
@ScottMorrisonMP
was an unaccountable Immigration Minister I have loathed the man. I have vented daily about this vile man's actions as PM. I will not bother doing so any longer as he is doing the best job at wrecking any chance of re-election. I'll leave him to it.
So the great
@ScottMorrisonMP
, PM and saviour of 40,000 lives cannot do public campaign street walks because of fear of being abused by everyday Australians. Why would that be?
#Election2022
Why is the National Party not up in arms over the Santos gas project. Australia will be a desert if the GAB is ruined. The Liverpool plains is Australia's richest soil. Farmers are supposedly your natural constituency, yet you are silent. Why??
@D_LittleproudMP
@Barnaby_Joyce
???
David Hurley should resign as Governor General because it is unacceptable leveraging of his position to seek Federal funding of his dodgy charity organisation. As they say, his position must be independent but also be seen to be independent. He has sullied an important office.
#ourABC
has had its reputation, its credibility and its gravitas destroyed under the chairmanship of Buttrose. Was she a Manchurian candidate appointed by
@ScottMorrisonMP
to destroy the ABC from within? Under her leadership the ABC has become a subsidiary of Murdoch media.
In 2019
@ScottMorrisonMP
told a business/ mining conference that climate change protests should be banned. When covid19 hit his response was a gas lead recovery, increasing emissions by direct Government subsidy. Scott has a lot to answer for as climate change reality hits.
Shane Drumgold is the one person besides the victim who has acted with integrity and decency during this whole sordid saga of a young female staffer being raped in a minister's office. Such a dirty cover up engineered by serving politicians from the very top down, aided by AFP.
Given what has been revealed,
@PeterDutton_MP
has a huge test of character on his hands. If he has the standards that should be displayed as Opposition Leader he will direct Linda Reynolds and Michaelia Cash to give him there resignations. Who believes he will do the right thing?
A drunken slob,
@Barnaby_Joyce
, a wrecker in politics, who is owned by Gina Rhineheart, and embodies the debasement of politics that has severely damaged parliamentary standards as well as Australian society, has the hide to say Matt Kean damaged LNP election hopes? Right.
Given Mick Fuller is a great mate of
@ScottMorrisonMP
and given Shane Fitzsimmons earned the ire of Morrison during the 2019 bushfires, does Fuller's damning report into Resiliance NSW lack credibility? This is an honest question, I do not know how effective Resiliance NSW is.
Australians, make no mistake, if
@ScottMorrisonMP
had retained power he and his religious fundamentalists would have turned Australia into what the US has become, destroying individual freedoms and the social democracy, the support for the less well off, our country is built upon
The Pezzullo revelations are incendiary . An extreme right wing public servant organising Government to reflect his own far right views shows how fragile our democracy really is. More troubling is that he remains in place under the
@AlboMP
Government. So many Royal Commissions?
Maybe the tens of thousands of Aboriginal people who were hunted and shot like wild animals by rapacious colonials with Government approval would disagree with Jacinta Price about colonisation being good for First Nations people. I wonder what the thirty pieces of silver are?
Wasn't it good to hear a political leader talk about building social housing, facilitating manufacture of lithium batteries, turning Australia into a green superpower? Such a different attitude to
@ScottMorrisonMP
. All Australians should be asking
@AlboMP
when can you start?
I really have had enough of this crap over the high end tax cuts. They are bad, unjustifiable and unaffordable, yet there is a furore over
@AlboMP
Gov breaking an election promise by repealing them. For Christ's sake MSM THE FURORE SHOULD BE IF THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T REPEAL THEM!
Bloody hell, corruption SO BAD that SkyNews calls it out
@ScottMorrisonMP
.That is really bad corruption. Scotty does not know right from wrong does he?
Has there ever been a worse drunken slob, unfit to sit in Parliament than
@Barnaby_Joyce
? The electors of New England are ill served by this gross poor excuse for a human being. To think those same electors were once represented by the highly integrous
@TonyHWindsor
.
There is talk that
@ScottMorrisonMP
is gearing up for an election. If
@AlboMP
cannot put together an advertising campaign to blow Morrison away, given he has lurched from one disaster to the next for his entire term then I personally will go to Canberra and do it for him.
So Gina Rhineheart attends Trump's Mar a Lago announcement of his running for president in 2024. That really does tell you everything about her doesn't it. You can tell what sort of person someone is by the company they keep.
Just a late reminder that all the Aboriginals that fought in either world war, were not even citizens. They could die for Australia but they could not vote, so did not participate in choosing Australia's Gov. Makes a YES vote for the Voice as the only fair choice, methinks.
So Joe Hockey thinks what the US has become under
@realDonaldTrump
is the new Rome and he wants to be a part of it. This is the man who as treasurer danced and smoked cigars after handing down a horror budget that’s only aim was to gut social security. Says everything about him.
The Liberal Party is imploding, the National Party should be but they are the last bastion of fossil fuel and will die for their cause. The legacy of
@ScottMorrisonMP
is not going to be good. A talented huckster and grifter but still a vacuous vile man drunk on power.
Who is going to stop to help an inebriated drunk, lying on the foot path mouthing obscenities? These type of people are dangerous. So many indigenous people have been locked up and subsequently died in police custody for behaving less offensively than
@Barnaby_Joyce
.
Murdoch media is saying that the loss of civility is destroying democracy . I say that a media organisation which concentrates on spreading disinformation to protect corrupt politicians, pushes climate change denialism is a far bigger threat.
Has there ever been a politician that oozes malevolence from every pore as
@PeterDutton_MP
seems to do. He never says anything positive, never anything uplifting, always leans to the dark side when the opposite is what Australia needs.
A strong Federal ICAC with retrospective powers should see the end of the political careers of many members of the
@ScottMorrisonMP
LNP frontbench. The audacity with which Morrison and some of his ministers saw the keys to the treasury coffers as freedom to distribute largesse.
A sensible idea for the
@AlboMP
Government looking to improve housing affordability, would be to remove negative gearing for any housing purchases in the future, with a staggered removal of tax breaks already in the system. This will improve the budget bottom line as well.
Aren’t the MSM kind to
@ScottMorrisonMP
? He single handedly caused more losses in Australia’s export trade with an unnecessary statement about China and covid19 than any PM in history. And all to cosy up to the most corrupt, deranged man ever to be POTUS. That is very special.
Every decision, every action that
@ScottMorrisonMP
takes, is taken through the lens of political expediency. It is all about "will this make me more popular, will this help my re-election?" Making Australia a better society or looking after the vulnerable does not come into it.
Can you believe Warren Mundine is on
@RNBreakfast
trying to say the voice should include migrants because of their contribution to Australia. Anything to derail the Voice. What a mean, nasty person, a traitor to his people. Doesn’t he realise he is siding with the racists of Aust
Imagine being so openly racist that you would sit watching Price say attempted genocide was good for Aboriginal people ( because that is the history and that is what Price was really saying) and openly laugh, clap and cheer. Well done Joyce, Cash et al, you should be ashamed.
Is the pendulum starting to swing back to where decency prevails in Australia. On the very same day a former Chief Justice has slammed the cruelty of the treatment of the Bilo family, a Federal Court judge slams the cruelty and stress caused by the ILLEGAL Robodebt scheme.
The Voice looks like it is going to fail. It is
@AlboMP
's only major policy initiative. If it fails it will be because Murdoch media has waged a nonstop racist campaign of anti-voice rhetoric and misinformation. The same Murdoch media that Albo is too scared to hold an RC into.
The more things change the more they stay the same. Why would Australia hire a dodgy US firm to oversee 70 traumatised refugees on Nauru? Why would the
@AlboMP
Gov award a contract with a value of $420m to look after 70 people? Does this all seem a bit sus? My oath!
So
@ScottMorrisonMP
is happy to strongly endorse Eric Abetz on the floor of Parliament. I have no doubt that he has similar views to Abetz, hence the strong endorsement, but it is impossible to escape the fact that by so doing he is letting every woman and man in Australia down.
Wow someone is telling lies. Simon Birmingham tells
@frankelly08
that the German’s who were waved through NSW by the police were returning Australian citizens, mother an Australian citizen, son German born Australian citizen. If true NSW police claim of language is fallacious.
Only two things drives
@PeterDutton_MP
and the LNP's attitude to the voice, racism and an opportunity to attempt to wedge the
@AlboMP
Gov. Nowhere in their thought processes does the need for the Voice for the good of Aboriginal people come into it.
#insiders
@murpharoo
putting Speers and
@vanOnselenP
in their place, even Annabelle demanding to be heard. Never seen female panellists push back as strongly.
If the likes of Lisa Millar is unable to disguise her political bias so that she is objective and courteous in any political interviews then that means she does not have the necessary professional capabilities for her position.
The greatest political conspiracy and cover up in Australian history must be what has become the dirty ongoing saga of the rape of a young Liberal staffer in a Liberal Minister’s office. First covered up to prevent it affecting the 2019 election it has become a pernicious boil.
One thing is for certain, Sussan Ley has exposed herself as a really deplorable person who, like the disgusting Mirabella, is totally unfit to sit in Parliament.
If the head of the inquiry into the Lehrmann prosecution provides that report to Murdoch's Australian before it is officially released, one could get the impression that the aforementioned head of the inquiry, himself, is not exactly unbiased.
Imagine
@PeterDutton_MP
being able to think that being able to destroy the Voice referendum is a political win. You would have to be a racist psychopath to see this as victory. What a terrible legacy he is leaving.
Could someone remind me who was Home Affairs Minister when a 2 bit company with no employees was awarded contracts valued at $100Ms without tender? It's good that the
@smh
is bringing these dodgy untendered contracts to light after the NACC is operational. Pity not years ago.
$90b for submarines, $16b paid unnecessarily to big companies with jobkeeper yet we have aboriginal people forced to live 2 and 3 families to a house in Wilcannia and elsewhere because we couldn’t care less. We don’t have to start wars to kill people
@ScottMorrisonMP
,
@GladysB
How many Australians voted for the
@AlboMP
ALP at the election because they had made a promise of keeping high end tax cuts? Seriously did anyone? This whole thing has been turned into high farce but
@AlboMP
is too gutless to just do the right thing.
Listen to this bastard’s voice, you can tell he’s a fake just listening to him. No wonder he and
@ScottMorrisonMP
get on so well. Both fakes and charlatans.
#insiders
giving Samantha Maiden a panel spot immediately after she has participated in one of the most tawdry pieces of gutter journalism, attacking a rape victim by releasing text messages that should be sacrosanct, for political purposes, puts you in the sewer with Murdoch
Samantha Maiden, the designated grenade thrower of Murdoch media, leaker of Higgins' text messages which can only have been obtained through nefarious means, turns up on
#insiders
. You can't tell me there is not an orchestrated campaign to Murdochrinise the ABC. It's unacceptable
If only Australia had a tax system which made corporates pay their fair share of tax rather than relying on personal income tax receipts, lower personal income tax rates would be possible. Throw in a windfall profits tax on fossil fuel co's and a tax on polluters,
@AlboMP
.
Lest we forget -
@ScottMorrisonMP
devised the robodebt scheme, wanted to let Covid run rampant, walked out on Australia during the bushfires, did not order vaccines, did not order RATS, turned his non response to flood victims into an election photo op, and rorted continuously.
The journalists who exposed the sham hero Ben Roberts-Smith are to be commended but the real heroes are his fellow soldiers who were brave enough to take the witness stand and tell the truth about a murderer and war criminal and the no doubt serious threats to remain silent .