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Greg Jericho

@GrogsGamut

5 days

The latest Dollars & Sense pod episode is up - talking about Jobseeker and the choices governments make in the budget

‎Dollars & Sense: JobSeeker drags people into poverty, but the government could fix this today on...

‎Show Dollars & Sense, Ep JobSeeker drags people into poverty, but the government could fix this today - 2 May 2024

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Greg Jericho

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All children. All.

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"All children living in the Gaza Strip have lost their childhood. They are traumatized and will forever live with a permanent impact on their mental health." - Ann Skelton, Chair of the UN Child Rights Committee #CRC ⬇️

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"I did more when I had COVID than he did" is about as pathetic as you can get

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Abbott, Trump, Morrison, Johnson: men who brought nothing but their mediocrity and an excusing media to the leadership.

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You might be shocked to discover that employer groups really hate seeing this graph

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Embarrassing for everyone involved

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Greg Jericho

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Play so your fiercest rival is like this when you retire #federer

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Greg Jericho

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2 years

What the hell?

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Greg Jericho

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Talking about first preference and not acknowledging how ALP voters in very safe Lib seats chose to vote independent purely because they finally had a chance to vote out the Libs is weird

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Greg Jericho

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The reason we know “stupid white bastard” is not racist, is we all just wrote “stupid white bastard” and not one person was worried they might be thought to be racist. Let’s not overthink this.

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Greg Jericho

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2 years

Can you get more Australian than Cathy taking a photo of Evonne giving a trophy to Ash?

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Greg Jericho

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7 months

There will be a lot of talk in the coming days about the referendum campaigns, but we should not forget that the No campaign lied totally. It lied, everyone associated with it lied, everyone associated with it operated in bad faith. This will be the model for every election.

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The biggest problem journalism has faced over the past 6 years since Trump came along is how to deal with politicians who have no shame about lying. It's now endemic

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This is f*cking disgusting

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3 years

Extraordinary

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Greg Jericho

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Geez, have some dignity

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I often think about Keating's reaction to the Howard Govt losing office

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Now please ALP - don’t do faux bipartisanship and appoint ex Lib MPs to diplomatic roles etc.

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Do not buy pie from The Australian

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Just a reminder - you are allowed to say "Nope, that's PR bullshit and I'm a journalist"

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2 years

Bit shocked Morrison not allowing under 30s to access their super to buy RATs

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The Cabinet Papers confirm that Australia is a much worse place because of John Howard.

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The kids driving forklifts brain fart really highlights how poorly we think of what is "skilled labour" Just because they didn't go to uni does not mean what they do is not highly skilled

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1 year

Senators who got voted in on a group ticket really have no right to stay when they leave their party IMO.

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2 years

Having observed Frydenberg over the past decade I remain unaware of these talents that Downer and others speak of #qanda

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2 years

It's funny the things you remember when researching employment stuff... like the fact Scott Cam got paid $347,000 a year to be a "careers ambassador"

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2 years

Seriously good answer

10 News First

@10NewsFirst

2 years

Greens Leader Adam Bandt has rebuked a journalist's 'gotcha' question on a wage statistic by bluntly telling him: "Google it, mate". Bandt, speaking at the #NPC , was asked whether he knew the current Wage Price Index in an apparent attempt to throw him off. #ausvotes #auspol

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2 years

Great to see @AmyRemeikis drag the truly pathetic Peter Van Onselen.

The Project

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2 years

Today, Grace Tame met with the Prime Minister at the Lodge, with now-viral photos appearing online. We discuss the day and the differing opinions with @AmyRemeikis . #TheProjectTV

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Have never seen such a brutal murder on this site

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🤣🤣🤣

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It would really be nice if as an Australian I didn't have to care so much about an American eleciton.

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Greg Jericho

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10 months

Congratulations to all the cookers, transphobes and general bigots. You did it!!

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2 years

I suspect getting your photo on the front page looking strong and proud in your protest is the very opposite of a gambit backfiring

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Remember the fight over franking credit? Remember being told by the LNP and media orgs that it was about poor retirees? The latest figures form Treasury say... Yeah, they lied.

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2 years

ABC really trying their best to say this is not good for Labor. Jesus it’s the 4th time since WWII they’ve won from opposition!!!

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Greg Jericho

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2 years

Anyway, the Novax thing is amusing, but how about making RATs free for all?

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1 year

“To get a super balance of $3m, you’d need to earn $200,000 from ages 21 to 67, with 12% employer contributions and an extra $30,000 a year of voluntary contributions.”

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1 year

An attack on middle Australia? Unpacking the claims over Labor’s new super policy, by @Paul_Karp

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I truly did not think it possible to be worse than Abbott.

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8 months

I deeply regret that everyone heard what I really think and oddly those outside a room of property developers weren’t so on board.

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Greg Jericho

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In July 2021 the ALP made the commitment to keep Stage 3 as is. At that time the cash rate was 0.1% and the RBA was saying it would *not* raise interest rates *until* 2024. When the world changes, you adjust to the changes. It's what good governments to do.

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Morrison: "Free speech is not being allowed to cowardly hide in your basement and sledge and a slow and harass people anonymously and seek to destroy their lives." Here's the thing: how many houses in Australia have a basement? It's such an Americanism

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1 year

The following thread is horrific reading. My contempt for everyone associated with the operation of Robodebt is total - from the PMs down to MPs who defended it and to those in the APS who showed a disgusting lack of care

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1 year

The wonderfully brave Kath Madgwick is the next witness. Her son, Jarrad, died by suicide on 30 May 2019 after interactions with Centrelink

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If Frydenberg gets parachuted into another seat I would 100% expect to see another teal candidate running against him

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Can we not make the murder of Samantha Murphy all about the fact the father of the person who has been charged played in 15 games in the AFL?

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2 years

Yesterday

Scott Morrison

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2 years

Mr Djokovic’s visa has been cancelled. Rules are rules, especially when it comes to our borders. No one is above these rules. Our strong border policies have been critical to Australia having one of the lowest death rates in the world from COVID, we are continuing to be vigilant.

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Morrions tries to show off how much he knows the act, and then the Commissioner uses his smugness to ask, given you seem to know the act so well, why didn't you investigate if it was legal.

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As a dad of a girl with Down Syndrome I would very much like to see Shorten in charge the NDIS. No empathy training needed there.

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ScoMo says he is “blessed” to have two non disabled children. Every child is a blessing. The NDIS is there to help people with disability live their lives to the fullest. The Morrison Gov has slashed NDIS plans for 1000s of children around Australia. Labor will fix the NDIS.

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god I hate the faux matey language

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End the scam. The privatised employment services model needs to be burned to the ground and salt spread on its ashes. Job providers receiving millions of dollars for positions found by jobseekers themselves | Australia news | The Guardian

Job providers receiving millions of dollars for positions found by jobseekers themselves

Welfare advocates say there is ‘simply no reason’ for $3.6m in payments over past five years to agencies when jobs were found prior to engaging their service

www.theguardian.com

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Reading The Oz this week it would seem Brittany Higgins main problem is that she should have committed some war crimes

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2 years

Painting Deves as the victim is about as pathetic a front page as you could come up with

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Two useless, incompetent hasbeens suffering massive relevance deprivation syndrome head to Israel believing that this might be the one occasion in which they could not make things worse.

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@deves_katherine Great take - you should run for parliament on this platform and lose not just the seat you run in but those around it as well.

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This is some of the most disgusting crud I've seen pushed by a senior politician in this country. Time for some MPs to retire and spend some time with their investment properties

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1 year

After watching that speech all I can say is the May election was a glorious decision by the Australian public

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2 years

Albanese going absolutely huge on aged care and he really paints a pitcure that really is a bit of "why the f*** isn't it like this already??"

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The Oz is in complete panic mode.

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47% - like what Labor have done 19% - give even less to those earning over $200k 13% - dump Stage 3 completely 22% - agree with Dutton, keep Stage 3 unchanged. Absolutely brutal poll for the LNP

Guardian Essential poll: one in two voters back stage-three tax cuts changes

Labor’s bid to skew package towards low- and middle-income earners given boost, as only 22% say it should go ahead unchanged

www.theguardian.com

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Francesca Albanese: "Israel has the sacrosanct right and duty to protect itself, its territory, its citizens. Although it tends to confuse a lot its own territory with the territory that it is trying to annex under occupation"...

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Just a reminder, these were the front pages of the news.corp papers the day after the 2014 Budget in which Abbott and Hockey broke every promise they made on cuts to services. Let's stop the fib they give one damn about "integrity"

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The Liberals really hate the idea that poor people got access to the super system.

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There really is no need to ever seek a comment from Jeff Kennett

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1 year

This is quite brilliant.

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Commissioner Holmes: “I want to acknowledge that the Twitter coverage of these hearings has performed a remarkably useful & important public service in giving people access to the evidence.” Wow. #RoboDebtRC

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The pandemic has really let the mask slip on how some people regard human life

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Never forget how disgraceful the Morrison govt was. No one who held a ministry in it should ever be trusted with power again Morrison government failed to give Howard-era national security cabinet papers to national archives | Cabinet papers

Morrison government failed to give Howard-era national security cabinet papers to national archives

The department of prime minister and cabinet blamed ‘administrative oversights’ for the missing records

www.theguardian.com

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God really, why is this being brought up? Surely we can ask about some policies that Finnish society does which could be done here?

abc730

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"I went dancing with my friends. I still don't think that was something terrible that I did." - Finland’s Prime Minister @MarinSanna . #abc730 @FergusonNews

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I'm getting on the beers

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ABC24 right now deciding to not cover live the ICJ hearing. What is the point of ABC24?

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When was the last time #insiders spent this much time talking about the poorest 20% rather than the richest 0.5%

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Early signs are that Dutton is basically going to follow the Abbott script

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This would be my advert explaining why the ALP is dumping the Stage 3 tax cuts

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2 years

there really is very little that is wrong with Australian politics and policy that cannot be traced back to Howard.

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Yes Sky News, that really is the key takeaway from the case #Lehrmann

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If anyone from the ALP would like to explain this, that would be nice. If they could discover a level of shame about it, that would be better. If they could realise how bad this is and reverse the decision, that would be best.

Rex Patrick

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Andrew @WilkieMP just lost a House motion to debate stopping the prosecutions of whistleblowers @Richard_D_Boyle and David McBride. @AustralianLabor and @LiberalAus both opposed a debate. Every day these prosecutions continue is another day no-one will blow the whistle. #auspol

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Very much thinking today of the many asylum seekers and victims of Robodebt whose lives were destroyed by anxiety and depression and whose pain was ignored.

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The number of people standing around and watching one person pretend to work might be an indicator of why productivity under this govt has tanked...

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Scored the goal of the World Cup against the English and now this. Put her on the $5.

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Wait, what. Charity is a more effiicent way of billionaires using their resources than being taxed? Yeeesh #abc730

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Disband all private employment services. Major Australian employment service accused of claiming credit for work jobseeker found herself

Major Australian employment service accused of claiming credit for work jobseeker found herself

Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia suggest job provider APM referred woman for role she had already won; APM deny wrongdoing

www.theguardian.com

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Gen Xers losing a childhood hero and then one of their own in 24 hours is very much a contemplating the fragility of life moment

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Just a reminder, no one is suggesting you can’t put more than $3m in a retirement fund; you just wouldn’t get the tax breaks for monies over that amount.

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Greg Jericho

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Good riddance. A PM who right from the get go sought to punch down on transgender people and divide Australia.

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Superb exchange SUSSAN LEY “... I'm in Lismore, I'm talking to real people. JASON CLARE: You're in Sydney, you can see the Sydney CBD behind you right now. SUSSAN LEY: I was in Lismore yesterday and I'm out in the southwest of Sydney today...

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Dressing up to pretend he’s a worker, and coming across as a total dick. Strong CEO move. Woolies PR will be working hard this week.

ABC News

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This is what happened when Four Corners asked Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci about the lack of competition in the Australian grocery market. Watch the #4Corners documentary tonight:

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Ted O'Brien: "So our view is we should not be closing our coal-fired power stations prematurely." #ABC730 There you go. That's all the nuke "policy is about". It's coal for longer. The rest is just onanistic faffing about pretending to be a policy

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What a disgusting organisation

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The Liberal Party holding its launch in Brisbane this weekend while the threat of floods are all around it is some truly providential stuff…

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What if you see a sad emu

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Albanese: "my integrity is not looking at lower middle income earners and saying sorry, I'm just Prime Minister I am not in a position to help you when I know I am in a position to help you" A very good line. Also should drive him from here on

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Your 1950s correspondent Greg Sheridan. Wants women to have more babies. Oddly does not mention childcare once.

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Of all former PMs, Gillard is the one who seems to be living her best life

AAP Photos

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Pix: Albanese Election Day 40

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Always striking to see journalists writing about how the govt might get criticised if it changes Stage 3 without any acknowledgment that the journalists themselves will be the ones driving the broken promise as a bigger issue than whether or not Stage 3 is bad policy.

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I mean ALP vote in Kooyong was just 6% - clearly if you were an ALP voter there the chance to kick out Frydenberg by voting for Ryan doesn’t mean they didn’t want the ALP to win

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Greg Jericho

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Prime Minister advocating that the living standards of the lowest paid workers should fall is quite the election pitch

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No wonder he didn't have time to properly cook that chicken curry

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Advisor: Just don't do anything to remind people about your Hawaii trip Morrison: No worries Advisor: Wait, is that a ukulele? Morrison: Uummm.... no...

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Greg Jericho

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2 years

Never, ever forget

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Biggest bullet dodged since we didn't vote Latham to be PM

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Suspect if they really thought this super thing was a winner they would have run with it earlier.

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Is Albrechtsen the Number 1 crumb maiden in Australia?

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Thing about Keating… shouldn’t there at least be one ALP backbencher out there saying much the same things? Ditto on climate. Why is there no one who seems willing (or able) to push the party to the left?

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