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What did we learn about @realDonaldTrump at this #G20 ? @CUhlmann explains. #Insiders
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. @rabbitandcoffee reimagines the procession of U.K. prime ministers in the world of SUCCESSION.
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After a tough couple of weeks for the British PM - what’s next? Here’s @rabbitandcoffee with ‘Theresa May and the Holy Grail’. #auspol
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In case you missed it, here's Bob Katter's alternative view on the #samesexmarriage debate. Thanks for watching. #Insiders #auspol
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"There was a stuff-up there with the security guards [in Victoria] but let's be realistic here - security guards were used in WA," says @vanOnselenP . "Equally, it was Daniel Andrews' idea to even have hotel quarantine." #insiders #auspol
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And we'll leave you with New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern's comments delivered at a school directly impacted by the Christchurch terrorist attack. #Insiders
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"It is not good enough anymore particularly at this moment, but I would say any week, to have a panel of white people speaking about issues when there is very little lived experience of discrimination and racism on that panel," says @bridgeyb . #insiders #auspol
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“There are 500 people left in detention. They have committed no crime. They are now there for over six years. They are going crazy and they deserve to be released… at some point the cruelty of this country to those people has to stop.” - David Marr #Insiders #auspol
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WATCH: @samanthamaiden on the double standards being applied to the allegations involving Alan Tudge. #insiders #auspol
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"I think that the ABC needs to stop talking about itself and get back to work," @ScottMorrisonMP says. "We never stopped work," @barriecassidy says #Insiders #auspol
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“Thank you, it is my turn for an observation” At the end of his last time hosting #Insiders , @barriecassidy shares some final thoughts...
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This week on #InsidersExtra @barriecassidy on the radical immigration idea that almost went unnoticed #Insiders #auspol
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Ed Husic says @GladysB managed an ideological, political lockdown that divided the city and played politics with public health #Insiders #auspol
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The prime ministers get called a lot of things, but there was one name Anthony Albanese wouldnt cop - this week of all weeks #Insiders #auspol
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"What we've seen is a prime minister desperately trying to tarnish the reputation of the Opposition Leader at the cost of our national interest." Niki Savva on the government's accusation this week that Labor is weak on China #Insiders #auspol
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UPDATE: Thank you for your concern this morning. Our camera operator is ok after fainting in the studio. We appreciate all the well wishes.
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"This budget hasn't done anything to show the Government's got any particularly fine credentials in terms of budget management." @latingle explains the big themes out of budget week #Insiders #auspol
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"The NSW Government failed people in the Northern Rivers, and the Federal Government failed people in the Northern Rivers." @AmyRemeikis on whether flood support has been sufficient #Insiders #auspol
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. @David_Speers “This is what I'm asking, this was a pork-barrel?” @JoshFrydenberg “This was focusing on directing support to those projects across the country.” Speers: “Sorry, Treasurer, you don't think voters see what has happened here & would appreciate a bit of honesty?”
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"The politician's job is not to follow health advice. Their job is to take health advice, consider it, place it in its proper context." WATCH: Waleed Aly on the balance of considerations in New South Wales' roadmap #Insiders #auspol
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WATCH: @vanOnselenP on the Robodebt scheme after the Federal Government agreed to a $1. 2 billion settlement. #auspol #insiders
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WATCH: @KKeneally on whether Christian Porter should remain in his position as Attorney-General #Insiders #auspol
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"Swanning around the suburbs that you've never been to in your Burberry trench coat lecturing people about the cost of living - people pick fakes" @DanielAndrewsMP responds to demands for Micahel Kroger to resign following the Liberal's devastating defeat yesterday. #insiders
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The Prime Minister says there was no slavery in Australia as he ratchets up his criticism of #BlackLivesMattter protests. Is it a step too far? #SpeersTake @David_Speers #auspol
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"I personally don't really see how you can mount the argument [lockdown] shouldn't have been extended unless you want to fundamentally change [Australia's] whole approach to COVID" WATCH: Waleed Aly on Victoria's response to the current outbreak #Insiders #auspol
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“The Australians who don’t have the political power to write the newspaper editorials in this country, I’m going to be a champion for all those people who don’t have the big end of town on their side.” @billshortenmp #Insiders #auspol #AusVotes
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WATCH: @rabbitandcoffee gives us a peek inside what’s been happening in “The Office” of the Deputy Prime Minister #Insiders #auspol
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WATCH: @AmyRemeikis on why Christina Holgate really lost her job #Insiders #auspol
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They rule but they don’t govern, @barriecassidy on modern politics. #Insiders #InsidersExtra #auspol
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Ed Husic tells @David_Speers ICAC did not force @GladysB to resign, she did that of her own #Insiders #auspol
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“It's a bit rich for Peter Dutton to talk about precedent when he's prepared to use his ministerial powers to allow au pairs to enter the country.” @tanya_plibersek on the Biloela Tamil asylum seeker family deportation. #Insiders #auspol
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. @vanOnselenP asks the panel: If we're heading towards 1.7 million getting [ #Coronavirus ] in NSW, how is it okay that we keep shaking hands? “[The CMO] came in here and shook hands with both of you. He's the Chief Medical Officer, i'm blown away by that.” #Auspol #Insiders
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"That is not good enough," says @vanOnselenP on the Prime Minister's response to questions concerning Clive Palmer. #Insiders #auspol #AusVotes
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WATCH: @PatsKarvelas on why it's "deeply offensive" that the videos of lewd sex acts in Parliament were seen by some as normalised behaviour in the gay community #Insiders #auspol
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"Why isn't Scott Morrison doing anything about it? Also, why won't any journalist ask him about it?" WATCH: @samanthamaiden on the Prime Minister's treatment of former Liberal MP Julia Banks #Insiders #Auspol
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Why did Aboriginal people decide to defy the health advice and protest during a pandemic? @PatsKarvelas : "Because you don't get many chances to elevate an issue like this. This idea that this is imported from the US is baloney." #Insiders #auspol
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"I would have thought for the sake of sending the right message to the community - the Cabinet, the Prime Minister, and certainly, the Chief Medical Officer, should be on the more prudent, cautious, conservative side," @vanOnselenP on CMO's advice. #Auspol #Coronavirus #Insiders
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Diversity; Sport 1 and Politics 0 #InsidersExtra with @barriecassidy #Insiders #auspol
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"It is not really going to be up to the Prime Minister whether the country opens up at Christmas or not." WATCH: @latingle on the status of the national plan to exit pandemic restrictions amid state division #Insiders #auspol
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"It's ridiculous to have a situation where the rugby league is going to be going back and playing, and the Prime Minister's saying that Parliament can't meet in the normal way," @Tony_Burke says #insiders #auspol
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. @latingle says @ScottMorrisonMP 's initial refusal to answer questions about whether he sought to invite Hillsong founder Brian Houston to the White House became an ongoing issue that made him look "shifty and dodgy" #insiders #auspol
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Niki Savva says internal Liberal party focus group research shows a backlash against their Labor-China scare campaign #Insiders #auspol
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Barrie Cassidy is calling time on #Insiders which means he finally has the weekend off - but after 18 years can he truly escape the show? @rabbitandcoffee brings some magic to @barriecassidy 's final time hosting Insiders.
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WATCH: Huw Parkinson's take on the summit between @realDonaldTrump and Kim Jong-un #TrumpKimsummit #Insiders #auspol #rabbitandcoffee
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Australian Foreign Minister @JulieBishopMP "taken aback" by Trump. #insiders #auspol #trump
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"I condemn without reservation, without qualification, the violent threats being made here, even if the Prime Minister won't." David Speers asks @JEChalmers whether he views all of this week's protestors as extremists #Insiders #auspol
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. @vanOnselenP on Gladys Berejiklian: "I think we've got a real problem in politics if she honestly believes she did nothing wrong. She may have done nothing corrupt - I have almost no doubt about that - but that doesn't necessarily mean she did nothing wrong." #auspol #insiders
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#Insiders host @David_Speers says the first job of a leader during any disaster is to be there and @ScottMorrisonMP stands accused of turning up late, blaming the states and seeking to make political capital out of the crisis. #ausfires #auspol
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WATCH: @KKeneally on how to improve the treatment of women #Insiders #auspol
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'Independent, Jewish, gay.' @frankelly08 's final observations after the #Wentworth by election.
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WATCH: And the winner for Matt Price's Moment of 2018 goes to... @PaulineHansonOz #auspol #insiders
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"It is the worker and the people who are suffering the most, who continue to suffer and pay the price." @AmyRemeikis on the real world cost behind the inflation debate #Insiders #auspol
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“It was very tricky and very Trumpian” Niki Savva says @ScottMorrisonMP ’s clarification over his use of the phrase ‘Shanghai Sam’ “doesn’t wash”. #Insiders #auspol
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"This campaign is probably the dirtiest and the most negative in my 20 years of politics," says @tanya_plibersek #Insiders #auspol #AusVotes
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"He actually managed to stuff up a national crisis. Which is something that is... let's face it, tailor made for national leaders." Niki Savva on @ScottMorrisonMP 's leadership during the bushfire crisis. #Insiders #auspol
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. @KKeneally on the Ruby Princess debacle. "When it comes to Australia's border, the buck stops with the Commonwealth." #Auspol #Insiders
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#Insiders panellist Niki Savva says @ScottMorrisonMP 's refusal to answer questions about Hillsong founder Brian Houston and the White House dinner is unedifying and unacceptable #InsidersReading #auspol
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"It's more than double the rate of a 5-star hotel suite overlooking Sydney Harbour?" @barriecassidy questions Attorney-General @cporterwa on the @FinancialReview 's story regarding the #Paladin security contract on Manus Island. #Insiders #auspol
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"It is not going to restart the boats. It is not going to corrupt the processes. It is not going to break the system" WATCH: Niki Savva on the shift in community sentiment on the plight of the Biloela family #Insiders #auspol
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"The Aus economy was not a great place for the Australian worker prior to COVID-19. There was rampant wage theft, there was stagnant wages... The Australian Government should not come into this reform process with old ideological, anti-worker, anti-union agendas," @KKeneally .
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“It's just such high velocity bollocks” @murpharoo says the Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP “is trying to pretend… that carbon risk isn't an actual thing,” when he vowed to outlaw "secondary boycotts" against Australian companies in the coal industry. #Insiders #auspol
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. @vanOnselenP on the Victorian federal MPs having to self-isolate before Parliament. "Cry me a river to all of the Victorian MPs who have to self-isolate ... They expect the rest of country to do it and I have never heard so much bitching and moaning " #insiders #auspol
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WATCH: Video editor @rabbitandcoffee 's brilliant take on the High Court dual citizenship cases. #insiders #auspol
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"The hellhole is putting a bunch of people who've done nothing apart from exercising their rights under an international convention. We have subjected them to five years of arbitrary indefinite detention," says @murpharoo of the current situation on Nauru #Insiders #auspol
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“If some newspapers and some editors want to be political parties, they should just come out and say it.” @billshortenmp #Insiders #auspol #AusVotes
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. @latingle on the Budget: "We know that manufacturing has not been doing too badly. Mining hasn't been doing too badly. These sectors do mainly employ blokes. So why are you giving all the money to them?" #auspol #insiders
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. @J_C_Campbell on the "my bad" incident. "When you've got a guy who, let's be honest, in Canberra, is pretty much regarded as a clown, in charge of what is the most critical interface between the public and the Government - this is what you get." #Auspol #Insiders
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WATCH: @rabbitandcoffee gave Insiders an exclusive look at how the Starship Enterprise is taking Scott Morrison's vaccine rollout.
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WATCH: He's back! Huw Parkinson brings us his first masterpiece of the year: Political Survivor. Who will be voted off the island?
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"If you started over again and you had $6 billion to spend, would you spend it on these franking credits, or spend it making childcare more affordable?" @barriecassidy @joshfrydenberg #Insiders #auspol #AusVotes
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"I am absolutely disturbed that the Australian Government has been dealing with a company that is domiciled in a tax haven." Centre Alliance Senator @Senator_Patrick says he is "very concerned" by the water buybacks story. #Insiders #auspol #AusVotes
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"Since when has it been acceptable to build crap?": @phillipcoorey says the cladding crisis is the result of an "abject failure" by state and territory governments to enforce building standards #Insiders #auspol
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WATCH: Huw Parkinson ( @rabbitandcoffee ) has done it again! Behold his latest masterpiece, Turnbullnator 30: Judgment Day #Insiders #auspol
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Niki Savva says Christian Porter was on the PM's call to NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller. "Porter, as the first law officer of the land, should have told him not to make it," she says #insiders #auspol
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David Marr calls out @newscorpaus , saying "ceaseless and frantic campaigns" against an Australian bill of rights that would protect free speech, are a fundamental reason why Australia is "the most secretive democracy in the world". #Insiders #auspol
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“He has absolutely the power to do it, but he’s also got the power to bring those sick kids in from Nauru”: David Marr on @PeterDutton_MP ’s interventions in granting visas to three au pairs #Insiders #auspol
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Just when you thought the steam was running out of the #sportsrorts affair, the Prime Minister's being drawn in and @David_Speers says there's one important question the Government won't answer. #SpeersTake #Insiders #auspol
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“I don't think I can recall a statement by a minister that is more autocratic, reactionary & authoritarian than that” @markgkenny says @PeterDutton_MP ’s comments about climate activists were “one of the most illiberal” things he’s heard from a govt minister in a while #Insiders
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“Australia has got to turn up and turn up consistently. It has to be empathetic, rather than arrogant… Australia has got to listen to Pacific leaders on climate change, who are standing on the front-line of the existential threat of climate change” @murpharoov #Insiders #auspol
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. @Raf_Epstein : Some of the wealthy people who are advocating this week for the economy to open up should remember that poor people are more likely to die. #Auspol #Insiders
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WATCH: After a disastrous week, @PaulineHansonOz & #OneNation debrief Central Intelligence on their recent incident of international skulduggery and sauce. @rabbitandcoffee #Insiders #auspol
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"So no one told the 45th Parliament life was gonna be this way... [clap clap clap clap]" @rabbitandcoffee is back at it for #Insiders #auspol
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"They are spending $600 million as an insurance policy while simultaneously telling us that things like the NDIS is unviable." WATCH: @AmyRemeikis on the government's planned new gas plant in the Hunter Valley #Insiders #auspol
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#Insiders host @barriecassidy announces he'll be departing @InsidersABC in June after the federal election #quills #auspol
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'The Australian people have shown for the last decade they want action on climate change.' David Marr says on #Insiders #auspol
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"It demonstrates a wider problem here about a lack of communication". #Insiders host @David_Speers on revelations that @RFSCommissioner first heard about the ADF deployment through media reports #auspol #AustraliaBushfires #AustraliaBurning
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After 26-year-old Iranian asylum seeker Fariborz K died on Nauru on Friday, @murpharoo asks: "How long are we going to put up with this system?" #Insiders #auspol
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"Cartoonists are starting to draw Scott Morrison as a clown." @lenoretaylor describes a new challenge facing the Prime Minister. #insiders #auspol
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WATCH: Huw Parkinson's take on Brexit #Insiders #auspol @rabbitandcoffee
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How will Labor manage the inherited debt mountain? "This trillion dollars in debt comes courtesy of a budget which is absolutely riddled with rorts and waste and mismanagement. This government is the most wasteful government since federation," @JEChalmers says #Insiders #auspol
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