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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
8 years
For those saying gun laws don't work, I made a list of Australian public mass shootings since our strict 1996 laws
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6 years
Sydney's Sea Life aquarium says it is a gay penguin couple, Sphen and Magic, and they are hatching an egg together "The pair make a great team"
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2 years
If I was Novak Djokovic, I would simply have taken two doses of the safe and effective COVID-19 vaccinations, then quietly collected my millions of dollars for playing tennis
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5 years
Tommy Robinson "decked" by a 70-year-old man on his first day in jail "He is said to have tried to intimidate the pensioner who responded by dropping him with a single punch."
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Josh Butler
5 years
it's been 24 hours and I can't stop watching on loop this Canberra kangaroo get rescued from Lake Burley Griffin then jump right back in the water
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
2 years
Doing some reading on this Omicron variant
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
5 years
These are my favourite Sydney #climatestrike signs from today
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
3 years
Ariarne Titmus’ coach’s reaction after she won gold in the 400 metres - instantly iconic
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
3 years
"Trump pardons Lil Wayne, snubs Joe Exotic" is exactly the kind of headline this presidency was always going to end with huh
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
6 years
A man with literally every piece of information in the world at his fingertips looks at COLDEST NEW YEARS EVE ON RECORD and comes up with "yeah, climate change isn't real"
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
6 years
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
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8 years
Someone put a statue of naked Trump (with giant belly + tiny peen) in NYC today and apparently it's also a Pokestop
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Josh Butler
2 years
PM Albanese about to give his first press conference from Parliament House. They’ve just added the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to the podium
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4 years
Russell Crowe got Jennifer Aniston to read out a climate change message about the bushfires at the Golden Globes, and honestly, what a lord
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2 years
very strong speech from Jacqui Lambie, bluntly opposing One Nation's vaccine mandate "discrimination" bill: "that's the way it is. We do that to keep people safe. How about that?" #auspol
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2 years
"this is a problem of Chris Bowen's making", opposition leader Peter Dutton says of the energy crisis, regarding the new energy minister who has been in office three weeks following nine years of Coalition government
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
5 years
[me appearing on Shark Tank with my million dollar idea] Salmon waterslide cannon
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
2 years
Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells just launched an incredible attack on PM Scott Morrison and Alex Hawke in the Senate - says Morrison is “not fit to be Prime Minister” and claims he and Hawke “destroyed the Liberal Party in NSW”
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
7 years
Kanye likes Trump and Kim doesn't, 2017 is gonna be great viewing
@KimKardashian
Kim Kardashian
7 years
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Josh Butler
5 years
Here's a video of Anning getting egged - the kid walked right up, got his phone out, started recording, and calmly cracked the egg on Fraser's head
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2 years
Laura Tingle at #NPC : “It’s traditional for the PM & opposition leader to give their final major addresses of the campaign to the Press Club… Morrison becomes the first PM in over 50 years to not give such an address. We wish him well on Saturday, as we do our speaker today”
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5 years
Stop booking white supremacists on your TV shows. Stop publishing cartoons depicting immigrants as scary, faceless invaders. Stop giving easy softball interviews to politicians who sow division and disunity. Christchurch requires a thorough examination of how media works in 2019
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6 years
Richard Di Natale's speech in the Senate just now was straight fire "We have kids in a catatonic state because they had given up hope, locked away in those offshore hellholes. What is the Liberal Party doing? Focusing on vengeance, on payback. Focusing on themselves."
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2 years
Scott Morrison just dropped “Mr Speaker” three times in one answer to a journalist in a press conference, only realising on the third one that he’d slipped back into Question Time mode
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3 years
'Just Adelaide Things' has this video of an old fella walking up to Scott Morrison and flipping the bird in his face in South Australia
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Josh Butler
3 years
Bold of Brad Hazzard to sternly warn that “particularly young people” need to “not let complacency set in” - like the first cases in this Avalon cluster weren’t two people aged 60+ who failed to isolate after COVID tests and visited cafes all over town while infectious
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
29 days
@thomas_violence Italian historians must have enjoyed the authenticity of the shootout at the petrol station and the police helicopter in the Luhrmann version
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
4 years
left: Parliament House, Canberra, January 5 right: :Parliament House, Canberra, January 20 (pics: AAP)
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Josh Butler
4 years
China: lockdown Italy: lockdown Spain: lockdown UK: lockdown India: lockdown USA: planning specifically to relax rules by Easter with the hope churches will be "packed"
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
4 years
Trump on why he picked Easter as the day he wants to end strict social distancing and reopen American businesses: "Easter is a very special day for me ... Easter Sunday, and you'll have packed churches all over our country."
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6 years
Penguins giving each other special rocks is my favourite thing in nature, it's honestly just so pure and good
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3 years
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@australian
The Australian
3 years
The governor of Florida, America’s third biggest state, has slammed Australia’s strict approach to Covid-19, likening the nation to ‘communist China’.
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Josh Butler
7 years
Scores of people are deleting Uber after the company serviced rides at JFK airport while taxis were striking against muslim ban #deleteuber
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Josh Butler
3 years
Berejiklian saying Delta is difficult to contain "even when you've thrown everything at it from day one”, in the same breath as announcing a long list of brand new restrictions, is quite the feat of political gymnastics
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Josh Butler
3 years
wow those four hours where NSW tried to unilaterally open Australia's international borders sure were exhilarating
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
3 years
Compare the pair 🤝
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
6 years
The replies to this Kanye tweet are amazing
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3 years
Not sure I quite have the words to describe Brittany Higgins returning to Parliament House to address the massive #March4Justice . An absolute powerhouse. A force of nature. That speech, I think (I hope) will go down in history. Seeing the effect on people here was extraordinary
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3 years
holy shit "we'll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We don't want them to find any ballots at 4 in the morning and add them to the list... as far as I'm concerned, we've already won" we're in dangerous territory now
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Josh Butler
3 years
if you were the person who called Crime Stoppers on Barnaby Joyce, please send me a DM or email as I am dying to hear from you
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
6 years
Omg
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
2 years
Canberra anti-vax protesters have blocked roads for 2 weeks, harassed hospo workers, been arrested on weapons charges, camped illegally, forced a charity book fair to cancel in Australia's most vaccinated city (98.6% 2-dose) and wonder why they're not being more warmly welcomed
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Josh Butler
8 months
Glad someone said it Archer: “It is irresponsible to cast doubt on the integrity of the AEC and their established processes in a deliberate attempt to confuse people or induce them to question the validity of the result”
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Josh Butler
3 years
MELBOURNE: Pot, potato cake, lockdown SYDNEY: Middy, potato scallop, stay at home order
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Josh Butler
5 years
I have been getting messages and tags and mentions from upset Indian cricket fans all morning - some angry, some supportive - because they have mistaken me for English cricketer Jos Buttler, it's been quite a day for me on twitter dot com
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Josh Butler
5 years
can we stop doing fact checks on good animals please, can't we just have some nice things that don't need to debunked in a "well ACTUALLY" hot take, let Sully and Knickers just have their time
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Slate
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Sully H.W. Bush is a service dog who had been with the president for six months, not his lifelong companion:
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3 years
Pretty sick of living through these “once in a lifetime”/“one-in 100-year” weather and economic events every couple of years lately hey
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10 months
Home affairs minister Clare O'Neil, on Donald Trump Jr: "a big baby, who isn't very popular."
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4 years
Chris Hemsworth holding a tiny koala which is holding a bigger toy koala That’s it, that’s the tweet
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
3 years
statement from SA opposition leader Peter Malinauskas, striking a different tone to some politicians lately: "We’re going to fight for each other, not against each other.... unlike in Victoria, as Opposition Leader I’m here to support the government, not undermine it"
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6 years
Oh no.... what a truly terrible world this would be......
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Josh Butler
3 years
5 crossbench MPs (Adam Bandt, Helen Haines, Rebekha Sharkie, Zali Steggall & Andrew Wilkie) have called on the Nine and News Corp papers to stop running COVID ads from Clive Palmer - say they have "civic duties as a national publisher"
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4 years
[Trump, body pumped full of cocktails of experimental drugs, having been on oxygen just days ago] maybe I'm immune
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@JoshButler
Josh Butler
2 years
Advice at start of pandemic: stop shaking hands! Disinfect your groceries when you get home! Don’t touch elevator buttons! Advice today: would be good if you can limit your licking of doorknobs to 3 hours 59 minutes. Totally ok if not though
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Josh Butler
5 years
Andrew Bolt: I still maintain Adam Goodes bullied that girl at the game and that is definitely the only reason I don't like him. Bullying children is wrong. also Andrew Bolt: here's my very normal 1000-word article calling a 16-year-old girl "deeply disturbed"
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Michael Harris
5 years
Why do so many adults treat this middle-aged and strange man with such seriousness?
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Josh Butler
5 years
Hmm, pretty hungry. Might go to Muffin Break and ask them to give me 200 free muffins because it'll be good experience for them. Anyone want anything?
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2 years
PM Anthony Albanese on the Roe v Wade ruling of the US Supreme Court:
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4 years
I must have missed the episode where Barney killed more than 500,000 people around the world
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3 years
SA chief health officer: "We had a security guard at the [quarantine] hotel that worked part-time making pizza" did we... learn nothing... from the last six months
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Josh Butler
3 years
Stunned that Katie Hopkins has been let in the country. Aside from the obvious travel caps and Australians still struggling to get home, this gobsmacking disrespect for quarantine rules, deliberately flouting vital health guidelines on avoiding HQ breaches
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2 years
speaker Andrew Wallace apparently couldn't hear Scott Morrison yell "Manchurian candidate" into the microphone, but can hear Morrison say "I withdraw" even though the microphones didn't pick it up Curious!!!
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2 years
At 5.52pm on a Friday, the Australian government has cancelled Novak Djokovic’s visa 🎾
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4 years
I’m on a bus into the city. Bus is diverting due to climate protests, driver is telling everyone One woman is LIVID: “Why?? How do I get to Martin Place now??” She’s furious Then someone says it’s because of the protest “Oh..that’s good..someone has to stand up for the planet”
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3 years
journalist Q: "Has the COVID safe app been used at all during the outbreak?" VIC health minister Martin Foley: "Not to my knowledge. I'm sure such a rare event would have been brought to my attention"
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Monique Ryan gets up in #QT to [unintelligible sledging] microphones don't pick it up but Peter Dutton appears to mouth something about "prime minister" in her direction (0.22) Ryan: "I'll be there before you are"
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8 months
We’re about 2 minutes away from a concerted campaign of “the referendum is being rigged by elites and the woke AEC” and I think media and commentators really need to reflect on the role we’re playing in either debunking that falsehood or allowing it to take root
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former Aus Post CEO Christine Holgate compares her treatment (near-instant dismissal over the Cartier watches) to how Scott Morrison responded to "terrible atrocities" alleged against cabinet ministers #auspol
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Josh Butler
6 years
Beside the inherent insanity of this tweet, I think we could agree that at 71 years of age, calling Trump "old" is not so much insult as it is fact
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
6 years
Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!
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3 years
writing 1500 words to claim Norman Swan is bad at his job but then someone putting the wrong headline on the article is just *chef’s kiss*
@normanswan
Norman Swan
3 years
News Limited better lawyer up. I suspect ⁦ @jonathanvswan ⁩ will think it’s defamatory to have the photo of whoever that ugly old bloke is associated with his name. I am of course not referring to Kenny who’s a fine figure of a man and so young looking for his age.
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Scientists, for 30 years: climate change will exacerbate natural disasters like fire. We’ve been saying this for ages Facebook idiots: you fool. Far more likely it’s entirely the fault of an orchestrated clandestine campaign of arson, led by greenies, for purposes unknown
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3 years
Scott Morrison is on 2GB, speaking to Ray Hadley Hadley: "if anyone listening expects me to carve you up, they're going to be sadly disappointed" which is just a fantastic way to start an interview
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3 years
I think it’s fun how all the analysis of Macron’s anger is “it’s only because France has an election soon” French election is in April. Australia likely to have one in March or May So by that logic, we should be considering Morrison’s response in the election context too?
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PM Albanese on ABC Radio, on Bondi stabbing: "This man wielded a knife, but if it was an automatic gun, then we would have been speaking about hundreds of deaths... an important reminder of how important it is that we do have strong gun laws in this country"
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1 year
Morrison: "Had I been asked about these matters at the time at numerous press conferences I held, I would have responded truthfully" ...how? How would anyone have been able to ask about this? "Excuse me PM, just wondering, have you secretly appointed yourself treasurer?"
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PM Albanese responds to criticisms of his international travel schedule: "those people might like to say which of the events I have attended on behalf of Australia, that I should not have attended. I have not had a day off for a very long period of time"
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speaker Milton Dick told the House he reviewed video of PM Albanese answering a question from Michelle Landry in #QT : "the PM was answering the question...he was directly responding to interjections from [Dutton]. I didn't see the PM show any disrespect to [Landry]"
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3 years
I hate analysing the theatre of pressers, but this NSW one is something. Great to focus upfront on vaccinations, as we should - but Hazzard waiting 10 mins to mention 30k people in Armidale going into lockdown, adding "there have been some deaths" as the last thing... not great?
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5 years
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a protest where there’s a line to get IN. Scenes at the edge of the Sydney #climatestrike at the Domain
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5 years
oh my god you have to watch to the very end, this one is worth it
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4 years
Antony Green - "The story of this election at the moment is the collapse of the One Nation vote" #QLDvotes
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3 years
imagining Kevin Rudd roaring into the Parliament House forecourt in a black Pontiac Firebird with a truckload of bootlegged Pfizer in tow like 'Smokey & The Bandit'
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3 years
Gladys Berejiklian:"We have had, and continue to have, the right settings in place" don't know how you can honestly say this, at this point
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Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo: "I'm devastated" "We've seen a disgusting No campaign, a campaign that has been dishonest, that has lied to the Australian people" "I'm not angry at the Australian public...It's the people that have lied to us, they are the ones we should be blaming"
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5 years
"the tunnel should have been built 20 years ago", Tony Abbott says He's been local member for 25 years #warringahdebate
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Josh Butler
3 years
so the list of government members who knew about the Brittany Higgins report, but didn't pass the message on to the Prime Minister: - Linda Reynolds - Michaelia Cash - Scott Ryan - Tony Smith - several PMO staff - and now Peter Dutton, who says the AFP told him on February 11
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6 years
I was so stoked reading the first two lines of this headline then really sad reading the third line
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3 years
The AFR hit job on Sam Maiden is pathetic and outrageous. Talk about shooting the messenger I wonder how many blokes in the gallery would be described as a “spiky competitor”. I’ve been there 8 months - IMO the place could definitely do with being a bit more spiky & less chummy
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3 years
Joe Hockey once again proving you don’t really need to know a lot about anything to ascend to some of the highest offices in the political society. A shining example for us all.
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3 years
Getting ready for Game 1. Go the @NSWBlues !
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2 years
Peter Dutton giving a press conference to sound the alarm over a Chinese "intelligence collection warship" 250 nautical miles off the coast of WA today we're at the "break glass in case of emergency" stage of the election
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4 years
~Some personal news~ very stoked to be joining @TheNewDailyAu on Monday as political editor. Slightly daunted at the prospect of moving to Canberra in the middle of winter, but real excited to get stuck in
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Scott Morrison: under 40s can get AstraZeneca State premiers: hmm not sure about that, ATAGI says preferably nah ATAGI: health advice hasn't changed Greg Hunt: health advice hasn't changed AMA: not sure about this RACGP: we found out about this from the TV
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Josh Butler
6 years
I don't know what I expected from a Scott Morrison government but "tweeting a video soundtracked by a Fatman Scoop song containing the lyrics 'who fuckin tonight' in his first month" definitely wasn't on the list of possibilities
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2 years
Look at the absolute size of this lad
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Josh Butler
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"irony" is the Trump campaign plagiarising a speech about the importance of hard work
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2 years
in the Senate, Sarah Hanson-Young accuses someone on the Coalition benches of making "growling and dog noises" as Jacqui Lambie spoke Penny Wong says she heard it from "that end" too but Senate President Slade Brockman said he didn't
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3 years
I don't have a GP of my own in Canberra. I just Googled "GP near me" and called the first number that came up. Was able to instantly book an AstraZeneca vaccine appointment for 11am tomorrow. Go on, go out and get one, fellow youths - I'm stoked
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2 years
In the 30 hours since Scott Morrison said Australia doesn’t need to mandate mask rules, Victoria and NSW governments have mandated indoor mask rules
@TheTodayShow
The Today Show
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"We don't have to mandate people wearing sunscreen and hats in summer." Scott Morrison on reimposing mask mandates as NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet resists calls to reintroduce the measure. #9Today
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Users: hey can you get rid of the Nazis please Twitter: ok sure, we've changed the stars to hearts for likes Users: no no, zero Nazis please Twitter: yep we're getting rid of Vine Users: nah hey, what about the Nazis Twitter: ok ok fine, no more likes
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