@TracyWesterman
Thanks for sharing, Tracy.
My mum is 91. She grew up near Cowra where Aboriginal people could only walk on one side of the bridge to cross the Lachlan River & everybody else used the other side of the bridge.
I am so proud to say she is voting yes.
#VoteYES23Australia
To think this man lost an election to the dour, small- minded, visionless, bigoted John Howard.
Happy birthday, PJK.
One of my favourite Keating quotes - never truer than for these times.
I’ve met so many people like her as I’ve volunteered for elections, but especially volunteering for
#VoiceToParliament
campaign.
Strength, bravery & self-possession in her face. All power to her. She is why the Libs should be afraid, very afraid.
#DunkleyByelection
#Dunkley
To this Wonderful Lady all Labor supporters I’m sure Thank and admire you for the Intestinal Fortitude you Displayed Yesterday Take a Bow you Throughly Deserve it and Thank you again more power to you :RESPECT PLUS 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
I found this image on
#Nemesis
3 repulsive.
I don’t know who the older man was. He may have been a relative of the young woman but if not, this man physically leading her away was inexcusable.
Morrison showed not an iota of intuition or empathy.
How many women does he trigger?
Where is the disclaimer that Simon Benson is Bridget McKenzie’s partner?
Normally, what a partner does for work is irrelevant but when Benson is ranting against Labor govt decisions, it is important for readers to know that his partner sits on the Opposition front bench.
Another empuced Murdoch ranter Simon Benson froths that
@AlboMP
’s stage 3 tax re-design is ideological anti-aspirational wealth redistribution. Get a grip Simon! Haven’t you heard there is a cost of living crisis?
The double standards
@abcnews
has when it comes to their social media g/ls.
‘ABC news presenter Fauziah Ibrahim has been accused of anti-Labor bias over…lists she maintained on Twitter.
One was labelled ‘Labor Trolls/Thugs’, the other ‘Lobotomised Shitheads’.
& still employed.
Antoinette Lattouf was was fired from hosting ABC Sydney Mornings after she shared posts about Palestinian victims of Israeli bombings and blockades in Gaza.
The ABC didn't have a problem with Fauziah Ibrahim listing Labor supporters as 'lobotomised shitheads' & 'Labor trolls'?
I wonder how Julia Gillard’s mental health stood up to the ‘pile on’ she experienced from the Abbott led LNP govt & from MSM types like Alan Jones who emboldened Australians, esp misogynistic males, to pile on her.
1 of the lowest points in our political history.👇
If a Labor PM was in this situation...the headlines and commentary would not be so kind. The situation would be weaponised immediately.
"Not fit for the job" etc...
Media will always be on the side of the
#LNPNeverAgain
HA minister, Clare O’Neill calling it in the
@smh
‘…her testy relationship with Peter Dutton saying the Opposition Leader seems “visibly bothered” by her in private national security meetings.’
Is anyone shocked that this dinosaur would struggle to work with a powerful woman.
Van Onselen's snide and uninformed tripe today demonstrates why academics like him are hopeless commentators. The problem is they have no real people contacts outside Uni. Peter's commentary over the last 6 months has deteriorated to a level unreadable by serious players.
#auspol
Adam Goodes is trending &
I’m taking no prisoners tonight. I won’t be like the
@AFL
& the weakest of the weak, Gillon McLachlan.
I will block every tweeter I see who criticises Adam Goodes. It is the least I can do.
#VoteYES23Australia
for a
#VoiceToParliament
#VoteYes2023
I agree. Why isn’t Barbara Pocock given a platform on
#Insiders
For that matter, why aren’t the Teals & politicians like David Pocock i/ved by
@David_Speers
Dud LNP MPs are i/ved but not independent MPs making a significant difference to the way Aust is governed.
This woman is one of the finest, most intelligent politicians to ever set foot in Australia's parliament, far outreaching Peter Dutton in terms of integrity and intellect.
Yet Australia's media ignore her to focus on the tired, predictable, platitudinous ramblings of old Spud.
My daughter, just finished high school teacher training, has a massive HECS debt. Aiming to retain teachers, why not cancel one year of HECS debt for every year spent teaching in a state school. Just a suggestion…
@TeachersFed
@AGavrielatos
#MoreThanThanks
More bitter commentary from this self righteous gronk who just happens to be a good mate of Christian Porter . It seems like the fuckwits compete amongst themselves to see who can get the bosses attention with outrageous rubbish like this . PVO . What a cockhead
‘Nuclear…it’s really quite an immature debate’.
Worth watching not only for the sense Forrest speaks but for the way he leaves David Speers sucking on lemons.
And, Speers went back for more humiliation.
He genuinely looks stunned at how Andrew Forrest dismisses the utter nonsense from
@PeterDutton_MP
& LIB/NAT MPs about Nuclear Energy.
"if you want to condemn your community to high cost of power.. decades to implement
then go nuclear"
This correction by
@AlboMP
won’t mean anything to MSM because the prime minister, paying for his own holiday, is not a good enough clickbait story for crap outlets that politicise every story to Mr Albanese’s detriment.
#auspol
David, what a joy it is to have you as an Independent senator in FP where we see that you do promote debate that is ‘respectful & based on fact’.
Tweeters please take the time to listen to these words of such goodwill.
#VoteYesAustralia
#VoteYes
#VoiceToParliament
We’re already hearing misinformation & we’ll hear more.
It’s up to all of us to keep the debate respectful & based on fact.
The Voice is an opportunity to move forward as a country & ensure Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people can provide advice on laws that affect them.
All that is wrong with
@ABCaustralia
here in one photo.
@abcnews
continues to platform other MSM outlets of little substance & overwhelming bias whose ‘journalists’ dance to their masters’ tunes.
Next we will be seeing Taylor Auerbach commentating on journalistic integrity.
Ahhh…a journalist with ethics & integrity prepared to call out the vile hate & lies of
@sussanley
I have no doubt there will be attempted repercussions from Ley but I suspect Remeikis can withstand the onslaught.
#DunkleyByelection
#DunkleyVotes
#Dunkley
Why is Murdoch Media given such prominence on
@abcnews
?
I don't recall this happening 10+ yrs ago.
Clearly a policy enforced by recent executives.
If I wanted Murdoch Media commentary, I'd buy their sewage.
I want a public broadcaster not tainted by commercial commentary.
Close to the best quote ever from
@AlboMP
or anyone for that matter.
Can some really clever person make this a meme so I can use it over & over & over again.
"the only thing that the Liberal Party has manufactured over the last decade is outrage"
Albanese isn't copping Sussan Ley's "valley of death" jibe given the Liberals gutted TAFE, voted against the manufacturing fund, and preferred corrupted colour-coded spreadsheets.
#auspol
This is interesting. The more I learn about this, the more I suspect that Sarah Williams was loving the limelight, monopolising the microphone like those long-winded bores who won’t shut up at school athletics carnivals. And then off to Little Ben Fordham…
I don’t miss
#MediaWatch
Any show that holds MSM to account must be supported.
MW was absolutely brilliant on Monday night with Paul Barry’s powerful report on the lack of MSM coverage of the horrific effects of war on Palestinians every single day.
Great job, Paul.
@abcnews
@CoaltrainHunter
You ask: Do people still watch
@ABCmediawatch
? They certainly do: 533,000 people tuned in on Monday in 5 big cities plus 261,000 in the regions. Easily the top TV program in its slot. Reach was 1.4million a/c to OzTam. And we’ll get many more on X and Facebook. Cheers!
I think there should be a timely reminder for
@samanthamaiden
& other MSM journalists jumping on the Toto bandwagon that the Morrisons lived in Kirribilli House (not the official PM’s residence, the Lodge) & their daughters were driven across Sydney to the shire every school day.
No leaks so Sam Maiden doing the hard yards!
"Confirmation that the P.M’s dog has also been on the taxpayer-funded VIP plane follows his team’s refusal to respond to questions about whether the dog was travelling on aircraft for 3 months."
#totogate
#auspol
So the truth comes out & we have proof of what so many
@ABCaustralia
critics have known for years - that this neutered organisation will bow as low as it can go to pressure from powerful self-interested & right wing groups. So sad.
Go well
@antoinette_news
&
@JoshBBornstein
Secret WhatsApp messages show co-ordinated campaign to oust Antoinette Lattouf from ABC
Excellent reporting from
@smh
- note the denials of the bleeding obvious. Talk about post truth.
What an amazing, powerful, respectful interview between two extraordinary Australian women-
@louiseadler
&
@latingle
This interview sets the standard & should be shown in every journalism class.
#abc730
The decision of three actors in the Sydney Theatre Company's new production of The Seagull to wear the keffiyeh during curtain call sparked a frenzy of condemnation from members of the Jewish community.
@latingle
spoke to
@louiseadler
.
#abc730
David Speers on
#RN
just now laughed as he talked of lies in the Advance Australia advertising re Dunkley (saying Albanese paid for lawyers for those released by the High Court, when those lawyers had been arguing to keep them in custody).
Why would he laugh while saying that?
All I can think of is
@BrittHiggins_
Ms Higgins reported being raped in APH & then found herself marginalised, betrayed & pilloried by RW MPs, MSM & admin & legal arms of a number of govt agencies.
Walter Sofronoff’s actions are another egregious step in this sorry saga.
So we find out today the head of the Lehrmann prosecution inquiry Walter Sofronoff had Murdoch on speed dial during the inquiry with 55 of 65 media calls made over 7.5hrs going to Murdoch’s misogynist paper The Australian, & apparently it’s safe for women to report a rape.
Mark Kenny (Canberra Times) is incisive: Linda Burney has been “dignity personified under…pressure”. Burney rightly asserts “she had been respectful throughout the debate, [is] prepared to hear alternative viewpoints, eschewing the politics of advantage-taking and division.” 1/2
Greg Jennett…successfully exceeds our low expectations once again.
Hellooooooo…it was Valentine’s Day. How many proposals were there yesterday?
@abcnews
@ABCaustralia
#afternoonbriefing
This is such a good question 👇in light of the very sad story about the cherry farmer interviewed on
#4Corners
ploughing his trees into the ground b/c of the price offered by
#ColesWorth
What is your answer
@D_LittleproudMP
The Nats are a waste of parliamentary space.
‘Peter Dutton on Wednesday demanded of Anthony Albanese that Rudd “repair the relationship”.’
Peter Hartcher in
@smh
What relationship?
It’s impossible to have one with an egotistical, painted, primped & baked marionette such as Trump.
His existence is a threat to the world.
Why did so many in the media savage Rudd not Trump for this? Did they all pile into the Pope when Trump took aim at him? A lot of poor reporting and commentary.
Stephanie Dowrick has summed up Peter Dutton using far fewer words than opinion writers require to laud him in MSM.
I can use even fewer words.
Dutton is dour, visionless, mean-spirited, deceitful, oppositional, callous & arrogant - traits Australians don’t require in a PM.
Waleed Aly's article in SMH. My comments follow:
Dutton is a consistently divisive figure whose political success seems entirely dependent on pitting some of the community against others.
He is surrounded by "yes" people, and goes unchallenged in much
Worth watching. 👇
Go Jan Fran, articulate & straight forward as always.
Also Jan is very brave to challenge the hand that feeds her b/c Jan hosts
#QuestionEverything
on
@ABCaustralia
with Wil Anderson.
Jan Fran via Instagram says ABC’s explanation that they sacked Antoinette Lattouf for posting a “controversial” Human Rights Watch report “does not make any sense”
“Just hours before Antoinette posted about this HRW report, the ABC itself covered the exact same story!”
Very sad editorial in
@SatPaper
re what Aust lost under Morrison.
‘Ten years ago today, Scott Morrison was on the front page…of The Saturday Paper. More than anyone, he has defined this lost decade. He is the exemplar of a politics of squander.’
#auspol
Tony Abbott on the Broken NO CUTS to the ABC Election Promise:
“Now on the subject of broken promises. I accept that what we are doing with the ABC is at odds with what we said ‘immediately’ prior to the election BUT things have moved on, circumstances are now very different."
It is a simple fact that Janet Albrechtsen is a prime example of everything that is wrong with MSM.
Also Kristin Shorten as exposed by
@TheRealPBarry
on
#MediaWatch
4/3/23
They are from the same stable of appalling journalism.
#NewsCorpse
#ThisIsNotJournalism
Albrechtsen has been thoroughly exposed as a totally immoral charlatan. However we have the deplorable sight of her being given column space to try and justify her execrable conduct. At the time I was a young MP the editor would have sacked her five minutes after the judgement.
And the only PM in my life time to be censured. Simon Benson, Paul Kelly, George Brandis et al in MSM can try & re-write history but there are enough independent journalists & people with good memories on Twitter to counteract the re-imagining of Morrison’s leadership of Aust.
The Scott Morrison that the media is desperately trying to have us forget about. The Scott Morrison who was burnt to a crisp when asked to explain his failures which led to Australians dying from his illegal
#Robodebt
scheme.
#RobodebtRC
#IRemember
🔥💥☠️
I am yet to see any allegations related to
@PeterDutton_MP
get the attention the allegations deserve in MSM other than a cursory mention.
Is it b/c Dutton has been litigious in the past or are journalists just cowed by the LNP?
#ThisIsNotJournalism
From the Senate Estimates late shift last night.
Peter Dutton awarded Canstruct International a $1.8 billion contract despite having:
- No staff
- No assets
- No revenue
They did, however, have a rich history of political donations to the Liberal Party.
Seriously, how about the double standards of
@abcnews
@antoinette_news
is apparently sacked for her posts because they were pro Palestinian but Fauziah Ibrahim is still employed in her cushy weekend gig despite her lobotomised shitheads & Labor thugs lists which she tweeted.
‘How should women change their behaviour’.
The subtext is that Samantha Murphy should not have gone for a run on her own.
I cannot believe that question was asked. My blood is boiling.
Why do women have to spend every waking moment ensuring their safety from men?
#IWD24
Listening to
@abcmelbourne
discussing the arrest of a young 22 yo in the devastating loss of Samantha Murphy
@Raf_Epstein
poses the question “how should women change their behavior”. Ffs why aren’t men being asked to change THEIR behavior??
The media never ask Dutton and the LNP what their policies are…
They have none, all they know is the petty politicking of ‘no’ - a highly effective strategy because they’re given a free kick every time.
#MurdochRoyalCommission
#thedrum
I thought about all the families, esp with little kids, on the train going into Sydney for Aust Day. What must they have felt when these nut jobs got on the train. How scared must those kids have been.
This is what they saw & the No campaign led by Dutton & Price enabled this.
Around 60, apparently white men who tie themselves to the National Socialist Network - sporting balaclavas to hide their identities and brandishing lotsa Australian flags - boarded a train bound for northern Sydney/Sydney on Australia Day.
These “men” have then had a very public
I hope every ethical, diligent politician in Federal parliament unites to run with this. Voters deserve transparency in how tax money is spent. Voters also deserve a government which has integrity.
From the Senate Estimates late shift last night.
Peter Dutton awarded Canstruct International a $1.8 billion contract despite having:
- No staff
- No assets
- No revenue
They did, however, have a rich history of political donations to the Liberal Party.
So many rorts & failures in Australia in the past 10 years have Scott Morrison’s grubby paws all over them. He did nothing in an ethical way. His decisions were in his & the LNP’s own interests & Austs still suffer financially.
Morrison was a horrible, hubristic despot.
A scathing auditor-general’s report into the $500 million upgrade of the Australian War Memorial has revealed how Scott Morrison announced the controversial project before a business case for it was put together, conflicts of interest over key contracts and large cost blowouts.
People have been tweeting about this for a while. They👇are the subtle acts of
@abcnews
presenters. The Opposition is treated as gov’t in exile. Shadow ministers aren’t challenge & can blatantly lie or mislead at will. This was seen with the lies accepted during the Yes campaign.
Our ABC’s promotion of the LNP is at the point where Opposition members get the longer, earlier, and more prominent interviews than the actual government ministers.
This is a measurable bias in their coverage of politics — deserves a thorough content analysis by a media studies
Now we await a
#4Corners
investigation into Paladin Group & other contracts awarded when Scott Morrison was PM & Peter Dutton was Home Affairs min.
‘Manus contractor Paladin gives up its beach shack HQ, but can't get the phone on’
@FinancialReview
15/2/19
@abcnews
#auspol
Yes. Peter Dutton sails through political life saying whatever thought bubble comes into his head. He is rarely held to account. The MSM give him a free ride; they cover his bum & hide his multitude of character faults. It is unthinkable that Dutton is the alternate PM.
#auspol
@MargieJay50
@PeterDutton_MP
Is anyone, like me, sick to the back teeth of Dutton. Sick and tired of his lying & lying by omission.
WE HAVE SO HAD ENOUGH OF YOU DUTTON AND YOU DESERVE TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.
You are so cocky because MSM unforgivably cover for your dishonesty.
I agree. I cannot think of a more loathsome poliician in the entire history of Australian political life than
@PeterDutton_MP
I am happy to consider any other nominations for
#MostLoathsomeAustralianPoliticianEver
but I don’t think I will get any.
Is this the image of the most vile, most destructive, most dishonest, most disingenuous thing to ever infect our Parliament? Dutton was truly disgusting in Question Time yesterday, more so than usual.
I am very optimistic that Millenials & Gen Z will get the
#VoiceToParliament
referendum over the line.This group appears to me, generally, to be thoughtful, engaged & knowledgeable judging by the cohort I know.
#VoteYesAustralia
When he won, Millennials only made up 16% of all enrolled voters in our 2 largest states. The last Liberal Prime Minister who actually tried to connect with this growing electoral group was
@TurnbullMalcolm
Last year, Millennials and Gen Z made up 40% of all voters in Melbourne
The more we read about Peter Dutton & understand his motives & objectives, the more we understand how dangerous Dutton is.
He is Australia’s Donald Trump.
An excellent article by Lech Blaine in
@GuardianAus
worth reading.
#auspol
2 glasses of red wine? Well that is a lie unless you could bath in them.
This is an appalling, cringeworthy performance on the part of Perin Davey. It is not okay in ANY job to be drunk at work let alone being one of Australia’s lawmakers.
Another embarrassing
@Nationalsaus
#BREAKING
🚨 Nationals deputy leader Perin Davey has admitted to drinking two glasses of red wine before appearing at a parliamentary committee - but tells Sky News “I don’t think I was drunk”
Watch the video ⬇️
#6NewsAU
|
I cannot understand the
@PeterDutton_MP
led LNP’s determination to divide Aust along racial lines aided & abetted by so much of the MSM.
Our elected representatives should guide us to find our best selves. How do they live with themselves?
#VoteYesForRedress
#VoiceToParliament
The
#LNP
has done some seriously bad things.
But stoking the fire of fear & mistrust about
#TheVoice
would have to be the most egregious.
By harnessing the RW Murdoch press to light the match that inflames racism, hatred & discord for political purposes is unforgivable.
#yes23
Compare the pair - Dan Tehan last week & Chris Bowen this week. Tehan can barely string 2 sentences together; Bowen completely around his brief.
Worth watching
#insiders
to see the Bowen interview.
I don't think there's any doubt that
@Bowenchris
emerged the winner from his sparring match with
@David_Speers
on
#Insiders
this morning, is there?
Bowen's tactic of anticipating the next question was especially disarming.
#AusPol
Peter Dutton tells Australian that Albo has no idea about the cost of living battles people face. This is the guy who flew business class to Gina Rhineharts birthday for 40 minutes during a bi- election in Dunkley on the cost of living .! Give us a break
So who do we believe on the cost of nuclear energy - Peter Dutton, known spreader of disinformation, misinformation & lies, or the CSIRO - Aust’s premier scientific organisation?
#auspol
‘Although this government has not mentioned negative gearing, capital gains tax or franking credit reforms, the opposition leader, aided and abetted by the Murdoch media, has pretended those policies are back on the agenda."
@SatPaper
@David_Speers
note.👇
#ThisIsNotJournalism
David Speers to Albo on
#Insiders
: "A lot of people are talking about Negative Gearing".
Are they David? Are they really? Who's talking about negative gearing exactly?
It's a manufactured talking point from Murdoch and the LNP, parroted by ABC journalists.
#journalism
#auspol
#AfternoonBriefing
had Barnaby Joyce speaking on appropriate treatment of women by men. The Nats investigated complaints against him for harassing a young woman in a pub. The "family values" "proper household" shtick from a drunken adulterer is vomitous 😠
#auspol
#EnoughIsEnough
This quote from Mathias Cormann never grows old & is always worth a retweet.
An excellent reminder of how those ‘better economic managers’, the LNP rob from the poorest to pay their rich mates. Please remember that next time there is a Federal election.
#LNPNeverAgain
A picture is worth a thousand words.
This photo says it all about the Peter Dutton led LNP. Men in suits looking faux serious & self-satisfied with not a woman in sight.
Politics is a serious business, darlin’. Leave the women in the kitchen & let the men get on with the work.
What a grubby MP you are,
@PaulFletcherMP
Misleading, nasty & small-minded.
We are not stupid & know why
#QT
was shorter today - so that MPs could offer condolences to the Fitzgibbon family for the tragic death of Lance Corporal Jack Fitzgibbon.
#auspol
Photo
@newcastleherald
For the second time this week the Prime Minister has shut down question time after just five questions from the Opposition. On average in 2021 under the Morrison Govt the Opposition got almost 10 questions. Why is the Albanese Labor Govt always looking to avoid scrutiny?
Loved
@FergusonNews
asking
@JEChalmers
repeatedly about the people who’ll have their tax cut reduced by half to $4k. She said they’ve been planning how to spend it too.
Yes…on an extra week in Thredbo skiing.
She could ask about the people who weren’t getting a cut & now are.
It is a disservice to journalism & wasted opportunity for astute debate when interviews with leaders are reduced to a circus of flippant gotchas & futile interjections. Praise to a composed Jim Chalmers acing Labor's Stage 3 stance amid Sarah Ferguson's onslaught.
#abc730
#auspol
I used to think there was no-one I could loathe more than John Howard.
And then Tony Abbott came along.
And then Scott Morrison came along.
And then Peter Dutton came along.
What is it with loathsome
@LiberalAus
leaders? Must be part of the selection process.
#VoteYesAustralia
‘In a media conference today, Dutton said there was not enough detail for Australians to understand the upcoming vote’
Snort 🙄
Dutton is still trying to convince us there is no detail - after weeks of presentations, links, forums, discussions & voting facts..
He’s got nothing
I want
@D_LittleproudMP
to tell me what the average household income is in his electorate of Maranoa, a QLD rural seat. I will bet it is nothing like $190k.
After that, I want him to tell me about his plan for ensuring every tax payer in Maranoa pays less tax.
It is very interesting how Peter Dutton is exposed when journalists do their job.
It has been a testing week for Dutton after
@PaulBongiorno
(in the New Daily) &
@CroweDM
(
@smh
) have held him to account.
#ThisIsJournalism
Peter Dutton’s plan to fearmonger Australians about asylum seekers has surely backfired now after being brutally nailed in this Fact Check by David Crowe. This is inexcusable for someone who wants to be PM,
#PaladinPete
must resign.
Peter Dutton offers nothing but obstruction.
Pulitzer Prize winning Australian author Geraldine Brooks knows. Please read her
@smh
column 22/7 and
#VoteYesAustralia
for a
#VoiceToParliament
Interesting perspective.
@sussanley
had issues with her preselection in Farrer & she should be worried.
@VoicesOfFarrer
is organising a grassroots campaign to run an Independent. Good luck to them.
I am certain
@helenhainesindi
will hold seat with increased margin & nearby seat of
#Farrer
held by
@sussanley
will be lost to Independent. All existing
#TEALS
will hold seats.
#LNP
seats in Parliament will drop below 50.
Some of Murdoch’s ‘fine journalists’
Vikki Campion
Peta Credlin
Rita Panahi
Janet Albrechtsen
James Campbell
Sharron Markson
Rachel Baxendale
Clare Armstrong
Samantha Maiden
Joe Hildebrand
Andrew Bolt
Piers Akerman
Miranda Devine
@ABCaustralia
'Murdoch has some fine journalists'
I really really don't want to hear MD David Anderson...and Head of News Justin Stevens...one more time justifying presence of Murdoch 'journos' on ABC...in front of Senate Estimates!
Please quit!
#auspol
I guess this train wreck of an interview where Sarah Ferguson showed up
@tedobrienmp
for the charlatan he is, means we won’t see Dutton put himself under Ferguson’s microscope any time soon.
#730report
Misleading from the outset, painfully clueless on energy, belligerent when challenged. Ted O'Brien, Ghost of Morrison Past, is a radioactive burden on Australian politics, stuck in a nuclear fantasy like Dutton. What a fool to think he could outsmart Sarah Ferguson
#abc70
#auspol
And here is Andrew Gee, Independent member for the seat of Calare & Aust’s bravest politician. Gee left the Nationals because of their opposition to the
#VoiceToParliament
& has been campaigning hard for
#VoteYes2023
Unlike
@Birmo
Gee is a man of principle.
#VoteYES23Australia
Is this Australia’s most gutless Politician?
Meet Simon Birmingham “
@Birmo
”
Senior “Moderate” Liberal
Liberal Leader of the Senate
Refuses to even speak of the Voice referendum let alone acknowledge which way he’s voting.
Scared of Peter Dutton? Absolutely.
COWARD!!
Afternoon listening to Thomas Mayo, Signatory and Advocate for the Uluru Statement from the Heart and Director of the Yes Alliance, at a special community information session in Nowra this afternoon.
#VoteYesAustralia
And an opportunity to upgrade my wardrobe
@thomasmayo23
All Hockey’s political ideology was focussed on his so called ‘lifters’ not his so-called ‘leaners’.
Never forgot, Hockey and Cormann, under PM Abbott, were responsible for 1 of the most punitive budgets ever.
Hockey can try to leave his political past behind…
Hearing Joe Hockey this morning just reminded me of his advice almost 10 years ago that if people thought houses were too expensive they should just "get a good job that pays good money". It is SO easy to waste a decade in policy. And it's us who pay the price.
Here is another brilliant idea Tim Wilson had for how people should spend their super.
The voters of Goldstein knew the self-aggrandising, shallow, insufferable Wilson & took the correct action.
All power to
@zdaniel
@TimWilsonMP
@AlboMP
Only Tim Wilson, no longer an MP, could turn someone else's happy announcement into a self-serving promotion. Your idea on encouraging young ppl to raid their retirement funds has already been rejected by Goldstein, and I dare say your party will reject your attempt to run again.
I really believe that
@PeterDutton_MP
is a protected species under the current
@ABCaustralia
regime.
I won’t hold my breath looking for a report on
@abcnews
re the shonky Home Affairs way of awarding contracts & other questionable practices under Dutton.
Where is
#4Corners
It’s the same old trope. A man who is actually a hectoring bully is seen as strong while a woman who stands her ground is seen as strident & pushy.
But it is worse when this trope is being perpetuated by
@michellegrattan
who has been a role model for so many women.
OH FFS! Michelle Grattan on Afternoon Briefing just accused Claire O'Neil of being too aggressive in Parliament.
Seriously? Why are strong women who stand there ground accused of being aggressive?
Dutton is the epitome of aggressive! In fact he's a blatant bully
Here's
@TimWilsonMP
, back on the campaign trail in
#Dunkley
on Saturday. ↙️
Might be time to retire that running clobber, Tim. Too many embarrassing memories. ↘️
I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked.
Who would have imagined that an organisation which pays to interview people such as Bruce Lehrmann would be so morally & ethically bankrupt.
@Channel7
I'm terribly shocked that Channel Seven-Stokes had to pay for a Thai masseuse, um, experience for young Brucey and the new media chief for NSW Police back when he was a producer at Channel Seven-Stokes, tried to fix it up
Who would ever have thought they'd do that sort of thing?
Here is my New Year’s wish - that
@ScottMorrisonMP
is still in parliament for the next Federal election & that he hovers over the LNP campaign like a benighted phantom blighting everything he touches.
#auspol
#MobiliseAgainstTheLNP
As well as the
@simonahac
thread, you can also read this
@Peter_Fitz
column in
@smh
10/3 interviewing Dr Dylan McConnell, senior researcher & expert in energy systems including nuclear.
The info is out there - no-one needs to depend on info from Peter Dutton.
@abcnews
#insiders
@abcnews
I’m pretty sure Speers is going to get Bowen to explain *again* why Dutton’s nuclear plan doesn’t stack up.
So to save you all time, read this thread by Simon Holmes a Court
And of course Clare Armstrong
@ByClare
turned Barnaby Joyce being sprawled drunk in the street into a slur on
@albomp
Conflated outrage that the PM would comment. Words to the effect that circumstances for Joyce can’t be judged. Nothing on
#Insiders
about him seeking support.
Hmm ... Speers turned the Barnaby drunk on the streets of Canberra into the Lydia Thorpe story and made the whole thing a Labor double standard issue rather than an ABC pro LNP issue.
Barnaby's disgusting behavior is the story here folks.
Wouldn’t it be great if
#Insiders
had
@Mon4Kooyong
on to be interviewed by
@David_Speers
about nuclear. She is so knowledgeable on the topic but I can’t see it happening b/c Mon might say something mean about the one & only LNP policy
Bridget McKenzie only has bullshit to counter that nuclear is a distraction from the LNP's lack of credibility on cost of living.
Monique Ryan "the LNP is kicking the can down the road on the transition because they want to keep in with their friends - the big coal and gas"
‘This coalition is unelectable’.
An excellent article by
@JohnRHewson
in
@SatPaper
The evil division being wrought by
@PeterDutton
& the LNP on Australia is being called out for what it is - a grubby political tactic to get elected.
The LNP are using Trumpian politics.
#auspol
The most disturbing aspect of 2023 for the Coalition has been its echoing of the worst of former United States president Donald Trump and his Republican Party, writes
@JohnRHewson
.
In particular, its reliance on a culture of division and cancellation.
Under Howard, c.20,000 Uni places were cut & HECS fees rose up by c.122%
Under Abbott,poorer Uni graduates faced c.30% more debt, hitting women graduates the most
Under Morrison, Arts, Law and Commerce degrees cost twice as much
No one screws over future generations like the LNP
What a cringe worthy, epic fail from
@sussanley
&
@_DaveSharma
These students obviously know how the LNP decimated funding for education, particularly tertiary education & TAFE.
Where is
#MadAsHell
when you need it.
The Albanese Government has introduced legislation to abolish the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and replace it with a new, much improved Administrative Review Tribunal.
This is the most significant reform of the federal system of administrative review in decades. 👇
Right up there with the worst headline of any newspaper I have read this year (although it is only February).
‘Recruited a wife’. What? From Adecco? Nasty, small-minded and spiteful.
When did we stop rejoicing in love?
Brilliant
@bairdjulia
writes in the
@smh
re the appt of Sam Mostyn as GG:
“…it’s fascinating to watch conservatives argue that the very words diversity, inclusivity and equality are divisive, ignoring that they are values…pursued by the corporate sector”.
Worth a read.
#auspol
Oh dear. It is inconceivable that
@SenatorCash
represents Australians in our Federal parliament. No evidence of considered decision making, moderation or humanity.
BTW Cash was Australia’s attorney-general under PM Scott Morrison. Ponder that thought for a minute or two.
#Nemesis
Not losing the plot? You be the judge. Michaelia Cash responds to news that Labor has the numbers in the
#Senate
to legislate further workplace protections for workers.
#Bonkers
Absolutely worth watching. One woman’s determination to expose the truth about Buckingham Palace involvement in the sacking of Gough Whitlam.
Great job, Professor Hocking.
@palaceletters
#ThisIsJournalism
#NotMyKing
If you missed it last night The Search for the Palace Letters is now on ABC iview and here it is! Thanks to the mighty Film Art Media team - dir. Daryl Dellora and producer Sue Maslin - for such a brilliant job🙏
@TSFTPL
#auspol
via
@ABCTV
I second this. I grew up on a diet of
@abcnews
TV & radio. News from
@ABCaustralia
was often the primary discussion of our extended family.
Our national broadcaster is in a sorry state and ABC workers from the top down appear incapable of recognising or remediating this. Sad.
Any restructure of the ABC must look at news editors - they approve stories, check content and balance. They have let us down and now we are served shit sandwiches with no bread. Sack the ones who are just frauds and give us back the reliable ABC, not this current crap.
#auspol