Raf Epstein @Raf_Epstein Twitter profile

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1 year

Completely humiliating for the Coalition. Vindication for a Premier & a party winning 3 fixed terms in a row. (Done before in Aus?) Media who wrote conspiracy theories & fuelled them & said this was the worst govt in Oz history might want to ask themselves some questions.

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My father died last night, 1 day short of his 81st birthday. Every time you hear a furious debate about a political issue, just pray there is someone like Joe Epstein inside the system, trying to work out how to make policy a reality. 1/3

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Nah, they’re really not..

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Fine tuned by FOX in the U.S. & deployed here.. fuel the conspiracy theory.. and it is all very, very personal. If they want to be a political party they could just say so.

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2 years

This is my Dad

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Helpful aren’t they? Simple science & advice saying masks are a good idea at school is weaponised as - “madness”

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2 years

More than 440 people have died with Covid in Oz since they ran this silly headline. A front page that did not age well.

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3 years

Hearing Victoria’s Covid number today is in the low teens. All linked.

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3 years

If you thought Twitter was wild today.. We just did 30 minutes of talkback and people in Melb and Vic are.. angry.. white hot furious. A few are willing to send the vax north.. but not many.. This feels like a very distressing & important day in the history of this pandemic

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3 years

Zero cases. A nod to those who said you can’t lockdown after just 10 or 12 cases A nod to everyone who said lockdowns are only needed when contact tracers have lost control And a nod in the other direction.. to epidemiologists who use modelling & have real world experience

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Reported yesterday: 0 new local cases and no new cases acquired overseas. - 17,612 vaccine doses were administered - 30,117 test results were received More later:

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Every time you hear me ask a question or tackle an issue on air, I always think about what to say, based on what I learnt at our kitchen table. Everything I heard over endless meals & cups of tea. Be like Joe & don’t waste the time you have here. Wishing you all a long life

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3 years

NSW our thoughts are with you. VIC, the numbers are worrying. Melb knows what it feels like. Tuff restrictions & no end in sight. Thoughts and 🧵 Back in 2020, Vic govt made big mistakes. So did State Oppsn pushing for reopening before our 2nd wave. So did media. (1)

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3 years

Did it help that we spent all that time asking ‘who hired the security guards?’ & ‘why Melbourne?’

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Chief Commissioner Shane Patton On the engagement party - each person gets a fine “It is five and a half thousand dollars, if you take off a few for each child, over $350,000 worth of fines. An expensive engagement party,”

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2 years

Liberal @GladysLiuMP has pulled out of our broadcast in Chisolm. We have not been told why. ALP’s Carina Garland will be debating an empty chair. Come along and see us at the Glen Shopping Centre.

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2 years

The insane hypocrisy.. Newspapers and broadcasters accusing @TamePunk of being rude or saying it was just a stunt. Once again leading with their glass jaws. They’re just upset she stole their business model.

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The rules apply to everyone.. Novak can’t stay in Oz cos of his anti-vax views.. but anti-vax Senators can sit in the LNP party room. And if you’re deported you can’t return for years.. unless you’re a tennis player. What. A. Mess.

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2 years

The GG either didn’t know it wasn’t being made public or didn’t check it was being made public. Why not? No one in the PMs dept made sure it was made public. Two journos knew but didn’t say. When will someone stand up for basic transparency?

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3 years

Breaking Big news Victoria will scrap quarantine requirements for international arrivals. (Double dosed and test neg here of course) Arrivals will not have to quarantine at home or in a hotel Likely to happen same day it happens in NSW - Nov 1

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I’m old enough to remember the day the case number was 30 or 40 and people were angry Mikakos didn’t do the presser with Deputy CHO Van Dieman. Ah, good times.

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We could - as media - devote acres of newsprint to Novak .. Or, think about new essential worker rules that may just make essential workers more sick. I still haven’t seen these new rules endorsed by the Chief Medical Officer or a Chief Health Officer.

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3 years

A media thought experiment.. What would the headlines & your news feed look like, if this happened elsewhere?

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4 years

On concerns raised by @jeff_kennett ? @DanielAndrewsMP “I've got absolutely nothing to say about anything that, that person says.”

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2 years

🧵on the Morning After Libs refused to accept that the biggest fault lines in #auspol ran straight thru the middle of their own party room. The ‘broad church’ did not allow Libs to act. There already was a parl. majority for climate & integrity. They didn’t act. They lost.

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3 years

Just had one of the most remarkable conversations of my life. Richard is 51. He caught Covid 27 days ago. He just got out of ICU. He thought he was going to die. Below you can see him before & after (15 kg lighter) and still in hospital. On @abcmelbourne after 5pm

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If only there was somewhere that had tried retail open/retail closed no limits then km limits relying on tracing suburb specific lockdowns burbs with less $$ & bigger households have diff issues vaxxing HQ drivers isolating contacts of contacts If only that had been tried

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3 years

Sydney is like watching the replay of a football game You already know your team is going to lose and you know all the mistakes they made - and you’re still shouting at the screen!

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3 years

This is a very big deal. One of our best legal minds just appointed to the International Court of Justice. Congratulations to 🇦🇺Hilary Charlesworth. 5th women to ever be appointed (Can’t see any public celebration or public support from the Aust Govt, did I miss it?)

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PRESS RELEASE: the General Assembly and Security Council of the #UN today elected Ms Hilary Charlesworth ( #Australia ) as a Member of the #ICJ , with immediate effect

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#NPC Q: "When PM 1st responded .. he used the phrase "as a father".. had to have a chat with his wife Jenny. What do you make of that?" Grace Tame: "It shouldn't take having children to have a conscience. And, .. on top of that, having children doesn't guarantee a conscience."

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4 years

A thousands times this

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@BetootaAdvocate

4 years

Victoria’s Right-Wing Suddenly Forget They Spent 3 Months Demanding Schools And Shops Re-Open:

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3 years

Just remember These targets were "unachievable" .. a "roadmap to misery".. based on "cherry picked" experts.. .. a "worst case scenario" Still haven't seen any 'whoops I got that wrong'

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3 years

Yesterday there were 0 new cases & no lost lives reported. The 14 day average is 0.4, there are 2 cases with unknown source. As we head to COVID normal, there will soon be changes to the data reported in this tweet. More: #COVID19VicData

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2 years

You can’t be a bigot about race or ethnicity. So why do some religious groups think it’s ok to be a bigot about sexuality & gender?

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3 years

Bit of a story? 🧵 20 staffers who work in the Prime Minister’s Office received the Pfizer vaccine in March & April, outside of the process for vaxxing high profile politicians. They were vaxxed in case of OS travel. Only 10 of them have since been OS. Read whole 🧵! 1/5

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3 years

In Opposition.. The LNP wanted Julia Gillard to resign as PM & They wanted a judicial inquiry.. Because of some letters and a renovation on her house.. That was not the end of “the rule of law”

PM with David Lipson - ABC listen

PM covers stories across Australia and the world, explaining and analysing the most important events and issues of the day.

www.abc.net.au

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2 years

Just checking in with all those who predicted we were going to be living in a Stasi-style dictatorship in Victoria.. Oh.. I see.. a parliamentary committee change, to the pandemic legislation, has saved us all. Carry on then.

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3 years

Strangely no national headlines about HQ 'leaks' because there is no policy for a limo driver to be vaxxed (SkyBus drivers in Vic are) No outrage about police interview of a driver being blamed (remember 'nebuliser guy'?) Whatever. Go Sydney. We need them to succeed.

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4 years

Just a friendly reminder of what was said to be “unachievable” An average of 0 and mystery cases close to 0 at START of Nov Was derided as “a sledgehammer to crack a nut,” a “guess” as something no city had done “except Wuhan”

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In the past 24 hours, no new cases reported and no lives lost. The 14 day average is down to 2.2. There is 1 case with an unknown source. More info: #COVID19VicData

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2 years

Last Nov, Lismore was left off the federal govts list for towns that needed flood protection funding.

Confusion as flood-prone Lismore left off priority funding list

How did one of Australia's most flood-prone cities get left off a list for natural disaster funding? Baffled locals are demanding answers.

www.abc.net.au

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PM didn’t tell the House an inquiry into his own office had been suspended The man conducting that inquiry hasn’t spoken to Brittany Higgins. The main security guard who saw Brittany Higgins hasn’t been talked to. And they wonder why people are angry #auspol

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3 years

Meanwhile.. this guy keeps popping up at the tram stop outside the ABC in Southbank. He is a great dancer Rushed out to grab him for an interview but the tram got there first

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2 years

Oh look, what can happen with a Minister signing orders and not a CHO Kerry Chant -mid July- wanted Melb lockdown, curfew, shut retail etc More than 2 weeks b4 Vic & NSW cases really ramped up Sydney quarantine leak - 1000s of cases & 100s of deaths

Kerry Chant urged ‘consistent’ lockdown restrictions across all of Sydney, email reveals

The email – among documents released under a parliamentary order – shows the Chief Health Officer recommended imposing a curfew across all of Sydney at the height of the Delta COVID-19 outbreak.

www.smh.com.au

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3 years

Would spark media frenzy in Melbourne Just a passing mention in Sydney.. Virus is "a gold-medallist .. a long jumper." Masks-in-office confusion in some Sydney LGAs QR code now 'must-use' in all retail, @GladysB "I think that is the first (time) in Aust.. " Ahem ..

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Every columnist, every apologist for Trump .. you helped make this mess

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What govt would be surprised to find out that.. 1) Suburb specific lockdowns don’t work 2) Not defining “outdoor exercise” = big gatherings & need policing 3) Quarantine drivers need the vax Almost like the NSW Govt ignored what happened in Vic & didn’t watch the pressers

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Curfew for Melb has been formally put by public health team to Victorian ministers - being considered now Real sense compliance is down - they feel they have to signal ‘this is serious’ Otherwise “we end up like Sydney” Not cos one party, also pub crawl, sleepovers

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4 years

This is funny & sad & wonderful all at once. Israeli Mum on home schooling. She is going off!

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2 years

Saddest thing? It really, really isn’t.

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2 years

Saddest thing about the gallows is that it allows the proponent of bad legislation to dismiss, deflect and disparage rather than debate. Put the gallows away, it’s wrong, it doesn’t belong here, and it’s a free kick for the side you’re arguing against #covid19vic #auspol

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3 years

Some clarifications. Only 68 people at this party as far as I know. Contact tracing interviews and testing began much earlier today. If you’re angry, believe me you are not as angry as almost all of the Jewish community.

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@philipdalidakis saying some very sensible things about that function and that video.

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Imagine being small minded enough that in the midst of a pandemic & a culture changing story.. you would *check notes* .. write a story on the "crusade" & personality of female journos. Revolting & revealing.

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2 years

Gee, this is looking like a good front page, last Thursday

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3 years

Today’s Vic Covid number is less than 50 Crucial feature will be iso ratio and mystery cases

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This is not true. Victoria just went thru something tougher & broader, BECAUSE this is not true.

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@GladysB "these harsh measures are the harshest Australia has ever faced in a lock down - can I make that very clear. These are the harshest measures any place in Australia has ever faced."

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Former NSW Premier Mike Baird has a very different take to the state Liberal Oppsn - and the sources federally from Govt “the political badge you wear should mean very little at this moment”

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I don't know if Melbs current approach will get back to zero. I know it hurts so many. Maybe it is inevitable that Delta runs. But isn't it a massive failure to ignore lessons and let it run before there is enuff vax? Be good to each other (10)

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Oh .. and I'm hearing the Covid case number for Vic will be - thankfully - quite a bit lower than ydays record. (And there I was trying to tweet less. Sigh)

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This front page brought to you by Catherine Deves and Matt Canavan .. and an emissions target that hasn’t shifted since 2015

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yep, it would be terrible if people ramped up the 'scary' rhetoric on covid every time we got a new variant ahem like calling the new variant 'deadly delta' #insiders

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How much trouble are they in when a Liberal PM hasn’t campaigned in his own Treasurer’s seat? A seat that was held by the PM who founded the Liberal Party Will he pop up there today?

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5 years

No. It isn’t.

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Israel Folau's religious freedom is the defining issue of our time

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Hearing the Vic Covid number is just under 250 today Vic is due to hit 70% 1st dose (16+) around 19 Sept Get vaxxed!

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Deriding integrity as a kangaroo court Saying emissions had gone down when they’ve barely shifted Chest thumping in China while Solomons signed up to Beijing Touting economic credentials as Aust posted record inflation and wages stalled Mugged by reality

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Gee, I’m so glad we focussed so much last year on who hired the security guards and those “missing six minutes” Didn’t that show how splendidly relevant the media are in a pandemic.

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Only 1 in 4 NDIS participants are vaxxed Only 1 in 3 disability workers are vaxxed Just over 1 in 8 indigenous vaxxed Should we complete the 1st plan (from Jan) to vax them before we adopt the next "plan" to open up? @enenbee

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19 cases linked to recent mass gatherings in the Melbourne CBD. 16 not vaxxed at all. 1 fully vaxxed. 1 in hospital. 1 case attended a social gathering - now is an outbreak . with 10 confirmed cases linked so far. According to @VicGovDH

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Nearly four weeks ago, from @enenbee . You can’t say we weren’t warned

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Every Olympian has been vaxxed But not every resident at an aged care facility in a vulnerable part of Melbourne

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But not all residents had been vaxxed. "Significant number" had

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Just waiting for media to urgently ask .. (in screaming headlines & angry tweets) why NSW contact tracers said 30 people were at super spreader party.. but there were actually 40.. during a lockdown.. and 1 flew interstate .. Or maybe contact tracing isn't magic?

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More than 40 people attended this birthday party. It was initially believed about 30 people had attended, but this number increased following further investigations and contact tracing.

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So @GladysB didnt lock down as fast as her CHO wanted to.. And is coming out faster than the CHO wanted.. And its nowhere in the media.. except for the @australian & @SkyNewsAust

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And no answer from Kerry Chant on whether she recommended roadmap after 85% and not 70%

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Today's Vic #COVID19 of 3.2 Impossible? Sept 13 Greg Hunt “the 5 person .. average (and later 0) may be unachievable..” Sept 15 Melb Uni Shitij Kapu "No real other city of our size and density.. has been able to bring it down to less than 5 – with the exception of Wuhan."

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If only there was someone who could tweet out the #COVID19nsw number BEFORE the press conference

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How Melb votes vs @theheraldsun letters on election day (Letters with blue are anti Teal or anti Labour. Orange are pro teal/ALP. Blacked out are about the footy)

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Ind MP Catherine Cumming may want to review her Facebook page. A picture of a figure on a cliff named Dan Andrew’s, about to be pushed over the edge. She may want to look at her responses

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Our energy story in one depressing nutshell by Peter Hartcher @theage

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REALLY LONG THREAD - from me on @abcmelbourne y'day You can’t say we weren't warned. But if you don't accept the reality of climate science would you accept the warnings? In 2008, Ross Garnaut was looking at climate change for the Rudd Government.

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Not a good case number in Vic today Hoping - cos of vax rate - we can do a bit better that the 62K cases in NSW vs 29K cases in Vic, so far this year 403 deaths in NSW vs 75 deaths in Vic NSW had more than 1000 pple in hospital for almost all of Sept Hope we don’t get there

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Turned 50 on Sunday Pre booked 2 weeks ago Getting AZ today Yes!!!

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#insiders fascinating to watch opinions and vague assertions.. crumbling when met with a well reasoned argument

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So will Liberals condemn this? Or do they choose party over country? @ScottMorrisonMP doesn’t believe he needed to even tell his Cabinet because he didn’t use the powers. But when he did use the powers, he didn’t tell his cabinet

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Hey Sydney, this is Melbourne calling. @VicGovDH have 24 cases, 6500 contacts.. That's 270 contacts for every case.. I can't work out what @NSWHealth is doing. Who can?

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A massive thank you to everyone on @Twitter who said remarkable things about the death of my dad, Joe. I can’t reply to every golden piece of advice, some from people I’ve never met, but (sometimes!) this platform can be a fantastic place for support and understanding.

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Kerry Chant "it isn't that the lockdown isn't working.. But, we're not seeing the turnaround we would have liked to see." @DanielAndrewsMP Sydney needs a ring of steel. "We did it last year to protect country Vic & our country. The same must occur in relation to Sydney."

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Shadow Housing Minister & Liberal MP making jokes about someone’s serious spinal injury and stoking the fires of conspiracy. @r_riordanmp should be better than this. Also, it’s bad strategy. Leave the focus on .. I don’t know. Your party’s policy today?

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For what it is worth @VictorianCHO was in Canberra It was for a 2-day NHMRC Council meeting. CHOs from Qld, SA, Tas, ACT also present (WA, NSW, NT virtual). The awards happen to be held in conjunction with the meeting. Was first face-to-face meeting since March 2020

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We all need Sydney to succeed Melb took too long to understand low income/larger households. Sydney did too Melb took too long to focus on “essential” workplace transmission Hope Sydney doesn’t make the same mistake.

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Wouldn't say whose idea it was Wouldn't say who advised him it was legal Wouldn't say he did anything wrong Wouldn't say it was dictatorial, cos he was democratically elected "You mightn't understand it because you haven't been a PM in the middle of the worst crisis since WWII"

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Every time she is asked, Monique Ryan says how much money she has raised. Voters want Liberal and Labour to start doing the same. #Insiders Transparency is crucial - see Vote Compass

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Aged well.. (from March) "The big issue is not whether the national broadcaster will lose; that’s almost a given. It’s how badly it loses..."

‘Motivated by malice’? ABC’s tough fight in Porter case

Right now, the penny must be dropping for Louise Milligan and the ABC about what is at stake in the defamation proceedings that have been launched by Attorney-General Christian Porter.

www.theaustralian.com.au

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Sorry, still waiting for the question time outrage about this.. ‘NBN executives & employees got $77 million in bonuses’

NBN Co executives and employees got $77 million in bonuses in back half of 2020

There were more bonuses paid out to NBN Co employees in five months of 2020 than in the entirety of the 2018-19 financial year.

www.abc.net.au

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relatively good news 11 cases in Victoria today

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It is just under six weeks since NSW had 136 cases in a day and declared it a national emergency

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When you see NSW case # today .. May 24 @GladysB “I fear for Vic & worry about.. their govt.. I hope we’ve demonstrated.. it’s possible to manage an outbreak & not shutdown a city. June 24 @ScottMorrisonMP "I commend (her) for resisting going into a full lockdown" (8)

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Ok, if "we have to live with the virus.." Can we please know exactly which public health restrictions the federal govt wants lifted? As we travel from 70 % double dosed to 80 % double dosed.. exactly which restrictions does any govt think should lift?

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Sorry but bigger number coming for Melb today I’m told more than double yesterday. So that means today is more than 48. HOWEVER most of the big increase are results of day 13 testing for people in isolation. So that part of the system is working.

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Disability vaccine rollout.. @GregHuntMP "as of midday today, across disability residence and workers, 999 residents, 1527 workers, 2526 in total." 23,000 people live in disability care = 4.34% vaxxed so far 50,000 workers = 3.05% vaxxed so far. They are part of 1A

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@Raf_Epstein

3 years

Because the news is sometimes hard to read.. here’s a cleanse for your feed from the great radio disruptor

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@Raf_Epstein

4 years

Reporter: "the measures you're introducing today, they're specific & will benefit voters in Eden-Monaro. How is this not pork-barrelling? @ScottMorrisonMP : I think that's a pretty offensive question to people who have lost everything in bushfires. Ah no.. its called the media.

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2 years

Oh dear. No answer on the fuel levy. (How many times can you not answer) “We don’t have policies we’re in opposition.” @SenatorHume

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@Raf_Epstein

3 years

Listen to this. 51 years old. Had his first jab. Went to the MCG footy with a mate. Caught the virus and nearly died. Only got out of ICU early this week. Riveting. One of the most remarkable conversations I've ever had

Bacchus Marsh teacher who contracted COVID-19 urges Australians to get vaccinated to save lives -...

Bacchus Marsh Grammar teacher Richard says he thought he was going to die from COVID-19 after contracting it at the MCG. He got out of ICU on Monday but remains in hospital – even standing up is now...

www.abc.net.au

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If only there was a way to make sure the “shrill minority” didn’t “sour” the political debate or tell us “how we ought to feel”

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