Rick Morton @SquigglyRick Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Rick Morton

2 years

I'm not sure what I'm going to do to, but I strongly suspect my days on this website are numbered. (What's Elon Musk lol). @squigglyrick on Instagram and my @SubstackInc , where you will find my most Twitter-like (I guess?) commentary:

Nervous Laughter | Rick Morton | Substack

life, writing and other tragedies. Click to read Nervous Laughter, by Rick Morton, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

rickmorton.substack.com

63

102

576

Last Seen Profiles

@alekirser

@MRCOJ_

@Taka_R6S

@itskahrna

@aylulmadrid

@Carnomiuart

@Galack11

@namyenss

@DripMarketDAO

@bdog4ever

@starlightlle

@bet_bash

@_Go_A_

@TriggerFCB

@OCDh0lic

@aitokyouki

@TheJosTurner

@wotantyshirt

@WinCathedral

@bkharashi

@anju_cinnamon

@bardigangradio

@ban8ku

@__abby_d

@bartholinite

@seyenteen

@SovasVoice

@bervsie

@akiramuracco

@YANMAH_

@_Mel_is_here_

@cBZTXOZYnklOKc9

@TomMaycock3

@adoreMadomme

@_actressadmirer

@YOKOTA_Ishin

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

Seven year anniversary of the best photo I’ve ever taken. On my phone! I could live for 100 years and never do any better.

214

563

6K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

9 months

all I'm gonna say about it is this: complaining 'the royal commission was mean and unfair to me and they don't understand what I was going through' is, from the man who introduced Robodebt, a seam of irony so rich in fuel it could power interstellar travel for millennia

124

2K

6K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

@DineshDSouza @Polymathically Hi Dinesh, Australian here, it's really not you fucken nugget

53

194

5K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

6 months

There is nothing - nothing - that could ever make this OK. No amount of buts or ifs or what abouts. Nothing. Anyone who tries has forfeited their soul.

Dr. Shahd Hammouri د.شهد الحموري

@shahdhm

6 months

39 babies on incubators in Al Shifa. This is the last room with electricity. Two have already died. 37 babies.

175

10K

17K

211

1K

5K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

I was in the middle of writing 4000 words to meet a deadline tomorrow but then I found this bubba blue-faced honeyeater who had fallen out of his nest on a 39C day and now I’m behind schedule

218

141

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

What a gracious statement from Witness J, the man whose testimony was so powerful the Pell case made it all the way to the High Court.

111

1K

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

otherwise known as “breakfast”

44

612

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 months

omg have a fucken sook

9News Sydney

@9NewsSyd

3 months

One of Sydney's oldest boys' schools is going co-ed, leaving some parents furious about what they call the "woke agenda" behind the move. #9News READ:

2K

155

1K

356

279

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

Scott Morrison choosing to speak in parliament just three times in the last year: on the Queen, his own censure motion and rejecting a First Nations Voice. There contains the man. Small and mean.

141

945

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

Scott Morrison doing four different jobs during the pandemic.

66

403

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

7 months

This panel is talking about how to make policy for First Nations people do you notice anything

454

612

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

I filed this piece on the plane back from Canberra and when I landed I pressed send, then boss phoned as I was driving back to Boonah and suggested a summary "paragraph." I pulled over at a Maccas off the Centenary Highway and wrote this. Glad I did.

227

1K

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

9 months

if andrews manages to end the commonwealth games it may be his greatest legacy

BBC Breaking News

@BBCBreaking

9 months

Canada’s Alberta cancels bid for 2030 Commonwealth Games over costs, weeks after Australia’s Victoria pulled out of hosting 2026 Games

313

630

2K

149

613

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

Rate of hospitalisations from the Delta outbreak in NSW is 3x what has been reported. Hospital system is pushed to the brink. 80 per cent of staffed ICU beds occupied in NSW. In Victoria, it is 91 per cent. Ambulance service cannot keep up with demand.

Exclusive: Covid-19 hospitalisations three times higher than reported

Victoria and NSW are at a crisis point, with Covid-19 hospitalisations being underreported and cascading impacts on ambulance services and medical staffing.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

280

2K

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

Final word on Robodebt, for now. Ministers demanded fealty and got it. They argued that poor people never did anything for the country and then sought to burnish their already fraudulent money management credentials off the misery of those same poor people

Robo-debt final week: ‘It served them right, did it?’

In its last week of hearings, the robo-debt royal commission has found the moment when the scheme became an expression of unchecked political desire.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

230

1K

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

6 months

Seems gauche to do one of these but I’m so thankful for lovely messages. It’s nice to win awards, won’t pretend otherwise, but I’m relieved it’s for Robodebt. That story is far, far from over. I hope we don’t forget it. This one is for Jenny and Kath and Colleen. Strong women.

193

600

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

When I was a kid I always told Mum I would build a granny flat for her to live, out the back of my house, when she got older. This week, we went one better. A whole house. For her, and with her, and only because of all her hard work. We are in a housing crisis. I’m lucky.

166

101

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

Look at the twists and turns the PM had to make just to cover for his refusal to come to the aid of Victoria during its outbreak now that NSW needs support. From the ~national~ leader. Honestly outrageous. It was as true that Vic needed help then as NSW, as any state.

96

836

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

10 months

the English would never steal something that looked momentarily unattended

125

613

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

made it to 8 weeks smoke-free today, or two short months, and honestly I’m as surprised as you are

248

44

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

Off the smokes for a week today. Celebrated with my mate Josh here.

245

71

4K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

Andrew Bolt fleeing from Melbourne on account of persecution. Why doesn’t he stay behind and make it better instead of bringing his troubles to a new place that is expected to give him shelter and comfort?

184

358

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

Tudge sought legal advice from DHS chief counsel Annette Musolino... to use a loophole and release Cauzzo’s personal Centrelink record. The full machinery of government was then set towards smearing the reputation of the 28yo florist and musician.

FW: URGENT: Tudge leaked personal data to cow welfare critics

As more terrible details emerge in the robo-debt royal commission, a case is being built of misfeasance in public office.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

208

1K

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

5 years

this is a bus

9News Sydney

@9NewsSyd

5 years

Sydney's transport system could be about to make a new leap - here's the first look at the trackless trams that are set to take to Western Sydney streets, connecting up to the new airport at Badgery's Creek. @Natalia_Cooper9 #9News

86

96

231

70

325

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

Happy Father’s Day to my Mum who once waged a holy war at my primary school because they wouldn’t let her come to the Father’s Day night 🥰

64

106

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

I had my last cigarette more than 27 hours ago. Been here before, of course, but this time feels different. Every time I've felt mildly like I could fold, I take myself off for a little walk like a sick freak.

449

58

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

10 months

Is Twitter still doing the rate limit thing? I’ll use this tweet as the start of the Robodebt thread for today, until I’m unable to continue updating for technical reasons. So if you want to follow along I’ll do my best to update as I go.

123

588

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

I renovated my mum’s bathroom (most expensive room in the house!) last year and it cost less than one-tenth of the $150,000 minimum for the government’s renovation cash splash. So my question is: what the fuck kind of renovations are you people doing.

275

446

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

Mum called, mentioned how much she loved Dune. And I was like holy shit, how good is it! And then she said “that’ll be me one day you know.” And I was like, marooned on a desert planet colonised by a galactic military? And she said “no, with dementia.” She watched the film June.

56

112

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

5 years

Bettina Arndt, acting as go-between for Mark Latham, tried to get me to go after Rosie Batty. ML had apparently been investigating for “18 months” but couldn’t provide a shred of evidence. So I wrote that. She accused me of betraying Mark. I told her to never speak to me again.

131

965

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

11 months

Channel 7 funded a war criminal

138

651

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

10 months

Anyway, my work here is done. I’m going incommunicado for a week or so. Might climb a mountain and stay there. Let’s be real I’ll probably come back here but I really don’t want to! Be kind.

358

181

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

I received the message on the left from a person I did not know back in September and we had a brief chat, it was so lovely. And now he’s come back with the follow-up that made me cry. What a beautiful gift, honestly ❤️

101

129

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

Hi, I’m Michael McCormack and I’m about to buy my first house in Sydney. It’s worth $700,000 but with development going the way it is, in a few decades time it’ll cost $2 million so obviously I’ll be paying $2 million. And that, losers, is how we deal.

49

495

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

9 months

you have precisely zero shame

Alan Tudge

@AlanTudge_

9 months

SchMo referred the Robodebt Royal Commission as a lynching. I call it a missed opportunity to address the serious holes which now exist in welfare compliance. See my column in @SpectatorOz

0

8

19

197

532

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

10 months

You might know a bit about the Centrelink Robodebt worker Colleen Taylor who emailed Kathryn Campbell to sound the alarm. But I urge you to listen to her here, in her own home, as she tells us the whole story. What a woman. Restores faith in humanity.

181

916

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

Jacqui Lambie on RN right now re: universities. "They have got to stop being a business model and go back to being a teaching institution." She has basically called them cowards, says they need to go and figure out what they need to do their jobs and demand it.

45

395

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

7 months

In the end you write the book you can't stop thinking about. Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion dollar government fraud. Out next year. In the meantime: rickjamesmorton @protonmail .com

201

575

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

You know, to me, it is very telling that the PM needed his wife invoking their daughters to remind him that women are people and didn't glean this moral knowledge from the supposed source* of all* morality, Christianity. On both counts this is a failure.

62

443

3K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

Scott Morrison has already called a royal commission into aged care. It delivered an interim report in Oct/Nov and almost ~nothing~ from those recommendations have been listened to or acted upon. They are privatising more! Why would we trust govt with a bushfire RC?

99

836

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

If there was any doubt Scott Morrison will do anything to avoid justified scrutiny of enormous problems within his government, his office, his party, then today should eliminate it. Giving up a woman's sexual harassment that has nothing to do with you to deflect is wicked stuff.

48

525

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

10 months

Wow, Commission found Kathryn Campbell deliberately instructed her own legal team to discontinue a request for legal advice on Robodebt from the Aus Govt Solicitor because she was worried about being found out.

76

767

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

The truth about Scott Morrison and the truth. I’ve watched his political career up close since he first became immigration minister. He dislikes being questioned. My column today:

A fraction too much fiction

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

177

1K

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

7 months

It should not be the case but this takes an impressive amount of backbone. Federal Minister Ed Husic: "I feel very strongly that Palestinians are being collectively punished here for Hamas' barbarism."

'Speak up for Palestinians': Frontbencher Ed Husic says Palestinians are being collectively...

A senior Labor minister says Palestinians are being collectively punished, but "we don't see any landmarks being lit up in red, black, white and green", saying Australia must acknowledge the human...

www.abc.net.au

91

549

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

7 months

funniest possible headline for this story

78

406

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

The sole reason Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes asked for a one week extension was so her inquiry could make referrals to the new national corruption body which begins operating on July 1. Inquiry was due on June 30, now July 7.

Exclusive: Robo-debt findings delayed to allow NACC referrals

Commissioner Catherine Holmes has written to the attorney-general to ask that her findings be delivered after the National Anti-Corruption Commission is operational, so she can make direct referrals.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

114

546

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

we should stop calling them anti-vaxxers and just call them pro-disease

61

261

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

So get this, the fed govt is paying bonuses to private job agencies for 'placing' and keeping people in a job that ends up being paid for by JobKeeper. It's a taxpayer cash merry-go-round as doubt clouds future for those on income support. My piece:

108

1K

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

For my sins, I am interrupting my extended sabbatical (work and Twitter) to cover Robodebt Royal Commission for @SatPaper . Will tweet thread Hearing Block 3 from here when it starts at 11am AEDT / 10am AEST. Can't promise the sort of volume I was managing end of last year!

125

329

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

9 months

Again, for those at the back, the Robodebt Royal Commission afforded more procedural fairness and due process to those from whom it heard than was ever - ever - given to people the illegal scheme targeted.

29

629

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

A government so bereft of nation-building leadership or even ideas will spend some of its final sitting days ahead of an election attempting to target trans kids / people in lieu of literally any agenda. Is it malice, incompetence or both? Meanwhile aged care is a clusterfuck.

37

636

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

9 months

Privatised employment service providers using the farce of mutual obligations to funnel (a lot) more than $40 million every year into companies they also own, control or have an interest in. Jobseekers / underemployed have no choice but to make them rich.

Exclusive: Millions skimmed off government welfare contracts

Briefing documents show employment providers are paying themselves more than $40 million a year to move welfare recipients through jobs and training within their own companies.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

147

1K

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

Giving a speech at a conference in about 55 minutes and I haven’t written a word (as per!) but reckon I might just make the whole thing about robodebt. The theme is Be Your Best Self and I reckon that applies to our institutions and what we demand of our representatives.

103

202

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 months

swear to god writing a book on robodebt has rapidly depleted my tolerance levels for bullshit

92

237

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

Mum texted me and said I was “cranky.”

The Today Show

@TheTodayShow

2 years

Former PM Scott Morrison and Former Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews are in hot water this morning, accused of leaking the arrival of an asylum seeker boat on the day of the federal election. DETAILS: #9Today

322

315

1K

380

294

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

Today is 4 months of being a non-smoker and I’ve never been more depressed. Walking pretty fast tho!

240

43

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

5 years

The Indigenous girl saying “umm, England” has perfect comic timing

82

355

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

I just realised today is the six-month anniversary of me becoming a non-smoker. Boy howdy!

162

29

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

5 years

I also cannot afford to pay my restaurant workers, which might account for why I have chosen not to open a restaurant.

19

281

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

remember the nude sunbathers startled by a deer who then became lost? that was 10 years ago

53

124

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

10 months

Dutton being pressed by Sarah Abo on Today Show: “But you must concede this was a bad policy, people lost their lives.” He tries to say the Robodebt RoCo is a political hit job. She doesn’t let it slide. He then concedes, grudgingly, it was “flawed.” Honestly.

63

398

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

The Robodebt Royal Commission is back today for Hearing Block 2, continuing on with the evidence of Kathryn Campbell who was tied in knots by the end of the last hearing. I will do my best to thread live tweets from here but this week may make my efforts patchy.

93

397

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

As I understand it, cruise ships are very big and easy to spot. Not sure if this information is helpful.

36

209

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

The centrepiece of the government's Living With Covid program is a call centre run by former Robodebt debt collectors, staffed by casual workers with no medical qualifications. Many of them were pulled from the punitive employment services system.

Exclusive: Robo-debt call centres take over Covid hotline

The hotline at the centre of the government’s new Covid-19 strategy is staffed by casual workers with almost no training, employed by the company behind robo-debt.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

131

1K

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

Morrison's strategy w/ pathetic Jobseeker increase is clear. $50 a f/night extra is nowhere near enough to escape poverty, look for work. But he will say "you asked me to raise the rate and I did." He will say it over and over again. With tightened requirements, this will harm.

78

678

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

I have what I would describe as a totally irrational fear of needles. Just, out of this world disgust. But I was so excited for my vaccine today and while I was driving to the stadium I found myself saying out loud several times “I’m a big, brave boy!” So yeah, if that helps?

91

54

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

Speaking to barista at my local cafe and the shiftworker paid $140 for an Uber to get to work this morning from Homebush because the government cancelled every train service. I think they said the owner was reimbursing, but either way massive cost, personal and business.

38

397

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 years

Cannot overestimate amount of work that went into this. Rebranding failure at the Bureau of Meteorology is symptom of a much bigger disease: a truly horrific workplace culture that has seen employees hospitalised, meteorologists gagged, Min’ office misled.

Exclusive: Toxic culture has plunged the Bureau of Meteorology into

Bureau of Meteorology staff have been hospitalised because of work conditions, as a loss of senior meteorologists means junior forecasters are trying to deal with natural disasters beyond their

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

123

694

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

nuclear subs are cool and all but the ultimate in stealthcraft is cloaking them in a special blind trust so that the enemy never even sees them coming

34

301

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 months

Good luck defending that claim, ABC.

Secret WhatsApp messages show co-ordinated campaign to oust Antoinette Lattouf from ABC

The messages also reveal a member of the group Lawyers for Israel calling Lattouf’s lawyer Josh Bornstein, who is Jewish, a “traiter”.

www.theage.com.au

57

316

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

It’s only just gone 8.30am and I’ve had a coffee, done a live cross to ABC News Breakfast, another live interview with ABC NewsRadio and a 3km walk-run in the most appalling humidity. Still an hour and 20 before the hearing starts.

174

96

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

And there you have it. Covid-19 in a disability group home. Three residents infected.

126

457

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

5 months

Pez Dispensed

The Age

@theage

5 months

Breaking: Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo has been removed from his role over covert dealings with lobbyists and secret efforts to gain and exert political influence during the terms of the Turnbull and Morrison governments.

0

64

156

100

258

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

6 months

“hello yes I would like to buy one ticket on the very concept of air travel thank you”

Mark Di Stefano

@MarkDiStef

6 months

Qantas has filed its defence in the ACCC case alleging the airline sold seats on flights already cancelled. It includes an insane idea: Qantas doesnt sell you a ticket on a "particular flight", rather, you're buying a "bundle of rights".

307

279

1K

117

315

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

Greg Hunt gave an interview yesterday saying there were only 6 aged care facilities nationally that had yet to receive a Covid-19 vaccine dose. But evidence in estimates today says that figure is actually 21. @MurrayWatt asking where Hunt got figure 6 from. Dept: don't know.

93

698

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

Mr Morton! A deserved call out to those bringing this to everyone’s attention, especially the ones who have been doing so for YEARS. I’m a Johnny come lately.

120

147

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

Just remembered the time in primary school when they had a father’s night for the kids but I didn’t really have one and mum went full DEB mode, yelling at the principal to let her into father’s night. “I’m his father!” Ever since we’ve always wished her a happy Father’s Day.

49

86

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

10 months

Dutton saying the Robodebt RoCo report is political because it comes out a week before the Fadden by-election. Bud, take it up with Stuart Robert who, um, is responsible for the Fadden by-election.

37

441

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

Scott Morrison is up at a press conference talking about aged care failures. He is referring to the massive operation underway now. Which, again, is not the issue ventilated over the last week. There. Was. No. Plan. None of the issues were unforeseeable.

350

739

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

Gonna be that guy for two seconds. Just finished the edits on this weekend’s @SatPaper piece and I’m not sure I’ve written anything that has alarmed me quite so much, or that has more revelations in 2200 words. If you’re able, might be a good time to consider a subscription.

159

282

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

10 months

This is an incredible episode. "The most dangerous form of Government power I've ever encountered." There was a behavioural insights document that predicted if people could be made to feel shame, they would pay up. This was designed.

7am

@7ampodcast

10 months

How could #robodebt , an unlawful idea, ever make it into policy? @DarrenODonovan joins @squigglyrick to dissect how things went so wrong within the bureaucracy. #RobodebtRC

25

122

227

89

790

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

This is the guts of it.

ABC The Drum

@ABCthedrum

3 years

#ICYMI : @SquigglyRick delivers a strong take on the federal government's COVID failures: "Because they couldn't bring themselves to admit anything went wrong, they haven't done anything to change the behaviours that might've allowed them to get the vaccine program right now."

44

640

2K

108

506

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

I’ve been having this conversation with the PM for almost two years now. I don’t know what that says about either of us, tbh.

Julie Collins

@JulieCollinsMP

4 years

Morrison hates taking responsibility for the cuts he made as Treasurer to aged care. It’s not just in Question Time, it’s every time he’s asked to take responsibility. #qt #auspol

199

725

2K

118

539

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

1. Not today, people are hurting. 2. It’s a state issue. 3. I’m not in Hawaii 4. He’s in Hawaii 5. I’m coming home as soon as I can 6. Mojito on beach 7. OK I’m back now. We don’t need Defence Force called in. 8. OK the military is coming 9. Walks away from woman 10. Ta da!

Scott Morrison

@ScoMo30

4 years

We’re putting more Defence Force boots on the ground, more planes in the sky, more ships to sea, and more trucks to roll in to support the bushfire fighting effort and recovery as part of our co-ordinated response to these terrible #bushfires

9K

584

3K

43

553

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

Bolt and I also had a series of email exchanges running to well over 1000 words. I asked him three times whether he has read Dark Emu and despite his many words he would not answer. He also misquotes the dates of sources / gets confused by accounts.

The Saturday Paper

@SatPaper

4 years

. @SquigglyRick spent two days at the National Library of Australia reviewing the original explorer accounts quoted by Bruce Pascoe in ‘Dark Emu’, now under fire from Andrew Bolt. They are – at every instance – quoted verbatim.

91

985

2K

74

588

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

2 months

I'm nearing the end of a first draft on the Robodebt book (and still making lots of calls). Losing my mind etc etc. But you don't know what you don't know. If there are any secrets left, get in touch. I'm aware of a few. Can be anonymous. rickjamesmorton @protonmail .com

73

591

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

5 years

This is not a gaffe. It’s a way of operating for him. He did the same thing to me when he denied point blank in a press conference when I asked why, as Treasurer, he cut $1.2bn from the aged care budget which had a direct impact on quality. I was in that budget lockup!

9News Sydney

@9NewsSyd

5 years

Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP has made an embarrassing gaffe as he continues to defend Liberal MP Gladys Liu, saying he never called Sam Dastayari 'Shanghai Sam', despite uttering the phrase on camera in 2016. @jekearsley #9News

532

436

849

112

771

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

6 months

There it is, confirmed by AG Dreyfus that the Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes "made a closing comment not a recommendation" on amending the FoI Act to allow better access to documents that are routinely over-classified to prevent release. They won't implement.

80

688

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

I prepared this flowchart to understand "for the lockdown to work it has to work" from Morrison. Hope it makes sense now!!

90

520

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

7 months

Hollie Hughes asking NDIS Commisioner about restrictive practices but says she purposely didn't watch the Four Corners investigation on the same subject because she doesn't like the ABC and they are "not exactly my go-to for reliable news". But forges ahead anyway in ignorance.

101

433

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

5 years

Nice to be back on the front page. First empirical links between media campaigns and far-right extremists using these to recruit.

98

697

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

Evidence heard during one of the most incendiary weeks at the robodebt royal commission has revealed the extraordinary lengths two federal government departments went to in order to cover up a multibillion-dollar crime that spanned years.

‘Pandora’s box’: Real conspiracy behind robo-debt

Fresh evidence to the royal commission shows how departments actively avoided legal precedents to keep robo-debt running for years.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

76

655

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

Pete Evans loses job as TV chef, now won’t even be able to cure salmon

43

173

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

4 years

the only degrees I want to make harder to get are the ones above 1.5C of global warming 😎

17

321

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

One of my fave things about getting older is becoming even closer with my sister, Lauryn. It’s her bday today and every year I grow more proud of her astonishing achievements as a midwife. She works with women who who have often never been supported in any way. She changes lives.

55

56

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

this is what happens when governments face consequences of a robodebt-style scam

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

3 years

Dutch government to step down after thousands of families were wrongly accused of child welfare fraud and wrongly told to pay money back

128

732

2K

27

408

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

back at work and back on my bullshit: the robodebt royal commission is the biggest Australian story in decades (but I would say that, wouldn't I)

Nobody Expects The Vanished Inquisition

on perception, reality and revenge

rickmorton.substack.com

105

416

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

5 months

During interview on Ch. 7 program Spotlight this year, former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann lied about why he lied to his boss over his reason for returning to Parliament House with Brittany Higgins in March 2019. Seven then lied about its interview.

‘You didn’t look nervous, Mr Lehrmann. You look very keen to tell a

Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten has been defined by an inability to recall key details and testimony that is contradicted by other evidence.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

63

551

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

1 year

A thought on Colleen. It's not just what she said that was so devastating to other claims. It's HOW she said it. Calm, in total command of her brief, lucid, without pause or delay, retired 5 years ago but only one "can't recall". She has what we want for institutions: our trust.

76

390

2K

Rick Morton

@SquigglyRick

3 years

Mum, looking at Andrew Laming on the Channel 9 news: “Get rid of him. That’s just fucking wrong. What message is this sending other women?” From a sample size of one, the cut through is real.

29

162

2K