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internet explorer @crikey_news send tips: cmwlsn @protonmail .com he/him also fyi my notifications are turned off, email me if u want me

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What happened to COVID-19 vaccine sceptical groups after life went back to normal? An investigation by @arielbogle and I reveals how one group raised tens of millions of dollars to buy farms up Australia's east coast & how their grand plans soon soured.
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this might be the most devastating community note i've ever seen
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we're numb to this stuff by now but hearing him say it explicitly is really something
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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For You tab serving me up exactly what I wanted: the Unabomber reimagined as a hustlebro for LinkedIn drop shippers
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lol
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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The Daily Mail Australia has asked me to comment on whether my tweets "reflect poorly on Crikey". Here's my response. Do you think they'll publish it? (The investigation: )
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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lmao, looks like they ran out of content at the racism factory
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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you gotta wonder at what point young Australians really start to crack: an obscene housing market, a tax system geared towards the old and the rich, higher levels of education debt, lethargic climate action, and, increasingly, less support for the vulnerable.
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someone FOI'd the top 100 hecs debts. shout out to the person rocking with 737k
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Actually it was because we didn't like that a random dude could just decide to go and slaughter 35 people. And here's an interesting fact: it worked.
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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if you want to know how bad musk has fumbled the bag, he's run twitter so poorly that people are excited to join something created by mark zuckerberg
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
1 year
the plan? make housing more affordable and save lives by placing injecting rooms in every suburb in Australia
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The Age
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Richmond’s supervised injecting room has wiped almost $60,000 off the value of houses within walking distance but has not hit prices in the wider suburb, a study shows.
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surprised I have to post this in Australia but maybe people shouldn’t be shouldered with a constantly growing HECS debt that they can’t pay off even while working because they didn’t automatically make the most economically rational decision at 18 👍
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5 years today since the Christchurch shooting, the biggest mass shooting by an Australian. Whether it happened overseas or because we're unwilling to interrogate how our culture created someone capable of this, Australia rarely acknowledges the massacre. But it is our shame.
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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Last year, the Daily Mail published a conspiratorial article about electric vehicles that was eerily similar to tweets from a white nationalist account. Here's my investigation into the Australian reporter behind a racist, anti-semitic Twitter persona.
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@VoteLewko this is pretty fucked up. maybe it's just an opportunity for political scoring for you but people are dead
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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lmao, looks like they ran out of content at the racism factory
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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wow! this seems great. i wonder what the catch i— oh
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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i'm sorry, i must have misheard you, i could have sworn you said "elon musk was being a dick about disability of an employee who was just voted Iceland's person of the year last year and then fired him, triggering a clause in the worker's contract that gives an ENORMOUS payout"
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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The Queensland Government made an AI-powered "Virtual Veteran" chatbot for ANZAC Day who pretends to be a 19 year old WW1 vet called Charlie And, predictably, people are jailbreaking through its guardrails to make it say things that are not in character.
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incredible scenes on r/Sydney: OP shares texts showing landlord evicting tenant for having friends staying over at their place. top reply is suggesting that OP report the landlord to ATO so she loses capital gains tax-free status & pays tax on the granny flat
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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SMH/Age executive editor Tory Maguire has posted a message in their Slack on behalf of the papers' leadership saying that staff who signed a letter about Australia's Israel-Palestine media coverage will be "unable to participate in any reporting or production related to the war"
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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hahaha this is going to be a shitshow
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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We lost Rambo yesterday. When we first got him, the vet told us he’d be lucky to live to 1. But, like his namesake, he refused to give up and made it to 8. He was loving, weird and a fighter. I’m going to miss him a lot.
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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Mark Latham: It's not about being anti-LGBTQIA+, it's about parental rights Also Mark Latham:
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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Videos show an anti-LGBTQIA+ protest going through Newtown tonight during Sydney’s World Pride. It was a large group of mostly men chanting/praying. It appears the protest was organised out of an online group Christian Lives Matter.
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exactly! also ivan milat deserves to have won Australia's local hero of the year award for all the times he gave a lift to hitchhikers ♥️
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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just heard about scott morrison's application for a PwC job being rejected. he should have to do at least another 19 applications this week if he wants to get paid
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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honestly insane the hold P!nk has over this nation
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Wendell
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random but apparently Pink is incredibly popular amongst Australian moms to the point where every Pink tour has a few months blocked out for an Australian leg where she plays like 5 nights of sold out shows in every city
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incredible! i used AI to expand this image beyond its frame
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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as someone who was personally criticised by media watch last night, i still think this was the worst part of the show. Shameful
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Media Watch
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“In a debate where both sides accuse the other of extremism, it’s the media’s duty to be an honest broker, treat both sides with respect, and not be scared into silence.” #MediaWatch
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Elon Musk said dealing with child exploitation on Twitter was his 'priority #1 ' But Australia's eSafety Commissioner said that he fired all the local staff here dealing with it, making it harder to respond to.
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BREAKING: Gladys Berejiklian has been found guilty… of absolutely serving!! Slayyyy gurl also of serious corrupt conduct
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@Very__Regular checkin his bank statements for plastic food evidence
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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In a breaking news environment like #BondiJunction , be wary of claims or speculation from unreliable sources. There's already posts going around speculating on a motive based on nothing — probs hold off until we know more
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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under the Freedom of Information Act (1982), I'd like to make the following request: are you mad at me 🥺🥺
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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ME: you’d better not be posting a picture of you holding two phones looking cunty when I get home RALPH BABET:
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@jackcallil how do I get a mrs jack print??
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i got whiplash from how fast this went from "yessss haha" to a "oh... oh no"
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Crikey gets the Colbert treatment. @crikey_news
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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it's funny how every time you read a spirited defence of working from work instead of WFH, it's always from a senior, well remunerated staff member, typically one with perks like their own office or parking spots
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imagine being such a piece of shit that a judge finds that a unproven claim of domestic violence during an affair couldn’t hurt your reputation any further
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searing political analysis from the wedding photographer-turned-freedom movement livestreamer
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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incredible post from Jordan Peterson this morning. a case study into what happens if you give unfiltered interenet access to an egomaniac who suffered severe brain damage from benzo withdrawals
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compare the pair
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pretty disappointing to see Karl Stefanovic say on air that's he's not going to get any more COVID-19 boosters because he's already had COVID-19 a few times and bring up potential side effects.
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actually if you're that person, dm. not for a story, just want to make sure you're ok
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ABC news director Justin Stevens just sent out an email about the letter: “You should not sign any petition that may bring into question your impartiality or that of the ABC’s coverage. Signing this petition may bring into question your ability to cover the story impartially.”
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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SMH/Age executive editor Tory Maguire has posted a message in their Slack on behalf of the papers' leadership saying that staff who signed a letter about Australia's Israel-Palestine media coverage will be "unable to participate in any reporting or production related to the war"
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@tomgara watermelon for president
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Ben Roberts-Smith backer Kerry Stokes’ news publications after the verdict: 7NEWS: headline that doesn’t mention the findings The West: no mention on front page
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NEW: The "outback nurse" who appeared on Sky News, Nine, 2GB to talk about the Alice Springs crime crisis despite living in Darwin has pled guilty to making a false declaration and for using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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hi @davo_wu you didn't seek comment from me for balance as per the Press Council principles. Please include: "Even OceanGate's sub couldn't sink to the depths of Sky News. I thought you would defend free speech but looks like you've gone woke."
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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damn you guys should be careful when you embed tweets
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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the worst account on the internet is the guy on Instagram who non-ironically makes horny videos about making food. Single-handedly turned me into a puritan. Have you no shame sir
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NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke confirms that that Bondi Junction perpetrator was not "Benjamin Cohen", a name that's been widely circulated on social media. Be careful of unverified claims as people try to push their own agendas #BondiJunction
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I’ve seen enough. I’m calling on the Australia Father’s Day Council to revoke Ben Roberts-Smith’s 2013 Father of the Year award, lest it sully the award’s good name
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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elon musk deciding to make twitter blue subscribers indistinguishable from actual verified users again, six months after trying to make them distinguishable because fake verification tanked the company's advertising revenue
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While misinfo appeared on other platforms, Twitter seemed to be the engine room of many #BondiJunction false claims and rumours. Twitter Blue users were among the loudest voices driving those narratives, which both boosted their claims and allowed them to earn money from them.
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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imo the No campaign has done a better job of convincing people to vote yes than the Yes campaign so far
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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this gives away the game, hey? if they're worried about trans women having a "biological advantage" in sport, what's their advantage in a beauty pageant?
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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Miss 4 was absolutely distraught when Sam Kerr's injury was announced just before the game. She told me through tears "Father, my 4 way-multi is sunk before the match even started". I expect better from a role model for a future degenerate gambler. Shame on the Matildas
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The writing has been on the wall for a while: his booming crypto side hustles and the network can’t have loved his arrests
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Sunrise
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After 21 years co-hosting Australia’s number one breakfast show, David Koch has announced he is stepping down. @kochie_online #kochie #sunriseon7 📌 MORE:
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giving a reporter unfettered access to you for a whole year so they can cover how brilliant and innovative and brave you are as you lead a media company into the 21st century only to get canned 3 days after they publish a long read about how much you suck is very funny
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Services Australia is using an Israeli company's password cracking software and accessing metadata (retained for serious crime and national security reasons, remember?) to investigate welfare recipients suspected of being in undisclosed relationships banger from @topbloke148
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rycrozier
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This investigation by @topbloke148 on @iTnews_au is really something: how Centrelink uses telco metadata and Cellebrite to determine relationship status.
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you're telling me that the riddler has a problematic past?
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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@willsommer some of us have been ringing the alarm bells about the US losing its place as a dick sucking superpower for a while but y’all weren’t ready to hear that
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You’re with your girlfriend and you see these 6 ALPHA MALES What the fuck can you do?
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Mark Zuckerberg has the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible
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does anyone with a lot of money feel like absolutely ruining elon musk's week
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there's something deeply rotten in Australia. Time and time again, we punish the people who dare to rock the boat and speak out. Even if there is eventually justice against wrongdoers, it often comes at a great cost to the people who saw it through
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Last month, @crikey_news reported on a Daily Mail reporter who secretly ran a racist, antisemitic Twitter account. Turns out he still works there. He was even promoted to editor after a staff member complained to HR about his racist tweets in 2017.
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this is a peak case of politician brain: acknowledging that unemployment welfare is too little for people to live... but only increasing it for some
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7NEWS can exclusively reveal the biggest change to the dole in years, with older jobseekers to receive higher welfare payments than their younger counterparts. #7NEWS
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saw the most Sydney scene ever last week: house auction, everyone under 40 immediately priced out by a man and a woman, both sucking on vapes, in a bidding war against each other
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my dream bf: - tall - fit - tattoos - 300-500k salary - disciplined - traveller - ambitious but doesn’t mind taking people under his wing - famous, well connected - good with his hands - likes a drink - found to be, on the balance of probabilities, a war cri—
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saw that Mumford & Sons is headlining Splendour and went to check whether the guy who left the band after people ratioed him for tweeting support for Andy Ngo had rejoined. He hasn't, but he is all about this stuff now
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absolutely can believe the guy who started Culture Kings looks like this
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NEW: Australia's far-right — including neo-Nazis — have enthusiastically returned to Twitter under Elon Musk. In many cases, Twitter is directly profiting from their return as they buy Twitter Blue to boost their profile to hijack political debate.
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disturbing to see any neo-Nazis, also worth pointing out that they're few and only appearing here when they can do a stunt behind the protection of police.
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the country’s most visited news website has a track record of stoking anti-vaccine sentiment
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“Vaccinated Aussie dies” she actually died from something she wasn’t vaccinated for. More irresponsible clickbaiting from a deeply unserious news organisation.
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sorry to tweet about it again but celebs automatically given Twitter blue only to tweet in disgust is the funniest outcome considering the whole appeal of selling blue ticks was to monetize weirdos wanting to seem like they're someone
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If solving the rental crisis just requires a cap on rents that the Greens claim wouldn’t reduce supply, why don’t we do the same for petrol, milk, bread, everything really?
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I hope I’m not right but I deeply dread how the Australian political media and broader culture is going to respond to this
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Senator Lidia Thorpe accuses David Van of sexual assault in the Senate. Van "utterly rejects" the claim "it's just not true". #auspol
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i love long-held, petty grudges
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@jordanbpeterson don’t threaten me with a good time
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i was going to tweet about albo visiting terf island to pick up some tips but thought maybe i was being a bit mean anyway here's him doing the "adult female" transphobe dogwhistle with piers
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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Elon Musk's go-to guy for Russia news is an Aussie blender company founder turned bitcoin entrepreneur and citizen journalist via @crikey_news
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Spectator Australia is a home for conservative figures like Tony Abbott and Alan Jones to write about current affairs. My investigation shows it has also published far-right white supremacists who are using it to mainstream and normalise extreme beliefs.
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imagining the vein popping out on WSU’s media manager’s forehead as their younger colleague explains why this is good content
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bluey's silence on australia's housing crisis is damning
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Erin "Skeleton Factory" Ryan
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confession: i'm mad about a family of cartoon dogs
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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It’s funny that a lot of the national security reporting of the Discord leak story has been focused on the Discord platform and, like, not the problem of recruiting 21 year old edge lords as employees handling classified materials
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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here's a full copy of the open letter which features several Age/SMH staff
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re: raising welfare for 55yrs + policy -- shades of abbott's waiting period for the dole for young australians, an unpopular policy which never passed iirc
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what does it say about your reputation if people assume that your sov cit secession plans are legit
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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scoop: After Queensland Police referred 'Gender Queer: A Memoir' to the Classification Board after a complaint from right-wing activist Bernard Gaynor, the Board has rejected calls to ban it by giving the LGBTQIA+ book an unrestricted classifiaction.
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cameron “im on leave” wilson
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NEW: A federal politician is charging taxpayers thousands of dollars a week for a secretive right-wing firm with close ties to the No campaign to write social media posts, emails and run campaigns for him
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these never get old
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@ettingermentum Iowa? He’s running
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i like when people are like "well the left hates me and the right hates me, so i guess i'm doing something right" idk maybe everyone hates you because you're a dipshit
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sign of the times: even drug lords can’t afford to buy
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