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Latika M Bourke

@latikambourke

4 months

✔ New Year, new ventures. 🖊️ Launching my Substack 🙋‍♀️ Thoughts, ideas, commissions welcome 🔗

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Latika M Bourke

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2 years

Former Australian PM Paul Keating describes Tory leadership hopeful and current Foreign Secretary @trussliz as 'demented'. 🔗👇🏽

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Larry!!! 🙀

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5 years

The Times emoji explainer is killing me. 🍆 🍑 🔥

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Latika M Bourke

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7 years

And imagine how much higher the death toll would have been (eg Bataclan) if they had guns.

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Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!

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PM @ScottMorrisonMP speaking from The Lodge on 2GB: 'Like everyone who comes back [from overseas] you do your 2 weeks quarantine.' (PM and Cabinet members do their quarantine at home, regular Australians do theirs in mandatory hotel detention under guard at a cost of $3k).

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'It was not clear whether the artist had attended the auction in person to deliver the coup de grâce to his work.' Epic from Banksy! | @FT

Banksy painting ‘self-destructs’ on podium in auction prank

Activist street artist’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ sells for £1m at Sotheby’s — then gets shredded

www.ft.com

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2 years

There's a common thread here though - elites who think rules don't apply to them, partly because they've spent so long successfully getting away with it.

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2 years

So who’s having the worst week? A. Boris Johnson B. (HRH) Prince Andrew C. Novak Djokovic

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4 years

Rockstar welcome for the re-endorsed PM.

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7 years

@realDonaldTrump @nbcsnl Good thing you don't have anything more pressing to do, like fill your Cabinet.

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3 years

Significant shift in gear from Singapore. '...instead of monitoring Covid-19 infection numbers every day, we will focus on the outcomes: how many fall very sick, how many in the intensive care unit...This is like how we now monitor influenza.'

Singapore preparing road map for living with Covid-19

In time, the virus will be treated like the flu, without the need for lockdowns, said the multi-ministry task force. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

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6 months

🇨🇳 🇦🇺 SERIOUS MILITARY INCIDENT Just one week after PM Albanese went to Beijing to hold court with Xi - the Chinese Navy has attacked and injured Australian Navy divers with sonar pulses. This occurred last Tuesday when Australian divers were trying to remove fishing nets from…

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2 years

Totally bizarre that neither PM sought to make more mileage out of this but the British company Octopus Group just announced a $50 billion partnership with Indigenous communities in northern Australia to create a massive renewable energy greenfield.

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4 years

Ha. This is very good!

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4 years

EXCLUSIVE. Concerns raised about Boris Johnson's Chief of Staff Dominic Cummings and his access to Five Eyes intelligence after allegations raised about relationships he forged with key Russians. From me 👇

Johnson's adviser's 'Russia links' should concern Australia: British MP

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief of staff has top-secret intelligence clearance, and a British MP is worried about Five Eyes secrets.

www.smh.com.au

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2 years

Labor's @KKeneally has lost every time she's faced the people. * As NSW Premier in 2011. * As the candidate for Bennelong in the 2017 beyelection * And finally last night when she took a safe Labor seat, short-changing a local candidate, and turned it independent. #ausvotes

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4 years

Boris Johnson - the London Bridge attacker 'should have been in prison.' #Marr 'But under the Conservatives, he was let out.'

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4 years

Aussie bushfires big news in UK. Starting to get messages from Conservative pals 'it's embarrassing how far behind Australia is on climate change.'

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4 years

Yes the grabbing her hand bit. WHAT is that even?!

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3 years

The outrageous part of this is that when we ask the Govt / Border Force about VIPS (eg Abbott) getting exemptions etc they have said they can't discuss individual cases. Yet @ScottMorrisonMP is able to use the office of PM and parlt to falsely claim Rudd had travelled.

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3 years

Morrison claimed in the parliament today that I have obtained exemptions to travel in and out of Australia, taking quarantine places from other Australians. That is an utter falsehood. I haven't left Queensland since March. Morrison has misled the parliament & he should apologise

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3 years

It's official: Britain has vaccinated more than the entire Australian population in just over 100 days after a record 660k jabs were administered in a single day.

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7 years

The feminist who popularised Ms has died. | @BBCNews

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4 years

This is good.

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@AdamParkhomenko

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this is one of the most powerful ads i have ever watched

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10 years

Go home Brazil you're....oh, wait. #BRAGER

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@latikambourke

3 years

Another big difference in the way UK & Aus media report on vaccines is not just very sober reporting on the minuscule AZ blood clot risks in UK but that anti-vaxxers don't get given platforms. Not so in Aust...where a hairdresser, with no expertise on vax, can be national news.

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5 years

Dear God what have the Australian people done to deserve this?

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4 years

As one veteran MP just put it to me - Grayling’s tenure on the Intel Cttee as ‘untainted with success' as the rest of political career. #failinggrayling

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3 years

Australia's health minister Greg Hunt: "Vaccination alone is no guarantee that you can open up. If the whole country were vaccinated, you couldn't just open the borders." The benchmarks Australia is setting seem to be impossible to meet. #StrandedAussies

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4 years

Fascinating. Harvard Medical School study of satellite images and internet traffic reveal major spikes in cars at Wuhan hospital and searches for COVID-19 symptoms in OCTOBER. China didn't tell the world until DECEMBER 31.

Satellite data suggests coronavirus may have hit China earlier: Researchers

After analyzing satellite imagery, researchers say surge in cars at hospitals in Wuhan, China may indicate outbreak in the fall.

abcnews.go.com

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6 years

Liberals chanting Sco Mo and Josh Frydenberg's opening speech at Sharma's concession speech is one of the most tone deaf displays I've seen in yonks. #WentworthVotes

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7 months

🇬🇧 🇦🇺 A lot going on at the Yes campaign's UK launch in London tonight. #TheVoice

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Ardern: "Let's step forward together. Let's keep moving." Seems a long time (maybe Obama) since a leader from the left was able to speak in such an optimistic, unifying and poetic way.

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3 years

HERE SHE IS! SINGAPORE AIRLINES FLIGHT SQ221 BECOMES FIRST UNCAPPED FLIGHT TO LAND IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER OPENS TO AUSTRALIANS WITH NO QUARANTINE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE BORDER WAS SHUT IN MARCH 2020 AND CAPS ON ARRIVALS INTRODUCED IN JULY 2020.

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Ardern: We know the next few years will not be easy, the last few have not been easy either. But there have been chinks of light that have shone through at the darkest of times."

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6 years

This one for the Brits. Farage's tour down under is bombing big time.

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6 years

At ICC Sydney .... interesting!!!!! Word around the trap is they didn’t pay the booking fee....

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@latikambourke

3 years

What sort of country are you when political leaders rejoice in their victory in locking out their citizens after already making it near financially impossible for them to get home in emergencies etc as it is? People will never forget when this is over.

Annastacia Palaszczuk

@a_palaszczuk

3 years

This Delta strain is like nothing we have encountered before. If we reduce the numbers of international arrivals, we reduce the risk of Delta. I’ve been calling for a reduction in the number of international arrivals so I welcome National Cabinet’s decision today to halve it.

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Doubt the Liberals will let Teena McQueen on the airwaves ever again. Tanking. #QandA

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@latikambourke

3 years

Oxford scientists deliberately made AstraZeneca at cost and fridge temps so it could be used to inoculate the less privileged.

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@a_palaszczuk

3 years

Not all heroes wear capes. Queenslanders, it’s your chance to be a hero for your community - get vaccinated this Super Vaccination Weekend 💉💪 Over Saturday and Sunday, all Queensland Health hubs will be open and walk-ins are welcome!

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3 years

Federal Cabinet Minister Alan Tudge a short time ago.

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2 years

So border-obsessed Australia makes a crusader and martyr out of an anti-vaxxer. Special.

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2 years

It's kinda even weirder that Morrison, upon losing the election, told his church not to trust in govt when he was literally THE government the entire time.

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7 years

Several people being treated on the footpath of Southwark Street. Just down from London Bridge. Area being evacuated.

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3 years

Australia is so broken. What a country - red carpet for this woman, threat of jail for citizens, (who care desperately about keeping their loved ones safe and are only asking for a viable pathway home). #strandedAussues #FortressAustralia

Naked and maskless: Katie Hopkins admits to breaking quarantine rules in Sydney

Conservative English personality Katie Hopkins has admitted she has been deliberately trying to flout infection control in hotel quarantine in Sydney.

www.smh.com.au

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3 years

Meme going around some of my Brit friends.

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💉 Absolutely stoked. 🇬🇧 Late afternoon walk passing a pharmacy-turned-vaccine clinic and asked them if they had any leftover doses going. ✅ 3 no shows. 💪🏽 30 mins later fully vaccinated two months earlier than expected. 🙏🏾 So grateful.

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3 years

Surely touching a stranger and praying over them is a process that requires their consent at the very least?

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Latika M Bourke

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4 years

Just in: "The Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP has, in accordance with the Justice and Security Act, written to the Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament tendering his resignation from the Committee. The Chairman has sent a reply.”

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And it's Bill Shorten who finally lands the blow. 'All gab, no jab' and questions the deeply dangerous rhetoric of Scott Morrison et al undermining vaccine safety.

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4 years

CNN’s @andersoncooper with the call of the election: ‘That is the most powerful person in the world and we see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun realising his time his over.’

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Australia will now lock in citizens who normally live abroad, requiring them to prove to the Govt that they have a compelling reason to return to their lives overseas. The move will deter citizens in distress from trying to get home. #fortressaustralia

‘Barbaric’: Returning citizens who live abroad will need permission to leave Australia

The move serves as a deterrent for Australians who live abroad but may need to return home for distress travel as it could prohibit them from being able to return to their life overseas.

www.smh.com.au

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4 years

Michelle Obama 'Who we choose as our president in this election will determine whether or not we honour that struggle.' #DemocraticConvention

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‘How could he have known he’d be locked up for trying to come home?’ @sammyjcomedian ’s I Can’t Call Australia Home is the utterly searing, truth-telling take we’ve all been waiting for. #strandedAussies

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3 years

BREAKING Julian Assange NOT extradited because of suicide risk.

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BREAKING Australia votes YES to gay marriage by 61 per cent vs 38,.4 per cent. 79 per cent population voted in total. @smh @theage @PoliticsFairfax

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7 years

Horrible for a school to have to issue such news.

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The face of Doria Ragland - Meghan's mother - often overflowing with tears has been the most genuinely moving part of this whole #RoyalWedding .

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3 years

So the Australian government knew that the demand for vaccines would be this tight but still waited until supplies had all but been taken up to secure contracts, putting Australia in its current dismal rollout position. (Source - Transcript federal health minister @GregHuntMP )

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Feels like this day belongs just as much, in some ways if not more, to Doria Ragland. #RoyalWedding

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4 years

Queen thanks those staying at home, sparing the vulnerable. United and resolute, we will overcome it. #QueensSpeech

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4 years

Wow. Seriously good. SNP's may be the best election vid yet. #GE2019

The SNP

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🕯 We have a strange story to tell... A Christmas Carol: A Scotland Yet To Come, starring @Alancumming .

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Sad moment last night chatting to sibling. When asked if we'd ever see each other again and I'd meet my nephew I had to say 'I honestly don't know anymore.' Can't believe this has gone on so long you just lose hope altogether. #FortressAustralia

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@latikambourke

3 years

Morrison asked about secret side visits to family sites in Cornwall while telling Austns cases in UK are too high for them to travel abroad. 'I wouldn't describe it like that at all' (double standards)... 'pretty innocent'. Doesn't deny PMO organised it weeks in advance.

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Latika M Bourke

@latikambourke

6 years

CORRECTION: You did the Sunday program to obtain $150k and avoid any hard questioning.

Barnaby Joyce

@Barnaby_Joyce

6 years

We did the Sunday program to stop this, this is why we need a tort of privacy.

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Latika M Bourke

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2 years

Just spoke with Bob, the brave Hong Kong protestor who was filmed being dragged into the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester yesterday and beaten. He says hair was ripped from his scalp and he was bleeding from his face and heavily bruised.

Hong Kong protester says he was ‘dragged’ into Chinese consulate in Manchester and beaten

The man says he was dragged onto consulate grounds and attacked after staff took offence to a poster of President Xi Jinping.

www.smh.com.au

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3 years

Haven't written something this personal since publishing my book six years ago but #strandedAussies has forced a confronting reflection of what it means to be a citizen. My piece in today's Sun-Herald ⬇️

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NSW Premier @Dom_Perrottet has DROPPED QUARANTINE FROM NOVEMBER 1 for fully vaccinated Australians. i.e NO HOME or HOTEL quarantine for citizens returning to their country. #FortressAustralia is finally actually crumbling! "We are opening Sydney, NSW to the world."

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Ardern: that light has been our determination, our support for each other, our sense of resolve and 'that light has always been more powerful than the most overwhelming darkness.'

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3 years

YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS UP. Victorian government is blaming lowering arrival caps, WHICH IT PUSHED FOR LAST WEEK, as one of the reasons why it's cancelled the Australian Grand Prix. DED.

Australian Grand Prix cancelled again due to COVID-19

Sports Minister Martin Pakula said it was going to be too difficult to establish special quarantine arrangements for up to 1600 people associated with Formula One teams given low vaccination rates...

www.theage.com.au

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@latikambourke

5 years

This 'Exclusive' from @SkyNewsAust embarrasses us all. Cultural cringe (amongst many other things) at its worst.

Stephen Mayne

@MayneReport

5 years

Paul Murray gets his exclusive with ⁦ @realDonaldTrump ⁩ but talk about not asking the hard questions.

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2 years

BREAKING Patricia Scotland narrowly WINS. 27/24. Johnson's bid to oust her as Commonwealth SG fails.

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@latikambourke

4 months

@EN_NERV @EQTW Madness from @elonmusk to rate-limit these sorts of accounts and content.

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@latikambourke

2 years

International arrivals will still have to do quarantine in QLD even when fully vaxxed and tested negative. What. Is. The. Point.

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@a_palaszczuk

2 years

International arrivals must be fully vaccinated, return a negative test within 72 hours of departure, and must do 14 days of home or hotel quarantine. Fully vaccinated border zone residents with a border pass will be able to move freely across the border, no test required.

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5 years

Sky UK just called Malcolm Turnbull Australia's PM.

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2 months

The royal image kerfuffle underlines how vital independent photo journalists are and how rarely the Royal Family is subjected to them. Royals have milked front pages with carefully sanitised self-supplied PR pics for eons. Fine for their socials but the transfer to news is too…

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My friend (who is not Jewish) got abused by a group of Pro-Palestinian protestors on the tube today. He was leaving the carriage and said 'excuse me' to get past. 'Fucking Jew', one of the women said to him as he disembarked. Can't imagine what it's like to be Jewish and…

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🏏 🇦🇺🇬🇧 Hahahaha great from @AlboMP to @RishiSunak "Prime Minister Sunak's disappointment is understandable. "But he must not have had the same lessons I got in primary school at St Joseph’s Camperdown- ‘stay in your crease’. "Hope you’re well PM". #Ashes23

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"Polling has shown that the overwhelming majority of Australians agree with my position on women’s sport. I would say to those other candidates they’re not reading the room." My interview with this election's most controversial candidate, Katherine Deves:

‘Not my fault’ if moderate Liberals lose seats: Katherine Deves

The controversial Liberal candidate for Warringah accused her party colleagues of “not reading the room” on the issue of women’s-only sport.

www.smh.com.au

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Mr @Billbrowder launching #FreezingOrder says Putin started the war in Ukraine "because he very narrowly, very greedily, wanted to stay in power" (versus getting taken out in an uprising). "The end game is being at war, his only option is to keep going, keep escalating."

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3 years

Cannot get over that Trump was at the golf course when time was called on his presidency.

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4 years

Australia has nearly eliminated coronavirus - a testament to the exceptional leadership from every state leader and the PM. Inherently, it is also a reflection of Australia's understanding of China. Why Australia's experience is not being held up as a model globally is beyond me.

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4 years

Quite a moment. Marr shows @AmbLiuXiaoMing footage of Uigher Muslims being herded into trains. Ambassador proceeded to wax lyrical about how beautiful Xinjiang is and then finally says: "I do not know where you get this video tape."

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EXCLUSIVE Julie Bishop claims family travel for David Panton but says he is not her partner and therefore she does not have to disclose his interests on the parliamentary register as is required for spouses. From me.

Julie Bishop defends omission of boyfriend from parliamentary records

The Foreign Minister has avoided listing David Panton on her parliamentary register of interests because they do not live together.

www.smh.com.au

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"Australians will be utterly ashamed of this racist man" Britain's Home Secretary @sajidjavid says of @fraser_anning 's Christchurch tweets | @smh @theage

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4 years

Australia: * didn't trust the WHO (ie China) * closed borders to China ASAP and has enforced quarantine for overseas arrivals - Growth in the country's infection rate has halved. Death toll is just 28 and known cases < 6k.

As the day unfolded: Global COVID-19 cases surpass 1 million, Australian death toll hits 30

If you suspect you or a family member has coronavirus you should call (not visit) your GP or ring the national Coronavirus Health Information Hotline on 1800 020 080.

www.smh.com.au

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And we thought Malcolm's sulk and tanty in 2016 was bad. That was a dreadful sign of things to come for Morrison - completely tone deaf, shades of born to rule, zero humility, aggression against Shorten (When this was never about Labor) and the gall to invoke Invictus spirit.

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Britain's first post-Brexit trade deal is so significant the joint-presser with PMs Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison is not even being broadcast live - not even on Downing St's YouTube. 😆

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5 years

Important to note that the Matthew Guy media strategy - essentially direct line to the Herald Sun - failed the Liberals. Worth keeping in mind re debate about influence of Murdoch press. #VicVotes2018 #VicVotes

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Broken beyond belief and possibly repair.

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"Australia can no longer boast about our world-leading response to the pandemic. Because it’s no longer world-leading ... In future years, it’s likely that Australia’s vaccine rollout will be taught as a case study of public policy failure."

Your freedom secured with a jab: the incentive that could spur our nation of vaccination laggards

Australia’s vaccination rate is ranked 49th of 50 among the world’s wealthiest countries. We should reward those who get vaccinated - not with cash or lottery tickets but with greater freedoms.

www.smh.com.au

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@latikambourke

3 years

Channel 7 news just said 'Covid-ravaged Sydney'. It wasn't even satirical. Lord.

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@latikambourke

9 months

Don't think the country getting ahead of itself helped the Matildas tremendously. Lionesses won Euros last year, have more experience w. the pressure at this point in a tournament. Meanwhile, Australia was preemptively putting an unsolicited public holiday on the team's shoulders

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4 years

Landslide for Jacinda Arden.

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6 years

Apologies don't come more genuine than this. We should be proud of the example Smith has set in courageously, humbly and unequivocally owning his mistake.

'I am sorry': Steve Smith arrives in Sydney after ball-tampering scandal

''To all of my teammates, fans of cricket all over the world and all Australians who are disappointed and angry, I am sorry,'' he said.

www.smh.com.au

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Text from one senior Liberal on Craig Kelly's UK TV appearance 'Still, I’m pleasantly surprised none of our people have said the bushfires are because of gay marriage, so that’s a win.'

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Latika M Bourke

@latikambourke

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As the BBC puts it: "Australia falls 85% short of vaccine delivery goal".

Covid: Australia falls 85% short of vaccine delivery goal

The slow rollout sparks concern as Brisbane faces a possible extension of a citywide lockdown.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Latika M Bourke

@latikambourke

4 years

Seriously though, how blessed to be from a country where people can tell the PM and entourage to get off your lawn and everyone's apologetic. In these times, we should not understate how precious that is. #straya

Latika M Bourke

@latikambourke

4 years

GOLD!

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Latika M Bourke

@latikambourke

4 years

Oh dear. It really does look like Covid-19.

Wattle-inspired logo to sell Australia to the world

A new logo featuring an abstract depiction of wattle has been approved by Trade Minister Simon Birmingham to represent Australia overseas.

www.smh.com.au

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Latika M Bourke

@latikambourke

3 years

Australia extends its international border ban to June 2021, meaning 15 months of bans on citizens leaving, caps on the number of citizens permitted to enter their own country as well as banning foreigners from entering.* *unless they are famous and rich.

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Latika M Bourke

@latikambourke

3 years

So NOT based on the medical advice then? Over to you @ScottMorrisonMP @GregHuntMP

RN Breakfast

@RNBreakfast

3 years

"Our advice was that we needed to do something about the number of positive cases coming into our hotel quarantine system," says Professor Paul Kelly, Chief Medical Officer. He says there was no advice given in relation to fines and jail sentences for people returning from India.

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Latika M Bourke

@latikambourke

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NEW Australia, Japan and the US will jointly fund an undersea cable providing internet access for Micronesia, Kiribati and Nauru, pushing back at China's 'development assistance' in the Pacific.

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