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Laura Jayes
2 years
Shadow Home Affairs @KKeneally tells #AmAgenda if Labor wins government: ✅ @MehdiAli98 would be immediately released from the Park Hotel. ✅ The Murugappan family would be immediately allowed to go home to Biloela.
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Laura Jayes
2 years
PM says he’s very concerned about gender reassignment surgery. This should really have nothing to do with Government or an election. Not politician should be proposing to get involved in people lives to that extent. This is between doctor and patient.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
One of the new Covid cases in Queensland is a nurse - who hadn’t been vaccinated. i.e. A front line worker. Apparently, there’s no rush though.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
💔 Yesterday was Lifeline’s biggest day in 58+ years. There were more than 3500 calls in one day - 3505 calls. Be kind.
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Laura Jayes
2 years
👨 PM @AlboMP sculls a beer at a concert. The reaction denotes approval, like he passed the ‘good bloke test’ 👩PM @MarinSanna has fun with friends, involving dancing. The reaction forces her into a drug test. 2022…
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Laura Jayes
3 years
“I lost my job because I was humiliated by the Prime Minister...and I was bullied by my Chairman. This is the day that these men will be held to account” - Christine Holgate 🔥
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Laura Jayes
6 years
BREAKING I’m now told Turnbull is weighing up calling an election rather than risk another challenge. The reaction from one backbencher “F@$k me dead. We’ll get annihilated” @SkyNewsAust
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Laura Jayes
6 years
Each to their own.....but i think @TonyAbbottMHR should have voted. He demanded this plebiscite, 75% of his electorate vote yes. If he wanted to vote no despite the result - he should have done so and explained himself. He wasn’t in the chamber. He squibbed it.
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Laura Jayes
6 years
Blair Cottrell is a far right-wing fascist who’s a self confessed Hitler fan. He’s boasted about using “violence and terror” to manipulate women. His rap sheet includes arson, burglary, racial vilification. He’s not an activist. He’s just an arsehole.
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Laura Jayes
2 years
May 2022: Rates “aren’t about politics” November 2021: “Rates will always be lower under a Coalition Government”
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Breaking: @tanya_plibersek responds to the myriad of disgusting allegations like an actual decent human.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
This is extraordinary testimony from Christine Holgate. It’s devastating for those she’s named. It can’t be ignored. It’s a clinical take down. This is a woman who has nothing to lose.
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Laura Jayes
5 years
BREAKING Witnesses say he clearly shouted “Allah Akbar” and shouted at police “shoot me” @SkyNewsAust
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Laura Jayes
5 years
It appears the man in question has been arrested.
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Laura Jayes
6 years
As if to prove my original character assessment.... Blair Cottrell posts (and later deletes) some weird suggestion about raping me on air. He’s not just a fascist. He’s down right dangerous
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Laura Jayes
3 years
🙂In some positive news… My mum works in retail and has lost all her hours. She applied for the $600 covid disaster payment at 5pm via @myGovau 40 minutes later the money was in her account.
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Laura Jayes
10 months
Premier @DanielAndrewsMP says the Victoria Commonwealth Games would have cost more than $7B We’re the swimming pools going to be made of gold? Birmingham in 2022 cost England just $1.5B This does not add up.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Is it right that we still don’t know how the Avalon cluster started? Given the outbreak has been sizeable enough to infect dozens and ruin Christmas plans for thousands.... shouldn’t we know where the stuff up occurred?
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Laura Jayes
4 years
Annastacia Palaszczuk got it so wrong. All perspective has been lost. And then to claim she’d been bullied...
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Laura Jayes
5 years
This spin is so offensive. Not only is it WAY down the pecking order of things that need to be explained in this story, it’s just a blatant distraction. ASIO should be investigating YOU. At any other stage have you tried to sell Parliament to the highest bidder?
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Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺
5 years
I was shocked & disgusted with the Al Jazeera hit piece. A Qatari government organisation should not be targeting Australian political parties. This has been referred to ASIO. After the full hit piece has been released I’ll make a full statement & take all appropriate action. -PH
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Laura Jayes
4 years
“I stuffed up” - @GladysB When’s the last time you heard a politicians say that?
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Laura Jayes
4 years
I can’t believe we are in January, after month of fires, and some are still pretending that there’s an argument that that climate change ‘started the fires’. No one credible has ever suggested that climate change “starts” fires. Where did this straw man even come from.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
💔 A woman in her 30s has died of COVID-19 ❌ She had NO pre-exiting conditions Let that sink in…
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Laura Jayes
5 years
If journalists start self censoring we all lose. It’s not our job to filter facts. We are all entitled to our opinions, but not our own facts. So let’s stick to them. And I’ll keep reporting them ⁦ @SkyNewsAust ⁩ ⁦ @newscomauHQ
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Something changed this week Something deeply significant Brittany Higgins almost single handedly lifted the burden of secrecy for hundreds (if not thousands) of others. I don’t know about you, but it’s extraordinary the number of women with personal accounts of sexual assault.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
“We need to keep this in perspective - we have an extraordinary acceleration of the vaccine rollout, and an amazing number of people vaccinated” - Greg Hunt *NB: it is neither extraordinary or amazing.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Again with the Robo Debt sophistry... It-was-not-exactly-the-same-practice-used-by-Governments-over-30-years. It reversed the onus of proof, it removed the human safe guards, and it ramped up significantly.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Trump - “Who knows I may even decide to beat them for a third time” Just hanging a shingle out there for 2024
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Laura Jayes
3 years
The UK has around 35K new covid cases a day…. And there’s zero mention of covid on the front page… They have moved on.
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Laura Jayes
2 years
🚨 John Barilaro tells the Inquiry that he knew Jenny West was a candidate for the Trade job, but didn’t know she’d been offered the job. Below is a document with Jenny West’s name on it, endorsing her as the preferred candidate with John Barilaro’s signature on it.
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Laura Jayes
5 years
Anthony Mundine or decades of medical research comprehensively proving this bullshit wrong... you decide
Don’t vaccine your kids period! The government bully you into vaccine ! Do your research on the shit & watched the documentary vaxxed ...
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Laura Jayes
11 months
Canberra just looks like a gross cesspit right now. Normal people are surely just watching this wondering how they’re actually being served. Foul.
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Laura Jayes
2 years
President of @NationalFarmers Fiona Simpson says Labor’s Climate Change policy is “transparent, sensible” and treads carefully” #AmAgenda
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Laura Jayes
9 months
Who keeps leaking all of Brittany Higgins’ text messages? Terrifying breach of privacy. Surely this is under investigation?
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Laura Jayes
3 years
After 11 weeks ONLY 2.5 Million vaccines have been administered in Australia Aged care residents and staff won’t even be vaccinated until the end of the month. I can’t see what’s been fixed by the National Cabinet “war footing”
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Laura Jayes
1 year
I reckon a lot of Australians feel as emotional about The Voice as @AlboMP appears to. This is a huge moment. The gravity is not lost
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Laura Jayes
2 years
As mentioned in #AmAgenda last week - The Government has massively underestimated the rate of inflation - so its ‘cost of living’ announcements are not calibrated to reality. I would ask the PM @ScottMorrisonMP about this but he won’t come anywhere near my show. It’s been 2yrs.
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Laura Jayes
2 years
We either live with Omicron or go back into lockdowns/border closures - costing sanity and billions $. If you are concerned about Omicron - that is your right. But instead of calling for Govt to tell you what to do - stay home. Let the rest of us risk living. 🙏
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Laura Jayes
3 years
“We will get there” @GladysB There? Where’s there? Where are we going please?
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2 years
“Other states have their borders closed because they don’t trust their hospital systems” - NSW Premier @Dom_Perrottet 👀
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Hazzard says “go and get vaccinated” He says it’s “self indulgent and selfish” if you don’t. Also Hazzard “You have to be patient… there’s not enough Pfizer”
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Laura Jayes
3 years
. @TamePunk has told the #WomensSafetySummit that the appointment of Lorraine Finlaly as the new Human Rights Commissioner is a “grave mistake” that undermines the Prime Minister’s commitment to ending violence against women.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
🚨 The PM today arguing the borders will still stay closed even when the vaccine program is completed. PM says millions still won’t be vaccinate (children and others who object) Okay....So.... what’s the plan then?
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Laura Jayes
3 years
It’s surprising when journalists seems to think their views are the definitive ones. Or think that due process is a pesky irritation that gets in the way of trail by media. Or are too busy basking in Twitter adoration that they can’t see that crusading is different to journalism
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Laura Jayes
3 years
“It’s not a race. It’s not a competition” - PM @ScottMorrisonMP But... it is! Millions of people are currently in lockdown.
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Laura Jayes
5 years
He should be asked about this every single day until he pays it.
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Ellen Fanning:Journo
5 years
Diary Note for May 19. Clive Palmer promises to pay back $7m in entitlements to his sacked nickel workers after the election.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Hearing Stuart Robert to Home Affairs portfolio is all but a done deal. It’s caused much disquiet among colleagues. A few questioning how you can put Robert in charge of HA and it’s agencies when he was previously sacked from the ministry over a China scandal.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
What it shows is Australia was given the same opportunity as the UK and the US to secure Enough Pfizer vaccines. The UK and the US took that opportunity. Australia did not.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
👀 “A spokesman for Health Minister Greg Hunt rejected the interpretation that the government was slow to act” Well, you couldn’t really interpret this as fast, urgent or satisfactory…
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Laura Jayes
3 years
If Premiers don’t open up on 80% fully vaccinated…. What’s the alternative? Lockdown indefinitely?
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Do we really need @Facebook ?
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Laura Jayes
3 years
“How do you reconcile sacking Darryl Maguire on the one hand and not having suspicion of corruption on the other hand?” - Counsel Assisting #ICAC
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Laura Jayes
2 years
Omicron is neither the “extraordinary risk” or “game changer” that it’s been described as today. It won’t be the last variant. SA is 80%+ vaccinated. Living with Covid means preparing your population to do just that, not scare them over a yet to be determined ‘mild’ strain
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Laura Jayes
7 months
Indigenous people wanted a Voice. Australia said no.
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Antony Green - elections
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Results for Remote Mobile Teams in the NT electorate of Lingiari. Number columns are first % Yes, then % No and total votes. #auspol #referendum2023
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Laura Jayes
5 years
Infuriating! When a few thousand Instagram followers give you a ‘God complex’ and you think you know better than medical experts who’ve done countless hours of research and testing.
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5 years
She’s a wellness blogger married to an @NRL star, charging parents hundreds of dollars each to hear her controversial views on childhood vaccinations. Now, Taylor Winterstein is taking her workshops on the road, and doctors say she’s putting lives at risk. @AmberLaidler7 #7News
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Laura Jayes
5 years
Women are at the centre of this launch. From Penny Wong to Tanya Plibersek. Chloe Shorten as Shorten’s “feminist conscience”. Special prominence for first female PM. All things the Liberals won’t be able to do at its Launch.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Just walked into a gym class… and three girls were crying after @Dom_Perrottet announced the international border open from Nov 1. They haven’t seen their families for three years. They’ve missed weddings and funerals. They are yet to meet new born babies. 😢
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Laura Jayes
2 years
Opposition leader @AlboMP tripped up on the first day of the campaign. Can’t say what the current official cash rate is. It’s been 0.10% since November 2020 😬
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Laura Jayes
8 months
To not include the “unilateral decisions” made by Premiers at the height of the pandemic is a massive omission from the scope of this enquiry. Why? Because both Andrews and Palaszczuk have not once showed any regret for the decisions they made that (in retrospect) did more harm…
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Laura Jayes
3 years
This is not just the resignation of a Premier. This is the resignation of a Premier in a pandemic. NSW will feel this keenly. People not usually engaged in politics - are now, and they’re shocked.
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Laura Jayes
6 years
This is a new low. Putting rumours on the public record. It puts a cloud over every woman that works in @billshortenmp ’s office. How can they possibly defend themselves. And we wonder why women are reluctant to pursue a career in politics.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
“Today has proven why politicians should stay out of giving health advice on vaccines” - @amapresident
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Laura Jayes
5 months
This intemperate outburst from Dreyfus is not entirely out of character. He has contempt for journalists at the best of times. Some in his office have form too. He failed to prepared for worst case scenario. He’s the AG. He failed.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
💁🏻‍♀️ @gladys says vaccines are the answer (The PM’s responsibility) 💁🏼‍♂️ @ScottMorrisonMP says lockdowns are the answer (The Premier’s responsibility) The rest of us: 🤬
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Christine Holgate was treated terribly. This lays it out clinically and comprehensively. If only we had a woman who was an expert at logistics and service delivery right now....
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Laura Jayes
4 years
FWIW There’s also reports of a record turn out in London and across the country. Turn out in June 2017 was almost 70% Not sure which party will benefit the most. 🤷‍♀️
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Laura Jayes
2 years
Mark McGowan is making things up Claims 5000 people a day are being hospitalised in Australia. Not even close. 3rd dose is the new goal post.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
No new cases in NSW. Despite a visit from the family carrying the ‘never-before-seen-super-strain-beast-of-a-variant’
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NSW recorded no new locally acquired cases of #COVID19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. Five overseas-acquired cases were recorded in the same period, bringing the total number of cases in NSW since the beginning of the pandemic to 5,406.
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Laura Jayes
6 years
To all those conservative still calling for the Government to pull out of Paris.... you still think it’s a good idea? 🤔 @SkyNewsAust
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Laura Jayes
2 years
“It’s essential that we attract these critical workers to WA” What nurse or doctor is going to move to WA, quarantine for two weeks and have no idea if/when you’ll be able to leave again?
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Laura Jayes
1 year
🚨Another night of destruction in Alice Springs. Darren Clarke’s bakery has been broken into and damaged again. This is the 42nd time.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
This is exhausting. Premiers signed up to the PMs plan at 80% vaccination rate. Now they’re not. Zero cases is a utopia we no longer enjoy. Enough. If it’s not that plan What is it?
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Laura Jayes
3 years
“Once we get to over 70% and 80% lockdowns do more harm than good” - PM @ScottMorrisonMP 🙏
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Christian Porter has given up his anonymity to deny the claims. “It’s just not true” Believe him or not - We are at a pivotal moment. Do we uphold the principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ or are we at the point of full blown Americanisation.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
I suspect Australian’s might be a little bit sick of hearing political leaders say “Australia is the envy of the world” Tin ear comments juxtaposed with a fully stadium at Wembley
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Laura Jayes
2 years
The same WA whose hospital system is under pressure with NO covid. And can’t attract nurses from interstate or overseas. The same WA that’s pursued zero covid with zero compassion. Separated families, abandoned residents and leant on eastern states to get returning Aussies home
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Would that be the world as it is in WA under @MarkMcGowanMP or the one created from a #LetItRip political ideology causing chaos in NSW?
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Laura Jayes
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🎾 Jelena Dokic is an exceptional commentator.
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Laura Jayes
2 years
Ruling by fear isn’t leadership. McGowan is making incorrect assertions, completely unchallenged. Year 3 of the pandemic - and he’s promising compassion. If your family member is dying or dead you still have to go into 2 weeks of isolation. Compassion WA style
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Human Services Minister @stuartrobertmp is actually claiming credit for ending the Robo Debt scheme. The spin is ‘Yes Minister’ esq. Comparing $1.2B stuff-up to practices used under Hawke/Keating governments. The sophistry is breathtaking. Interview online soon @SkyNewsAust
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Laura Jayes
4 months
I’m often sceptical of the “out of context” excuse… I think if you watch this, @BasilZempilas explanation is an honest one. I think he’s clearly referring to the news as “reserves” not the women’s tennis. Anyway, someone disliked him enough to selectively stitch him up.…
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Basil Zempilas
4 months
And the full version. Talking about the news up against the tennis.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
5 day lock-down looms because of a “hyper-infectious” covid strain “moving at velocity” But a couple of thousand people are at the tennis tonight cheering their lungs out. Little wonder people are confused *if you think this a partisan point, perhaps you’re part of the problem
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Laura Jayes
6 years
This interview with Jenny Macklin is so lovely. Politicians don’t often get to exit so gracefully. She deserves it. Her career is a masterclass in how to affect huge change in public policy with out grandstanding for self promotion. Often a quiet achiever. #insiders
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Laura Jayes
6 years
BREAKING: Barnaby Joyce has renominated to run in New England, but some Nationals are resisting confirming his preselection because they believe “there are more skeletons in the closet” @SkyNewsAust
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Laura Jayes
3 years
👩‍⚕️ BOOKED!
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Laura Jayes
5 years
Premier @DanielAndrewsMP is really rubbing it in the Conservative’s faces. Proudly claiming the mantle of “the most progressive Government in the nation” He even went out of his way the thank the trade union movement. @SkyNewsAust
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Laura Jayes
5 years
“The quiet Australians have won a great victory tonight” @ScottMorrisonMP @SkyNewsAust
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Laura Jayes
6 years
The classiest operator in the business! @JulieBishopMP gives a gracious outgoing media conference. She leaves with a note of optimism, with no trace of malice. She has been treated shoddily by some, but she chose not to call them out. A measure of the woman. @SkyNewsAust
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Laura Jayes
2 years
🚨 @PaulineHansonOz has tested positive to covid. She is unvaccinated. In isolation for the election. Bad timing.
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Laura Jayes
2 years
PM @ScottMorrisonMP has ruled out further covid lockdowns. Is this bipartisan @AlboMP ?
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Laura Jayes
3 years
It’s important this accusation is corrected. The inference is Australian journalists were being unpatriotic and essentially fawning over Macron. It undermines professional journalists. It’s unfair.
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Stela Todorovic
3 years
This absolutely did not happen. There were no selfies. Questions, yes. Selfies, no.
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Laura Jayes
4 years
Stop hoarding. Just stop it. It’s not who we are. It’s ridiculous. Do the right thing by each other. Don’t abuse staff. - PM @ScottMorrisonMP 👊
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Laura Jayes
3 years
The NSW Commissioner just detailed one covid breach.. ☀️ Two men were sunbaking naked on south coast beach.. 🦌 They were startled by a deer and ran into the national park.. 🌲 The men got lost and needed to be rescued by the SES *As told by Mick Fuller w a straight face
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Can you believe that aged care residents still have not been vaccinated!? 4 weeks ago Hunt and Colbeck said it was “almost done” Today the PM says it’s at about 85% “That will be completed in the timeframe” *this from a Govt that refuses to set targets
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Laura Jayes
5 years
Who’d have thought...the experts say a cut in migration would actually hurt the smaller states and do NOTHING to ease congestion in Sydney and Melbourne. A populist whinge facilitated by people who should know better.
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Laura Jayes
3 years
Well, this is unnecessary. Of the more than 1000 cases in NSW - none have been proven to have transmitted outdoors. The infection is spreading in homes, workplaces, shops
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Laura Jayes
3 years
“We’ll announce,in good time, support for people who are doing it tough” - Dan Andrews I would have thought NOW is a good time with record numbers of calls to Lifeline.
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Laura Jayes
4 years
This is the line at Centrelink at Bondi Junction. Quite simply - if this basic function doesn’t work, if people can’t access money - it doesn’t matter how carefully targeted/crafted/generous the Government’s Safety net package is. Stuart Robert - you have one job. Fix it.
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Laura Jayes
2 years
Justice. Rest In Peace, Lynette. 🕊
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