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My latest in the @guardian is about how this website died its final death as a news medium last weekend in Sydney.

The disinformation hurricane surrounding the Bondi stabbing marks the end of Twitter as a breaking...

Bad-faith scapegoating around the attacker’s identity shows Australian media needs to shake its addiction to Elon Musk’s rapidly toxifying platform

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2 years

GOOD MORNING, Australia! My name is Van Badham and I’d like to remind you that Scott Morrison is no longer Prime Minister, and we are going to have a Federal ICAC very soon. #auspol

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Hands up if you think @qantas has turned to garbage under its present board and management? #auspol

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Full acknowledgment to the whole @friendlyjordies team, who never took the pressure off the NSW Liberals and Nationals. Not when they were sued, not when they had the counterterrorism cops on them, not when they faced threats and violence. A lesson in courage to us all. #auspol

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Two weeks ago Australia’s Attorney-General was Michaelia Cash. Today it’s @markdreyfusQCMP . Whatever your politics, come on. What a freakin’ relief. #auspol

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Do you know what this means? It means the Australians people have broken Rupert Murdoch. America, Great Britain - you can do it, too. #NSWvotes #nswelection #auspol

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💯

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Hey, who else is terrified about the coordinated legal attack on women’s rights in America?

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I’ve waited nine long years for this. #auspol #BinNight

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2 years

What kind of turnip gets the questions in advance and STILL loses the debate?

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1 year

Thank you to everyone who has supported me these last 18 months of caring for my mum. Ol’ @EmuBalls died at Calvary hospital last night at 3am. I was with her, @ABCJazz (her favourite) in the background. Here’s Barb jumping on a hotel bed. What fun she was.

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MY MUM: So, the chemo isn’t working, there are more tumours on my liver & the oncologist says I won’t make it to Christmas… but will you get a load of bloody Morrison & what that bastard has tried to do to our country? What an absolute disgrace that man has always been. #auspol

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I really want Australian café proprietors to start calling macaroons “Macrons” in honour of the dude who just ate Scott Morrison alive. #auspol

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2 years

❤️ MAJORITY GOVERNMENT ❤️

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2 years

Don’t ever give up on Twitter. Yes, there are 50 terrible fuckwits who’ll harass you from a thousand fake accounts… but there are also millions - literally millions - of strangers who are good, & moral, & kind, & who’ll remind you every day that humanity is a glorious miracle.

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I’m voting YES to the Voice. Are you? #auspol

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Hands up if you’re gonna volunteer for @SimonEarleLabor if Scott Morrison resigns from parliament and there’s a byelection in Cook. #auspol #AstonVotes

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I have a disability and my mum still thinks I’m a blessing. #LeadersDebate #Auspol

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A question of judgment. #auspol

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❤️❤️❤️ going home to Biloela. #auspol

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2 years

Federal ICAC is coming. #auspol

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Ged Kearney was A NURSE, commentators! You are allowed to say it! Yes, over the course of her life she gained titles and positions but she came from the shop floor and has NEVER forgotten her people. We should be proud as a country we put nurses in parliament! #auspol

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3 years

I do not trust a government that cannot manage a vaccine rollout with a nuclear submarine capability. I do not. #auspol

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2 years

If Peter Dutton thinks own $3million apartment, a Gold Coast property and a cattle farm somehow means he isn’t wealthy, he doesn’t have much to say to the average Australian. #auspol

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Shout out to the online anti-vax crew who’ve been sending me abusive messages to gloat that I’ve tested +ve and am sick with coronavirus. Triple-vaxxed as I am, I can’t wait to make a full recovery so I may continue to forever mar and destroy everything you cherish and value.

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I’ve been obliged to talk about this a lot recently in the wake of the anti-lockdown protests; the emergence of the culturalist far right is NOT an uprising of the economically disenfranchised or a restless working class. The movement is driven by a resentful MIDDLE CLASS, or…

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Wow. Take the time to watch this.

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I’ve never seen this before and it makes the hounding of them by the British tabloids even more grotesque

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I’m at the Sydney Film Festival and there is an ACTUAL ARTS MINISTER here. @Tony_Burke , is sharing good news about policies to create arts jobs - and crowd is truly going wild. #auspol

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A real “gotcha” question would be asking Scott Morrison if he recognises a woman’s inherent right to an abortion. #auspol

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3 years

You know they’re in trouble when they attack voting. #auspol

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2 years

I repeat: we have had the worst possible government at the worst possible time. #4corners

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I have felt angry, sad, frustrated, resentful and anxious while being trapped in Sydney for this coronavirus outbreak but watching Premier @GladysB go full Pollyanna in her presser on the day infections went over 1200, I am now genuinely *afraid* of the virus. #auspol #nswpol

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If you liquidate your retirement savings (superannuation) to buy an artificially overpriced home, you’d better you die in it before you retire, because the trajectory of Liberal Party policy is no aged care, cashless debit cards, poverty, discomfort and indignity. #auspol

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My mother, with cancer, could not attend medical appointments because she couldn’t get a test. Literally someone from Twitter did ME a solid and drove 40 minutes across Sydney to share her RAT supply with my mum. Literally a TWITTER friend helped mum more than the govt. #auspol

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“Scott Morrison’s last captain’s pick was Craig Kelly” is a devastating line. #auspol

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Here it is! “We’re seeking, as I said, to put all income management onto the universal platform… which is the cashless debit card.” Anne Ruston, Minister for Families and Social Services in Scott Morrison’s Liberal/National government, on 7 News, February 2020. #auspol

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I find it as creepy as anything else that Morrison employed someone in the role of paid friend, at taxpayer expense. #4corners

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Shorter Josh Frydenberg: If it happens in Victoria, it’s Dan Andrews’ fault. If it happens anywhere else, it’s a tragically unavoidable circumstance. #auspol #abc730

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When Liz Cheney is too left for the Republican Party, the fascist threat isn’t coming - it’s here.

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… And if I’m in a rage mist about Scott Morrison today it’s because I’m a person who lives with mental illness, I’ve been public about that because destigmatisation is crucial for everyone who suffers & “it’s Satan making you sad” is bonkers garbage, you dopey human turkey man.

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I mean, CLEARLY nothing else has happened in Victoria in the last 24 hours… #auspol #springst

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I reject the moral judgment of George Pell; as a Catholic, as a citizen, as a human being. #auspol

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“We’re gonna need a bigger ICAC” should be trending in 3… 2… 1… #4Corners

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If you’re ever struggling to get out of bed in the morning, just remember that Nancy Pelosi is 82 years old, got up five hours ago and has already been to Kyiv and eaten at least three Republicans today.

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If you don’t think the violent mobs in victoria are part of a concerted campaign to attack Labor governments, ask yourselves why there are anti-lockdown protests in the non-lockdown states of WA and Qld. 🤔 #auspol #springst #qldpol #wapol

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The worst possible prime minister at the worst possible time. #auspol

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I haven’t seen so much clean high-vis since the last time Lowes was open. #auspol

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If God has a purpose for Scott Morrison I think it’s punishing us for the hubris of believing there could be nothing worse than Tony Abbott. #auspol

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The Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Barnaby Joyce, campaigned AGAINST this life-saving vaccine, with a claim it would make young women “promiscuous”. #auspol

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Cervical Cancer Cases Dropped by Almost 90% Thanks to HPV Vaccine, Real-World Data Show

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One of my FB “no” trolls forgot to lock her profile last night - so a big shout out to Texas real-estate agent and Trump voter, Pam, whose interests include pretending to be from Darwin to influence a vote she knows nothing about. #auspol

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I have been too stunned by this interview with Peter Dutton on #insiders to tweet. - he doesn’t know why they keep losing - but Labor are meanies - billion dollar corporations are terrified of social media - omg, Twitter, it’s scary, have you seen it? AND THERE’S MORE!

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Dear god, my gratitude at the accident of fortune that allowed me be raised and live in Australia, a nation that ever aspires to greater fairness - often clumsily, and awkwardly, so many times too slowly… but always toward a greater solidarity. #auspol

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About to go for a walk in the seat of Cook and going to try desperately to not scream “WHY DID YOU VOTE FOR SCOTT MORRISON OH MY GOD” as I do so. #auspol

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A lesson in perspective, #auspol . The greens are a political movement that have existed for 40 years and they’ve won 4 seats. Congratulations. The Climate200-backed teals are a political movement that didn’t exist a year ago and they now have 10 seats. Really: congratulations.

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Don’t criticise the ABC for this @4corners about Peter Dutton. I reckon it’s given Labor at least three terms. #auspol

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Peter Dutton claiming that Andrew Thorburn modelled ethical behaviour at NAB is a fascinating turn, given that whole “charging fees for no service even to dead people” admission at the Royal Commission. #insiders #auspol

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The Prime Minister of Australia is defending the participation of George Christensen in protests that were nationally organised by the far right. #auspol

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I am watching the disinformation about the Voice break like ocean waves over Australian social media and I fear that this is Australia’s Brexit - and the spiritual damage to our nationhood if a “no” vote based on lies & manipulation prevails will be just as devastating. #auspol

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Is Rupert Murdoch a fit and proper person to hold media properties in democracies? #January6thCommitteeHearings

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Going to vote today! #auspol

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Friends, I have news to reveal which the #4Corners episode tonight makes timely: I’ve spent the last six months undercover in the internet-conspiracy-cult community, writing a book called “QAnon An On”. It comes out in November, published by @HardieGrant & the story is WILD.

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The history of the Scott Morrison prime ministership in one single photo. #auspol

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We never seem to grasp as a nation that there is *no ceiling* to the awfulness of Scott Morrison. That man is 100% floor. #auspol

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So, in case you cannot bear to watch this Susssssan Ley speech, the summary appears to be “the overwhelmingly white caucus room of the parliamentary Liberal Party knows what’s best for black Australia, so shut up black Australia - no Voice for you.” It is STAGGERING. #auspol

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Morrison’s tactic of asking Albanese questions and then speaking over the answers is desperate. It is smug and hostile and desperate. #LeadersDebate

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This story about the arrest of @friendlyjordies ’ producer by NSW police acting on complaints by John Barilaro is desperately alarming. The bail conditions are…extraordinary. #nswpol #auspol

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#AfternoonBriefing today: @billshortenmp : the vaccine rollout is a *shit show*.” PK: you just swore on national television…! @billshortenmp : Yeah, and I think 25 million Australians agree with me. #auspol

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“There’s no roadmap… no roadmap… no roadmap…!” VICTORIA WAS THE ROADMAP, GLADYS. We are in this situation because you tried your political luck, tried to show up @DanielAndrewsMP … and your luck failed. And WE are paying for it. #auspol #nswpol

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I’m trying to process how on earth anyone could believe someone else’s abortion is any of their business, let alone a political issue. If you don’t like abortion, don’t have one.

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I will never forgive anyone who votes no to the Voice. If they prevail, the people will delay concrete progress on Reconciliation for a generation - possibly for a lifetime. … exactly like those who voted no to the Republic did. #auspol #insiders

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A visit to the supermarket in Sydney now has that immersive Thunderdome quality. The case numbers feel overwhelming, fear has sunk in. Premier @GladysB ’s insistent chipperness at pressers looks like dangerously irresponsible denial. The misjudgment of the mood is dire. #auspol

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Am confused why @JEChalmers is being laid into on #AfternoonBriefing with accusations Labor is not delivering economic equality in Australia when Labor - I mean, correct me if I’m wrong here - has not been in government since 2013. Chalmers looks as confused as I am. #auspol

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Well, I’m not going fucking anywhere. Solidarity doesn’t rise and fall with one poll. It embeds in the heart, it lays roots, it spreads. When I wrote YES, I didn’t mean it for one day. I meant it forever. We lost today - but we ARE tomorrow. Believe. X #auspol #Yes23

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Two polite corrections for @theage here: 1) Fascists have not “infiltrated” this movement. They ARE this movement. It is by & for them. 2) There are no “ordinary Victorians” at the protests. We have a word for people who hang with Nazis. It is “Nazis”.

Far-right protester charged by counter-terror police amid talk of killing Daniel Andrews

Some neo-Nazi figures are seeking not only to attend rallies, but to organise, recruit and radicalise other protesters.

www.theage.com.au

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Do you know what would be better than school chaplains? Paid artists-in-residence - which would provid income, space and a little security for artists to work, as well as providing role models and cultural conversations to students. Win win. @JasonClareMP @Tony_Burke #auspol

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Just so everyone knows, George Christensen is repeating talking points supplied by the American hard right. Like he always does. He is an active megaphone for a disinformation network, he is foreign influenced, he compromises the government. Morrison must act. Now. #auspol

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HE’S NOT EVEN PRIME MINISTER ANYMORE AND HE’S STILL AN ASSHOLE. #auspol #abc730

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Given Morrison’s campaign has so far consisted of no plans for the future, denials, nonpologies & relentlessly praising himself for a record that’s already let everybody down, @albomp running Labor’s campaign from home in his pyjamas is unlikely to pose much of a problem. #auspol

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We gotta name this sudden, strange feeling of disjointed surprise that our new leader doesn’t, you know, smugly hate us.

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You absolutely should break a promise if that promise is bad policy. The point of government is to serve the national interest, not screw it to please fat cats at Newscorp and the last remaining Liberal voters in Kooyong. #auspol #insiders

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SPEERS: Genital surgery is not happening for adolescents. It’s not. FRYDENBERG: That’s a matter for those families, David. No, Josh, reality is a matter FOR EVERYONE. The scare campaign from Warringah’s bigot is based on lies. She should have been disendorsed. #auspol

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@mtgreenee You know America tried this before and your side lost, right?

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Daniel Andrews managing to politically massacre the #nswpol Liberal government through sheer force of comparison. #springst #auspol

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Hello, this is me in the @nytimes on the subject of how far right actors are trying to use Australians as puppets in an anti-lockdown propaganda war. Thank you to the superb @sexenheimer for his participation. #auspol

Opinion | No, Australia Is Not Actually an Evil Dictatorship (Published 2021)

Australians have been enlisted as unwitting props in an American culture war.

www.nytimes.com

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David Speers absolutely ripping apart Jacinta Price (and Peter Dutton) and their child abuse claims in this interview on #insiders . So, if Price and Dutton are aware of child abuse in Alice Springs, why aren’t they reporting it? Reporting is mandatory. #auspol

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Ben showed me the #VoteYes ad with Farnham as the soundtrack and I cried like a child. I am campaigning for the voice because I could not live with myself if I did not. #yes23

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Someone on Facebook just called George Christensen “The Manila Folder”. #auspol

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… And the winner for best comment in the whole Katie Hopkins affair goes to @JasonClareMP and this seven-second pearler from Andrew Probyn’s report. Says it all, really. #auspol

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Didn't condemn the law-breaking anti-vax protestors: just said they're "reckless and selfish". Didn't condemn Christensen for joining in. Said it was "free speech". Made it clear no one would be mandated to get a vaccine. The worst possible leader at the worst possible time.

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@GOPLeader @jaketapper What single thing did you do this week for anyone apart from yourself, Kev?

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They don’t want you to do arts degrees because they don’t want you to think. It’s old school Liberal Party social engineering. #qanda

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Best @AustralianLabor ad in living memory. Watch. #auspol

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The rollout is a race and now we're all paying for Scott Morrison's failures.

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Everyone’s jealous of me because I’m hanging out with the man who made *Miranda* marginal! @SimonEarleLabor , you make the movement proud. Amazing effort! ❤️❤️❤️ #nswpol #nswvotes #auspol

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Did we ever find out what the go was with the au pairs, #auspol ?

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Australia has to stop privatising. Australia has to stop outsourcing. Australia has to stop the Liberals. #4Corners

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I’m looking forward to all those apologists-for-gladys starting a petition to have Sam Dastyari returned to parliament, given his resignation was over the appropriateness of a donation that was never secret or denied. Consistency in all things, after all, right? #auspol

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If the Liberals knew that the Solomons were vulnerable to Chinese influence, why did they cut aid to the Pacific and wilfully diminish Australia’s soft power in the region? #insiders #auspol

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Jacinta Price attacking child abuse advocate and survivor Grace Tame is… a choice. #insiders #auspol

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Solidarity with everyone marching for abortion rights in Australia today. Solidarity with our sisters, brothers and others in the USA. “If women are not free, people are not free.”

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Let’s just remember that these guys out breaking health restrictions today are from the same hard right conspiracy cult as the guy Scott Morrison hangs out with. #auspol

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My desperate hope is that Australians beat the disinformation machine and vote Yes. I want us to prove to the world that you can beat the backroom behind Brexit and Trump, that we’re made of stronger stuff than plasticine. #auspol #voteyes #yes23

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