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Researchers say they’ve mimicked the voice of an Egyptian mummy by recreating some of its vocal tract.
Have a listen...
What does it sound like to you?
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A magnitude six #Earthquake has rattled Melbourne and regional Victoria.
This is the moment when News Breakfast presenters @mjrowland68 and @Tonaaayy_ were rocked by it.
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@Tonaaayy_ weighs in on the distressing news this morning of allegations against former Hawthorn Club coaches separating First Nations players from their families and their partners.
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.@Tonaaayy_ on Taylor Walkers' video apology to Robbie Young.
"It is always on Indigenous people, always taking the high road and always having to extend the olive branch out and be the ones to help...even then in the wording we heard, Taylor will be the one leaning on Robbie."
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.@paulwkennedy talks to @SenatorCash about the sport grants controversy.
Senator Cash: No rules were broken, the ANAO report was clear.
PK: No that's not true. This program was needs-based. As in some community clubs need it more than others. That’s where the interference came.
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"I'd like to talk about the things that matter to the people of Kooyong, not to have sly, nasty digs at each other's family members."
Independent candidate @Mon4Kooyong, responds to sitting member @JoshFrydenberg's comments about her mother-in-law saying she would vote for him.
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All class, @ashbar96.
"I didn't win a tennis match. It's not the end of the world ... the sun is still going to come up tomorrow."
#Wimbledon
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"We are not environmental bastards."
@NSWRFS Commissioner @RFSCommissioner on hazard reduction burning, which he stresses is not the panacea for stopping fires spreading.
#nswfires #AustraliaFires
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A Facebook video shows a yacht club treasurer in @GregHuntMP's electorate thanking him for the “work behind the scenes” securing just over $170,000 from the controversial sport grants program.
@paulwkennedy asks the Minister what that meant.
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.@mjrowland68 asks Federal Health Minister @GregHuntMP why he attached a Liberal Party logo to a Government announcement about COVID-19 vaccines.
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"New South Wales isn't the gold standard. New South Wales is lucky."
— @normanswan on the coronavirus responses between states
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“We’re angry...white hot with rage.”
The ABC’s Tony Armstrong says nothing is being done to address Indigenous deaths in custody. It comes amid growing outrage over a third death in custody in a week.
@Tonaaayy_ @abcnews
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“Regional Australia would be Siberia without the ABC”
Tim Fischer was on to talk about his love for his family and his pet subject, steam trains.
But he also had a message to critics of the ABC.
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Former prime minister Kevin Rudd is calling for a royal commission into news media diversity, saying Rupert Murdoch's media empire has too much power.
"The Australian people are fed up with the nonsense we are being served up each day, in particular by the Murdoch media."
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"We should call out this rally for what it is, and it is a demonstration by a neo-Nazi group" @drkerrynphelps says political leaders need to do more to combat a rising tide of anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism
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"People in NSW don't know what is essential retail or who is an essential worker. They're allowed to travel 10km for exercise. It is not a proper lockdown."
@normanswan said if NSW don't go into stage 4 lockdown, based on what happened in Victoria, this could go until Christmas.
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Surging COVID-19 cases in Europe should "silence the critics of Victoria's lockdown", says @normanswan
"Lockdown is the only way that you can actually control the virus when it is out of control."
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"It is very disappointing we weren't listened to earlier because we actually predicted exactly what's happening now and measures could have been taken months ago to make the firefighters more effective and to make the community safer."
- Fmr NSW Fire & Rescue chief Greg Mullins
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HE DID IT!
After decades of others trying, @brianjoralvarez is *the* American actor who has absolutely nailed the Australian accent.
We even pitched him some city names to try out — how do you think he did?
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The Americans. The football. The pub. The car full of young blokes.
@barriecassidy shares a recent and largely unknown story about Bob Hawke that stunned a group of visiting US dignitaries.
"They couldn't believe a former prime minister would do that."
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"I think that people are owed an explanation of what happened."
Niki Savva's new book 'Bulldozed' details Scott Morrison's fall and Anthony Albanese's rise - and it's already causing some major rumblings in Australian politics.
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.@NormanSwan believes Australia is looking at the wrong vaccines.
"What we need is 20 million or more of Moderna that are geared to the new variants, Moderna is leading in developing of vaccines for new variants. We should be booking Moderna and we haven't."
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Asked to define how many "rapists and murderers" there are on Manus Island and Nauru, PM Scott Morrison said "it only takes one".
@barriecassidy said this needs much more explanation.
"It only needs one for ... what? To discredit the other 1,000?"
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.@AlboMP says restrictions that are place in parts of the country are due to the government's failure to secure enough vaccines.
"I find it quite extraordinary that the Prime Minister has basically described Western Australians and Queenslanders as somehow being cave people."
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When @Socceroos fans get carried away and nick the hand-knitted scarf your mum gave you - live on TV.
@Tonaaayy_ #AUSvPER
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"[ICAC] job is to root out corruption not suit political parties."
Geoffrey Watson, a former counsel assisting NSW ICAC, says ICAC shouldn't have considered the timing of their investigation into @GladysB.
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.@NormanSwan believes Australia should look at Singapore who has gone into a lockdown over the weekend after reopening its borders.
"If we open up any sooner than 80% or 90% [of the population vaccinated] we're going to be like Taiwan, Singapore and have national lockdowns."
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"I will be truly reconciled when we are bleeding actual truth in history on to our schools' curriculum."
Uncle Jack Charles says other countries that have gone through wars have then educated their youth about what happened — but that hasn't happened in Australia.
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"This is the worst year of the pandemic and nobody is talking about it.”
@normanswan says new subvariants are increasing people's vulnerability, leading to high case numbers and deaths across both Australia and other countries. nitter.app/BreakfastNews/status/1…
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Constitutional law expert Anne Twomey says Minister Bridget McKenzie "does not have the power to make these decisions in relation to these [sports] grants."
Professor Twomey also said the program itself might be unconstitutional. #auspol
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“Did the Liberals really think they could sack Malcolm Turnbull and then he would spend his next six weeks in the electorate trying to get the next guy elected? It’s not the real world!” - @barriecassidy #auspol #Wentworthvotes
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In memory of writer and satirist John Clarke, his family have selected the following classic 'Clarke and Dawe' clip to share
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Scott Morrison says he wants to focus on practical responses to #AustraliaFires, like resilience and adaptation.
3 years ago, the Govt axed funding to the org that was doing much of that work — the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
We spoke to its director.
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The @WHO director-general @DrTedros has responded to Donald Trump halting US funding for the body.
"This is a time for all of us to be united in our common struggle against a common threat."
More: ab.co/3baQfs8
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The #BollywoodKing @iamsrk talks to @georgie_tunny about fame, films and cricket.
And what does the most famous man in the world want to do next?
"I want to make an action film. Lots of kicks and punches."
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This week one speech calling for more protection for LGBT kids touched hearts.
Labor MP @StephenJonesMP's public tribute.
His son, Paddy Quilter-Jones joined us to explain what it meant to hear the emotionally charged dedication.
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"I am here to represent the voices of tens of thousands of women."
#March4Justice organiser @janine_hendry explains why she rejected a closed-door meeting with Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP.
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43 per cent of the projects funded under the controversial sports grants scheme were ineligible, the audit office told a Senate inquiry.
This contradicts Scott Morrison's statements that all projects were eligible.
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"I don't know where he is..."
"I'm not across those issues..."
Acting Education Minister @stuartrobertmp when pushed on the whereabouts of Education Minister @AlanTudgeMP, and a $500,000 payment to one of his former staffers.
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You can't get any more blunt than @murpharoo's assessment of #libspill -
"The Government is killing itself in plain view ... It doesn't matter who wins because they're stuffed"
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.@DanielAndrewsMP describes Treasurer @JoshFrydenberg's social media post on Victoria's re-opening plan out of lockdown as "endless criticism and negativity".
"I would just say to Josh, 'This is not about you and your breathless political rants don't work against this virus'."
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.@LaTrioli: Your own department says the development is going to result in irreversible damage to a wetland, and the developer is a Liberal Party donor. Is there a problem?
@JoshFrydenberg: Virginia, you're trying to make this into something that is bigger than it is.
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.@mjrowland68: “Do you find it odd we haven't heard from the Prime Minister as yet, given the importance of this story?”
@sarahinthesen8: "The fact that we haven't heard a word from the Prime Minister in the last three days, his silence is deafening."
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"They couldn't believe a former prime minister would do that."
@barriecassidy shares a recent and largely unknown story about Bob Hawke that stunned a group of visiting US dignitaries.
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#Breaking
Today we farewell @paulwkennedy from @BreakfastNews! PK has been on the show from the very start and will be greatly missed by our team and our viewers! We wish him all the best at his new ABC gig!
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Julia Gillard was today asked about Peter Dutton and whether the left underestimated the right.
“What got underestimated isn’t the power of the right, it’s people’s sense of anxiety about the world … If we underestimate that then we empower the people who try to channel it"
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"I apologise for the position that we find ourselves in. I'm accountable as the leader of our state."
Vic Premier @DanielAndrewsMP when asked about the hotel quarantine program and the state's outbreak of new coronavirus cases.
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.@mjrowland68: "Why was Malcolm Turnbull dispatched by your party?"
@JoshFrydenberg: "I'm focusing on the future. You can ask me this six or seven ways..."
@mjrowland68: "I'll ask again. If you give me a straight answer, we can move onto the next topic."
#AusVotes #Auspol
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.@KKeneally responds to Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP who said hotel quarantine in Australia has been 99 per cent successful.
"Let me tell you, the people of Melbourne today who are facing the prospect of another extended lockdown, they would disagree with the Prime Minister. nitter.app/BreakfastNews/status/1…
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"It's the absolute cesspit of TV."
"This is a show that destroys relationships, it doesn't celebrate them."
"This is a show that encourages cheating and adultery."
@mjrowland68 is NOT a fan of Married At First Sight #MAFS
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"All this stuff 'it's not a race, we'll get there when we can'. It's not been enough to protect Evie."
Senator @SenKatyG is frustrated by the pace of the vaccine rollout after her 14-year-old daughter tested positive for COVID-19.
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"As far as I can recall, there's never been a budget to virtually launch an election campaign ... It feels like a campaign pitch, and as a result, I think that invites an extra layer of cynicism"
@barriecassidy on #Budget2019 #auspol
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Is there one rule for banks and another for unions?
@MathiasCormann: “The fines are completed ineffective in having an impact on unions.”
@Mad_Morris: “They also appear completely ineffective in having an impact on bankers.”
@MathiasCormann: “Well no, I completely disagree.”
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Daniel Andrews is probably the most familiar face on our screens right now. He's about to clock up his 50th press conference in a row!
Do you think he deserves a break?
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Francesca Winterson is in a building on the main street of #Mallacoota and describes the wind, darkness and falling embers as fires burn about 500 metres away.
She says it's too late to leave and fire crews are on hand to offer as much protection as they can.
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"Just find some empathy in your hearts and tone it down"
@Milliganreports says commentators who are railing against the conviction of George Pell are making the situation much worse for abuse survivors
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Greg Hunt: “All MPs should be fighting for and advocating for projects within their electorate.”
PK: “This was supposed to go on merit. There was nothing in the guidelines about lobbying.”
A Facebook video shows a yacht club treasurer in @GregHuntMP's electorate thanking him for the “work behind the scenes” securing just over $170,000 from the controversial sport grants program.
@paulwkennedy asks the Minister what that meant.
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Cancel public events. No F1. No footy. We must do more to curb the rate of infection in the coming hours.
Adj Prof Bill Bowtell from @KirbyInstitute sounds warning over #coronavirus
"It's not good enough that in the last eight weeks there has been no public education campaign."
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.@mjrowland68 asked Shadow Foreign Minister @SenatorWong about Labor's medium term emissions reduction target ahead of the next election.
She responded, "The only way we're going to get strong action on climate change is if we change the government. Full stop."
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"Some people say, 'Well, this happens all the time'. Well, it shouldn't happen, especially in the scale of millions and millions of dollars."
@andrewprobyn on the sports grants scandal and his report that applications were colour-coded based on which party held the seat.
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This is the moment that made @LaTrioli cry this morning ❤️
Marwa spoke no English when she moved to Australia from Afghanistan at age 9. Now she's top of her school in VCE English.
Read her story: ab.co/2R2urbA
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Former NSW fire chief Greg Mullins has lashed the Federal Government over its response since the bushfire royal commission.
"Disingenuous at best ... there's a lot of ducking and weaving ... they've just dumped this on the states and territories."
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Senior Australian of the Year, Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann AM:
"We've gone and done the hard yards in learning how to speak fluently your language and understand how you live ... it's about time you come and do the same with us. I say that in a welcoming way."
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Crowds mobbed him. Fans chanted his name. Hundreds waited at his hotel for autographs when he landed in Australia.
There was no hiding for @iamsrk — the man "who sells love to millions".
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The modelling of the federal government's plan to reach net zero by 2050 hasn't been released.
@AngusTaylorMP says there's no secrecy around the modelling. But cannot confirm when it will be released.
"The detail of the modelling will be released at an appropriate time."
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Angela Fredericks is a friend of the Tamil family whose daughter Tharnicaa may have septicaemia.
She said: "Public facilities on Christmas Island are equipped. It was the fact the actual staff within the detention facility didn't allow the family to go to those public services."
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.@mjrowland68: Do you have compassion for this Tamil family who have been detained for more than three years?
@karenandrewsmp: "I am a very compassionate person by nature. I will never walk away from that. But compassion takes many different forms."
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#AustraliaFires misinformation is being spread through social media.
An analysis of the hashtag #ArsonEmergency has found a third of accounts using it look like bots.
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Gideon Haigh says that Australian cricket players have the right to question where their governing body's money is being spent.
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A few words from the man of the hour…
Congratulations, @Tonaaayy_! #Logies2022 🎉
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"We have a Prime Minister who told people he would get them home by Christmas last year. He did not ... He should step up and take responsibility, instead of doing what he so often does, which is when the going gets tough, he goes missing."
- @SenatorWong on stranded Australians
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Hearings continue in the Robodebt royal commission this week.
Yesterday, it was told bureaucrats watered down language about the scheme's risks in a proposal to then-Minister Scott Morrison.
@SquigglyRick has been covering it closely and says he's never seen anything like it.
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Labor's Tony Burke has attacked the Coalition's policy on emissions reductions and climate change, saying "they need to act".
@Mad_Morris asked five times if he could put a figure on Labor's emissions reduction target.
"No. Our job is to hold them to account," he said.
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"They have spoken about gold standard in NSW. The truth is Victoria went through a tough time & NSW is going through a tough time now. We need as a national government to support people wherever they live."
@AlboMP on the war of words between the Victorian & Federal government.
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Epidemiologist @enenbee can't understand why there aren't more purpose-built quarantine facilities like Howard Springs.
"I can't think of a rationale for not trying to improve quarantine. If it's the money, how much money is it going to cost to shut down Melbourne for a week?"
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Woolworths will introduce a dedicated shopping hour for the elderly and people with disability.
From tomorrow until at least Friday, Woolies will open exclusively for the elderly and those with a disability to shop from 7am to 8am, where permitted.
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An emotional @AndrewConstance — local MP for Bega — reflects on the impact of the #nswfires.
"It's unfair. I met four RFS guys yesterday who lost their homes. Beautiful neighbours of mine lost their homes. It is tough. We will get it together."
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Labor's Penny Wong says Scott Morrison has "corroded" the Australia-US alliance by the way he approached his relationship with Donald Trump.
"He has put his political affinity with Mr Trump and his own political interests ahead of Australia's interests."
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"Something is not right here and we'll be asking questions."
@ChrisMinnsMP on former Deputy Premier John Barilaro's appointment as NSW trade commissioner to the US.
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"It looks a little bit like an exploding cigar."
@David_Speers says Scott Morrison's defence of the sports grants scheme is becoming untenable after new evidence at the Senate inquiry. #auspol
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"Even before the pandemic, our relationship with China wasn't straightforward ... So we do need to rethink our relationship."
- Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs @SenatorWong
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Steve Gelagotis is a paramedic in Melbourne. It took him eight months to get better after having COVID.
"Get vaccinated. If it's not for you, do it for your loved ones, because there are so many people that this virus can affect ... I wouldn't want to weigh up those odds."
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Victoria would be "completely nuts" to lift the mandatory masks rule, says @normanswan
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.@KKeneally responds to the Federal Government's announcement it will accept all recommendations from the Respect@Work report.
"There's no legislation, there's no funding attached, there's no reporting mechanism, the devil here is in the detail."
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Sometimes presenting is a team sport...
@SciNate @Tonaaayy_
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It is "inconceivable" the Prime Minister's Office didn’t know about Brittany Higgins' story and her complaints as soon as they happened, former PM @TurnbullMalcolm says.
Scott Morrison said his office only knew of the rape allegations late last week.
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It took a few phone calls and some door knocking but we found him...
The man himself, Logie winner @Tonaaayy_!
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"People are dying ... And all you can talk about is the money and fairytales of eternal economic growth."
Climate activist Greta Thunberg condemned world leaders in her UN speech today.
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PM @TurnbullMalcolm has questioned why some Sudanese kids have committed crimes.
“I could ask the same thing for white kids – why do they commit crimes? Why do we never talk about their race?” says lawyer @NyadolNyuon.
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England Beats Denmark to Reach Euro 2020 Final!!
@Tonaaayy_ is out celebrating with football fans in Melbourne @BreakfastNews
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"JobSeeker should be extended, JobKeeper should be extended. We shouldn't have Coalition ministers running around jabbering about the mutual obligation when there are no jobs."
- Shadow Minister for Govt Services @billshortenmp
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.@barriecassidy says the Government talks about rapists and murderers when discussing the #medevac bill, but hasn't been able to identify anyone on Manus Island or Nauru who has been convicted of those crimes.
"It reflects on all of them and it just seems to be unfair"
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"In this age of coronavirus, if you were caught by the police going down to the book shop to buy Malcolm's 677-page book, I think the police would fine you for a non-essential journey."
- Bill Shorten on Malcolm Turnbull's new book.
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.@mjrowland68: Does the buck stop with you as Prime Minister for the litany of aged care failures?
@ScottMorrisonMP: We regulate aged care, but when there is a public health pandemic ... then they are things that are managed from Victoria.
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Miriam Margolyes says former British PM David Cameron should be "boiled in oil" over #Brexit
"It is absolute nonsense. Piffle. I think it is going to go on for years."
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