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the smh has depicted us as a virus today. This directly reflects the genocidal tradition of depicting target populations as a disease (or vermin).
ALT a 3-circle Venn diagram, blue green and yellow. Circles are labelled anti zionist, antisemitic and pro Palestine. The central intersecting circle is drawn as a green covid cell, it looks just like the covid emoji.
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nothing says election wipeout panic like a Coalition government announcing they will restore a bit of funding to the ABC.
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Professor Nancy Baxter on ABC radio PM program not mincing words. This is rationing, she says, about eleventy times. We are rationing PCR tests. Rationing due to lack of sufficient tests is what is going on here, she says, over and over again.
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Women do not earn less than men. Women are paid less than men. The reason is sexism. Stop asking
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the AEC says there were 19 verified cases of double voting out of 15 million voters last federal election (0.000013%).
Now do the number of voters who will be disenfranchised by the Coalition of its voter ID bill passes.
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hearing that prime minister Scott Morrison has announced he is going to his place of work to do his job. Huge if true.
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screenshots of Professor Peter van Onselen unravelling inside a locked twitter account are some of the nastiest things I have ever seen.
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“Stop hoarding. Stop it.”
“Children should go to school tomorrow. That’s it.”
I just want to say, as someone who has singlehandedly raised three kids to adulthood, being addressed like this by Scott Morrison - and told by journalists it is leadership - is insulting and offensive.
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it is quite surreal watching murdoch columnists running a case for the defence while bitching and moaning about trial by media.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this other than the entire Canberra press gallery but giving public money to business while cutting income support payments is garden variety neoliberalism. Also tax cuts are not stimulus.
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in possibly the greatest moment ever on #TheDrum, asked about his OAM supposedly for services to Indigenous communities, mighty Amy McQuire smiles sweetly to camera and says “Tony Abbott I think you should give it back because you don’t deserve it”.
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hey remember that time humanitarians organised a flotilla to deliver essential supplies to Gaza and Israeli military forced their way on board and murdered nine civilians.
Joint statement from the governments of the United States, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
pm.gov.au/media/joint-statem…
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a few journos at this Berejiklian government press conference are pretty confident of their sources on Hazzard granting exemptions to rich people and Berejiklian refusing to disclose information about wealthy incoming travellers.
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these are two of the best speeches I have seen. Remember to brace for the backlash #NPC
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my theory: those cops who kettled and attacked protestors at Central station in Sydney were 1/ pissed off that the rally was authorised; and 2/ giving politicians and media what they want.
The event was entirely peaceful and covidsafe™️ but tories must have their narrative.
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Kathryn Greiner is on ABC radio arguing against payrises for frontline health workers because it will just be swallowed up by inflation and spruiking a private meditech company that she chairs as an alternative. To payrises. For HCWs.
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the tragedy of a young mum of three dying at home in western Sydney has not slowed Berejiklian down from her comms for a second.
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I slept in and just turned on #Insiders and fmd this interview is like a distillation of press gallery bias. Will you spend more? What will it cost? People are suffering! Taxes! Fix everything! “Will you let bracket creep do the work for you” omfg the Liberal mindset.
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Morrison government finance minister is on ABC News24 whining that the federal Opposition is making promises in marginal seats😂😂
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[CW] just heard an audio grab of NSW Premier Chris Minns saying the <only thing> they can think of that led to youth suicide rates going back up since the 1990s after a long term decline is the rising use of social media. The only mass harm. They can think of. Is social media.
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imagine pretending a decision to resign from cabinet for the purpose of protecting wealthy donors’ anonymity is anything other than rank self-interest.
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the single greatest threat of violence to wives and daughters are husbands and fathers.
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I am not tweeting the shitshow this morning #Insiders but can report that a bunch of whites are sitting around legitimising and amplifying the coalition campaign strategy which is racism.
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Scott Morrison supports Craig Kelly spreading disinformation on facebook because using facebook to spread disinformation was an essential component of his 2019 election campaign strategy.
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“the Nationals are calling for a national energy summit” omfg lmao the shamelessness of it.
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so Berejiklian has announced millions for tutoring in public schools, presumably via private sector providers. Has she considered FUNDING PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO TEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS????
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is he seriously at the fucking football? And do we once again expect him to resurface on Monday morning with some bullshit bone to throw at the Canberra press gallery via a racist radio station? During a global pandemic?
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so David the #RobodebtRC report drops today? Speers: yes everybody in this building - he means Parliament House - politicians and journalists and staffers - is bracing for the report.
This is why Speers is so shit. He always prioritises himself and his mates. Never the public.
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reminder that Menzies abandoned the country during WWII and was sacked from his party and then from government. These facts are literally constitutive of the Liberal Party.
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hilariously flakey account of Francesca Albanese at the #NPC from Worthington on ABC radio this arvo. He thinks statements of legal fact are “taking a swipe” and impugning the entire nation, it would seem. This is how they talk, and think, in the press gallery.
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RBTU barrister demanded “metadata to discover when the risk assessment was produced” [within an hour] lawyers for the government wrote to advise the FWC applications would be withdrawn (RBTU FB page):
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surely they know the EV charging stations announcement is about spending our money in targeted seats. To buy votes for Coalition candidates. And that their job is to chase down the spreadsheet.
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sounds like the first election victory speech in this country to open with an acknowledgement, which is of unceded Kaurna country, of elders past and present, and a statement of commitment to Voice Treaty Truth✊🏼
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The Australian prime minister has called a press conference to talk about the New Zealand volcano eruption. JUST. LET. THAT. SINK. IN.
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the Japanese prime minister has cancelled a trip to Australia? Morrison says it is because they are dealing with the “exact same challenges” we are, a lie.
They do not have a terminally lazy leader who has chosen to prioritise pandemic politics for two years.
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so a full 12 hours later, Sydney Trains CEO Matt Longland announces that he is taking full responsibility for his decision to shut the Sydney rail network down today. Slow clap Bevan.
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Morrison government minister Keith Pitt on RN confirming Morrison government climate policy is to expand coal extraction and increase emissions - and that Coalition campaign strategy is to lie about Coalition economic management and lie about opposition policy.
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it is not possible to reform targeted assassination of humanitarian workers. Hope that helps.
Australia is pressing Israel to reform its coordination with humanitarian organisations to protect civilians and aid workers, following Special Adviser ACM Mark Binskin’s report on the deaths of Zomi Frankcom and her World Central Kitchen colleagues.
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someone please explain to journalists that beyond reasonable doubt is a criminal standard. This is a civil matter that Lehrmann brought on himself.
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these blokes are chuckling about a Coalition government policy that caused mass trauma and mental health conditions, including fatalities.
#Insiders host @David_Speers speaks to #AfternoonBriefing host Greg Jennett about the Government’s announcement of a Royal Commission into the unlawful debt recovery scheme known as “Robodebt” #auspol
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gonna keep a thread of bad rona takes that I notice on repeat rotation.
1. The US/UK have been “hard hit by the virus” rather than “spectacularly badly managed by terrible and racist men who hate public health care, manual workers, all poor people”.
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parents tell me they are worried about what age their kids will be stranded on an uninhabitable planet.
Parents tell me they’re worried about what age their kids should be on social media.
We’ll introduce legislation in this term of Parliament to enforce a minimum age for social media and other digital platforms.
It's about supporting parents and keeping kids safe.
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This. Is. Who. They. Are. Not one public dollar may ever be directly spent on the public good. Never. Every public dollar must be channeled through profit seeking mates. Every dollar, every time. Liberal Party ideology. This is who they are.
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polling shows respondents rate Scott Morrison least popular and worst performing leader in the country by a very significant margin (yes they buried the lede) - ABC News.
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incredible* that Liberal Party politicians are inventing tax policies, attributing the tax policy they invented to their political opponents, and political journalists are interrogating Labor politicians over a tax policy invented by Liberal Party politicians. Sounds familiar.
This is why some think @PatsKarvelas is a Liberal Party biased commentator . And who could blame them #auspol
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we pay Scott Morrison $550K a year to watch him learn the limits of “because I said so”, which has never worked, as a way to manage human beings.
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god this makes me so angry. She chose not to put harsher restrictions on the eastern suburbs LGAs a month ago for party political reasons. And as for Morrison, Coorey, all the utterly non-essential securely-employed snobs and bogans in their big houses who backed her up.
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Morrison just repeated his really terrible suggestion to donate toys to firefighters. Do NOT BURDEN FIRE OR ANY ESSENTIAL SERVICES WITH TOYS. THEY ARE BUSY. HE KNOWS NOT WHAT HE SAYS.
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the contrast between hearing an unmediated Labor leader delivering a speech grounded in policy with the partisan cut and paste butchery we are served up by corporate media is incredibly stark.
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if you’re wondering whether Morrison would bully Berejiklian into falsifying Covid figures for political gain, have a look at his record on bullying his way into the PMO and falsifying future budget figures for political gain.
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the court is being shown footage of Israeli soldiers singing and dancing and it is somehow worse than when you see these clips for the first time on the TL.
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2 Jan: Scott Morrison claims his government did not order RATs because it would divert supply from the private market.
11 Jan: Morrison government places bulk RAT orders.
20 Jan: Scott Morrison denies that government bulk order is diverting supply from the private market.
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so far this morning the ABC has referred to Distinguished Professor Marcia Langton as a Yes “activist” and Warren Mundine as a No “campaign leader”. They can not even listen to themselves.
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apparently not one of his four wealthy institutional high salary-paying prestigious title-endowing employers - nor family, colleagues, relevant professional media or academic associations - can see how urgently an intervention is needed here.
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time for journos to track down what we are paying per unit for Morrison government bulk RAT orders.
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the role of the press gallery in enabling #Robodebt cannot be overstated. Every day for years they uncritically amplified whatever Morrison said, repeated Liberal Party economic management lies, and openly admired his endless campaigning.
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are murdoch politics editor Samantha Maiden, 9fax politics editor Peter Hartcher, and ABC politics editor Andrew Probyn. It is an unnecessary and indulgent 90 minute show with two interviews.
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“somehow they fell across the line” - asked about the nonsense Hughes and Birmingham were spouting yesterday, this is how Phil Coorey described Labor winning the same number of lower house seats as all the Coalition parties won in 2019.
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looks like the press are not going to devote a news cycle or three to expressing their deep concern and sympathy for a woman who is traumatised by Morrison politicising her father’s funeral.
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this is getting ridiculous. The women who disclosed how Dyson Heydon treated them are not “alleged victims” suing for compensation. They are women, adult citizens, bringing a civil suit. Employ some semi-literate media lawyers ffs.
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Israel is “attacked” and Gazans “experience conditions”. This is the ABC executive demonstrating bias, not refuting it.
ALT quote from ABC boss: it is possible for the ABC to accurately describe the shocking attacks in Israel while also providing coverage of the shocking conditions being experienced by civilians in Gaza…”
ALT msn headline “ABC managing director David Anderson defends broadcaster’s Israel - Gaza war coverage” (12 hours ago)
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pretty funny watching press gallery journalists getting schooled on the nasty character who leads the Liberal Party by [checks notes] Liberal Party politicians.
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I see Scott Morrison and his remaining factional allies are telling anyone who will listen that his endemic dishonesty is a Labor Party campaign strategy. Why the press gallery obediently broadcast this utter bullshit I will never understand.
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i can not see the point of this interview, other than to elevate failed Coalition ideology and give airtime for cheap shots at the incoming government - on the public broadcaster. #Insiders
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hearing that decisions made by NSW and federal Liberal Party politicians are starting to impact on the Liberal Party base.
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renewables. TAFE. Rejects scare campaigns. Cheaper childcare. Affordable housing. Aged care. NBN. Wages and job security. Medicare. Actual costed policies. This should be no contest. The only thing keeping the Coalition in the race is legacy media.
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the Liberals mate. Look at them. What an absolute fucking disgrace they are to themselves, their families, to the whole nation.
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asked about the #Robodebt victim’s testimony that $11K was taken from her bank account, Morrison mate Stuart Robert says he does not believe debt collectors have the power to do that. In other words, he claimed she was lying to the Commission.
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the premier called the lock down. Casually employed foreigners do not get to lock down a state ffs.
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unemployed politician on publicly-funded million dollar dream job campaign lies on his CV.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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this Morrison campaign stop in Queensland is an interesting pitch. His government will leave overseas testing to Qantas, will leave international students to universities, will leave quarantine to the states, and has no timeline on vaccines or re-opening international borders.
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nice of the press to all respect anonymity given to Border Force Officer O whose actions led directly to known deaths from Covid19.
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welp. Sounds like Albanese has decided to call out press gallery journalists whose working frame is to repeat Coalition talking points daily.
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hey remember that time Dominic Perrottet spent money from the injured workers fund ICare on evangelical American staffers for his office.
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flood and fire affected communities, anyone who has tried to use mygov, independent politicians, researchers, and journalists: the money is not flowing. People can not get it.
press gallery: Scott Morrison says money is being spent, Scott Morrison announced these billions.
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they did not drop truckloads of cash for daily wraparound ads at nine newspapers throughout the campaign tho did they James.
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every single bit of media coverage on this re-announcement by the Morrisons is free campaign advertising for the Liberal Party. Every column inch. Every second of airtime. All of it. Clowns.
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short thread on two days in the life of two men who meritocracy mythology tells us are, by definition, the apex of Liberal and National Party talent and *hard work* lmao two men who are breathlessly promoted by press gallery journalists as master political campaigners.
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“send children to school”!
“don’t line up at centrelink”!
give squillions to business and the financial system; delay relief to unemployed people; and deny relief to pensioners.
And then cancel parliament. This is not “mixed messages”. It is terrible, hateful politics.
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in case #Insiders forgets to devote as much time to catastrophic failures by the NSW government as it did to a speech by the Queensland premier last week, a brief overview: Berejiklian has lost control of the people in eastern Sydney and of the virus in western Sydney.
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god the stench. Shredded documents recovered by forensic data search show Berejiklian approved $252 million handouts of our money to wealthy seats. That is, the seats that directly correspond with NSW Liberal Party HQ election campaign strategy.
abc.net.au/news/2020-11-26/n…
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Australia cancels visas on Gazans in Egypt as they attempt to board flights. They can not stay in Egypt. They can not go home. We are literally creating statelessness in real time. Another violation of internal law (Convention Prevent Statelessness). sbs.com.au/news/article/gaza…
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I see Morrison has decided to use unemployed people for his Porter distraction announcement. What a fucking unit.
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Craig Foster is on RN explaining that he has brought forward his exit from Aust Republican Movement co-chair TO SPEAK OUT MORE AGAINST THE GENOCIDE ISRAEL IS COMMITTING AGAINST PALESTINIANS.
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we are over here talking about childcare, poverty, patriarchy, reproductive autonomy, womens collective rights. Weird that you can’t hear us.
Lots of criticism of Peta Credlin & @sam_armytage today. Wondering why feminists have gone extremely quiet. #covid19australia 🤔🥺
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yet the journalist who agreed to trash their profession by putting a boat dixer to Morrison on Election Day is never named in these stories.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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the Governor-General, his official Secretary, two Finance ministers, and millions of public dollars to create a safe space for failed second sons of the bunyip aristocracy.
thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2…
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hey remember when the entire press gallery campaigned for Scott Morrison by parroting lies about coalition economic management while he ran up a trillion dollar debt and legislated tax cuts for the rich.
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Why has he taken everything out of the cupboards to line the kitchen bench? Shouldn't the milk be in the fridge? Doesn't he know how expensive it is to buy Vegemite in small jars? WHY DID HE BUY THE SMALL VEGEMITE THE BIG JAR IS FULL
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failed Liberal Party candidate Louise Clegg - whose family have received hundreds of millions of public dollars including when her husband was in the federal cabinet - is back on the ABC pushing her political barrow and billed merely as “a barrister”.
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could it be any more obvious that he is just lazing around the Lodge watching the Lympics and his polling numbers.
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I have not seen any mainstream articles that include the life-saving unpaid work done by Asher and other #NotMyDebt volunteers. I have not even seen mention of Victoria Legal Aid and Dianna Amato in any major outlets. Bevan, bless ‘im, chose to lead with Morrison’s denials.
any written history of #robodebt that doesn’t mention @Asher_Wolf’s tireless work is missing a vital part of the story.
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Nobody developed anxiety because Scott Morrison went holidaying in Hawaii. Not one person. It didn’t happen, anywhere. He is lying. To amplify this obvious lie is to be 1/ hopelessly bad at reading the public mood; or 2/ willing to disseminate Morrison government propaganda.
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anyone in any doubt that former CMO and current Health Dept chief Brendan Murphy is also a political operative, just head over to where Rick Moreton is live tweeting the aged care investigation.
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