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    Bernard Keane‏Verified account @BernardKeane Jun 17

    Bernard Keane Retweeted Mitch Fifield

    I think you'll find it's your formal party policy to privatise the ABC, senator. Passed with a huge majority at your own conference.https://twitter.com/SenatorFifield/status/1008226125523267584 …

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    Mitch FifieldVerified account @SenatorFifield
    More Labor lies. We won't privatise the ABC. pic.twitter.com/zdGob1ahfE
    1:01 AM - 17 Jun 2018
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    27 replies 501 retweets 766 likes
      1. Colin James‏ @ColinJ3614 Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane @ItsBouquet

        Hey Mitch. Time for another complaint, eh? Them lefties at the ABC telling more Labor lies that the Libs want to sell the public broadcaster. And all because your national conference voted overwhelmingly in favour of doing so. Clearly fake news, just like "no cuts to the ABC".

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      2. Brian Mitchell MP‏Verified account @BrianMitchellMP Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        Which no Liberal MP nor Senator spoke against.

        1 reply 6 retweets 16 likes
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      1. Vince Mahon‏ @vjmahon Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        Expect Fifield to complain to ABC it reporting motion passed at Liberal Federal Council Mtg. #auspol #ABC

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      2. FlossyBach‏ @FlossyBach Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        They won’t privatise the ABC atm because it isn’t politically expedient.... but this is their long term vision. Australia be alert, be aware, be very afraid.

        3 replies 6 retweets 9 likes
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      1. Janice Aileen Martin‏ @janice_martin5 Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane @PetraAu

        This lying Lib has a forked tongue and is lower than a snakes belly! To keep accusing Labor of lying when they unanimously agreed to this at Liberal meeting beggars belief!!!

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      2. Ricardo‏ @richardlove207 Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        @SenatorFifield Hey Mitch, how come you didn’t speak against the motion during the "debate"? Did anyone else in the Government speak against it? Or did your IPA masters tell you how to vote?

        1 reply 3 retweets 12 likes
      3. Susan Israel‏ @bondi_izzy Jun 17
        Replying to @richardlove207 @BernardKeane @SenatorFifield

        I heard that there was no speech in opposition at all to the motion by the 'wet behind the ears' Young Liberal. Correct me if it was incorrectly reported. #ABCSellOff #LiberalPartyConference

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      1. Alex Hempel‏ @rainynight65 Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane @verbaliza

        Wasn’t it a unanimous majority? Or was it just a case of not a single conference attendant, including the Prime Minister and the Treasurer, finding the courage to speak up against this party policy? #auspol

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      1. Tao de Haas‏ @TaodeHaas Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane @robcorr

        Pfew! Thanks for that, I thought I was hallucinating

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      1. Trissy‏ @trissy_tweet Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        Please take your factual statements out of their political space, they don’t belong there.

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      1. Evangelical Atheist‏ @IxatDnats Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        There will have to be an AFP raid on someone with fictitious kitchen implements next week, to get this off the front pages.

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      2. Dr Tom Chamberlain‏ @tomchamber74 Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        Huge majority sounds like the number of Australians who don't watch the ABC and shouldn't have to fund it.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3.  🌈Liz Baillie  🌈‏ @liz_baillie Jun 17
        Replying to @tomchamber74 @BernardKeane

        By that “logic” the vast majority of people shouldn’t pay for schools, hospitals, prisons, roads they don’t drive on or no? See how silly your “point” is? 🙄

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Exterminate!‏ @RojBlake07 Jun 17
        Replying to @liz_baillie @BernardKeane

        Or defence force, police force or emergency services. Privatise the lot, waste of tax payers money

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Dr Tom Chamberlain‏ @tomchamber74 Jun 17
        Replying to @RojBlake07 @liz_baillie @BernardKeane

        They are essential services. The vast amount of what the national broadcaster is not

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      6. Exterminate!‏ @RojBlake07 Jun 18
        Replying to @tomchamber74 @liz_baillie @BernardKeane

        No, they are sacred cows the vast majority never rely on on a regular basis and so by IPA guide lines need privatisation to introduce efficiency and ease the burden on the budget bottom line

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      1. John Alldis‏ @lordjohnalldis1 Jun 17
        Replying to @BernardKeane @MrDenmore

        #LIBFAILpic.twitter.com/a3Moj95Iqf

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