It's all been bloody marvellous.
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Presenter of PM, ABC Radio. Lifetime Lance-Corporal in the Awkward Squad. In bookshops now from MUP: 'Light and Shadow, Memoirs of a Spy’s Son'
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Warning against self-righteousness. Turns out these kids were all actually using the Gallery’s educational app. twitter.com/ChrisGunness/s
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If they put this scene in a movie you’d accuse the director of laying it on too thick.
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Journalists should not be describing Ferdinand Marcos’ regime as ‘allegedly’ dictatorial or kleptocratic. This is historical fact.
Wonder how the Finance Department would react to extending this privilege to our servicemen and women?
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I dunno, Judith. How many died because you peddled lies about Saddam's WMD?
Thanks to all at the hospital who let me see my dear Chops today. Best medicine.
If you’re reading my book and want a soundtrack, try my massive Spotify playlist on shuffle
Why is this a story? I have it on excellent authority that Triggs has told Brandis TWICE she will not be reapplying when her term ends.
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#BREAKING Triggs will not have HRC contract renewed, says Turnbull bit.ly/2eYS6Te
This must spread. ": “: Wine department vandalism has to be my new hobby. http://t.co/lLze11G1if”
There's never a bad time to re-read Umberto Eco's great 1995 article on fascism: nybooks.com/articles/1995/
Steve Coogan & reenacting the moment David Bowie followed Rob on . #TheTripToSpain twitter.com/skyatlantic/st
The New Yorker's famous fact-checking and proof-reading system does occasionally go wrong.
Surely Centrelink's much vaunted data-matching programs could be used to reach a definitive judgment on Sussan Ley's entitlements?
Wanting a break from feeling miserable about Bowie, re-watched this (done with love by Bowie maniac ) youtu.be/FODvjYoVEi8
(Likes women so much he recently made it legal for men to beat up their wives)
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Today is International Women's Day. Congratulations from the President bit.ly/2m13thr
"It is literally painful to write this sentence, but the president of the United States is a pathological liar."
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This editorial in @SPIEGEL_English is jaw-dropping. It calls for a German-led international alliance against Trump. spiegel.de/international/
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My own adopted old gentleman. I wish he was allowed in hospital. I miss him a lot.
The real number to take away is not each candidate’s share, but that overall more than 3/4 of France voted ^against* the far right.
32 new Trump-branded companies registered in 10 countries since Election Day (inc 2 in Oz, 2 in NZ) via
It's 18 months tomorrow since gave me a kidney. We're both well, a year and a half on. Please support organ donation.
These lazy, talentless people would never have got anywhere without the tentacles of the Triple J power cabal:
"When did Brandis have advice that Day was not validly elected? What steps did he take to act on that advice? What accounts for any delay?"
Am I the only one disturbed that even the 'Grant Hackett comeback' pieces that mention rehab are studiously ignoring the domestic violence?
Oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them. Whoever wins tonight should remind themselves of that every single day. #qldvotes
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It bothers me that reporters refer to Alan Joyce as "openly gay". I don't see them write of John Borghetti that he's "openly straight"
Not sure the "concentration camp" analogy helps your cause here, commenter in The Australian.
This guy is political editor of Murdoch's massively pro-Leave The Sun.
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So; banks' capital reserves to be spent, deficit to go back up, AAA credit rating lost. Six years of economics reversed in 12 days #Brexit
The British public are trying (and succeeding) to have a £200 million boat named Boaty McBoatface. pic.twitter.com/Uh2CL1UvHj
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Until tonight I thought Abbott had months (maybe not 6, but months), to win the party back. Now I think he has weeks.
The Spanish Embassy in Australia has a message for Pauline Hanson:
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Muslims #swamped #Spain 7th century with top-notch irrigation systems, maths, philosophy, architecture, medicine...
Among many things, Bowie's career said "You can be whatever you want to be- and if you don't like your first choice, be something else."
The worst thing about the current #ABCTV promos: the woman who says "I am literally speechless". She speaks those words. With her voice.
Adjusting the "vertical/horizontal hold" on the TV. And the way the picture shrank to a tiny dot when you turned it off.
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Without revealing your actual age, what something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
Goodbye to my dear Jumble, who died peacefully in her sleep early this morning at the grand age of 14 ¾. http://t.co/OD7ygYCo3j
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What's your mental image of 'grains of sand'? Well, here's the reality, magnified 250 X: via
ICYMI in last RT: one of the prisoners on Manus risked his life interpreting for our troops in Afghanistan.,
When I want to interview someone on PM I always call them "vile" on Twitter before asking them to DM me about a nice constructive chat.
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Obama should resign a day early to make Biden the 45th President just to ruin all of Trump's merchandise
Greatest punctuation tweet of all time.
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CLINTON
To women: You can do anything
TRUMP
To women, you can do anything
Instead of uninformed rants about Islam, could we have a rational conversation about 'care in the community'? theage.com.au/victoria/bourk
I don’t even know where to start.
His name is ANDREW Colvin. And I’m a long-time hardline defender of journalists’ metadata privacy rights.
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Good luck with that, Pete.
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I knew scared lonely kids at boarding school who were bullied mercilessly for wetting the bed. Stop this now.
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'Bedwetter' enters Australian lexicon as political barb of choice amid federal election turmoil smh.com.au/federal-politi #ausvotes #bedwetter
Yes. But that word was "massacre".
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"I misspoke one word": Kellyanne Conway calls her critics "haters" after Bowling Green fiasco wapo.st/2jMPtep
ICYMI, this is really one of the most bizarre political/satirical interviews I've ever seen:
I started tweeting about & colleagues a year ago. Since then, average more than twice a day. I won’t stop till they’re free.
You don't get many of these experiences in a lifetime. Even a lifetime as weird as mine.
Open letter from NT abuse victim Dylan Voller thanking the Australian community and apologising.
Digging in the archives, found my 4 Corners from Iraq/Saudi/Israel/Jordan in Nov 90, before the FIRST Gulf War.
The complete list of all 57 false things Donald Trump has said as president thestar.com/news/world/201 via
If you're writing about Hughes: The family have let the ABC know they prefer him to be called Phillip rather than Phil.
Twitter zinger after Piers Morgan criticised Bradley Wiggins for not singing the national anthem. pic.twitter.com/fj8IJYjR
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Federal Govt schools 'Radicalisation Awareness Kit": the only case study under "violent extremism".
Genuine quote. He wrote it in the Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918:
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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president….” -Theodore Roosevelt
The q everyone wants answered: did Gleeson tell Brandis that Bob Day's election was invalid? twitter.com/BevanShields/s
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Can’t stop thinking about Jo Cox’s husband and her two little kids today:
The leaks coming out of the Trump White House cast the president as a clueless child
Happy New Year from Australia. Think I'll get some merch made up: t-shirts and mugs reading "I SURVIVED 2016."
No-one has Queensland anti-corruption credentials like Tony Fitzgerald. He’s just dropped the big one on Newman:
The people who want your metadata can't even use the data they have to work out whether Monis had a gun licence. mobile.news.com.au/national/tony-
It was the party slogan of the Hitler-loving Presidential hopeful Charles Lindbergh: twitter.com/mistertodd/sta
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No mate. You also have a duty to the truth.
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Piers Morgan: ‘I’m just putting opinions out there. It’s my job’ trib.al/Aedxjgk
My dog is sitting up and looking around in a panic with his ears pricked. Weird. I can't hear anything. twitter.com/corybernardi/s
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"If Bob Day was disqualified by a pecuniary benefit, when did it arise, and how long has he been sitting in breach of the Constitution?"
Just interviewed Clive James - our 4th conversation in 4 years. He seems well considering. Extract on PM tomorrow, special around Christmas.
Caroline Wilson's a tenacious journalist. If she covered anything but sport, would comments like Maguire's be tolerated for a second?
Best Oxford Commas omission ever: "encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector"
My book 'Light and Shadow, The Memoirs of a Spy’s Son', (pub: MUP) will be in bookshops in the last week of October.
I’ve said before: my biggest worry about Trump is not his politics, but his concentration & impulse control. This by
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Donald Trump is completely unequipped to handle the mundane daily crises of the presidency. That's truly frightening bit.ly/2fK1Hjc
