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Johnny Boy
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Throwing roses into a canyon and waiting for the echo 🌹 Living in the community-liberated electorate of Kooyong, where the election happened with us,not to us.
Republic of AustraliaJoined August 2010
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Johnny Boy
@GeeForce77
Current vision was being shown on a Wang monitor in that #insiders intro. I think Wang ceased production about 20 years ago. Perhaps the ABC budget is tighter than we realise.
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@GeeForce77
What the Jobs & Skills Summit achieved, via cooperation & respect, is expand the window of common ground that can be built on over the next three years and beyond. #insiders
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Bob Carr
@bobjcarr
Take it from me: the Governor General’s role in getting $18m from Morrison for a charity without a record, office or program and no competitive bid is set to be the most controversial vice regal indulgence since Kerr’s dismissal of Whitlam.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Inside Morrison’s secretive $18m leadership grant
Pressure is mounting to investigate a special grant to fund a leadership program pitched to Scott Morrison by Governor-General David Hurley.
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NickdMiller
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I remember Gorbachev speaking at a weird 'world masters of business' conference in Perth in 1999. He transcended the event, dignified and proud. He spoke about leadership and said the key to success was knowledge.
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@GeeForce77
The major feeling after 100 days of
@AlboMP
Government is one of relief. Relief that there is a real desire to achieve consensus. Relief that the adults are back in charge. #abc730
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Media Analyst
@MediaAnalystOz
Latika Bourke has hosted a talk with Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie at a far-right group in London Henry Jackson Society's founder quit & calls it "a far-right propaganda outfit to smear other cultures, religions and ethnic groups" Why is an SMH journo doing any of this?
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Rohan was the urban equivalent to Bruce the horseridding postie. A postie in the Thornbury area until last year, Rohan refused to deliver mail on anything other than his non-electric postie bicycle.
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Bruce was still delivering the mail on horseback until 1985! Story has a link to film of him by Leyland Brothers. Archive heaven. Australia's last mounted postie Bruce Dennis farewelled by historic town of Gundagai abc.net.au/news/2022-08-2 via @ABCaustralia
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Michelle
@LivingBlueTX
The right is prepping for civil war. I’d report them all to the
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, but I literally don’t have time to sit report the hundreds of videos like this I’m seeing on my alt tiktok. (And they didn’t check Twitter.) so here’s a 🧵/1
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jon faine
@FaineJon
Fran Bailey sacked Scott Morrison when he was boss of Tourism Australia because she discovered she could not trust him. Now, 16 years later, she breaks her silence. ‘I was gobsmacked when he became prime minister’
theage.com.au
‘I was gobsmacked when he became prime minister’
Former Howard government tourism minister Fran Bailey, who forced out Scott Morrison as head of Tourism Australia, said his prime ministership was “a tragedy for our nation”.
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Dan Ziffer
@danziffer
#Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has told a foreign news service the airline received "very little government support" during COVID, perhaps briefly forgetting the billions of dollars that taxpayers have poured into the airline in recent years. #auspol
cnbc.com
Qantas CEO blames 'little government support' and Covid for lagging some of its peers
Australia's national carrier posted its third consecutive year of losses before tax of $1.19 billion Australian dollars.
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Brent Hodgson
@BrentHodgson
Isn’t the takeover of major party brands by radicals and ideologues a bigger threat than the election of independents who reflect the views and values of their communities? Is the Pentecostal and hyperconservative takeover of the Liberal Party not empowering “the fringes”?
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Yasmin Rafiei
@YasminRafiei
Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in
@NewYorker
newyorker.com
When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home
After an investment firm bought St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, in Richmond, Virginia, the company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of COVID-19.
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Johnny Boy
@GeeForce77
No, nothing like the Hawke summit. Different economy, different power bases. Then the power was with the workers & wages were in strong growth. #abc730
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Russian retaliation after she said joining NATO was a possibility? “Image was taken beside Sanna Marin’s desk … where she is often filmed making official Government announcements.“ “The sign normally sits on Ms Marin’s desk when she takes part in international video conferences“
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Finnish PM Sanna Marin sorry for topless guest photo at official residence bbc.in/3R00rZH
Johnny Boy
@GeeForce77
I have re-subscribed to Crikey after letting it lapse a few years ago because “It's a simple fact that the Murdoch family, via Fox News, helped create the conditions for the January 6 insurrection in the United States. And it's important to say it.”#auspol
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keith greening
@GreeningKeith
So to update; Crikey reports that Age and SMH refused their open letter to the Murdoch’s but so far have refused to give any reason. This from rags that accepted election advertising from Clive Palmer. Dump the Costello press in the same bin as the Murdoch rags.
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Replying to @instanterudite @crikey_news and 4 others
Did they refuse? If that’s a fact it needs more publicity - somehow. Let’s start here. I smell more cancelled subscriptions.
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Anthony Klan
@Anthony_Klan
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨The Commonwealth Ombudsman has called for a "review" of every senior Federal appointment under Scott Morrison over concerns key officials have been illegally appointed to multiple jobs. Secret report says hundreds of top brass must be audited.
theklaxon.com.au
Hundreds of ex-PM appointments must be “reviewed”: Ombudsman — The Klaxon
The Commonwealth Ombudsman has called for a review of hundreds of Prime Minister and Cabinet appointments over concerns key officials have been illegally appointed to multiple jobs.
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