At some point I suppose we will have to reckon with how a lot of highly credentialed experts jumped all over an outbreak of Legionnaire's in Argentina to stir up fear clout.
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A plough, grapevines, beehives (?) and a pick and shovel. Fascinating. I knew Balwyn was a big winery area.
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Hello. All of the actors from Friends are now older than the youngest Golden Girl was in that show’s first season. Have a nice day.
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Gosh.
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To be fair this will cost the Tories a lot more of their vote base than just poor people dying
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Create what you want but don’t pretend to consult with members of the affected community and then ignore them.
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Healthcare dads are used to caring for others, but today on Father’s Day, we are focusing on them! While Father's Day means something different for us all, today we’re saying a big thank you to our RCH dads and wish fathers everywhere a special day.
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What an arrogant fool the artist is | 'Utterly offensive': Australia's Ukrainian community furious over mural of Russian soldier embrace
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there's a tweet for everything
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Scott Morrison wants people who’ve lost work to live on just $40 a day. That won’t help them get a job. It’ll force them into poverty.
Labor wants a permanent increase to JobSeeker payments, so Australians who are out of work can live with dignity.
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> never a comfortable position to find oneself in.
And yet you wrote an entire opinion piece about how you agree with his views.
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Hmmmm. Thanks, I guess.
Happy Father’s Day to all the dad’s with daughters who have little respect for authority.
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Catching up on and a fascinating description of what happens when a new PM crosses the threshold at No 10 from a former chief cabinet secretary who’s done the briefing.
They would have been working every hour on pandemic management, not taking your calls. This seems a fairly basic test, aside from not correcting you if you referred to them as “world’s greatest expert”. No one with serious rigour would let that stand.
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With some of the more questionable ‘experts’ a 🚩 should have been “Why is this person (if truly the world’s greatest expert in X) consistently available to Australian media?”. ‘Cause it’s pretty clear if they had time to regularly be on Melbourne radio they weren’t that good.
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One of the most loathsome varieties of grifter are the well paid spinners who pretend to care about people who are disadvantaged while at the same time vigorously arguing the political case for them to stay that way.
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Fist bump to fellow single parents today who fill the roles of Mum & Dad xx
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From March
“Deputy Premier James Merlino was warned in 2016 about serious staff shortages at the state’s triple-zero call agency, more than five years before an explosion of call delays was linked to the deaths of 12 people.”
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Find it hard to reconcile that (on various tv and radio programs) gave this guy such a high profile coverage. It was pretty clear early on that it was unwise.
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The irony of one of the biggest peddlers of misinformation and hysteria complaining about this is off the charts. Eric - do shut up you ridiculous little man twitter.com/DrEricDing/sta…
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Everything about this is devastating. I feel so much for the families but also the call takers and first responders. How helpless they must often have felt.
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Price is a prime example of the snarling mediocrity that is is the mark of modern Australian media. He also illustrates very well how Donald Horne's second rate men long left these shores and the sixth raters now run the place.
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Happy Father's Day to all the fathers and father figures out there. 🤎💛
Hope to see you all at the game today! 🤩
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“ESTA missed opportunities to recruit and deploy additional emergency ambulance call-takers during the pandemic, particularly in 2020. This was for several reasons, one of which is related to the existing funding model to which ESTA is subject.”
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Happy Father’s Day, Our tradition waffles with Ice cream (Salted Caramel and Brownie) and maple syrup.
My 3rd Father’s Day and first not in lockdown
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Think Jeff Kennett centralised power? Dan Andrews takes the cake
Father's Day is rough for a lot of people - thinking of everyone who's grappling with it.
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Don’t mean to brag, but I’m the funniest person my son knows, and he knows literally dozens of people
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My dad is an electrician in a zoo and look how he spent his morning I'm crying
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Gold Coast couple's 40-year quest to restore a banana farm to pristine rainforest habitat abc.net.au/news/2022-09-0 via
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RIP boiling water. You will be mist.
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Not clicking. I’m begging middle aged white women to stop this.
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And of course, but not before the usual doom-mongerers had already made a prediction that we were facing SARS-CoV-3.
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Turns out the mystery pneumonia in Argentina is Legionella after all. Interesting that it wasn’t detected by preliminary tests—but there are lots of Legionella out there.
In any case, nothing to rend garments in preparation for the end times about. eltucumano.com/noticia/actual
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“Why didn’t Joe Biden unify us??”
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The Mister was unaware of the DiCaprio Girlfriend Age Graph and obviously we must now divorce as how can I stay wed to someone so ignorant of Core Knowledge? 😭
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Camera phones have robbed us of the art form known as "Using up the roll of film by taking a picture of Dad in the lounge."
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Australian artist Meredith Woolnough's embroidered artworks are based on natural forms.
Find out more about her fantastic work, among many more artists, in the book! #UnravellingWomensArt
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An extremely distressing read about neglect in a group disability home.
