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    The Australian‏Verified account @australian Nov 11

    Yes, John Howard came back from worse positions than the PM finds himself now, writes @vanOnselenP. But he wasn’t trying to put lipstick on a pig https://trib.al/WwowWWu  #auspol

    5:06 PM - 11 Nov 2018
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    • bertiesmum Angie Adamson Paschal Flynn Carolyn Gilholme Au Pairs Pomme de Terre Lea Melanie McBeth Australian News Peter Lalor
    29 replies 23 retweets 101 likes
      1. Intercultural‏ @justin95652251 Nov 11
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        howard came back by lying about children overboard and his inhumane response to tampa, howard was an evil racist pig and this scum pm is even worse... i would not put anything beyond this moral vaccum #auspol #lnpfail #johnhoward

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      1. Ozesurfer‏ @Ozesurfer Nov 11
        Replying to @australian @alyxei1 @vanOnselenP

        Speaking of pigs...#SloMopic.twitter.com/uE32g2hseF

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      2. Greg‏ @Greg98255052 Nov 11
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        No one's trying to put lipstick on Bill Shorten, and Sarah Hanson Young, Adam Bandt and Di Natale, are all into putting on their own lipstick.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Lifetimeban‏ @Lifetimeban99 Nov 11
        Replying to @Greg98255052 @australian @vanOnselenP

        That's a perfect last stand tweet from a righty desperately trying to ignore the decade of Labor starting next year

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Greg‏ @Greg98255052 Nov 12
        Replying to @Lifetimeban99 @australian @vanOnselenP

        😂😂😂😂😂👎

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      5. Lifetimeban‏ @Lifetimeban99 Nov 12
        Replying to @Greg98255052 @australian @vanOnselenP

        🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑😂

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      6. Greg‏ @Greg98255052 Nov 12
        Replying to @Lifetimeban99 @australian @vanOnselenP

        Take me to your leader 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/QeRT66trWj

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      7. Lifetimeban‏ @Lifetimeban99 Nov 12
        Replying to @Greg98255052 @australian @vanOnselenP

        You can make that your screen saver when he is your PM next year 😂😂😂

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      1. Prue Blackmore‏ @PruesSoapbox Nov 11
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        Yes he was. He was just better at it.

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      1. Mick Minion  🍷‏ @169lunar Nov 11
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        You can not polish a turd

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      1. Rich Gregory‏ @gegsy1 Nov 12
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        Do keep publishing this gibber's tripe...and watch your readership dwindle in the manner of #Fairfax

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      1. Jackie‏ @jaquix173 Nov 11
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        Shame Peter @vanOnselenP writes for The Australian seeing so many won't pay one cent to Murdoch machine.

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      1. Lifetimeban‏ @Lifetimeban99 Nov 11
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        Morrison is on the bottom of the ocean 100 years after the titanic sunk at the wheel ready to avoid the ice berg

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      1. Vince‏ @Vince34359049 Nov 11
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        Lipstick on a dead pig..

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      1. autumntrain‏ @autumntrain1 Nov 11
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        Lipstick on a Pig is the leftist-liberal propaganda constantly coming from Professor of Creative Thinking. Dressed as an opinion

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      1. margo69‏ @margo694 Nov 11
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        pic.twitter.com/he5tsF6zbs

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      1. Stavroski‏ @alias_burgerboy Nov 12
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        Yes, but not in six months, and definitely not the six months before he lost his seat.

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      1. Nathan Cole‏ @NathanhyperBole Nov 12
        Replying to @australian @plalor @vanOnselenP

        Didnt he need the falsified children overboard bullshit to get over the line though?

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      1. Robin schneider‏ @Robinsc75523403 Nov 11
        Replying to @australian @vanOnselenP

        Youve gotta be kidding ? Did peter actually call prime minister Morrison “ a pig “ ? Seriously ....

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