Former Australian PM Paul Keating describes Tory leadership hopeful and current
Foreign Secretary as
'demented'.
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And imagine how much higher the death toll would have been (eg Bataclan) if they had guns.
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Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!
PM speaking from The Lodge on 2GB:
'Like everyone who comes back [from overseas] you do your 2 weeks quarantine.'
(PM and Cabinet members do their quarantine at home, regular Australians do theirs in mandatory hotel detention under guard at a cost of $3k).
'It was not clear whether the artist had attended the auction in person to deliver the coup de grâce to his work.' Epic from Banksy! ft.com/content/1c748f |
Good thing you don't have anything more pressing to do, like fill your Cabinet.
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Rockstar welcome for the re-endorsed PM.
There's a common thread here though - elites who think rules don't apply to them, partly because they've spent so long successfully getting away with it.
Significant shift in gear from Singapore.
'...instead of monitoring Covid-19 infection numbers every day, we will focus on the outcomes: how many fall very sick, how many in the intensive care unit...This is like how we now monitor influenza.'
Totally bizarre that neither PM sought to make more mileage out of this but the British company Octopus Group just announced a $50 billion partnership with Indigenous communities in northern Australia to create a massive renewable energy greenfield.
EXCLUSIVE. Concerns raised about Boris Johnson's Chief of Staff Dominic Cummings and his access to Five Eyes intelligence after allegations raised about relationships he forged with key Russians. From me 👇
Labor's @KKeneally has lost every time she's faced the people.
* As NSW Premier in 2011.
* As the candidate for Bennelong in the 2017 beyelection
* And finally last night when she took a safe Labor seat, short-changing a local candidate, and turned it independent.
#ausvotes
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Boris Johnson - the London Bridge attacker 'should have been in prison.' #Marr 'But under the Conservatives, he was let out.'
Aussie bushfires big news in UK. Starting to get messages from Conservative pals 'it's embarrassing how far behind Australia is on climate change.'
Yes the grabbing her hand bit. WHAT is that even?! twitter.com/doc_ryan/statu
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This is good.
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The outrageous part of this is that when we ask the Govt / Border Force about VIPS (eg Abbott) getting exemptions etc they have said they can't discuss individual cases.
Yet is able to use the office of PM and parlt to falsely claim Rudd had travelled.
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Morrison claimed in the parliament today that I have obtained exemptions to travel in and out of Australia, taking quarantine places from other Australians. That is an utter falsehood. I haven't left Queensland since March. Morrison has misled the parliament & he should apologise
It's official:
Britain has vaccinated more than the entire Australian population in just over 100 days after a record 660k jabs were administered in a single day.
Dear God what have the Australian people done to deserve this?
Another big difference in the way UK & Aus media report on vaccines is not just very sober reporting on the minuscule AZ blood clot risks in UK but that anti-vaxxers don't get given platforms.
Not so in Aust...where a hairdresser, with no expertise on vax, can be national news.
Liberals chanting Sco Mo and Josh Frydenberg's opening speech at Sharma's concession speech is one of the most tone deaf displays I've seen in yonks. #WentworthVotes
Fascinating. Harvard Medical School study of satellite images and internet traffic reveal major spikes in cars at Wuhan hospital and searches for COVID-19 symptoms in OCTOBER. China didn't tell the world until DECEMBER 31.
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As one veteran MP just put it to me - Grayling’s tenure on the Intel Cttee as ‘untainted with success' as the rest of political career. #failinggrayling
Australia's health minister Greg Hunt: "Vaccination alone is no guarantee that you can open up. If the whole country were vaccinated, you couldn't just open the borders."
The benchmarks Australia is setting seem to be impossible to meet.
#StrandedAussies
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Ardern: "Let's step forward together. Let's keep moving."
Seems a long time (maybe Obama) since a leader from the left was able to speak in such an optimistic, unifying and poetic way.
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Ardern: We know the next few years will not be easy, the last few have not been easy either. But there have been chinks of light that have shone through at the darkest of times."
This one for the Brits. Farage's tour down under is bombing big time.
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At ICC Sydney .... interesting!!!!! Word around the trap is they didn’t pay the booking fee....
HERE SHE IS!
SINGAPORE AIRLINES FLIGHT SQ221 BECOMES FIRST UNCAPPED FLIGHT TO LAND IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER OPENS TO AUSTRALIANS WITH NO QUARANTINE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE BORDER WAS SHUT IN MARCH 2020 AND CAPS ON ARRIVALS INTRODUCED IN JULY 2020.
Doubt the Liberals will let Teena McQueen on the airwaves ever again. Tanking. #QandA
What sort of country are you when political leaders rejoice in their victory in locking out their citizens after already making it near financially impossible for them to get home in emergencies etc as it is?
People will never forget when this is over.
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This Delta strain is like nothing we have encountered before.
If we reduce the numbers of international arrivals, we reduce the risk of Delta.
I’ve been calling for a reduction in the number of international arrivals so I welcome National Cabinet’s decision today to halve it.
Oxford scientists deliberately made AstraZeneca at cost and fridge temps so it could be used to inoculate the less privileged.
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Not all heroes wear capes.
Queenslanders, it’s your chance to be a hero for your community - get vaccinated this Super Vaccination Weekend 
Over Saturday and Sunday, all Queensland Health hubs will be open and walk-ins are welcome!
Over Saturday and Sunday, all Queensland Health hubs will be open and walk-ins are welcome!
Several people being treated on the footpath of Southwark Street. Just down from London Bridge. Area being evacuated.
So border-obsessed Australia makes a crusader and martyr out of an anti-vaxxer. Special.
Australia is so broken.
What a country - red carpet for this woman, threat of jail for citizens, (who care desperately about keeping their loved ones safe and are only asking for a viable pathway home).
#strandedAussues #FortressAustralia
It's kinda even weirder that Morrison, upon losing the election, told his church not to trust in govt when he was literally THE government the entire time.
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Surely touching a stranger and praying over them is a process that requires their consent at the very least?
CNN’s with the call of the election: ‘That is the most powerful person in the world and we see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun realising his time his over.’
💉 Absolutely stoked.
🇬🇧 Late afternoon walk passing a pharmacy-turned-vaccine clinic and asked them if they had any leftover doses going.
✅ 3 no shows.
💪🏽 30 mins later fully vaccinated two months earlier than expected.
🙏🏾 So grateful.
BREAKING Australia votes YES to gay marriage by 61 per cent vs 38,.4 per cent. 79 per cent population voted in total.
And it's Bill Shorten who finally lands the blow. 'All gab, no jab' and questions the deeply dangerous rhetoric of Scott Morrison et al undermining vaccine safety.
Michelle Obama 'Who we choose as our president in this election will determine whether or not we honour that struggle.' #DemocraticConvention
Just in: "The Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP has, in accordance with the Justice and Security Act, written to the Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament tendering his resignation from the Committee. The Chairman has sent a reply.”
Australia will now lock in citizens who normally live abroad, requiring them to prove to the Govt that they have a compelling reason to return to their lives overseas.
The move will deter citizens in distress from trying to get home.
#fortressaustralia
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Julian Assange NOT extradited because of suicide risk.
"Yeah just gonna lock myself in and just punch some cones for a couple of days."
Reporter: "You can't say that, we'll probably use it."
#GoldCoast
#COVID19Aus
#coronavirusaustralia
‘How could he have known he’d be locked up for trying to come home?’
’s I Can’t Call Australia Home is the utterly searing, truth-telling take we’ve all been waiting for.
#strandedAussies
The face of Doria Ragland - Meghan's mother - often overflowing with tears has been the most genuinely moving part of this whole #RoyalWedding.
Queen thanks those staying at home, sparing the vulnerable. United and resolute, we will overcome it. #QueensSpeech
CORRECTION: You did the Sunday program to obtain $150k and avoid any hard questioning.
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We did the Sunday program to stop this, this is why we need a tort of privacy.
Feels like this day belongs just as much, in some ways if not more, to Doria Ragland. #RoyalWedding
So the Australian government knew that the demand for vaccines would be this tight but still waited until supplies had all but been taken up to secure contracts, putting Australia in its current dismal rollout position.
(Source - Transcript federal health minister @GregHuntMP)
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Ardern: that light has been our determination, our support for each other, our sense of resolve and 'that light has always been more powerful than the most overwhelming darkness.'
Wow. Seriously good. SNP's may be the best election vid yet. #GE2019
This 'Exclusive' from embarrasses us all. Cultural cringe (amongst many other things) at its worst.
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Paul Murray gets his exclusive with @realDonaldTrump but talk about not asking the hard questions.
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Morrison asked about secret side visits to family sites in Cornwall while telling Austns cases in UK are too high for them to travel abroad.
'I wouldn't describe it like that at all' (double standards)... 'pretty innocent'.
Doesn't deny PMO organised it weeks in advance.
Haven't written something this personal since publishing my book six years ago but #strandedAussies has forced a confronting reflection of what it means to be a citizen.
My piece in today's Sun-Herald ⬇️
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Sad moment last night chatting to sibling. When asked if we'd ever see each other again and I'd meet my nephew I had to say 'I honestly don't know anymore.'
Can't believe this has gone on so long you just lose hope altogether.
#FortressAustralia
YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS UP.
Victorian government is blaming lowering arrival caps, WHICH IT PUSHED FOR LAST WEEK, as one of the reasons why it's cancelled the Australian Grand Prix.
DED.
NSW Premier has DROPPED QUARANTINE FROM NOVEMBER 1 for fully vaccinated Australians.
i.e NO HOME or HOTEL quarantine for citizens returning to their country.
#FortressAustralia is finally actually crumbling!
"We are opening Sydney, NSW to the world."
Just spoke with Bob, the brave Hong Kong protestor who was filmed being dragged into the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester yesterday and beaten.
He says hair was ripped from his scalp and he was bleeding from his face and heavily bruised.
Australia has nearly eliminated coronavirus - a testament to the exceptional leadership from every state leader and the PM. Inherently, it is also a reflection of Australia's understanding of China. Why Australia's experience is not being held up as a model globally is beyond me.
International arrivals will still have to do quarantine in QLD even when fully vaxxed and tested negative.
What. Is. The. Point.
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International arrivals must be fully vaccinated, return a negative test within 72 hours of departure, and must do 14 days of home or hotel quarantine.
Fully vaccinated border zone residents with a border pass will be able to move freely across the border, no test required.
Cannot get over that Trump was at the golf course when time was called on his presidency.
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Quite a moment. Marr shows footage of Uigher Muslims being herded into trains. Ambassador proceeded to wax lyrical about how beautiful Xinjiang is and then finally says: "I do not know where you get this video tape."
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Patricia Scotland narrowly WINS. 27/24.
Johnson's bid to oust her as Commonwealth SG fails.
EXCLUSIVE Julie Bishop claims family travel for David Panton but says he is not her partner and therefore she does not have to disclose his interests on the parliamentary register as is required for spouses. From me.
"Australians will be utterly ashamed of this racist man" Britain's Home Secretary says of 's Christchurch tweets latika.me/2u7N6W2 |
Australia:
* didn't trust the WHO (ie China)
* closed borders to China ASAP and has enforced quarantine for overseas arrivals
- Growth in the country's infection rate has halved.
Death toll is just 28 and known cases < 6k.
"Polling has shown that the overwhelming majority of Australians agree with my position on women’s sport. I would say to those other candidates they’re not reading the room."
My interview with this election's most controversial candidate, Katherine Deves:
Mr launching #FreezingOrder says Putin started the war in Ukraine "because he very narrowly, very greedily, wanted to stay in power" (versus getting taken out in an uprising).
"The end game is being at war, his only option is to keep going, keep escalating."
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And we thought Malcolm's sulk and tanty in 2016 was bad. That was a dreadful sign of things to come for Morrison - completely tone deaf, shades of born to rule, zero humility, aggression against Shorten (When this was never about Labor) and the gall to invoke Invictus spirit.
Important to note that the Matthew Guy media strategy - essentially direct line to the Herald Sun - failed the Liberals. Worth keeping in mind re debate about influence of Murdoch press. #VicVotes2018 #VicVotes
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"Prime Minister Sunak's disappointment is understandable.
"But he must not have had the same lessons I got in primary school at St Joseph’s Camperdown- ‘stay in your crease’.
"Hope you’re well PM". #Ashes23
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"Australia can no longer boast about our world-leading response to the pandemic. Because it’s no longer world-leading ... In future years, it’s likely that Australia’s vaccine rollout will be taught as a case study of public policy failure."
Britain's first post-Brexit trade deal is so significant the joint-presser with PMs Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison is not even being broadcast live - not even on Downing St's YouTube. 😆
Apologies don't come more genuine than this. We should be proud of the example Smith has set in courageously, humbly and unequivocally owning his mistake.
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Text from one senior Liberal on Craig Kelly's UK TV appearance 'Still, I’m pleasantly surprised none of our people have said the bushfires are because of gay marriage, so that’s a win.'
Channel 7 news just said 'Covid-ravaged Sydney'.
It wasn't even satirical. Lord.
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Broken beyond belief and possibly repair.
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As the BBC puts it: "Australia falls 85% short of vaccine delivery goal".
I don't think I've ever seen as much chat about politics/Scott Morrison amongst my normal friends and family on social and (unsolicited) to me directly than this week. Not quite sure PMO realises how badly the PM has cut through to his Quiet Australians...
#AustraliaBurns
Seriously though, how blessed to be from a country where people can tell the PM and entourage to get off your lawn and everyone's apologetic. In these times, we should not understate how precious that is. #straya
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'Senator Anning turned and struck at the 17-year-old in the head with an open left hand, then lashed out again with his left hand towards the teenager's head.'
Never forget it was who ran this yobbo for the Senate. smh.com.au/politics/feder
Wow. Just been told by Labor strategist they ran 50% per cent negative ads in #VicVotes #vicvotes2018 and 95% of them included Scott Morrison!!! 'Morrison is hated'. Over to you ...
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"Our advice was that we needed to do something about the number of positive cases coming into our hotel quarantine system," says Professor Paul Kelly, Chief Medical Officer.
He says there was no advice given in relation to fines and jail sentences for people returning from India.
Australia extends its international border ban to June 2021, meaning 15 months of bans on citizens leaving, caps on the number of citizens permitted to enter their own country as well as banning foreigners from entering.*
*unless they are famous and rich.
Can someone who speaks Barnaby please eludicate what 'the honesty of being to the top is something treasured when honestly given' means?
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Hope Bob is not calling it an innings. The honesty of being to the top is something treasured when honestly given. Like Bob said we should go to nuclear power.
