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- "I've managed to live long enough to see this unimaginable thing!" David Marr in tears on #TheDrum as #marriageequality passes the House of Representatives
00:00 - #ICYMI: "We're going to have no new subs, pay more, [and] there's no design." Today the PM announced a new deal for nuclear submarine technology with the US and UK. But @PeterHartcherAO says the announcement was just a "great theatrical production". #TheDrum
00:00 - The PM says Afghan refugees who come to Australia by boat will not be offered permanent residency. "It's disgusting those comments from the Prime Minister... we're dealing with a humanitarian crisis that Australia's been actually deeply involved in." - @Craig_Foster. #TheDrum
00:00 - “If a million dead fish at Menindee doesn't attract your attention as the environment minister, what does it take?” @Peter_Fitz questions where Melissa Price has been during the mass fish kill in the Murray-Darling basin #TheDrum
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00:00- “Every time I get a taxi, I have to ask them whether they will take me because I’ve got into taxis and then taxi drivers have refused to take me.” Nyadol Nyuon says the ‘it’s ok to be white’ motion, diminishes the experience of real racism #TheDrum
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- “If we don't have an agreed set of facts, that we as a community can rely on, the whole pursuit of journalism is pointless.” @murpharoo explains why she chose to take on the Prime Minister over his comments regarding the medevac bill #TheDrum
00:00 - "We are devastated. We are outraged. I speak in solidarity with this community because this son is our son," says @AmyThunig in response to the shooting of 19-year-old Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker in the NT.
00:00 - THREAD: @normanswan on the latest outbreak: "One leak, probably a door open for 18 seconds is what caused this. Hotel quarantine is not fit for purpose." (1/4) #TheDrum
- “I think Justin Milne either knew what he was doing and it's reprehensible or he was dangerously naive and that's also reprehensible” Kerry O’Brien weighs in on reports the ABC chairman called for Emma Alberici to be sacked because she offended the Coalition Government.
00:00 - “You're conflating toxic masculinity and masculinity” Bridie Jabour hits back at Miranda Devine for saying Gillette’s ad campaign is “demonising little boys” as “incipient wife bashers” #TheDrum
00:00 - #ICYMI: @SquigglyRick delivers a strong take on the federal government's COVID failures: "Because they couldn't bring themselves to admit anything went wrong, they haven't done anything to change the behaviours that might've allowed them to get the vaccine program right now."
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