Sydney, you were magnificent. The police reckon 90,000 people marched, despite the lousy weather. Astounding. Inspiring.
Mike Carlton
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- America…it’s like watching the Fall of Rome. There is no other democracy, from Norway to New Zealand, which would elect as its leader a rapist, felon, liar, ignoramus, misogynist, vindictive bully and charlatan.
- I was a war correspondent in Vietnam. Some 63 journalists were killed there in 10 years. But never did we fear we were deliberately targeted by the VC or the NVA. The UN says the Israelis have killed >240 journalists in Gaza in less than two years. Deliberately and criminally.
- It costs $4.3 million a year to keep one - REPEAT ONE - refugee on Nauru. There are 107 of them at the moment. That’s $460.1m Or >96m Rapid Antigen Tests. Insanity.
- So 5th rate "celebrities" Caitlin Jenner and the odious Katie Hopkins can fly here for a shitfer-brains TV show...while Australians are banned from coming home. How fucked is that ?
- Stan Grant: "The teals here are not so unlike the Trump supporters in the US. Yes, they want different things. They are urban, elite and less unruly. But they come from the same sense of abandonment, disillusion and desperation. The psychology is the same." What utter bollocks.
- Hands up all those people who don’t give a stuff about the Melbourne Cup.
- Likely NSW will crack 50k cases tomorrow. There is NO official advice, no information campaign to tell people how to cope, what to do. All we get is Perrottet banning dancing and the idiotic Morrison guffawing at the cricket. The incompetence is culpable, staggering.
- Talked to a senior Liberal minister tonight. “Morrison has destroyed the Liberal Party,” he told me.
- It is absurd, almost obscene, for senior media hacks on >$150-200k a year to be howling in rage at the thought of nurses, aged-care workers, teachers etc getting another $1.00 per hour. How contemptible.
- There’s been more drivel written about Gladys in the last 24 hours than you could poke the proverbial stick at. She was not forced out of office. She was not denied any presumption of innocence. ICAC announced it was holding an inquiry. She pulled the pin herself.
- Here goes: Labor will win. I’m thinking at least 78 seats, perhaps as many as 80. The Teals will also take three or four from the Libs. And at last, long last, we will see the end of this despicable Morrison rabble.
- #FreePalestine March in @cityofsydney today. Rain, hail, and no shine. @abcnews @SBSNews @palestine @9NewsAUS @BBCBreaking @newscomauHQ @10NewsAU @BBCNewsAus @FoxNews
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- So @AlboMP has spent a fair bit of the past three weeks restoring our relationships with the Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, India, the US, New Zealand and now France. It must be a bit like cleaning up after a teenage party.
