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Latika M Bourke
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Latika M Bourke
@latikambourke
Writer-at-Large for @thenightlyau
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Associate Expert at @ANU_NSC
Blue-ticked before Elon.
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- Polish FM needs his own gig.
- Former Australian PM Paul Keating describes Tory leadership hopeful and current Foreign Secretary @trussliz as 'demented'. 🔗👇🏽
- And imagine how much higher the death toll would have been (eg Bataclan) if they had guns.Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!
- PM @ScottMorrisonMP 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… | @FT
- 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.So who’s having the worst week? A. Boris Johnson B. (HRH) Prince Andrew C. Novak Djokovic
- Whatever the LNP is smoking must be industrial grade.Congratulations @PeterDutton_MP
Readers added contextAlbanese won the leader's debate by 44% to 35%, according to the undecided voters who made up the forum's audience. Sky News - who hosted the forum - declared that "Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has won the first election debate" skynews.com.au/australia-news… - Replying to @realDonaldTrump and @nbcsnlGood thing you don't have anything more pressing to do, like fill your Cabinet.
- 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.'
- 🇨🇳 🇦🇺 SERIOUS MILITARY INCIDENT Just one week after PM Albanese went to Beijing to hold court with Xi - the Chinese Navy has attacked and injured Australian Navy divers with sonar pulses. This occurred last Tuesday when Australian divers were trying to remove fishing nets from
