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Jenny Forster
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Optimistic feminist, tree hugging leftie- wondering when the counterculture wagon left town…
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I am convinced that no one else in the world can sit like a Frenchman. It is a way of being, mastered and deployed with the confidence of a people who have been sitting for thousands of years. I think it might have something to do with all the statues.
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A New Three Laws of Motion
I night not tell you if I win the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, but there will be signs. Ha ha, I'm fully kidding. I did win it. The news was everywhere anyway. I was a push notifi...
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De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."
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Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.
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“And while I would love to continue splitting hairs about whether a country starving kids is better or worse if the kids are already sick let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.” 🔥
In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
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My mum and her friend both texted to assure they knew it wasn’t me that robbed the Louvre because I don’t know how to use an angle grinder.
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CPP’s Raelene Sharpe says despite having spent hundreds of thousands on chasing Whistleblower Richard Boyle for 6 years & failing to have him convicted & jailed by the court, that it was still in the public interest to pursue him. Was it? 🤔 Yeah, right. #Estimates
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Lorraine Finlay defends decision to attend the Antisemitism Summit despite controversial guest speakers inc a fmr head of the US Neo Nazi movement
Finlay “if we are actually serious about combating extremism & hatred…”
Shoebridge “You don’t put them on a stage”🔥 #Estimates
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Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay says she was happy to listen to Nova Peris speak on racism at the recent Gold Coast Antisemitism Summit, despite that Peris shared a social media post describing Muslims as “Satan worshipping cockroaches that need to be eradicated” #Estimates
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After asking Dept of Climate Change & Energy on cost of the 2035 target, Sarah Henderson doesn’t want to hear the answer & desperately tries to stop Kath Rowley from embarrassing her on the cost of ‘not’ having a target
Kath Rowley “If I could just finish my answer?”🙄 #Estimates
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Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates
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Sarah Hanson-Young has blasted the media watchdog ACMA after it’s revealed they waited 24hrs for Optus to get back to them to advise the outage was a lot worse, & that people had died
“You waited til the CEO called to tell you people had died! You are the watchdog!”🔥 #Estimates
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🔥Barbara Pocock slices up Richard Windeyer from Dept of Finance for allowing PwC back into govt contracts
RW “We were making a judgement about when we think the organisation is sufficiently changed & different”🤔
BP “How can u make that judgment over the top of the police?”💥 #Estimates
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Jacinta Price has lashed & accused the ABC of not providing enough coverage on the assassination of Far Right advocate Charlie Kirk. Takes issue with ABC referring to him as a “Far Right advocate”

Pfft. ABC wouldn’t shut up about Kirk. And yes Jacinta, he’s far right, like you. #Estimates
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This is why I love Barbs,

“I didn’t come to the Senate to chase down scoundrels in the consulting industry but tragically that’s what I found myself doing.”🔥 #Estimates
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David Shoebridge accuses AFP’s Ian McCartney of wanting to “maximise the media bang” on crime boss Masood Zakaria by hiding his illegal deportation to Sydney from NSW Police
IM “we refute those allegations”
DS “the problem u have, it’s in black & white in your own briefing!”🔥😳 #Estimates
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Julie Inman Grant schools Malcolm Roberts on why she asked X to remove a violent stabbing video globally & chastises him on his ‘global online police’ claim
JIR “There is no conspiracy…”
MR “I didn’t say there was”
JIR “You said I was trying to be the global online police”💥 #Estimates
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NSW Premier Chris Minns has rejected calls to light up the Sydney Opera House in the colours of the Palestinian flag as he did for Israel. Says it could be “inflaming the situation”
Palestinian flag is inflammatory? This man is an absolute disgrace.
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Jim Chalmers calls out the “hopefully divided” Liberal Party following leaks from their party room including “Fmr shadow ministers writing letters about leaking, & then leaking them”🔥, condemns the LNP’s “unedifying spats…between the far right & the further right”💥 #QT
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Treasury official James Kelly grilled after claiming does not see any evidence of price gouging in the insurance sector bcoz their profits ‘don’t look excessive’
Nick McKim “they’re up 50% in the last financial year!” #Estimates
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Nick McKim “they made $6.5 billion last year, do you think they’re going to be worried very much about a $240 million fine?”
“I just don’t think $240 million is going to touch the surface of their grubbiness”
“I think we’re going to be back here again in a year, or 2, or 3…”
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ASIC’s Sarah Court says they could’ve fined ANZ over their ‘grubby’ misconduct into the Billions, but didn’t coz it’s “so high”, it’s “almost meaningless”🤔
McKim “it’s interesting words to use, ‘almost meaningless’…some might argue that $240mill is pretty meaningless to ANZ”💥 #Estimates
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For those keen, here’s the whole exchange (or some of it). And have a good night, I think I’ll park it.
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James Paterson “are you saying that you make (spending) decisions in isolation of what the deficit is, or are you mindful of the impact that decisions have on the deficit?”
Penny Wong “We are always mindful of our budget position which is why it is better than yours”🔥 #Estimates