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Remember when Sam Dastyari paid back $1600 loan he shouldn’t have taken and mainstream media went berserk for months? ABC730 & Leigh Sales even took THREE camera crews to his presser to nail him. #Dutton’s “lucky” bank share purchases day before govt bailout hardly causes tiny ripples? Why? How?

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The #SundayShot is back on Sunday ...and unlike @washingtonpost.com, we don't have billionaires telling us what we're allowed to say! Join Dave & me & special guests @ketanjoshi.co, @pollyjhemming.bsky.social & Redbridge's @auspoldaily.bsky.social. Subscribe at www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot.

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Dear oh dear .. Andrew Constance, endorsed Lib candidate for Gilmore (NSW south coast) who once had the guts to stand up to ScoMo as wildfires devastated his homeland has now gone all Trumpist. Paris climate targets are “off the table under the Liberal Party” he says. Shame Andrew shame!

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This is the shadow minister for Women from the LNP. She doesn't give a shit about #women. Women voting for the LNP are voting against their own interests #Auspol

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When someone known mainly for their devious, spiteful, mean-spirited and divisive behaviour says “I’ve conducted myself with integrity at every moment of my life,” you know even more than you’ve always known that they are utterly full of shit. #auspol

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The Liberal Party got caught lying—again. Why? Because our laws let them. Truth in political advertising should be non-negotiable. theklaxon.com.au/uh-ooh-ad-gi...

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While you weren't looking, Trump rolled back Biden's ethics rules prohibiting executive branch employees from accepting major gifts from lobbyists. So much for "drain the swamp."

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The big issue here is share trading not property. #Dutton bought bank shares the day before a major Govt bailout of Aussie banks was announced, “a policy Mr Dutton's leader Malcolm Turnbull had been briefed on.” That’s the definition of insider trading.. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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Something I've been banging on about for some time now: Peter Dutton is a multi-millionaire property developer He has been for all of his adult life. That's who he is & how he earns his wealth For a brief interlude in his 20s he was a cop, yet he and our media have defined him by that ever since

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Corporate brand management now infects arts organisations. By Louise Adler. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Net zero. My @smh cartoon.

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Wrong, you say, NineFax outlets? 𝑾𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈? The word is 𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕.

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Lisa Darmanin uncovers more evidence of Murdoch working hand in hand with the LNP to deceive Australians & attack the ABC after it’s revealed The Australian’s article on Lib MP Melissa McIntosh who “takes aim” at ABC’s Aus Day coverage is not just wrong but WAY off the mark🚩 youtu.be/HBHgdilsAok?...

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**The Dutton family’s purchases, which also include a shopping plaza, have long been held in family companies, trust funds and a self-managed superannuation scheme, obscuring the full extent of their net worth because such private vehicles do not disclose their assets. #auspol

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It would be great if Creative Australia could provide a list of subjects and people that artists must avoid if they wish to keep their govt contracts over the next 25 years #estimates

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Now there's a coincidence. #auspol

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Claiming you’ll save money by cutting the public service is like me saying I’ll save money by cutting my grocery spend by dining out every night

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Trump-lite: Coalition promises purge of experts who call out nuclear bunkum. #auspol #auspol24 reneweconomy.com.au/trump-lite-c...

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Dutton’s Smokescreen Insurance A vote for Peter Dutton’s Liberal Party is a vote for more inaction on climate AND cost-of-living. Proof? His unwillingness to address the real reasons your insurance premiums are rising.

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Coalition hve added Covid vaccination rollout stats to the Medicare bulk billing rate to make it look like they are exceeding Labor’s Medicare bulk billing rate. In reality Labor’s bulk billing rate is a vast improvement on the coalition’s- & the coalition hve been caught lying their ass off. Again

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Peter Dutton is now peddling the Great Replacement Theory, an extremist ideology denounced as antisemitic in the US, but which has been mainstreamed by Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson ... 😠 - by @BernardKeane #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/24/p...

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Anybody who believes Dutton will match Albanese's Medicare promise "dollar for dollar" - I've got a bridge to sell - Medicare is a complete anathema for the LNP - it's so far out of their increasingly Trumpian ideology it's almost at the ISS.

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Wow! What a great cover!

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Can Peter Dutton be trusted with Medicare? 10 years ago as health minister he was confident of implementing a $7 co-payment to visit the doctor. #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2014/a...

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Trump has replaced the head of the military, FBI, stacked SCOTUS and stated “He who saves his country does not violate any law”. He’s sided with autocrats above allies and is purging the public service of non-sycophants. AUKUS? Still beyond questioning? What would it take?

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Gideon Haigh’s fascinating review of ‘Working for the Brand’, in which he describes the Antoinette Lattouf case as “that peculiar hill on which the ABC elected to die”.

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80% of Australia’s gas is exported. We don’t need any more gas. We don’t have a gas shortage. Keep on saying and sharing it, folks!

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(Trump hands Alaska to Putin in exchange for magic beans) Karl Rove: Masterful gambit, sir! Any moment the other shoe will fall!

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The art of war #cartoon

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Further to this, the Americans working on Dutton's campaign have form as masters of dis and misinformation, narrowly and personally targeted through social media. This is what they did with the Voice and this is what they'll be doing now. Labor really, REALLY needs to lift its game

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“Did Creative Australia honestly think they could just ring up the next artist on the shortlist? ... No artists worth their soul will touch that pavilion now. They can’t. It’s totally tainted." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Distracted. My @smh @theage cartoon.

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What the fuck is going on with our national cultural institutions?? First Creative Australia and now the National Gallery betrays artists and their very raison d'etres with these utterly shameful acts of artistic censorship. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Dutton is Temu Trump. Wanna taste of the 💩 show a Dutton government would deliver for Australia? Take a look at the carnage in the U.S. right now.

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Peter Dutton plans to butcher the public service, DOGE style. The last time the LNP tried that they just shoveled cash to the big 4 consulting firms so we got shocking waste, corrupted governance, rampant secrecy & hopeless service. #TaxLawLeak #auspol

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Peter Dutton has been contradicted by Matt Canavan on nuclear costs, and by David Littleproud on insurance competition policy. He gets challenged more by his Coalition partners than by the Australian media.

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Tomorrow at 9am, instead of rage tweeting about Insiders and ruining a pleasant morning, we're launching The Sunday Shot. The excellent @rachelwithers.bsky.social and @anthonyklan.bsky.social will join me and Jo Dyer to unpack heinous happenings. Greg Sheridan will not be involved in any capacity

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I feel sorry for Prudence, Elisabeth and James that Rupert and Lachlan put them through this shit. The only consolution is that when the old turd dies, Lachlan will be f*ed www.thedailybeast.com/rupert-murdo...

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Beyond fabulous ! The New York Times has got the whole inside story of the Murdoch family war. The secret court documents. The feuds, the hates, the fears. It’s a ripper. The miserable old prick apparently sees his wretched sewer of a company as the guardian of western civilisation…😁😁😊😂

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To anyone trying to wrap their head around what the #AtlasNetwork is, who its footsoldiers are, and its dark money methods, pls read and share the many 🔥 well-researched articles by gun journo @lucyham.bsky.social 👏👏 MUST READ👇 on Mankall Foundation: #auspol #greensky theaimn.net/the-atlas-ne...

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Dave's done it again. Here's my cartoon for the piece.

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It's "attack Aunty" day at #NewsCorpse, with page 1 hit pieces coast-to-coast. Odd, since "our ABC's" lower brow, right-of-centre tilt these days would surely earn Rupert's 👍. Murdoch once said: "a monopoly is a terrible thing, until you get one". In a roundabout way, is that the end game here?

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If ABC news was doing its job properly, it would report on who is behind the alleged community concerns about off-shore wind farms. And their connections to fossil fuel interests, and the far-right dark money entity Advance who used disinformation to stop The Voice. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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Newscorp cooks up fake antisemitic incident to flare race hate, get clickbait. Josh Barnett #auspol youtu.be/5rPpOQsWdNI?...

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ICYMI- yesterday's #Gaza cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

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Here's me. "Trump wants to turn Gaza into a casino resort. Ita Buttrose thinks only an ‘activist’ could object"

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