🧵 'Cometh the hour, cometh the women. For so long, men in suits have dominated the public realm, but wherever you look now the leaders shaping debates, nudging policy and making decisions are women.'

smh.com.au/national/extin… #auspol 1/ 'It’s as though Australia emerged from the manosphere after the May election into a different world altogether. One where summoning a mental picture of a cabinet minister is...'

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🧵Me on cleaning up Australian politics @theage @smh. theage.com.au/politics/feder… #auspol 1/ 'The message could not have been clearer at the last federal election: voters want clean government.'

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Pod pointer: ⁦@juliahbanks⁩ discusses #PowerPlay ⁦@HardieGrant⁩ with ⁦@CroweDM⁩ ⁦@smh⁩. #auspol 1/ smh.com.au/interactive/20… 👆Cannot wait to read this book: @juliahbanks @HardieGrant!👇 #auspol 2/

Rereading #NikiSavva’s excellent ‘Plots and Prayers’ @scribepub - gems everywhere including this Abbott quote via @cpyne from Pyne’s backbench days: ‘The DLP is alive and well, and living inside the Liberal Party.’ 😳 (Of course, it’s Pentecostals now...) #auspol 1/ More #NikiSavva ‘Plots and Prayers’ @scribepub. Dutton (Shorten-like) had measured up the Lodge drapes only to find himself well & truly suckered by those on a mission from god. #auspol 2/

@QuentinDempster Thread🧵. Received this morning from an outraged #APS insider in a position to observe the performance of key departmental heads over the past several years (ID protected here for obvious reasons): ‘How gobsmacking is it that Pezzullo, with his litany of failures...’ #auspol 1/ @QuentinDempster ‘How gobsmacking is it that Pezzullo with his litany of failures gets called brilliant, successful & effective in the media? Why aren’t journos saying he’s transparently trying to promote himself (to) Defence even though everyone knows he’d totally stuff that up too?’ #auspol 2/

#Goldstone #AaronPedersen #JackieWeaver #DavidWenham #IvanSen 1/ #Goldstone #AaronPedersen #DavidWenham #IvanSen 2/