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Nov 14, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
Random thoughts from the #G20, a 🧵.
Business Council of Australia head Jennifer Westacott has credited #AnthonyAlbanese with a “tremendous reset” on foreign policy. She says signs of a thaw with #China are a “win for Australia”, and she’s been struck at the G20 by the .. “esteem in which Australia is now held.” This is unambiguous and historically rare praise from the big business lobby. Beyond his meeting with #XiJinping tomorrow, and with #JoeBiden yesterday, Albanese has met or will meet Modi, Macron, Sunak and Widodo, who gave a speech…
Apr 28, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
EXTREME LANGUAGE WARNING.
The Nine barrister Nicholas Owens SC began his cross-examination of a #BenRobertsSmith witness today by quoting an instagram post he had liked yesterday morning, while still giving evidence.. 1 Owens read the post into the court transcript: "When some fuckwit in a suit starts questioning your integrity and using his fucktard snake logic he learnt getting his tonsils bruised by some lecturer's spotty dick at their non-binary law school, remember one thing... 2
Aug 7, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
People who want to read the Parliamentary resolutions protecting ineligible Parliamentarians from being referred off to the #HighCourt can read it at the foot of this link...
10daily.com.au/news/politics/… They cover the entirety of Sections 44 & 45 of the constitution, covering not just dual citizenship, but bankruptcy, criminal behaviour and pecuniary entanglements with the Commonwealth.