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During his recent National Press Club appearance, former PM Paul Keating scolded mainstream media journalists — who deserved every stinging syllable of his pinpoint-accurate words.
Messin’ round with Paul Keating’s franking credits? Wasn’t Bill Shorten seen as the bogey man for that out of touch step?
Stuart Robert would take meetings with people during parliamentary sitting days while deliberately starving himself. The then minister for government services and the National Disability Insurance Scheme was proud of it, actually. He told anyone who would listen that he ate nothing, sometimes for days in a row, while the nation’s MPs were in Canberra working their longest hours. “Do you know why?” he said to one person with whom he was meeting in late 2019, before taking the liberty to answer his own question. “Because I can.”
Yesterday, the Albanese government fulfilled its election commitment to end the legal purgatory of temporary protection visas (TPVs) for around 19,000 asylum seekers.
Scott Morrison’s prime ministership is over, but there is a point at which hate becomes more toxic to the hater than the hatee.