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[Hugh at home @HughMacfarlane]

#EddieBetts I hope you know that 99.99 percent of people admire your grace, strength, and resilience. The .01 percent who somehow think that behaviour like that displayed recently from a cowardly drive by and a sad online response is ok will never understand your grace.

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@AflGlicko To go under concussion protocols, doesn't the player need to have concussion?

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@FlickReynolds I agree with the first half of your reply Felicity. Not so much the second. I'm genuinely interested to know how Labor intenda to respond to a big lift in Green primary votes. Same question for the Lib's.

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@MartinPakulaMP I'm going to correct my own comment here. It could be read to suggest that I support a strategy of hate. I don't. My point is more narrow. If the Lib's had wanted hate to work, they needed it to work with more voters, not to intensify the hate amongst those already on board.

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@MartinPakulaMP The libs needed more haters (number) but only managed to create more intense haters (degree). It was a flawed strategy from the start.

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@FlickReynolds I agree with this sentiment @FlickReynolds. When comments on socials assert that someone with whom we disagree is an idiot or has some malintent, we lose the opportunity to evolve.

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@Chazinator2 @FlickReynolds Strident opinion and intolerance of those of others is not a uniquely left or right issue. Cancel culture on the left riles those on the right. And the racism and intolerance in Trumpistan makes those on the left think the world's gone mad.

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@Chazinator2 @FlickReynolds I repeat my earlier comment aimed at highlighting idealigical intolerance. Those to our right think we're communists. Those to our left think we're fascists. We'd all do well (self incl) to recognise that differing opinions are not automatically either misinformed or uninformed.

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Howard used to describe the Libs as a broad church. They will need to broaden their church considerably and have two years to do so. Matthew Guy won't do that and neither will Michael O'Brien.

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Regardless of how we each voted yesterday I had made the point previously that while hatred for Andrews had intensified, it had not broadened. We each only get to vote once.

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For the Libs to return to power four years from now they will need to be promising an alternative that appeals to a wider base. A swing further to the right will poll well in focus groups and fail again in the only poll that matters.

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The more-balance view would be to say that 1: we already had extraordinary rates of immigration; 2: we stopped for COVID; 3: We failed to open up fast enough in 2022 (or late 2021); 4: We must still maintain balance as we have a finite capacity to absorb.

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@AngusGthompson Your article on the feds raising immigration numbers and lowering the bar was incomplete and somewhat pandered to the Labor line. Quoting Andrew Giles about his predecessors neglecting immigration ignores two rather important facts that you needed to include.

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1 - COVID. We, like most countries, throught it might be a good idea to slow immigration down for a bit. Less true in 2022, but somewhat relevant in 2020 and 2021.
2 - Prior to 2020, Australia had one of the highest rates of immigration in the OECD relative to our population.

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@johnfelico 11 (visiting from Australia)

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@samarowais Speak to one person at a time and not the audience as a whole. It is more engaging and less intimidating. Don't go for fancy tricks. Just be you.

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@EmaPirciu https://t.co/69g9QbAQIF

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Wiggles 1, Peru nil. #WorldCup2022 . Grat save #Redmayne