John Gildea

Inquisitive educator and historian, believer in life long learning and the mighty Red V

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@chaser 100% the strategy all along. Claim he was silenced by “ woke” legacy media and only his new podcast can reveal the truth. Cue a revolving door of right wing luminaries and conspiracy theories. Wannabe Joe Rogan

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@4mambo @farrm51 Scully and Mulder… without the charisma or empathy

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@Peter_Fitz I’m a life long Labor voter but do see Hasties as a decent fellow and, thus far, a man of good principles. Unlike the bulk of the LNP & One Nation

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@farmercate2 @AlboMP @JEChalmers I’m, currently, with Origin as well. Slightly reduced the cents per Kw, then doubled the daily supply charge. Time to shop around

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@rickygervais Will you get to Australia this tour? 🤞

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@bigchefjay @mrtonymartin @RonniSalt Sky News running the “ Protest won’t stop me” line and focussing entirely on the AFP investigation of banner gate… my wondering is what was their crime? Putting up a banner? A succulent lunch time banner?

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@RonniSalt @JaneCaro A totally predictable MAGA playbook. I share your concern about the seeming lack of any challenge or interrogation of her views. Interesting this morning TV news focussed on the security threat posed by a GetUp banner rather than her disturbing vision of a ON future

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@Peter_Fitz When Johnny strikes up the band….

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@Peter_Fitz You’ve likely answered this before Peter, but why no Batavia movie? It seems a ready made film story!

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A break-up note, quietly published in the AFR…

“Sorry, but I’ve found someone new.”

The fact that the IPA is now backing One Nation, and de-legitimising the Liberals, is significant.

The IPA was founded to assist with the establishment of the Liberal Party.

- It had a seat at the table when the party was forming.

- It wrote the Menzies’ early policy platforms.

- Director CD Kemp (who founded the IPA alongside the Murdochs, Coles, and BHP) left papers from this era that became the official history of the Liberal Party.

- The IPA became an intergenerational power base. Kemp’s two sons were Liberal ex-Ministers.

- The IPA-to-MP pipeline delivered Tim Wilson, John Pesutto, James Paterson and many more.

Now, allies are abandoning ship – not leaping into a void, but abandoning the IPA’s historic free-market ideals and Liberal Party links to chase shifting institutional power.

We can debate whether it’s driven by a desire to maintain relevance, or capture by Rinehart (who bankrolls both One Nation and the IPA) – but the cause is irrelevant and the outcome is the same.

Once the IPA has legitimised One Nation as “mainstream” and de-legitimised the Liberals as implicitly fringe, there’s no going back.

(In the UK, the same story: The Institute of Economic Affairs, a stalwart Tory ally, helped undermine the Tories and drive Reform.)

The IPA has picked a side, and sorry Liberals: it ain’t you.

They’ve run off with some redhead girl from Ipswich, and are going to spend the next few years stringing you along.

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@MikeCarlton01 He can’t be serious… surely….

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@DalrympleWill @adamparsons They seem to be trying to create a free fire zone…

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@DougWahl1 Nothing says commemorating the birth of a democratic nation like two guys trying to knock each other out in a cage….

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@MurrayWatt @MikeCarlton01 Our very own Fritz Thyssen….wonder what he is after….

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@russellcrowe And his watch videos are tops!

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@jahanzibwesa @JaneCaro @jk_rowling @TRobinsonNewEra @naomirwolf @unicefchief @LeContempIateur @NuriaCSopena @nurygglez @WRNAfghanistan @ZiauddinY @JohnCleese Not sure exactly what the UN or any other nation can do? The west fought a 20 year war against the Taliban and withdrew, Soviets tried and also failed. A terrible place for women and children but how can they be stopped?

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@SydneySiren @ausstockchick I think that is the unspoken intent. Houses become more affordable when prices drop. No government wants to say our policy is designed to reduce house prices for fear of existing opener backlash but that’s what has to happen to allow greater access

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@strangerous10 @Peter_Fitz Barr is a very poor “ journalist “ what an example to try for a gotcha on Plibersek- a wage earner buys a house and puts it in a trust for their disabled child… and the accountant from Armidale who likes to wear big hats and be filmed with countryside mumbles on…

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@MikeCarlton01 The “ best insights and analysis” team is particularly funny…

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@Peter_Fitz @JaneCaro US politics historically much more overtly religious than other typical democracies